NTID Student Research

Overview

Funds are available to support RIT/NTID student researchers, with the goal of increasing the number of NTID-supported students who do research with faculty members. Funding can include microgrants, conference participation, and other research support.

If you are an NTID-supported undergraduate or graduate student looking to get involved in faculty-mentored research projects, but don’t know where to begin, please contact Dr. Todd Pagano (tepnts@rit.edu) to get connected to faculty and resources.

Research Poster Printing

NTID faculty and NTID-supported students doing faculty-guided research can have their research posters printed (at no charge) for presentations at professional and academic conferences/symposia. Additionally, we have poster carrying tubes that faculty and students can use when traveling to conferences/symposia. Please contact Dr. Todd Pagano if you would like to borrow a poster tube.

To help with costs, print time, and staffing logistics, please adhere to the following guidelines and printing policies:

  • The poster content must be related to NTID-supported student/faculty research for presentation at professional conferences/symposia.
  • Faculty advisors of student researchers must approve the posters for printing. Advisors should submit the final poster for printing on behalf of their student researchers.
  • We will not be able to re-print posters, so please carefully proofread contents before sending the file for printing.
  • Posters sizes can vary, but please limit posters to no larger than 42” x 48” (42” paper is the largest that we carry). Often, the poster size requirements for sessions at professional conferences are smaller than this (so, please print them smaller to fit your organization’s standards). If a poster is needed that is larger in one dimension than 48”, please contact us before creating your poster (but again, the other dimension can be no larger than 42”).
  • Please avoid using solid color backgrounds or large solid images as backgrounds (this consumes ink very rapidly). However, the use of colored texts, images, graphs, tables, boxes, etc. is encouraged.
  • To avoid transposition errors on different computers and printers, please submit the files in PDF format.
  • Please plan ahead to allow at least five (5) business days for printing.
  • Faculty-approved PDF files of posters should be sent to Jorge Samper (jbsedr@rit.edu) for printing.
  • You will receive an email when your poster is ready for pickup. Posters may be picked up on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

NTID Undergraduate Research Courses

NTID has credit-bearing Undergraduate Research courses available to allow students to receive course credit for being involved in faculty-led research projects. These are variable credit courses (typically 1-3 credits per semester), and like Independent Study courses, involve the development of a contract outlining course expectations/outcomes. Upon completion, students receive a letter grade for the course. A list of approved NTID Undergraduate Research courses (by program) can be found below:

  • NACA-285 Undergraduate Research Applied Computer Programming
  • NACT-285 Undergraduate Research ACT
  • NASL-285 Undergraduate Research ASL
  • NASL-485 Undergraduate Research ASL
  • NBUS-285 Undergraduate Research Business Studies
  • NCOM-285 Undergraduate Research Communication Studies
  • NDLS-285 Undergraduate Research Liberal Studies
  • NETS-285 Undergraduate Research Engineering Studies
  • NHSS-285 Undergraduate Research Humanities and Social Sciences
  • NLST-285 Undergraduate Research LST
  • NMAD-285 Undergraduate Research Mobile Application Development
  • NMTH-285 Undergraduate Research Mathematics
  • NSCI-285 Undergraduate Research Science
  • PRFN-285 Undergraduate Research Performing Arts
  • INTP-485 Undergraduate Research ASL English Interpretation

Brief descriptions of these courses can be found in the Undergraduate Courses booklet.

Student Research Events

Student presenting at research fair

NTID student researchers are encouraged to present their research projects at these events:

NTID Student
Research Fair
(Spring)

RIT Undergraduate
Research Symposium
(Summer)