“Shaped by the American Dream: Deaf History through Deaf Art,” featuring more than 140 works celebrating the Deaf American experience, is on display through April 21, 2023, at the Dyer Arts Center at RIT/NTID.
NTID’s Department of Performing Arts spaces are getting a facelift. The costume shop, scene shop, and dance studio will all be expanded and upgraded, and current department offices, dressing rooms, green room, and 1510 theater will be rebuilt.
More students involved in performing arts are currently enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology than ever before. The latest incoming class includes a record 482 new students who received Performing Arts Scholarships.
Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is partnering with the Rochester Red Wings baseball team for the third annual Deaf Culture Night at Frontier Field, Friday, Sept. 16.
RIT remains one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2023 edition of its book "The Best 388 Colleges."
Most students attending college do so in preparation of their futures. In the case of two new degrees in RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and one new degree in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, students also will be competitive employees and leaders and be readily able to navigate their evolving fields.
RIT President David Munson welcomed the community for the start of a new academic year and said RIT has made great strides over the past year in student enrollment and success, research, fundraising, and construction projects to enhance the campus.
Rochester Institute of Technology will begin offering two new Ph.D. programs beginning in the fall of 2023—each with historical academic significance for the university.
Debbie Lesser is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter for one of the largest health systems in the United States, she assists deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing patients and health care providers in communicating with one another regarding everything from mental health crises to detailed complex medical procedures.
When audiences head to Cinemark theaters to catch a movie this July, they’ll also see a commercial produced by students from Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
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