News by Topic: Deaf Community
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April 4, 2025
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RIT Graduate Showcase puts students in the spotlight April 10
Olivia Towne and Meghan Taylor gave back to the RIT community with their graduate research projects, focusing on the nutritional needs of student athletes and challenges facing people with food allergies who eat in the dining halls.
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April 4, 2025
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NTID’s Corinna Hill engages students in embracing the history of Deaf culture
Corinna Hill didn’t expect to become a college professor, let alone one honored with a prestigious teaching award. But this year, she has earned RIT’s Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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March 25, 2025
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‘Shaping the future’: Monroe County launches new Deaf Equity Council
WROC-TV speaks with NTID President Gerard Buckley about Monroe County's new Deaf Equity Council.
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March 24, 2025
!["Promotional poster for HBO's 'The Last of Us,' featuring two main characters, a young girl and a man, standing back-to-back with serious expressions against a dark, fungal-infested background. The text includes 'HBO Original,' the show's title, and an 'ASL' logo indicating American Sign Language accessibility.]()
Max to Debut ‘The Last Of Us’ in American Sign Language
All Hallows Geek includes Daniel Durant, former NTID student, in a list of people who will be performing American Sign Language alongside the episodes of Max shows. Durant will be signing for the show The Last of Us.
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March 19, 2025
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No barriers, just firewalls
Mastercard speaks to computing and information technologies student Jared Husson about cybersecurity job training for deaf students.
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March 14, 2025
![Newlywed couple in matching white suits share a kiss at their wedding ceremony, holding hands under an outdoor arch, while an officiant and a sign language interpreter stand nearby.]()
Learning a Shared Love Language — One That Includes Signing
The New York Times features the love story of alumnus Jerald Creer and his husband, Kent Williams.
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February 25, 2025
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RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf fosters four decades of community through Ebony Club
WHAM-TV talks about the space created for Black Deaf students
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February 18, 2025
![A diptych featuring a portrait of Christine Sun Kim on the left and a conceptual drawing on the right. In the left panel, Kim, an Asian woman with shoulder-length black hair, wears round glasses, a black turtleneck, a silver chain necklace, and silver earrings. She has a calm and confident expression. The right panel shows a whiteboard with handwritten text titled How to Measure Quietness, listing various states of silence alongside a descending pattern of the letter P in blue ink, symbolizing decreasin]()
An Artist Expands the Landscape of Sound
The New York Times features the work of Christine Sun Kim '06 (MFA) to redefine sound art to celebrate and explore Deaf culture.
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February 14, 2025
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The Inclusivity Conversation Needs To Include The Deaf Community, Especially In Hollywood
Forbes highlights the career of Michelle Schaefer '13 (secondary education), a Deaf actor, writer and filmmaker, who works to show that true diversity includes individuals with disabilities.
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January 28, 2025
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William H. Sanders named RIT’s 11th president
The dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering is praised for his research credentials, success in global partnerships and entrepreneurship, and strong student engagement. He starts at RIT July 1.
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January 23, 2025
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Alm and Fitch awarded NSF grant to study visual prosody in ASL in collaboration with Gallaudet University
Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.
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January 17, 2025
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Dialogue on Disability: Disaster preparedness often excludes people with disabilities
WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson speaks with NTID President Gerard Buckley about inclusive disaster preparedness.
