News by Topic: Deaf Community
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March 18, 2022
NTID partners with Strong Museum in Deaf Awareness Month event
WHAM-TV features the Deaf Day of Play.
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March 18, 2022
National Technical Institute for the Deaf receives $88.5M, expands STEM programs
WXXI interviews Gerry Buckley, NTID president and RIT vice president and dean, about a boost in federal funding for NTID.
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March 16, 2022
RIT and NTID receive federal funding appropriation from 2022 Omnibus budget
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced fiscal year 2022 funding he secured that will revitalize Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. Sen. Schumer highlighted significant funding in the amount of $88.5 million that NTID received in the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill, a $7 million increase over fiscal year 2021, with $3 million of that increase going toward NTID’s Regional STEM Center efforts.
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March 15, 2022
Meet College of Liberal Arts Dean Anna Stenport
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts began the academic year under new leadership. Dean Anna Stenport joined RIT from Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts in September following a nationwide search. Stenport is a professor of communication and an expert in transnational cinema and media, modern literature and drama, and visual and cultural studies, with a focus on the Arctic and Nordic regions.
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March 10, 2022
‘Deaf Day of Play:’ The Strong hosts NTID for special event
WROC-TV features “Deaf Day of Play,” hosted by NTID and The Strong.
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March 10, 2022
RIT/NTID, The Strong present Deaf Day of Play March 20
NTID and The Strong have partnered to celebrate Deaf Awareness Month. On Sunday, March 20, students from NTID’s Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education will provide ASL assistance at the museum’s admissions desk and its Skyline Climb high adventure course. And ASL tours of the Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden will take place every hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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March 8, 2022
Local woman highlights challenges deaf Ukrainians face in war
WROC-TV talks to RIT/NTID’s Regina Kiperman-Kiselgof about her effort to assist deaf people in Ukraine.
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March 3, 2022
Deaf refugee art, work of Deaf Persian artist on display at RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center
Two spring exhibits featured at the Dyer Arts Center at NTID highlight the uniqueness of deaf refugee art and the works of Deaf Canadian Persian sculptor and painter Maryam Hafizirad. Both exhibits are on display through April 1.
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March 3, 2022
SOIS/NTID student excels on and off the track
Julianne Young is a second-year student from Duxbury, Vt., enrolled in both NTID and in the School of Individualized Study. She created her major through SOIS to further her goal of entering audiology school after RIT. On top of her studies, Young is also a standout track athlete.
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March 3, 2022
NTID alum helps bring home two SAG Awards for the movie CODA
WHAM-TV talks to NTID student Raihiem Marshall and NTID Associate Professor Kim Kurz about the film CODA, which features NTID alumnus Daniel Durant.
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February 25, 2022
RIT STEM educator included in Smithsonian exhibit
Rochester Business Journal highlights Tiffany Panko, director of the Deaf Health Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Language at NTID.
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February 17, 2022
RIT/NTID laboratory director has life-size statue on display for If/Then She Can national exhibit
Tiffany Panko, director of the Deaf Health Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Language at NTID, will be among 120 women in STEM personified in life-sized statues that will be on display in Smithsonian gardens and in select Smithsonian museums March 5-27 for the #IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit.