News by Topic: Deaf Community
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October 15, 2019
Oscar-nominated director, Brighton native to screen latest documentary at RIT/NTID Oct. 18
A 2019 documentary by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Irene Taylor Brodsky will be screened at NTID this week. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, the story of Brodsky’s deaf son and her parents, RIT/NTID retirees Paul and Sally Taylor, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
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October 7, 2019
North Korea’s nuclear armament and the use of technology to improve society are topics of Oct. 18 symposium at RIT
“Nuclear Weapons in North Korea: Deal or No Deal?”, a discussion of North Korea’s nuclear armament and the role that technology plays in improving society, will be hosted by RIT as part of its Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.
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September 30, 2019
'She is one in a million:' Deaf social worker Patricia Canne finds right fit at Strong
The Democrat and Chronicle features Patti Canne '01 (healthcare billing and coding), the first deaf social worker at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Strong Memorial Hospital.
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September 26, 2019
Student Spotlight: Making discoveries abroad with NTID
Looking to learn more about the roots of American deaf culture, fourth-year student Grace Bradford went on a study abroad trip to France. From June 24 to July 4, the ASL/English interpretation and School of Individualized Study double major traveled with other NTID students to Paris, Reims, La Balme-les-Grottes and Lyon.
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September 10, 2019
Medical Partnership provide accommodations for deaf patients
WROC-TV reports on the services available to deaf and hard-of-hearing patients at Rochester Regional Health Family Medicine at RIT.
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August 15, 2019
RIT/NTID, World Federation of the Deaf sign formal cooperation agreement
The agreement aims to continue and strengthen the relationship between the world’s first and largest technological college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and the global deaf rights organization.
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August 6, 2019
RIT/NTID hosts conference on literary and artistic works about deaf experiences, Nov. 6-9
Scholars, students, deaf cultural studies and sign language teachers, artists, playwrights, filmmakers, poets, writers and historians will make their way to NTID in November for an international conference focusing on examining literary and artistic works about deaf experiences.
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August 6, 2019
RIT named among the nation’s ‘Best 385 Colleges’
The Princeton Review features RIT in the just-published 2020 edition of its annual book The Best 385 Colleges, giving RIT high marks for diversity and campus life in addition to having rigorous academics and helpful professors.
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August 6, 2019
Wagners honored as Volunteers of the Year
Chris ’94 (social work) and Staci ’92 (social work) Wagner have been named the recipients of RIT’s 2019 Volunteer of the Year award in recognition of their efforts. They will be honored at the Presidents’ Alumni Ball during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend on Oct. 18.
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August 6, 2019
2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards
The Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented annually by each of RIT’s nine colleges and the School of Individualized Study and are the highest awards an RIT college can bestow upon its alumni.
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August 6, 2019
Alumni Update: RIT alumna is U.S. Army Brigadier General
Brigadier General Stacy Babcock ’91 (criminal justice) ’96 (educational interpreting) ’98 MS (instructional technology) assumed duties earlier this year as the Deputy Commanding General at the 63rd Readiness Division in Mountain View, Calif.
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August 6, 2019
2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Michael Rizzolo
Meet Michael Rizzolo ’76 (basic interpreter training program), ’78 (social work), ’86 MS (human services management), the National Technical Institute for the Deaf 2019 Distinguished Alumnus.