News by Topic: Deaf Community

April 21, 2016

Students recognized with 2016 Leadership Awards

The awards are given to nominated students who possess high leadership qualities, advance college life on campus or in the community or build bridges for their peers.
April 18, 2016

Faculty honored for enhancing student experience

The first Innovative Learning Institute Instructional Media Awards highlighted those who use video and other media in creative and effective ways for courses taught at RIT.
April 15, 2016

Alumna speaks on being deaf in corporate world

Pamela Siebert ’03, a software engineer at IBM, presents “Be Your Own Advocate as a Deaf person in the Corporate World” as part of The Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship Series.
April 13, 2016

RIT/NTID holds Student Research Fair today

Nearly 30 deaf and hard-of-hearing student researchers will present their work at the first-ever NTID Student Research Fair.
April 8, 2016

RIT honors Distinguished Alumni this week

Ten people will be honored this week as part of this year’s class of Distinguished Alumni.
April 8, 2016

RIT honors 2015-16 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars

RIT honored 117 students whose academic and personal achievements have made them this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars.
March 28, 2016

Study to enhance disability and outcomes research

RIT is leading a study, funded by a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, to improve quality-of-life measure for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
March 25, 2016

RIT celebrates graduate student research

The third annual Graduate Education Week at RIT will be held April 4–8 and feature speakers, a play reading, the new Three Minute Thesis competition and social events.
March 24, 2016

Registration open for TechBoyz, TechGirlz camps

Deaf and hard-of-hearing middle-school students with interests in science, technology, engineering and math can attend TechGirlz or TechBoyz summer camps at NTID.
March 21, 2016

Researchers to study vision in deaf children

NTID’s Matthew Dye and Peter Hauser received a National Science Foundation grant to study how hearing levels and early-language experience influence deaf children’s vision.
March 21, 2016

RIT/NTID grads show who’s boss

Among the roughly 1,200 self-reported deaf business owners in the United States, RIT/NTID graduates make up nearly one-fifth of that number.
March 15, 2016

Meet NTID Distinguished Alumna BJ Wood

Barbara “BJ” Wood ’75 will be honored during Distinguished Alumni Award Week, April 11-15, at various on-campus events and celebrations.

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