News by Topic: Deaf Community

Hundreds of people attended a performance by an RIT-related act during the first week of the 12-day Rochester Fringe Festival, with students, faculty, and staff contributing music, dance, comedy, poetry, photojournalism, in downtown Rochester. And nearly 20 other RIT-related performances are scheduled later this week.

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is partnering with the Rochester Red Wings ;baseball team for the fourth annual Deaf Culture Night at 6:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, at Innovative Field.

RIT students, faculty, and staff will contribute music, dance, comedy, poetry, photojournalism, and more during the 12th annual Rochester Fringe Festival, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 12, and runs through Sept. 23 in downtown Rochester.

Darcie Jones, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major from Reading, Pa., is this year’s Student Government president, representing more than 19,000 students on RIT’s Henrietta and overseas campuses. There were four sets of candidates this year, the most in recent history. This year’s Student Government vice president is J.T. Lapham, a fourth-year biochemistry major from Queensbury, N.Y.

The 2023 edition of the Anthropology of Motherhood exhibit will be presented in collaboration with Dyer Arts Center at NTID. The exhibition runs Aug. 28 to Dec. 8.

Good Morning America features Pete Bilzerian '20 (management information systems), discussing hearing aid options.

New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong National Museum of Play.

Spectrum News features NTID’s Explore Your Future camp, a six-day program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students from all over, to explore possible careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).

An essay in The Conversation mentions Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences).

The Guardian features Barbara Earth, postdoctoral associate in NTID.

ILoveNY.com features NTID's Dyer Arts Center and Director Fran Flaherty.

In only a few weeks, the SHED will open to the RIT community, and Tiffany Brodner is preparing for her new role overseeing the multi-use facility.