News by Topic: Deaf Community

August 27, 2013

Grant fuels ‘Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate’

A $2.1 million grant to the University of Rochester Medical Center and NTID will help deaf and hard-of-hearing students who are pursuing graduate degrees.
August 22, 2013

Todd Pagano addresses RIT community

RIT officially kicked off the school year on Wednesday with Fall Convocation. NTID’s Todd Pagano, the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year, delivered the keynote address.
August 15, 2013

Professor encourages deaf students in research

NTID associate professor Peter C. Hauser and six deaf students traveled to England and Portugal to help broaden the participation of deaf students in sign language research.
July 18, 2013

Book explores what it means to be gay and Mormon

Associate Professor Gerald Argetsinger co-edited and wrote the introduction for Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction, which was published this week.
June 27, 2013

NTID grad is ‘Music’s Hottest ASL Interpreter’

A video of Holly Maniatty ’00 (ASL-English interpretation) interpreting at a Wu-Tang Clan concert has gone viral, putting NTID’s ASLIE program in the spotlight once again.
June 26, 2013

Two students receive award for academic excellence

Graham Forsey and Sol Boucher have been selected as recipients of the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence.
June 21, 2013

NTID hosts convention of teachers of the deaf
June 18, 2013

American Honda Foundation supports NTID program

The $55,330 grant helps support the TechGirlz and TechBoyz summer camps for 7th, 8th or 9th graders who are deaf or hard of hearing and interested in science and technology.
June 13, 2013

Hundreds share ways to become more accessible

The Effective Access Technology Conference featured workshops, speakers, panel discussions and dozens of displays of technology to help those with disabilities.
June 3, 2013

RIT hosts Effective Access Technology Conference

The conference will feature addresses by experts in the field, panel discussions on challenges and solutions and exhibits of research underway at RIT.
May 17, 2013

RIT Convocation speakers offer advice on success

Graduates, their families and friends heard inspiring messages from speakers at the university’s 128th convocation, the opening event of the 2013 commencement weekend.
May 13, 2013

RIT kicks off commencement weekend Friday

President Bill Destler will confer more than 3,500 degrees during Academic Convocation at 2 p.m. Friday. Watch a live video stream online.

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