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Hundreds See "The Hammer" on Screen and in Person
 NTID News More than 400 people on Monday attended the RIT premiere of “The Hammer,” a film based on the life of Matt Hamill, a Rochester Institute of Technology Hall of Fame wrestler and three-time NCAA Wrestling Division III national champion. The film, which was made two years ago in and around Rochester, was shown in the Clark Gym, the same venue where Hamill competed as...Wed, Feb 01 2012 Leadership in STEM Education Celebrated
NTID News Three awards totaling more than $7 million that will help educate and employ deaf and hard-of-hearing students and their teachers were acknowledged in a ceremony in NTID’s Dyer Arts Center Monday. “We’re here today to recognize the project teams that have spearheaded three multi-million dollar awards benefitting the deaf community,” said NTID President Gerry B...Tue, Jan 24 2012 Poet Joshua Bennett Expresses MLK’s Legacy at RIT/NTID
NTID News Honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. took on a special meaning this year at RIT’s 30th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy Celebration. Noted poet Joshua Bennett, who wrote “Tamara’s Opus,” apologizing to his sister for not learming sign language, was a guest for the celebration along with his sister, Tamara, who became deaf at age 2. Mon, Jan 23 2012 NTID Assistant Vice President Named
NTID News Mike Servé, who has managed NTID’s financial operations since 1982, has been named Assistant Vice President for Finance and Budget at the college. Servé, who began his career with NTID in 1980, is responsible for ensuring that NTID’s budget is in balance and that all of the college’s expenditures conform to the rules and regulations of the federal government. ...Thu, Jan 19 2012 Wrestling Star Matt Hamill Returns for the RIT Premiere of...
NTID News Matt Hamill, a Rochester Institute of Technology Hall of Fame wrestler who is the subject of the recently released movie, “The Hammer,” is expected to attend the RIT premiere of the film on Monday, Jan. 30. Proceeds from the screening will be split between an endowed scholarship fund for students at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and RIT’s wr...Thu, Jan 19 2012 Marianne Gustafson Named NTID Associate Dean
NTID News Marianne Gustafson, a professor in NTID’s Department of Communication Studies and Services, has been named Associate Dean for Curriculum and Special Projects by NTID President Gerry Buckley. Gustafson, who came to NTID nearly 30 years ago, has taught more than a dozen courses and instructed scores of students. She has published scholarly articles and presented at nu...Wed, Jan 11 2012 NTID Programs Help Deaf Community Thrive
NTID News By Stuart Low Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Media Group As a hard-of-hearing teenager from St. Louis, Gerard Buckley found his life transformed when he enrolled at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Now he's repaying the favor. As the first NTID alumnus to become its president, he's losing no time in creating new projects for this college at Rochester ...Tue, Jan 10 2012 Stephen Aldersley Named NTID Associate VP for Academic...
NTID News Stephen Aldersley, an educator and administrator at RIT/NTID for 32 years, has been named NTID associate vice president for academic affairs, responsible for all academic programs and services at NTID and the academic support services provided to deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the other eight colleges of RIT. He will have budget and planning responsibility for 2...Fri, Dec 23 2011 Employment Rate Remains High for RIT/NTID Grads
NTID News Despite the challenging economic environment in the past few years, nine out of 10 graduates from RIT/NTID who seek employment upon graduation are landing jobs within a year. “As long as a graduate has good technical and soft skills, cooperative experience and a resume that represents him or her well, there is no reason why he or she can’t find a job,” says John...Tue, Dec 20 2011 Cisco Donates Rochester's First TelePresence Center...
NTID News Rochester’s first TelePresence Center was unveiled today at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, enabling high quality, real-time video conferencing with people all over the globe.TelePresence Centers are located around the world – including The White House – and offer videoconferencing that makes it seem as though eve...Mon, Dec 05 2011 $1.2 Million Grant at RIT/NTID Will Help Train Teachers of...
NTID News NTID’s Master of Science program in Secondary Education (MSSE) has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help recruit and train teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing.Much of the grant, over five years, will be used for scholarships to support students studying to become teachers of the deaf with a focus in STEM (science, technolog...Tue, Nov 29 2011 Dance Brings Celestial Science to the Stage
NTID News Take the beauty and grace of dance, throw in some stunning images based on scientific principles as backdrops, mix them with a healthy dose of astrophysics, and what do you get?Astrophysics and Dance: Engaging Deaf Students in Science Education.The concept, to become reality with a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, is intended to take heady topics s...Fri, Nov 18 2011 RIT/NTID's Erin LaFave Headed to NCAA Cross Country...
NTID News An RIT/NTID student is running for a college record and potential national championship Saturday at the Women’s Cross Country Division III NCAA Finals in Oshkosh, Wisc.Erin LaFave, a visual media major from Troy, Mich., is one of 280 women from across the United States competing in the 6,000-meter race.“I will try to make the top 50,” she says. “If you make th...Thu, Nov 17 2011 RIT/NTID Students Develop Vibration Notification for Deaf...
NTID News A group of RIT/NTID students recently won second place and a $1,250 check in the Shark Tank competition at RIT for their project, V-Sports, a device designed to facilitate communication via vibration notification for deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes.Members of the team are Jeremiah Thompson, a business administration major from Olathe, Kan., Tyler Swob, an applied ma...Fri, Nov 11 2011 RIT/NTID Students Develop Vibration Notification for Deaf...
NTID News A group of RIT/NTID students recently won second place and a $1,250 check in the Shark Tank competition at RIT for their project, V-Sports, a device designed to facilitate communication via vibration notification for deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes.Members of the team are Jeremiah Thompson, a business administration major from Olathe, Kan., Tyler Swob, an applied ma...Fri, Nov 11 2011 Unlocking the Mysteries of the Deaf Brain
NTID News Originally published in Research at RIT, Fall/Winter 2012Although studied for centuries, much remains unknown about the human brain. The deaf brain in particular is still a mystery in part because this population often uses different cognitive and communication processes than hearing people. RIT's Peter Hauser is a leader in analyzing the deaf brain, how it differs fr...Thu, Nov 10 2011 D-PAN Releases “Hammer” Video to Help Promote “The Hammer”...
NTID News Sean Forbes, who has gained fame as a hip hop artist since graduating from RIT/NTID, released his most recent music video last night to coincide with this tomorrow'’s nationwide premiere of “The Hammer,” based on the life story of Matt Hamill, another RIT/NTID grad who became a collegiate wrestling champion and Ultimate Fighting Championship contestant...Wed, Oct 26 2011 Employers Recognized by RIT/NTID
NTID News Three employers that have provided jobs to dozens of deaf and hard-of-hearing college students and graduates have been recognized by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf with the NTID Center on Employment Outstanding Partner Award.The American School for the Deaf, in West Hartford, Conn.; Crane Group of Companies, in Columbus...Thu, Oct 20 2011 RIT/NTID's Center on Access Technology Receives $1.6...
NTID News The Center on Access Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf has been awarded a $1.6 million five-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Research in Disability Education program to establish a virtual academic community for college students who are deaf or hard of hearing and majoring in the STEM field...Mon, Oct 17 2011 NTID Breaks Ground for Sebastian and Lenore Rosica Hall
NTID News More than 100 RIT/NTID students, faculty and staff, alumni and members of the community gathered under a large white tent this afternoon for a ceremonial ground breaking on an $8 million, two-story, 23,000-square-foot building to be named Sebastian and Lenore Rosica Hall.It was fortunate the event organizers erected the tent, because steady rain began to fall shortly ...Fri, Oct 14 2011 The Hammer Comes Home to Make a Music Video
NTID News Three RIT/NTID graduates returned to Rochester this week, not just because it was homecoming weekend, but to shoot a music video at their alma mater.The trio – Sean Forbes, Adrean Mangiardi and Matt Hamill - collaborated on a music video filmed on the RIT campus, which included dozens of students raising and lowering their arms in unison as if they held giant hammer...Fri, Oct 14 2011 Hundreds Line Up at NTID’s Annual Job Fair
NTID News Jason Panarra, a chemistry major from New Jersey graduating from RIT/NTID next spring, put on a dress shirt and tie, printed some resumes and went looking for a future career from some of the 44 employers at the NTID Job Fair today.He was among hundreds of students and community members that attended the fair, now in its 11th year.“Dow Chemical sounded good, and the...Wed, Oct 12 2011 Presidents of NTID and Gallaudet University Give Testimony...
NTID News The presidents of Gallaudet University and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) yesterday testified before members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on the topic of “Leveraging Higher Education to Improve Employment Outcomes for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing” ...Wed, Oct 12 2011 NTID President Goes to Washington to Tout the Benefits of...
NTID News Gerry Buckley, president of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will testify at a U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday about the benefits of higher education for deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals.The Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee is holding the public hearing, which will focus on “Leveraging Higher Educ...Sat, Oct 08 2011 RIT/NTID Grad Leon Lim Competes for $100,000 on Reality TV...
NTID News An RIT/NTID BFA alumnus is a contestant on the second season of A Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, a reality show on Bravo featuring 14 artists vying for a $100,000 top prize.Leon Lim, who graduated from RIT/NTID in 2005, works in New York City as an artist. In 2008, he was commissioned to create a permanent art installation, “The 3(656),” for the second ...Mon, Oct 03 2011 RIT/NTID Names Special Assistant for Diversity and Inclusion
NTID News Alvin Boyd, an instructor in the Business Studies Department at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, has been named Special Assistant to the NTID President for Diversity and Inclusion.Boyd will serve as a member of the NTID Administrative Council and will lead NTID’s continuing efforts to recruit and retain new faculty and...Wed, Sep 28 2011 RIT's NTID Sets Record Enrollment for Fourth...
NTID News For the fourth consecutive year, Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is welcoming a record number of enrolled students.This year, 1,547 students are enrolled at RIT through NTID. There were 1,521 students last year, 1,474 in 2009, and 1,450 in 2008. The record prior to that was 1,358 students set in 1984, when a large number...Tue, Sep 27 2011 New Administrative Positions Named at RIT/NTID
NTID News New administrative positions have been named at Rochester Institute of TechnologyFri, Sep 16 2011 Sweet Treats Greet Hundreds at NTID's Annual Applefest
NTID News Applefest, an annual September tradition at NTID sponsored by the Student Life team to welcome new and returning students to campus, filled the D. Robert Frisina Quad Friday under sunny skies and a gentle breeze.Members from dozens of diverse student and campus organizations – including sororities, counseling services, the NTID Center on Employment, NTID Performing Ar...Mon, Sep 12 2011 RIT/NTID Audiologist Wins a Focus on People Award
NTID News Donald Sims, a faculty audiologist at RIT/NTID, has won a 2011 Oticon Focus on People Award, a national competition that honors students, adults, advocacy volunteers and hearing care practitioners who have demonstrated that being deaf or hard of hearing does not limit a person’s ability to make a difference in their families, communities and the world.Sims, who was no...Wed, Sep 07 2011 NTID Associate Professor Named Fellow of the American...
NTID News Todd Pagano, an associate professor and director of NTID’s Laboratory Science Technology program in NTID’s Science & Mathematics department, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.He is one of 213 scientists who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and made important contributions to the ACS, the world’s largest scientific socie...Thu, Sep 01 2011 NTID Reaches Out to Local Employers to Participate in Job...
NTID News In an attempt to include more local employers in its annual job fair on Oct. 12, RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is reaching out to the Rochester-area business community by placing ads, using social media and appearing on a television show to help their students find jobs locally.For more than 10 years, the annual Job Fair at NTID has attracted busines...Wed, Aug 31 2011 RIT/NTID Audiologist a Finalist for Focus on People Award
NTID News Donald Sims, a faculty audiologist at RIT/NTID is one of 12 finalists for the 2011 Oticon Focus on People Award.The national awards program, in its 14th year, honors students, adults, advocacy volunteers and hearing care practitioners who have demonstrated that being deaf or hard of hearing does not limit a person’s ability to make a difference in their families, comm...Wed, Aug 24 2011 RIT/NTID Names Senior Research Administrator
NTID News Nancy Forand has been named a senior research administrator for NTID. In this role, she will help NTID expand its research portfolio.Forand, who has worked at RIT for six years supporting research at the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Imaging Arts & Science and the College of Applied Science & Technology, was appointed to the full-time position in support of ...Wed, Aug 24 2011 Three Take on New Responsibilities at NTID
NTID News NTID President Gerry Buckley has announced new responsibilities for three employees at NTID. Stephanie Tolan has been named NTID Director of Information Security and Technology Services. She joined NTID in January 2010 as Manager of Information Services.She graduated with a BFA from RIT in 1993 and a master’s degree from RIT’s College of Applied Science and Tech...Thu, Aug 18 2011 RIT/NTID Students Bring Home Medals from World Deaf...
NTID News Two students at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf won medals at the 3rd World Deaf Swimming Championships held last week in Coimbra, Portugal.Scott Farrell, of North Tonawanda, N.Y., and Scott Matchett, of Brighton, N.Y., won a silver medal in the 4 x 100m medley relay at 4:00.44, breaking the record for deaf American swimme...Wed, Aug 17 2011 NSF Awards RIT/NTID $4.45 Million to Create a National...
NTID News The National Science Foundation has awarded more than $4.45 million over four years to the Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf to establish DeafTEC: Technological Education Center for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students, an Advanced Technological Education National Center of Excellence.It is the single largest NSF award in...Mon, Aug 15 2011 Two Deaf Interns at Dow Offering New Perspective
NTID News By Jingwen HuInquirer Staff WriterWhen Melody Frink was a child, she thought the whole world was deaf and everybody knew sign language. One of 11 children in an all-deaf family, she signed to people in stores, on the streets, everywhere, until she learned that she actually lived in a hearing world. Now a college student, she is interning at Dow Chemical Co., in Spring...Sun, Aug 07 2011 RIT/NTID Grad Competes for Miss Deaf World Crown
NTID News Michelle Koplitz, a 2008 graduate of RIT/NTID, who was crowned Miss Deaf USA last year, is competing for the title Miss Deaf World tomorrow in Prague, Czech Republic.Women from 48 nations are competing for the title. The pageant is expected to be streamed live beginning at 1:30 p.m. EST. (Click on the EN button on the right to read the page in English).Koplitz, a nati...Thu, Jul 07 2011 RIT/NTID Promotes ‘Working Together’ for Deaf and Hearing...
NTID News When RIT/NTID students Melody Frink and Mary Sporman landed summer co-ops as laboratory technicians at The Dow Chemical Company research site in Spring House, Pa., this summer, they were thrilled about gaining real-world work experience, but also a bit nervous moving to a new area where they didn’t know anyone.The nervousness was not just on their part. When their Dow...Thu, Jun 30 2011 $1.75 Million Gift Helps Fund New Research Building at NTID
NTID News Rochester, N.Y. - A grant of $1.75 million is being given to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, to help construct a new building devoted to innovation and research.The grant — which includes a $250,000 matching challenge — is from the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, based in Chicago. It will help construc...Mon, Jun 20 2011 Deaf Initiative in Technology Marks 10 Years of Workshops...
NTID News Deaf Initiative in Technology (DiiT) this summer marks 10 years of workshops for deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals who work with technology.Eight upcoming workshops focus on Business, English, Engineering, Graphic Communication and Information Technology. Most workshops are five days and are held throughout June, July and August at Rochester Institute of Technolo...Mon, Jun 06 2011 RIT/NTID Alumnus Appointed to RIT Board of Trustees
NTID News Rochester Institute of Technology has appointed Robert Rice of Chevy Chase, Md., to its Board of Trustees.Rice is president and managing partner of BayFirst Solutions, a government contracting firm specializing in risk management, information technology and homeland security. Rice oversees all strategic and business development initiatives to ensure the fulfillment of...Thu, May 26 2011 Nearly 400 Students Become RIT/NTID Alums
NTID News More than 3,500 RIT students donned caps and gowns for graduation last week. Of those, 394 graduated from NTID, or had NTID support while attending other colleges on the RIT campus.“I am happy to preside at this ceremony, which recognizes in formal spirit the educational accomplishment and personal growth of students who have finished their programs at RIT,” said NTID...Mon, May 23 2011 High Anxiety Becomes High Honors, High Hopes
NTID News It wasn’t making the grade that worried Remy Glock when she transferred to RIT/NTID from two years at the University of Nevada. She was more worried about being homesick, thousands of miles away from her family in Reno.Glock kept in daily contact with her mother, Joni, via email, texts and Skype during her three years in Rochester and is proud to have earned her BA de...Mon, May 23 2011 Academic Year Ends with Honors, Reflection and Opportunity
NTID News Each year, NTID recognizes students for outstanding academic achievements and contributions to the community.Several NTID-supported students graduating this week with associate, bachelor or master’s degrees were honored at the NTID Academic Awards Luncheon, accompanied by family, friends, faculty and /staff from NTID.“This is the best time of the year because we focus...Fri, May 20 2011 Academic Installation for NTID's First Alumnus...
NTID News Welcomed with academic pomp and circumstance and a theater filled with students, alumni, faculty and staff, community members, family members, local and state officials and even friends from Congress, Dr. Gerard Buckley today was officially installed as president of RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.He is the first alumnus in the college’s history ...Sat, May 07 2011 Academic Installation for NTID’s First Alumnus President
NTID News Welcomed with academic pomp and circumstance and a theater filled with students, alumni, faculty and staff, community members, family members, local and state officials and even friends from Congress, Dr. Gerard Buckley today was officially installed as president of RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.He is the first alumnus in the college’s history ...Fri, May 06 2011 Mark Feder Named 2011 Distinguished Alumnus for NTID
NTID News Mark Feder, an entrepreneur from Hawthorn Woods, Ill., has been named NTID Distinguished Alumnus for 2011.Feder owns B.E. Atlas Co., a family-operated wholesale hardware distributor. He also created the National Catalog House of the Deaf (NCHD) which sold assistive devices such as strobe alarms, close-captioned decoders and TTYs.A member of NTID’s Summer Vestibule Pro...Fri, Apr 15 2011 Winners Announced in National Math Competition
NTID News Winners have been announced in Rochester Institute of Technology’s fifth annual Math Competition for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The competition, held at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf April 8-10, welcomed more than 100 deaf and hard-of-hearing middle school students from 17 states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, I...Tue, Apr 12 2011 |
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