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Publicity

Below are typical examples of the publicity received by the Deaf Initiative in Information Technology (DIIT).

Feb/March, 2002 Deaf Rochester News (of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community) carries a full-page article about upcoming DIIT workshops (Wireless, Photonics, Visual Basic, Access). Included are two photos of past workshops. A 1/4 page add "Need new technical skills" also appears in this issue.
January, 2002

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deafPostings appear in the following major deafness-related Internet interest groups (list-serves). The articles promote upcoming DIIT workshops, including our upcoming offering in California.

  • USA-L with 3642 members (Philip Moos).
  • Deaf_News with 633 members.
  • Deaf_America with 37 members.
  • DeafCalifornia News with 1270 members.
March 9, 2001 Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deafAn article entitled "IT Workshops Will Help Deaf" appears in the Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle newspaper promoting the Visual Basic and Java workshops. Click on the thumbnail at the left to open the full article in a new window. Close that new window to return here.
February 13, 2001 The NTID E-News, an electronic newsletter for students, alumni, and friends, includes four articles including an article about the coming PC Hardware and Visual Basic workshops under the title "NTID Offers NSF-Sponsored 'Deaf Initiative In Information Technology' Workshops."

Click here to view that article.

February-March, 2001 >
 		Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf Deaf Rochester News (of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community) in the Rochester area includes an article on page 18. It announces the offering of "PC hardware Maintenance and Repair" and "Object-Oriented Programming Using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0." Both are offered as part of the DIIT grant.
January 10, 2001

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf
Our press release appears on-line on the AScribe wire service, "The Public Interest Newswire."
January 3 and January 9, 2001

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf
USA_L News, a Yahoo news group consisting of 2,637 members, contains an article about the "PC hardware Maintenance and Repair" and "Object-Oriented Programming Using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0"workshops. This news group contains "news/information for and about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing around the world."

Click  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USA-L_News to go to the page to subscribe to that news group and then look at January 3 and January 9, 2001 to view the article.

January 3, 2001 The NTID E-News, an electronic newsletter for students, alumni, and friends, includes a single article about the coming PC Hardware and Visual Basic workshops under the title "NTID Offers NSF-Sponsored 'Deaf Initiative
In Information Technology' Workshops."

Click here to view that article.

December 2000

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf Steven M. Bock, member of the National Visiting Committee (NVC) of the DIIT project (and Advisory Software Engineer, IBM), is featured on the IBM intranet for his role on the NVC. This feature story will bring considerable visibility to NTID and to IBM efforts to foster development of a pipeline of talented deaf NTID/RIT graduates to IBM. Click on the thumbnail at the left to open the full IBM intranet article in a new window. Close that new window to return here.
Fall 2000

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf An article entitled "RESEARCH: Competitive Edge: Innovation wins grants for NTID" appears in the Fall 2000 issue of the NTID Focus magazine Click on the thumbnail at the left to view the portion of the article dealing with the DIIT grant. Close that new window to return here.
June 28, 2000

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf An article entitled "NTID gets $526,000 for computer training" appears in the Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. Click on the thumbnail at the left to open the full article in a new window. Close that new window to return here.
June 24, 2000 USA_L News, a Yahoo news group, contains an article entitled the "National Science Foundation Awards $526K Grant to NTID." This news group contains "news/information for and about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing around the world."
April 7, 2000 NTID/RIT publicizes the receipt of the DIIT grant in What's New the NTID monthly electronic newsletter sent to those interested in NTID.

Click on the link below to open the article in a new window. Close the new window to return here.

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April 20, 2000

Publicity -- Computer training in sign language for people who are deaf RIT publicizes the receipt of the DIIT grant in RIT News & Events, the print and on-line weekly newsletter of RIT.

Click the link below to open the on-line article in a new window. Close the new window to return here.
http://www.rit.edu/~930www/Proj/NewsEvents/2000
/Apr02/grant.html

Click on the thumbnail at the left to open a copy of the full print article in a new window. Close that window to return here.