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Professional studio headshot of Dhruvesh Patel smiling while wearing a navy blue suit jacket and patterned blue tie against a dark backdrop.

RIT/NTID business alum finds his path to real-world success at PNC

RIT/NTID alum Dhruvesh Patel ’22 (business management) and ’24 (business administration) approached his academic work with a customer-focused mindset, which has helped him find his career success at the PNC Financial Services Group.

Christine Sun Kim returned to RIT as the featured speaker for NTID’s Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship Series in April in the RIT Performing Arts Center.

RIT grad named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow for her innovative artwork

Artist Christine “CK” Sun Kim ’02 has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow, a prestigious award known as a “genius grant” that comes with an $800,000 stipend.

Erica Israel poses outdoors with school children in green and white uniforms, with several smiling and making the 'I love you' hand sign.

Psychology alum travels to Ethiopia to support deaf students’ access to education and literacy

Limited literacy and educational resources are global issues facing deaf youths in developing countries. In August 2026, RIT/NTID alum Erica Israel ’11 (psychology), ’14 (school psychology) joined an annual trip with Visions Global Empowerment (VGE) to Ethiopia with a mission to help ensure that deaf children gain access to language, community, and education. 

Gary Behm, director of the NTID Center on Access Technology, uses Google’s Sign Language-to-Text app, which he and others in the center helped evaluate prior to its release.

RIT helps Google develop new technology that converts sign language into text

Researchers at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf have collaborated with Google to test new AI technology that converts sign language into text in real time.

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