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Emphasizing the power of a creative mindset over mastering the pursuit of excellence, Astro Teller urged the Class of 2025 to embrace the journey ahead with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to be intentionally foolish.

RIT/NTID is partnering with online learning platform Continued to host professional development courses for audiologists and speech-language pathologists now through spring 2026.

Science speaks to Michelle Koplitz '08 (biotechnology), Sara Blick-Nitko '17 (professional studies), and Wyatte Hall '08 (psychology) about the impact of budget cuts on the Deaf Scientists Pipeline.

NPR's All Things Considered talks to NTID President Gerry Buckley and Sara Blick-Nitko '17 (professional studies) about the impact of losing federal grant funding.

Ellie Warren came to RIT with the goal of becoming trilingual. Now fluent in English, American Sign Language, and Spanish, her next stop is medical school.

Hannah DeFelice’s research at RIT focused on how to improve animal welfare. The same research now takes her to Cornell University this fall to pursue her doctoral degree in biogeochemistry, the study of how living things interact with the physical and chemical environment.

Using their knowledge from classroom instruction, NTID information and computing studies students built equipment and applied for funding, culminating in the launch of five state-of-the-art, deaf-friendly point-of-sale systems that use interactive monitors for easy ordering and delivery of food and beverages.

An essay by Kate Young, third-year ASL Interpreting major, published by Her Campus.

Registration for RIT’s summer semester, offering in-person and online formats, is open. Undergraduate and graduate students can take advantage of a 12-week session and two six-week sessions. Graduate students can also enroll in a targeted seven-week session.

What began as an online study using surveys to assess cognitive reserve has since evolved into a full-scale, in-person research effort in RIT’s Neurobehavioral Lab.

Corinna Hill didn’t expect to become a college professor, let alone one honored with a prestigious teaching award. But, this year Hill, an assistant professor in NTID’s Department of Liberal Studies, has earned RIT’s Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching.