News

Nearly one in six of the more than 3,300 first-year and transfer undergraduates this year received a Performing Arts Scholarship from RIT. That brings the total number of scholars to more than 1,800 in the five years since the program began. The program encourages high school students involved in performing arts to continue their passions at RIT.

Calling all potential cast members, stage managers, designers, dancers, costumers, theater technicians, and more: RIT’s first “Full Season Audition Debut” is set for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 30 in Ingle Auditorium.

The 2023 edition of the Anthropology of Motherhood exhibit will be presented in collaboration with Dyer Arts Center at NTID. The exhibition runs Aug. 28 to Dec. 8.

Good Morning America features Pete Bilzerian '20 (management information systems), discussing hearing aid options.

New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong National Museum of Play.

Spectrum News features NTID’s Explore Your Future camp, a six-day program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students from all over, to explore possible careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).

An essay in The Conversation mentions Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences).

The Guardian features Barbara Earth, postdoctoral associate in NTID.

Morpheyes Studio, part of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will present the New York premiere of their first short film, Inspired, at the Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 15. 

ILoveNY.com features NTID's Dyer Arts Center and Director Fran Flaherty.

To enhance the skills of interpreters in the field, NTID is now offering five certificate programs in American Sign Language specialties.

The Rochester Beacon features Nikolas Kelly '20 (supply chain management), co-founder and chief product officer of Sign-Speak, and Nicholas Wilkins '19 (computational mathematics), '19 MS (computer science).