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2012 RIT Leadership Awards

Nearly 30 RIT students – including five who are deaf or hard of hearing – were honored today during the 2012 RIT Leadership Awards for their community involvement, high personal standards and potential as positive role models to future students.

“These students are the dreamers of dreams, and the movers and shakers at RIT,” said Molly McGowan, director of the RIT Leadership Institute & Community Service Center. “We’re pleased to celebrate and recognize all of the great work done by our student leaders.”

Passport to Dubai: RIT/NTID Honors Student Navigates the Middle East

Graham Forsey, an RIT/NTID accounting major from Newfoundland, Canada,  was one of 14 honors students from the E. Philip Saunders College of Business who went to Dubai during spring break. More.

RIT/NTID Names Special Assistant for Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Innovating For Deaf Athletes

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.

Credit Cards Are Not Your Friend

Although he makes more than $160,000 a year, a federal bankruptcy judge is not ashamed to say he drives a 10-year-old car, doesn’t have a cell phone and buys his gas and groceries where he can save a few bucks.

Hon. John Ninfo II, who serves in the Western District of New York, was guest speaker at a meeting of the Ellie Rosenfield Personal Finance Student Club at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.