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NTID History panel 3: Agents of Change
Content: Rapid technological change--including the rise of social media--enabled many positive shifts within the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing people without depending on interpreters. The increased flexibility enabled more job opportunities and…
NTID History panel 5: Giving to the Museum
Content: The NTID Alumni Museum will recognize our rich history and the integral role of alumni in forging the success of this "Grand Experiment." The space will convey the NTID story, highlighting the vital roles alumni, faculty, staff and students…
Grand Experiment: Student using VistaPhone
A student uses a VistaPhone--an early videophone--at NTID in the late 1960s.
Grand Experiment: Early NTID faculty members
Three of the first deaf faculty members (l-r, Loy E. Golladay, Alice Beardsley, and Robert F. Panara) converse in 1975.
Grand Experiment: LBJ signs the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act into law.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act into law outside the White House on June 8, 1965.
Pioneers of Innovation: ASL instruction
A group of adults practice signing the letter 'R' in a classroom.
Pioneers of Innovation: Professor and student in a lab
An RIT/NTID faculty member signs to a student as they work together in a science lab.
Pioneers of Innovation: First 70 students
The first 70 students who enrolled in NTID in 1968 stand together for a group photo.
Pioneers of Innovation: Student working on project
A student is shown working on an unidentified device in a lab.
Collective Advocacy: Students form a human barricade
A group of unidentified students form a human barricade.