June 2017

UR and RIT Host One of the Largest Groups of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Scientists in US

Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are vastly under-represented in biomedical fields, making networking and mentorship difficult. URMC and RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf sought to remedy this by bringing together Deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists at all career levels at the first ever Rochester Summer Research Training Institute.