Koplitz spoke to deaf undergraduates at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she'd gone to college. Several, in a program that is now canceled, talked about plans to go to medical school.

"The Rochester community itself has the largest per capita deaf population, so it's a real gain for the community to have a team that's designed directly to communicate with them directly in ...

In the laboratory, Sara Blick-Nitko searches for treatments for cancer. But before she could become a scientist, she had to find what deaf people like her call the "Deaf Scientist Pipeline.

Another program, canceled by the Trump administration, paid for graduate school scholarships to fill the shortage of teachers of the deaf ... at the University of Rochester Medical Center.