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The R.I.T. Campus is mourning the loss of a student, known as one of its brightest. 21-year-old Mark Goik was killed in a car crash on the thruway early Friday morning. He was in his third year at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the R.I.T. Campus.
News 10NBC spoke to one of his college mentors Friday evening. Professor Todd Pagano first met Goik in his first year at NTID. Pagano said Goik had spent much of his education on the outside looking in, because he was hard of hearing, but when Goik came to R.I.T., he blossomed and became one of his program's best students.
Within the greater community that is R.I.T., there is a family of students that walk the quiet halls of The National Technical Institute for the Deaf. In a science lab, Professor Todd Pagano said, Goik, was a leader. “They all would look to Mark in that kind of leadership role,”said Pagano.
Goik was just one of six students nearing the end of the laboratory science tech program at the school. He and Pagano were researching the power of a compound in nutmeg to fight illness, such as the Black Plague.
Goik never got to see the results of that experiment. State police say at 1:30 Friday morning, his Chevy Blazer crossed the median on the thruway and hit a rental truck, head on. He was driving westbound in the direction of his home state of Ohio, which Pagano said was close to Goik’s heart. “At one point, he had considered going into the applied mathematics program because he wanted to be a statistician for the Cleveland Browns,” explained Pagano.
NTID’s Associate Dean said, the school provided counselors to Goik's three roommates and dozens of saddened students. “It's a big loss. In a small program, you get to know the students very well, and you shepherd them through,” said Associate Dean Ellie Rosenfield.
Professor Pagano considered himself Goik's closest shepherd and plans to make sure the research they began together bears his name. Once funeral arrangements are made by the family, R.I.T. will make its own arrangements to remember Mark Goik. He would have turned 22 next month.
The R.I.T. Campus is mourning the loss of a student, known as one of its brightest. 21-year-old Mark Goik was killed in a car crash on the thruway early Friday morning. He was in his third year at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the R.I.T. Campus.
News 10NBC spoke to one of his college mentors Friday evening. Professor Todd Pagano first met Goik in his first year at NTID. Pagano said Goik had spent much of his education on the outside looking in, because he was hard of hearing, but when Goik came to R.I.T., he blossomed and became one of his program's best students.
Within the greater community that is R.I.T., there is a family of students that walk the quiet halls of The National Technical Institute for the Deaf. In a science lab, Professor Todd Pagano said, Goik, was a leader. “They all would look to Mark in that kind of leadership role,”said Pagano.
Goik was just one of six students nearing the end of the laboratory science tech program at the school. He and Pagano were researching the power of a compound in nutmeg to fight illness, such as the Black Plague.
Goik never got to see the results of that experiment. State police say at 1:30 Friday morning, his Chevy Blazer crossed the median on the thruway and hit a rental truck, head on. He was driving westbound in the direction of his home state of Ohio, which Pagano said was close to Goik’s heart. “At one point, he had considered going into the applied mathematics program because he wanted to be a statistician for the Cleveland Browns,” explained Pagano.
NTID’s Associate Dean said, the school provided counselors to Goik's three roommates and dozens of saddened students. “It's a big loss. In a small program, you get to know the students very well, and you shepherd them through,” said Associate Dean Ellie Rosenfield.
Professor Pagano considered himself Goik's closest shepherd and plans to make sure the research they began together bears his name. Once funeral arrangements are made by the family, R.I.T. will make its own arrangements to remember Mark Goik. He would have turned 22 next month.
who have lost a wonderful person.
