Integrated Sciences Academy


Integrated Sciences Academy
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Overview
The Integrated Sciences Academy was created in 2017 as the innovative home to multidisciplinary academic and research programs in the College of Science at RIT. Here, students may take part in science exploration; a first-year program that allows students to gain hands-on experience across the range of scientific disciplines in order to best select a major. The Academy is also home to the color science program which explores all aspects of color from lighting, through material properties, to human perception.
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Year of laboratory-based science exploration before choosing a major
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And only color science Ph.D. program in North America
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Years of history with one of RIT’s oldest academic research laboratories, the Munsell Color Science Laboratory
Latest News
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November 3, 2020
How To Battle Seasonal Affective Disorder With Wellness Design
Forbes talks to Elena Fedorovskaya, research faculty in the College of Science's Integrated Sciences Academy, about the effects of certain colors on people with seasonal affective disorder.
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December 13, 2019
New applied cognitive neuroscience course offered at RIT
Designed for students who want to learn how animals transform light and other radiation into information, the Animal Vision course explores the varied approaches to visually acquiring information employed by animals.
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November 21, 2019
Student to Student: Color gamut volume of HDR displays
Fu Jiang discovered the interesting and complex topic of Color Science while taking some courses at RIT. Today, his dissertation research is focused on the Color Gamut Volume of High Dynamic Range (HDR) display.
Undergraduate Programs
The science exploration program allows first-year students time to explore the range of experiences that the College of Science has to offer prior to selecting a science major for the remainder of their program. Other undergraduate programs and minors are in planning and proposal stages.
Take up to a year to explore RIT's portfolio of science programs before deciding on a major.
Learn More about Science ExplorationGraduate Programs
The Master of Science and Ph.D. color science programs explore all aspects of color, from lighting, through material properties, to human perception. The program is closely associated with the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, which is considered one of the world’s top research facilities in the science of color.
Understand how humans perceive and interact with color in a unique color science degree that has limitless applications.
Learn More about Color Science MSEarn a color science Ph.D. at the world's leading university for color science research and education.
Learn More about Color Science Ph.D.Minors
Explore the biological underpinnings of cognition, delving into the science of the brain to understand the mental processes behind cognition and perception, particularly visual perception.
Learn More about Applied Cognitive Neuroscience MinorExplore the impact of art on science and science on art along with the synergistic overlaps between the two. Specifically, students learn how art and design can be applied in good scientific practice and how the sciences impact the materials, processes, and ultimate perceptual enjoyment of the visual arts.
Learn More about Art of Science/Science of Art MinorMunsell Color Science Laboratory
The Program of Color Science and Munsell Color Science Laboratory unite to form one of the world's foremost color science research and educational organizations. Our mission is to provide world-class education, research, and outreach in all areas of color science. These include: physical spectral and colorimetric measurements of materials and light sources; understanding the capture, processing, and display of color and spectral power distributions; and quantifying the human sensation of color matches and the higher-level perceptions of color appearance and chromatic adaptation.
Center for Applied Neuroscience
The Center for Applied Neuroscience is a new multidisciplinary research collaboration where knowledge at the intersection of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, and computational modeling is generated and applied to develop novel solutions and create technological advances.