Integrated Sciences Academy
Integrated Sciences Academy
Overview
The Integrated Sciences Academy was created in 2017 as the innovative home to multidisciplinary academic and research programs in RIT’s College of Science. Current programs include 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, and the color science program, which includes Master of Science and Ph.D. tracks that explore all aspects of color from lighting, through material properties, to human perception. The academy also houses the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, a preeminent academic laboratory dedicated exclusively to the science of color.
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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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July 3, 2017
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RIT launches Integrated Sciences Academy
The Integrated Sciences Academy in RIT’s College of Science will bring together researchers with different expertise to invent new ways to approach challenges facing a global society.
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.
Graduate 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.
Munsell 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.