RIT’s color science program is partnering with counterparts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to provide faculty and students new foreign exchange learning opportunities. The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills awarded a 3 million Norwegian Krone (roughly $300,000) UTFORSK grant to fund travel opportunities for graduate students and faculty involved with both programs.
A. Sue Weisler Students last semester drew live birds brought by the organization Wild Wings. A Zoological and Botanical Illustration class being offered again this spring allows students to accurately depict animals and plants for use in various media.
You thought 2020 was bad?
Try living in the dark underworld of 19th-century Victorian England, which featured poverty, cholera, epidemics, the Summer of the Great Stink (which led to the first modern urban sewage system), madhouses, arsenic poisonings, and Jack the Ripper.
Those topics will be discussed through literature in
Victorians’ Secrets, a new RIT class being offered this spring in the Department of English. It is just one of several unique classes offered throughout the university being held in-person, online, or blended.