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.