01/24/2013As an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, RISD alum Jonathan Arena 09 GD has organized the first-ever Harvard xDesign conference.
01/15/2013Students enrolled in the Wintersession travel course Creating an Archive are studying photography in Vrindavan, India – a holy pilgrimage site brimming with cultural curiosities.
01/14/2013Painters Angela Dufresne and Craig Taylor, two new assistant professors in the Painting department, are interested in innovation and integration.
01/10/2013RISD students developed a prototype off-the-grid schoolhouse for rural Costa Rica in collaboration with Earth University – the world's foremost research institute for sustainable agriculture.
12/21/2012Faculty member Jo Sittenfeld MFA 08 PH exposes a diverse set of students to the world of documentary photography.
12/03/2012Graduate students are envisioning fantastical ways to reinvent the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre site that was once America's leading naval shipyard.
11/19/2012Student ceramicists are working with visiting artists to create marvelous – and sometimes unorthodox – projects.
11/12/2012Lucy Spelman, a biologist and veterinarian with a taste for adventure, teaches The Art of Communicating Science this fall.
11/14/2012Working alongside University of Rhode Island oceanographers, Foundation Studies Critic Cynthia Rubin explores the fascinating behavior of plankton.
09/12/2012Professor Seth Stem works with BASF to develop new uses for an eco-friendly, hemp-based alternative to plastic.