Colorblind Mississippi State University Students Gain Access to Specially Engineered EnChroma Glasses
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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STARKVILLE, Miss. and BERKELEY, Calif., April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Distinguishing red and green traffic lights. Determining the correct orientation of a drone from color cues and markings. Discerning color-coded topography lines on maps. These are just some ways colorblindness affects more than 350 million individuals globally, including an estimated 1,200 of the nearly 28,000 Mississippi State University students, faculty and staff who are Color Vision Deficient (CVD) across every discipline.
Key Points:
- Mississippi State faculty members in the plant and soil sciences and geosciences departments have partnered with EnChroma, makers of specially engineered glasses that can alleviate obstacles to improve learning and support for colorblind students.
- EnChroma will provide the glasses—for indoor and outdoor use—for all colorblind MSU students and staff to borrow from the Department of Geosciences.
- Mississippi State faculty members in the plant and soil sciences and geosciences departments have partnered with EnChroma , makers of specially engineered glasses that can alleviate CVD obstacles, to improve learning and support for colorblind students.
- Together they gathered support to make EnChroma glasses for colorblindness available for loan to CVD students and staff on campus.