HPSS News
![faculty member Max Pratt throws a sample-collecting bucket into the Blackstone River](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-10/HMG-Fall24-Max-Bucket-hero.jpg?h=c9b9a347&itok=wYJPC6ce)
Students in an interdisciplinary fall course learn to observe the living world in search of design strategies grounded in planetary health.
![the sun illuminating a RISD flag on a summer day](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-08/RISD-Campus-for-new-fac-story.jpg?h=a21def44&itok=lccn8K-A)
The new hires round out RISD’s Architecture & Design, Experimental and Foundation Studies, Fine Arts and Liberal Arts divisions.
![stunning rock formation inside the Navajo Nation](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-07/Summer24-internships-listing_0.jpg?h=5b728bb6&itok=1DyNbDzs)
More than 300 students are working for art and design organizations as nearby as Providence and as far away as the Netherlands.
![students wearing waders use nets to collect biological samples from a pond](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-05/Pond-Nets-Listing.jpg?h=c488a986&itok=L6RAknyA)
A team of science educators encourages students to see themselves as integral parts of the natural world.
![two rawhide vessels by Mikayla Patton](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-04/Patton-On-the-Back-Road-listing.jpg?h=d135c583&itok=jToxpf_N)
The Oglala Lakota mixed-media artist discussed her practice as part of RISD’s Indigenous and First Nations Artist Lecture Series.
![a view into the towering canopy of trees at Saint-Gaudens Park in New Hampshire](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-12/Witness-2023-Site-Visit-Trunks-Hero.jpg?h=c9a3a702&itok=IeP2VJQy)
RISD students create evocative objects out of black willow, Japanese lilac and red oak from Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park.
![Navajo blanket from RISD Museum collection](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/BlanketRecrop3%20copy.jpg?h=deca4175&itok=WntXo9Et)
Undergraduate students Pei-Yu Hung and Andres Guevara organize a wide-ranging storytelling series for a Collaborative Study Project focused on Indigenous oral traditions.
![students sketching under tropical trees](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/Spelman.Angela%20and%20Rachel%20sketching%20at%20HNP%201.10.23%20copy.jpg?h=ac778ff2&itok=sOLt0nL4)
A Wintersession global studies course led by Lucy Spelman and Andrea Dezsö considers the important role that artists and designers can play in environmental conservation.
![sketch of oyster-tecture by Flora Damon](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-11/FordFloraDamonSketchListing.jpg?h=b1d69838&itok=-BOOOC9P)
Students in a fall studio highlighting humans’ impact on the natural world get encouraging critique from returning alum and wildlife artist Walton Ford.