MSU’s Department of Geosciences opens raffle for color-correcting glasses

Mississippi State’s Department of Geosciences is partnering with color-correcting glasses company EnChroma this month to raffle off two pairs of glasses in celebration of International Colorblind Awareness Month.

Any MSU faculty, staff and students are eligible for the raffle. To enter, applicants must take the colorblindness test at enchroma.com/pages/color-blindness-test, take a screenshot of the results and complete a survey at tinyurl.com/yc8c345u. Applicants cannot have vision corrected by prescription glasses.

Entries must be submitted before 11:59 p.m., Sept. 27. Winners will be contacted on Sept. 29.

The Department of Geosciences also offers an EnChroma glasses loan program for those who are colorblind. For more information, contact geology instructor and Dunn-Seiler Musuem curator Amy Moe-Hoffman at amhoffman@geosci.msstate.edu.

For more information on the MSU Department of Geosciences and EnChroma, visit www.geosciences.msstate.edu/ and www.enchroma.com.