Lighting. In 1928, she left Bryn Mawr to join work for the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. There, she taught as an associate professor, first research ophthalmology and later physiological optics. Together with her husband Ferree, she developed a vision research laboratory. She became the Director of the Research Laboratory of Physiological Optics in 1935. At Johns Hopkins, Rand took on many projects, many involving industrial lighting. Upon her husband's death in 1943, Rand moved to New York City as a research associate at Columbia University’s Knapp Foundation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She retired in 1957. Along with collaborators Legrand Hardy and M. Catherine Rittler, she researched the detection and assessment of color blindness and developed the Hardy-Rand-Rittler plate, known as the HRR pseudo-isochromatic color blindness test. Awards and recognition Rand was the first female fellow of the Illuminating Society of North America in 1952 and received a gold medal from them in 1963. Rand was a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She authored and co-authored over one hundred research papers in her career. She received the Optical Society’s Edgar D. Tillyer Medal in 1959, the first woman to do so. Rand was also a member of the first class of OSA Fellows in 1959, one of ony five of the 115 members included in this first class. Death Rand died on 30 June 1970. References 1886 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American psychologists 20th-century American women scientists Bryn Mawr College alumni Cornell University alumni Fellows of Optica (society) Women in optics