Felice Frankel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University where she heads the Envisioning Science program at Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC). Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel’s images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences. She was named the 2007 winner of the prestigious international Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography, and was profiled in the New York Times Science Section and the Apple website. Frankel was previously awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for her previous work photographing the built landscape and architecture. Her  book “Envisioning Science, The Design and Craft of the Science Image” is now out in paperback. (The MIT Press). A tenth anniversary edition of her book, co-authored Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides, “ On the Surface of Things, Images of the Extraordinary in Science,” ( Harvard University Press) will be in bookstores April 15. Her regularly appearing column, “Sightings”, in American Scientist Magazine addresses the importance of visual thinking and representation in science and engineering. She is founder of the Image and Meaning conferences and workshops whose purpose is to develop new approaches to promote the public understanding of science through visual expression. She is leading a newly funded NSF undergraduate program, “Picturing to Learn” and is spearheading new efforts to create a virtual graphical community in science and engineering.

 

 

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