
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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