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The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially
invites you to join us for the next talk in our invited speaker series:


*"More Than Pretty Pictures"*

Felice Frankel
Science Photographer and Research Scientist, MIT


Friday, March 31, 2017
10:30-11:30am

Snell Library 90, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave
Boston MA, 02115

Coffee and pastries will be served.


*Abstract*:

Graphics, images and figures — visual representations of scientific data
and concepts — are critical components of science and engineering research.
They communicate in ways that words cannot. They can clarify or strengthen
an argument and spur interest into the research process.

But it is important to remember that a visual representation of a
scientific concept or data is a re-presentation and not the thing itself ––
some interpretation or translation is always involved. Just as writing a
journal article, one must carefully plan a representation and decide what
to say, and in what order to say it. The process requires clear thinking
and the ability to communicate, and to entice the viewer to choose to look.

This talk will include examples of my own attempts in creating various
representations; some more successful than others. I will discuss the
iterative process of getting from "here" to "there,” making representations
that are more than good enough.


*About the speaker*:

Science photographer Felice Frankel is a research scientist in the Center
for Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology with additional support from Chemical Engineering, Materials
Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. She is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guggenheim Fellow,
and was a Senior Research Fellow in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts
and Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Department
of Systems Biology. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers,
Felice’s images have appeared on journal covers, in journal articles, web
spotlights and in various other international publications for general
audiences such as National Geographic, Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie,
Advanced Materials, Materials Today, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American,
Discover Magazine, Popular Science and New Scientist, among others.
Attached image © Felice Frankel

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