University of Massachusetts Amherst

Resurrecting Leonardo: Reconnecting Art and Science for Education

A symposium examining the nature of the visualization process, and the various ways in which it has been used by artists and scientists to convey to a broad audience the wonderment of discovery.

Guest panelists are:

Suzanne Anker

Chair, Art History Department, School of Visual Arts, New York

Prof. Anker is also a visual artist and theorist working with genetic imagery.

Felice Frankel

Scientific Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

she is also a Science Photographer, and author of “Envisioning Science.”

Janice D. Gobert

Member of the Concord Consortium, Concord, MA

she is Research Director of "Modeling Across the Curriculum" & “Making Thinking Visible."

Sherwin B. Nuland

Professor, Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Nuland is a surgeon and award-winning author of "How We Die"

The symposium was made possible through a collaboration between the Vice-Provost for Research, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathmatics, the Department of Art, and the VISUAL Program of the NSF-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The event is being held in conjunction with the 30th Annual Nikon International Photomicrography Competition, a juried exhibition.

Concluding remarks will be offered by Mr. Lee Shuett, executive vice president, Nikon Instruments.

Admission to the symposium and exhibition is free and open to the public.

Resurrecting Leonardo