Painting alien skies: changing the perspective, provoking questions

An interview with Helena Kauppila The limits of the canvas don’t constrict artist Helena Kauppila, PhD, but inspire her to explore the expansive sky or the depths of the ocean from a new perspective: she physically changes the point of view for us so that we’re not...

Informed Consent: When Science is a Morality Play

From left: Tina Benko, Myra Lucretia Taylor, and Jesse J. Perez in the Primary Stages and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation production of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Liesl Tommy, at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street....

Illuminating Complexity: The Art of Science Communication

Ihave always been enamored by the drawings of the neuroatonomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of the fathers of modern neuroscience. His hand drawn renditions of neurons, based on histological examinations of brain slices, are simple, black ink on now golden with age...