Whimsy, physics unite in 'Objects in Motion' art work
Southern New Hampshire University’s McIninch Art Gallery is on the move with its latest exhibition, “Objects in Motion: Survey of Work by Kim Bernard.”

A reception will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. today, and the showing will be on display through Dec. 18.

Bernard, a Maine-based artist, creates projects that investigate the intersection where the science of physics collides with spirituality, playfulness and a pinch of humor.

“These recent kinetic works invite the viewer to physically engage the sculptures’ motion, as an extension of one’s own energy, and break the no touch rule of art,” curators said in announcing the exhibit.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141120/NEWHAMPSHIRE01/141129994

Program explores connections between art, math, and science
Stephon Greenlee, a freshman at Quest Charter Academy, will perform an original spoken word piece, “Society Pain Pills,” at a student showcase Friday at the school.

But performance art isn’t enough for "Building STEAM," a week-long series of events designed to showcase connections between the arts and STEM education, or science, technology, engineering and math.

Greenlee and about 20 other student teams scheduled to perform at Quest’s student showcase also had to write papers explaining the science behind their performance.

“You think it’s just rapping, but it’s more than that,” Greenlee said as he explained how brain imaging has shown what happens in rappers’ brain functions when they’re improvising lyrics. Researchers have also compared what happens when rappers recite memorized lyrics.

“One of the hardest things for people to grasp is that science is behind everything,” said Marcus Belin, dean of students at Quest, a public charter school that focuses on math and science. At the same time, Belin said, "Building STEAM" is a way to help students see the creativity and innovation normally associated with the arts is also important in science.

The week’s events have included presentations on music, painting, robotics, gaming technology, dentistry, ergonomics and field trips to Caterpillar Visitors Center and a Caterpillar Inc. manufacturing facility.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20141120/NEWS/141129928

Geology and art: Former Oklahoma geologist hopes he's found second career as an artist
After a series of oil-field injuries cut short his career as a consulting well-site geologist, Oklahoma City resident Joeallen Gibson Jr. has worked for the past four years to build a new career as an artist, albeit one with a particular affinity for dirt, salt and fossils. His first solo art exhibit, "Journey of a Self-Taught Artist," opens Dec. 5 at the Paseo Art Space.
http://newsok.com/earthy-work-former-oklahoma-geologist-hopes-hes-f...

Another Voice: The arts help engage students in the STEM fields
Buffalo News
The perceived separation between the arts and sciences may be persistent, but it is unnecessary. Amid discussions of STEM (science, technology, ...
http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/another-voice/another-voice-the-...

Chemistry and art competition (2014):
If you are passionate about science and science communication, the 2014 Chemistry World science communication competition offers a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your skill and be published in Chemistry World.

All you have to do is write an 800 word article based on this year’s topic: chemistry and art.

Within the topic, you can write about whatever you like, but it must be related to the chemical sciences. Entries should consist of a clear and concisely written article, suitable for publication in Chemistry World, and should be no more than 800 words in length.

The closing date is 5 January 2015 and winners will be announced during an event to be held at Burlington House in London on 20 March 2015.

The event will include a second round of judging when 10 shortlisted finalists will be asked to present their topic in in a format other than a piece of prose. This could be anything from a poster or painting to a piece of music, a video, or a piece of sculpture - anything in fact that will engage the audience and judges and communicate your idea. Read more about the second round entry here.

Stuck for ideas? The July issue of Chemistry World was all about chemistry and art, so you can find some ideas here. Also, take a look at our judges' tips and advice for budding science communicators, read our 2013 winner’s entry and shortlisted pieces for some inspiration.
Rules for entries

Entries should be on a topic related to the chemical sciences, be appropriate for publication in Chemistry World and should embrace the competition’s theme of chemistry and art.

Note that the theme is chemistry and art – we want to see entries that explore the various ways that chemistry and art interact from the painter’s palette to the aesthetics of scientific representations to collaborations between chemists and artists.

For example, this could be:

· How the chemistry of dyes and pigments has influenced artists and the development of art
· The ways in which artists draw inspiration from chemistry and other sciences
· How chemists use artistic expression in their work
· The role that chemistry plays in stimulating and preserving our culture and heritage

Entries should be no longer than 800 words.

Read our frequently asked questions for more information:
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/10/chemistry-world-competiti...
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/06/chemistry-art-theme-issue

Theatre Arts research provides insight into human behavior for scientists, engineers who build social robots

As an actress, producer, director and theatre arts lecturer at The University of Texas at Arlington, Julienne Greer knows the techniques that help draw people's deepest emotions to the surface. Now, she's building on her experience and research to help scientists and robotics engineers better understand the human experience so that they can build more responsive robots.
Greer, who holds a master's degree in media arts and a doctorate in humanities, recently authored the paper, "Building emotional authenticity between humans and robots." In it, she referenced a robot named 'Pepper,' which has been widely hailed as an emotionally responsive humanoid robot that understands feelings, and is meant solely to emotionally interact with people.
When Pepper was unveiled in Japan in June 2014, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said that his company's aim was to "develop affectionate robots that can make people smile." In her paper, Greer noted in response that when humans make certain gestures, such as a smile, it could mean that they are "happy." It could also mean that they are "angry," but smiling in order to make themselves less aggressive in tense situations.
Scholars intrigued by Greer's work, invited her to present her paper at the Sixth International Conference on Social Robotics held in Sydney, Australia last month. They also requested that she lead attendees in a session on enhancing the relationship between human beings and emotional robots.

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-theatre-arts-insight-human-behavior.ht...

The Art of Science: Re-establishing Creativity in Medicine
MD News (press release)
“William Osler once defined medicine as an art that uses science,” says Salvatore Mangione, MD, Associate Professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical ...

xhibitions illustrate two ways to see the art of photography
Houston Chronicle
Tucker and Pappas organized the works in two categories: some record physical objects, often with a scientific purpose; others are purely abstract art.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/...

Science-art of CERN:
"I've been bitten by the science-art bug," says physicist turned filmmaker Mark Levinson. In this case, it turned out for the best. As earlier this month, Levinson won the Grierson award for his documentary film Particle Fever, which follows six physicists in the lead-up to the launch of the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle at Cern.

Research project exploring the arts as a tool to teach science
University of California, Irvine, researchers are in the midst of a five-year project to develop and study the effectiveness of a new curriculum designed to help students better learn science through the arts.

The effort, backed by $6.4 million from the National Science Foundation, is targeting eight school districts in Orange County: Irvine Unified, Anaheim City, Capistrano Unified, Orange Unified, Ocean View, Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, Tustin Unified and Westminster.
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2014/11/21/17592/local-research...

Art installation at The Benton Museum. Titled ‘Chemistry 101: The Science of Photography,” this ended up being a very fun and low-key discussion about the merging of art and science.
Unexpected Beauty: Art in Chemistry
http://www.xvivo.net/blog/archives/unexpected-beauty-art-in-chemistry/

The Art of Science: Re-establishing Creativity in Medicine
MD News (press release)
“William Osler once defined medicine as an art that uses science,” says Salvatore Mangione, MD, Associate Professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical ...

Cuts and fees transform face of Britain's artistic community
Financial Times
As well as higher fees, the increasing popularity of science and technology – driven by the government's schools policy – is hurting arts education.

Cuts and fees transform face of Britain's artistic community

Building connections between art and science
http://www.coe.uga.edu/news/archive/building-connections-between-ar...

Geology and art:

Mysterious micro-valleys, hundreds of metres long but no more than a metre deep, riddle the bottom of Okanagan Lake.

The intriguing features, of unknown cause, are playfully described as “Ogopogo art” in a new edition of an unexpectedly popular book on Valley geology.

The third version of Okanagan Geology also contains new articles on the building of the W.R. Bennett Bridge, the Kelowna Crags rockclimbing site, and evidence in support of a previously-unknown glaciation that covered the Okanagan with 3,000 feet of ice a million years ago.

“Science does not stand still,” says Murray Roed, who along with John Greenough once again edited the latest version of a book that first appeared in 1995.

http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/article_8048e7dc-735f-11e4-9...

Art and science of nebulae
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/11/24/stars_and_cloud...

Blue Mind at the ROM: Exploring the Art and Science Behind Your Brain on Water
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Blue Mind connects the dots: neuroscience and psychology, nature and conservation, art and science, poetry and practice in profoundly important new ...

The art and science of slime mould:
http://qz.com/301402/what-yellow-slime-yes-slime-can-teach-your-org...

Who Says You Can’t Mix Neuroscience and Opera?
http://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2014/11/19/interview-indre-viskont...

Under The Skin director Jonathan Glazer has been named as the winner of this year’s Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship, in association with Film4.

He receives £30,000 and access to the Wellcome Trust’s scientists, labs, and research across all aspects of biomedical science.

Glazer said he planned to “think freely without obligatoin or fear and see what comes of it.”

Small Science-Themed Art

December 1st is the deadline to participate in an exciting annual exhibit at the Art.Science.Gallery in Austin, TX. For years, artists have created small trading cards to exchange amongst themselves at conferences and gatherings, but according to the rules of exchange, these cards must never be bought or sold. Art.Science.Gallery, a brick-and-mortar gallery in Austin, TX is bucking that trend by issuing an open call for art-science trading cards that will be used to fund science-art related events at their location throughout the year. Artists have until December 1st to submit their entries and prospective collectors will be able to purchase the works for $25 each or 5 for $100. It’s a great opportunity for science-artists to contribute to the field as the Art.Science.Gallery has emerged over the last two years as a hub of sciart-related activity and advocacy. And for those who admire scienceart but don’t have the funds to pay for large-scale original art, the opportunity lies in the buying.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/11/26/small-sci...

Inflatable Robots: Art Imitates Life
http://science.dodlive.mil/2014/11/26/inflatable-robots-art-imitate...

MAKING A UNIVERSE
6pm Wednesday 3 December 2014
Makerversity, Somerset House
Victoria Embankment, West Goods Entrance
London, WC2R 1LA
An evening event with Alistair McClymont and Dr Ceri Brenner, Making a Universe explores artistic and scientific practices that deal with contained and extreme environments. Artist, Alistair McClymont creates poetic machines that contain 'natural' environments, making a universe of their own. Scientists similarly create miniature stars that imitate the birth of stars.

Alistair McClymont recently completed a three-month residency at the Central Laser Facility where Dr Ceri Bremmer is a physicist. He will be discussing his work, and time spent at the CLF, thinking about his work with scientists on experiments both as an outsider and insider, and how this has influenced his practice.

www.artscatalyst.org

Science in art:

Ernie Button, a photographer in Phoenix, found art at the bottom of a whisky glass. Howard A. Stone, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at Princeton, found the science in the art.

Eight years ago, Mr. Button was about to wash the glass when he noticed that leftover drops of Scotch had dried into a chalky but unexpectedly beautiful film. “When I lifted it up to the light, I noticed these really delicate, fine lines on the bottom,” he recalled, “and being a photographer for a number of years before this, I’m like, ‘Hmm, there’s something to this.’ ”

He and his wife began experimenting. The Scotches with smoky, peaty flavors, like those from the islands of Islay and Skye in western Scotland, were inconsistent, needing more trial and error to produce the picturesque ring patterns.

“fluid mechanics” and “art”

Artificial mixture of water, alcohol and particles does not quite reproduce the whisky patterns. It appears that whisky also contains a surfactant — a chemical that reduces the surface tension of the droplets — and long stringlike molecules known as polymers, which attach to the glass, providing a template for the brushlike stroke patterns seen in the images. Both the scientists and Mr. Button suspect the molecules, as yet unidentified, enter the whisky during the aging process.

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD14/Session/H2.3

Painting Pictures with Whisky

 “Vanishing Spirits — The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch.”

Stunning pics of frozen ponds ( natural art and scientific explanations) :
See the pics here: http://imgur.com/a/BuzgM
What’s causing these perfect ice rings to form around rocks?
People speculated that...
the different depths of water in the pond caused it to freeze in increments, the deeper the water the slower the freeze.
stratification - the formation of heat-based layers in water - was to blame, or fluid turnover.
the ice particles would nucleate at the surfaces of the rock and continue from there, and this happened several times as temperatures could have fluxed and caused the freezing to stop. So the freezing basically started and stopped several times starting from the rock and then continuing
from where the ice stopped, except when it continues where the ice had stopped, the new ice doesn't have the same crystal structure or is oriented differently, causing a mismatch in the ice.
a ring froze and then debris got stuck against the already frozen section. The freezing of the next ring would have a different crystal structure or lots of nucleation sites (and thus light scattering grain boundaries) that would cause the interface to be opaque.
Read the explanations here:
http://www.sciencealert.com/what-s-causing-these-perfect-ice-rings-...

Does music make you smarter? The bizarre science of Mozart’s art
http://www.techly.com.au/2014/12/01/music-make-smarter/

Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series
Stanford graduate Mae Jemison, who went into space, will be on campus Wednesday, Dec. 3, as part of Stanford's Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/jemison-imagining-unive...

Learning outside the classroom: Science Learning+ research projects announced
Wellcome Trust
Learning outside the classroom: Science Learning+ research projects ... of participation in citizen science, and how art can help to explore science.

Communicating chemistry ( through art)
Of all the sciences, chemistry has always seemed to me to be closest to the arts. It appeals directly to the senses: the shapes and colours of molecules, the smells, the tactile aspects of materials and instrumentation. It draws on intuitions and craft skills, for example in the practice of forming crystals or getting a reaction to work. And most of all, it demands creativity and imagination: ‘chemistry creates its own object’, as Marcellin Berthelot puts it.
2014 Chemistry World science communication competition
Chemistry ought by rights therefore to enjoy the same kind of criticism and appreciation afforded to art – we can have views about what we like, even about what moves us. I suppose that this sort of subjective evaluation is not often encouraged because chemistry is a science. But it would be great to see some of it in this competition. The theme of ‘chemistry and art’ might be interpreted as ‘chemistry of art’, and there is plenty of interest in that. But it can also be read as ‘chemistry as art’. I look forward to seeing both perspectives explored in the entries.
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2014/12/01/countdown-to-the-2014-c...

‘CHEM 101’ Exhibit at Benton Focuses on Science of Photography
Photography developed from a series of collaborative efforts in early 19th century among scientists and artists alike, from varied disciplines, each exploring chemicals and their reaction to light. Capturing images of landscapes and people quickly became the focus of most images, but as the photographers who emerged explored ways to be more creative with their images, they began to find ways to manipulate the chemistry of the photographic process in order to make an artistic statement.

“CHEM 101: The Science of Photography” currently on display at the William Benton Museum of Art, serves both as an exhibition of the art of photography while seeking to inspire a better understanding of its basic chemistry.

The exhibit is collaborative effort between Department of Chemistry and the Benton, developed by Challa Vijaya Kumar, professor of chemistry, and Nancy Stula, executive director of the museum. It is the first in a planned series of projects supported by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Kumar.

“It occurred to me one day that we have museums on this campus and they’re a wonderful gateway to communicate with the community,” says Kumar. “I want to engage with the general public in the larger context with how chemistry affects their lives directly or indirectly. Nancy knows how science and art are interrelated. Artists use cutting edge technology in their endeavors. It’s an excellent marriage between the two disciplines.”

“CHEM 101” includes works by 13 photographers who utilize the chemistry of the photographic process to manipulate images by adding or eliminating colors or changing the time of exposing photographic paper to chemicals.
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/12/chem-101-exhibit-at-benton-focu...
“CHEM 101: The Science of Photography” continues at the Benton Museum through Dec. 14. For more information go to the Benton website: www.benton.uconn.edu

http://benton.uconn.edu/chem-101-the-science-of-photography-2/

New USU interdisciplinary project aims to bridge art, science

An interdisciplinary project aimed at bringing art and science through a symposium, exhibits, a joint artist-scientist residency and other arrangements is set to begin at Utah State University early next year.

The university announced ARTsySTEM — the brainchild of Mark Lee Koven, assistant professor of art, and Nancy Huntly, biology professor — in a news release this week.
ARTsySTEM will feature a year-long residency, a visiting scholar lecture series, art and science workshops and public art exhibitions, along with a semester-long art and ecology graduate course taught by Lee Koven and Huntly. In concert with USU’s 2015 Year of Water campaign, the project’s programming focuses on water ecology.
http://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/new-usu-interdisciplinary-project-...

“Unmasked: Revealing Science Though Art"
The exhibition will run December 10-23 and January 5-8 in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center on the USI campus. (The University is closed December 24 through January 4.)
Efroymson Fellow's work explores science, nature and design
http://www.usi.edu/news/releases/2014/12/efroymson-fellows-work-exp...

The Motions of Kayaking and Canoeing Recorded through Light Painting on Canadian Waterways
Ontario-based photographer Stephen Orlando is fascinated with human movement and uses programmable LED light sticks attached to kayak paddles, people, racquets, and other objects to translate that movement into photographic light paintings. The act of recording motion on the surface of water surrounded by reflections creates a surprisingly unique effect, almost sculptural in nature. You can see many more photos in his kayaking, canoeing, and swimming galleries.
http://www.motionexposure.com/Galleries/Kayak
http://www.motionexposure.com/Galleries/Canoe/
http://www.motionexposure.com/Galleries/Swimming/

Watts Towers restoration: Can science save the iconic work of art?
The Watts Towers are one of three sites in California to recently be listed as "at risk" by The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

"It's at risk because of the environment that it's in".
http://abc7.com/news/can-science-save-the-iconic-watts-towers/419231/

On Dec. 4th 2014, the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) speaker series will return to the UC Davis campus. Every session features four new speakers of diverse trades presenting their work, followed by a Q&A with the audience. LASER devotes itself to exposing the general public to its immediate cultural environment, as well as to discovering the joined forces of science and art.
http://www.theaggie.org/2014/12/04/laser-series-brings-art-and-scie...

In Moscow, Quantum Physics Meets the Visual Arts
Laboratoria Art & Science Space, a gallery/discussion forum established in 2008, that gives artists opportunities to work with scientists from various fields in order to explore the intersection of the two disciplines. Currently residing there until January 25, 2015, is an entrancing exhibition called Quantum Entanglement, curated by the gallery’s founder Daria Parkhomenko and co-curated by Higham. Showing work from both Russian and British artists, along with US graffiti artist Futura, the exhibition kicked off the four day FutureEverything event, which also featured a series of fascinating talks, workshops, and hackathons, UK electronic musicians (Lee Gamble, Evian Christ, Koreless, a Hyperdub showcase), and immersive and engrossing audiovisual shows (with stunning visuals by Emmanuel Biard).
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/in-moscow-quantum-phy...

At Quantum Entanglement, contemporary Russian artists, like Electroboutique—comprising Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin—and Sergei Shutov sit alongside newer ones like ::vtol::, Dmitry Kawarga, the collective Where Dogs Run, and UK artists Memo Akten and Semiconductor. The artists had each been tasked with grappling with the strange and exotic world of quantum physics; namely, the phenomenon known as quantum entanglement which, in layman's terms, involves how particles interact with and affect each other over vast distances. It’s this mind-bending, almost magical aspect of nature that struck the curators as an interesting subject for artists to tackle.

And tackle it, they did: Electroboutique’s piece, Visual Uncertainty, explores the dual-natured reality that is presented us when we use scientific instruments to look into the subatomic world. It involved a piece of customized glass—what they call “magic glass"—hanging between two walls, with light projected onto each one. The walls are painted with a special material that is a silvery color to look at, but once you stare at them through the large lens, they come alive with swirling, colored patterns. How exactly this is done remains a secret that the artists weren’t willing to reveal—the process has a patent pending. “For me, quantum physics is something magical," explains Shulgin, "something that I do not understand but I do respect. In our work we do something where people don’t understand how it works. They see it and they enjoy and they admire it. You could draw this parallel with quantum physics and our artwork.”

Call for Artist in Residence at Synthetic Biology Lab - art-sci programme
The Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), University of Southern Denmark – in collaboration with Biofaction- is inviting an artist in residence for up to six weeks during 2015. The two-part residency will start in the spring and conclude in the summer/fall of 2015. As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with the scientists while working on a Synthetic Biology related artwork. There is no prior definition of, nor restriction to, specific genres and we welcome applications from artists, designers, writers, biohackers, or other cultural practitioners.

The stipend of a total of up to 7200 € is provided by the EU research project SYNENERGENE (Responsible Research and Innovation in Synthetic Biology), executed by the FLinT Center (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark) and Biofaction (Vienna, Austria). It covers travel and local expenses, living allowance as well as partial support for the production and showcasing of the artistic prototype or finished work.

Objectives

This residency program is established:

to explore arts or alternative cultural practice’s potential with regards to the visions, challenges, philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical aspects of bottom-up Synthetic Biology, such as protocells research; to add a complementary outside-the-box perspective to bottom-up SynBio, its societal ramifications and cultural aspects;
to help envision the potential long-term changes bottom-up SynBio might bring to society.

Application deadline 4th Jan. , 2015

More details: Call for artist in residence at FLinT – University of Southern Denmark

http://www.biofaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Call-for-artis...

Exploring arts, humanities is now mandatory for UB medical students
New requirement for Class of 2018 is part of national trend toward a more balanced medical education experience
On Dec. 5, first-year medical students at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will participate in a new requirement: attending the First Year Humanities Day.

UB medical students will hear about and discuss medicine as depicted in poetry, music and drawing; they will even be able to participate as artists themselves, drawing a nude model in one of the sessions as they learn to correlate findings from gross anatomy in a living body. Other topics include discussing health care in terms of cost, cultural attitudes and ethics.
They say they require their students to develop scientific expertise, they also need to develop expertise in the art of practicing medicine,” says Michael Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences at UB and dean of the medical school.

“Our students must learn to appreciate and understand not just clinical symptoms but the individual who is experiencing them,” he says. “The medical school’s new humanities requirement is one way to achieve this goal.”

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/12/013.html

A Brief History of Space Travel as Told by the Art That Inspired It
http://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-space-travel-as-told-by-the-a...

University City Science Center’s latest digital art installation
It's a colorful play on genetics and code made by a group of London-based artists.
https://technical.ly/philly/2014/12/08/united-visual-artists-scienc...
It’s by London-based United Visual Artists.

Here’s how the press release describes the piece, called “Blueprint”:

Exploring analogies between DNA and computer code, UVA have created the Blueprint series: works that pair genetics and code as the blueprints of artificial and natural systems. As the work slowly changes over time, patterns fluctuate between varying degrees of complexity. Blueprint uses the basic concepts of evolution to create an ever-transitioning image. With cells literally transferring their genes to their adjoining others, color flows like paint across the canvas.

Drawing up a unique colorful composition every minute, Blueprint presents the unlimited outcome that results from a single algorithm or a single set of rules.

Forensic artist helps victims get their name back, families get answers
http://www.wistv.com/story/27578540/forensic-artist-helps-victims-g...

UC Davis professors give lectures about fusion of art, science
Several UC Davis professors gave lectures on the fusion of art and science at the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) event last Thursday, an event sponsored by the UC Davis Art and Science Fusion Program.

Founded in 2008, the LASER event consists of a series of lectures and presentations on science, art and technology. LASER events occur at a number of locations, primarily on college campuses.

The event began at 6:30 p.m. at the Plant and Environmental Sciences Building with a 30-minute socializing and networking opportunity for the public that included students, professors, scientists and interested community members.
http://www.theaggie.org/2014/12/09/uc-davis-professors-give-lecture...

Perhaps even more importantly, artistic performances communicate what it’s like to be a scientist. They remind public and professional listeners alike that scientists are not robots in lab coats, but real people with our own quirks, hobbies, and talents. Geoscientists are starting to express their individuality more frequently, to much public delight; consider the infamous NASA “Mohawk Guy.” If your version of a Mohawk is a punk-rock ukulele or a string of geology puns set to a beat-poetry rhythm, the open mic is the place to show it.

Geoscientist and singer-songwriter shares her creative side at AGU’s Open Mic Night – and you can, too
Science is about discovering universal truths. Music, they say, is a universal language. So what better way to communicate science than through music?

I am a paleoclimatologist and geochemist. But on the side, in the rare moments of downtime when I’ve put my research to bed for the evening, I am also a singer-songwriter. Scientists and artists don’t often find themselves in the same room, let alone in the same brain, so for years these two parts of my life have remained fairly separate. That is, until the AGU started hosting an Open Mic Night at its annual Fall Meeting.
http://blogs.agu.org/sciencecommunication/2014/12/08/geoscientist-s...

The room was packed full of geoscientists with secret creative hobbies: musicians, poets, short story writers, rappers, inventors of strange instruments made from garden hoses. Perhaps even more importantly, artistic performances communicate what it’s like to be a scientist. They remind public and professional listeners alike that scientists are not robots in lab coats, but real people with our own quirks, hobbies, and talents. Geoscientists are starting to express their individuality more frequently, to much public delight; consider the infamous NASA “Mohawk Guy.” If your version of a Mohawk is a punk-rock ukulele or a string of geology puns set to a beat-poetry rhythm, the open mic is the place to show it.

10 Original Gifts for Science (and SciArt) Geeks
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/12/10/10-origin...

Science as Art Winners
https://www.mrs.org/fall-2014-science-art-winners/

Passion in Science Awards

Harvard Research Assistant Wins Award for Science Raps
From Drake parodies to Nicki Minaj remixes, one Harvard research assistant is transforming scientific procedures into popular music that reaches high schools throughout New England.

Alia Y. Qatarneh, a research assistant for the Life Sciences Outreach Program at Harvard, was awarded the New England Biolabs Passion in Science Award in honor of her devotion to uniting science and arts in education.

According to the NEB’s website, the award is given to individuals in the categories of inspiration in science, humanitarian duty, environmental stewardship, and arts and creativity. Qatarneh has been recognized in this last category as one of four awardees for 2014 who fulfill one of the core values of the NEB, that “great science is fundamentally creative and artistic, and changes the way we see and experience our world," as stated on its website.
https://www.neb.com/about-neb/passion-in-science-awards#tabselect3

Dazzling Images of the Brain Created by Neuroscientist-Artist
Greg Dunn earned a PhD in neuroscience before deciding to become a professional artist.
The patterns of branching neurons he saw through the microscope reminded him of the aesthetic principles in Asian art, which he had always admired. Dunn realized that neurons could be painted in the sumi-e (ink wash painting) style, which involves making as few brush strokes as possible to capture the soul of the subject.
http://www.livescience.com/49060-brain-artwork-gallery.html

DOUG ARGUE

The artist fuses science and text into his large-scale paintings.

"Randomly Placed Exact Percentages" and "Isotropic," which flank the lobby's front desk, are evocative of the universe, exploring themes of science, mathematics and language, he said.

In "Isotropic," Argue incorporates computer-manipulated text appropriated from literature like "Moby Dick." The text is stretched on the canvas until it's no longer decipherable.

The paintings are "about the possibilities of new combinations" that expand "the idea of how things can change in an infinite number of possible ways," he said. "I hope people like the paintings and see something different in them every time they look at them."
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Chemistry in Art (CH 110) students are hosting a poster/art reception Fri. Dec. 5 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. in Meadowdale 2nd floor central hallway, to showcase their scientific posters detailing the chemistry of their science based art projects.
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Women in Science Illustrations
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