Articles and press
Selected articles about Felice
Selected articles by Felice
American Scientist column
Felice’s “Sightings” column ran in American Scientist from 2003-2008 and explored how images can be used to communicate scientific ideas and results. Remarkable images of science, some historical and some new, are accompanied by Felice’s conversations with their makers.
2008
January-February: Jeff W. Lichtman, professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University and Jean Livet, a postdoctoral fellow in his lab, discuss a new technique for “labeling” neurons.
2007
January-February: Angela DePace, postdoctoral scientist at Berkeley, discusses analyzing and visualizing gene expression during development.
March-April: Robert Lue, who directs life sciences education at Harvard University.
May-June: Richard J. Massey, postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology, and Lars Lindberg Christensen, head of the Hubble European Space Agency Information Center, discuss astronomy’s first maps of the “dark matter” of the cosmos.
September-October: Andrea Ottesen, doctoral candidate in the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland and the year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
September-October: Jessica Helfand, graphic designer, discusses volvelles, types of slide charts constructed with rotating parts.
2006
January-February: Michael Cohen, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, and John Hart, graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT.
March-April: Viktor Koen, Parsons School of Design.
May-June: Danielle Cork France, graduate student in biological engineering at MIT.
July-August: Alyssa Goodman, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing.
September-October: Ron Perry from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and Sarah Frisken from Tufts University.
November-December: W. Paul Brown of the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center and the year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
2005
January-February: Frank O’Connell, author of the “How It Works” feature in The New York Times.
March-April: Maria Eisner, research scientist at Cornell University.
May-June: Don Eigler and Dominique Brodbeck from IBM discussing the image of “orange and blue quantum corrals”.
July-August: David Goodsell, research scientist at the Scripps Research Institute.
September-October: Donna Cox, professor and director of visualization and experimental technologies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
November-December: Chris Hardee, VP of marketing at Omega Optical and the year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
2004
January-February: Eric J. Heller, professor of physics and chemistry at Harvard University, discusses his landscape photography.
March-April: Ben Fry, doctoral candidate in the Media Laboratory at MIT, discusses visualizing large quantities of data.
May-June: Michael Berry, Royal Society research professor in the physics department at the University of Bristol in the U.K.
July-August: John Bush, associate professor of applied mathematics at MIT.
September-October: Jeff Hester, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Arizona State University, discusses an image of stars being birthed in the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Telescope.
November-December: Emad Tajkhorshid, computational biophysicist at the National Institutes of Health Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
2003
May-June: Felice on images in science as powerful tools for communication.
July-August: Sid Nagel, University of Chicago.
September-October: David Kaiser, professor in MIT’s Science, Technology, and Society program and a lecturer in physics, discusses Richard Feynman’s diagrams.
November-December: Oscar Miller, professor emeritus in biology at the University of Virginia.