Navigating between the arts and the sciences has been a lifelong journey for me. While I currently spend my days pursuing a PhD in cell and molecular biology, I have considered myself an artist long before I identified as a scientist. Nowadays as I pursue both simultaneously, I’ve come to realize that there are more …
Although I’ve been interested in both the sciences and arts since I was a child, it is my work as a high school art teacher that emphasized for me the connections between the two disciplines. In the faculty lounge where I worked, teachers often sat with those who taught the same subject. On any given …
Most foodies follow the motto “phone eats first.” I, myself, have fallen into feeding everyone on social media before feeding myself. This desire to share with others has slowly transformed me into having a healthier diet as I carefully place different colors of vegetables on my plate and later, my palette. Throughout the pandemic, there …
Curiosity About Science: I spent my childhood interestingly because I used to dismantle newly bought toys to find inside engineering. My mother used to scold me because I separated parts of toys rather than enjoying the toy itself. It was my initial motivation/curiosity to get an interest in science. I continued my interest in science …
A world without imagination is a world which will cease to exist. I have always believed that the creative act of imagining is not just tied to artistic processes; imagination is also fundamental for the advancement of science. As a biology/music double major, I was often asked, “Why would you major in two completely unrelated …
Like so many others, I’ve been stuck at home for the better part of this year and unable to carry out my research in person. Normally, I’d be spending most of my days in the lab tending to my experiments designed to study the origins of life. Now, I’m trying to make the best out …
When we emerge from this pandemic, we will have the opportunity to reflect on our experience of isolation, of loss, and of privilege in the freedoms we can once again engage with. This understanding, this liberation is one no other species on Earth can know unless we actively engage in allowing them the opportunity. My …
The Workshop of Science Kushin Mukherjee I like to spend my moments of leisure practicing drawing. During my non-leisure hours, I’m a cognitive scientist in training, so my job is to think about thinking. Among the myriad questions about the human mind one could pursue, what I choose to think about is, well, drawing! Pursuing …
My name is Aedan Gardill and I’m a physics graduate student at the UW, as well as an artist! I am very excited to join the Kohler fellowship as one of the art fellows to use both my science and art backgrounds! For the past 5 years I’ve been making two-dimensional art – with painting, …
In November 1886, an essay by the director of the Lick Observatory, Edward S. Holden, appeared in Overland Monthly magazine. Holden, an astronomer and professor of mathematics (and former employee at the Washburn Observatory at UW Madison) devoted significant column space to the experimental promise of photography in the discipline of “physical” astronomy, soon to …