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 …
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Introducing Tracey Bullington
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. …
Phone eats first – Namita Khajanchi
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 …
Introducing Praveen Maripelly
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 …
Introducing Katharine Hubert
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 …
Science-Art Fusion and the Fundamental Nature of Life, Lena Vincent
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 …
Withdrawn (2020), Matthew Vivirito
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 …
The Workshop of Science, Kushin Mukherjee
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 …
Inclusive Art, Aedan Gardill
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 …
“Evermoving wanderers:” Astrophotography and the Anthropocene, Kaitlin Moore
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 …