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Sep 27, 20191 min read
Drawing Science: An Interview with Interalia Magazine
In March 2019, Richard Bright of Interalia Magazine interviewed me for the journal’s Drawing Thoughts series. Drawing Thoughts explores...
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Sep 20, 20191 min read
Public Radio covers poetry+science paper
In an audio interview and this edited transcript, Wyoming Public Radio reporter London Homer-Wambeam interviewed me about an art-science...
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Oct 6, 20172 min read
Sketching Tip: Sketching your notes at conferences, meetings & in class
Notes from a training I did in preparation to volunteer for an amphibian monitoring citizen science project in Wyoming. These tips are...
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Jul 11, 20172 min read
Teaching teachers to integrate cichlid phylogeny, resin sculptures, and drawing in k12+ classrooms
The longer I am involved with art-science integration, the more time I get to spend teaching teachers — teaching them how to use drawing...
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Apr 10, 20173 min read
Sketching Tip: Solvent Transfers
Reproducing or presenting an image in an artistic way can help you catch the attention of a wider or different-from-usual audience. One...
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Jan 13, 20171 min read
Suggestions for integrating drawing into university-level biology courses
This post has been updated (2021) to point to two more recent publications in which I detail the drawing-science integration approach I...
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Nov 2, 20161 min read
News: SciArt for Children
For almost a year now, I’ve been contributing natural history and science illustrations+text to a gorgeous children’s magazine called...
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Oct 26, 20162 min read
Sketchbook Snapshot: illustrating tortoises and hares
“Too much importance cannot be given to drawing, as it is not only an excellent device for securing close observation, but it is also a...
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Oct 10, 20162 min read
Workshop: Drawn to Wildlife
Drawn to Wildlife: Sketching for Scientists Cody, Wyoming 11/17/2016 ● 12:30-4:00 pm ● Lab, Draper Natural History Museum● limited to 25...
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Oct 6, 20162 min read
Artful Science: Creativity Research
There’s a lot of research into creativity and critical thinking. What’s particularly relevant are studies looking at how arts integration...
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Sep 21, 20161 min read
September 2016 Newsletter: Making Connections through SciArt
Click image to view full newsletter. I spent much of the summer contributing to/planning two summer teaching institutes at the University...
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Aug 23, 20161 min read
August 2016 Newsletter: Taste of Summer
Click on image to view full newsletter. August Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Shading with color Artful Science: Summer in a Glass...
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Jul 21, 20161 min read
July 2016 Newsletter: Getting buggy
Click image to view full newsletter! July Table of Contents Sketching Tip: 4 insect sketching tips Artful Science: Biomimicry illustrated...
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Jul 11, 20162 min read
You’re Invited: Sci-Art Symposium!
Catalyzing collaboration, scholarship, and community through interdisciplinary conversations and presentations I’m super excited to...
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Jun 22, 20164 min read
Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares in Tanzania
“There’s so much of everything! All of it inextricably tangled together […] To describe is to select – and to select only a microscopic...
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May 31, 20161 min read
May 2016 newsletter: Choosing between words & sketches?
Click image to view full newsletter.* May Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Words worth (when sketching isn’t an option) Artful Science:...
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May 12, 20163 min read
Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises and Hares in the Kenyan Highlands
This is my first trip to Kenya, and to Africa more generally. So far, it has been a fascinating blend of rural and urban, English and...
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Apr 26, 20161 min read
April 2016 newsletter: “Drawing enhances memory” + summer reading ideas
Click image to view full newsletter. April Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Plan ahead Artful Science: Research article-drawing improves...
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Apr 10, 20163 min read
What do science writing and sketching have to do with each other? Wyoming EPSCoR asked me…
I was recently interviewed for the Wyoming EPSCoR program’s blog. In addition to a number of questions specific to the nature of...
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Mar 28, 20161 min read
Mini-workshop: Using Analog Technology (Art!) to Teach Science
I’ll be teaching a mini-workshop/crash course/ intro session on Wednesday at the University of Wyoming. We don’t have enough time to get...
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