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| field = Science and engineering photography▼
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'''Felice Frankel''' is aan American researcher and [[photographer]] of scientific images. renownedShe has received multiple awards, both for the [[aesthetic]] quality of her science photographs and for her ability to effectively communicate complexcomplicated scientific information in images.<ref name="NYT2007">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12frankel.html?_r=1 | title=She calls it ‘phenomena'phenomena.’' Everyone else calls it art | work=New York Times | date=12 June 2007 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Brooklyn]], Felice Frankel attended [[Midwood High School]] and then [[Brooklyn College]] of the [[City University of New York]] (CUNY), where she majored in biology. She became an [[architectural photographer]].<ref name="picturing"/>{{rp|xii}}
==Career redirection==
In 1991–1992, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]]. Unlike many of her visual design colleagues, she decided to return to her scientific roots, auditing a class in chemistry taught by professor [[George M. Whitesides]]. Working with one of his postdocs, Nick Abbott, they collaboratively produced a striking image that was selected for the cover of the professional journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]''. Impressed with her work, Whitesides advised her, "Stay with this, Felice, you are doing something that no one else is doing."<ref name="picturing"/>{{rp|xii}}
This launched her into a new career working in alternation at Harvard and the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]], as funding and interesting work became available. {{Asof|2024}}, she has spent more time at MIT, working at a number of departments and labs. She has observed, "That's the thing about MIT. If you have something to offer, even without formal credentials (I don't have a graduate degree), MIT will support you."<ref name="picturing"/>{{rp|xii}}
==Career==
[[File:Ferrofluid.Frankel.jpg|thumb|Frankel's photo of [[ferrofluid]] (2002)]]
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Felice Frankel joined MIT in 1994. {{Asof|2024}}, she is a research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at theMIT [[Massachusettswith Institutesupport of Technology|Massachusettsfrom InstituteMechanical of Technology (MIT)]]Engineering. She has also been a senior research fellow in the [[Harvard University]]Initiative Facultyin ofInnovative ArtsComputing andfrom Sciences2005-2009, and a visiting scholar at the [[Harvard Medical School]] Department of Systems Biology.
Her most recent books are her handbooks for communicating science and engineering: ''The Visual Elements, Photography'' (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Frankel was interviewed by ''The Chemical Engineer'' about her new guide to help engineers (2024). The second Element, Design will be published in March, 2024. The third Element, Abstraction, will be published March 2025. Her previous book, ''Picturing Science and Engineering'' (MIT Press, 2018) is based on her MIT OpenCourseware course.
Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, FeliceFrankel's images have been published in overa 200number of professional journal articles, magazine covers, and various other international publications for general audiences such as ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'', ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', ''[[Angewandte Chemie]]'', ''[[Advanced Materials]]'', ''[[Materials Today]]'', ''Proceedings of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[Scientific American]]'', ''[[Discover (magazine)|Discover Magazine]]'', and ''[[New Scientist]]'', among others. In She2003–2007 she contributed a series of columns, “Sightings''Sightings''," in ''[[American Scientist]]'' addressing the power of imaging science (2003–2007).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/felice-frankel| title=Felice Frankel - American Scientist| publisher=americanscientist.org| accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/about/covers/ | title=Selected Covers – Felice Frankel | publisher=felicefrankel.com | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/about/publications/ | title=Selected Publications - Felice Frankel | publisher=felicefrankel.com | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>▼
FeliceFrankel and her work have been profiled in ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Life Magazine]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/06/10/photographer-has-front-row-seat-for-big-scientific-discoveries/ | title=Photographer has front-row seat for big scientific discoveries | work=Boston Globe | date=June 10, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/03/27/mit-seeing-learning-well-believing/EGDNMd945NIAXbpZDWsChJ/story.html | title=At MIT, seeing is learning as well as believing | work=Boston Globe | date=March 27, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]'', [[National Public Radio (United States)|National Public Radio's ''All Things Considered'']], ''[[Science Friday]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/06/17/2015/picture-of-the-week-ferrofluid.html?series=31 | title=Picture of the Week: Ferrofluid | work=National Public Radio, Science Friday | date=June 15, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', and various European publications. Her limited-edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/felice-frankel-limited-edition/images-in-space/ | title=Images in Place – Felice Frankel | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> and were part of [[MOMA]]’s 2008 exhibition, “Design''Design and the Elastic Mind''.”<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/assets/pdf/Design_and_the_Elastic_Mind.pdf| title=Design and the Elastic Mind| publisher=moma.org| accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> Her work was featured in the 2016 [[MIT Museum]] exhibition “Images''Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography," on view through February 2016''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/imagesofdiscovery.html | title=Images of Discovery | publisher=Mit.edu | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> ▼
Her most recent book, ''Picturing Science and Engineering'' (MIT Press, 2018) is based on her [[edX]] course, “Making Science and Engineering Pictures, A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work (0.111x)”.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.edx.org/course/making-science-engineering-pictures-mitx-0-111x | title=Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work | publisher=edx.org | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref>
SheFrankel founded the "Image and Meaning" workshops and conferences to develop new approaches for promoting the public understanding of science through visual expression. FeliceShe also was principal investigator of the [[National Science Foundation]]-funded program "Picturing to Learn,", an effort to study how making representations aids students in teaching and learning.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.picturingtolearn.org/ | title=Picturing to learn | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>▼
▲Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Felice's images have been published in over 200 journal articles, covers and various other international publications for general audiences such as ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'', ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', ''[[Angewandte Chemie]]'', ''[[Advanced Materials]]'', ''[[Materials Today]]'', ''Proceedings of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[Scientific American]]'', ''[[Discover (magazine)|Discover Magazine]]'', and ''[[New Scientist]]'', among others. She contributed a series of columns, “Sightings," in ''[[American Scientist]]'' addressing the power of imaging science (2003–2007).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/felice-frankel| title=Felice Frankel - American Scientist| publisher=americanscientist.org| accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/about/covers/ | title=Selected Covers – Felice Frankel | publisher=felicefrankel.com | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/about/publications/ | title=Selected Publications - Felice Frankel | publisher=felicefrankel.com | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>
==Image integrity==
▲Felice and her work have been profiled in ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Life Magazine]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/06/10/photographer-has-front-row-seat-for-big-scientific-discoveries/ | title=Photographer has front-row seat for big scientific discoveries | work=Boston Globe | date=June 10, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/03/27/mit-seeing-learning-well-believing/EGDNMd945NIAXbpZDWsChJ/story.html | title=At MIT, seeing is learning as well as believing | work=Boston Globe | date=March 27, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]'', [[National Public Radio (United States)|National Public Radio's ''All Things Considered'']], ''[[Science Friday]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/06/17/2015/picture-of-the-week-ferrofluid.html?series=31 | title=Picture of the Week: Ferrofluid | work=National Public Radio, Science Friday | date=June 15, 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref>''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', and various European publications. Her limited-edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felicefrankel.com/felice-frankel-limited-edition/images-in-space/ | title=Images in Place – Felice Frankel | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> and were part of [[MOMA]]’s exhibition, “Design and the Elastic Mind.”<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/assets/pdf/Design_and_the_Elastic_Mind.pdf| title=Design and the Elastic Mind| publisher=moma.org| accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> Her work was featured in the [[MIT Museum]] exhibition “Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography," on view through February 2016.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/imagesofdiscovery.html | title=Images of Discovery | publisher=Mit.edu | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>
Frankel is a strong advocate of image integrity for scientific and documentary photographic images. She encourages researches to question various image adjustment and enhancement techniques such as [[Image editing|color enhancement]], [[Negative (photography)|grayscale inversion]], or selective deletion of distracting or irrelevant elements, as well as more subtle manipulations of [[image histogram]]s, all in service of goals such as clarity of communication.<ref name="picturing">{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |title=Picturing science and engineering |date=2018 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0262038553}}</ref>{{rp|315–339}}
Ultimately, the decision must not change the data. She insists that all image manipulation must be fully disclosed, to avoid misleading the reader regarding the integrity of the scientific images. In her 2018 book, Frankel has reprinted the journal publication guidelines of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', and ''[[Cell (journal)|Cell]]'', comparing the extensively detailed directives of the first journal with the minimal guidance given in the latter two publications as of her book's publication deadline.<ref name="picturing"/>{{rp|340–343}}
▲She founded the "Image and Meaning" workshops and conferences to develop new approaches for promoting the public understanding of science through visual expression. Felice also was principal investigator of the [[National Science Foundation]]-funded program "Picturing to Learn," an effort to study how making representations aids students in teaching and learning.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.picturingtolearn.org/ | title=Picturing to learn | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>
==Awards and honors==
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* Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
* [[Guggenheim Fellow]]
* 2010 – Distinguished Alumna, [[Brooklyn College]], [[CUNY]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2010/05/17/novelist-sapphire-and-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-to-speak-at-commencement/ | title=Novelist Sapphire and CNN anchor Don Lemon to speak at commencement | publisher=cuny.edu | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>▼
* [[Lennart Nilsson Award|Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography]]<ref>[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/frankel-wins-lennart-nilsson-award/ "Frankel wins Lennart Nilsson Award"] B. D. Colen, Harvard News Office, October 17, 2007</ref>▼
* The [[Loeb Fellow|Loeb Fellowship]]ship at [[Harvard University Graduate School of Design]] ▼
▲* Distinguished Alumna, [[Brooklyn College]], [[CUNY]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2010/05/17/novelist-sapphire-and-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-to-speak-at-commencement/ | title=Novelist Sapphire and CNN anchor Don Lemon to speak at commencement | publisher=cuny.edu | accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>
▲* The [[Loeb Fellow|Loeb Fellowship]] at [[Harvard University Graduate School of Design]]
* Chancellor's Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Arts and Sciences at the [[University of California, Irvine]]
* 2009 – Progress Medal of the [[Photographic Society of America]], PSA's highest award<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/12/felice-frankel-receives-highest-award-granted-by-photographic-society-of-america/ | title=Felice Frankel receives highest award granted by Photographic Society of America | publisher=news.harvard.edu | accessdate=25 June 2015| date=2009-12-21 }}</ref>
▲* 2007 – [[Lennart Nilsson Award|Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography]]:<ref>[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/frankel-wins-lennart-nilsson-award/ "Frankel wins Lennart Nilsson Award"] B. D. Colen, Harvard News Office, October 17, 2007</ref> "Those viewing Ms. Frankel's images are initially captivated by their form and colour. No sooner is their curiosity aroused than they want to know what the photograph depicts. She has thus fulfilled a scientific reporter's paramount task: to awaken people's interest and desire to learn."
==Books==
*{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |title=The visual elements - photography: a handbook for communicating science and engineering |date=2023 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago London |isbn=978-0226827025}}
*''Picturing Science and Engineering'', MIT Press, 2018 ({{ISBN|9780262038553}})
*{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |title=Picturing science and engineering |date=2018 |publisher=The MIT Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=978-0262038553}}
*''Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers'', Yale University Press, 2012 ({{ISBN|978-0300176445}})
*{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |last2=DePace |first2=Angela H. |title=Visual strategies: a practical guide to graphics for scientists & engineers |date=2012 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven [Conn.] ; London |isbn=978-0300176445}}
* ''No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale'', Harvard University Press, 2009 ({{ISBN|978-0674035669}})
*{{cite ''Onbook the|last1=Frankel Surface|first1=Felice |last2=Whitesides |first2=George M. |title=No ofsmall Thingsmatter: Imagesscience ofon the Extraordinarynanoscale in Science'',|date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, 2008Mass. London ({{ISBN|isbn=978-06740268890674035669}})
*{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |last2=Whitesides |first2=George M. |title=On the surface of things: images of the extraordinary in science |date=2007 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0674026889}}
* ''Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image'', MIT Press, 2002 ({{ISBN|978-0262562058}})
*{{cite book |last1=Frankel |first1=Felice |title=Envisioning science: the design and craft of the science image |date=2002 |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, Mass. |isbn=978-0262562058}}
* ''Modern Landscape Architecture: Redefining the Garden'', Abbeyville Press, 1991 ({{ISBN|978-1558590236}})
*{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Jory |last2=Frankel |first2=Felice |title=Modern landscape architecture: redefining the garden |date=1991 |publisher=Abbeville Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1558590236 |edition=1st}}
==See also==
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[[Category:American women photographers]]▼
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[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
[[Category:21st-century American photographers]]
[[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology people]]
[[Category:Brooklyn College alumni]]
▲[[Category:21st-century American women photographers]]