College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
The use of narrative in science has become a particularly active area of research in recent years. Narrative can be a powerful tool for any form of communication and science is no exception. But it is not as easy as it may seem. When using storytelling in science, there are many questions to address. What does …
By Brita Larson, Science Reporter at The Daily Cardinal Shiela Reaves’ office is exactly what you’d imagine a professor’s office to look like: cozily collegiate with books everywhere. There is an entire wall made up of bookshelves and there are stacks of books on the two desks in the office. When I mentioned to Reaves …
LSC joins an impressive partnership supporting scientists and artists in a free, all-day symposium on the neuroscience of art Friday, Nov. 1 at the UW Chazen Museum auditorium. The UW McPherson Eye Research Institute, which includes LSC faculty members Dietram Scheufele and Shiela Reaves, supports vision sciences as well as the visual arts from the UW Center …
LSC students are learning to use photography to tell a visual story in Professor Shiela Reaves‘ Photography for the Sciences class, LSC 450, this semester. “Students learn how to photograph and the art of picture editing,” explained Reaves, who is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies. “They learn what a trained visual eye looks for in …
The saying goes, “a picture says a thousand words.” Well, what about entire movies filled with them? That’s the premise for Sheila Reaves’ LSC 450 class, Photography for the Sciences. In this class taught in the spring, students explore the concept of composing and editing still photography to create documentaries for science and agricultural features …