I recently “became one” with a work of art devised by multimedia artist Mariko Mori. The teardrop-shaped structure titled Wave UFO is large enough to hold three travelers on a journey that is a fusion ...

Helen Donis-Keller, of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, mixes art and science in self-portraits. (Images courtesy of Helen Donis-Keller) The problem with most art that deals with ...

Three years ago, leaders at Northwestern Engineering and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art had an idea— to directly engage artists with engineers by embedding an Artist-at-Large with the ...

Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

The true art of design takes center stage at DESIGN West with book signings by famous authors and an art exhibit at UBM Tech's lounge on the main concourse. We have at our core a fundamental need to ...

At first glance, engineer Félix Candela's creations seem more like sculptures than buildings. Composed of thin sheets of pale concrete, the vaulted ceilings and scalloped roof lines evoke the delicate ...

Incorporating the works of the masters, the tools of artists, and the perspective of engineers, David Snider has merged the two subjects in an attempt to broaden the perspectives of his students and ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago in the Fayum region of Egypt—an agriculturally rich area west of the Nile Valley—a relatively healthy five-year-old girl died, likely of a bacterial or viral infection. Though ...

A poem by SCU's Associate Professor of Italian, Tonia Caterina Riviello. "As a little girl, I walked in Saint Peter's Basilica, holding hands with my parents. From that moment, I have increasingly ...