Evan Lieberman serves as the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT, where he also directs the Center for International Studies and the Global Diversity Lab. His research examines the complex dynamics of democratic governance, ethnic politics, and development in sub-Saharan Africa. After earning degrees from Princeton University and UC Berkeley, followed by a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at Yale, he has established himself as a leading voice in compar
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFelice Frankel serves as a research scientist in MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering, collaborating across Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering departments. Her distinguished career spans significant roles including Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School's Department of Systems Biology. Her innovative approach to scientific photography has earned numerous prestigious honors, including fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography, and the Progress Award from the Photographic Society of America. She has received substantial support from major institutions including the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Working closely with scientists and engineers, her images have appeared in over 200 journal articles and covers across major scientific and popular publications. As a Chancellor's Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Arts and Sciences at UC Irvine and recipient of Brooklyn College's Distinguished Alumna Award, she continues to advance the field of scientific visualization while bridging the gap between scientific research and visual communication.