{"59052":{"#nid":"59052","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leading Visualization Scholar Barbara Stafford Is Visiting Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara Maria Stafford, an internationally recognized scholar of visualization at the forefront of dialog on the relation between cultural uses of images and medical, scientific, and technological research, will be Visiting Professor at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStafford\u0027s two years on campus will be supported in part by the H. Bruce McEver Program for Engineering and the Liberal Arts.  She will focus on interdisciplinary work spanning bioengineering and the cognitive and neurosciences in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture\u0027s Digital Media (DM) program, the College of Engineering\u0027s Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering schools (ME, BME), and the College of Computing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College Interim Dean Kenneth J. Knoespel said, \u0022Barbara Stafford\u0027s visit affirms the purpose of the McEver Program which encourages work at the intersection of technology and society.  It will serve as a catalyst for the multiple Georgia Tech communities working on integrated design in the curriculum and problem-based learning.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStafford is recognized for her extraordinary ability to think outside the disciplinary boundaries of the arts and neuroscience and the implications for the future of education:  \u0022The idea being that we bring much-needed new data to one another\u0027s research agendas.\u0022   Her most recent book \u003Cem\u003EEcho Objects\u003C\/em\u003E (University of Chicago Press, 2007) demonstrates the importance of the arts and humanities and their critical role in understanding neurophysiology and cognition for rapidly expanded work in all disciplines with technologies of visualization. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She holds an MA degree from Northwestern University and a PhD from the University of Chicago. She has written extensively on visual culture and is the author of numerous books published by MIT Press. Stafford is co-curator of the exhibition \u003Cem\u003EDevices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen\u003C\/em\u003E, at the Getty Museum. She has received awards and fellowships from numerous institutions including the Smithsonian Institute, Guggenheim Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute.  She has served on advisory committees on neurophysiology for the American Academy of Sciences.  In 2006, Stafford delivered an invited lecture at the High Museum in conjunction with the Louvre-Atlanta Exhibition that focused attention on the relation between digital technology and the future of the museum. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStafford will teach a McEver Seminar for undergraduate students focusing attention on the design practices in different disciplines and the problems posed by the rapid expansion of visualization technologies.  She will give a graduate seminar (open to undergraduates with permission) on Neural-Aesthetics and Design. Stafford will offer workshops for faculty involved in building courses in senior design in ME and BME. Stafford will also work with senior faculty to further develop initiatives and curriculum under the NSF Directorates of Design and Education. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer appointment at Georgia Tech begins in August, 2010.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Barbara Maria Stafford, an internationally recognized scholar of visualization at the forefront of dialog on the relation between cultural uses of images and medical, scientific, and technological research, will be Visiting Professor at Georgia Tech.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Visiting Professor to work in spanning bioengineering and the co"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59053":{"id":"59053","type":"image","title":"tpo29577.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176211","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:51","changed":"1475894515","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:55","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190830","name":"tpo29577.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpo29577_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpo29577_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28566,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpo29577_0.jpg?itok=ui9OUYEP"}}},"media_ids":["59053"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/barbaramariastafford.com\/","title":"Barbara Maria Stafford"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5515","name":"barbara stafford"},{"id":"4200","name":"cognitive"},{"id":"1304","name":"neuroscience"},{"id":"10006","name":"University of Chicago"},{"id":"10005","name":"Visiting Professors"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}