Join STUDIO.nano for a special event:
Phenomenal Moments: Capturing Inspiration Through Scientific Imagery
Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM — 6:00 PM ET
Location: 12-0168; MIT.nano East Lobby
4:35 PM – 5:15 PM: Presentation and panel discussion in 12-0168
5:20 PM – 6:00 PM: Reception + book signing in East Lobby
Event Description
Join STUDIO.nano for an evening exploring how beauty and imagery shape scientific discovery and communication, and celebrate the release of Felice Frankel’s new book, Phenomenal Moments.
Frankel, a renowned photographer, MIT research scientist, and author, will be in conversation with Vladimir Bulović, Director of MIT.nano; Michael John Gorman, Director of the MIT Museum; and Anna Osherov, Associate Director of Characterization.nano. Together, they will explore the importance of visual storytelling and its transformative power to shape how we see, understand, and share science with the public.
Biography
Felice C. Frankel is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemical Engineering with additional support from Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. She joined MIT in 1994. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was previously a senior research fellow in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Initiative for Innovative Computing and a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology. She’s the author of six books of science photography, including Picturing Science and Engineering. She has been covered in Nature, Science, Physics Today, National Geographic, and other science media. This is her first book for young readers. She lives in Massachusetts.