On Aug. 28 and 29, Science Visualization Assignments carried out an intensive lecture course.  The objective of the course is to learn to visually and effectively illustrate scientific themes.  This year, a total of 36 students attended: 20 students from the School of Art and Design, and 16 students from the sciences, including the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, College of Biological Science, College of Geoscience and College of Chemistry.  The students split up into 6 teams and, using graphic software and with support from specialists of the fields who offered the students their professional knowledge, began to work on illustrating themes such as “The earth’s evolution” and “The mechanism of how an earthquake occurs”.  The arts and design students had to grapple with understanding scientific systems, while the science students had to tackle with the drawing of the images, which they are not used to.  But the two groups are cooperating to wrap up their assignments.  After a check midway through the project, a presentation and evaluation session will be held on the afternoon of Sept 26.  The results will be introduced then.  (Takasaki)

【Instructors】
Sayoko Tanaka (School of Art and Design), Matt Wood (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Makoto Kobayashi (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Koji Nomura (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences),  Yoshihiro Miwa (School of Medicine and Medical Sciences), Yuji Yagi (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Hiroshi Wada (Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences), Masataka Watanabe (Tsukuba Communications, Science Communication)