Greetings Art & Science Investigators,

“Anatomy Department, University of Oregon Medical School,” (1913), OHSU Digital Commons, accessed February 12, 2015, http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/items/show/13199.

How excellent to have an opportunity to hold and study a human heart in class today!  Thanks for joining our class today, Sierra Dawson.

I hope you walked away thinking further about the importance and relevance of representations.  How they help us as well as ways in which they “lie” or do not serve. What does drawing/illustration do that a 3D model cannot?  How does a 3D model assist in ways that a preserved heart cannot? And of course, how does an actual heart assist in understanding that no model can replace?

A reminder that Report 3/Annotated Bibliographies were due by class today.  We have received many but not all of these.  If you forgot to submit yours, please do so immediately.

Also, if you plan to “Name an Achievement” for yourself for the term, that outline needs to be submitted by the end of the day (5p.m.) tomorrow, Friday, February 13.

In preparation for next Tuesday’s session with artist Hannes Bend, please read and respond in your journals to the two articles sent by email. In particular, pay attention to the “Genetics of Creativity” article.  Hannes hopes to speak some to these articles with you as part of the day with him.

We will update you if our meeting location changes.  Hannes is trying to get a room for us in the Integrated Sciences building so that we could also tour some of the labs he is connected with.  We will inform you if this happens.

As always, please let us know if you have questions.

Best,
Julie & Robert