Word: liu
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...There is nothing quite like Janelia Farm anywhere in the world,” says David R. Liu ’94, an HHMI investigator and a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard...
...Many people are probably familiar with the fact that Tom Cech is a Nobel Prize winning scientist and a highly effective president of HHMI,” Liu says. “But they may not realize that he is also very passionate about educating students...
...this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce the eye, Liu Xiao Xian's My Other Lives #7, 2000, positively winks at us. Here the Beijing-born artist has taken the twin images of a 19th century stereograph and replaced one of the faces with his own, peeping out improbably from the garb of a parasol-holding Edwardian lady. The playfully...
...exhibition is not called light sensitive for nothing (this also happens to be the nickname given to the NGV's departments of photography and works-on-paper). And astute viewers might also note the number of mirror images that appear throughout the show-from Andrew's currawongs and Liu's "ladies" to Peter Kennedy's twinned self-portrait in which he regards his own cancer cells. Made abundantly clear is the camera's singular ability to both mirror life and morph it, expanding our perceptions in the process. As curator Crombie says, "photography is a slippery business. It kind...
...With reporting by Tim Kindseth, Ling Woo Liu and Peter Ritter / Hong Kong