Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Visual Purple. Stoeckenius began the work that led to his discovery in 1965 while serving as an associate professor at New York City's Rockefeller University. Studying the structure of a microbe called Halobacterium halobium -the organism that gives red herring their distinctive color-he found a purple pigment that was chemically similar to "visual purple," a pigment in the retinas of animal and human eyes. The similarity led Stoeckenius and his co-workers to suspect that the pigment helped the organism use light for its life processes...
Dance and drama remain largely uncredited. Because the only drama course for which students receive credit is a freshman seminar, students who want credit for involvement in dramatic productions must develop an independent study plan with a member of a department such as English, Music or Visual and Environmental Studies...
Also receiving credit is Andrew Borg '76, whose senior thesis in Visual and Environmental Studies is the creation and choreography of a dance program...
Dimitri Hadzi, visiting lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, said yesterday "my experience with Harvard has been a very positive one," explaining that the talent and intellectual energy at Harvard are very stimulating...
Scenario teases out the human in the same way, but with smaller-than life, stylized projections of the dancers--non-skeletons, Klee-like stick figures. The dancers improvise as a group with the sounds of arguing-laughing and laughing-crying. They're cut short again and again as striking visual patterns of light and color distort their figures beyond recognition. They become once more mere props in a theatrical fantasy...