Emily Madsen
By: WALTER RICH | Categories: Alumni Achievements
Emily Madsen is a biomedical engineering (BME) student who is using her skills as a painter and sculptor to illuminate complex topics. Through a student-run program based at Emory and Georgia Tech called Science.Art.Wonder., she's created a series of works designed to creatively interpret scientific research. She has worked with several researchers at Georgia Tech to bring art together with science in an effort to spark discussion about the researchers’ complex scientific topics. Madsen, who is entering her third year in BME, has worked across departments to translate their research into art. One of them, Stephen Beckett, says her sculpture depicting his research, “really explores how various types of abstractions can make us think and feel differently about our observations. It really captures some of the key steps in the scientific process.”
