9/19/25 Alex Maier: Taking Arts + Science Literally: Five Takeaways from Poems about Research
Neuroscience brown bag
Alex Maier, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Date: Friday, September 19, 2025
Time: 1:25- 2:15pm
Location: 316 Wilson Hall
Taking Arts + Science Literally: Five Takeaways from Poems about Research
Our college advertises with the slogan: “When Art + Science come together, anything is possible.” Inspired by this proposition, we will explore the overlap between science and poetry. To do so, we will review five anecdotes from the history of science, ranging from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the Theory of Relativity. Each of these developments inspired contemporaries, or the scientists themselves, to craft poems about science. Based on the central theme of each of these poems, we will examine the conceptual advances that inspired them. In doing so, we will aim to derive first principles that could prove useful in guiding our own research.