Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) Harvard University

Rosalind Reid was Editor of American Scientist, the illustrated interdisciplinary magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, from 1992 to 2008. In 2001 she initiated Sigma Xi’s “Picturing Research” workshops to help scientists explore how to visually communicate their work; later she worked with Felice Frankel to organize the Image and Meaning regional workshops. The first Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2003), she is interested in integrating illustrations and text in narrative science journalism and in helping scientists learn to use accessible visual language. She is an Honorary Life Member of Sigma Xi and a member of the National Association of Science Writers and serves on the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. During 2007-08 she served as a visiting scholar at the IIC, working on virtual collaborative tools for improving the use of images in science and helping plan the IIC’s education program.