In Harvard summer program, soldier-turned-scholar finds inspiration in research.

Brian Fountaine’s (BFA in Graphic Design, AMD’17) sketchpad is filled with detailed drawings of human organs and meticulous diagrams of scientific experiments. For the aspiring graphic designer, a rising senior at Northeastern University, the images are strikingly different from the illustrations he typically produces.
Fountaine put his creative eye to use as an artist-in-residence this summer in the lab of Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics. He joined the lab as a participant in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, which enables college students to work on scientific projects in the labs of Harvard researchers.

Read the complete story on The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences portal.

Image: Working in the lab of Kit Parker has taught graphic designer Brian Fountaine that there is beauty in science. (Photo by Eliza Grinnell/SEAS Communications.)

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A Northeastern Student Is Using 3D Printing to Make Affordable Prosthetics, February 2016
Brian Fountaine prints 3-D prosthetics, The Huntington News, March 2016