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Excite. ​Educate. Empower.
Hi! I'm Alice, a contracted Scientific Illustrator in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Degrees: M.Sc. BMC 1997,
University of Toronto
B.S. Chemistry/(Studio Arts) 1993, 

The College of William and Mary

Memberships: Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI)
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
Alice Chen Kitterman
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e-mail:
aychen_702@yahoo.com
Ever since I can remember, I was always drawing, or making things out of construction paper, empty jars, egg cartons, and whatever I could swipe from my dad's desk. Growing up in a family of scientists, my interest in science was strong, but my love for creating and storytelling was greater. And though I never saw myself as a researcher, I ended up in a lab after graduating college, where the people with whom I worked (Special thanks to Phoung and Kanta) changed the course of my life.

Prior to working for the NSF, I was a Scientific Illustrator for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), cranking out 2D and 3D artwork for the flagship print journal Science and the online journals Translational Medicine, Signaling, Immunology, and Robotics. 

In December 2021, I wrote an editorial for Science Robotics, which has recently been made free (forever!) to access:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abn1724

I wrote several blogs detailing my pursuit to create the most effective scientific communications:
Reexamining "re" in the creative process:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/vis/2021/02/05/reexamining-re-in-the-creative-process/​
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​And...action! Animating illustrations for Instagram:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/vis/2020/07/17/and-action-animating-illustrations-for-instagram/​
To 3D or not to 3D:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/vis/2019/11/25/to-3d-or-not-to-3d/​

In 2021 I was invited to "virtually speak" at several conferences listed below, on the processes I've developed to create graphic abstracts to improve scientific communications:

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