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As we enter a new calendar year, we also forge into our second exciting decade of CITRIS and I'm delighted to report the addition of two wonderful new leaders to our team. Nina Amenta, the new CITRIS Director at UC Davis, is profiled below in one of our newsletter stories. She is doing her own innovative research in the area of parallel computing and computer graphics, but she is also dedicated to enabling researchers in other fields to exploit the power of IT generally and 3D modeling in particular to solve other, broader problems.   

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In her large crowded office on the fourth floor of UC Berkeley's Doe Library, Elizabeth Honig shows a kind of old-school grace and manners that cannot be translated into Linux or modeled on a nanoscale. Her focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting may not be widely shared within the engineering field. And yet, Honig, an Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, is employing some decidedly 21st century digital tools to help sort out a controversy surrounding Brueghel scholarship.

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