The art of science and the science of art

Hannah Munguia Flores is a third-year student at MIT working on a double master’s degree in aerospace engineering and technology and policy. On most days she studies the carbon cycle, and searches for sustainable crops that could be transformed into biofuels for jet engines. But on this late summer day, Munguia Flores was decorating paper fighter planes with a collage of grains and algae she designed on her computer. “My academic advisor asked me to make a drawing of the carbon cycle,” says Munguia Flores, who took “Making Art for…

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