The Haas brothers' sprawling industrial studio in downtown Los Angeles is half science lab, half art studio.

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These are the students like the ones I visited in their state-of-the-art radiology lab last spring at Delgado Community College in New Orleans.

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Here, grad students and entrepreneurs will share facilities, like a state-of-the-art water flow lab, with 30-year industry veterans.

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In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.

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"Creativity is doing something differently than you've done before, " says Beau Lotto, a neuroscientist and founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab.

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Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.

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Knox has become a behind-the-scenes matchmaker between art and commerce in his role as a director of Stanford University's Humanities Lab.

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