Making Their Mark: Donna Cox

A new documentary premiering on the Big Ten network features three extraordinary women at the University of Illinois.  Pioneering computer artist and Academy Award nominee Donna Cox, a professor in the School of Art and Design, is featured. Cox explains how she was inspired by nature to become an artist while growing up in rural Oklahoma. She directs a team at Illinois’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications that creates scientific visualizations from supercomputer data.  Her team’s work has appeared in feature films, planetarium shows and television documentaries. One of her most recent productions is “Solar Superstorms” (narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch), which takes viewers on a stunning visual journey to the center of the sun.