Please join us in congratulating the semi-finalists for the 2016 Image of Research! Come to the reception on Wednesday, April 6 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in room 104 of the Illini Union to view their entries and to vote for the People’s Choice award. Click on the name of any submission below to see the image and research description.
- Maksym Bobrovskyy (Microbiology), In Light of Bacteria
- Cynthia Renae Booker (Theater), Uncovering Passion
- Claire Butkus (Veterinary Medicine), A Different Type of Collaboration
- Akiceri Alejandra Carrillo-Estrada (School of Art and Design – Metals Program), Weaving through Technology
- Gaurav Chaudhary, Michael Ye, and Randy Ewoldt (Mechanical Science and Engineering), Bioluminescent Galaxy
- Kyung Yun Choi (Aerospace Engineering), Soft Interaction Beyond the Touchscreen
- David Scott Douglas (Landscape Architecture), Interstate Interventions, the Productive Interchange of the Future
- Mohamed Elhebeary (Mechanical Science and Engineering), Take a Closer Look!
- Tyler Earnest (Physics), Building Ribosomes from Computational LEGO
- Kristen Ann Ehrenberger (Medical Scholars Program/History), Inside My Insides
- Joshua Grolman (Materials Science and Engineering), Synthetic Tumor Galaxies
- Lauren Hansen (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Bridges or Borders?: The Foggy Struggle for Human Rights and National Sovereignty in the European Union
- Jamila Hedhli (Bioengineering), Tom-and-Diabetic-Jerry
- Michael J. Junokas (Informatics), Exposing the Body: The Fusion of Movement Aesthetics and Analysis
- Maryam Khademian (Microbiology), A Pinch of Salt and Imagination
- Adam Kriska (Food Science & Human Nutrition), Visualizing Colon Cancer
- Aaron Laniosz (Architecture), The Circadian Light Table
- Jean Larmon (Anthropology), More Than Meets the Eye: Cathodoluminescence Analysis of a Fossil Tooth
- Christina McNealy (Art & Design – Metals), Before Her Time
- Alex Park (Crop Science), A Woman Works Alone
- Nora Sadik (Environmental Engineering), Playing at the Spring
- Josh Smith (Nutritional Sciences), The Creation of Adam in Situ
- Dora Valkanova (Institute of Communications Research), Plugged-In at O’Hare: Reading Processes of Globalization Through Chicago’s International Airport
- Madeleine VanMiddlesworth (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences), The Hidden Hitchhiker
- Jessie Young (Dance), Descend Sky
You can view a full gallery of the semi-finalists online.
The Image of Research is organized by the Scholarly Commons of the University Library and the Graduate College and is supported by a generous gift to the Scholarly Commons from the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.
