Category: outreach

The lab’s pollen images from a recent PLoS ONE paper has found another public venue.This time, the technicolor 10-foot banner of Croton hirtus, Mabea occidentalis, and Agropyron repens pollen grains will be on display in Concourse A at Chicago’s Midway Airport. The banner, which was part of the University of Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology’s (IGB) Art of Science 2.0 exhibition, is now part of a rotating exhibit of images from IGB that will be on display at Midway starting in late July.

UPDATE (8/20/13)

The display is now up in Concourse A. Read more about the exhibit here.

 

Luke and Shiv’s pollen images from our recent PLoS ONE paper are continuing to make a splash. First named University of Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology’s (IGB) Image of the Month in December 2011, then chosen as the featured image for the Art of Science 2.0 exhibition at the Indigo Gallery in April 2012, these Croton hirtus, Mabea occidentalis, and Agropyron repens pollen grains were recently selected to remain on permanent display in the science wing of at the Richland Community College in Decatur, Illinois. The images from the Art of Science exhibitions were brought to Richland’s gallery to engage community members in central Illinois in the diversity of research occurring at Urbana-Champaign.

The 2012 Art of Science theme of “cross-pollination” between the academic and local communities of Illinois lives on!