Science meets art: 2015 Cool Science Images unveiled

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Whether a close-up of a leafcutter ant, or a micrograph of the neurons derived from marmoset stem cells, or an MRI of the hidden pathways in the human brain, submissions to UW-Madisons 2015 Cool Science Image Contest continue to put science and nature on eye-catching display.

Sorting through a record number of entries, judges for the contest selected 11 still images and one video as winners of the annual competition. The judges representing broad expertise in scientific imaging, art and science communication worked through 115 submissions to arrive at this years winning entries.

Submissions overall and winning submissions represent a wide segment of the UW-Madison community, including faculty, staff and students and a range of disciplines from art to zoology.

This years contributions were among the strongest weve had and reflect the diversity and creativity of the UW-Madison scientific imaging community, says Kevin Eliceiri, a contest judge and director of UW-Madisons Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation. I was struck in particular by the broad number of disciplines and range of techniques represented.

Winning images depended on techniques ranging from MRI to a cell phone camera.

2015 CSI Contest winners are:

Zoology graduate student Hilary Bultman for her micrograph of thyme plant floral trichromes.

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Science meets art: 2015 Cool Science Images unveiled