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Press Release 08-163
2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
Winning entries will appear in Sept. 26 issue of Science
September 25, 2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) along with the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), today announced the winners of their sixth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. The winning entries included breathtaking photographs and graphics that reveal intricate details of our world--the three-dimensional path made by a rapidly spinning string cutting through space and the unique anatomy of the half-meter-long Loligo pealei squid whose tiny suckers are 400 micrometers in diameter. "I wanted to reveal the tiny world we trample through, creating scenes that at first glance are parallel to our macroscopic world, until you look a little closer," said Colleen Champ, a first-place winner with Dennis Kunkel in the Informational Graphics category. "The ‘Mad Hatter's Tea' is one scene from many, depicting a quote from the fanciful mind of Lewis Carroll," she added. This scene will be featured on the cover of the Sept. 26, 2008, issue of Science. Illustrators, photographers, computer programmers and graphics specialists from around the world were invited to submit visualizations that would intrigue, explain and educate. More than 180 entries were received from 21 countries. The winning entries communicate information about the creation of spontaneous buckling of a poly(ethylene glycol) layer resembling wrinkles that appear on flowers' petals and leaves' edges; the 3D rendering, at nanometer resolution, of a melanoma cell through ion abrasion electron microscopy; the display of microbial biofilm from a stream, explaining its role within the stream's micro-ecosystem; and, more. The Sept. 26, 2008, issue of Science will feature the winning entries, which will also be freely available at http://www.sciencemag.org/vis2008/ and the NSF's website at http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/.
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The 2008 winning entries are included in the following five categories: PHOTOGRAPHY First Place: Mario De Stefano, The Second University of Naples
The Glass Forest Honorable Mentions (tie): Andrew Davidhazy, Rochester Institute of Technology
String Vibrations Jessica D. Schiffman and Caroline L. Schauer; Drexel University
Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast Ye Jin Eun and Douglas B. Weibel; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Polymazing ILLUSTRATION First Place: Linda Nye and the Exploratorium Visualization Laboratory; The Exploratorium
Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream Honorable Mentions (tie): Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University; Christoph Römhild, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Visualizing the Bible Donald Bliss and Sriram Subramaniam; National Library of Medicine, NIH
3D Imaging of Mammalian Cells with Ion-Abrasion Scanning Electron Microscopy INFORMATIONAL GRAPHICS First Place: Colleen Champ and Dennis Kunkel; Concise Image Studios
"Mad Hatter's Tea" from Alice's Adventures in a Microscopic Wonderland Honorable Mention: Andrew Dopheide and Gillian Lewis; University of Auckland
Stream Micro-Ecology: Life in a Biofilm INTERACTIVE MEDIA First Place: Jeremy Friedberg and Tommy Sors; Spongelab Interactive
Genomics Digital Lab: Plant Cells Honorable Mention: Janet Iwasa; Massachusetts General Hospital
Exploring Life's Origins NON-INTERACTIVE MEDIA Honorable Mentions (tie): Travis Vermilye and Kenneth Eward
A Window Into Life Mirjam Kaplow and Katharina Strohmeier; Fraunhofer FIRST
Smarter than the Worm Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry; The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection
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Dana Topousis, National Science Foundation (703) 292-7750 dtopousi@nsf.gov
Natasha Pinol, AAAS (202) 326-7088 npinol@aaas.org
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