{"id":242792,"date":"2017-05-05T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=242792"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:05:42","slug":"competition-showcases-the-beauty-in-engineering-and-science-242792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/competition-showcases-the-beauty-in-engineering-and-science-242792\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition showcases beauty in engineering, science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The eye-catching illustration of a physics phenomenon called resonance is the creation of Hoda Ayatollahi, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering and one of the top finishers in the Hajim School’s Art of Science competition. (University photo \/ Hoda Ayatollahi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colored grains of sand formed striking patterns that became increasingly complex in a video shown on the huge screen at the VISTA Collaboratory.<\/p>\n

The eye-catching illustration of a physics phenomenon called resonance is the creation of Hoda Ayatollahi, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering. She hopes to \u201cmotivate people . . . to learn more about physics and science in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearby, Dalia Mitchell \u201920, a chemistry and biochemistry major, stood near her drawings mounted on a Carlson Library wall — including one showing a bird inside a human ribcage. She wants to \u201cmake anatomy seem interesting to people, rather than something to shy away from.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Drawing by Dalia Mitchell ’20 were among the top prize-winning works in the Art of Science competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ayatollahi and Mitchell had just been announced as the top finishers in the Hajim School\u2019s Art of Science Competition, which drew 55 entries from across the University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an incredible competition this year,\u201d said Hajim School dean Wendi Heinzelman. \u201cWe were hoping to get maybe 10 or 15 submissions, so we were just blown away by the level of enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twelve of the entries were videos, prompting the school to create a separate prize just for them.<\/p>\n

Second place in the larger category of images went to Kilean Lucas, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering. He used a scanning electron microscope to capture a single human red blood cell among several white blood cells on a silicon nanomembrane.<\/p>\n

Third place went to Charlie Granger, a PhD candidate in optics, who used adaptive optics technology to show the natural fluorescence of retinal pigment epithelial cells, which form a layer only one cell deep, on the backside of the eye\u2019s light-sensitive retina.<\/p>\n