Image of Research awards show beauty of UIC science

Posted on May 18, 2023
A person stands in a green, hilly field, the site of an infamous World War I battle.
Haylie Van Den Berghe
A battle site in Verdun, France, which was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest of WWI

Each spring, the UIC Graduate College and Library co-organize The Image of Research, an interdisciplinary competition open to all graduate students across campus. This year’s awards were announced on April 28th and reflect the scientific diversity of the competition with winners from social sciences, humanities, biology, and engineering and subjects ranging from school closures and poetry to the immune system and fluid dynamics. 

The competition included both still image and moving image categories, with the latter naming first place winners in both animation and live action sub-categories.

Below, you can view a selection of the winning still images, with a description of the project in the alt text. Learn about all of the winners and honorable mentions at the Graduate College website, and read more about the awards at UIC today.

 

Selected Image of Research Winners Heading link

  1. A black and white photograph of a brick building behind a wrought iron fence.
    Kristy Ulrich Papczun/Curriculum Studies
    A school building that used to be a neighborhood school for the surrounding public housing in Cabrini-Green until it was closed in 2009 and reopened as a selective enrollment school.
  4. A rectangular box with blue tendrils on the ceiling and red tendrils rising up from the floor and irregular gray bubbles between.
    Hal Brynteson & Abbas Moradi Bilondi/Computer Science
    A visualization of bubbles in the Rayleigh Bénard convection, where a fluid is heated from below and cooled from above.