NCSU Future Visions: Artworks Shine a Light on Emerging R&D Worlds

RALEIGH – From plants to peacocks, black holes to drug delivery, the 2021 winners Consider research competition highlighted the myriad ways their work shows us the beauty of our world – and helps us understand it.

The competition is a collaborative effort of the North Carolina State Office of Research and Innovation, The Graduate School, North Carolina State University Libraries, Office of the undergraduate research and academic communications and marketing. Envisioning Research was open to faculty, staff, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduates.

A full list of winners, finalists and honorable mentions is below. You can see high-resolution versions of each entry, along with captions on each image, by clicking on the name of a winning entry.

You can also see a gallery of all the winners here.

Charts and data visualization

First place, graduate students and post-docs: Rémi Fayad, graduate student of the Faculty of Sciences, for “Photochemical upconversion in micellar assemblages. “

Second place, graduate students and post-docs: Sharda Pandit, graduate student of the College of Engineering, for “Drug deposits in tumor tissue. “

Microscopy

First place, graduate students and post-docs: Sarah Orr, graduate student at the College of Science, for “Mayfly with brush legs.“

Second place, graduate students and post-docs: Shelby Boyd, Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Sciences, for “Microscopic peacock tail: fan-shaped zinc chloride trihydrate crystals. “

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Matthew Neubauer, postdoctoral researcher at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, for “Fluorescent root tips. “

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Mariam Sohail, Graduate Student of the College of Engineering, for “Nanoparticles on tomato leaf. “

First place, teachers and staff: Matt Bertone, Faculty Member of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “Close-up (Z-stack) of the head and thoracic region of an adult Western Flower Thrips (Thysanoptera: Frankliniella occidentalis). “

Photography

First place, graduate students and post-docs: Evan Jevnikar, graduate student of the College of Sciences, for “Paleontologists’ walk. “

Second place, graduate students and post-docs: Ryan Bohannon, graduate student of the College of Natural Resources, for “Misty sunrise among the dying ash trees.“

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Andrew Blythe, graduate student of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “Giant foxtail (Setaria faberi). “

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Alejandro Valdes, the College of Sciences, for “NC state in a bottle.“

First place, teachers and staff: Matt Bertone, Faculty Member of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “Nymph and adult of the giant strong-nosed bug, Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (Pentatomidae). “

Second place, teachers and staff: David Suchoff, faculty member of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “Mature CBD hemp at harvest. “

Video & Interactive

First place, undergraduates: Anna Taylor and Andrew Igdal, Undergraduates at the College of Science, for “Wind Driven Accretion on a Black Hole”.

First place, graduate and postdoctoral studentss: Farnaz Fazelpour, graduate student of the Faculty of Sciences, for “Visualization of photoelastic force. “

Second place, graduate students and post-docs: Keith Hillaire, Graduate Student of the College of Science, for “Liquid metal fingers. “

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Joseph Gutierrez, graduate student at the College of Natural Resources, for “Biomimizing structural colors with wood nanocrystals. “

Honorable mention, graduate and post-doctoral students: Maria Aleman, graduate student at the College of Engineering, for “Vortex relief behind a cylinder. “

First place, teachers and staff: Roland Kays, Faculty Member, College of Natural Resources, for “Arctic Animal Movement”.

Second place, teachers and staff: Justin Johnson, Faculty Member of the College of Design, for “Virtual nature for mental restoration. “

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