See winners of Image of Research Contest in Knowledge@UChicago

The winning images from the 2024 Image of Research Contest, hosted by the University of Chicago Library, are now available in Knowledge@UChicago. Run by UChicago Library's Center for Digital Scholarship, Knowledge@UChicago is the University of Chicago's institutional repository, a home for scholarship and data created at the University.

The Center for Digital Scholarship held the Image of Research Contest to highlight the original research UChicago students are conducting and the ways they capture it visually. Submissions from a wide variety of disciplines were judged on their connection to research, aesthetic appeal, description, and creativity.

Some of the winning images will be displayed in the Center's home on the 1st Floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library.

First Place

Julia Shangguan for Myo10 and Me

Julia Shangguan (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) was awarded 1st Place (Graduate) for Myo10 and Me, a comic introducing the importance of Myosin 10 in our bodies. Myosin 10, Julia explains, is a protein whose "floppy" structure and interactions in crowded cellular environments can help us understand tumors and the neuron system.

Zewei Wu for Star Trails at Magellan

Zewei Wu (Astronomy) won 1st Place (Undergraduate) for his photo Star Trails at Magellan, taken as part of his Field Course in Astrophysics while visiting the Magellan Telescopes in Chile. Zewei was there to capture light from elusive strong gravitational lenses, which present images of distant galaxies.

Additional Prizes

Matthew Zipf for The Protest of Admiral Yi

Matthew Zipf (Committee on Social Thought) was awarded 2nd Place (Graduate) for The Protest of Admiral Yi, a photo he took while visiting Seoul, South Korea. Printed on the UChicago campus, Matthew's photo is part of his studies of democratic expression.

Adera Craig for Fishing the Divide: Water and Industry – Field Work Along the Little Calumet River

Adera Craig (Environmental Science) was awarded 2nd Place (Undergraduate) for Fishing the Divide: Water and Industry – Field Work Along the Little Calumet River, a photo taken on a trip to Whistler Woods Forest Preserve along Chicago's southern border. Adera visited the Preserve to investigate the concentration of heavy metals in fish tissue, which she will compare to that of museum specimens.

Daniel Jankowski for Comet of the Cellular Cosmos

Daniel Jankowski (Biological Sciences) was awarded Honorable Mention (Graduate) for Comet of the Cellular Cosmos, a florescent microscopy image of the GFP-fused calcium sensor in U2OS cell. The calcium signaling event captured by Daniel also involves the Myo10 protein studied by Julia Shangguan.

Sage Martinez for Affective Mapping of Artificial Intelligence Discourse

Sage Martinez (Psychology) was awarded Honorable Mention (Undergraduate) for Affective Mapping of Artificial Intelligence Discourse, a data visualization made in Obsidian of a Zotero-based tagging system. Sage's project explored different techniques for visualizing data in AI discourse.

The Center for Digital Scholarship would like to thank all contestants for entering the 2024 Image of Research Contest and for sharing their original scholarship with us and the wider University of Chicago community.

View higher resolution images and learn more about the 2024 Image of Research Contest winners at Knowledge@UChicago.