In an email to The Badger Herald, he explained there were many complicated nuances and details that went into taking this photo. To Shokler, the photo was a personal triumph given his long established interest in astronomy. New study finds uncharacterized molecules in vaping aerosols, posing new threats to users A new study from Johns Hopkins University found thousands of unknown chemicals in aerosols from e-cigarettes, including caffeine and chemicals Read… Shokler secured one of the winning spots with a telescopic image of Orion Nebula, one of the closest stars to Earth. Getting that image was one of the most exciting days in the lab.”Īnother contest winner was Jeffrey Shokler, the director of technology and assessment for UW’s Office of Undergraduate Advising. “I still get excited every time I take a cool heart image. “This was one of the first images I took, and I would say this was the image I was most excited about,” Salamon said. This image was the direct result of Salamon’s research, allowing her to publish a methods paper on how to study hearts’ nerves without any physical manipulation of the heart and giving rise to her current thesis project. Microscopic image of an innervated mouse heart After multiple attempts using a confocal microscope, she was finally able to capture an image of a mouse heart, with easy-to-trace and three-dimensional stained nerves. “And that’s where you get people to take a step beyond that initial wow factor to say why is this so amazing to me, why is this image so beautiful, and that’s the artistic aspects that make images like these really effective for communicating science.”Ī prime example of the use of captivating images to communicate science was graduate student Rebecca Salamon’s winning image. “It’s much easier to get people interested in something that’s fascinating, that’s interesting, that pulls you in, and it’s the artistic elements in these, which you might otherwise consider hard science pictures, that really grips people,” Blanchard said. The range from biological to physical science is effectively portrayed through the contest winners, providing a unique opportunity for science communication.Ī good science image is captivating and artistic, but just as importantly it casts question and intrigue onto the captured subject, contest organizer and UW science writer Chris Blanchard said. The Cool Science Image Contest ties creativity and innovation together.
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