February 19, 2010 — Arlington, VA. — The National Science Foundation (NSF) along with the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), today announced the winners of their seventh annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
Illustrators, photographers, computer programmers, and graphics specialists from around the world were invited to submit visualizations that would intrigue, explain, and educate. Over 130 entries were received from 16 countries.
Jeff Nesbit, Director of NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, paid respect to all of the entrants, saying, “In these stunning creations, scale and complexity are no longer barriers to understanding, for there truly is nothing invisible to the human imagination. We are privileged,” he continued, “to see what these talented individuals have shown us and as citizens we are far richer for the insights they have revealed.”
Winning entries can be viewed on the NSF website, the Science website, and in the print issue of this week’s Science. First place and honorable mention winners are listed below. A number of semifinalists were recognized as well.
PHOTOGRAPHY
First Place: Save Our Earth. Let’s Go Green
Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University
Honorable Mention: Microbe vs. Mineral —
A Life and Death Struggle in the Desert
Michael P. Zach
University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point
Honorable Mention: Flower Power
Russell Taylor, Briana K. Whitaker, Briana L. Carstens
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Honorable Mention: Self-fertilization
Heiti Paves, Birger Ilau
Tallinn University of Technology
ILLUSTRATIONS
First Place (tie): Kuen’s Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields
Richard Palais, Luc Benard
University of California at Irvine
First Place (tie): Branching Morphogenesis
Jenny E. Sabin (Lead Designer), Peter Lloyd Jones (Lead Scientist),
Andrew Lucia and Annette Fierro
University of Pennsylvania’s Sabin + Jones Lab Studio
Honorable Mention: Jellyfish Burger
Dave Beck, Jennifer Jacquet
Clarkson University, University of British Columbia
Honorable Mention: Back to the Future
Mario De Stefano, Antonia Auletta, Carla Langella
The 2nd University of Naples
INFORMATIONAL GRAPHICS
First Place: Brain Development
Dwayne Godwin, Jorge Cham
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, www.phdcomics.com
Honorable Mention: Regulation of the Cell Cycle & DNA Damage-Induced Checkpoint Activation
Erin Olson, Daphne Orlando, Tim Manning
R&D Systems, Inc.
NON-INTERACTIVE MEDIA
First Place (tie): The Epigenetics of Identical Twins
Harmony Starr, Molly Malone, and the Genetic Science Learning Center
University of Utah
First Place (tie): Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities
Christian Thiemann, Daniel Grady
Northwestern University
Honorable Mention: Decision Support System for Tsunami Early Warning
Gregor Hochleitner, Christian Gredel, Nils Sparwasser
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Honorable Mention: Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease
Stacy Jannis, William Dempsey, Rebekah Fredenburg
Jannis Productions
INTERACTIVE MEDIA
First Place: Genomics Digital Lab: Cell Biology
Jeremy Friedberg, Andrea Bielecki
Spongelab Interactive
For more information on the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge or other NSF programs, please contact:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/
http://www.sciencemag.org/