2015 Honorable Mention – Brenda Shih Vitality As I was walking along the corridors of East Hall, I noticed a particular picture on the wall: it was picture of neurons at the microscopic level. I noticed how similar a neuron was to the structure of a tree. To me,...
2015 Honorable Mention – Carlina Duan Moon Pull I wrote this poem after taking a Physics of Music class at the University. We were speaking about the moon that day — specifically, about the moon’s effect on creating tides in the water. My professor mentioned...
2015 Honorable Mention – Darian Razdar Cosmological Questions The type of poem I wrote came to me when I first saw the advertisement for this art competition. I decided to focus on the questions that abound in life, and in our cosmos, which arise out of the...
2015 Honorable Mention – Victoria Essex Structure of the Human Heart This artist book depicts the structure and function of the human heart. It appears as a delicate and organic grouping of pages, held together with twine. As the viewer unties the twine, it...
2015 Best in Literary – Preeta Gupta Torque “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Physicist Paul Dirac spoke these words to...