2023 Honorable Mention – Erin Lee Discovering Shark Antibodies MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital painting At first glance, it can be quite strange to see a shark morphing into a test tube that a scientist is holding, which is essentially what this...
2023 Honorable Mention – Sarah De Falco Quantum Entanglement MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital painting This artwork illustrates a baby and a wolf, who each possess a particle in a quantum entangled pair. Quantum entanglement occurs when two particles...
2023 Honorable Mention – Jennifer Guo Move the Mountain MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital illustration Nitric oxide (NO) acts as a catalyst for the reaction 2 SO2 + O2 → 2 SO3. Catalysts are not able to bring the starting and ending energies of a...
2023 People’s Choice Award Winner – Ana Swanson Sugar Blues MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital drawing Chair conformations are taught in organic chemistry to teach students about stability of six membered rings. As someone with type 1 diabetes,...
2023 Best in Writing – Amber Hashmi xerophytes → a poem the desert lacks the blandishments to make my heart contentbut—nonetheless— these desert plants, oh, they think different, for desiccation does not phase them,in the slightest bitfor their stomata...
