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Data curators at the UC San Diego Library have the privilege of working with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library's Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of some of these research data sets has inspired the Library's Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) to host its second annual Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate and bring awareness to the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration.
UC San Diego students, postdoctoral and faculty researchers, and project scientists are invited to submit images, graphics and descriptions related to their research that explains their work in a way that is both engaging and accessible to non-scientists.
Winning images will be exhibited in Starlight, the Library’s digital exhibit application, in a gallery on the 1st floor at the San Diego Natural History Museum this summer, and in the Sally T. WongAvery Library breezeway. All submissions will be preserved in the Library's Digital Collections repository. Contest winners will also be invited to submit a short video recording of themselves discussing their work.
Photographs, microscope images, illustrations, visual depictions of complex datasets, the result of modeling and simulation, combined images, and creative representations of your work. Images may be modified to enhance their aesthetic, such as combining multiple images into one artistic work.
Undergraduates: Submissions can be based on research conducted during course, laboratory, or formal research projects.
Graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and project scientists: Submissions should be original research outputs based on original research conducted in residence at or in affiliation with UC San Diego.
A panel of judges composed of faculty members, senior academic staff, and administrators will review all eligible entries.
Evaluation Criteria
A small group of UC San Diego Library administrators will tally votes and, in cases where the judge’s nominations do not coalesce around a clear winner, they will select one from among the top candidates.
Anyone with a PollUnit Art of Science contest link can vote for a single favorite image. The image with the most number of “likes” will be designated as the Open Voting winner.
To view 2021 contest winners, visit the Library's Starlight e-exhibit at http://lib.ucsd.edu/artofscience.
For marketing partners: Art of Science Marketing Toolkit.
Please direct questions about the contest to Abby Pennington at apennington@ucsd.edu.
Previous page, Explore section, Art of Science image: Adi Khen, "Bigeye Octopus Suckers," Open Voting Winner (2021).