Allison Cardiel, graduate student in chemistry, was honored for her scanning electron micrograph of the flower-like, nanoscale structure of a copper crystal used as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel production.
Kyle Karlen, student of veterinary medicine, won with his thermal camera image of a Holstein calf’s face taken to measure the pain response from a routine procedure in dairy cattle.
The winning entry by Miranda Cullins, postdoc in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, is a micrograph of the woven muscle fibers that give the human tongue its range of movement.