Judging is based on both the quality of the image and the explanation of the underlying science.

First Place: Chloe Wang '17

This image shows an optical micrograph of corroded stainless steel, taken at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory during the summer of 2015. Corrosion was accelerated by an applied voltage in an electrochemical experiment, transforming this piece of stainless steel foil from a uniform sheet to a landscape of jagged holes and colorful metal oxides.

Second Place: Christopher Nagele '16

This is an image of one component of a stellar magnetic field. Stellar magnetic fields have profound effects on the spin and lifetime of their stars, but they are often mathematically complicated. It turns out that any complicated field can be built using combinations of simple fields. Analyzing the behavior of simple fields such as this one allows us to better understand the complicated behavior of real stellar magnetic fields. In this image, hotter colors denote a weaker field and are generally found farther from the star.

Third Place: Caleb Eckert '17

As part of a BioArt collaboration, HC/BMC students and artists from the Center for Creative Works, a vocational art program for adults with disabilities, painted agar plates with colorful strains of Streptomyces bacteria to produce the living biological artwork seen in the image. Artwork by participants of The BioArt Project, photo by Caleb Eckert ‘17.