Whether photographing scientists at work in the field or offering insights into the microscopic structure of living things, research images convey aspects of the world we struggle to describe with words alone. The winners of the 2023 contest showcase the scope of research being done at NC State.
The contest is a collaborative effort involving NC State’s Office of Research and Innovation, the Graduate School, the NC State University Libraries, the Office of Undergraduate Research and University Communications and Marketing. The Envisioning Research contest was open to faculty, staff, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduates.
A complete list of winners, runners-up and honorable mentions is below. You can see high-res versions of each entry, as well as captions about each image, by clicking on a winning entry’s name. You can find .
Photography
First Place, Faculty and Staff: Michelle Jewell, a staff member in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “.”
Second Place, Faculty and Staff: Dusten Jolly, a staff member in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “.”
First Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Enrique Pena Martinez, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, for “.”
Second Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Matt Snider, a graduate student in the College of Natural Resources, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Ana Sapp, a graduate student in the College of Natural Resources, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Alejandro Valdes, a graduate student in the College of Sciences, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Ankita Gupta, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, for “.”
First Place, Undergraduate Students: Robert O’Connell for “.”
Graphics and Data Visualization
First Place, Faculty and Staff: Radmila Sazdanovic, a faculty member in the College of Sciences, for “.”
First Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Shuang Wu, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, for “.”
Second Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Joshua Morsell, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Xiaojie Gao, a graduate student in the College of Natural Resources, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Raja Manikam Bandari, a graduate student in the College of Design, for “.”
Microscopy
First Place, Faculty and Staff: Elisabeth Wheeler, a faculty member in the College of Natural Resources, for “.”
First Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Ross Lampe, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, for “.”
Second Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Kaiying Chen, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Dhruv Dineshbhai Ghevariya, a graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Eric Gabilondo, a graduate student in the College of Sciences, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Aoi Nakanishi-Hester, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Mohammad Fozlay Rabbani, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, for “.”
First Place, Undergraduate Students: Savannah Balogh for “.”
Second Place, Undergraduate Students: Nora Hicks for “.”
Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Students: Anne J. Lindbergh for “.”
Video and Interactive
First Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Sergei Rigin, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, for “.”
Second Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Nidhi Diwakar, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, for “.”
Honorable Mention, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Jiahui Chen, a graduate student in the College of Textiles, for “.”
First Place, Undergraduate Students: Elliott Schultz and Jayden Sansom for “.”
