The art of cell structures, root growth, and drone flights over Namibia

NC State researchers regularly see spectacular things while working in fields such as Life Sciences, Entomology, Agricultural Engineering, and Geospatial Analytics. Envisioning Research, the university’s annual research image contest, celebrates the artistic imagery that graduate students and postdocs, researchers, and faculty and staff capture in the course of their work.

This year’s winning entries were announced last week—the full listing of winners is here. Stunning images ranged from test tubes filled with colorful silica gel to drone flights against the Milky Way in the Namibian night sky to the beautiful cellular structure of a Japanese Pepper Vine (from the Libraries’ InsideWood database).

Winning images will be exhibited on the Hunt Library Commons Wall throughout the upcoming year. A Flickr gallery of winning entries is also available.

Started in 2016, Envisioning Research is a collaboration between the Libraries, the Office of Research and Innovation, the Graduate School, University Communications, and the College of Sciences. The program was born out of a desire to make NC State research more accessible by using art as a medium to explain complex discoveries.