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2019 Francis Collins Visit
We were very excited to host Dr. Francis Collins from the National Institute of Health this year! He has been an incredible supporter of our work, which has been discusses multiple times on his blog. It was a pleasure to show him the artwork created by UD's own...
2019 Submissions – Thank you
Thank you all for you submissions this year! We've received over 100 submissions from over 10 various departments at the University of Delaware. We were very excited to see such diversity and representation through the images. We have just selected our exhibition for...
Art in Science 2018 Opening Night
Art in Science held an opening night celebration at the Blue Ball Barn in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday, May 4, 2018. The event was made possible by Professor John Slater (Biomedical Engineering), his event committee, and all of the researchers who submitted...
NIH Director’s Blog Feature
One of our archived artworks was once again selected to be featured by Dr. Francis Collins on the NIH Director’s Blog! The featured art Salivary Amylase (2016) was captured via confocal microscopy by Swati Pradhan-Bhatt. “Release of salivary enzyme alpha-amylase from...
Waxing From Crescent to Supermoon
You may have noticed this weekend, and over the past week, the moon was particularly bright. This was because just yesterday on Sunday a supermoon occurred, lighting up the sky. A supermoon is a phenomenon that occurs when the moon is full and near its perigee, which...
Delaware First Features Art in Science
Once again Art in Science is leaving it’s blueprint bit by bit. This time we had a few pieces of art that were featured on canvases at Delaware First Campaign and the UD Presidential Campaign Launch. Our artwork is quite novel, the way we’re displaying our research...
The Ghost in the Lab Dish
One of the artwork from this year’s Art in Science was featured in the NIH Director’s Blog! Here’s an excerpt from Dr. Collin’s post. “As Halloween approaches, lots of kids and kids-at-heart will be watching out for ghosts and goblins. So, to help meet the seasonal...
Crystallization: The Beauty of Organization
Even though it is now March, there is still one last chance of a snowstorm. To compensate, salt is sprinkled onto the roads. While salt and snow appear to be adversaries in this scenario, they also have similarities – the characteristic this post will focus on today...
Smaller than Stippling: Quantum Dots
With an article out in UDaily, we are connecting the last of the dots in putting Art in Science together. Dot Techniques in Art Dots are featured in many different art techniques.The dot technique that may be the most familiar is the Ben-Day dots most frequently seen...
Green Fluorescent Protein: Illuminating Molecular Level Processes
We are incentivizing entries in Art in Science by offering a monetary prize – and who doesn’t love a good prize? Specifically speaking, who doesn’t love the Nobel Prize? In 2008, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the...
Science in Art: Dichroic Glass
As with any good event, we hope to have open communication while hosting Art in Science. In short, we will do our best to maintain transparency- and what in our lives is iconic for being transparent so much as glass? Glass is a material that has a wide variety of...