Announcing our 2026 winners
Visualizing the Unseen
- First Place and this year鈥檚 Best in Show: Arctic Arteries by Emily Cook, undergraduate, Earth Sciences Department
- Second Place: Microengineered Neuro-Capillary Interface by Anika Alim, doctoral candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Jungwook Paek, assistant professor
- Third Place: Designed to Dissolve, Built to Deliver by John Fetse, assistant professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department
The World Around Us
- First Place: Rooted in Radiance by Jenny Sammakia, Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratories director, S3IP Center of Excellence
- Second Place: Macro-Micro by Detlef Smilgies, research scientist, Center for Advanced Microelectronics Engineering
- Third Place: Beaver Trail by Jax Kobey, undergraduate, Geography Department
Judge鈥檚 Choice Selections
- Benson Chan鈥檚 selection from The World Around Us Category: Rooted in Radiance submitted by Jenny Sammakia, Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratories director, S3IP Center of Excellence
- Casey Staff and Christopher Swift鈥檚 selection from Visualizing the Unseen Category: Arctic Arteries submitted by Emily Cook, undergraduate, Earth Sciences Department
- Guy German鈥檚 selection from The World Around Us Category: Macro-Micro submitted Detlef Smilgies, research scientist, Center for Advanced Microelectronics Engineering
- Kevin Kubwimana鈥檚 selection from Visualizing the Unseen Category: Ossification: Bone鈥檚 Developmental Transformation submitted by Alexis Blatz, undergraduate, Biological Sciences Department
麻豆社 the contest
Advances in imaging technology and tools mean that scientists have an increased ability to generate exciting data as well as to create compelling works of art. Binghamton University's Art of Science contest offers an opportunity to share the beauty of science through photographs and images that describe some aspect of research captured visually.
We invite entries from Binghamton students, postdocs, faculty and staff members in the following categories:
- The World Around Us: images in which the subject is visible to the naked eye
- Visualizing the Unseen: images captured with the use of optics that extend beyond what the eye can see, such as microscopes and telescopes, or models of scientific phenomena or processes or interpretations of scientific information
Contest guidelines
Images were evaluated based on scientific significance, originality and artistic and visual impact as well as on their connection to research or scholarship. Members of the campus community may enter each category two times.
This year's top prize was a $300 Best Buy gift card.
Take a look at our 2026 submissions:
Judges panel
Benson Chan, associate director, S3IP Center of Excellence
Guy German, associate professor/graduate program director, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Kevin Kubwimana '26, Master of Business Administration, School of Management
Casey Staff, video producer, Communications and Marketing
Christopher Swift, assistant professor, Department of Art and Design