Author: poulikakosweb

In 2022 the UC San Diego Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) hosted the second annual Art of Science contest. This event was inspired by the visually remarkable data sets that data curators from RDCP have seen arise from researchers at UC San Diego.

The Art of Science contest invites students, post-docs and faculty researchers, and project scientists to submit art in the form of graphics and images accompanied by a description to explain the work in an engaging and accessible way to those, not in their field of science.

UC San Diego students, postdoctoral and faculty researchers, and project scientists are invited to submit images, graphics, and descriptions related to their research that explains their work in a way that is both engaging and accessible to non-scientists.

Our lab member, Loren Phillips, submitted an arrangement of images taken in the optics lab, inspired by the global health-focused theme of Poulikakos Lab. This work received the Judge’s Honorable Mention Award and was displayed with the other winners in both the UC San Diego Library WongAvery Breezeway as well as the first floor of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.

Below is the image, caption, and description that won the Honorable Mention:

Loren is delighted to represent the lab and share some of the beautiful work that comes from our science. He looks forward to creating a submission for the 2023 Art of Science competition!

LINK TO ARTWORK:

https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/embed/bb4344382g/0

KPBS ARTICLE:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/08/24/subliminal-beauty-discovering-the-art-of-science

NBC SAN DIEGO ARTICLE:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainment/the-scene/art-of-science-contest-winners-share-uc-san-diego-labs-most-beautiful-discoveries/3033234/

Poulikakos Lab was selected for the Air Force grant, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award. A special congrats to Jiuk, Julia, Shahrose as well as Tamal for their awesome work leading up to this – the preliminary data provided in the proposal was absolutely critical in making this possible! This grant will support our work on nano-photonic and plasmo-acoustic metasurfaces for flow visualization and many other super-resolution imaging applications, including the outstanding collaboration with the Boechler lab.

In November, undergraduate researcher, Anna My Nguyen, attended the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) hosted by Pepperdine University. She gave a talk about current findings and research on Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer’s Detection through the Human Eye.

Samantha Bordy and Jiuk Byun’s paper on “Nanophotonic materials: enabling targeted cancer diagnostics and therapeutics with light” was recently published in “Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering.” This amazing accomplishment was achieved by both of them and their hard work. Be sure to check out their phenomenal paper!

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