Winners selected for ‘Through the Lens: Magnify the Moment’ photo contest
Entries in latest #AtMiamiYouWill competition were taken from microscope, reflection in water, more
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Winners selected for ‘Through the Lens: Magnify the Moment’ photo contest
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Jack Gugino’s first-place photo was shot using a polarizing light microscope in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science’s petrology and geochemistry research lab.
The latest in the #AtMiamiYouWill photo contest series, “Through the Lens” called for photos that were captured by looking through a lens, whether that be through a microscope, telescope, binoculars, reflected on the water, and more.
Gugino’s first-place photo was shot using a polarizing light microscope in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science’s petrology and geochemistry research lab. The microscope uses planar and cross-polarized light to reveal the complex optical properties of minerals. Gugino’s photo is a part of a larger thin section of a plutonic igneous rock, which forms deep underground when magma cools very slowly.
Achintya Kumar Jena, a Biology graduate student working with Joey Ramsdell, assistant professor of Biology, earned second-place honors for a confocal microscopy image of a sagittal cerebellar section from a mouse, displaying a fluorescing Purkinje neuron layer. Margo Shappie, an Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship major, was selected third with an entry taken from a film camera of the inside of a puddle reflection by Kumler Chapel.
The winners will all receive a special Miami prize package with an assortment of items from Brick & Ivy Campus Store.
View the second- and third-place photos on the #AtMiamiYouWill contest page. Miami also hosted a “Golden Hours of Miami: Dusk and Dawn” #AtMiamiYouWill photo contest in fall 2024.
Established in 1809, Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio, with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, a learning center in West Chester, and a European study center in Luxembourg. Interested in learning more about the #AtMiamiYouWill photo contest? Visit the website for more information.
