SCIENCE

Winning entries will appear in the Sept. 22, 2006, issue of the journal Science: Sometimes the best way to express a scientific idea is through an image that grabs the eye and invites viewers to wonder what they're seeing. Fourteen images and multimedia presentations, each using innovative approaches to encapsulate a scientific story, have won the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science, which is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society. The contest, currently in its fourth year, recognizes outstanding achievement in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results and scientific phenomena. The judges’ criteria for evaluating the entries included visual impact, innovation and accuracy. The winning entries communicate information about complex mathematical concepts, the intricacies of the human body, air flight patterns, the latest scientific imaging technologies to analyze Leonardo da Vinci’s art, and more. The 22 September 2006 issue of Science will feature all of these entries, which will also be freely available at its Web site. The entries will also be displayed at the National Science Foundation’s, its Web site. The winning entries are in five categories: ILLUSTRATION First Place: Richard Palais, University of California, Irvine Luc Benard Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces on a Tabletop Second Place: Caryn Babaian, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania A Da Vinci Blackboard Lesson INFORMATIONAL GRAPHICS First Place: Nils Sparwasser, Thorsten Andresen, Stephan Reiniger, and Robert Meisner, German Aerospace Center Hawaii, the Highest Mountain on Earth Second Place: Louis Borgeat, François Blais, and John Taylor of the National Research Council, Canada Christian Lahanier of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France Mona Lisa Montage PHOTOGRAPHY First Place: Robert Cheng, Paul Brown, and Rebecca Fahrig, Stanford University Christof Reinhart, Volume Graphics An Egyptian Child Mummy Second Place: David Yager, University of Maryland Cockroach Portrait INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA First Place: Travis Vermilye, Stephen Humphries, and Andrew Christensen, Medical Modeling, Golden, Colorado Kenneth Slayer, International Craniofacial Institute, Dallas, Texas Conjoined Twins Second Place: Jack Bradbury, Guillaume Iacino, Erica Olsen, and Robert Grotke, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University A Real-Time Audio and Video Sound Visualization Tool NONINTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA First Place (tie): Aaron Koblin, University of California, Los Angeles Flight Patterns Drew Berry, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Jeremy Pickett-Heaps, University of Melbourne; and Francois Tetaz Body Code Honorable Mentions: Curtis DuBois, Lummi Island, Washington The Handwritten "e" Matt Heying, Changwon Suh, and Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University Simone Seig, Universität de Saarland Materials Informatics Jennifer Brennan, ADNET Systems Inc./NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Waleed Abdalati, Horace Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; and Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center A Short Tour of the Cryosphere Flavio Fenton and Elizabeth Cherry, Cornell University Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmias