Author: Christine Watson

  • The Luminescent Lady of Dreams

    The Luminescent Lady of Dreams

    Label The Luminescent Lady of Dreams Artist Tarannuma Ferdous Manny Description This painting explores the magic we carry within ourselves to light up the darkest nights. A dark silhouette, draped in a gown of crimson roses, stands as a guardian of the night. From her fingertips, she spins a shimmering tapestry of light, as if…

  • Synthetic Eden

    Synthetic Eden

    Label Synthetic Eden Artist Amari Morris Description A garden of different minerals emerging into beautiful, colorful complex structures. Type Mobile camera Artist Affiliation Graduate student Department Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Area of Research Physical chemistry Research Group Steinbock Group Date 2026

  • Sweet Creature

    Sweet Creature

    Label Sweet Creature Artist Ashley Arthur Description A white-tailed doe spots the camera while eating at golden hour. Type Canon T8i digital camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department School of Communication Area of Research Digital media Date 2024

  • Inter-cat nap-phase

    Inter-cat nap-phase

    Label Inter-cat nap-phase Artist Giselle Martinez Description This piece is a three-layer screen print on patterned paper. It depicts a seemingly generic animal cell. However, on closer inspection, the nucleus has been replaced with a sleeping cat, and a mouse attempts to pass through the plasma membrane. The title is a reference to interphase, where…

  • Neuronal activation of GLP-1 receptor agonist

    Neuronal activation of GLP-1 receptor agonist

    Label Neuronal activation of GLP-1 receptor agonist Artist Inge Guerrero Description This piece presents a coronal section of the rat brain overlaid with patterns of neuronal activation. The dark punctate signals represent c-Fos immunoreactivity, a well-established marker of recent neuronal activity, capturing a snapshot of functional engagement across distributed brain regions. Prominent c-Fos expression is…

  • Color Swirls of PX458 Transfection

    Color Swirls of PX458 Transfection

    Label Color Swirls of PX458 Transfection Artist Alyssa Giaccone Description CRISPR is a powerful genomic tool allowing scientists to knock out or add sequences to DNA by use of guide RNAs and Cas nucleases. Guide RNAs target specific sequences ensuring a precise location is affected in the “change” made by CRISPR editing. A Cas nuclease…

  • The Tail of 2025 Milky Way

    The Tail of 2025 Milky Way

    Label The Tail of 2025 Milky Way Artist Huangfei Xiao Description On a mid-November night in Alligator Point, Florida, the Milky Way slowly slipped below the western horizon. An extraterrestrial visitor, comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), is visible on the left beneath the Milky Way — a tiny dot with its faint tail was a bonus…

  • Neighbor

    Neighbor

    Label Neighbor Artist Scotty Willis Description The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, is our closest galactic neighbor. It is also known as Messier 31, or M31. Just below it, another galaxy — M110 — is visible. Just above it and to the left, M32 is also visible. Type DSLR camera Artist Affiliation…

  • The Anhinga

    The Anhinga

    Label The Anhinga Artist Lauren Pinder Description An anhinga dries its feathers in a tree after searching for prey underwater. Type Canon EOS 30D camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Date 2025

  • Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill

    Label Roseate Spoonbill Artist Lauren Pinder Description A roseate spoonbill feeds in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands Nature Preserve in Palm Beach County, Florida. Type Canon EOS 30D camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Date 2025