Summer 2011 MIC Winners

One of a series of marbles and stones for the Office of Equity and Inclusion. They will be used for a year long advertising campaign.

Mathematics student Casey Donovan poses for an 'infinate mirrors' photo to illustrate a story about fractals.

Individual portrait taken for rifle team marketing materials.

Seniors soccer players pose for the 2011 Soccer Poster

Ashley Hughes (7) of Akron takes an unexpected header to the face during the Zips 3-1 win over Michigan.

Two players fight for control of the ball during a soccer match.

Crystal, a law student photographed for a story about the new joint Law/Energy and Natural Resources degree.

On June 27, 2011, Fred Gardaphé sits along the railroad tracks in Melrose Park, Ill., as he revisits a place that during his childhood was a predominantly Italian, working-class neighborhood located near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Gardaphé, a 1976 graduate of the university, is a professor of Italian-American Studies at Queens College CUNY.

Social Psychologist. Dr. Yoav Bar Anan. Photographed in the studio, printed and photographed again while holding his own portrait to illustrate the different self perceptions individuals have.

Lightning illuminates the sky over historic Myers Hall on a stormy evening in July.

Looking like the movie version of an interior organ, Amococo, a labyrinthine luminarium designed by Architects of Air, was host to hundreds of Summer Fest visitors on June 26, 2011.

Czech strongman Rene Golem Richter rips open a soft drink can with his teeth while being filmed for the television show, Stan Lee's Superhumans. Richter claims to have the strongest bite of any human and was being tested by Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Kristopher Lappin.

Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton, a 1991 graduate of the university, runs through a human tunnel created during a Movin' Minds exercise class with nearly 100 middle-school students held outside of the Kohl Center on July 19, 2011. Organized in a partnership between Favor Hamilton and Precollege OPTIONS in Education Outreach and Partnerships, the weeklong program helps students to exercise their bodies and minds. Each morning's fitness class is followed by an academic class, group lunch and afternoon presentations by Hamilton and others on topics including motivation, leadership, nutrition and leading a healthy lifestyles. Favor Hamilton won nine NCAA national track championships and became the winningest female athlete in the history of the NCAA during her time as a Badger student-athlete.

A preschooler from the university's Early Care and Education Center examines the teeth of a T-Rex skull in the university's Geology Museum.

Instructor Kendra Calhoun with UAF's Cooperative Extension Service picks a ripe apple being grown inside a high tunnel at the experimental farm. Calhoun is leading a study to help rural Alaskans develop ways to grow more of their own food.

A student researcher weighs a mouse that volunteered for a behavior modification study involving economics and having to work harder (by pressing the lever more times) to get healthier, better tasting food. Less work was required to get food that had a higher fat content.

A CNC machine pauses while cutting parts from a sheet of copper inside the Science and Engineering Building.

Ernie Lawson takes a core sample from a tree affected by the pine beetle outbreak in the Medicine Bow National Forest

A dragonfly clings to a building on a summer morning.