1st Place (245 pts.) - "Aerospace Wind Tunnel" by Tom Zasadzinski, Cal Poly Pomona.

"Dr. Ali Ahmadi, head of the Aerospace Engineering department at Cal Poly Pomona, inside the new subsonic wind tunnel."

2nd Place (243 pts.) - "Full-time Professor, Volunteer Firefighter" by Robert Jordan, University of Mississippi.

"Douglas Sullivan Gonzalez, volunteer firefighter, responds to a house fire in the early morning hours. Although the lights were rolling on the firetruck, they did not appear in the photos. I needed opposing traffic on the two-lane road to reflect the lights. We passed one semi and I got lucky on the timing."

3rd Place Tie (242 pts.) - "Cowboy Fiesta" by Thomas Shea, University of Houston.

"3/27/08: George Hall senior life member of Frontier Fiesta. Frontier Fiesta is a diverse showcase for the talents of the University of Houston student body. Each year a piece of the campus is transformed into a fully functional town called "Fiesta City". Attractions include concerts, Broadway-style variety shows, a cookoff, a carnival, and Family Fun Day. This student-led festival is a part of a long-standing tradition at UH dating back to the 1940's."

3rd Place Tie (242 pts.) - "Sau Lan Wu" by Jeff Miller, University of Wisconsin @ Madison.

"Physics professor Sau Lan Wu poses for a portrait on March, 27, 2008. In the background is a projection of a computer-generated simulation depicting the paths of subatomic particles produced by colliding beams of protons in the ATLAS Experiment, a particle detector at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland."

1st Place (257 pts.) - "Tunnel Walk" by Jaren Wilkey, Brigham Young University.

"3/25/08 - Football team walking out of a tunnel shot for a poster."

2nd Place (234 pts.) - "Determination" by Kelly Gorham, Montana State University.

"University of Colorado skier, Lucie Zikova rounds gates to win the women's slalom at the NCAA Skiing Championships."

3rd Place (225 pts.) - "A Wink Above" by Aaron Mayes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

"UNLV's Wink Adams elevates over BYU's Lee Cummard during the Rebels' 76-61 win over the Cougars, March 15, 2008 at the Thomas and Mack Center.

1st Place (236 pts.) - "Building Geometry" by Martin Vloet, University of Michigan.

"The on-your-back view of the freshly remodeled atrium at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building. The four-story space brings light and air into the building. Trees, benches, and lightposts (visible here) populate the ground floor."

2nd Place (234 pts.) - "Moose Vane" by Todd Paris, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

"A weather vane atop a hut in the Georgeson Botanical Garden is silhouetted against the northern lights."

3rd Place Tie (231 pts.) - "Reading Room in the Night" by Lin Jones, University of Michigan.

"The title tells it all."

3rd Place Tie (231 pts.) - "Perfect Storm" by Kristen Bartlett Grace, University of Florida.

"I was on campus late to photograph a night event and a storm blew through at dusk. I stepped out of the event to capture this evening scene on campus. I couldn't resist the dramatic sky, poppy greens and shiny concrete from the rain.."