Science is an art, but not all scientists are artists.

That said, we purposefully encourage our Biomedical Engineering students to express their creativity while showcasing their research.

Each fall, students submit images — photographs, micrographs, illustrations, visualizations and renderings — depicting their science, along with a description of how the image was created and how it represents the importance of research in their field. Art in Research is intended to be a record of striking visual qualities and a lens into the science, to be shared with fellow researchers and the general public alike.

A map of neural constellations

Submitted by: Lizzy Frazier

Category: Rendering

Contributors: Megan Lipton

Cellular Symphony on Hydrogel

Submitted by: Tuba Marjan

Category: Microscopy

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) dynamics at nanoscale

Submitted by: Yue Zheng

Category: Microscopy

Contributors: Li Fang, Maryam Mahmoodi, Hao-Cheng Gao, Fan Xu, Han Zhao & Fang Huang

Highway to the brain

Submitted by: Sergio Martin

Category: Anatomy & Physiology

Contributors: Thejas Vishnu Ramesh

Microtubule tracks in neuronal growth cone

Submitted by: Yuan Ren

Category: Microscopy

Contributors: Donghan Ma, Kristi McElmurry, Fang Huang & Daniel M. Suter

Nuclear pore complexes under super-resolution microscope

Submitted by: Hao-Cheng Gao

Category: Microscopy

Contributors: Fan Xu

Progression of a Murine Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

Submitted by: Ethan Kelley

Category: Anatomy & Physiology

Contributors: Courtland Johns

Putting the P in Purdue: Precision Magnetic Bioassembly Using Microrobot Grippers

Submitted by: Madison Howard

Category: Anatomy & Physiology

Contributors: Aaron Davis

Starry Night, Cell-estial Edition

Submitted by: Claudia Benito Alston

Category: Microscopy

Contributors: Michael Deines, Madison Howard & Evelyn Nonamaker

The Human Operating System

Submitted by: Hammad Khan

Category: Rendering

The Spider-Verse Within You

Submitted by: Makayla Phillips

Category: Microscopy

Contributors: Josh Sexton, Sherry Harbin & Rachel Morrison