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Winners selected for ‘Through the Lens: Magnify the Moment’ photo contest

Entries in latest #At¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒYouWill competition were taken from microscope, reflection in water, more

Campus Announcements

Winners selected for ‘Through the Lens: Magnify the Moment’ photo contest

Jack Gugino’s first-place photo was shot using a polarizing light microscope in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science’s petrology and geochemistry research lab.
Jack Gugino’s first-place photo was shot using a polarizing light microscope in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science’s petrology and geochemistry research lab.
Jack Gugino, a research associate in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, took first place in ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ’s “Through the Lens: Magnify the Moment” spring photo contest.

The latest in the #At¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒYouWill photo contest series, “Through the Lens” called for photos that were captured by looking through a lens, whether that be through a microscope, telescope, binoculars, reflected on the water, and more.

Gugino’s first-place photo was shot using a polarizing light microscope in the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science’s petrology and geochemistry research lab. The microscope uses planar and cross-polarized light to reveal the complex optical properties of minerals. Gugino’s photo is a part of a larger thin section of a plutonic igneous rock, which forms deep underground when magma cools very slowly.

Achintya Kumar Jena, a Biology graduate student working with , assistant professor of Biology, earned second-place honors for a confocal microscopy image of a sagittal cerebellar section from a mouse, displaying a fluorescing Purkinje neuron layer. Margo Shappie, an Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship major, was selected third with an entry taken from a film camera of the inside of a puddle reflection by Kumler Chapel.

The winners will all receive a special ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ prize package with an assortment of items from Brick & Ivy Campus Store.

View the second- and third-place photos on the #At¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒYouWill contest page. ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ also hosted a “Golden Hours of ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ: Dusk and Dawn” #At¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒYouWill photo contest in fall 2024.
Established in 1809, ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ is located in Oxford, Ohio, with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, a learning center in West Chester, and a European study center in Luxembourg. Interested in learning more about the #At¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒYouWill photo contest? Visit the website for more information.