Four pieces produced by PPPL researchers, staff, and graduate students are among 48 selected for the 2009 Art of Science gallery at Princeton University's Friend Center. The juried show features works chosen from more than 200 submissions to the Art of Science competition. PPPL's Andrew Zwicker co-organized the competition and PPPL photographer Elle Starkman was on the committee.

The theme of this year's competition was "found art, with the organizers of the exhibit soliciting scientific images created during the course of an actual research project, rather than art inspired by science."

The first, second, and third-place winners were announced at an opening reception May 8 in the Friend Center, where images selected from the competition will remain on display for a year. First prize went to Celeste Nelson, assistant professor chemical engineering, for baby squid. Second prize went to Pat Watson, Mike Gaevski, Joe Palmer, and Conrad Sylvestre of Princeton's Micro/Nanofabrication Laboratory (MNFL) for Desert Butte. Third Prize went to Maria Ciocca, a 2005 alumna, for Worm Love. An on-line gallery will be available Thursday, May 14, at noon.