Now accepting Research Illustration Masterpieces for RRF

Have you ever imaged something in the lab that you thought had an artistic flair? Well, here's your chance to have your research image enlarged larger than life and mounted on the interior walls of the Replacement Research Facility for posterity.

The Research Illustration Masterpieces (images from science) contest seeks entries in the form of MRI, fMRI, electron microscope, etc. from Medical School students, staff, faculty, and physicians-in-training. Images must be at least 3500 pixels in size and submitted digitally on CD or DVD to MSB B.340 (e-mail entry thumbnails are permitted if the original image is available at the required high resolution and may be submitted to m.darla.brown@uth.tmc.edu). Contestants may submit 1-5 entries per person by Dec. 15. Compositions must be original, with the permission of publisher, when applicable.

Selected entries as determined by the review committee will be enlarged to four-foot by fourfoot squares and mounted near the elevator banks of the RRF, which will open in the fall of 2007.

An official entry form must be submitted with the application, which may be downloaded from the Medical School's homepage (med.uth.tmc.edu), and must contain the name of the artist, title of the piece, the medium, artist's phone number, e-mail, and signature.

The submitted images may be used as art not only in the RRF but in other Medical School buildings or in promotional materials.

"This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the outstanding science and research, which in many cases is quite artistic, coming from our own Medical School family," said interim Dean Jerry Wolinsky.

-D. Brown