Texas Tech requires renovated and new buildings to feature public art. The art is often related to a building’s function, but The Innovation Hub has made it personal.
There, each art piece directly represents a research study conducted at Texas Tech. The images offer insight into fascinating new projects, from undead simulations to the use of pollen in oral vaccines.
Carrie Romo, the interim director of The Research Park, said she emailed researchers around campus, asking for pictures of their research. The images then received artistic treatment and were hung to decorate The Innovation Hub.
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These images represent research from LAZARUS, or Tech’s Lab for Analysis of Zombie Activity and Research into Undead Simulations.
“They made it look so cool and gave it a cool name because they do a lot of outreach,” Romo said about LAZARUS.
Research by Harvinder Singh Gill shows species of pollen grains engineered to make edible vaccines.
Microscopic pictures of pollen that are cleaned out and used as “Trojan horses” to create oral vaccines.
Callum Hetherington’s microscopic pictures of mineral formation in stone.
The differences in coloration and intensity reflect differences in trace element abundances in the crystallographic lattices.
Artwork by Robin Dru Germany, a professor in the School of Art. This piece represents her study on surface tension.
“Through images, I reveal juxtapositions between land structures (trees and plants, buildings, house) and water life which range from bucolic to disturbing,” reads Germany’s photo caption.
Research over plasma formation and streamers across anode-cathode gap by Andreas Neuber and James Dickens.
Their research demonstrates low-temperature plasma formation at the electric tips and the subsequent propagation of streamers across the anode-cathode gap.
Picture of a super-computer that models diseases and outbreaks.
This image represents research over the electric field breakdown of nitrogen by Andreas Nueber and James Dickens.
Research by Michelle Pantoya over the combustion of powder thermite.
“Our group studies the combustion characteristics of new pyrotechnic formulations, specifically focusing on how nano-powders can be used in unique applications that exploit their unique combustion behaviors,” reads Pantoya’s picture caption.
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