The Scientific discipline equally Art contest began in 2022 as a way for students in the MSU Higher of Agriculture to evidence the dazzler and detail of their work in the sciences. Winning projects are displayed during the annual Gloat Ag weekend each November.

2021 Winner: Ryley Sanden, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences

2020 Winner: Jerrica Bursik, Microbiology and Immunology

Jerrica Bursik"All proteins, like human insulin and the receptors on cells that it binds to, are chains of amino acids. DNA is transcribed into mRNA, which translates into the amino acrid sequence of a protein. This vocal was equanimous using the mRNA sequences of the human INS and INSR genes, merely instead of coding for amino acids, the mRNA coded for notes. DNA, mRNA, amino acids and proteins in science all interact in similarly beautiful ways as melodies and harmonies in music."

You can listen to Jerrica'due south composition on her YouTube folio!

2019 Winner: Rachael Koss, Animal and Range Science

Rachael Koss, 2022 winner

"I think that my work exemplifies science every bit art because it includes 2 of the things we can learn the nearly from but also look at in awe. We look out into these mountains every day, into the kind eyes of a horse or at a cow admiring their calmness, not knowing all the wonders and secrets they truly concord. Although as scientists and students in the Higher of Agriculture, it'due south our job to explore them every 24-hour interval to find out. What a wonderful job we have. Adoration for these animals compelled me to spend 11 hours and 44 minutes on this analogy of the Santa Gertrudis."

Rachael's full project was a time-lapse video of the process past which she created this image. The complete video can exist viewed on MSU's YouTube folio.

2018 Winner:Vinicius S. Ferreira, PhD pupil, Found Sciences & Constitute Pathology

2018 Science as Art winner

"The animal depicted in this photo is an adult male beetle from the family unit Lycidae, known as internet-winged beetles, and information technology belongs to the species Leptolycus (Baholycus) flavoapicalis Bocak. The image presented here is the result of four hours of work, and a perfect example of how science can aso be interpreted equally art: 45 photos of this tiny specimen (near 5mm long) were taken with a Catechism T3i DLSR using an MP-Due east 65mm lens and staced and aligned using the software Zerene Stacker; the final paradigm was edited in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. Beetles are the largest of groups of animals on Earth; i in every five living animal species is a beetle. The species in this photo belongs to a rarely seen and poorly studied group of beetles within the family Lycidae, the tribe Leptolycini, subject of my PhD studies. Beetles of this group are distributed in Due south and Central America and the Due west Indies. They are unique amongst beetles: adult males (like the one in the photo) have wings and tin can fly, a pair of long antennae and the full general advent of a protrude; adult females are completely different. They are worm-like creatures, take no wings and live in the ground among leaf litter. Based on individuals of Leptolycini kept in the Montana Entomology Collection, I am describing over 130 new species of Leptolycini, reconstructing their evolutionary history using morphology and Deoxyribonucleic acid data and trying to sympathise why they have such a unique biology."

2017 Winner: Libby Fones, Ph.D. student, Microbiology and Immunology

2017 Science as Art winner

"This is a photograph I took of an elodea leaf undergoing plasmolysis (shrinking of the inside of the cell due to water loss)."

2016 Winner: Emma Bode, Land Resource and Environmental Sciences

2016 Science as Art winner

"Water is life. Only as nosotros depend on our veins and arteries to transport sustenance ot our bodies, Montanans depend on streams and rivers to support our crops, cities and ecosystems. This piece was created in ArcGIS with the National Hydrography Dataset. The NHD represents the national drainage network with features such as rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, coastline, dams and streamgages. This dataset is typically used in general reference maps and for scientific analyses exploring cause and issue releationships in discharge rates, water quality and fish populations. Through careful pick and symbology of the feature attributes, I generated an aesthetic interpretation of Montana's hydrology. I chose to depict the streams and rivers extending beyond Montana'southward border because h2o is subject to topography, not political delineation."

2015 Winner: Emma Bode, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences

2015 Science as Art winner

"The connectedness between science and art in the geospatial sciences is overwhelmingly apparent to me. Stuart Challenger's GIS courses stress the importance of good blueprint. Taking this experience a pace farther, I created a purely aesthetic estimation of spatial data. I created this slice using soils data for the Gallatin Valley. Soils data is an platonic dataset for artistic manipulation considering it is made of many minor polygons that are each unique, much like a child's Color By Number worksheet. In order to differentiate classes of polygons, I selected and exported them as a new shapefile. I created several shapefiles for the leaves, three for the trunk and one for the roots. I then mainpulated the colors of each shapefile to produce the desired paradigm."