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FGS Images of Research Competition

_{(Photo credit: Afrin Islam, 2023-24 IoR competition)}

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Use an image to tell a story to showcase your research in the annual UCalgary Images of Research Competition. The Faculty of Graduate Studies invites UCalgary graduate students to explore new ways of thinking about research, its value, and how it can be communicated to a broad, non-specialist audience.

Images of Research is also a great opportunity to win cash prizes and have your research shared with a wide community!

To participate, graduate students are challenged to capture an image that showcases their research and write a general abstract to complement the image as well as describe their research and its impact.

Entries are judged on composition, quality, how effectively the images connect with research, and on the quality of the written abstracts. To help you with your entry, you will be added to a D2L course with access to workshops, feedback sessions and written resources.

The contest is open to all UCalgary graduate students in both thesis and course-based programs. All submissions must match the following criteria:

Original, unpublished image (please note: images such as computer-generated or electron microscopy images are accepted. Images of art such as paintings may be submitted, but must be arranged with purpose and follow judging criteria.).
Image taken by the student submitting the image.
Image must be high resolution digital files in JPEG format (3300 x 4200 pixels minimum and 300 dpi).
Image must be printable as 11x14” prints (entries must be cropped to final size before submitting).
Image must have a file size not exceeding 12 MB.

Graduate students can submit a maximum of one image per competition year. In addition to images, students must provide one abstract:

A general public abstract (jargon-free and public-friendly language) which describes your image and how it relates to your thesis research or course of study (maximum 1,200 characters including spaces).