Past Competitions

2020

Images of Research competition returned for a fifth year and ran from January 20 to February 7, 2020 at the University of Alberta. Over 80 unique images were submitted from graduate students across various disciplines, representing many UAlberta faculties. The competition was followed by a virtual exhibition of the top twenty-four images throughout April 2020.

Winning and semi-finalist images featured in the IOR exhibit were selected by a six-member adjudication panel that included both academic and non-academic staff, as well as non-participating graduate students. For the second year of the People’s Choice Award, the public voted for their favourite of the 24 semifinalists. We collected over 2763 votes with the winning image getting 772 votes.

The six prize winners were as follows:

2019

Left to right: Jodi Harding-Kuriger, Deanna Joyce Neri, Konstantin von Gunten, Taleana Huff, Lixin Luo.

Images of Research competition returned for a fourth year and ran from January 21 to February 8, 2019 at the University of Alberta. Over 60 unique images were submitted from graduate students across various disciplines, representing many UAlberta faculties. The competition was followed by an exhibition of the top twenty-four images held in Coutts Library throughout April 2019.

Winning and semi-finalist images featured in the IOR exhibit were selected by a six-member adjudication panel that included both academic and non-academic staff, as well as non-participating graduate students. For the second year of the People’s Choice Award, the public voted for their favourite of the 24 semifinalists. we collected over 1600 votes with the winning image getting 499 votes.

The six prize winners were as follows:

2018

The third Images of Research competition ran from January 22 to February 9, 2018 at the University of Alberta. Over 100 unique images were submitted from graduate students across various disciplines, representing almost all UAlberta faculties. The competition was followed by an exhibition of the top twenty-four images held in Cameron Library from April 4 to 30.

Winning and semi-finalist images featured in the IOR exhibit were selected by a six-member adjudication panel that included both academic and non-academic staff, as well as non-participating graduate students. To switch the process up, the People’s Choice Award was open to the public this year and we collected 2359 votes with the winning image getting 213 votes.

The six prize winners were as follows:

2017

The second Images of Research competition ran from January 23 to February 13, 2017 at the University of Alberta. Over 100 unique images were submitted from graduate students across various disciplines, representing almost all UAlberta faculties. The competition was followed by an exhibition of the top twenty-four images held in Cameron Library from April 5 to 30.

Winning and semi-finalist images featured in the IOR exhibit were selected by a six-member adjudication panel that included both academic and non-academic staff, as well as non-participating graduate students. The People’s Choice Award was once again decided by the campus community through an online survey, with almost 800 votes being cast in one week.

Prize winners were announced during a reception on Wednesday, April 5. Below are photos from the event (Photo credit: John Ulan).

The six prize winners were as follows: