postdoctoral scholars
![First place for video among graduate students and postdocs goes to Tyler Allen, a Ph.D. student in NC State’s Comparative Biomedical Sciences program, for the glowing video he titled “Heart of Gold,” showing how researchers study zebrafish hearts for their potential to help humans with heart diseases. (The video can be seen at the top of this post.)](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hearts-of-gold.jpg)
Fish hearts and air flow: Video winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![Rich Spontak's “The Fingerprint of Molecules” won first place for faculty in the microscopy category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Microscopy-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Leaf hairs and molecules: Microscopy winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![This image of a taxonomic network of bacterial diversity on bedbugs comes from Michael Fisher, who won first place for graduate students and postdocs in the graphics category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Graphics-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Bedbugs and Mars: Graphics winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![Andy Wade's photo, “July 12, 2015,” won first place for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the photography category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Photography-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Beetles and lightning: Photography winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![This topographic map of Mars, submitted by Paul Byrne, won first place for faculty in the graphics category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Winner-HEADER-992x558.jpg)