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EquilibriUM
Our in-house Science X Art Print Magazine, published every September.
Welcome to EquilibriUM, a project through the University of Michigan’s Michigan Science Communicators. EquilibriUM is a printed magazine featuring content from across STEAMM, but we’ll have additional online content including contributor bios, updates, and more!
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Edition 5: On the Shoulders of Giants!
Portraits of Giants
Illustrated by: Charukesi Sivakumar Edited by: Naomi Raicu This piece is of a family at an art museum looking up at an exhibit titled “on the shoulders of giants” featuring portraits of influential people within the field of STEM.…
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Clearing the Optical Illusion: How a Muslim Polymath Redefined How We See
Written by: Hy Do Edited by: Lauren Heinzinger, Naomi Raicu Illustrated by: Naomi Raicu Five hundred years before the Renaissance, a Muslim polymath shattered the paradigm of optics while practicing elements of what we now call the scientific method.…
Keep readingWhat Does a Scientist Look Like?
Written by: Hira Mirza Photographed by: Anjesh Ghimire Edited by: Daniela Pereira, Rebecca Taubitz Hira is a neuroscience graduate student researching how memories get stabilized during sleep. She is passionate about communicating science to the broader public and making…
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Edition 4: Everyday Wonders!
The Marvelous Gastrointestinal Tract
Written and Illustrated by Jess LiEdited by Emily Januck and Dana Messinger Jess is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Though their research interests have evolved toward an environmental microbiology focus, they remain fascinated by…
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Fighting in the Fields: Plant Immunity, Crop Diseases and the Battle to Feed the World
Written by Colter GiemEdited by Amanda Bekkala and Paris RiggleIllustrated by Adriana Brown Let’s take a drive. We’ll start downtown. Somewhere in the Midwest – on the shady lawns and gridded streets of Indianapolis, or below the brick…
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It Gets Better: A Sensory Tale of Spice
Written by Kayla MoehnEdited by Deanna Canizzaro and Amanda BekkalaIllustrated by Danny Cruz Growing up, I loved visiting local restaurants with my family, and these shared meals were usually quite eventful. In New Mexico, the start of most meals…
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Edition 3: Connections
Lab Notebooks for Art: A Scientist Develops an Art Practice
Written and illustrated by Emma Thorton-KolbeEdited by Alex Ford, Paola Medina-Cabrera, and Sheila Peeples I am a neuroscience PhD student. I spend my days in the lab thinking about how the cells in the fruit fly brain connect to…
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Cracking the Neural Code: Monkey Mind Pong and the Future of Brain – Machine Interfaces
Written by Nick JänneEdited by Jeremy Chen and Claire ShuddeIllustrated by Jacquelyn Roberts Humans are mystified by the brain—the software-hardware package behind every book worth reading, every song worth listening to, the start of civilization, and perhaps one day…
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Night Shift/Day Shift
Photographed and written by Julianne ArmijoEdited by Naomi Raicu and Claire Shudde I worked many years as a night shift nurse. Insidiously, I began experiencing unusual elation, recklessness, and impulsiveness, often followed by depression. For years, this cycle continued,…
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Edition 2
Cytotropolis: Life at the Cellular Level
Cover Concept and Art: Zoe Yeoh and Jessica Li We believe that in the future, we will have an intimate understanding of what the inside of a cell looks like on a molecular – perhaps even atomic – level. This…
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Letter from the Editors
Written by Jennifer Baker and Christina Del Greco Hi there, Thanks for picking up a copy of EquilibriUM edition 2! We’re so excited to finally share what we’ve been working on. The brainchild of former editor-in-chief Sarah Kearns, EquilibriUM started as a…
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Protein Folding In The Hands Of AI
Written and illustrated by: Jacquelyn Roberts Edited by: Jennifer Baker and Christina Del Greco “Structure implies function” is a phrase often repeated by biochemists to describe how molecular machines work in the body. For a protein, structure is formed…
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Edition 1
Mocked
Written by Patricia Garay What separates a chortle from a snicker is your history. Your culture, your experiences, and your unique personality inform whether you interpret the little laugh as benign or mocking. Mocking, or ridicule, has always been…
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Building Proteins with Bacteria
Shero (Yongtong) Lao Bacterial transformation is the process of inserting a foreign plasmid (a small, circular DNA strand) into bacteria, such as bacterium Escherichia coli. Harmless E.Coli strains are commonly used in a scientific laboratory to store DNA sequences…
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Mentorship Benefit of At-Risk Youth
Written by Virginia JuIllustrated by Katherine Bonefas Poverty-based performance gaps take root during the earliest stages of children’s lives and fail to narrow in the following years. Students who start disadvantaged are less likely to equal their non-disadvantaged peers.…
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