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Edition 5: On the Shoulders of Giants
The newest edition of EquilibriUM, est 2020
Welcome to the home page for the fifth edition of EquilibriUM, published in September 2025! Below, you’ll find digital versions of each piece, a downloadable pdf of the magazine, and a list of editorial team members, sponsors, and other community members who supported this edition.
We hope you have as much fun reading the magazine as we did making it!
Read the digital versions of all magazines pieces here…
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”…
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…
What 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…
Branching Through Time: The Art & Science of Microglia
Written by: Kate Giffin Edited by: Elise Tahti The first neuroscientists were artists. Using clever chemistry, they developed ways to stain brain tissue and then drew what they saw.…
On the Shoulders of Empire
Written by: Francisco Torres-Torres Edited by: Juan Mato, Deanna Cannizzaro Illustrated by: Rebecca Taubitz Dun-dun. Dun-dun. Dun-dun. Benches shook. Monitors clattered off uneven tables. Reagents jangled and tumbled, spilling…
Where Scientific Lineage Begins
Written by: Kenia Contreras Edited by: Kaitrin Freeland, Juan Mato Illustrated by: Adriana Brown Ancient hands pulled strings taut on bows beneath the young sun. Calloused hands spread tar…
Building the Periodic Table
Written by: Camila Gonzalez Curbelo Edited by: Emily Januck, Colter Giem Illustrated by: Colter Giem Memorizing the periodic table of elements is undeniably one of the (slightly dreadful) science…
Cosmic Reparations and the Legacy of Harriet Tubman
Written by: Kihana Wilson Edited by: Daniela Pereira, Kaitrin Freeland Illustrated by: Satabdi Mohanty The first question I ever thought to ask of the Universe was not how it…
Letter from the Editors
Written by: Alexander Ford, Jessica Li, and Julia Kravchenko To those outside of science – our progress appears in bursts. Nothing nothing nothing, and suddenly you can take penicillin…
… or download the full pdf.
Thank you to our editorial team…
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… and our sponsors!
- Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering
- Endowment for the Basic Sciences
- Neuroscience Graduate Program
- Cancer Biology Graduate Program
- Michigan Robotics
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program
- Dr. Beth Moore and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Special thanks to Mixam Inc. for printing this issue.
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