Photo Essay

University rowers head out on their final practice the morning before the Head of the Charles — one of the world’s largest rowing events. The regatta attracts more than 11,000 athletes and hundreds of thousands of spectators who line the banks of the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts to cheer on their teams and athletes.

A day in the life with Ted Moss, an English professor who runs Meadow Farm at his home as a hobby outside of teaching. Moss has a fruit and vegetable orchard as well as many animals, including chickens, geese, and ducks.

Print actually 3 separate 11x14 prints that makes up the entry. Athletes from different sports have either the motion of their body, their racquet, club or ball tracked using electroluminacesent wire and long exposures mixed with studio strobes to freeze the action. All 13 sports were captured this way for promotional material this year.

Rheumatic Heart Disease is a major cause of death to the people of Samoa, yet it is very preventable. Students from BYU traveled to Samoa to screen the primary school children for Rheumatic Heart Disease so they can get proper treatment, educate them on prevention, and gathered DNA samples to take back for genetic testing.

The community of Navassa has been economically decimated, environmentally polluted and forgotten in the shadow of it's larger community across the Cape Fear River. Now it's citizens would like to tell the tale.

e-NABLE is a club of undergraduates in the College of Engineering who use 3-D printers to make prosthetic hands. A chance meeting connected them with Tori Anderson, a local girl born with symbrachydactyly, a limb anomaly that left her with only one digit on each hand. Though she has adapted to function normally she cannot grasp objects with one hand, making simple tasks like throwing a ball impossible. Traditional prosthetics were impractical because Tori would quickly grow out of them. The e-NABLE club was able to inexpensively design and fabricate a pair of hands for Tori.