Acircus extravaganza by plant biologist-cum-aerialist Uma Nagendra depicting
plant-soil interactions in the aftermath of a tornado is the overall winner of this
year’s “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest, co-sponsored by Science. Nagendra, a Ph.D.
student at the University of Georgia, Athens, demonstrates how tornadoes’
destruction can offer tree seedlings a respite from parasitic soil fungi. Nagendra,
also the biology category winner, will receive $1000 and a trip to Stanford University
in May 2015, where her video will be screened. The three other category winners, each
of whom will receive $500, include: Hans Rinderknecht of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge, who explained how he uses light to trigger nuclear fusion;
Saioa Alvarez of the University of the Basque Country in Leioa, Spain, for her dance
explaining the chemistry of emulsions like mayonnaise; and David Manzano Cosano
of the Complutense University of Madrid, who danced about the history of technology
and colonialism in the Pacific. http://scim.ag/DancePhD2014
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