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LUX: UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA’S COLLEGE AT WISE FALL 2018 | VOLUME I

2018 UVa-Wise www.uvawise.edu/lux

LUX:

UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA’S COLLEGE AT WISE

FALL 2018 | VOLUME I

Cover Art Contest Ommatida by Christian Bullion was chosen by the Editorial Board as the submission to the Lux Cover Design Contest which best represented the theme of "light" in this first issue.

We welcome printable depictions of art of any kind from student and alumni artists for our 2018-2019 Issue.

Please see www.uvawise.edu/lux for details and deadlines.

Cover Photo Ommatida, by Christian Bullion: Light sensitive proteins called opsins are involved in vision. Humans have three opsins, while dragonflies have up to 33 opsin genes1. This high variety of light-sensing proteins gives dragonflies vastly improved color vision compared to other animals. The compound eyes of dragonflies and damselflies (Order Odonata) consist of upwards of 20,000 individual lenses called ommatidia. The dragonfly pictured is the Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) and is one of 48 species of Odonata known from the UVa-Wise campus. This species was photographed by the Lake by the Lawn in July 2017.

Futahashi et al., 2015. PNAS 112 (11) E1247-E1256.

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