The IIE survey ranked institutions that grant bachelor degrees. An accompanying article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the 89,242 U.S. students who studied abroad in 1995-96 represented a 5.7 percent increase over the previous year. The biology professor who spends much of her research observing and photographing activity at the cellular level, recently won accolades at the international level by taking grand prize in the 23rd Nikon International Small World Photography Competition, which recognizes excellence in the field of photomicrography. She was honored on Nov. 13 at an awards reception in New York City. Her colorful winning photograph shows mouse fibroblasts magnified 160 times.
Fibroblasts are cells that produce connective tissues in the body.
Danowski, who specializes in cell biology, uses immunofluorescence to highlight cell proteins. The resulting photographs are colorful and dramatic, showing the protein actin in green, actin stress points at the end of the fibers in orange and yellow, and the cell nucleus in red. All are dramatically set against a black background. The photos she takes are primarily for her research, not for their beauty, she says. They are an important part of my research.