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Dec. 20, 2006

Insect Close-Ups

Psychology professor David Yager of the University of Maryland has focused his research on the evolution of hearing. In the course of this work, he has produced extraordinary, close-up portraits of a variety of insects. His image of a Cuban cockroach recently won second place for photography in the National Science Foundation's annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Go to: www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1351 and www.bsos.umd.edu/cebh/yagerlab

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