Winning Videos for the "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest

One way to get a free trip to the AAAS meeting in Chicago was to win the "Dance Your Ph.D." competition in which contestants pursuing a Ph.D. in a scientific discipline were asked to submit a YouTube video depicting their research. Sounds scary, doesn't it? Well, the winners of the contest have been announced so you can judge for yourself. Winners were selected from four categories: Graduate Student, Post-Doc, Professor, and Popular Choice. In addition to getting a trip to the AAAS meeting, winners are being paired with a professional choreographer who will collaborate with the researchers to develop an interpretive dance based on the science. These dances will be presented on February 13, 2009 at the conference.