College of Engineering News

Butterfly wings, toy cars, and pieces of yarn are all ready for their close-up thanks to the Rozsa Art Galleries' latest exhibit, "Nanowonder: Images from the Microscopic World," featuring photographs taken by the Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope in a collaborative showcase of science and art. Under glass displays and in small jars in the Rozsa Art Galleries, located in Michigan Technological University's Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, sits an array of tiny objects: threads of string, a strip of elastic, a dead spider. In the palm of a hand, they may not look like much — but under the lens of a Hitachi TM4000 Plus tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM), these minuscule objects are the gateway to unseen worlds.