WINNER: Dance Your Ph D Contest 2014

Meet the winner of this year s Dance Your competition When she isn t out in the forest gathering data for her in plant biology at the University of Georgia at Athens, Uma Nagendra spends a good deal of her time hanging upside down from a trapeze doing circus aerials. To combine the two halves of her life, she teamed up with her fellow aerialists to create the midair dance based on her scientific research and won this year s Dance Your competition