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Encouraging young girls to pursue careers in STEM fields March is Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month, started by the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Network, founded in 1974 in USA. The initiative is all about helping young girls develop more interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) throughout their educational careers. The […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although […]
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Cooking on an outdoor grill, barbecue or smoker is a summertime tradition that supplements the laid-back feel of summer and gets us all outside to enjoy not only the warm weather, but delicious food too. Grilled food not only tastes better but also provides many health advantages. Outdoor grilling and barbecuing have evolved from what might […]
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Each year the last week of April is reserved for recognizing the importance of immunizations and their lifesaving and life-prolonging benefits. World Immunization Week aims to remind us all that vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements and that “Immunization for All is Humanly Possible”. Since Edward Jenner developed the first-ever vaccine in 1796 for smallpox, […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) was born in 1445 and this March will mark his 580thbirthday. Botticelli’s works are known throughout the world and make Florence a temple of his greatness. Sandro Botticelli was one of the most esteemed painters and designers among the artists of the Renaissance. Under the […]
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Over the course of a year we receive, select and process many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshows below of just some of the interesting, striking and topical images, that we received in […]
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Universal Images Group, founded by George Sinclair in 2008, aggregates and distributes content to the global licensing and merchandising markets. UIG has grown to represent content collections from more than 120 agency suppliers and nearly 175 photographers. UIG’s subject specialties include World History, Fine Art, Science & Medicine, Environmental Science, Developing World, World Religions and Cultures, Archaeology, […]
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Marli Miller has been fascinated by geology since being an undergraduate at Colorado College in the early 1980’s – and has loved photography since high school. Marli maintained a love for photography all through grad school – and confesses she probably took much too long to complete her PhD (University of Washington, 1992) because of […]
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August 2nd 1939, a letter is drafted by Albert Einstein and fellow Physicist Leo Szilard to be sent to the President, Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR). Preceding this letter a group of leading physicists, including several who had fled Hitler’s Germany, met to discuss their fears of Germany developing a uranium-based weapon. The physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein […]
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UIG contributing partner BSIP Agency has long been known for their comprehensive collection of medical, wellness and scientific subjects. BSIP’s main area of specialization is medical science, and the collection offers a complete study of human anatomy and physiology. BSIP’s photo-micrographical collection includes colorized micrographs of an extensive variety of diseases. The Agency’s offering includes coverage of medical […]
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