Congratulations to this year’s in-person Research Open House award winners. We celebrate you, your accomplishments, and the future of your achievements.
People’s Choice Award – Post-Event Online Voting
- Awarded to: Start-Up Power Award Winners, Michael Ortiz Jiménez and Paula Stoddard Sotomayor, School of Architecture, for Rescuing Woven Tales: The Ever Growing Sponge
Sustainability Award – The research that best represents the importance, possibilities, or the future of sustainability.
- Awarded to: Helio Takai, Cindie Kehlet, Anna Collette, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Karol Murlak, School of Design, for Aqua-Steady
Innovation Award – The research that offers the most unique approach to the research/creative process or the most unique outcome.
- Awarded to: Moein Shashaei, School of Design, for the SCOBY Project
Impact Award – The research that shows the greatest impact in the local community, and/or national community, and/or in the scholarly community, and/or in business or government.
- Awarded to: Leanne Bowler, Irene Lopatovska, School of Information, and Mark Rosin, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Data Literacy with, for, and by Youth
Start-Up Power Award – The research that suggests the great possibility to become a for-profit start-up or a non-profit organization.
- Awarded to: Michael Ortiz Jiménez and Paula Stoddard Sotomayor, School of Architecture, for Rescuing Woven Tales: The Ever Growing Sponge
