OIPC Announces 2024 IDEA Award winners!
Great research innovations should be recognized and that鈥檚 what the IDEA Awards are all about!
The Innovative Disclosures and Entrepreneurial Activities (IDEA) Awards celebrates 麻豆原创F鈥檚 and 麻豆原创S鈥檚 best innovations, and it rewards their faculty, student, and staff inventors. The competition started in 2015, hosted by the University鈥檚 Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC).
The 2024 winners of the IDEA Awards disclosed innovative approaches to research, teaching and service and highlighted the diversity of innovations during the past fiscal year, 2023-2024.
This year始s winners are:
- Commercialization Award (best overall innovation): Dr. Doug Goering with 鈥淪tructured Insulation for Abating Permafrost Thaw鈥
- Inspiration Award (best faculty innovation): Dr. Nima Farzadnia with 鈥淭hermochemically Activated Lunar Concrete鈥
- Creative Award (best consumer product): Tav Ammu with 鈥淕illnet Web Gauge鈥
- Alaska Impact Award (social impact): Dr. Michael Stekoll with 鈥淔loating and Hanging Kelp for Enhanced Yield in Kelp Mariculture鈥
- Tomorrow's Innovator Award (best graduate/postdoc innovation): Danielle Wrenn and Dr. Devin Drown with 鈥淒etection of Antimicrobial Resistance Toolkit for Remote Communities鈥
- Young Innovator Award (best undergraduate innovation): Sheridan Blasey, Lisa Jacklin, Daniel Kling, and Elizabeth Lee with 鈥淢usculoskeletal Assessment Device and System鈥
Next year始s competition is already underway, so enter here.
An in-person event to award certificates and highlight the achievements of this year's awardees will be held during EPSCoR鈥檚 IGNITE Workshop on Jan 8, 2025 in the Wood Center Ballroom. OIPC Interim Director, David Park, will be giving an overview of intellectual property protection and resources available to 麻豆原创F innovators and industry professionals looking to work with them. The IDEA Award winners will speak about their innovations and be available for questions. Register for the event on the EPSCoR.