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Researcher Honorees

In coordination with the Office of the Vice President for Research and University of Utah College Deans, two researchers will be selected from each college to be honored at the CELEBRATE U event.

These two selected researchers are excellent representations of researchers in a College during the 2017 calendar year and are willing to be the face of the College in promotional materials throughout the coming year.

Wendy Chapman for Natural Language Processing to Make Sense of Doctors' Notes

Brian Codding for Human-Environment Dynamics across Western North America

Anne Cook for RI-Val Model of Reading Comprehension

Lisa Diamond for Sexual fluidity in women and men

Dr. Rena N. D'Souza for Novel Paradigms for the Treatment of the Cleft Palate

Xan S. Johnson for Theatre-based intervention seeking to increase social functioning in preschools with autism

Seth Keeton for SongHelix

Steven K Krueger for A fast-response wildland fire modeling framework for prediction and risk assessment

Harish Maringanti for Historical Newspapers in Hydra: Building a Platform to Restore Access to Cultural Treasures

Shelley Minteer for Next Generation Materials for Electrosynthesis

Brandon Patterson for Transforming Health Sciences Education with Virtual Reality

Bart Raeymaekers for Establishment of the $16M NIST-funded Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center

John Ruple for Western Public Lands Research

Michael Simpson for Nuclear Waste Reduction through Pyroprocessing 

William A. Smith for Racial Battle Fatigue

Jonathan Stone for Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of American Folksong in the 1930s

Scott Summers for Role of Ceramides in Diabetes and Metabolic Health

Wes Sundquist for Mechanisms of HIV Budding

Z. Valy Vardeny for Hybrid organic/inorganic-based Spintronics

Jessi Van Der Volgen for National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Jaehee Yi for Telehealth Photo Storytelling Intervention

Donna Harp Ziegenfuss for Opening up collaboration and partnership possibilities: Re-valuing library resources, skill sets, and expertise (recipient of a 2017 Emerald Publishing Awards for Excellence)

 

Selection Considerations may include:

  • Outstanding research during the calendar year 2017 in the form of expenditures on grants, successful grant applications (funding received), or unique research contributions in their disciplines
  • Ability to communicate easily and effectively in writing or verbally to the public about their research
  • Willingness to have their names, pictures, and research highlighted in publications, social media, UofU news websites and newsletters, etc.

Faculty Eligibility

  • Faculty member is a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator
  • Must have been employed full-time by the University of Utah in 2017
  • Must currently hold any tenure-line or career-line faculty rank or status
  • May currently work in any department or interdisciplinary academic program

Selections must be received by Monday, Feb 5, 2018.

If you have questions about your inclusion in the list of honorees, please send an email to Abbeylin Farnsworth.