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.
Keith Bartholomew for Metropolitan Transportation Planning
Erin Carraher for Leading Collaborative Architectural Practice
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
Mollie Cummins for Developing systems and tools that enable health information exchange participation by poison control centers
Lisa Diamond for Sexual Fluidity in Women and Men
Micah Drummond for Novel Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance in Physically Inactive Older Adults
Dr. Rena N. D'Souza for Novel Paradigms for the Treatment of Cleft Palate
Glen Hanson for Assessment of social and health outcomes in substance use disorder patients receiving comprehensive oral care
Marouf A. Hasian Jr. for A Kafkaesque Reading of the Blackwater Trials
Charles Hoy-Ellis for Depression Among Transgender Older Adults: General and Minority Stress
Xan S. Johnson for Theatre-based intervention seeking to increase social functioning in preschoolers with autism
Seth Keeton for SongHelix
Terry Kogan for Published articles in two fields: Copyright Law & Photography; Gender, Sexuality & the Law
Kim Korinek for The Vietnam Health and Aging Project
Steven K Krueger for A fast-response wildland fire modeling framework for prediction and risk assessment
Karl Lins for Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis
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
Marc Porter for Development of a wide range of diagnostics for human health and security. Recent examples include: "Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy immunoassay for detection of Category A pathogens"; and "Field-deployable platform for prognostic hepatic cancer screening in low-resource settings"
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
Todd Zenger for Corporate Strategy, Strategic Leadership, and Organization Design
Donna Ziegenfuss for Emerald Publishing Awards for Excellence (2017) for article Opening up collaboration and partnership
possibilities: Re-valuing library resources, skill sets, and expertise.