Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
Recognizing scholars’ exemplary collaboration with the private sector
This award honors a faculty member whose scholarly contributions and associated outreach efforts have measurably and significantly improved lives through engagement with industry or other elements of the private sector.
2025 Awardee coming soon!

Previous recipients
2024 | Brandon Hopkins, Department of Entomology |
2023 | Danh Pham, Music |
2022 | Shulin Chen, Biological Systems Engineering |
2021 | Joseph Harding, Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience |
2020 | Kim Christen, Digital Technology and Culture |
2019 | Katrina L. Mealey, Veterinary Medicine |
2018 | Juming Tang, Biological Systems Engineering |