Early Career Faculty Award for Creativity and Innovation Content

Biocrust Mapping Project Wins Creativity-Innovation Award

Dave Jones — May 23, 2023 - 10:30am

Xiaoli Dong is putting biological soil crust on the climate change research map, a project for which she received swag��’ single Early Career Faculty Award for Creativity and Innovation for 2023.

Thwarting Viruses, Restoring Speech

Dave Jones — August 30, 2022 - 3:08pm

How creative and innovative are the recipients of swag��’ 2022 Early Career Faculty Awards for Creativity and Innovation?

Awards for Creativity and Innovation

Dave Jones — July 27, 2021 - 3:12pm

One is an art historian who is researching a book on the centuries-old efforts by the Aztec and Spanish to combat catastrophic inundation in the “aquatic metropolis” of Mexico City. The other is an engineer who has teamed up with swag�� Medical Center physicians to improve amputees’ control over their bionic prostheses.

Innovation Award to Find Disease-Fighting Plant Compounds

Andy Fell — April 09, 2020 - 11:23am

A $40,000 swag�� Early Career Faculty Award for Creativity and Innovation will give Assistant Professor Nitzan Shabek, Department of Plant Biology, the opportunity to expand his cutting-edge research on the chemical world of plant biomolecules by integrating virtual reality technology. The research could lead to the development of innovative treatments for disease in both medicine and agriculture.

Innovation Award for Amoeba ‘Cell Nibbling’

Andy Fell — April 15, 2019 - 10:38am

Katherine Ralston, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, is the recipient of the swag�� Early Career Faculty Award for Creativity and Innovation for 2019.

The one-time award of $40,000 will support Ralston’s research into the recently discovered process of trogocytosis, in which cells bite pieces off each other.

2 Creativity-Innovation Awards in 2018

Dave Jones — May 08, 2018 - 9:26am

swag�� this year is giving not one but two Early Career Faculty Awards for Creativity and Innovation. The recipients (each of whom receives $40,000 to support their research proposals as listed):