CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
2022 FACULTY | STAFF INNOVATION COMPETITION WINNERS
Alabama Power Foundation – Innovative Technology Prize
$15,000 GRAND PRIZE AWARD
Carbon Admixture - Jialai Wang
Culverhouse College of Business – Entrepreneurial Growth Business Award
$10,000 Award
Office for Research and Economic Development Awards
$5,000 - First Prize
Rapid and Layer-Specific Annealing for Manufacturing of Perovskite Solar Modules - Dawen Li
$3,000 - Second Prize
Miniaturized Reflector Antenna - Nathan Jeong
$2,000 - Third Prize
Dental Appliance Treatment Assessment - James Geyer
Division of Finance and Operations: Staff Innovation Pitch Awards
$5,000 - First Prize
e-Flood IIoT Interoperable Intelligent Systems - Silvana Croope
$3,000 - Second Prize
College Not Chaos
$2,000 - Third Prize
Delighted Digital LLC, DBA Fast Fruit - Andrea Foster
Thank You to The Competitors, Judges, Facilitators, & Support Team
Facilitator
Ying Qin: Manager, EDGE Labs – The University of Alabama
Judges
Nghia Chiem: Director, Office for Innovation & Commercialization – The University of Alabama
James Cochran: Associate Dean for Research – The Univeristy of Alabama
Danielle Kimbrough: Community Relations Manager – Alabama Power
Rob Morgan: Executive Director, STEM Path to the MBA – The University of Alabama
Katherine Zobre: Director of Training, Innovation Depot
Support Team
Dan Blakley: Associate Vice President for Economic & Business Engagement – The University of Alabama
Dr. Theresa Welbourne: Executive Director, Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute & Will and Maggie Brooke Professor in Entrepreneurship – The University of Alabama
All Competitors
Armen Amirkhanian: Assistant Professor – College of Engineering
Janet Brown – Assistant Professor, Capstone College of Nursing
Peter Brummund – Associate Professor, Culverhouse College of Business
Chandra Clark – Instructor, College of Communication & Information Sciences
Silvana Croope- Associate Research Personnel, Transportation Policy Research Center
Andrea Foster – Receptionist, Capstone College of Nursing
Jared George – Lecturer/Director of Creative Services, Advertising and Public Relations
James Geyer – Medical Director, College of Community Health Sciences
James Harris – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
Nathan Jeong – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
Genna Jones – Tartan Brand Manager/ Events Coordinator, Dean’s Office, College of Human Environmental Sciences
Lingyan Kong – Assistant Professor, College of Human Environmental Sciences
Dawen Li – Associate Professor, College of Engineering
Robin McWilliam – Professor, Director, Executive Director, College of Education
Jialai Wang – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering