The Research and Innovation Office is proud to announce the winners of the Research Technical Staff Award, which recognizes staff for their distinguished service to the University of Minnesota research community and celebrates exemplary leadership that positively impacted their colleagues and advanced the University's mission. Ten recipients, who represent more than 15 departments/units across seven colleges and two campuses, were awarded a personal honorarium of $2,000:
Jim Bjork
Melissa Blind
Juliet Burba
Michael Corey
Andrea Grant
Erin Lind
Todd Markowski
James Marti
Abbey Staugaitis
Victor Young
The awardees will be honored at a luncheon with Vice President for Research and Innovation Shashank Priya at the Laukka Room in McNamara Alumni Center on October 23.