Ten Recognized with 2025 UMN Research Technical Staff Awards

Research Technical Staff Award -- Research and Innovation Office.

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 10 departments/units across six colleges and three campuses, were awarded a personal honorarium of $2,000:

Jason Agnich  
Joe Dalluge  
Amy Gower 
Michael Leiseth  
Cori Mattke  
Tracy Otterson  
Anita Porath-Krause  
Kirsten Sharpe Moser  
Ki She  
Lori Strayer

The awardees will be honored at a luncheon with Vice President for Research and Innovation Shashank Priya on October 30.