2007 Advanced Technology Summit Award Winners

Leadership

• Ohio University Assistant Professor Chang Liu received an AT Summit award for leadership for development of the Science and Technology Enrichment for Appalachian Middle-schoolers (STEAM) project, which teams graduate teaching fellows with Appalachian-Ohio school teachers to create and deliver engaging digital curricular content for grades six through eight.
  - Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).

Collaborations (National)

• Platform Lab Director Steve Gruetter received an AT Summit award for collaborations (national).
  - Platform Lab (Columbus, Ohio).

Collaborations (State)

• Ohio State University Senior Director for Information Technology John Ellinger received an AT Summit award for collaborations (statewide) for the Shared Services for Disaster Preparedness project, which provides groundbreaking methods for providing effective and low-cost backup computing system support over OSCnet. The project now involves seven Ohio public universities, in addition to the two original members.
  - The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Collaborations (Community)

• Owens Community College President Christa Adams and Executive Vice President and Provost Paul Unger received an AT Summit award for collaborations (community) for a project providing educational training to first responders, using OSCnet to provide terrorist, hazard and disaster response exercises via distance learning and for collaborating over OSCnet with Ohio University’s Game Research and Immersive Design lab on a simulation game to train first responders in various fire scenarios.
  - Center for Emergency Preparedness at Owens Community College (Perrysburg, Ohio).

Experimental and Applications Research (Modeling Simulation and Visualization)

• University of Cincinnati Associate Professor Jarek Meller received an AT Summit award for experimental and applications research (modeling simulation and visualization) for the development of the SABLE project and related initiatives, through which learning-based methods for genome annotation, analysis and prediction have been devised and made available through OSCnet to researchers from around the world.
  - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Research Foundation (both Cincinnati, Ohio).

Experimental and Applications Research (Measurements and Instrumentation)

• Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar and Ohio State University Professor Hamish Fraser received an AT Summit award for experimental and applications research (measurements and instrumentation) for developing hardware, software and techniques for sharing sophisticated laboratory instruments and facilities around the state with other researchers in academia, industry or national laboratories.
  - The Center for Advanced Maturation of Materials at The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)