Every year UTIG recognizes the work of our hard-working staff and students. These members of UTIG have gone above and beyond in their work, both in administration and research. We honor them at a recognition luncheon. Thank you to all of our staff and students for their continuous hard work every day.

These are the recipients of UTIG Staff and Students Awards beginning in 2011.

Year	Director’s Circle of Excellence	UTIG Research Excellence Award	Outstanding Young Researcher Award	Outstanding Support Staff Award	Eleanor Picard Excellence Award	Career Award	Outstanding Graduate Student	Outstanding PostDoc
2026	Harm Van Avendonk Thorsten Becker Sean Gulick Krista Soderlund Danielle Touma Duncan Young	Chris Lowery Yuko Okumura	Doug Hemingway	Phyllis Gesch Angie Marable	Dillon Buhl	n/a	Megan Kerr	Sara Santos
2025	Krista Soderlund Brian Horton Sean Gulick Cornelia Rasmussen Chris Lowery	Cyril Grima	Doug Hemingway	Phyllis Gesch JJ Dupont	Susanne Morrison	n/a	Sohini Dasgupta Kaitlin Schaible	Perianne Johnson
2024	Brian Horton Alejandro Cardona Cyril Grima Peter Flemings Ginny Catania	Krista Soderlund	Kehua You	Angela Reyes	Dan Duncan	n/a	Edward Clennett Carson Miller	Alice Turner
2023	Don Blankenship Ginny Catania Sean Gulick Yuko Okumura Krista Soderlund	Thorsten Becker Shuoshuo Han	Conny Rasmussen	Sara Sieberath	Carla Thomas	Ian Dalziel	Kristian Chan Ethan Conrad	Adam Woodhouse
2022	Thorsten Becker Peter Flemings Chris Lowery Sean Gulick Laura Wallace	Don Blankenship	Xiaohua ‘Eric’ Xu	Angela Reyes Jesse Houghton	Ben Hester	Mark Wiederspahn	Shuai Yan Simone Puel	n/a
2021	Don Blankenship Peter Flemings Cyril Grima Sean Gulick Laura Wallace	Chris Lowery	Cornelia Rasmussen	Carla Thomas Sara Sieberath	Marcy Davis	John Snedden	Andrew Gase Naoma McCall	n/a
2020	Gail Christeson Luc Lavier Chris Lowery Yuko Okumura Ian Dalziel	Ginny Catania	Shuoshuo Han	Ben Hester	Sheree Courney	Fred Taylor	Brandon Shuck Natalie Wolfenbarger	n/a
2019	John Snedden Yuko Okumara Adrien Arnulf John Goff Duncan Young	Brian Horton	Chris Lowery	Josh O’Connell	Rosalind Gamble	Nancy Hard	Gabriel Tagliaro Kelly Olsen	n/a
2018	Nathan Bangs Thorsten Becker Ginny Catania Pedro Di Nezio Brian Horton Luc Lavier Yuko Okumura John Snedden Harm van Avendonk	Harm van Avendonk	Cryil Grima	Rosalind Gamble Penelope Parr Steffen Saustrup	Judy Sansom	Patty Ganey-Curry Lisa Gahagan	Sophie Goliber Dominik Kardell Brandon Shuck	n/a
2017	Krista Soderlund Pedro DiNezio Ginny Catania Mrinal Sen Donald Blankenship Peter Flemings Sean Gulick Thorsten Becker	Mrinal Sen	Pedro DiNezio	Jessica Kolstad Kim Dan Duncan Jon Virdell	Sara Sieberath	n/a	James Biemiller Mason Fried Jennifer Harding	n/a
2016	Tim Bartholomaus Donald Blankenship Peter Flemings Sean Gulick Joseph Levy Mrinal Sen Krista Soderlund Laura Wallace	Joseph Levy	Tim Bartholomaus	Scott Kempf Gregory Ng Judy Sansom	Tessa Green	Cliff Frohlich	Enrica Quartini Xinyue (Dennis) Tong Chad Greene	n/a
2015	John Snedden Duncan Young Charles Jackson Mrinal Sen Peter Flemings Donald Blankenship Sean Gulick Krista Soderlund Ginny Catania	Peter Flemings	Yuko Okumura	Nancy Hard Anatoly Mrinov	Tom Richter	Larry Lawver	n/a	n/a
2014	Donald Blankenship Kirk McIntosh Peter Flemings Sean Gulick Joseph Levy Brian Horton Charles Jackson Luc Lavier John Snedden Harm van Avendonk Krista Soderlund Cliff Frohlich	Brian Horton	Joseph Levy Krista Soderlund	Sheree Courney Tom Richter	Mark Wiederspahn	James A. Austin, Jr.	n/a	n/a
2013	Donald Blankenship Ginny Catania Peter Flemings Sean Gulick John Holt Brian Horton Charles Jackson Luc Lavier John Snedden Harm van Avendonk Duncan Young	John Snedden	Britney Schmidt	Patricia Ganey-Curry	Lynda Miller	Ian Dalziel	n/a	n/a
2012	Mead A. Allison Donald D. Blankenship Ginny A. Catania Gail L. Christeson Peter B. Flemings John W. Holt Brian K. Horton Joseph A. MacGregor Kirk D. McIntosh Harm J. Van Avendonk Duncan A. Young	Donald D. Blankenship	Duncan A. Young	Eric Aiello Lynda Miller	Eleanor Picard	Paul L. Stoffa	n/a	n/a