URSA announces 2025 Innovative Technology and Education awardees

May 14, 2025

The UAF Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity recognizes the following individuals who received an URSA 2025 Innovative Technology and Education award. URSA's ITE awards fund up to $5,000 for technology-related equipment or software for student-based instruction and/or research.

The following are this year's recipients:

• Della Hall, UA Museum of the North: UA Museum Fine Arts Collection Management Technology
• Scott Hansen, Department of Music: Music 301 Projector
• Patrick Knavel, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Spectrophotometers for Microbial Studies
• Quetzel Larrick, Department of Electrical Engineering: Student-built spacecraft components with an advanced 3D printer
• Stuart Lutton, CEM Makerspace: Enhanced Learning through Advanced Manufacturing and Printing (ELAMP)
• Joseph Storm, Department of Physics: Physics Lab Computers
• Sandra Wildfeuer, Department of Developmental Education (CTC): Interactive Online Learning for Synchronous Students in Mathematics
• Diana Wolf, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Genetics lab kits for DNA sequencing from home
• UAF Elmer E. Rasmuson Library: Laptops for the Technology and Equipment Collection

For more information, see the ITE award page on the URSA website.

Contact the URSA office with questions: [email protected], 907-450-8772.