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Lab Safety Culture Award Winners

In order to promote positive change to safety culture in UT labs, the Lab Safety Committee is continuing the Lab Safety Culture Awards Subcommittee this year. The theme for the first category of awards of 2025 was to create an advertisement highlighting the safety culture of your lab.

1st place: Allison Jones – Graduate Student in MABE

Congratulations!

New lab safety culture award categories will be announced quarterly. Submissions are open to everyone involved in research or working in a lab, shop, or maker space at UT. Announcements of new awards are sent through the Lab Safety ListServ, found on flyers around campus, and communicated during events. Please email ehs_labsafety@utk.edu to request to be added to the Lab Safety ListServ if you are not already enrolled.

Congratulations, 2025 Lab Safety Culture Award Nominees

The Lab Safety Culture Awards Subcommittee recognizes the following nominees for demonstrating positive safety culture!

Sarina Mitchell – nominated by Tatiana Vishnivetskaya

Michael Rivera Orsini – nominated by Madhu Dhar

Kyle Schulmeister – nominated by Shawn Drake

Haley Dylewski – nominated by Heidi Goodrich-Blair

Jaana Mannik – nominated by Chathuddasie Amarasinghe

Kate Haugh – nominated by Alexis Sanwick

Soheil Almasi – nominated by Mahshid Mokhtarnejad

Michael Mahero – nominated by Alicia Robino

Dominique Joyner – nominated by Katie Walker

Nolan Lees – nominated by Gerald Egeland

Mackenzie Hooker – nominated by Abby Turner

Justyn Koenig – nominated by Faith Kestner

Luke Harrill – nominated by Ashly Pearson and Bill Dunne

Visit this webpage to learn more about nominations or to submit your own!

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