Office for Research Innovation Awards (ORIA) Nomination Form

Nominations are now being accepted for the OR Innovation Awards. The nomination period will close on May 1, 2025.

Nominations should include:

A clear description of the nominee's innovation and its significance.

The impact and benefits of the innovation.

How the innovation demonstrates excellence in one of the following categories:

Operations: Developed processes, tools or resources that substantially improved day-to-day operations, enhanced effectiveness and productivity, or resolved challenges.

Partnerships: Created opportunities to make meaningful contributions and navigate institutional challenges through effective partnership-building.

Community Building: Showed what can be achieved when we prioritize and promote our shared values.

Open: Developed an innovative idea, process, or solution that has significantly improved our collective work or community, in a manner not addressed by the previous three categories.

The nomination form includes the following questions to guide you in creating a strong submission:

Question 1 of 3: What is your nominee's innovation?

Please keep your response to one brief paragraph, focusing on what the innovation is. Questions 2 and 3 will cover its impact and alignment with unit and department values.

Question 2 of 3: Please describe how the innovative idea, project or accomplishment of the person you are nominating made a positive difference or had a significant effect.

Please keep your response to one brief paragraph. Think about these questions: Why is this innovation important? What tangible outcomes resulted from it? How do you know it had a significant and positive impact?

Question 3 of 3: How does your nominee's innovation support the goals and priorities of the unit and department?

Please keep your response to one brief paragraph. Think about these questions: How does the innovation align with unit and department goals? What evidence shows this alignment? How are the OR values reflected in the innovation?

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For additional details about the OR Innovation Awards, visit the ORIA webpage.

If you have any questions, please contact Darrick Northington, Manager of the Employment Lifecycle and Staff Recognition, at darrick@northwestern.edu.

Is your individual nominee, or any member of a team you are looking to nominate, in a director-level or higher role?*

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Individuals holding director-level positions or higher, whether nominated individually or as part of a team, are not eligible for the Innovation Award.*

If you'd like to recognize an OR employee who is ineligible for nomination, please provide a brief summary below explaining why they deserve recognition and for what innovation. Darrick Northington, Manager of Employment Lifecycle and Staff Recognition, will follow up with you.

Are you nominating an individual or a team?*

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Team Nominees*

Please provide the following details for each team member, one per line: Last name, First name, Job title, Unit, Northwestern email address. For example:

Wildcat, Rita, Senior Project Manager, IRB Office, wildcatr555@northwestern.edu

Wildcat, David, Accounts Specialist, Sponsored Research, dwild777@northwestern.edu

Nominee's Name: Last Name First, First Name Last*

Nominee's Title*

Nominee's Northwestern Email*

Nominator's Name: Last Name First, First Name Last*

Nominator's Title*

Nominator's Email*

Nominee's and Nominator's OR Units*

Please select your unit and your nominee’s unit from the dropdown list. If the desired units are not listed, choose "OR."

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Nominator's OR Unit*

Please select your unit from the dropdown list. If the desired units are not listed, choose "OR."

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Select the award category for your nominee(s).*

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Question 1 of 3: What is your nominee's innovation?*

Please keep your response to one brief paragraph, focusing on what the innovation is. Questions 2 and 3 will cover its impact and alignment with unit and department values.

Question 2 of 3: Please describe how the innovative idea, project or accomplishment of the person you are nominating made a positive difference or had a significant effect.*

Question 3 of 3: How does your nominee's innovation support the goals and priorities of the unit and department?*

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