2024 Innovators Hall of Fame Inductees
Dr. Timothy Collett
Research Scientist for the
US Geological Survey
Christine Resler
President and CEO of ASRC
Energy Services (AES)
Billy Connor
Director of UAF Arctic
Infrastructure Development
Center
Three exceptional èƵns were the 2024 inductees in the èƵ Innovators Hall of
Fame. The
èƵ State Committee on Research honored Dr. Timothy Collett, Christine Resler and
Billy Connor
for their work in hydrocarbons, transportation infrastructure, and innovation itself.
The committee is an advisory board formed within the University of èƵ system to
promote
“research and development as an enterprise and as an engine for economic development
in
èƵ.” To further that goal, it established the èƵ Innovators Hall of Fame in
2014,
celebrating both individuals and inventions that “contribute to the state’s growing
culture of
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Over the past decade, other honorees have included inventors who used spent brewing
grains
to power a steam boiler, one who invented a self-recording snow-depth probe, a man
who
created an innovation competition, and more.
A decade after the first nominees were inducted, the committee announced the class
of 2024. Collett, Resler and Connor were formally inducted at the Innovation Summit
in Juneau
February 27-28, 2024.