2026 LaunchPad Award Recipients
Many congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 LaunchPad Awards! Award winners are presented below by research team and project.
| Research Team | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Emerging Media and Technology | Visualizing risk: AI-enhanced reflective assessment of problematic gaming and social isolation among first-year college students |
| Media and Journalism | |
| Computer Science |
| Research Team | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Business Analytics | Hospital efficiency, rural health disparities, and community spillover effects: A transdisciplinary pilot study |
| Public Health |
| Research Team | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Psychological Sciences | Characterizing parenting challenges in the context of depression using Ideal-Type Analyses |
| Public Health |
| Research Team | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Political Science | Political Malaise: Polarization and the Loneliness Epidemic |
| Political Science | |
| Emerging Media and Technology |
