Two UC teams won the second and third place and cash awards of Viverse Spark Global University Challenge social experience category!
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Soical Expereince CategorAwards:
2nd Place, $2,500. – Restaurant world, University of Cincinnati. Camryn Lansdell, Liv Adkins, Bekah Selent, Morgan Pascarella.
3rd Place, $1,500 – OTR 12th and Vine, University of Cincinnati. Eian Bennett, David David, Corban McIntosh, Dharma Patel, Erik Mathys
I’m honored to share that I’ve received the 2025 Faculty Excellence Award as part of UC’s Research + Innovation Week, co-sponsored by the Office of Research and the Office of the Provost.
This recognition is truly meaningful to me, as it highlights the value of collaboration, mentorship, and innovation across our academic community. I’m deeply grateful to the colleagues and leadership who nominated me, and to all the students, collaborators, and partners who make this work possible.
Thank you for the continued support—it’s a privilege to be part of such a vibrant and inspiring research environment at UC.
photo source: UC Digital Futures. Ming Tang with Dr. Keisha Love, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Dr. Patrick Limbach. Vice President for Research.
2022 Outstanding AAA Partnership Award of the Year
On behalf of COA and Live Well, Ken Wilson (COA) and Ming Tang (UC) received the AAA Award at the o4a conference. 10.20.2022. It is my great honor to represent Live Well as the co-recipient with the Council on Aging to receive the 2022 Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging Annual Partnership Award. Thanks to Suzanne Burke, Ken Wilson, Jai’La Nored, Anna Goubeaux, and many others from COA. Thanks to the Live Well EVRTalk development team (Faculty: Ming Tang, Matt Anthony; advisor: Craig Vogel, Linda Dunseath; Students and Live Well fellows: Tosha Bapat, Karly Camerer, Jay Heyne, Harper Lamb, Jordan Owens, Ruby Qji, Alejandro Robledo, Matthew Spoleti, Lauren Southwood, Ryan Tinney, Keeton Yost, Dongrui Zhu.)
Link: LWC Twitter
Ming Tang, Yingdong Hu advised a group of BJTU students to participate in the “Xinzhaiping” Rural Design-Build Competition in China in 2021.
Project name: Titled Deck.
BJTU Students: Bingxu Gao, Zhu Chen, Xiangyu Zhou, Haolong Guo.
Advisors: Yingdong Hu (BJTU), Ming Tang (UC)
Location: Hunan Province, China.
More info on the competition “2021乡见新寨坪·乡村建造大赛”
The build project won second place in the Rural Design Build competition 2021.
The build project also won the excellent award of the 19th 2021 Asian Design Awad.
The Tiniest Cottage design-build project by the University of Cincinnati and Beijing Jiaotong University won second place in the “Ecological Healthy and Sustainable Design” section at the 2020 ASIAN DESIGN AWARD
2020 ADA Award Theme: Towards the social design
Social design is the design that is mindful of the designer’s role and responsibility in society, and of the use of the design process to bring about social change. Social design is also a critical discipline that challenges the pure market-orienteers of conventional design practice and attempts to see past this into a more inclusive conception of design, in which user groups who are marginalized are also given priority.
