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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Sangwoon Yoo</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> for his paper, "</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Technological
Origins of the Korean Semiconductor Industry”, published in </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>The Korean Journal for the History of Science</i></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> 47:2
(2025), 201-233. Congratulations! (<a href="https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART003239569" data-outlook-id="96b0248a-fd1c-4470-ac4a-2bb0acc90a39">Access the paper here</a> by clicking on the “PDF” button.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The INES Award Committee unanimously selected Prof. Yoo's paper as the winner. Here are their comments: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Sangwoon Yoo has written a fascinating account showing how Korea’s semiconductor industry rose to a dominating position over many decades. He has written about a combination
of ingenuity fostered by extreme hardship during the Korean war in the early 1950s, temporary exodus from consequent devastation seeking education and employment opportunities, and purposeful investments and alliances that enabled huge companies like Samsung
to grow and flourish. The committee was particularly impressed by his meticulous research from original and archival sources. His argument is particularly pertinent for contemporary policymakers: the free movement of people and ideas fosters the evolution
of new technologies to address challenges we all face today.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Giulia De Togni</b> for “Staging the Robot: Performing Techno-Politics of Innovation for Care Robotics in Japan,”
<i>East Asian Science, Technology and Society </i>18(2): 196-213. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2023.2295144" data-outlook-id="dc8f6aa5-1a4c-4c6f-a745-b5b54e5ebe0d" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2023.2295144</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">The award committee found Gi</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">u</span><span style="color: black;">lia De Togni’s first person account of her interactions with researchers developing socially assistive robots (SARs) both
refreshing and challenging. SAR technology aims to improve the care of elderly and disabled people. She has portrayed researchers who were trying to persuade their communities that SARs will be safe, reliable and will improve productivity in the care sectors
of the economy of Japan and Britain. Yet, these same researchers were nervous when they allowed her to take control of their robots lest she accidentally damage their precious creations or expensive lab equipment. Their robots were neither reliable nor safe.
She challenges the techno-scientific imaginaries that researchers promote to gain funding, and governments promote to persuade communities to accept both greater risks and problematic consequences in the name of national development.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Corinne B. Shaw & Bruce Kloot</b> for "Engineering under oppressive regimes: exploring the role of engineers during apartheid South Africa,"
<i>European Journal of Engineering Education</i>, 50:3, 493-511, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03043797.2024.2419399?af=R" data-outlook-id="1d5d5d78-4ac2-4323-a1b4-90d675e55121">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03043797.2024.2419399?af=R</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Corinne Shaw and Bruce Kloot impressed the
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">award committee</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> with a fascinating study of apartheid-era engineers and how they navigated the
social tensions in South Africa at the time. Political isolation necessitated government investments in technologies to circumvent international sanctions, providing talented engineers with opportunities to develop “cutting edge” technologies. Some engineers
just “sat through the middle of it”. Others found they could push the boundaries, bit by bit, and at least prepare for the more liberated society that emerged in 1994. This research challenges the political neutrality of engineering that necessarily serves
powerful society interests providing necessary resources and finance.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">an online INES event this winter (date and details forthcoming).</span></div>
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The panel would like to congratulate all the authors whose articles were nominated. The standard of entries was very high and reading their work was interesting, informative and inspiring.
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Many thanks to all the authors for their important work, to everyone who nominated papers, and to our Award Committee members for their thoughtful work! </span></div>
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All the best,</div>
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Caitlin (INES chair) and the INES Award Committee: </div>
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James Trevelyan (chair)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Annie Patrick</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Karin Wolff</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Denver Tang</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">______________________</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Caitlin D. Wylie, Ph.D. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Associate Professor</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">University of Virginia</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">she, her, hers</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/caitlin-donahue-wylie" data-outlook-id="7fb7f209-cb4a-4108-ba18-59d125f33186" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/caitlin-donahue-wylie</a></u></span> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">To learn how technicians and volunteers contribute creativity and problem-solving to scientific research, please read
<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><i><u><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/preparing-dinosaurs" title="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/preparing-dinosaurs" data-outlook-id="8fb5f4c3-64b3-40b2-b165-9c9ff4f2adfa" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Preparing
Dinosaurs: the Work behind the Scenes</a></u></i></span>, available open-access from the MIT Press.</p>
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