2024
The Nucleus Awards celebrate leaders fostering a more innovative, collaborative, and equitable future
The Nucleus Awards
An evening of celebration, connection, and collaboration. The Science Center’s annual Nucleus Awards honor the region’s leaders in innovation, spotlighting the visionaries who are commercializing promising technology, allocating capital, convening the community, and cultivating our STEM workforce.
Bringing together groundbreakers from across the region, the Nucleus Awards is an industry-recognized celebration of Philadelphia’s role as leader in equitable science and technology innovation and inclusive growth.
Join 250+ innovation leaders for a night of celebration that starts with a cocktail reception and a brief award ceremony featuring comments from the awardees, followed by food and networking.
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2024 Nucleus Awards honorees
Commercialization Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to the commercialization of
innovative science and technology. The awardee is a catalyst in the
acceleration of technology transfer. By identifying and developing new
and creative ways to transition discoveries to the marketplace, the
awardee has a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development,
or the welfare of society.
Capital Award
This award recognizes an individual or organization that has
intentionally sourced and invested in minority-owned startups or
founders with the purpose of mobilizing capital to unlock innovation.
The Capital awardee is investing in diverse minds to make transformative
change in the STEM ecosystem.
Cultivator Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions in creating a diverse and inclusive talent pipeline in the STEM sectors. The awardee has demonstrated leadership and commitment in building a sustainable workforce that represents the community at large.
Convener Award
Recognizes an individual or organization that has generated new ideas or solutions through collaboration, placemaking or unique introductions. The awardee has removed barriers to connect assets, resources and strengths of diverse people and organizations to advance civic interests and improve lives.
I leave the Nucleus Awards every year feeling better and more optimistic about the world, which is wonderful.
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Science Center President & CEO Tiffany Wilson -
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Dr. Bon Ku, Commercialization Award Honoree -
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Michael Burychka, Capital Award Honoree -
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Dan Rhoton, Cultivator Award Honoree -
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Danae Mobley, Convener Award Honoree -
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2024 Nucleus Awards Honorees -
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Questions?
Contact Mike Lyle at mlyle@sciencecenter.org
About the Science Center
We are a community of current and future innovators, makers and doers fueling billions into the economy, expanding the workforce, and solving problems to enable us to live longer and better. The University City Science Center is a registered 501(c)3 mission-driven nonprofit organization that relies on philanthropic support.
