Finalists from CSU include: Ken Reardon, chemical engineering professor, in the Bio-Derived category; Bryan Willson, director of the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab, in the Clean Transportation category; Brian Dunbar, director of the Institute for the Built Environment, in the Efficiency in the Built Environment category; Amy Prieto, co-founder of Prieto Battery, in the Energy Storage category; Morgan Defoort, co-director of the Engines Lab, in the Smart Grid category; Chuck Henry, co-founder of Advanced Microlabs, in the Water category; W.S. Sampath, director of the Materials Engineering Lab, in the Solar category.

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