The award winning paper "Transforming the Practices and Rationale for Educational Programs to Aid Academic Researchers in Translating Research into Innovations and Ventures" written by Judy Giordan, Joseph Steig and their colleagues from NCIIA. This paper was presented on June 28 at the 118th Annual ASEE (American Society of Engineering Educators) Conference. It was awarded "best paper" in the Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division of ASEE.