<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/women-of-innovation-awards.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>11/13/2025</pubDate><title>Innovators, Researchers and Community Engagers: Two University Professors and Student Named Finalists in Connecticut Technology Council’s Prestigious Women of Innovation Awards</title><description>Tagliatela College of Engineering Professors Kristine Horvat, Ph.D., and Nagasree Garapati, Ph.D., as well as Amna Al-Azdee ’28, ’29 M.S. were named Women of Innovation award finalists who were hailed as “trailblazers, leaders, role models, and change-makers,” in academia, industry and the community.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey</author><author-details>Contributing Writer</author-details><hide-author/><date>November 13, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2025/women-of-innovation-nominees.jpg" alt="Women of Innovation nominees"/></image><image-caption>Three Chargers were named finalists at the CT Technology Council's Women of Innovation awards.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag><tag>name-kristine-horvat</tag><tag>name-nagasree-garapati</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-ug-chemical-engineering</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>