Service Awards
On this page you can find all the Service Awards given by Rosetta Commons for contributing to the community.
2025
Nick Randolph, UNC, taught the 2024 ML Bootcamp, creating a lasting curriculum and video library. Also co-leads the How-To-Train-Your-Model Hackathon at RosettaCon. Went above and beyond in service to the community.
Caroline Davis, University of Colorado Boulder. Longtime Rosetta Commons contributor and Postbac mentor (2024–2025). Organized activities, sponsorships, and conferences, supporting the program far beyond expectations
2024
For a week-long remote protein design workshop at Makerere University, Uganda, first of its kind in the Global South. Developed the course from scratch and did all the teaching. Recruited a Nature editor for a guest lecture on her career.
Co-organized the European Rosettacon 2023, more or less single-handedly.
Years of service to Rosetta Commons, including establishing industry connections, sponsorships, and conference organization.
2023
For teaching the REU and Postbac bootcamps, working tirelessly on revamping the curriculum, and being incredibly committed to helping the next generation of Rosetta scholars.
For co-organizing European RosettaCon in May 2022, taking great care of every single participant, and helping organize the first in-person meeting after the COVID pandemic.
2022
For their invaluable, consistent support of the Rosetta framework and outreach
To the JEDI team
To the FoR Task Force, for their commitment to the community and their incredible amount of work put into envisioning the future of Rosetta
For her crucial help in reorganizing RosettaCon
2021
For promoting Foldit via a weekly newsletter, a Discord channel, and much much more. This increases visibility for Rosetta tremendously, especially during times of COVID.
For her leadership and support of the JEDI committee
For her tremendous help in organizing the REU and postbac programs.
For her excellent support in organizing RCON, RWC and much much more.
2020
For their Foldit video series. This award recognizes their efforts to generate regular excellent, engaging videos with FoldIt updates, in particular during the present corona virus pandemic. The video series increases visibility for Rosetta tremendously.
For their JEDI contributions. Morgan: Strengthen the conversation within the Rosetta developer community about respectful collaboration on a shared software project - inclusion of new developers, use of inclusive (coding) language. Una: Continued leadership and dedicated role in the JEDI committee (initiative and realization of for the Rosetta BLM statement & implementation of matching donation scheme, and much more). Joey: Coordination of the diversity conference contingencies for active increase of diversity in our community.
2019
For his significant contributions to the Rosetta code that benefit the whole Rosetta community, including many bug fixes in core layers, constant support of others on Slack, review of pull requests and much more.
For her outstanding efforts to making the Rosetta community more inclusive and accessible, by establishing and co-organizing a wide variety of different events with significant impact (career panels at RosettaCon 2018 & 2019, “Science at the market”, efforts to promote inclusion in STEM and many more).
Career panel organizers
2018
For taking on a wide variety of organizational responsibilities, including the organization of Winter RosettaCon, teaching at bootcamp, the organization of several rosetta papers that involve the whole community, pushing the implementation of proper scientific testing, and many more.
2017
Prototyped Git/GitHub, Frequent contributor on the Rosetta Forums, Added many documentation pages to the Wiki, Helped organize a documentation XRW, Created the code template framework within Rosetta
Created and maintains Rosetta testing servers, Created and maintains PyRosetta, Created and maintains the Rosie server.
A primary developer of Rosetta3, Regularly helps developers in the community with their projects, Created the beautifier, Implemented XML schema for Rosetta so that all Rosetta Script tags are documented, Teaches 2-3 Rosetta bootcamps a year to undergraduates, graduate students and PIs, Frequent organizer of Rosetta developer meetings, Has run and participated in several XRW, Developed the Residue Selector system in Rosetta Scripts
2016
Strengthening the community of women in the Rosetta Commons.
Constant efforts to improve Rosetta and willingness to help other developers and users
Leading the effort to help Rosetta recognize a greater repertoire of biological and bioengineered molecules.
2015
Fixing compiler warnings in Rosetta.
2013
The Git transition team
Rosetta Bootcamp Teaching Assistants
2012
PyRosetta documentation and tutorials
2011
Rosetta tutorials, classes and documentation
2010
User support, postings to the forum