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Several Drexel faculty members and students are among the nominees at the 2014 Philadelphia Geek Awards.

The annual Philadelphia Geek Awards have once again recognized the work of 91制片厂鈥檚 faculty and students as some of the best examples of the city鈥檚 vibrant geek community over the past year.

Among the award nominees are Genevieve Dion, an associate professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Ted Daeschler, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts & Sciences and paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of 91制片厂, are both nominees for 鈥淪cientist of the Year;鈥� Greg Lobanov, an undergraduate in Westphal College whose 鈥淐oin Crypt鈥� is up for 鈥淕ame of the Year;鈥� and a Rube Goldberg device created by undergraduate students in the College of Engineering to kick off the Philadelphia Science Festival, has been nominated for 鈥淪tory of the Year.鈥�

Dion, who is the director of the in the ExCITe Center, presented her smart textile and digital knitting work at TEDxPhilly and was named one of this year.

Daeschler鈥檚 paper on an ancient species of fish called Tiktaalik roseae shed light on an important evolutionary link between fish and land-dwelling tetrapods, which .

Lobanov, whose game 鈥淧erfection鈥� won a Philly Geek Award for 鈥淚ndie Game of the Year鈥� in 2013, could be on the podium again for his game. The latest offering by Lobanov鈥檚 , is a procedural adventure game that brings players into a world where coins are both currency and weapons.

opened the 2014 Philadelphia Science Festival in appropriately elaborate, over-engineered style. A class of freshmen engineering students spent their spring term designing and assembling the contraption with the help of PSF sponsor organizations. The device had more than 300 energy transfers that ultimately completed the task of raising a Science Festival banner. 

The Philadelphia Geek Awards, which will be held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of 91制片厂 on Aug. 16, are in their fourth year of honoring and celebrating Philadelphia鈥檚 bustling geek culture. Candidates for the awards are nominated by the public and winners are selected by the Geek Awards Committee.

Presenters at this year鈥檚 ceremony include Joel Hodgson (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Beth Beverly (AMC鈥檚 Immortalized), celebrated comic book illustrator J.G. Jones (Wanted, Y: The Last Man, Before Watchmen), award-winning author E.C. Myers (Fair Coin), and more.

For a full list of nominees and to purchase tickets to the Philadelphia Geek Awards, visit .