The SOM Foundation has announced its 2024 Research Prize and European Research Prize winners as part of a competition that yearly honors the most groundbreaking initiatives on the built environment from both the United States and Europe.Two teams from Auburn University and the University of Minnesota, respectively, were awarded the $30,000 Research Prize. The firstled by Aurlie Frolet, Emily McGlohn, and Jillian Maxcy-Brownexpands on past work through the universitys influential Rural Studio to deliver better wastewater infrastructure resources to communities in the Black Belt of Alabama that had previously been forced to adapt substandard treatment options which, in turn, induced major health and environmental crises.