Among the 20 winners of the 2025 global Digital Green Talent Award is Adesola Adegoke (pictured at right), a graduate research associate in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools. The award program is an annual initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to recognize outstanding young researchers whose work is applying innovations in digitalization to advance environmental sustainability. Adegoke is being recognized for his research on the use of fungi, specifically Mycelium, to enhance sustainable environmental efforts. He is focusing on ways to reduce the significant amount of harmful global carbon dioxide emissions produced by current construction industry practices.