Top 100 Most Hyped Video on YouTube
“I Turned the Entire HR Industry Against Me” was named a Top 100 Most Hyped Video on YouTube for September 2026.
$1M NSF Grant for BioTech Workforce Development
Alexander Troutner served as a Co-Collaborator on a $1M NSF Grant to provide more BioTech workforce development for early-career biological engineers in the Intermountain West region of the United States.
5o Influential Aggies
Alexander Troutner was named one of Utah State University’s 50 Influential Aggies for his work in expanding access to relevant internships and on-campus hiring events for student clubs.
National Career Innovation Award
Alexander Troutner’s team at the USU Career Design Center received the Career Innovation Award from the Career Leadership Collective for their development of “Career Tutorials for Students” - a series of online job market literacy modules.
James Hulse & Wilbur S. Shepperson Endowments in History
Alexander Troutner received these grants to attend the University of Nevada, Reno as an endowed research fellow to study the evolution of tech-sector job markets in North America and East Asia.