Grand Challenges & Research Team Awards

Deserai Anderson
School of Public Affairs

Title: Local Responses to Mass Violence: A Comparative Study of Gun Violence Prevention Policies in Colorado

Members: Sheila Huss, Alejandra Medina

Benjamin Crawford
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences

Title: Resilient Cities at the Heat-Water-Carbon Nexus: A Foundation for the Urban CORE Collaborative

Members: Austin Troy, Kathy Kelsey

Benjamin Greenwood
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Psychology

Title: Does Psilocybin Enable Stress Resistance?

Members: Erik Oleson, Jim Grigsby

Hai Lin
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Chemistry

Title: Center for Advanced Computational Molecular Science

Members: Scott Reed, Emilie Guidez, Woonghee Lee, Kenneth Lipkowitz

Wes Marshall
College of Engineering, Design and Computing | Civil Engineering

Title: Human-Centered Transportation at CU Denver (HCT@CU)

Members: Aditi Misra, Manish Shirgaokar, and Kevin Rens

Christopher Phiel
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Integrative Biology

Title: Maternal Exercise Reprograms the Epigenome to Shape Offspring Brain Health

Members: Ben Greenwood, Greg Ragland

Elizabeth Steed
School of Education & Human Development

Title: Meeting the Moment: Evaluating the Potential of AI to Support Families with Children with Early Behavioral Concerns

Members: Rachel Stein, Nancy Leech, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

David Mays
College of Engineering, Design, and Computing | Department of Civil Engineering

Title: Meet Our Moment: Engineering Can Work for Everyone

Members: Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Kate Goodman, Heather Johnson, Julien Langou, Fernando Mancilla-David, Marino Resendiz, Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, and Christine Velez

Dana Carpenter
College of Engineering, Design, and Computing | Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Title: Get Outside! Convergence on Outdoor Recreation

Members: Guoying Dong, Brecca Gaffney, Linyue Gao, Kate Goodman, Benjamin Greenwood, Dan Griner, Rachel Gross, and Farhad Pourkamali Anaraki

Cathy Bodine
College of Engineering, Design, and Computing | Department of Bioengineering 

Title: Advancing Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (ARIAD)

Members: Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Ashis Biswas, Mazen Al Borno, Dana Carpenter, Caroline Clevenger, Theodore Edmonds, Gregory Forlenza, Brecca Gaffney, Dan Griner, Bing Han, Kendall Hunter, Daniel Kramer, Steven Lammers, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Zhengxiong Li, Julia Mahfouz, Daniel Matlock, Jae Do Park, Vikas Patel, Kent Seidel, Viral Shah, Laura L Summers, Patricia Valverde, Jodi Waterhouse

Xiaojun Ren
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Chemistry

Title: Center for Applied Genome and Epigenome Science (AGES)

Members: Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Benjamin Greenwood , Audrey E. Hendricks, Carlos R. Infante, Jefferson Knight, Christopher J. Phiel, Gregory Ragland, Scott Reed, Marino Resendiz, Amy Roberts, Alan Milan Vajda

Christopher Weible
School of Public Affairs | Center for Policy and Democracy 

Title: Building Democratic Communities (BDC) Collaborative 

Members: Chris Agee, Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Hamilton Bean , Jody Beck, Michael Berry, Priyanka deSouza, Amy Ferrell, Sarah Fields, Mia Fischer, Keith Guzik, Amy Hasinoff, Rodney Herring, David Hildebrand, Robert Hobbins, Carrie Makarewicz, Julie Oxenford-O’Brian, Mozhdeh Saffari, Kent Seidel, Esther Sullivan, Randall Tagg, Sarah Tyson, Patricia Valverde

Traci Sitzmann
Business School | Department of Management

Title: Equality as an Economic Performance Multiplie

Members: Beth Ahmad, Laura Argys, Cindy Baroway, Gisella Bassani, Ersin Dincelli, Shane Hoon, Kelly See

Marc Swackhamer
College of Architecture and Planning | Department of Architecture

Title: BLIP (Biodegradable Landscape Infrastructure Pods)

Members: Sara Branco, Brian Buma, Assia Crawford  

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
College of Engineering, Design, and Computing | Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Title: Infrastructure Informatics: Toward Establishing a Research Center for Preventative, Predictive, and Prescriptive Design, Maintenance and Management of Civil Infrastructures using AI/DATA Science

Members: Moatassem Abdallah, Tom Altman, Ashis Biswas, Troy Butler, Caroline Clevenger, Benjamin Crawford, Mark Golkowski, Allison Goodwell, Liang He, Lynne Kiesling, Jimmy Kim, Serena Kim, Zhengxiong Li, Fernando Mancilla-David, Wesley Marshall, Ilkyeun Ra, Kevin Rens, Ronald Rorrer, Kent Seidel, Manish Shirgaokar, Randall Tagg, John Tolva

Jeremy Nemeth 
College of Architecture and Planning | Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Title: Design & Implementation of a Community Collaboration and Research Center

Members: Peter Anthamatten, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Jody Beck, Ben Crawford, Rachel Gross, Lisa Kelley, Jefferson Knight, Carrie Makarewicz, Christopher Phiel, Jean Scandlyn, Manish Shirgaokar, Gregory Simon, Karen Sobel, Rick Sommerfeld, Esther Sullivan 

Cathy Bodine
College of Engineering, Design, and Computing | Department of Bioengineering 

Title: Technology Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (TRIAD)

Members: Cathy Bodine, Caroline Clevenger

Theo Edmonds
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Master of Humanities / Master of Social Science Program

Title: Imaginator Academy

Members: Theo Edmonds, Sarah Engel, Katherine Goodman, Traci Sitzmann

Jiban Khuntia
Business School, Health Administration Research Consortium

Title: Research and Insights into the Transformation of Health Systems

Member: Jiban Khuntia

Xiaojun Ren
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department of Chemistry

Title: Engineering Better Medicine by Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Revolution Pitch: A Collaborative Program for Epigenetics

Members: Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Audrey E. Hendricks, Carlos R. Infante, Jefferson Knight, Christopher J. Phiel, Gregory Ragland

Christopher Weible
School of Affairs | Center for Policy and Democracy 

Title: CU Denver’s Collaborative for Building Democratic Communities (BDC)

Members: Chris Agee, Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Soumia Bardhan, Hamilton Bean, Jody Beck, Harvey Bishop, Sasha Breger Bush, Troy Butler, Faye Caronan, Deserai Crow, Priyanka deSouza, Amy Ferrell, Mia Fischer, Allegra Fullerton, Amy Hasinoff, Tanya Heikkila, Rodney Herring, David Hildebrand, Kelly Hupfeld, Sheila Huss, Haadi Jafarian, Heather Johnson, Carrie Makarewicz, Annie Miller, Julie Oxenford-O’Brian, Nick Rockwell, Mozhdeh Saffari, Kent Seidel, Christoph Stefes, Esther Sullivan, Randall Tagg, Sarah Tyson, Patricia Valverde