Alert: The Plaza Building will remain closed through Jan. 20, 2025.
The Plaza Building will remain closed through Jan. 20, 2025. The Health Center is operating in a modified capacity. Call 303-615-9999 for appointment information during operating hours. Reminder, the Health Center is closed for the winter break Dec. 24 - Jan. 1.
Learn More
Office of Research Services (ORS)
Research Administration
Grand Challenges Team Awards
For Grand Challenges 2024, please see the CU Denver News Article (Sep. 17, 2024)
For Grand Challenges 2023, please see the CU Denver News Article (Jun. 26, 2023)
For Grand Challenges 2022, please see the CU Denver News Article (Oct. 18, 2022)
Type I Development Awards (2024)
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
Type II Planning Awards (2024)
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
Type I Development Awards (2023)
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
Type II Planning Awards (2023)
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
Type I Development Awards (2022)
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
Type II Planning Awards (2022)
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