Internal Funding / Seed Grant Awards

Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Fall 2024)

• Rachel Gross - CLAS - History, Cameron Blevins - CLAS - History, and Michelle Comstock - CLAS - English - Auraria as We Remember It - Project Description
• Mark Rabideau - CAM - Music & Entertainment Industry Studies, and Antwan Jefferson - SEHD - Portrait of an Unquiet Mind - Project Description

Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Fall 2024)

• Bing Han - CEDC - Civil Engineering - High-fidelity Earthquake Visualization in a Virtual Reality (VR) Environment - Project Description
• Peter Kaplan - CLAS - Psychology - Project Description
• Alex Yueyan Li - CAP- Architecture - Working Remnants: Material Reuse in North America - Project Description
• Julia Mahfouz - SEHD - Towards Prosociality: Building Leadership Capacity for School Flourishing - Project Description
• Aditi Misra - CEDC - Civil Engineering - Towards Safe Sustainable and Connected Future of Personal E-Mobility - Project Description
• Jennifer Reich - CLAS - Sociology - Between Hospital and Home: A Qualitative Examination of the Experiences and Impact of Caring for Extended Stay Pediatric Hospital Patients - Project Description
• José (Pepe) Sánchez - SPA - What Governs Homelessness? Analyzing Top-down Network Approaches and their Performance - Project Description
• Anna Warrener - CLAS - Anthropology - Effects of Forelimb Suspension on Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Anatomy in Humans - Project Description

Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2025)

• Darija Medic - CAM - Visual Arts - The Dark Pattern Almanac - Project Description

Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2025)

• Stephen Hartnett- CLAS - Communications - How is China Hacking Global Democracy? A Pilot Study of Computational and Communication-based Analyses of "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior" on Facebook and Instagram - Project Description
• Alejandra Medina- SPA - Exploring the Influence of Network Climate on Collaborative Success and Outcomes - Project Description
• Ivan Ramirez- CLAS - Health & Behavioral Sciences - Assessing Spatial Patterns of Social Vulnerability to Climate Impacts in Peru - Project Description
• Emily Speakman - CLAS - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Optimally Locating Ballot Drop Boxes to Increase Voter Accessibility - Project Description
• Bryan Wee - CLAS - Geography & Environmental Sciences - Place-making from Children's Perspectives: Developing an Assets-based Measure of Neighborhood Stability through Social Infrastructure - Project Description

Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2024)

• Melissa Furness - CAM - Visual Arts - Romantic Overgrowth and Historical Rubbish: Building an International Identity as an Artist – Project Description
• Jose Ibarra - CAP - Architecture - Table Manners – Project Description

Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2024)

• Nam Bui - CEDC - Electrical - Wearable BOLD-EEG Sensing Device to Explore Neural Correlations of Creative Thinking – Project Description
• Guoying Dong - CEDC - Mechanical - Hybrid 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites – Project Description
• Kathryn Hamilton - CLAS - Physics - Calculating Electron Collision Cross-sections of Neutral Lanthanum and Actinium – Project Description
• Morris Huang - CEDC - Bioengineering - Pilot Collection of Manual Wheelchair Mobility Data via Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) – Project Description
• Jefferson Knight - CLAS - Chemistry - Fundamental Mechanisms of Calcium Sensing for Insulin Secretion – Project Description
• Marty Otañez - CLAS - Anthropology - Economically Sustainable Alternatives for Tobacco Growing in Malawi, Africa – Project Description
• Ronica Rooks - CLAS - HBS - Exploring Mental Distress and Job Cessation among Older Workers with Mild Cognitive Impairment by Race and Ethnicity – Project Description
• Rachel Stein - SEHD - School Psychology - The Role and Wellbeing of Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants: A Mixed Methods Study – Project Description
• Anthony Villano - CLAS - Physics - A Novel High-Efficiency Neutron Detector Prototype – Project Description

Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Fall 2023)

• Emma Bunkley, CLAS – Health and Behavioral Sciences – Circulatory Health: A One Health Approach to Senegal-French Migration
• Maria Buszek, CAM – Visual Arts – Book Manuscript: Art of Noise: Feminist Art and Popular Music
• Steven Vose, CLAS – History – The Virtuous Vernacular: Jain Didactic Story Collections, Women’s Piety, and the Birth of Gujarati Literature
• Yang Wang, CAM – Visual Arts – Methods and Visuality of Cold War Artistic Exchange in Maoist China, 1949-1976

Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Fall 2023)

• Mazen Al Borno – CEDC – Computer Science – Vibrotactile Stimulation for Stroke Rehabilitation – Project Description
• Erica Holyoke – SEHD – E.A.R.T.H. Lit: A Collaborative Resource and Network of Educators Addressing Climate Justice through Literacy Education – Project Description
• Vivian Shyu – CLAS – Psychology Impacts of changes in psychedelic drug legislation on usage patterns and associated outcomes – Project Description
• Shengzhe Wang – CEDC – Civil Engineering – Nonlinear Numerical Investigation into the Structural and Hydrodynamics of Floating Wind Turbines subject to Breaking Waves – Project Description
• Renee Wilkins Clark – SEHD – The Racial and Ethnic Socialization Lab – Project Description

• Cynthia Cazanas Garin,  CAM - Theatre, Film, & Video Production – What’s a Cuban Doing in Colorado? – Project Description
• Edward Tyndall,  CAM – Theatre, Fillm & Video Production – Fierro = Steel: Club Q Documentary Film – Project Description
• Leyuan Li, CAP – Architecture & Planning – Chinatown Initiative  – Project Description
• Philip Joseph, CLAS – English – Rogues in Combat: Picaresque Narrative and the Genres of War, 1668-2020  – Project Description

Small Grants Awarded

• Hamilton Bean, CLAS - Waldo Drake and the Development of U.S. Navy Public Relations (book project)
• Linyue Gao, CEDC - AI-Powered Icing Risk Assessment Tool for Wind Farms in the United States

• Sarah Horton (CLAS-Anthropology) - Ensuring Undocumented Immigrants’ Access to Emergency Medicaid in Colorado
• James Walsh (CLAS-Political Science) - The Road to Leadville: Tracing 19th Century Irish Miner Migration Networks to the Rocky Mountains
• Gabriela DeRobles (CLAS-Mod Lang) - An In‐Group Perspective on Heritage Language Education: Exploring Heritage Speakersʹ Language Teaching Experiences through Participatory Action Research
• Jeremy Nemeth (CAP-Planning) - Diversity, social capital, & resilience: How can diverse communities resist gentrification?
• Eric Jewett (CAM-TF&V) - Queen’s Gambit III (or How to Film a Three-Character Scene)
• Rian Kerrane (CAM-Visual Arts) - Creative Research & Contemporary Cast Iron Art Exhibition, Germany
• Carrie Makarewicz (CAP-URP) - Co-creating Knowledge for Action: A Resident-driven Research Agenda for Climate Resilient Manufactured Housing Communities

• Benjamin Greenwood (CLAS-Psychology) - Identification of a neural signature of stress resilience created by rewarding exercise
• Meng Li (CLAS-HBS) - Improving Implicit Attitudes About Healthy Eating
• Marc Swackhamer (CAP) - Nurse Pods: Engaging Architecture in the Full Lifecycle of Construction Materials
• Jessica McGaugh (CAM) - Womanhood: The Series
• Serena Kim (SPA) - Community Microgrids for Energy Resilience and Emergency Planning
• Jung-Jae Lee (CLAS-Chemistry) - MMP-deactivating contact lens for chemical burns
• Michelle Carpenter (CAM) - Awadagin Pratt: Black in America (Documentary Film)
• Michael Bohdi Rogers (CLAS-Physics) - Visualizing 3D Laser Scanning Point Clouds
• Ronica Rooks (CLAS-HBS) - Older Adults, Gentrification, and Quality of Life in Colorado

• Ivan Ramirez (CLAS-HBS) - Understanding Climate Change, Syndemics, and Social Vulnerability in Coastal Peru
• Gabriela DeRobles (CLAS-Modern Languages) - Exploring Heritage Speakersʹ Language Teaching Experiences through Participatory Action Research: A Colloquium Experience

• Assia Crawford (CAP) & Sara Branco (CLAS-Biology) - Bio-remediator Myco-Fabrics for the Built Environment and Beyond

• Candice Shelby (CLAS-Philosophy)
• David Hildebrand (CLAS-Philosophy)
• Maria Buszek (CAM-Visual Arts)
• Gabriela DeRobles (CLAS-Modern Language)
• Candice Shelby (CLAS-Philosophy)
• Lonnie Schaible (SPA)
• Liliya Vugmeyster (CLAS-Philosophy)
• Joanna Luloff (CLAS-English)
• David Hildebrand (CLAS-Philosophy)
• Howard Cook (CAM-Visual Arts)
• Yang Wang (CAM)
• Elizabeth Steed (SEHD)

Publication Grants Awarded

• Anne Chin (CLAS-GES) - Publication charge for article accepted in River Research and Applications
• Annika Mosier (CLAS-Biology) - Publication fees for nitrogen cycling bacteria manuscript
• Jefferson Knight (CLAS-Chemistry) - Tracking Information Literacy in Science Students
• Heather Johnson (SEHD) - A New Angle: Open Access Publication Costs
• Sarah Fields (CLAS-Communications) & Priyanka Desouza (CAP-Planning) - Key Concerns and Drivers of Low-Cost Sensor Use
• Brian Buma (CLAS-Biology) - Short-interval fires increasing in the Alaskan boreal forest as fire self-regulation decays across forest types
• Jamie Hodgkins (CLAS-Anthropology) - Towards an Interpretive Framework for Heated Ostrich Eggshell: An Actualistic Study

• Melissa Furness (CAM-Visual Arts)
• Sam McGuire (CAM-MES)
• Karen Spencer (CLAS-HBS)
• Laura Argys (CLAS-Economics)
• Jason Watson (CLAS-Psychology)
• Alyssa Martoccio (CLAS-Modern Languages)
• Sarah Horton (CLAS-Anthropology)
• Liang He (CEDC-Computer Science)
• Julia Mahfouz (SEHD)
• Anthony Villano (CLAS-Physics)
  

• Doris Kimbrough (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Howard Movshovitz (CAM-TFV)
• William Swann (SPA)
• Sneha Thamotharan (CLAS-Psychology)
• John Tinnell (CLAS-English)
• Diana Tomback (CLAS-Biology), Matthew Cross (CLAS-GIS), Peter Anthamatten (CLAS-GIS)
• Brenden Beck (CLAS-Sociology)
• Sara Branco (CLAS-Biology)
• Brecca Gaffney (CEDC-Mechanical)
• Stephanie Santorico (CLAS-Mathematics)
• Soumia Bardhan (CLAS-Communication)
• Benjamin Crawford (CLAS-Mathematics)
  

• Mazen Al Borno (CEDC-Computer Science)
• Kari Campeau (CLAS-English)
• Rachel Gross (CLAS-History)
• Katharine Kelsey (CLAS-Geography)
• Carlos Infante (CLAS-Biology)

Publication Grants Awarded

• Christopher Beekman (CLAS-Anthropology)
• Marino Resendiz (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Gregory Ragland (CLAS-Biology)
• Alireza Vahid (CEDC-Electrical)
• Heather Johnson (SEHD)
• Marino Resendiz (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Jefferson Knight (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Stephen Hartnett (CLAS-Communication)
• Gary Olson (CLAS-Mathematics)
• Ron Tzur (SEHD)
• Amir Ameri (SEHD)
• Anna Warrener (CLAS-Anthropology)
• Cinthya Ippoliti (LIB)

COVID-19 Grants

• John (Nick) Fisk (CLAS-Chemistry)

• Frederick Chambers (CLAS-GES)
• Hani Mansour (CLAS-Economics)
• Sam McGuire (CAM-MEIS)
• Charles Musiba (CLAS-Anthropology)
• Andrew Rumbach (CAP-URP)
• Edward Tyndall (CAM-TFV)
• Elizabeth Steed (SEHD)
• Andrea Velasquez (CLAS - Economics)
• Liang He (CEDC-Computer Science)

• Chris Phiel (CLAS-Biology)
• Chris Miller (CLAS-Biology) and Alan Vajda (CLAS-Biology)
• Jean Scandlyn (CLAS-HBS) and Sara Yeatman (CLAS-HBS)
• David Liban (CAM-TFV)
• Eric Jewett (CAM-TFV)
• Keith Guzik (CLAS-Sociology)
• Katherine Kelsey & Benjamin Crawford (CLAS-GES)
• Scott Reed (CLAS-Chemistry)
  

• Cecilia Wu (CAM)
• Anthony Villano (CLAS-Physics)
• Erisin Dinceli (BUS)

• Amy Roberts (CLAS-Physics) & Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (CEDC-Computer Science)
• Edelina Burciaga (CLAS-Sociology) & Jeremy Nemeth (CAP-URP)
• Sneha Thamotharan (CLAS-Psychology) & Brooke Dorsey Holliman (SEHD)
• Keith Guzik (CLAS-Sociology)
• Ersin Dincelli (BUS)
• Haadi Jafarian (CEDC-Computer Science)
• Ashis Biswas (CEDC-Computer Science) & Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (CEDC-Computer Science)

• David Bondelevitch (CAM-MEIS)
• Stan Soocher (CAM-MEIS)
• Alireza Vahid (CEDC-Electrical)
• Howard Movshovitz (CAM-TFV)
• Yong Liu (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Cecilia Wu (CAM-MEIS)
• Brian DeLevie (CAM-Visual Arts)
• Jeungbo Shim (BUS)
• Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (CEDC-Computer Science)
• Brian Buma (CLAS-Biology)
• Leila Tolderlund (CAP-Landscape)
• Ajeyo Banerjee (BUS)
• Maria Buszek (CAM-Visual Arts)
• David Bondelevitch (CAM-MEIS)
• Karen Sobel (LIB)
• Sarah Tyson (CLAS-Philosophy)
• Rachel Gross (CLAS-History)
• Krista Ranby (CLAS-Psychology)
• Gregory Walker (CAM-MEIS)
• Storm Gloor (CAM-MEIS)
• David Liban (CAM-TFV)
• Scott Reed (CLAS-Chemistry)
• Howard Cook (CAM-Visual)
  

Publication Grants Awarded

• Liliya Vugmeyster (CLAS-Chemistry)
• William Swann (SPA)
• Cindy Munoz (CEDC-Mechanical)
• Annika Mosier (CLAS-Biology)
• Heather Johnson (SEHD)
• Patrick Dodge (CLAS-Communication)
• Katherine Goodman (Inworks)
• Stephen Hartnett (CLAS-Communication)
• Christine Sargent (CLAS-Anthropology)

COVID-19 Grants

• Marty Otanez (CLAS-Anthropology)
• Diana Schaack (SEHD)
• Jennifer Boylan (CLAS-HBS)
• Chris Weible (SPA)
• Courtney Donovan (SEHD) & Lisa Forbes (SEHD)
• Lucinda Soltero-Gonzalez (SEHD) & Cristina Gillanders (SEHD)
• Hani Mansour (CLAS-Economics) & Daniel Rees (CLAS-Economics)
• Hamilton Bean (CLAS-Communication)
• Meng Li (CLAS)
• Deserai Crow (SPA)
• Chloe East (CLAS)