Internal Funding / Seed Grant Awards
Seed Grant Awards
- Soumia Bardhan - CLAS - Communications & Joanne Addison - CLAS - English - Intelligence, Equity, and Students’ Experience of AI: A Humanistic Inquiry in Public Higher Education - Project Description
- Kari Campeau, Colleen Donnelly - CLAS - English, Lisa Keranen - CLAS - Communications, & Marjorie Levine-Clark - CLAS - History - Health Humanities Research Accelerator: Phase 2 Infrastructure & Capacity Building, Scoping Review and Positioning - Project Description
- Florence Young & Nathan Thompson - CAM - Film & Television - Project Description
- Felipe Blanco - SPA - Advancing Equity in Turbulent Times? The Case of the Denver Mayor’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation - Project Description
- Erica Holyoke - SEHD - Beyond Belonging: PreK-2 Teachers’ Civic Literacies Practices and Needs - Project Description
- Patrick Krueger & Jennifer Boylan - CLAS - The Health and Mortality Consequences of Psychological Well-Being (PWB) and Education across Midlife and Old Age - Project Description
- Woonghee Lee - CLAS - Chemistry - Structural Characterization of CHCHD10 and its Role in ALS-FTD Pathogenesis - Project Description
- Alejandro Parada-Mayorga - CEDC - Electrical - Optimal Sampling and Signal Reconstruction on Multigraphs - Project Description
- Marino Resendiz - CLAS - Chemistry - Formation of Unprecedented RNA-based Biomaterials to Capture Molecules of Interest - Project Description
- Joann Brennan - CAM - Visual Arts - Public Lands in America: Our National Treasure - Project Description
- Shirley Chen - CAP - Architecture & Planning - Home Elevation - Project Description
- Ann Komara - CAP - Landscape Architecture - Cultural Landscapes: Hot Springs in the American West - Project Description
- Stephanie Kornick - CAM - Film & Television - Pleasure Principle: A Dark Comedy Television Pilot- Project Description
- Deserai Anderson - SPA - Scaling Community Land Trusts: Balancing Affordability, Governance, and Community Dynamics - Project Description
- Hamilton Bean - CLAS - Communications - Database of Public Warning Failure - Project Description
- Priyanka deSouza - CAP - Urban & Regional Planning - Detecting Natural Gas Leaks: A Use Case of the Denver Mobile Monitoring Laboratory - Project Description
- Jacqueline Garrido - CEDC - Electrical - AI Approaches for Heavy-Duty Truck Operations in Colorado: Deep and Reinforcement Learning - Project Description
- Carlos Martinez Mori - CLAS - Mathematics - Learning Precedence Constraints for Last-Mile Delivery - Project Description
- Elizabeth Steed - SEHD - Early Childhood Teacher’s Use of Soft Exclusionary Discipline: A Mixed Methods Study - Project Description
- Xiaojian Wang - CEDC - Computer Science - Bridging Fragmentation in Space: Fostering a Collaborative, Efficient, and Secure Low Earth Orbit Satellite Ecosystem - Project Description
- Kai Yu - CEDC - Mechanical Engineering - Incremental Sheet Forming of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites - Project Description
- Darija Medic - CAM - Visual Arts - The Dark Pattern Almanac - Project Description
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Linyue Gao, CEDC – Mechanical Engineering – Data-driven Modelling and Experimental Study of Ice Accretion on Flow-induced Oscillating Cylinders – Project Description
- Mark Golkowski, CEDC – Electrical Engineering – Spatial and Temporal Forecasting of the Upper Atmosphere using Deep-Learning – Project Description
- Michael Moore, CLAS – Biology – Examining Mechanisms of Hypoxia Tolerance at High Elevations Under Present and Future Climates – Project Description
- Charles Musiba, CLAS – Anthropology – Renewed Paleoanthropological Research at Laetoli, northern Tanzania – Project Description
- Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, CLAS – Health & Behavioral Sciences – The Impact of Race on Maternal Health Experiences of AAPI Communities in the U.S. – Project Description
- Timberley Roane, CLAS – Biology – Elucidation of Bacterial Degradation of 1,4-Dioxane at the Lowry Superfund Site (Aurora, CO) – Project Description
- Marc Swackhamer , CAP – Architecture & Planning – BURRO (Biodegradable Upslope Retention and Remediation Object) – Project Description
- Haadi Jafarian, CEDC – Computer Science and Engineering – Defend The Drones: Protecting UAV Communications – Project Description
- Shuyang Peng, School of Public Affairs – Organizational Resilience: The Case of Nonprofits in the State of Colorado – Project Description
- 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
- Robin Brandehoff, SEHD - Hānai Pedagogy: How Educators of Color Haku Learning Through Cultural Identity, Language, and Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Traditions
in Hawai’i - Fred Chambers, CLAS - Geochronologic Assessment of Hazards Within Valle Soler, Northern Patagonia Icefield (NPI), Aysen, Chile
- Brian Page, CLAS - The Forgotten Temples of Lushan: Mapping a Historic Chinese Cultural Landscape Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques
- Christpoher J. Phiel, CLAS - A Single Gene That Makes Embryonic Stem Cells More Pluripotent
- Alan Vajda, CLAS
- Gabriel Zamosc, CLAS
- Troy Butler, CLAS
- Robert Metcalf, CLAS
- Jiayue Cecilia Wu, CAM
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2026)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2026)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Fall 2025)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Fall 2025)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2025)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2025)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Fall 2024)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Fall 2024)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2024)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2024)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Fall 2023)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Fall 2023)
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant (Spring 2023)
Open/All Discipline Seed Grant (Spring 2023)
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