2023 - 2024
Veronica House | University Writing Program
Project Title: Writing Foodways: Linking Food Sovereignty & Stories for Deeper Health & Wellness
Eric Chess | Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging
Project Title: A Community Landscape Approach to Address the Needs of Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Denver
Nicole Herzog | Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Surprise Valley Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Field Days
Pilyoung Kim & Jennifer Greenfield | Department of Psychology & Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Exploring the Effects of Paid Leave for Parents and Newborns in Colorado
Sarah Hart Micke, Catherine Marotta, & Angela Sowa | University Writing Program
Project Title: High School to College Writing Bridges: A Partnership between Lincoln High School and University of Denver Writing Programs Aligning High School and College Writing for Equitable Student Transitions
2022 - 2023
Ramona Beltrán & Kelly Fayard | Graduate School of Social Work, Anthropology
Project Title: Orange Shirt Day Denver Project – A Needs-Assessment for Denver Urban American Indian Survivors & Descendants of Indian Boarding Schools
Reginald Byron | Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Project Title: Broadening the Impact of the Philadelphia Obituary Project
David Coppini & Kareem El Damanhoury | Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
Project Title: Digital Media Literacy for High Schoolers: Designing and Evaluating a Week-long Intervention
Roger Holland | Lamont School of Music
Project Title: Black Catholic Liturgical Renewal
Kamilah Legette | Psychology
Project Title: Promoting Positive Schooling Experiences in Denver Public Schools
2021-2022
Angela Narayan | Psychology
Project Title: A Child-Focused Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) Scale for Community Providers who work with Families
Rebecca Galemba | Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Project Title: Due Process and the Dedicated Docket
Linda Mendez Barrientos | Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Project Title: Science to Empower: Leveraging groundwater-level modeling for domestic water security in California
Alejandro Ceron | Anthropology
Project Title: "Esencial: An online community archive to disseminate the stories of Colorado agricultural workers"
Sarah Bexell | Graduate School of Social Work. Institute for Human Animal Connection
Project Title: "Co-Creating K-12 Humane and Ecologically Minded Professional Development Programming
2020-2021
Kimberly Bender | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Deepening understanding of young peoples’ sense of community and security in permanent supportive housing
Ashley Hamilton | College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, DU Prison Arts Initiative
Project Title: If Light Closed Its Eyes Documentary
Carol Helstosky & Elizabeth Escobedo | College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, History
Project Title: Veterans Legacy Program Continuation
2019-2020
Marquisha Scott & Dr. Aleysia Whitmore | Lamont School of Music, Ethnomusicology/Musicology
Project Title: Sacred Sounds and Social Justice
Matthew Taylor, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Geography
Project Title: Assessing Water (In)Security at the Household Level During Times of Economic and Political Crisis in Nicaragua: Data for Action
Mike Nguyen, Morgridge College of Education | Higher Education
Project Title: Understanding the Educational Experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Andrea Stanton, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences | Religious Studies
Project Title: Post-Conversion Experiences of Denver-based Converts to Islam
2018-2019
Jing Li, Paul Sutton, & Guiming Zhang | College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Geography & the Environment
Project Title: Sacred Sounds and Social Justice
Elizabeth Campbell | College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Center for Art Collection Ethics (ACE), History
Project Title: Ethical Stewardship of Native American Heritage
Yolanda Anyon, Kathryn Wiley, & Cassandra Johnson | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Sankofic Journey to Inclusive and Affirming Early Care & Learning Environments for Black Children
Julia Roncoroni | Morgridge College of Education, Counseling Psychology
Project Title: Cook Eat Share: Community-Participatory Cookbook Project
Breigh Roszelle | Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Project Title: Development of Middle School STEM Workshops for Underrepresented Students
Shannon Allen | Morgridge College of Education, Center for Rural School Health & Education
Project Title: South Conejos Substance Use Prevention Collaborative
Krystyna Matusiak | Morgridge College of Education, Research Methods and Information Science (RMIS), Library and Information Science (LIS)
Project Title: Community Resilience: Preserving and Promoting the Park County Local History Archives
Gloria Miller | Morgridge College of Education, Teaching and Learning Sciences Department
Project Title: Partnering with Community Navigators on Cultural Sharing Conversations
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Geography and the Environment
Project Title: Using Participatory Scenario Planning and Photovoice to Understand Community Resilience Under Anticipated Climate Change Impacts
Jennifer Greenfield, Eugene Walls, Donny Gerke | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Trans Health Literacy: Supporting Colorado Communities through Research Education, and Policy Advocacy
Michael Sousa | Sturm College of Law
Project Title: Access to Justice for Low-income Consumers: How the Legal System Reproduces Economic Inequality in Debt Collection Proceedings
Barbekka Hurtt | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology
Project Title: Health Professions Highway - Creating a Self-sustaining, Culturally Diverse Pipeline to Develop Future Healthcare Professionals
Zoe Tobier & Esteban Gomez | University Writing Program & College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: This is My Denver: Using Visual Anthropology and Multimodal Composition to Foster Arts-Based Community Activism at North High School
Anamika Barman-Adhikari & Daphne Brydon | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Adaptation of a Network-based Substance Use Prevention Intervention for Young Adults Who Experience Homelessness
Erin Anderson, Garrett Roberts, & Duan Zhang | Morgridge College of Education, Departments of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Teaching and Learning Sciences, & Research Methods and Information Science
Project Title: Opening Doors to the Working World for Underrepresented Youth through Documenting K-12 Students' Professional Competencies with Online Microcredentials
2016-2017
Lynn Schofield Clark & Yolanda Anyon | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies & Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Incorporating Video Storytelling into Trauma-Informed Practice with Low-Income Youth of Color
W. Neil Gowensmith | Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Project Title: Community Reentry through a Different Lens
Barbekka Hurtt & Nancy Lorenzon | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biological Sciences
Project Title: Health Professions Highway: Creating a Self-Sustaining, Culturally Diverse Pipeline to Develop Future Healthcare Professionals
Shannon Murphy, Robin Tinghitella, & Jennifer Hoffman | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Departments of Biological Sciences & Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: DUSciTech2017: Pathways to STEM Careers for Girls of Color and Low-Income Girls in Denver
Christine Nelson & Sophia Cisneros | Morgridge College of Education & College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: Scaffolding STEM Mentorship for Native Youth: Math|Culture|Environment (M|C|E)
Andrea Stanton | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Religious Studies
Project Title: Our Diverse America: Developing ESL-Appropriate EBook Chapters that Showcase America's Diversity
Sarah Enos Watamura | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology
Project Title: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors for Refugee Children: Promoting Effective Screening and Referral
2015-2016
Yolanda Anyon | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Increasing Opportunities for Organizational Leadership and Decision-Making Among Low-Income Youth of Color in After School Programs
Bonnie Clark | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: New Communities of Memory: The DU Amache Project 2016-2017
Oliver Kaplan | Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Project Title: The Korbel Asylum Project
Shannon Murphy, Robin Tinghitella, & Jennifer Hoffman | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Departments of Biological Sciences & Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: DUSciTech: A STEM Summer Camp for Girls from Underrepresented Backgrounds at the University of Denver
Cecilia Orphan | Morgridge College of Education
Project Title: Leading Collective Civic Impact: Measuring and Advancing Higher Education's Contributions to Civic Health in Colorado Community
Partner(s): Campus Compact of the Mountain West
Matthew Taylor | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Geography and the Environment
Project Title: People in the Path of the Nicaragua Canal: Working with Popol Na and Local Communities to Document Current Livelihoods to Permit a More Just Resettlement
2014-2015
Kim Bender & Anamika Barman-Adhikari | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Photovoice Youth Voice
Erica Chenoweth | Korbel School of International Studies
Project Title: Production, Dissemination, and Evaluation of a Short Video Highlighting the Historical Record of Nonviolent Resistance
Mailk Nwosu | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: Contextualizing African/African American Migration and Diaspora Narratives
Raja Raghunath & Rebecca Galemba, Sturm College of Law & Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Project Title: Wage Theft in the Commercial Construction Industry in Denver
Ryan Gildersleeve | Morgridge College of Education
Project Title: EPIC Navigators Task Force: A Youth Participatory Research Project
Eugene Walls | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: The Stigma Effect: The Role of Internalized Racism and Internalized Homophobia in Risky Sexual Behavior Among Black Gay Men
Judy Kiyama | Morgridge College of Education
Project Title: Cultivating Educational Aspirations in Low-Income Families of Color through Education, Engagement, and Empowerment
Jennifer Greenfield | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: Latina Mothers' Experience in the NICU: An Explanation of the Barriers and Facilitators of Maternal Engagement with Preterm Infants
2013-2014
Erin Willer | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Communication Studies
Project Title: The Scraps of the Heart Project: Storying Infant Death and Healing Parents Through Scrapbooking
Martin Quigley & Matthew Taylor | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Departments of Biological Sciences & Geography and Environmental Sciences
Project Title: Mitigation of Environment and Socioeconomic Consequences of Water Scarcity in Rural Landscape Conversion
Vicki Tomlin & Maria Riva | Morgridge College of Education, Department of Counseling Psychology
Project Title: Refugee Community Collaboration
Keith Miller | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Designing Interactive Activities to Stimulate Informal Science Learning in Public Libraries
Ramona Beltran | Graduate School of Social Work
Project Title: RiseUp!: A Culture-Centered HIV/AIDS Prevention Program for Indigenous Youth
Bonnie Clark | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Fostering Communities of Memory: The DU Amache Project 2014-2015
William Gowensmith | Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Project Title: Expansion of the College Gateway Program
Sam Museus | Morgridge College of Education
Project Title: The Collecting Asian American and Pacific Islander Refugee Stories (CARS) Project
Alejandro Ceron Valdes | College of Arts Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Evaluation of Procurement and Supply of Medicines in Guatemala's Public Health System: Case Studies
Cheri Young | Knoebel School of Hospitality Management
Project Title: Humanity, Hope, and Hospitality
