Current Awards

Take a look at the sponsored projects that are currently going on at CMU! 

 

Below is a summary of the current awards that OSP is managing, listed by principal investigator, award title, and funding agency: 

• Andres Aslan - Detrital-sanidine dating studies and landscape evolution of western Colorado (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Blake Bickham - Educator Stipend Program and Student Educator Test Stipend Program (Colorado Department of Higher Education, HB22-1220)
• Morgan Bridge - Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program (Daniels Fund)
• Shelby Burroughs Pryzgoda - TRIO Upward Bound (Department of Education)
• Tim Casey - Applying Outcomes Focused Management to Increase Public Benefit with Attention to Diversity and Inclusion (Bureau of Land Management via University of Alaska Fairbanks)
• Karl Castleton - Colorado Space Grant Consortium (NASA via the University of Colorado)
• Jody Diers - Higher Education Emergency Relief (Strengthening Institutions Program, Department of Education)
• Cassandra Fenton - Geochronology and Stratigraphy of the Wanakah and Related Formations, Southwest Colorado and Eastern Utah (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Lucy Graham - Pathways Family Wellness Center (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• Jillian Hallock & Sponsored Programs - Skill Advance Training Grant for JGMS, Inc. (Colorado Community College System & Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade)
• Lisa Hughes - State Grants for Libraries (Colorado Department of Education)
• Deb Kennard -
  • CMU Public Land Corps Individual Placement Program (National Forest Service)
  • University/College Partnership on Public Lands (Bureau of Land Management)
• Emma Leenerman - Healthcare Workforce Development in Western Colorado Coal-Affected Communities (Economic Development Administration)
• Kyle McQuade - Saccomanno Undergraduate Summer Biomedical Research Internship Program (Saccomanno Higher Education Foundation)
• Chad Middleton - Colorado Mesa University Maverick Open Resource Educators (Colorado Department of Higher Education)
• Rafael Orozco - 
  • TRIO Student Support Services, Regular (Department of Education)
  • TRIO Student Support Services, STEM (Department of Education)
• Jeff Piper - Perkins Basic Grant Funds (Colorado Community College System)
• Jarrod Schiffbauer - 
  • Using molecular functionalization to tune nanoscale interfacial energy and momentum transport (National Science Foundation)
  • Individual and Collective Behavior of Active Colloids in Microgravity (National Science Foundation)
• Stacie Schreiner - Colorado Rural Healthcare Workforce Initiative (State of Colorado, SB22-172)
• Tracie Seurer - Digitizing historic oral histories to celebrate Colorado Mesa University's centennial, 1925-2025 (Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board)
• Vail Shoultz-McCole - 
  • Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program (Colorado Department of Early Childhood)
  • ECE Technical Scholars Program (Buell Foundation)
• Brigitte Sundermann - 
  • Allied Health Care Forward (Colorado Community College System, SB22-226)
  • Student Access to Nondegree Credential Programs (Colorado Department of Higher Education, SB22-192)
• Michelle Sunkel - Behavioral Health Incentive Program (Colorado Department of Higher Education)
• Andy Tyler - Community Longitudinal Integrated Clinicals (CLIC): Enhancing Primary Care Training in Rural and Underserved Communities (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• Johanna Varner - 
  • Expanding and Evaluating an Ecological, Networked Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (National Science Foundation)
  • Drivers of Welfare in Wild American Pikas (Wild Animal Initiative)
• Denita Weeks - Monitoring Amphibians Including Presence of Invasive Bullfrogs and Pathogenic Fungus (Bureau of Land Management)
• Freddy Witarsa - 
  • Addressing Selenium Issues in Grand Valley Waterways (Hutchins Water Center)
  • Testing the applicability of microbial source tracking method using dPCR to determine the source of high levels of fecal contamination in local waterways (Hutchins Water Center)

Award breakdown by department: