Current Grants & Researchers

There are currently no sponsored projects in the Art & Design Department. 

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• Paul Hampton - Monitoring for occupancy, reproduction, and foraging behaviors of Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) in Colorado’s Grand Valley (Department of the Interior)
• Eriek Hansen - CMU Public Land Corps Individual Placement Program (National Forest Service)
• Kyle McQuade - Saccomanno Undergraduate Summer Biomedical Research Internship Program (Saccomanno Higher Education Foundation)
• Johanna Varner - Drivers of Welfare in Wild American Pikas (Wild Animal Initiative)

• Yen-Sheng Lee - Remixing Open Educational Resources (OER) for FINA 301 Managerial Finance Course (Colorado Department of Higher Education)

• Karl Castleton - Colorado Space Grant Consortium (NASA via the University of Colorado)

• Lucy Graham - The Dancing Nurse: Designing an Integrative, NeuroArts Wellness Curriculum for Nursing Education (The Dancing Nurse) (The Renée Fleming Foundation with the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative)
• Stacie Schreiner - Colorado Rural Healthcare Workforce Initiative (State of Colorado, SB22-172)

• Sarah Gray - GeriCare Everywhere (University of Colorado Anschutz, SB 2023-31)

There are currently no sponsored projects in the Languages, Literature, & Mass Communication Department. 

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There are currently no sponsored projects in the Mathematics & Statistics Department. 

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There are currently no sponsored projects in the Music Department. 

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• Andres Aslan - Cenozoic landscape evolution of western Colorado using a double-dating approach: combined detrital sanidine 40Ar/39Ar and detrital zircon U-Pb dating (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Greg Baker - Drone-Based LiDAR Analyses of Structural Deformation & Depositional Features in Western Colorado (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Cassandra Fenton - Geochronology and Stratigraphy of the Wanakah and Related Formations, Southwest Colorado and Eastern Utah (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Deb Kennard - NPS-CO University/College Partnership on Public Lands (National Park Service)
• Justin Pomeranz - Collaborative Research: Mechanisms to explain continental scaling of size spectra in freshwater streams (National Science Foundation)
  
• Jarrod Schiffbauer - Building a diverse, sustainable, and robust undergraduate-to-graduate STEM network through inter-institutional interdisciplinary research collaborations in complex fluids/soft matter (NASA)
• Javier Tellez - Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Sedimentary Strata in the Piceance Basin Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Secondary Recovery and Subsurface Energy Applications (Unconventional Energy Center)
• Catherine Whiting - The EXO-ASTRO (Exoplanet Observations to Advance Student Training and Research Opportunities) project (NASA)
• Freddy Witarsa - 
  • Colorado Mesa University Ruth Powell Hutchins Water Center Outreach, Engagement, and Educational Programming (Colorado Water Conservation Board)
  • Water Fellows Program (Colorado Water Conservation Board via Colorado State University)
  • Ruth Powell Hutchins Water Center (Western Colorado Community Foundation)

• 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)
• Audrey Lumley-Sapanski - Disaggregated Estimates of the Prevalence of Trafficking in Humans (DEPTH) (National Institute of Justice)
• Jill Orrock - Center for Workforce Equity and Leadership: University Partnership Program (Colorado Department of Health & Human Services via Metropolitan State University)

• Nick Bardo - Educator Recruitment & Retention Program (U.S. Department of Education)
• Ann Gillies - Adopting and Adapting OER Materials for Culture and Pedagogy Graduate Course (Colorado Department of Higher Education)

There are currently no sponsored projects in the Music Department. 

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• Milana Baish - Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Grant (Colorado Community College System)
• Michael Graham - Discretionary Aviation Grant (Colorado Division of Aeronautics, 25-MCU-E01)
• Mindy Gutierrez -
  • Expanding Oral Health Career Awareness in Western Colorado (The Delta Dental Foundation)
  • Advancing High-Quality Short-Term Programs at CMU Tech (U.S. Department of Education)
  • Traffic Control Specialist Apprenticeship Program (Contract via Colorado Department of Transportation) 
• Kelly Reuss - HVAC Heat Pump Training at CMU Tech (Colorado Office of Energy)
• Tammie Vail Shoultz-McCole - Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program (Colorado Department of Early Childhood)
• Karen Sightler - 
  
  • Developing an HVAC Registered Apprenticeship Program (Arapahoe/Douglas Works! (ADW!))
  • Expanding Registered Apprenticeship Programs (El Pomar Foundation)
• Brigitte Sundermann - 
  
  • Mobile Learning Lab for Welding & CDL (Colorado Community College System & Office of Economic Development and International Trade)
  • Career Advance Colorado (Colorado Community College System, HB23-1246)

• Shelby Burroughs Pryzgoda (Student Services) - TRIO Upward Bound (U.S. Department of Education)
• Paige Cadman (Student Services) - 
  • TRIO Student Support Services, Regular (U.S. Department of Education)
  • TRIO Student Support Services, STEM (U.S. Department of Education) 
• Lisa Hughes (Library) - State Grants for Libraries (Colorado Department of Education). 
• Derek Wagner (President's Office) - 
  • RAPIDS Consortium (Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade)
  • CMU Ruth Powell Hutchins Water Center Partnership Project (Colorado River District)
• Anna Lee Walker (Student Wellness Center) - MAVS Matter (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA))