Our office awards Community Impact Grants (twice a year) and Micro Grants (on a rolling basis) to outreach and engagement projects that connect research, teaching and creative work with communities around Colorado and beyond.
Community Impact Grant Recipients
2023-24 Fall Semester Awardees
Science Community Outreach Program and Education (S.C.O.P.E.)
Briana Aboulache, PhD Candidate
Biochemistry Department
Buscanda la luz: Co-Designing Learning Workshops with Children
Adria Padilla-Chavez, PhD Candidate
School of Education
Engaging NVHS Students in Research, Expanding Biliteracy Pathways
Deborah Palmer, Professor
School of Education
Hands-On Astronomy Activities for Community Engagement
Jessica Hoehn, Research Associate
JILA
Establishing a Rural Microbit Learning Community
Timothy Ogino, Manager of School and Teacher Programs
Science Discovery
Community-Based Exploration of Industrial Air Pollution Impacts
Caroline Frischmon, Graduate Student
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Demystifying Entrepreneurship Rural Colorado Workshop Series, Expansion
Erick Mueller, Executive Director & Adjunct Professor
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Our Music Theory: A K-12 Theory/Musicianship Curriculum
Joy Yamaguchi, PhD Candidate
College of Music
2022-23 Awardees
Natives Vote: Increasing Voter Enfranchisement in Indian Country ($5,000)
Christina Stanton, Clinical Associate Professor, Director American Indian Law Clinic
School of Law
Investigating Shifts in Post-Fire Landscape Recovery ($5,000)
Jonathan Griffith, Education and Outreach Associate
CIRES
Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community ($5,000)
Jessica Hoehn, Director of Public Engagement and Education Research, Research Associate
Center for STEM Learning
Science Community Outreach Program for Education (S.C.O.P.E.) ($,5000)
Chelsea Toner, Graduate Student
Biochemistry
Girls Inspire: Engineering Your Spring Break ($4,750)
Karen Ganss, Assistant Director
Engineering Partnership Program
Indigenous Connections at Rocky Mountain National Park ($3,560)
Brooke Neely, Research Associate
Center for the American West
Theater Educational Outreach Tour ($5,000)
Kaitlin Nabors, PhD Candidate
Theater and Dance
Regional Equity Assessment in Boulder County ($3000)
Kyungsun Lee, Instructor/Lecturer
Department of Environmental Studies
Soundscapes Educator Blog ($3000)
Lydia Wagenknecht, Graduate Student
Musicology
Documenting oral literature and TEK in Dolpo, Nepal ($3000)
Phurwa Gurung, Graduate Student
Geography
Public Art Program: (un)learning about outer space ($3000)
Jeronimo Reyes Retana, Graduate Student
Department of Critical Media Practices
To support dance residency in Colorado Springs/Pueblo ($3000)
Helanius Wilkins, Tenure-Track Faculty
Theatre & Dance
Moral Reasoning for Middle School Students ($2200)
Dawn Jacob, University Staff
Biological Sciences Initiative (BSI); Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Exploring Education ($5000)
Kimberly Strong, Research Faculty
School of Education
Te lo cuento con canciones ($3000)
Brenda Aguirre Ortega, Graduate Student
School of Education
Strengthening Connections with Neuroscience ($4242)
Michael Baratta, Tenure-Track Faculty
Psychology and Neuroscience
2021-22 Awardees
ATLAS STEAM workshop series for Lafayette Public Library
BTU Lab Manager Samantha Crowder and Living Matter Graduate Research Assistant Fiona Bell
ATLAS
Cal-Wood Restoration Crew: Building Community Resilience After Wildfire
Director Stacey Forsyth
CU Science Discovery
Community College Student Research at CU Boulder
Director Julie Graf
Biological Sciences Initiative, MCD Biology
Drifting North Inflatable MiniDome Polar Planetarium Experience
Communication Coordinator and Program Integrator, Professional Research Assistant Daniela Pennycook
CIRES
Driving Economic Growth in Colorado Native Reservations
Program Coordinator Madeleine Light
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Monitoring the Watershed After the Marshall Fire
Assistant Professor Julie Korak
Civil, Environmental Engineering
Adolescents, Smartphones, and Social Media: Promoting Positive Relationships
Instructor Annie Margaret
ATLAS
Bringing Colorado's Chicano Movement to Classrooms
Director, Latino History Project Jason Romero
School of Education
Cal-Wood Restoration Crew
Director Stacey Forsyth
CU Science Discovery
Creating Partnerships with High School Gamers and Undergraduates
Assistant Professor Arturo Cortez
School of Education
Exploring Science Through Art, Music and Dance
Postdoctoral Associate Emma Antonio
Chemical and Biological Engineering/Materials Science Program
Four Corners Environmental and Economic Justice Summer Internship
Program Director, Four Corners Environmental and Economic Justice, Instructor/Lecturer Julia Guarino
Colorado Law
Holistic Planetarium Virtual Field Trips with Rural Schools
Education Programs Manager Briana Ingermann
Fiske Planetarium, Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences
Integrating Asian American Studies into Colorado K-12 Schools
Tenure-Track Faculty Noreen Rodriguez
School of Education
LEAP: Learning in Partnership
Production, Outreach & Engagement Liaison Ondine Geary
Theatre & Dance
Listen, Create, Teach, Change: Racism and Wrongful Convictions
Clinical Law Professor Ann England
Colorado Law
Make CSR Training Accessible to Diverse Professionals
Interim Director, Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility Julie Waggoner
Leeds School of Business
Mobile Home Park Organizing Guidebook
Professor of Law Deborah Cantrell
Colorado Law
Pathway from High School to College: Summer Economics
Director of the Online Economics Program, Instructor Karen Gebhardt
Economics and the Division of Continuting Education
Reflections on the Future Art Exhibit and Event
Education and Outreach Coordinator for Niwot Ridge LTER Alexandra Rose
CU Science Discovery
School-based Community Garden in Fort Morgan, Colorado
Student Assistant, Graduate Student Britta Bergstrom
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Science Community Outreach Program and Education (SCOPE)
PhD Candidate, Graduate Student Megan Mitchell
Biochemistry
2020–21 Awardees
A Joint Outreach Model in the COVID Era
Director of Educational Outreach and Research, Research Associate Michael Bennett
Department of Physics, JILA
Establishing a Makerspace for Youth in Foster Care
PhD Student Brandon Grossman
School of Education
Multicultural Leadership Mentors Program
Director of Diversity Recruitment and Retention Krishna Pattisapu
School of Education
Participatory Antiracist Design with the Trident Community
Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari
Department of Environmental Design
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Decisions in Schools
Instructor Kari Sholtes
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Supporting Underserved Teachers with Dome to Home
Education Programs Manager Briana Ingermann
Fiske Planetarium, Department of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences
2019–20 Awardees
Building Trust: Parent Engagement in Montbello
Graduate Student Ana Contreras
School of Education
Colorado Lullaby Project: Nurturing Social Connection Through Song
Community Engagement and Social Innovation Coordinator Katie Skayhan and Associate Professor Jeff Nytch
College of Music
Comics Writing and Workshops with White Earth Nation
Associate Professor Jennifer Shannon
Cultural Anthropology
Connecting Ancestral and Modern Pojoaque Communities
Graduate Student Zachary Cooper
Anthropology
Improving No Cost Grocery Programs Through Dialogue
Instructor Heide Bruckner
Geography
Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights: Education and Outreach Campaign
Fellow Danielle Lazore-Thompson and Professor Kristen Carpenter
Colorado Law
Participatory Media Needs Assessment of Boulder County Youth
Graduate Student Luz Ruiz
Media Studies
Translating Alaska WASH Research for Community Action
Graduate Student Kaitlin Mattos
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
2018–19 Awardees
Animating Fossils through Performance in Jeffco Schools
Associate Professor Beth Osnes
Theatre
Citizen Science Capacity Building in Boulder Through GLOBE.gov
Curriculum Development & Project Coordinator Jennifer Taylor
CIRES Education & Outreach
Community Collaboration in Understanding Pueblo Agriculture
Graduate Student/Doctoral Research Assistant Kaitlyn Davis
Department of Anthropology
Critical Conversations Project (CCP)
Program Manager for Production, Outreach & Engagement Ondine Geary
Theatre & Dance
Demystifying Entrepreneurship Rural Colorado Workshop Series
Program Coordinator Sam Schanfarber
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship - Leeds School of Business
OASIS (Opportunities, Art, Science, Inspiration, and Sustainability)
Assistant Clinical Professor Marcel de Lange
Program in Environmental Design
Psychological Outreach and Research Initiative for Indigenous Communities
Assistant Director CU Upward Bound Héctor Ramírez
Office of Pre-Collegiate Outreach
2017–18 Awardees
A Just Energy and Climate Transition for Boulder
Assistant Professor David Ciplet
Environmental Studies
Analysis of Mentorship Plus Role Modeling Outreach Models
Graduate Part-time Instructor/Research Assistant Leighanna Hinojosa
School of Education
Creating a Cooperative Stewardship Zone in Boulder Canyon
Faculty Instructor Stacey Schulte
Program in Environmental Design
Conversations About Growing Up With Two Languages
Associate Professor Eliana Colunga
Psychology & Neuroscience
Harnessing Outreach Potential to Establish Long-term Citizen Science
Graduate Student Ashley Lorainne Whipple, Research Associate Chris Ray
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
High School Energy Education Partnership
Doctoral Candidate Kate Henson
School of Education
Latin Summer Enrichment Program 2018
Associate Professor Jacqueline Elliot
Classics
Lecture Series on the Nobel Prize in Literature
Professor of Russian Studies Mark Leiderman
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Native American Mural Project
Assistant Director Hector Ramirez
ODECE, CU Boulder Upward Bound
STEM Summer Camp for Middle and High Schoolers
Assistant Professor Stephen Becker
Applied Mathematics
Wildfire Social Science Connection
Research Faculty Hannah Brenkert Smith
Institute of Behavioral Sciences (IBS)
Micro Grant Recipients
2023-24 Fall Semester Awardees
Leading with Compassion & Dignity
Ashley Potvin, Other
Renée Crown Wellness Institute
Reparative Description in Collections: Engaging Community Stakeholders
Lauren Collins, University Staff
Center for Asian Studies
Public Art Program: For a Shared (Outer)Space
Jeronimo Reyes-Retana, PhD Candidate
Critical Media Practices
Marshall Fire Project Cont.
Jon Griffith, University Staff
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
2022-23 Awardees
Culturally Responsive Practices for Interpretation in the SLHC ($1,300)
Alison Lemke
Speech, Language & Hearing Services
Movimiento Latinx XXI Dance Workshop ($2,000)
Jesus Munoz, Graduate Student
Theater and Dance
Establishing a Rural-Based 3D Printer Lending Library ($2000)
Scott Sieke, University Staff
CU Science Discovery
Astronomy Outreach Collaborations with Mesa Verde National Park ($2000)
Erica Ellingson, Other
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Research Share in the UK ($1000)
Amanda Giguere, University Staff
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Research Share in the UK ($1000)
Heidi Schmidt, University Staff
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Co-designing Responsive Literacy Instruction with Rural Elementary Teachers ($2000)
Elizabeth Dutro, Tenure-Track Faculty
School of Education
2021-22 Awardees
Co-design Workshop for Interactive Murals in Trinidad, CO
PhD Candidate, Graduate Student Kimberley Bianca Warren
Critical Media Practices
Piloting STEM Kits for Rural and Mountainous Communities
Manager of School and Teacher Programs Tim Ogino
CU Science Discovery
Robotics Summer Camp for Middle School Students
Graduate Student Nataliya Nechyporenko and Post Doc Shiran Dudy
Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science
STEM Enrichment – Supporting Budding Scientists of Colorado
Assistant Professor Karen Bailey
Sustainability Innovation Lab and Environmental Studies
STEM Summer Camp for Middle and High Schoolers
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Stephen Becker
Applied Mathematics
The Soul of the Oja
Graduate Student Chiamaka Odinenu
Media Studies
Balloon Flight Lab - High School Outreach
Instructional Laboratory and Fabrication Coordinator, Instructor Matt Rhode
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Bringing Healing Home: A Workbook for Sexual Trauma
Undergraduate Student Francesca Torsiello
INVST
Bringing Molecular Biology to High School Classrooms
Instructor Kristin Moore
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Building a Literary Learning Ecology with Adjudicated Youth
Graduate Student Daniel Moore
School of Education
Celebrating the Indigenous Americas Week
Director, Latin American Studies Center, Associate Professor Leila Gomez
Latin American Studies Center
Climate Change Learning Gathering: Justice, Emotion, and Action
Professor Emeritus Dan Liston
School of Education
Co-designing Responsive Literacy Pedagogy with Rural Elementary Teachers
Tenure-Track Faculty Elizabeth Dutro
Literacy Studies, School of Education
CU Horn Choir Western Slope Tour (9/26-28)
Associate Professor of Horn Michael Thornton
College of Music
Ecological Networks & Ecosystem Services: Online Active-Learning Games
Doctoral Candidate Aislyn Keyes
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Facilitating Co-production and Indigenous Community Engagement
Research Associate Keith Musselman
INSTAAR
Framework for Long-Term Community Risk/Resilience to Climate Variability
Research Faculty Atreyee Bhattacharya
Center for Asian Studies (CAS) The Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE), CIRES
Identifying New Outreach Pathways with the Brain
Tenure-Track Faculty Michael Baratta
Psychology and Neuroscience
Multiculturalism at the Observatory
Doctoral Candidate Rachel Bowyer
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
STEM Summer Camp for Middle and High Schoolers
Assistant Professor Stephen Becker
Applied Mathematics
2020–21 Awardees
Business Economic Outlook Forum Publication Support
Associate Dean and Senior Economist Richard Wobbekind
Leeds School of Business
COVID Community Economic Presentations
Executive Director Brian Lewandowski
Business Research Division
Ecological Networks & Ecosystem Services: Online Active-Learning Games
PhD Student Aislyn Keyes
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Impact of COVID in China and the U.S.
Senior Staff Associate Lynn Kalinauskas
Center for Asian Studies, Program for Teaching East Asia
Museum in a Box
Education Coordinator Cathy Regan
CU Museum of Natural History
Our Wishes | Nuestros Deseos
MFA student Alejandra Abad
Department of Art and Art History
Supporting Virtual Early-Career Researcher Talks
Education Programs Manager Briana Ingermann
Fiske Planetarium, Department of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences
2019–20 Awardees
Affordable Housing in Boulder: Barriers, Solutions, and Successes
Associate Director and Instructor Abby Hickcox
Arts & Sciences Honors Program
Bringing Lafayette’s Swimming Pool Story to the Community
Distinguished Professor of History Emerita; coordinator, Latino History Project Marjorie McIntosh
History
Building Community Partnerships for Equitable Co-Design in Science
Graduate Student Caitlin Fine
School of Education
Computational Physical Play Workshop
Graduate Student Junnan Yu
Department of Information Science
Engineering Identity Development in Rural High School Students
Graduate Student Leighanna Hinojosa
School of Education
Gathering/Sharing Resources about Latinos on the Western Slope
Director of Latino History Project Jason Romero
School of Education
Los Seis de Boulder at 28th and Canyon
Graduate Student Jasmine Baetz
Art and Art History
Nested Roots: A Science/Art Exhibition in Carbondale, CO
Associate Director Jorge Perez-Gallego
Nature, Environment, Science, and Technology Studio for the Arts
Shakespeare Theatre Association Conference
Director of Outreach Amanda Giguere
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Statewide Educator Institute for LGBTQ Inclusive Practices
Assistant Research Professor Bethy Leonardi
School of Education
Student and Stakeholder Strategic Planning for Sustainable Communities
Professor Sharon Collinge
Environmental Studies Program
Supporting Early Career Researcher Talks at Fiske Planetarium
Education Programs Manager Briana Ingermann
Fiske Planetarium (Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences)
Teaching Ethnography for Social Engagement Pedagogy Workshop
Assistant Professor Kathryn Goldfarb
Anthropology
2018–19 Awardees
Consultation With the Pawnee and Arikara Tribes
Professor Douglas Bamforth
Anthropology
CU sponsorship of a youth leadership restoration project
Professor Timothy Seastedt
Institute of Arctic and Apline Research (INSTAAR)
Demystifying Entrepreneurship & Startup to Scaleup Development Workshops
Executive Director Erick Mueller
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship - Leeds School of Business
Dialogue for Enhanced Disaster Relocation Recovery
Doctoral candidate Shaye Palagi
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
Engaging educators in Boulder Computer Science Education Week
Graduate Student Celeste Moreno
Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS)
Evaluation of Creative Districts in Rural Colorado
Graduate Student Jennifer Shelby
Environmental Studies, Environmental Design
Immigrant Moms' Activism for Community Participation
Graduate student Maria de los Angeles Osorio Cooper
Education
Impacts of Oil and Gas for Colorado Residents
Professor Joseph Ryan
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering | Environmental Engineering Program
Institute on LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices
Research Associate Bethy Leonardi
School of Education
LISA 2020: Building Developing Countries' Statistical Analysis Capacity
Associate Professor and Director Eric Vance
Applied Mathematics
Marking Space for Los Seis de Boulder
Graduate Student Jasmine Baetz
Art and Art History
NAGPRA Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con
Associate Professor Jennifer Shannon
Anthropology
Orientation to Early Childhood Music Instruction
Associate Professor Martina Miranda
Music
Presenting GUB's work at EDRA Conference
Program Director Mara Mintzer
Environmental Design, The Community Engagement Design and Research Center (CEDaR)
Secondary and College Students Exploring Colorado’s Geology Together
Senior Instructor Lon Abbott & Instructor Jennifer Stempien
Geology
Service Learning for English Language Learners
Instructor Barbara Flocke
International English Center, Continuing Education
Shakespearean Haunted House with Boulder High School
Assistant Professor Kevin Rich
Theatre and Dance
Workshopping Ways of Encountering Self / Encountering Others
Graduate Student Jashodhara Sen
Theatre and Dance
2017–18 Awardees
Collaborative Artist-Scholar Residency at Chatauqua with Public Presentation
Professor/Chair, Department of Religious Studies David Shneer
History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Colorado River Water Delegation to Mexico
Energy and Climate Justice Manager Michelle Gabrieloff
Environmental Center
Colorado Shared Ownership Summit Travel Support
Assistant Professor Nathan Schneider
Media Studies
Distribute Colorado Business Economic Outlook Books
Associate Director Brian Lewandowski
Business Research Division
Evaluation and Understanding of Creative Districts in Colorado
Graduate Research Assistant Jennifer Shelby
Environmental Design
German Language Immersion Day 2018
Instructor/Coordinator of Undergraduate German Language Instruction Ursula Jany
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Laissez Les Bons Temp Rouler
Assistant Professor Helanius Wilkins
Theatre & Dance
Off-grid Renewable Energy in Rural Bolivia
Undergraduate Research Assistant Janelle Isenhart, Biology and Chemical Engineering, Faculty Advisor Alan Mickelson, Electrical Engineering
Presenting Community-based Air Quality Research
Graduate Research Assistant Ashley Collier-Oxandale, Faculty Advisor Michael Hannigan
Environmental Engineering
Rethinking Digital Pedagogy with Community Partners: An Unconference
Graduate Research Assistant Tarren Andrews, English, Faculty Advisor Laurie Gries, Department of Communication
State-wide Educator Institute for LGBTQ Inclusive Practices
Research Associate Bethy Leonardi
A Queer Endeavor, School of Education
Teachers of Color and Allies Summit
Associate Professor Victoria Hand
School of Education
The Korey Wise Innocence Project at CU Law
Professor Kristy Martinez
Colorado Law
Young Women's Vocal Empowerment Program - Egypt
Graduate Research Assistant Sarah Fahmy, Faculty Advisor Beth Osnes
Theatre & Dance
Undergraduate Grant Recipients
2021-22 Awardees
GlobeMed GROW 2021-2022
GROW Interns, Undergraduate Students Jeremiah Diaz, Shreya Sharma and Grace Matsey
College of Arts and Sciences
LSP and KidsTek Community Outreach Project
Leeds Scholars, Undergraduate students Charlie Wells, Shayna Kliger, Kaela Gero, Andersen Dodge and Jackson Klein
Leeds School of Business
Improve understanding of the changing Arctic through Co-Production
Allyson Fitts