Past CRCW Award Winners

Kate Angulski, Criminal Justice & Jessica Berrett, Public Administration 
Exploring the Impact of the Legalization of Marijuana on Nonprofits in Colorado

Adham Atyabi, Computer Science
Emotion Recognition Using Electroencephalography and Eye-tracking

Katie Busby, Nursing
Mentoring in Academic Nursing from the Perspectives of Nursing Faculty Members

Ezio Iacocca, Physics & Energy Sciences
Nano-Designed Magnetic Materials: Towards Energy-Efficient and Fast Technology

James Kovacs, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Understanding the Role of Complement in the Establishment of a Latent HIV-1 Reservoir

Colin Mahoney, Psychology
Brief Coping Meta-Skills Intervention for Hospitalized Physical Injury Patients at High Risk for PTSD and Co-occurring Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Colin McAllister, VAPA/Music
Aeneas in the Underworld - A Collaborative Music Endeavor

Katie McCabe, Teaching and Learning
Inclusive Practices for Rural Students with Complex Support Needs

Janel Owens, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dangerous Dust: Determining Levels of Flame Retardants in Furnace Filter Dust

Nicholas Tapia-Fuselier, Leadership, Research, and Foundations
Religious Trauma and its Impact on College Student Identity Development

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Brynn Adamson, Health Sciences
Evaluating the Impact of Introducing the 4-Quadrant Stability Model into Exercise Instruction: Effects on Function among Adults with Multiple Sclerosis

Christine Biermann, Geography and Environmental Studies & Emily Mooney, Biology
Tracking Change in the Mountains: Alpine Insects and Treeline Ecosystems as Indicators of Climatic Shifts

Justin Cole, Mathematics
Approximation of Topological Insulators in Photonic Lattices

Elizabeth Daniels, Psychology
Social Media and Sexualization among Adolescent Girls from Diverse Backgrounds

Dylan Harris, Geography and Environmental Studies
Seeing the Changing Climate in Changing Cultures in Georgia & Colorado

Shannon Johnson, Social Work
A Pilot Survey of Moral Injury, Mental and Behavioral Health, Empathy, and Policing Attitudes among Active Duty Police Officers

Karin Larkin, Anthropology
Chasing the Cure: Archaeology and Material Culture of the Navajo Era of Cragmor Sanatorium

Byeong Lee, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-optimization for Deep Learning Neural Networks

Deborah Pina-Thomas, Nursing
Does HMDs Virtual Reality Simulations Effect Mental Health Nursing Students’ Levels of Empathy for Clients Experiencing Auditory Hallucinations?

Matt Quinlan, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Secondary Hydrodynamic Instabilities and their Role in Liquid Injection Atomization

Diana Selmeczy, Psychology
The Development of Adaptive Help-Seeking in Children

Diane Stutey, Counseling and Human Services
Pet Therapy: Supporting Students’ Mental Health and Wellness

Melissa Benton, Nursing
Metabolism, Body Composition, Sleep, and Quality of Life in Women

Dmytro Bozhko, Physics
Creation and Investigation of Hybrid Reconfigurable Magnonic Crystals

Benjamin Kinsley, VAPA
Tree Talks: Populus Tremuloides

Yongjei Lee, Criminal Justice
Flag an Boost Theories for Hot Spot Forecasting: A Replication of NIJ's Real-Time Crime Forecasting Algorithm using Colorado Springs Crime Data

Oluwatosin Oluwasdare, Computer Science
Development of algorithms and Computational Tools to Study the Spatial Organization of Bacteria Chromosomes and Genome Function Discovery

Rachel Thayer, Psychology
Improving Measurement of Cannabis Use Among Older Adults

Xin Yee, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Regression Principal Component Analysis: A Supervise Dimension Reduction Method

Kay Yoon, Communication
Boundary-Crossing Interactions and Virtual Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Team Environment: An Exploratory Study

Gia Barboza, Criminal Justice; Dao Diep, Geography & Environmental Studies
Making Communities Safer Places to Grow Old

Phillip Morris, Leadership, Research & Foundations
National Study of Veteran Wellness Characteristics

Brandon Runnels, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Simulating Microstructure at High Temperature to Create Stronger and Lighter Materials

Anna Kosloski, Criminal Justice
Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women & Girls – Lessons from Victim Advocates

Darshika Perera, ECE
Optimized Embedded Architectures for Model Predictive Controller for Battery Cell Management in Electric Vehicles

Philip Brown, Computer Science
Know Thy Enemy: The Value of Information in Cybersecurity

Kathleen Randolph, Teaching & Learning
Project CORE (Coaching Rural Educators)

Joey Lee, Health Sciences
Influence of Wellness Teams on Schools’ Capacity to Adopt and Implement Wellness Initiatives

Jena McCollum, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Resolving Viscoelastic Response in Particulate Slurries Undergoing an Extrusion Additive Manufacturing Process

Allison Findlay, Nursing
The Correlation between Social Participation ad Sensory and Cognitive Impairments, Function, and Successful Aging Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Katherine Guinness, VAPA
Residency for Emerging Female Artists

Deb Kenny, Nursing
Perceptions of Actual or Near Homelessness of Female Iraq/Afghanistan Veterans an Identification of Needs to Attain Independence

Robert Sackett, History
Why Some West Germans Promoted a Compassionate Culture Remembering Jewish Victims and Acknowledging Nazi Crimes, 1950’s and 1960’s

Leilani Feliciano, Psychology
Improving Sleep, Improving Cognition: A Pilot Study

Todd Bredbenner, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The Effects of Uncertainty and Variability on Predicting the Fracture Strength of Lumbar Vertebrae

Sang-Yoon Chang, Computer Science
Securely Scalable Blockchain

Samantha Christiansen, History
An Urban History of Dhaka: From the Periphery to Primacy

Lissanna Follari, Teaching & Learning
Perceptions and Practices in Teaching the Whole Child: Focus on Social Emotional Learning Instruction in the Elementary Grades

Cerian Gibbes, Geography
Fire as a Tool for Land Modification: Examining the Fire Vegetation Dynamics in Southern Africa

Andrew Klocko, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Characterization of the Genome Organization of the Filamentous Fungus

James Kovacs, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Two-Pronged Approach to Understanding the Molecular Details of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection

Karen Livesey, Physics
Calculating the Size and the Speed of Magnetic “Skymions”

Kathy Prue Owens; Helen Graham; Keston Lindsay, Health Sciences
Post Event-Cardiovascular Risk Perception Survey: Validity and Reliability in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients Post Heart Event

Tom Pyszczynski, Psychology
Societal Impact of Mass Violence

Max Shulman, VAPA
The American Pipe-Dream: Representing and Inventing the Addict, 1890-1940

Kathrin Spendier, Physics
Understanding the Immune Synapse Between Mast Cells and Dendritic Cells

Hui Wan, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
High Fidelity Simulation on Multiphase Fluid Dynamics Using Combined Level-Set and Immersed Boundary Method