RACAS CATEGORY WINNERS

Arts & Media

• 1st Place - Chelsea Minter-Brindley - Contemporary Domesticity
• 2nd Place - Ryan Breuer - Investigating Interdisciplinary Communication Strategies Used by Artists and Engineers in the 3D Animation Industry
• 3rd Place - Eric Rogers & Crystal Lee - Leviiatha

Social Sciences & Humanities

• 1st Place - Lucy Briggs - Left Behind in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the Denver Unhoused Community
• 2nd Place - Natalie Brehm - Associations of Parental Infidelity with Child Outcomes: An Overview of Findings
• 3rd Place -Grace Amundsen Barnkow, Britani Rudolph, Jordan Stopak-Behr - Permitting a Better World: Revisions to the SeaTac Zoning Code to Improve Affordable Housing and Increase Equality

Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics

• 1st Place - Cisloynny Beauchamp-Perez - Non-enzymatic post-translational modification of lysine clusters in C2 domains
• 2nd Place - Haider Manzer - Functional Analysis of the BspC Variable Domain in Group B Streptococcus
• 3rd Place - Emily Warsavage - Recruit to Food in Pavement Ant Foraging

Congratulations to the category winners and thank you to our 80+ volunteer judges for your reviews!

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

• Arts & Humanities - Jacob Garland & Erin Chang - Lynx Creative Collective
• Biomedical Sciences - Troy Hubert, Alyssa Hohorst, Margaret Tanner, Kelsey Bonar, Kelsey Abrams, William Whitworth - Neural Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Stress Resilience In Females
• Natural & Physical Sciences - Kathryn Harris, Judit Bergfalk, Raphael Hatami, Rachel Vititoe - Could Black Holes Explain Dark Matter?
• Social Sciences - Josue Estrada, Katherine Feldman, Edith Huizar, Martin Nguyen, Carolina Sanchez Mendoza - A Touch Of Humanity: Resources for Undocumented People and Advocates
• Tech, Engineering, & Math - Jimmy Tangchittsumran, Leslie Fredrickson, Karl Larson, Danielle Piper, Devon Horton - Project Revive Band

Thank you for joining us for the 24th Annual (and 2nd Virtual) Research & Creative Activities Symposium!

If you haven't already, please create a Symposium account to fully engage with the virtual platform. This will allow you to leave comments on individual presentations and access live sessions. Click here to register!

RaCAS is CU Denver | Anschutz’s annual celebration of student-driven research, scholarship, and artistic endeavors and this year features the work of more than 200 students. Each of these scholars has shown a remarkable ability to adapt, innovate, and create in the face of an unprecedented global pandemic and we are excited to showcase their work in this virtual format.

We encourage all attendees, presenters, and mentors to take time to explore projects both within and outside your discipline - you never know where inspiration will strike! Use comment walls to start a conversation and engage with each other beyond this event. Presentations will remain posted after RaCAS so you can continue to discover and enjoy them!

Click here to vote for the People's Choice Award!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All Presentations | April 28-30 | Asynchronous

RaCAS Showcase | April 30 | Live

• Opening Kick-Off - 9:30 am
• Selected Student Presentations - 10:15 am - 3:30 pm 
• Concurrent Data-to-Policy Symposium - 10 am - noon
• Awards and Closing - 4:00 pm

Click on the "Live Sessions" tab to access the full schedule and Zoom links.

NAVIGATING THE SITE

• To view student presentations select the "Presentations" tab at the top of the screen.
• Presentations can be filtered by subject on the left-hand side of the screen or searched by author/keyword using the search bar.
• To view full presentations and abstracts, click the thumbnail image.
• We encourage you to use the comments section at the bottom of each page. Please remember our commitment to advancing a culture of respect for the efforts of these students.

RaCAS is sponsored by the CU Denver Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities and the Office of Academic Achievement. For more information contact [email protected]