Overall Winner
Victoria Silva (Service Learning & Leadership)
Project Title: A Mobile Home Community’s Struggle: 2024 Update
Creative Arts
1st Place: Jimmy Day
Project Title: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Healthcare Design: The Healing Center for Humanity
Rising Star: Alyssa Oshiro
Project Title: Redefining Inclusive Healthcare Design: Trauma-Informed Solutions for Amputee Patients’ Recover
Inclusive Excellence – Social Justice Enhancer: Tim Porter
Project Title: Ethical Research & Tribal Engagement
STEMM
1st Place: Nicole Sheptov
Project Title: Clinical or Quantitative Balance Test: What Is More Effective in Identifying Cognitive Decline PostStroke?
Rising Star: Lyssa Lini
Project Title: Understanding trophic interactions between feral cats, introduced rats, and endangered forest birds on Kauaʻi: morphometric analysis of feral cat diets from scat
Inclusive Excellence – Social Justice Enhancer: Olga Achmatowicz
Project Title: Literature Review: An Investigation of Microplastic Leachates from Teabags
Rams’ Choice Poster: Rachel Winter
Project Title: Haplorhine Nocturnality: Comparative Selection in Two Exceptional Primates
Rams’ Choice Poster: Leticia Cardenas
Project Title: Uncovering the Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence within Chat GPT
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Link Warren & Ian Edwards-Clancy
Project Title: Growing Food Security at Colorado State University
Rising Star: Anh Bui
Project Title: Mentorship and Education Support for Low-Socioeconomic Students
Inclusive Excellence – Social Justice Enhancer: Nizhoni Hatch
Project Title: Actualizing a Solution to the Navajo Nation’s Water Contamination
Rams’ Choice Poster: Tim Porter
Project Title: Ethical Research & Tribal Engagement
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Hannah Gillard
Project Title: Measuring and Improving Undergraduate STEM Students’ Inclusive Science Communication Skills
Rising Star: Ella Smith, Maia Miller, Josif Nedeljkovic, Harper Hall, Ricky Winston, Abigail Francis, Ann Rember, Helen Obuna, Sandrin Molina, & Archer Casper
Project Title: Being Trans in Public: A CSU case study
Inclusive Excellence – Social Justice Enhancer: Marwa Aryan
Project Title: Islamic Prayer Rooms in the School and Workplace
Rams’ Choice Poster: Ella Smith, Maia Miller, Josif Nedeljkovic, Harper Hall, Ricky Winston, Abigail Francis, Ann Rember, Helen Obuna, Sandrin Molina, & Archer Casper
Project Title: Being Trans in Public: A CSU case study
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
1st Place: Yoseline Rivera
Project Title: Campus Safety
Rising Star: Jhonnie Porter-Salcido
Project Title: Creating Successful and Sustainable Small-scale Farms in Eastern Colorado
Inclusive Excellence – Social Justice Enhancer: Johan Yost
Project Title: Colorado Coalition for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Through Equitable Vehicle Emissions Testing
Overall Winner
Jocelyn Lapham (Social Sciences & Humanities)
Project Title: Blue Lives Matter: In Combating Police Brutality Against All Communities
Creative Arts
1st Place: Kyla Ballard
Project Title: The Language of Ligaments
2nd Place: Alex Hey
Project Title: Noise Pollution in a Developing World
Rising Star: Roy Luo
Project Title: Conservation and Promotion of Historical Architecture and Local Culture through Designing a Cultural Complex in Shanghai, China
Social Justice Enhancer: Gerson Flores Rojas
Project Title: First Gen Story
STEMM
1st Place: Sreeya Kairamkonda
Project Title: HPV Vaccination Rates in New Mexico and Future Directions for Promoting the HPV Vaccine Among Young Adults
2nd Place: Elizabeth Carlsen
Project Title: Identifying a new avian DNA sexing PCR Protocol
Rising Star: Mya Voigtsberger
Project Title: Hypoxia, pregnancy, and the spleen: physiology underlying fetal growth trajectories in high elevation environments
Social Justice Enhancer: Keanu Kaibetoney
Project Title: 7 Generations Through Indigenous and Climate-Resilient Landscape Architecture
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Victoria Silva
Project Title: Representation for Mobile Home Residents
2nd Place: Alejandra Quesada-Stoner
Project Title: Creating a Research-to-Practice Tool for Making Cultural Adaptations to Family-Based Intervention Programs for Latine Immigrant Families
Rising Stars: Bemnet Tefera
Project Title: Pushing First-Gen Forward: A Mentorship Program for Navigating the Professional World
Social Justice Enhancer: Abi Tekeste
Project Title: Bridging The Gap
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Abrao Soares Pereira
Project Title: Enhancing Women’s Involvement in Marine Conservation in the Timor-Leste Region
2nd Place: Garrett Poitra
Project Title: Neurodivergent Accommodations in Graduate Stem Programs
Rising Star: Caley Valdez
Project Title: Undergraduate STEM Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Pedagogy in STEM Classrooms
Social Justice Enhancer: Emily Ocampo-Lara
Project Title: Mental Well-Well Being: Helping Latinx Individuals
Social Justice Enhancer: Jasmine Retland
Project Title: Disability In The Performing Arts
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
1st Place: Joselle Gyamfi
Project Title: Obaasima- Personalization as a Route to Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
2nd Place: Sadulla Nazrullaev
Project Title: RamPlanner
Rising Star: Elita Danilyuk
Project Title: PortfoliU Project: How an Open Source Repository of Personal Portfolio Websites can Benefit Students
Overall Winner
Akilah Martin (Social Sciences & Humanities)
Project Title: PTSD in the Black Community: It Is Really That Serious
Creative Arts
1st Place: Malia Berry
Project Title: Dissonance
2nd Place: Rothavie Totum
Project Title: The Antithesis of Art History: Khmer Girl with a Gold Earring
Rising Star: Aspen Flores
Students Come First – The Journey of CSU’s First-Project Title: Generation Students in the Honors Program
STEMM
1st Place: Andrea Velez
Project Title: Traces Herbicides Leave on Bees
2nd Place: Santiago Pinedo
Project Title: Biotypic Differences in Bacteria of Russian Wheat Aphid Honeydew and Their Effects on Barley
Rising Star: Genesis Marrero
Project Title: 3D Printing of Structurally Reinforced Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Joel Ibarra
Project Title: Construct, Build, Assemble Diversity
2nd Place: Anh Bui
Project Title: Education Support for Low-Socioeconomic School
Rising Stars: Bemnet Tefera
Project Title: First-gen Post-grad Mentorship
Rising Stars: Alexandria Walker
Project Title: The Intersection of Oral Health and Overall Health
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Tianna Weiland
Project Title: COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities
2nd Place: Axel Sandoval-Bravo
Project Title: From Redlining to Gentrification. Will I Have A Place to Live?
Rising Star: Hannah Gilliard
Project Title: Childhood Cancer Survivors and Psychological Outcomes: A literature review
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Karinganire Umutesi
Project Title: Advofugee (Advocacy for refugee)
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Overall Winner
Janaye Matthews (Social Sciences & Humanities)
Project Title: America’s responsibility to invest in reparations in the form of healthcare initiatives for descendants of enslaved Africans
Creative Arts
1st Place: Alexa Ware & De Von Washington
Project Title: A Love Story Like Queen and Slim
2nd Place: Cristal Dominque Vasquez
Project Title: Reintroducing an Icon: A Story Portrayed Through Art & Science
Rising Star: Marlena Giannone
Project Title: The Intersection of Poetry and Mathematics
STEMM
1st Place: Rachel Jackson
Project Title: Amphibian CTmax
2nd Place: Hannah Lucero
Project Title: Determining use of alternative genes to increase microbial production of ethylene via high-throughput assays
Rising Star: Brooke Bennett
Project Title: The Acne Reducing Face Mask
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Maya Siegel
Project Title: Space to Speak, giving youth a leading voice in the sexual violence prevention movement
2nd Place: Fernanda Alarcon-Avila
Project Title:Mental Health Support for Undocumented Students
Rising Star: Dom Baca
Project Title: Circle Forward: Using Restorative Practices to Combat Incidents of Bias
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Sage Mednansky
Project Title: If Butter Doesn’t Kill You, Settler Colonialism Will
2nd Place: Alejandra Cuevas
Project Title: Addressing Mental Health Stigmatism in Active-Duty Service Members
Rising Star: Kira Douglas
Project Title: Marginalized Media: A Look at the Perceptions and Portrayal of Minorities in TV and Movies
Social Justice and Inclusion
Emily Guerra
Project Title: Feeding Sovereignty: Understanding Regenerative Kinship Relationships within Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements
Social Justice and Inclusion – STEM focused
Maab Abdalla & Makida Worku
Project Title: Is Social Media Making You Antisocial?
View the Spring 2019 MURALS Program
Overall Winner
Xandria Amash & Reed Featherston (STEM)
Project Title: Mapping Mérida: Detecting the Prevalence of T. gondii in the Parks of Mérida
Creative Arts
1st Place: Luis Angel Santacruz
Project Title: Allegory of Innocence: A True Depiction of an Immigrant Family
2nd Place: Christian Cumber
Project Title: “Look Me in My Eyes”
Rising Star: Jaquikeyah Fields
Project Title: Liberating the Black Female Form from Transgenerational Trauma
STEM
1st Place: Ryleigh Gellas
Project Title: Impacts of Forest Restoration Treatments on Pollinator Communities along the Colorado Front Range
2nd Place: Brandon Tighe
Project Title: Reconfigurable Robots in The Emerging Field Of Soft-Robotics
Rising Star: Danelle Lazcano Concelman
Project Title: Dust Tolerant Valve for the International Space Station
Service Learning
1st Place: Dominica Manlove
Project Title: Be Yourself and Own It!
2nd Place: Akosua Antobre
Project Title: Akosua Antobre
Rising Star: Varehya Pratt
Project Title: Classification of a Developed Country- Kenya, East Africa
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Augusta Irechukwa
Project Title: Is Your City Next?: Predicting Gentrification using Statistical Modeling
2nd Place: Jayla Hodge
Project Title: The Three-Pronged Beast: Reshaping the Language of Mass Shootings
Rising Star: Zelle Moore
Project Title: Black Is, Black Ain’t: Exploring Black Identity Development at CSU
Enhancer
Social Justice Enhancer: Juri Moore
Project Title: Black Female Equestrians
Social Justice Enhancer: Lizeth Arellano
Project Title: Stones of a Path
Social Justice Enhancer: Jennifer Moore
View the Spring 2018 MURALS Program
Overall Winner
Whitney Marsh (Creative Arts)
Project Title: The Devil Within
Creative Arts
1st Place: Corissa Norwood
Project Title: Perfection Does Not Exist
2nd Place: Puleng Marutle
Project Title: Artivism: Black Women’s Reclamation of the Past, Present, and Future
Rising Star: Ronaldo Howard
Project Title: The Realization of PTSD
STEM
1st Place: Jordan Rose-Williams and Jessica Herrera
Project Title: Microbes Living Amongst Us
2nd Place: Jude McCarron Brandon and Elizabeth Hart
Project Title: Exploring the accumulation of Selenium and Arsenic in Cannabis sativa for phytoremediation
Rising Star: Tyler Thomas-Fenderson
Project Title: Characterization and Utilization of a Novel Bacteriophage, T790
Service Learning
1st Place: Sabrina Pribyl, Junior and David Purcella
Project Title: Puppy Pals
2nd Place: Jame Fuerte
Project Title: Social Justice Through the Arts
Rising Star: Ally Johnson
Project Title: Z Phi So Sweet, Finer Woman Like Me
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Victor Aguirre
Project Title: Issue of Free Speech or Civil Discourse in Higher Education
2nd Place: Val Hiraki
Project Title: Intersectionality and Experience within CSU’s Diversity Offices: Student and Staff Perceptions of Programs and Services
Rising Star: Isaiah Martin
Project Title: The Flint Water Crisis and its Racial Ignorance
Enhancer
Social Justice Enhancer: Daiszha Cooley
Project Title: Racial Health Disparities: Assessing Measures of Stress
Social Justice Enhancer: Bethany Andrade
Project Title: My Love is One Wrapped in Guilt
View the Spring 2017 MURALS Program
Overall Winner
Angel de Jesus Martin (STEM)
Project Title: The Easy Revolution
Creative Arts
1st Place: Bethany Andrade
Project Title: Con Safos
2nd Place: Daniela Aguilar
Project Title: Summertime
Rising Star: Jasmine Zachariah
Project Title: My Journey to Me
STEM
1st Place: Abigail Crowder
Project Title: Discovering the Patterns of Biological and Anthropogenic Activity
at National Park of American Samoa Using Underwater Acoustic Monitoring
2nd Place: Selam Tewahade
Project Title: A Meta-Analysis on Stress: Causes, Symptoms, and How to Cope
Rising Star: Lilia Maeda, Chiara Flores, and Kalene Borrego
Project Title: A Literature Review of SMYD2: Overexpression, Diseases, and Inhibition
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Vance Payne
Project Title: Inspiration from Mizzou to Changes at CSU
2nd Place: Alexandria Johnson
Project Title: GPS: Providing Direction
Rising Star: Marcela Riddick
Project Title: SIS: Sisters in STEM
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Daiszha Cooley
Project Title: Racism-Related Stress and Health
2nd Place: Whitney Marsh
Project Title: Equality: An Idea that Remains an Idea
Rising Star: Adrienne Shabandarian, Lydia Gonzalez, and Annie Ngo
Project Title: First Generation Students: Resources and Academic Success
Social Justice and Inclusion
Anarely Marquez-Gomez
Project Title: Raíces
View the Spring 2016 MURALS Program
Overall Winner
Jasmine Donkoh
Creative Arts
1st Place: Tianna Zachariah
2nd Place: Bethany Andrade
STEM
1st Place: Megan Chriswell
2nd Place: Keith Christian
Service Learning and Leadership
1st Place: Timothy Curry
2nd Place: Tabitha Lee
Social Sciences/Humanities
1st Place: Stephanie Herrera
2nd Place: Donovan Tate
Social Justice and Inclusion
Deena Duwaik
View the Spring 2015 MURALS Program
Excellence in Science Presentation
Colleen McCollum
Project Title: Analysis of The Effects of Knocking out HDAC11 on The Hypothalamic Response to Stress in Mice and Differences in Blood Vasculature Density
Excellence in Science Poster
Connor Whitaker
Project Title: Comparing the Effect of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Supplementation of Western and Low-Fat Diets on Cardiomyocyte Cross-Sectional Area (CSA)
Excellence in Science Research
Joei Robertson
Project Title: Initial Development of a Multi-Plex Immunocytochemistry Protocol for Differentiation of Epithelium, Mesenchymal tissue and Leukocytes in Canine Cytology Samples
Excellence in Creative Arts
Grace Stamps
Project Title: “Grey”
Excellence in Performing Arts
Diane Thajeb
Project Title: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor
Excellence in Social Science and Humanities Research
Morgan Biebaum
Project Title: “The Sacred Underground”,