Research
and
Creative
Activities
Symposium
| Anschutz Medical Campus
21st Annual
Student
Friday,
April 27
, 2018
Welcome to the 21st annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium! RaCAS is a celebration
of student research, artistic work, and community-based scholarship at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC). Each year students present their original work to each other and to faculty, staff, family, and community members. RaCAS spotlights the rich and varied scholarly activities of our students across the disciplines and honors the vibrant intellectual life of the university. The name RaCAS invokes the raucous spirit that we hope this event embodies: a boisterous celebration of scholarship and creativity. The 2018 RaCAS is the largest one to date, featuring over 230 research presentations, creative works, and performances of students from both the downtown campus and AMC. It is
organized into two poster sessions and 15 student-organized mini-symposia featuring oral presentations.
We believe that all CU Denver and Anschutz students must develop as scholars in their own right and that research and scholarly pursuits prepare and challenge them to contribute to our knowledge of the world. Many students who present their work are approaching the summit of their academic careers with us. Their RaCAS presentations represent hundreds of hours of work, remarkable commitment to their studies, and a synthesis of all that they have
learned. Other presenters are at different points in this journey; they may be first-years just beginning to explore ideas in depth, or they may be sophomores or juniors in the process of developing the skills and insights that will serve their scholarly work in the future. The artists who participate in the symposium—the poets, fiction writers, dancers, composers, and photographers—bring to their work a combination of technique, cultural and intellectual context, ways of thinking and seeing the world, and raw talent that is nurtured in CU Denver’s liberal arts environment.
The kind of individualized education celebrated at RaCAS would not be possible without the unflagging dedication of faculty advisors. CU Denver and AMC faculty often work one-on-one with students on these scholarly pursuits. In this process, they are both demanding and supportive, guiding research methods, thoughtful interpretation, and effective presentation. Many CU Denver staff members—lab technicians, writing specialists, digital media specialists, librarians, and community-engagement staff—also work closely with our student-scholars. We thank all members of the CU Denver and AMC communities who offer a wide range of skills and expertise that enriches students' academic experience.
Finally, we are sad not to have with us this year Dr. Richard J. Traystman, formerly Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research, who not only supported but nurtured RaCAS over the past decade. His support has been continued this year by Dr. Robert H. Eckel,
Research and Creative Activities Symposium
21st Annual
Lynx Desk: Support for Presenters and Attendees
9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 1st & 2nd Floor Hallways
Welcome: Chancellor, Dr. Dorothy A. Horrell
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Dr. Roderick Nairn
Outstanding Mentor Award: Assistant Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Experiences, Dr. Jeff Franklin LYNx Talk: Dr. Ruben Viramontez Anguiano
Student Awards: Dr. Jeff Franklin and Dr. Lindsey Hamilton, Director of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities
Panels, Mini-Symposia, and other Oral Presentations
Posters
Exhibits
Session 1 101 - 149 150 - 199 Virtual Reality Demo Math LGBT Literature Behavioral Cognitive Neuro Human Stories History Masculinity Discussion History Local Politics Discussion SocialJustice AMC Bio-Medical Chemistry Deceptive Space D2P D2P D2P New UROP Recipients UROP BRAiN HistoryArt
Session 2 201 - 249 250 - 299 SC 1401 SC 1500 SC 1600 SC 2000 SC 2500 (1/2 of Data to Policy Posters) Tear Down
WELCOME TO THE 21st Annual RESEARCH and CREATIVE ACTIVITIES SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
9:00 – 10:00 AM Presenter and Judges Check-in, Set-up, Support Lynx Desk
Registration for presenters is not necessary this year; support staff will be available to answer questions.
10:00 – 11:30 AM Poster Sessions
101-149 1st floor Student Commons Building
150-199 2nd floor Student Commons Building
10:00 – 2:00 PM Data to Policy Poster Presentations (400-422) SC 2504
Students will deliver oral presentations showcasing their scholarly activities during Mini-Symposia
10:00 – 11:00 AM Mini-Symposium I: The Power of Virtual Reality and the Technology of
Leap Motion (300-302) SC 1401
10:00 – 11:30 AM Mini-Symposium II: Broadening Participation in Neuroscience through
BRAiN (303-307) SC 1500
10:00 – 11:30 AM Mini-Symposium III: Art History (308-314) SC 1600
10:00 – 11:30 AM Mini-Symposium IV: Social Justice Organizing in Diverse Communities
(315-319) SC 2000
10:00 – 11:30 AM Mini-Symposium V: Biomedical Research: Recent Studies from the
Anschutz Medical Campus (320-325) SC 2500
11:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH SC 2600
11:30 – 12:30 PM Mini-Symposium VI: Cutting the Equations: Uncertainty Quantification
Summarized Simply (326-329) SC 1401
11:30 – 12:30 PM Mini-Symposium VII: Was Late-20th Century Denver “Liberal,”
“Conservative,” or Something Else? (330-333) SC 2000
11:30 – 12:30 PM Mini-Symposium VIII: Membranes and Molecular Modeling
(334-337) SC 2500
12:30 – 2:00 PM Poster Sessions
201-249 1st floor Student Commons Building
250-299 2nd floor Student Commons Building
12:30 – 2:00 PM Mini-Symposium XI: LGBTQ-Centric Fiction (348-351) SC 1401
12:30 – 2:00 PM Mini-Symposium XII: Deceptive Development: Space, Power, and Agency
in the Strategic Gentrification of Denver’s Brighton Boulevard
(363-365) SC 2500
1:00 – 2:30 PM Mini-Symposium XIII: Human Stories (352-357) SC 1600
1:00 – 2:00 PM Mini-Symposium XIV: Contesting Masculinity from the
Nineteenth-Century American West to the Second World War
(358-361) SC 2000
2:30 – 3:30 PM Convened Session SC 2600
Welcome Chancellor, Dr. Dorothy A. Horrell
Mentor Award Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Dr. Roderick Nairn
LYNx Talk “Dime con quién andas, y te dire quién eres; Tell me who you walk with and I will tell you who you are”
Dr. Ruben Viramontez Anguiano, Professor of Human Development, Family Relations and Education, School of Education and Human Development
Awards Associate Vice Chancellor, Jeff Franklin, Office of Undergraduate Experiences
Dean Pamela Jansma, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dr. Lindsey Hamilton, Director of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities
RaCAS People’s Choice Awards 2018
Vote once each for 1 Undergraduate Student Presentation and 1 Graduate Student Presentation for the RaCAS Peoples’ Choice Awards!
To vote, scan the QR code!
101 Beatriz Bermudez 102 Phuong Ly 103 Alexandria Clark 104 Kathleen Nguyen 105 Chelsea Charley-Suarez 106 Rocio Ramirez 107 Anna Scopp
108 Sebastian Del Barco 109 Aaron Griffin 110 Lea Ziegler 111 Brittany Waschke 112 Magdelana Carr 113 Leslye Simental 114 Sophia Meichtry 115 Khoa Nguyen 116 Shamik Bhat 117 Charles Myers 118 Jennifer Jaime 119 Ryan Parker 120 Leah Link 121 James Raines 122 Rebekah Boyd 123 Julianna Oviedo 124 Ricky Lippincott 125 Denise Hoth 126 Mais Al-Nima 127 Mitchell Deans 128 Poorva Hosseini 129 Harmanpreet Kang 130 Esteban Loetz 131 Ian Stewart 132 Kimberly Rodriguez 133 Julia Devanova 134 Bethany Walker 135 James Bittle 140 Emily Greene 151 Hawkar Oagaz 152 Lewis Sammons 153 Timothy Porfilio 154 Kim Cowie 155 Emelie Nguyen 156 Desiree Salais 157 Matthew Hoang 158 Sahitya Talachutla 159 Amar Alic 160 Chloe Pitsch 161 Amanda Martinez 162 Chad Renick 163 Brandan Radar 164 Alexandria Dickens 165 Kilinoelani Montgomery 166 Alisa Mavrotheris 167 Damon Pool 168 Kenny Ngo 169 Zeinab Mohammadi 170 Jessica Romero 171 Steven Bates 172 Dillon Rickertsen 173 Kyle McGrath 174 Kyle Townsend 175 Sarah St. Onge 176 Thomas Kennedy 177 Vrajen Patel 178 Connor Jacobs 179 Michaela Pott 180 Andrew Gras 181 Adnan Syed 182 Robert Wood 183 River Wood 184 Jessica Durr 203 Hassan El-Batal 204 Mikayla Haburchak 205 Jacqueline Chaves 206 Todd Fulton 207 John Wiseman 208 Adam Goldstein 209 Jonté Roberts 210 Cristiana Meuret 211 Hisham Nsier 212 Scott Yanco 213 Adrian Butler 214 N. Chris Hess 216 Kateryna Biryukova 217 Anand Chundi 218 Jeremy Pierce 219 Sean Joyce 220 Anastasia Zhivotov 221 Tanja Kovacevic 222 Carlos Soriano Rangel 223 Jenny Posnak 224 Brenda Kane 225 Jaqueline Chavez 226 Hailey Smieja 227 Alexander Ho 228 Caitlin Kienzler 229 Maria Nikulkova 230 Hector Robles-Campos 231 Nick Zawadzki 232 McCall Calvert 233 Jazmyne Davis 234 Kavya Gunuthula
235 Daniel Hernandez Altamirano 236 Alexa Powell
237 Audrey Dignan 238 Tish Konz
254 Joseph McHugh 255 Samantha Martinez 256 Kathryn Kilpatrick 257 Joseph Findeiss 258 Tyler Michels 259 Yaswanth Chintaluru 260 Andrew McDevitt 261 Nick Bard 262 Kelsey Estes 263 Eskeila Martin 264 Erast Davidjuk 265 Kristen Birdshire 268 Dailbor Todorovski 269 Alexandra Khong 270 Matthew Mitchell 271 Yovana Perez 272 Katherine Ketcham 273 Odalis Castro 274 Hannah Keller 275 Jennifer Khong 276 Karima Osman 277 Matthew Kiselevach 278 Lindsay Adams 279 Austin Skinner 280 Brandi Wheeler 281 Cameron Mattson 282 Ashlie Viramontes 283 Yan Pang 284 Martin Nguyen 300 Lewis Sammons 301 Christopher Renden 302 Jordan Stein 303 Devin Effinger 304 Amber Olson 305 Amber Johnson 306 Mikaela Neal 307 Danae Mitchell 308 Jacquelyne Staley 309 William Funk 310 Giovanni Cantor 311 Nicole Baccarella 312 Mercedes Coon 313 Philong Than 314 Christina Critchell 315 True Apodacca 316 Bihn Phan 317 Alisya Rodriguez 318 Tiffany Tasker 319 Ji Yoon 320 Katherine Kissler 321 Buenting 322 Billotte 323 Hannah Koury 324 Elizabeth Franks 325 Carissa Vinovskis 326 Michael Pilosov 327 Jordan Hall 328 Tian Yu Yen 329 James Haley 330 Crist Whitney 331 Brian Galea 332 D’Aaron Stewart 333 Maggie McNair 334 Hai Tran 335 Danielle Miller 336 Timothy Spotts 337 Baris Aydintug 338 Nicolette Moya 339 Margaret Tanner 340 Lamyaa Dawud 341 Erin Sanders 342 Dominic Isaacs 343 Cailey Salogovic 344 Adrian Butler 345 Kaitlynn Eliott 346 Adnan Syed 347 Courtney Crawford 348 Jessie Hawk 349 Amy Scott 350 Grace Wagner 351 Ven Higginbottom 352 Alexander Feldman 353 Grace Finnigan-Fox 354 Karl Gunselman 355 Brittany Huner 356 Elizabeth Roths 357 Nicole Lockhart 358 Matthew Taylor 359 Micaela Cruce 360 Justin Vaughn 361 Emily Whitworth 362 Jenna McKnight 363 Kelli McAntee 364 Sarah Brown 365 Nick Patin 400 Xiaolun Yuan 401 Lu Vy 402 Sam May 403 Sam May 404 Matthew Manfredo 405 Nicolas Weaver 406 Michael Zabawa 407 Matthew Mitchell 408 Kilinoelani Montgomery 409 Oniza Chaman 410 Katyie Wells 411 Shalini Mahanthege 412 Yitong Cai 413 Kendra Koach 414 Christina Ebben 415 Luna Abraha 416 Neissrien Alhubieshi 417 Mitchell Montepagano 418 Zhaomin Li 419 Mohammed Alnuaimi
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Richard Joel Traystman
April 5, 1942 - October 19, 2017Richard Joel Traystman, age 75, of Denver, Colorado, Passed away on October 19, 2017 in Colorado. Dick was born in Brooklyn, New York to Raetchel and Maurice Traystman on April 5, 1942.
Warm and kind, Dick was a tremendous colleague, great contributor to his field, and mentor to many students and postdocs. Colorado University-Anschutz recruited him in 2007. Dick oversaw the University’s research functions at both the Colorado Anschutz and Colorado University-Denver campuses, including research development, regulatory compliance and laboratory animal resources. He was a staunch supporter of the RaCAS event.
Dick’s scientific contributions were many, with his most significant and lasting influence in the field of cerebral blood flow and metabolism. He published more than 475 articles in peer-reviewed journals, served on editorial boards for many prestigious journals, trained more than 100 fellows and students and was funded by NIH throughout his decades-long career. His remarkable productivity was a testament to his work ethic, scientific creativity and commitment to discovery.
Dick received his BS and MS degrees from Long Island University and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, where he worked for more than 30 years until he was recruited in 2003 by the Oregon Health and Science University. He left Hopkins as a distinguished professor and senior vice chair for research. At Oregon, he was associate vice president for research planning and development, associate dean for research, and professor of anesthesiology and peri-operative medicine.
Among the numerous distinguished awards he received, Dick was most proud of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, the Excellence in Research Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Excellence in Research Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association, designation as the Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lecturer by the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society and an ScD (Honorary) from Long Island University.
