The Spring Symposium is cancelled. We will return in the Fall of 2024.
The Data to Policy Project Gallery
Please explore all the wonderful projects our students have produced in the present and past galleries! They are tackling problems they'd like to solve in our community by examining public data through different approaches, then proposing actionable steps we can use to develop real policy.
Details on how to join the upcoming Fall Symposium on Friday, December 1st are posted at "Symposium Instructions".
The Fall 2023 Symposium: Friday, December 1st.
Projects will be loaded into online galleries for preview before the symposium. Project formats need to be viewable online. Create a video; design a story map; or turn in .PDFs of a slide deck, or poster to share your research!
The Data to Policy Project Symposium brings students from all participating courses together to present their research to their peers, faculty, community members, and local government and agency officials. Students design professional research posters to illustrate their data analysis and policy recommendations. Teams share their work with an audience diverse in expertise and interests. Participating students have expressed that the symposium experience helps make the project more meaningful and relevant and has opened opportunities for jobs and internships.
Fall 2023 Symposium Winners
Grand Prize
"Investigating Potential Mental Health Deserts Based on Clusters of Suicide Mortality Rates in Colorado"
Kenneth Huynh
Best in Data
"Clustering Neighborhoods in Order to Identify Policy Needs"
Jacob Dunham, Orlando Gonzalez & Alex Semyonov
Best in Policy
"Housing Assistance Program Awareness"
By Courtney Franzen & Weston White
Best Presentation (Tie)
"Clustering of Job Loss Due to COVID-19 During 2020"
By Johnathan Rhyne
"A Spatial Analysis of the Target Demographics of Hate Crimes in Denver"
By Phoenix Williams
Submit Your Project to the Institutional Repository
The Auraria Library invites and encourages faculty, staff, and students from the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver to submit original scholarly research to the Auraria Institutional Repository, a free, publicly-accessible platform for research materials produced by campus authors. Create an account and use the "Upload" function on our Digital Collections repository page.
Example of Student Presented Poster
Grand Prize winner for Fall 2018:
- Vulnerable Populations and Prejudice Propagation: A Reinforcement Learning Model (PDF)
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
