Public Impact Fellows

Elevating the Visibility of Research Excellence

The University of Denver’s Public Impact Fellow (PIF) program prepares faculty to engage with a more general audience around their scholarship and research. Participants learn how to bring greater awareness to the meaningful research they are doing individually and that is taking place collectively throughout the university.

Crafting a message, writing opinion articles, working with policymakers, media interview training, social media, and book marketing are many of the different workshops faculty participate in during the yearlong program. The goal is to help participants develop their strategic approach to showcasing the public and broader impacts of their research.

65 DU faculty and staff who have participated in the program since program started in 2018 year

20% of DU’s total media hits that the Public Impact Fellows account for

$30M Grant dollars generated by PIF faculty who have completed the program.

Meet Our Public Impact Fellows for 2024

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Linda Mendez Barrientos

Assistant Professor – Josef Korbel School of International Studies

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Crystal Day-Hess

Assistant Research Professor – Morgridge College of Education

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Tim Holbrook

Professor – Sturm College of Law

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Stephen Hutt

Assistant Professor – Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Robin Leake

Research Professor – Graduate School of Social Work

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Juan Carlos Lopez

Assistant Professor – College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

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Ana Babic Rosario

Associate Professor – Daniels College of Business

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Jamie Shapiro

Professor – Graduate School of Professional Psychology

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Robin Tinghitella

Associate Professor – College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

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