Congratulations to Kelsey Faulds, Integrative Biology alumni, for her envolvement with the “Make4Covid” organization, the First Place award winner in the Make It Matter Awards for 2020 Fall.

Make It Matter Award 1st Place Winner: Make4Covid

Make4Covid, Andrew Henderson, Lauren Hebert, Dan Griner, Kelsie Faulds, and Kate Goodman. A social innovation, a crowd-sourced organization to design, develop, and deliver Personal Protection Equipment to Colorado during the pandemic.

The annual Make It Matter Award champions the development of innovative solutions that address the world’s most challenging problems. Awards totaling up to $5,000 will be distributed annually to the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) and Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) students, postdoctoral fellows, or community members for the successful design and development of working product prototypes that have high potential to move toward commercialization.

The Lewis Family Awards exist to honor the memory of brother and sister, Drew and Nancy, by encouraging others to be who they are, enjoy everything they do, and make a difference within their community. The Lewis family legacy to make others’ lives easier through volunteerism and philanthropy lives on through the Lewis Family Awards. The awards committee and the Lewis Family have identified the following winners for the fall 2020 semester: