Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards
2025 Winners
The 2025 Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony
Video recording: https://vimeo.com/1086152900
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Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Ando, Kai (MERRILL): The Invisible Hands of Lisbon: The Black Africans That Kept The City Alive During The Renaissance. Mentor: Consuelo Endrigo-Williams
- O’Leary, Gillian (JRLEWIS): Girl Blood, An Original Play. Mentor: Michael Chemers
- Tran, Emily (KRESGE): Fruit Fashion. Mentor: dani wright
Dean’s Award
- Goodman, Titus (PORTER): The Role of Social Media Strategies in Music Promotion. Mentor: Nina Treadwell
- Lagrange, Celeste (PORTER): Be Brave. Be Bold. Be a Woman in a Man’s World. Mentor: Michael Chemers
- Nguyen, David (CARSON): (Screenplay) Mister Whale. Mentor: Natasha V
- Pettigrew, Yousif (OAKES): 2 Compositions and Performances for Guitar Ensemble. Mentor: Christopher Mallett
- Reyes, Prema (PORTER): Re-membering Self: Mis/recognition in the work of Adrian Piper. Mentor: Jennifer Gonzalez
- Taylor, Annalie (JRLEWIS): Stone and Body. Mentor: Sarah Sanford
- Villar, Ella (PORTER): Challenging Memorialized Whiteness: Statues, Memory, and Race. Mentor: Jennifer Gonzalez
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Chalamala, Megna (CARSON): Understanding the Instructive Effects of TPRX1 Splicing Variants during the Acquisition of Totipotency in Human Cells. Mentor: Ali Shariati
- Hofkin, Aurora (NINE): Biochemical Characterization of Human Astrovirus 1 RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase. Mentor: Rebecca Dubois
- Rehman, Naomi (NINE): Incorrect-Path Prediction for Power Throttling Speculative Execution. Mentor: Heiner Litz
Dean’s Award
- Chandrasiri, Samintha (COWELL), Nguyen, Brian (JRLEWIS), Polu, Tejas (JRLEWIS), Sud, Neo (COWELL), Wilson, Emil (NINE): Annota: Measuring The Impact of AI Feedback for QA Education. Mentor: David Lee
- Gagnon, Delia (OAKES): Respiratory Syncytial Virus G Bound to a High-Affinity, Broadly Neutralizing Antibody to Inform Rational Vaccine Design. Mentor: Rebecca Dubois
- Huynh, Kirsten (CROWN), Lui, Michelle (CROWN): Antibody Detection and Quantification of Group A Streptococcus. Mentor: Rebecca Dubois
- Katreddi, Sriya (NINE), Pooskur, Prasiddh (JRLEWIS):“Who thought .zip was a good idea”: Analyzing Maliciousness in Newly-Released gTLDs. Mentor: Ram Sundara Raman
- Petiwala, Zahra (CARSON): ReMiDi: Reconstruction of Microstructure Using a Differentiable Diffusion MRI Simulator. Mentor: Razvan Marinescu
- Reyes, Clare (PORTER), Bautista, Jacob (CROWN), Benaryeh, Emmet (KRESGE), Bopparaju, Nivriti (COWELL), Duarte, Cesar (OAKES), Garcia, Joseph (PORTER), Krueger, Kendra (CROWN), Lai, Brenda (COWELL), Mahesh, Aurko (STEVENSON), Nandakumar, Vibitha (PORTER), Pillai, Monisha (CROWN), Sekula, Marshall (COWELL), Yankin, Daniel (PORTER), Yet, Zaden (MERRILL): UCSC iGEM 2024: Limnospira Inspired Foundational Technologies. Mentor: David Bernick
- Vetha, Eric (CARSON): Improving Low-cost In-ground Soil Moisture Sensing System Using Backscatter Tags for Sustainable Agriculture. Mentor: Colleen Josephson
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Maher, Molly (PORTER): The ClubHouse. Mentor: Marc Matera
- Nguyen, Sabrina (COWELL): Does Freedom Mean Free? Manumission, Marriage, and Public Perception in the Roman Empire. Mentor: Martin Devecka
- Villar, Ella (PORTER): Beyond Occupation: Palestinian Solidarity Art and Futurity. Mentor: Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
Dean’s Award
- Amaya, Jonas (PORTER): Phenomenal Consciousness in Complex Adaptive Systems under Panpsychism and the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness. Mentor: Philip Groth
- Ceron, Emmy (NINE): Bad Bunny: Music with a Purpose. Mentor: Madhavi Murty
- Eiger, Vairagya (KRESGE): Adorned in Exile: Algerian Jewish Jewelry as Memory, Identity, and Resistance. Mentor: Alma Heckman
- Larsen, Sophia (KRESGE): Calling God to the Podium: How the Ironies in the Book of Job Structure Modern Theistic and Absurdist Understandings of Faith, Justice, and Judaism. Mentor: Bruce Thompson
- Robinson, Michael (MERRILL): From Bacchus and Midas Through Nationalism to Eroticism and Pop Art: How the Barberini Faun Has Been Shaped by Shifting Cultural Norms. Mentor: Elaine Sullivan
- Sainz, Valerie (STEVENSON): Kateri Tekakwitha: Praise from the Pulpit, Power in the Pines (1626-1680). Mentor: Gregory O’Malley
- Zimmerle, Mary (KRESGE): The English Mummy. Mentor: Elaine Sullivan
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Gonzalez, Noe (CROWN): A Monte Carlo Study of Higgs Bosons Produced via Vector Boson Fusion in the Boosted Regime @ \sqrt{s} = 13.6 TeV. Mentor: Jason Nielsen
- Subbotina Stephenson, Klaus (KRESGE): The Effects of Binary Reference Sources on JWST NIRCam Coronagraphy. Mentor: Andrew Skemer
- Varga, Lukas (CARSON): Ancestral sequence reconstruction of vanadium dependent haloperoxidases. Mentor: Shaun McKinnie
Dean’s Award
- Cecil, Annice (PORTER): Driving Forces of Diel Vertical Migration in Zooplankton from Alaskan Seagrass Beds. Mentor: Pete Raimondi
- Garg, Stuti (NINE), Kollipara, Ishan (JRLEWIS), Murphy, Liam (PORTER), Svensson, Maya Diaz (CROWN), Weber, Alison (CARSON): A New Census of the Universe’s Entropy. Mentor: Stefano Profumo
- Kelly, Danielle (CARSON): Structural mapping of an immunodominant antigenic site on the Norovirus Protruding Domain Capsid. Mentor: Rebecca Dubois
- Lindemuth, Emma (CROWN): Reconstruction of Lake Baikal Vegetation to 500 Ka using n-alkanes. Mentor: Pratigya Polissar
- Moosman, Owen (STEVENSON): Mitigating assembly and switch errors in phased genomes of polar fishes reveals haplotype diversity in copy number of antifreeze protein genes. Mentor: Joanna Kelley
- Nielsen, Lindsey (COWELL), Heneghan, Sally (STEVENSON), Seida, Ellie (CARSON), Shenasa, Amina(CROWN): Using acoustic indices to evaluate the soundscapes of kelp forest and urchin barren ecosystems in Sitka Sound, Alaska. Mentor: Pete Raimondi
- Van Dorn, Sydnee (PORTER), Stoaks, Grey (CROWN), Gott, Gabriel (CARSON): Influences on Community Composition of Intertidal Seagrass in the Sitka Sound. Mentor: Pete Raimondi
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Bentley, John (KRESGE): The Dark Side of Development: The Acceleration of Genocide in Emerging Economies. Mentor: Kent Eaton
- Fuster Tarrago, Blanca (CARSON): Reducing Provincial Disparities in Infant Mortality: A Difference-in-Differences Assessment of Plan Nacer’s Effectiveness. Mentor: Eleonora Pasotti
- Venerable, Elyse (STEVENSON): Investigating the origins of the Oyo Empire war ponies in 17th-century Nigeria using strontium isotope analysis. Mentor: Vicky Oelze
Dean’s Award
- Dollman, Matthew (PORTER):Cuba’s Welfare Regime: Authoritarian, Universal, and Strained. Mentor: Sara Niedzwiecki
- DeLucchi, Natalie (MERRILL), Carroll, Daelaigh (MERRILL): Fascist Social Policy: The Expansion of Social Insurance under Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Mentor: Sara Niedzwiecki
- Mathura, Christopher (STEVENSON): One Guyana?: Evaluating Potential Symptoms of the Resource Curse and the Promises of Sustainable Development. Mentor: Flora Lu
- Spry, Sophia (JRLEWIS): AI Driven Welfare Reform: Predictive Risk Models in New Zealand, Chile, and the US. Mentor: Sara Niedzwiecki
- Tien, Chelsey (NINE): Caregiver’s use of praise during a collaborative problem-solving task involving causal reasoning. Mentor: Su-hua Wang
- Yu, Audrey (JRLEWIS): Language Effects on Parent-child Conversations About Human Traits. Mentor: David Menendez
- Zalunardo, Vivian (STEVENSON):Addressing “Glazed Separateness”: Invisibility, Domesticity, and Resistance of Black Women in the Works of Toni Morrison. Mentor: Dean Mathiowetz
2024 Winners
The 2024 Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony is available to watch here: https://vimeo.com/953660070
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Kairo Chin (Porter): Clyde’s
- Kyla Perkins (Merrill): Theories on How to Decarcerate the Museum
- Danny Moshayedi (Stevenson), Katherine Garcia De La Rosa (Kresge), Madeline Finkel (Kresge): Unforgettable Lies: Framing Jamie Snow
Dean’s Award
- Zella Bonita Vacaron (Kresge): From Giving Violets to Gaining Visibility: Looking at Artwork by Self-Identified Lesbian Artists
- Alice Barreras (Porter): Always Offer a Gift of Silver to the First Magpie Seen in Spring
- Lily Mia Nash (Carson): Climate Grief Quilting Bee
- Kasey Morales (Kresge): Fragmented Mind of the Torn Soul / Womanhood
- Celeste Wilkinson (Merrill): Hybridity of Costume and the Development of Race: Conflicting Meanings within the Portrait of Don Francisco de Arobe and Sons Pedro and Domingo
- Cecelia Selznick (Stevenson): Indigenous Land Politics: Artistic Resistance Presented by Zapatista Climate Justice
- Chanel Chavira (Stevenson): The Reclamation of Hawaiian Featherwork: Exploring History and Tradition in Relation to the Present
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Coen Adler (Crown): Fair Augmentation of Decision Trees Through Selective Node Retraining
- Natalie Valett (Nine): Connectivity-Based Heuristic Algorithms for Restoration Prioritization
- Danielle Haley (Porter): Structure and antigenicity of the porcine astrovirus 4 capsid spike
Dean’s Award
- John Minnick (Carson): Automated tools for accurate and precise dosing of granular solids
- Yuhao Chen (JR Lewis), Hanwen Yang (JR Lewis), Chloe Wong (JR Lewis), Juan Aguenza (Cowell), Sai Bhujangari (Cowell), Benthan Vu (Cowell): Assessing the Impact of Prompting Methods on ChatGPT’s Mathematical Capabilities
- Luqman Zaceria (Cowell): Automatic Vectorization of Architectural Floor Plans
- Siddarth Mamidanna (Crown), Shiyuan Huang (Merrill), Shreedhar Jangam (JR Lewis): Can Large Language Models Explain Themselves? A Study of LLM-Generated Self-Explanations
- Akhil Gunasekaran (Crown): Knowledge Distillation Through Time For Future Event Prediction
- Varun Kodur (Crown), Jordan Nichols (Stevenson), Allison Jaballas (Crown), Julia Saltz (Cowell), Nikita Rajesh (Crown), James Larbalestier (Kresge), Zokhira Mukhammadyunusova (JR Lewis), Tyler Gaw(Oakes), Srikar Bevara (JR Lewis), Mckenna Smith (Crown), Ashlyn Nhu-Ngoc Huynh (Nine), Blanca Gil(Merrill), Katherine Warren (Cowell), Daniel Li (Porter), Edgar D Cruz (Crown): TABI: Toxic Algal Bloom Interference
- Ananthajit Srikanth (Nine), Chi Jasmine Tai (JR Lewis): Embers, Wind, and Fire: An investigation of the effects of embers and wind on wildfire propagation
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Jacob Press (Stevenson): “You Just Take It For Granted When You’re Growing Up”: Filipino Cockfighting in the Pajaro Valley
- Ian Doyle (ihdoyle) (Oakes): Red Dawn Over Derry: A History of Socialist Republicanism and Radicalism in the Troubles
- Ethan Waldo (ewaldo) (JR Lewis): Regulation of Prostitution in 19th Century Paris: Effects of Urbanization on Sexual Institutions
Dean’s Award
- Jackson Young (Cowell), Isabel De Blois (Kresge), Valerie Sainz (Stevenson): A Night in Harlem: Mapping the Nightclubs of 1930’s Harlem
- Leonardo Colletta (Stevenson): Ireland As We Would Surely Have Her
- Maia Mislang (Porter): Sex Work and Prostitution in the American-Occupied Philippines
- Bronwyn Eyre (Stevenson): Silent Soldiers: Uncovering the Stories of Indigenous Nurses in the First World War
- Molly Maher (Porter): Tensions in Paradise: The Om Commune as an Alternative Cultural Experiment
- Lily Marx (Kresge): the earth as skin
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Aditi Gangadharan (Nine): Optics Testing for SCALES
- Darshika Ravulapalli (Kresge): Adressing Discrepancies Within Emission-line Modeling Using a Machine Learning Approach
- *Eva Zlimen (Carson): Extensive Ice Pollution of Uranus and Neptune’s Atmospheres by Upsweep of Material During the Nice Model Migration
Dean’s Award
- Alekhya Meduri (Crown): Equipped with a Cre-Dependent CRISPR-CAS9 System to Investigate Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Bengalese Finch Models
- Anna Voznyuk (Merrill): Biogeography and activity of cyanobacterial and non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs throughout the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
- Darian Mohsenin (Kresge): Mapping Cell-Type-Specific Gene Expression across the Developing Songbird Forebrain
- Kathryn Echandia-Monroe (Nine): Comparative RNA sequencing analysis reveals KRAS A146P presence in rare form of Gliosarcoma
- Keaton Ferguson (Crown): Accuracy of the disconnected bump scan conducted on ATLAS prototype pixel modules using the RD53a readout chip
- Nitya Jain (Nine): Phylogenetic Analysis of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
- Olivia Jackson (Carson): PIENU to PIONEER: Constraints on Rare Pion Decays in Search of Dark Sector Physics
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Alexandra Singer (Nine): Repression and Mobilization in the Digital Age: a Triangular Set of Relations
- Lila Bell (Kresge): Women Talking: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Requirements of Womanhood
- *Ameyalli De La Rosa (Merrill): ¡El es Dios!: Mexican Folk Catholicism and its Rebellious Ecologies
Dean’s Award
- Gerard Labriola (Merrill): Bringing Each Other to Greatness: Narratives of the Revolutionary Vanguard and Horizontal Alternatives in Zapatista Theory and Practice
- Reva Samant (Merrill): Ending Solitary Confinement: A Look Outside the Eighth Amendment and Litigation
- Diana Garcia (Merrill), Sydrah Al-Saegh (Cowell): Peer Relations and the Importance of Cultural Identity in Classroom Motivation
- Shavit Melamed (Carson): Radio Activities: Extracurricular College Radio and Academic Success
- Lauren Elscott (Carson): The Judicial Paintbrush: The Ongoing Evolution of Copyright Law and its Relationships with Creators, Corporations, and Artificial Intelligence
- Kasey La (Merrill): What Was My Error?: Online Processing of Speech Disfluency by Foreign-Accented Speakers
2023 Winners
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- lavender higley (Kresge): Random With A Purpose XXXI: The Community Movement
- Kyler Salameda (Cowell) and lavender higley (Kresge): Eye Like The Way She Moves
- Miles Bernath (Porter): Eisenstein In Japan: How Japanese Art Influenced Film Theory
Dean’s Award
- Sarah Krulder (Porter): Unrooted Ornamental (Scotch Broom)
- Tamara Muradyan (Porter): Unbelievable!/Reach for the Stars, Aubrey!
- Maxwell Ward (Cowell): Bridging Past and Present: Formulating a Community Archaeology Project at Lagunas de los Cóndores
- Aja Bond (Cowell): If a Banner Drops in the Woods and No One’s There to Read It, Does It Make a Statement?
- Emily Tran (Kresge): Mementos
- Zoe Linstrom (Porter): Social Ills: Narrating Contemporary Political Issues Through Oil Painting
- Marcel Bell (Oakes): Love Jones
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Joseph M Cruz (Kresge): Investigating the COBRA NG2 Hemagglutinin for Universal Flu For Vaccine Development
- Kiana Imani (John R. Lewis), Elizabeth Beer (Cowell), Izabella Balius (Eight), Zoe Petroff (Crown),Jonathan Zau (Kresge), Cambell Strand (Crown), Lauren Paule (Eight), Joanne Shen (Nine), Yixuan Peng (Porter), Nathan Mccall (Crown), Vidhata Singh (Crown), Christopher Schade (Crown), Haripriya (Nine),Thiago Feitosa (Eight): Helo: Accessible Type 2 Diabetes Medication Through Stable Expression of Exendin-4 in S. cerevisiae
- Hayley Coyle (Crown): Deep Learning and High-Resolution Drone Imagery for Accurate Plant Species Mapping in California Coastal Communities
Dean’s Award
- Cally Lin (Nine): Developing and Deploying the Xena Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Appyter
- Fan Xia (Crown): Organoid Culture Modifications to Improve Brain Organoid Fidelity
- Anand Verma (Porter): Validating Binding Interactions of CX3CR1 with RSV G Glycoprotein
- Samuel Nangle (Cowell): Structural Studies of Respiratory Syncytial Virus G Glycoprotein Central Conserved Domain and Fab 2b11
- Maxim Biryukov (Crown): Applying Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm to the 1D Euler-Lagrange Equation
- Bradley Tait (Porter): Can 2D Stack Up to 3D, or Will 2D Fall Flat?
- John Madden (Crown): Soil Power Sensor
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Vann Jones (Merrill): What to Expect When He’s Expecting: A Complete Guide to Transmasculine Reproduction (website)
- Elina Juvonen (Stevenson): “A Great Big Warm-Hearted Southern Family”: The United Daughters of the Confederacy in New York City
- Rachel Ledeboer (Porter): Metamorphoses of the Metamorphoses: An Examination of a 16th Century Venetian Printed Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the University of California, Santa Cruz Library Special Collections & Archives
Dean’s Award
- Owen Cooksy (Cowell): The Death of an Irish Soldier: Irish Nationalism, Ulster Nationalism, and the Murder of Henry Wilson
- Maria Hele (Nine), Ashley Marshall (Stevenson): Re-Membering Motherhood: Transforming Futures through Reassembling the Iconicity of the Mother
- Colin Hirschberg (Rachel Carson): Restrictions on Mandarin Bei-Passives
- Tatum Kubik (Stevenson): Redefining ‘Normal’ Bodies: Disability Studies in Fever Dream
- Russell Moore (Oakes): The Color and Politics of Locomotives on the Central Pacific Railroad
- Ryan Nguyen (Oakes): Observational Reports and Cognitive States: Sellars and McDowell
- Ann Niland (Kresge): To Identity Or Not To Identity: Diversity, Marketing, and the White Savior in Science Fiction & Fantasy From The Dark Tower to Star Trek
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Samuel English (Merrill): The Hidden Friend‘s Wake: Dark Matter and a Binary at the Galactic Center
- Valery Ortiz (Nine): Molecular Mechanisms of PCH-2 and HORMADs during meiosis I
- Martin Gutierrez (Oakes): Rescue of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII Exon-16 Mis-splicing by Antisense Oligonucleotides
Dean’s Award
- Amanda Mohr (Merrill): The Importance of Exoplanet Research and TOI5527.01
- Emma Snyder (Rachel Carson): Response of Dittrichia graveolens to competition with non-native grasses in varying soil conditions
- Jennifer Waldo (Stevenson): Investigating the potential of helicopter-vessel communication for bycatch avoidance in tuna purse seine fisheries
- Maryke Grobler (Oakes): Chromosomal Fusions, But Not Chromosomal Inversions, Activate a PCH-2 Dependent Checkpoint That Promotes Crossover Formation in C. elegans
- Noelle Yaitanes (Porter): Investigating the Role of Kinase Tails in the Regulation of Circadian Period
- Orazio Bagno (Cowell): Studying RNA Helicase Involvement in Alternative 3′ Splice Site Selection Using CRISPR and RNAi
- Samantha Scarlett (Crown): Synthesizing Chemically Diverse Cyclic Peptides in Effort to Determine Structure-Permeability Relationships for Drug Discovery
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Annabel Bouwer (Crown): The Mindful Gaze: Trait Mindful People Under Instructed Emotion Regulation Selectively Attend to Positive Stimuli
- Brianna Barrientos (Kresge): The Perseverance of Filipino Labor: An Analysis of the Competing Forces Between Filipino Advocacy and San Francisco Racial Politics
- Brooke Johnson (John R. Lewis): Unpacking the Colonial Legacy of the Global Waste Trade: the Impact of National Sword as a Critical Juncture
Dean’s Award
- Brent Horning (Nine): Globalization of the Gaze: Divine and Secular Seeing in the Durga Puja Festival of Kolkata
- Elina Juvonen (Stevenson): Family and Foreign: Investigating Representation and Contradiction in 1950s Women’s Magazines
- Gepeng Ding (Nine): The Cost of Political Stability: Reckoning of Policy Adjustment in China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles
- Jiayue Sun (John R. Lewis): Children’s Engagement During a Museum Visit to a Mammoth Fossil Exhibit
- Joy Anderson (Kresge): Affirming the Strengths of LGBTQIA+ Families in San Francisco: Barriers to Redefining Family in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
- Morgan Yates (Stevenson): The Influence of Interactions with Pet Dogs on Psychological Distress
- Serena Campbell (Merrill): “The University Needs to Listen”: Moving from Mainstream to Critical Environmentalism at UC Santa Cruz
2022 Winners
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Luis Booth (Nine) and Blair Hammond (Kresge): Any Face, Whatever Body
- Sofia Tomanov (Porter): Jane Avril: Spectacle and Spectator in the Art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Nicole Rudolph-Vallerga (Porter): Seance of Duality: Summoning Those Living In-Between
Dean’s Award
- Aja Bond (Cowell): All Day I Dream About Soil
- Brandon Castro (Porter): Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl
- Claire Apana (Porter): IMPRESSIONS
- Christy Yee (Merrill): From Me to You
- Gabriel Wall (Porter): (Don’t) Just be Yourself: Fashion, Play, and Identity in the Post-Ironic Age
- Ira Irvani (Porter): The Dream is Gone/ What Cinema Could’ve Been … Gender and Sexual Ambiguity in Pre-Code Hollywood and the Motion Picture Production Code of 1934
- Robert Jeffrey (Merrill), Spencer Greene (Porter), Philippa Fuschich (Porter): we’re here because we’re here
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Connor Masterson (Eight): Hardware Acceleration For Multi-Scalar Multiplication In Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Eric Vin (Oakes): Labelled Control Improvisation
- Torrey Bronwell (Porter), Franklin Zheng (Ten), Tobin Berger-Cahn (Porter), Denise Calderon (Kresge), Yi-Chi Chu (Merrill), Rose Delvillar (Eight), Alfonso Gaminao (Merrill), Tarabyn Grismer (Cowell), Emily Hallamasek (Eight), Julia Howard (Crown), Stephen Hwang (Merrill), Tanya Ivanov (Crown), Rhea Kamath (Ten), David Kelaita (Porter), Natasha Liu (Eight), Nabil Mohammed (Ten): Progenie: Programmable Gene Disruption in Pathogenic Bacteria
Dean’s Award
- Alec Soronow (Merrill): Bell Jar: A Semi-Automated Registration and Cell Counting Tool for Mouse Neurohistology Analysis
- Alan Brilliant (Nine): Quantum Circuit Superoptimization
- Elana Muzzy (Nine): Organoid-Ion Pump Integration
- Meghan Mathers (Eight), Meghan Burr (Cowell), Samuel Magdaleno (Eight): Aiden Mcfadden (Eight): CRISPy Lettuce
- Nicolas Ayala (Crown): Inferring non-additive multi-locus selection in introgressed populations using hidden Markov models
- Rohan Jhangiana (Stevenson), Adrian Parrales (Ten): Towards a Gaze-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Improving Visual Acuity with Amblyopia
- Sayaka Kozuki (Nine): Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Using CRISPR Activation
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Lucy Dasilva (Stevenson): Memories of the Blacklist Era
- Rane Vigil (Kresge): Apartheid and the Bloody Origins of Khayelitsha
- Ryan Hart (Merrill): Power, Law, and Symbolism: Hammurabi’s Code over 3700 years
Dean’s Award
- Arianna Nocelo (Merrill): in my briefs and opera gloves
- Chloe Seifert (Kresge): The Curious Female Traveler: Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone
- Emma Willis (Porter): Across Many Oceans: The Strange Journey of the Northwest Palace Reliefs
- Gavin Williams (Merrill): The Blood of the Nopal: A Case of Indigenous Cochineal Cultivation from 1521-1796
- Maia Zelkha (Stevenson): Pens of Iron: Echoes of the Psalms of David in Hebrew Poetry from Samuel HaNagid to Yehuda Amichai
- Nicholas Masher (Oakes): The Site and the Memorial: Hiroshima’s Peace Complex in Cold War Japan
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Elizabeth Yunerman (Crown): A Pathway for Collisional Planetesimal Growth in the Ice Dominant Region of Protoplanetary Disks
- Austin Dymont (Cowell): Cleaning our Hazy Lens: Statistical Trends in Transmission Spectra of Warm Exoplanets
- Jialin Li (Nine): Two Approaches to the Search for Life: Comparison Study of Titan Haze Analogs and Coronagraph Mask Designs for Exoplanet Imager
Dean’s Award
- Ariella Stewart (Cowell): Fezf2 promotes differentiation in hippocampal post-natal neural stem cells
- Irene Franco (Eight): Investigating the Binding of Amyloid-beta with the Prion Protein Regulatory Domain
- Jodi Lee (Merrill): RNA-seq Analysis Reveals Mode of Splicing Inefficiency: Coordinated Intron Retention
- Kenneth Gee (Crown): Identifying Nonstationarity in Ecological Time Series using Empirical Dynamical Modeling
- Mara Baylis (Cowell): Selection against mitochondrial mutations occurs across life stages in Drosophila
- Nina Blanch (Porter): Cloudy and Cloud-free Thermal Phase Curves with PICASO: Applications to WASP-43b
- Tobin Berger-Cahn (Porter): Determining Single-Cell Multilineage Capacity of Developmentally Restricted Hematopoietic Stem Cells (drHSCs)
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Chloe Magidoff (Ten): Without an Umbrella in a Rainstorm: The Significance of Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
- Ciara Clarke (Kresge): Uprooted: (Un)Natural Histories of Eucalyptus in California
- Joel Montejo (Oakes): Mexico’s Response to COVID-19: How a Comparison with Brazil Explains the Country’s Deficient Response
Dean’s Award
- Claudia Torres Arias (Oakes): Beyond Survival: Fostering Thriving Immigrant Communities in Santa Cruz through Multi-Faceted Social Services
- Fiona Debernardi (Kresge): “No Harm, No Foul?” Evaluations of Cheating Across Contexts
- Grace Brieger (Cowell): Field Guide to Birds of the UCSC Arboretum
- John Jezek (Stevenson): Neighborhoods: What Exactly Are We Defending? Representation, Race, and Land-use Politics in Santa Cruz
- Leigh Rodi (Stevenson): Sustainable Fiefdoms: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Economy of Tourism in Northwest Peru
- Nona Golan (Merrill): The Geo-Legal History of the Kabarra Wetland & al-Gawarna People in Israel/Palestine
2021 Winners
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Jacinto Salz (Porter): AFTER BURNS
- Klytie Xu (Porter): For Each Name, A Color; For Each Color, A Name
- Holly Edelman (Stevenson): Standing Watch for Wandjina: The Systematic Setbacks of Aboriginal Cultural Copyrighting
Dean’s Award
- Jourdain Barton (Kresge): “Other Art Histories: Islam,’Art,’ and the Baptistère de Saint Louis”
- cnconti (Cowell): Alexander the Great and Alexios III of Trebizond: Culture as Politics
- Reya Borbridge (Porter): Farms, Farmers, and the Field
- Kirra Mccoll (Kresge): Guerrilla Gardener
- Gioh Sung (Cowell): In Absentia
- Jordan Fickel (Porter): oliveros bot
- Kylie Smith (Ten): Speaking from the Heart: A Senior Lecture Recital
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Analysis of the First Malware to Attack a Power Grid
Dominic Lucchesi (Crown)
Aviv Brook (Stevenson) - Identifying and Investigating Wolbachia-to-Arthropod HGT Events
Serafina Nieves (Eight)
Dean’s Award
- Maxim Kuznetsov (Crown): A New Dimension: Visualizing Immersive Genome Graphs
- Arash Parsa (Merrill): CO2 Monitoring Assembly
- Michelle Shimberg (Cowell): Development of a Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Glucose Sensor using Copper Oxide
- Komaplastics: Cellulose-Based Biodegradable Agricultural Plastic
Kyra Eyerman (Porter), Rachel Mace (Cowell), Melody Azimi (Nine), Alicia Jorgenson (Eight), Sophia Huei Min Sneddon (Eight), Navdeep Kalkat (Ten), Joshua Elkins (Oakes), Claudia Fiorella Paz Flores (Ten), Faith Williams (Crown), Taylor Ziccardi (Cowell), Gabriel Sanchez (Kresge), Neil Smith (Merrill), Thomas Kensok (Porter) - Issei Mori (Nine): Physarum Telam
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Paola Berumen (Kresge): Expedited Removal in 2020. An Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security vs. Thuraisingam Supreme Court Case:
- Jonah Gertz (Porter): Japan and Methamphetamine: the Afterlife of Occupation and the Hiropon Age
- Ashley Ippolito (Ten), Yutong Guo (Cowell), Sage Meadows (Crown), Ollie Tarango (Cowell), Noa Nevo (Stevenson): The Effect of Reduced Relative Clauses on Agreement Production
Dean’s Award
- #MeToo: An Intersectional Interrogation and Centering of Black Women
Amelia Huster (Eight) - Modalities of Governance: Cartography in Colonial Africa
Avni Lal (Cowell) - Remember Us: Holocaust Representations in European-Jewish Émigré Film, 1942-1945
Maya Gonzalez (Cowell) - The 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic and the Origins of the Opinion Editorial
Matthew Tracey-Cook (Stevenson) - The Emergence of an Ever-Changing Hong Kong Identity
Kimberly Szeto (Nine) - The Idealized Feminine Self:
Effortlessly Sexy, Confident, and Cool
Jasmine Simone (Kresge) - The Stela of Maya: Family and Marriage Relations in Ancient Egypt
Vicky Chin (Ten), Ollie Tarango (Cowell), Mary Shamon (Stevenson), Alyssa L Rodriguez (Cowell)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Molecular Classification of Pediatric High-Risk Leukemias Using Expression Profiles of Multimodally Expressed Genes
Sneha Jariwala (Ten) - Variation in resting strategies across trophic levels and habitats in mammals
Ishana Shukla (Oakes) - Searching for Primordial Black Holes
Olivia Ross (Kresge)
Dean’s Award
- Characteristics of plant communities invaded by Dittrichia graveolens (Asteraceae), as it spreads away from roadsides in Santa Clara County
Andrew Lopez (Eight) - Constraining the Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae using Late-time Spectra
Erika Strasburger (Crown) - Examining the Self Interaction of Dark Matter through Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets
Dane Cross (Porter) - Geochemical and Isotopic Evidence for the Escape of Ice Sheet Fluids
Michael Scudder (Crown) - Pan-Cancer Analysis of Driver Mutations and Modules in Cancer Genomes
Carlos Arevalo (Porter) - Unburned carbon in the Outer Layers of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta
Rodrigo Angulo (Crown) - X-RAY-OPTICAL SCALING RELATIONS FOR THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY Y3 REDMAPPER CLUSTERS
Jose Jobel (Oakes)
Paige Kelly (Porter)
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Cielo De La Rosa (Eight): Investigations on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) termite-fishing cognition: Issa, western Tanzania
- Kimberly Dare (Nine): Propelling UCSC Undergraduates of Color in Environmental Studies Through Mentorship
- Morgan Bishop (Oakes): The New Vagrancy: The Evolution of Moral Policing in Anti-Homeless Policy
Dean’s Award
- Samuel Lindquist (Porter): Central Bank Features and Recession Severity: Evidence from 2008
- Lauren Woo (Cowell): Consent as a Defense to Assault Charges: A BDSM Case Study
- Sophie Kennedy (Nine): Evaluation, Adherence, and Reporting: When, Why, and How College Students Support New Behavioral Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Nivie Oron (Kresge): Fat as Flawless or Fatal? Weight Stigma and its Effect on Perceptions of Fat, Health, and Eating Disorders.
- Chiara Fishburne (Porter): Meanings of Magic: The Pickets and Undergraduate Participation
- Aryan D’Rozario (Merrill): Pakistan’s Military Legacies: Army, Nation, and State
- Siena Elvins (Ten): “Through the Dignity of Work”: The Tension Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Remediation of Homelessness Taking Place in Santa Cruz, CA
Archives
2020 Winners
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Cat’s Cradle
Georgio Klironomos (Crown)
Erica Li (Ten)
Herman Wei-Jye Wu (Merrill) - Exploring Personal Boundaries with Adults who have Developmental Disabilities through Serious Games and Brainwaves
Samantha Conde (Merrill) - Inspiration Point / Filling the Imaginary Void: Addressing “Documentary Distance” in the Representation of Historical Violence (FILM AND PAPER)
Keanu Ramos (Porter)
Dean’s Award
- Gateway into The Abyss: Unlocking the Transcending Realms and Enlightened Truth Through Exploration of Occult Iconography in Hilma Af Klint’s The Swan No.24
cnconti (Cowell) - A Portrait of G.H. Wells
Eli Crespin (Kresge)
Katelin Kai-Lin Ong (Stevenson), Laura Gonzalez (Cowell), Yvonne Gonzalez (Crown) - Cendrillon – Winter 2020
David Kronenberg (Porter) - Nymph Mania: J. W. Waterhouse’s Femme Fatales and Victorian Anxieties About Shifting Gender Dynamics
Chloe Calhoun (Crown) - Psychopathic Dismemberment and Psychic Slaughter: Spectatorship, Affect, and Gender in the Slasher Cycle
Snow Martin (Porter) - The Norris Center Archives
Saul Villegas (Porter) - The Pirates of Penzance Spring Opera 2019
Kylie Paige Smith (Ten)
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- De novo creation of spliceosomal introns by different transposition mechanisms across diverse eukaryotes
Landen Gozashti (Eight) - Flow-based Detection of Rip Currents
Issei Mori (Nine) - Posture Monitoring and Corrective Seat Cover
Ali Fallahi (Porter), Christopher Cheney (Ten), Zachary Haughton (Cowell)
Dean’s Award
- Ancestry HMM with Gene Conversion
Trevor Ridgley (Crown) - Characterization of the Differentiation Patterns of Histone H3 K27M Neural Stem Cells
Liam Tran (Nine) - Identifying and validating Wolbachia-to-arthropod HGT events
Serafina Nieves (Eight) - Introner Elements drive ongoing intron gain in Oikopleura dioica
Preet Kaur (Eight), Landen Gozashti (Eight) - Investigating Regulation of Nonsense-Mediated Decay During the Inflammatory Response
Matthew Cattle (Cowell) - Protecting Newcastle Disease Vaccine with Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
James Hahn (Cowell), Andrew Zarzar (Nine), Aren Pageler (Crown), Ikenna Anigbogu (Eight), Jiasui Xu (Nine), Jonah Pierce (Merrill), Liana Shuang Beld (Eight), Preet Kaur (Eight), Marcella Mirabelli (Stevenson), Marcus-Charles Strauss (Cowell), Martina Pedersen (Porter), Melody Azimi (Ten), Rita Ousterhout (Stevenson), Shayan Vahdani (Porter), Varuna Amita Dharasker (Ten), Kaitlyn Myers (Merrill) - Sorting an Array Using the Topological Sort of Corresponding Comparison Graph
Balaram Das Behera (Crown)
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- An Intellectual History of Public Discourse in the Post-Civil War Era: Infanticide and Emerging Reproductive Regulations
Angela L Cortes (Stevenson) - One Does Not Simply Define Memes: A Prototypical Theory to Understanding Internet Memes
Samrawit Tariku Ayele (Nine) - Pure Potential
Irma Yuliana Barbosa (Porter)
Dean’s Award
- A Pragmatic Account of Singular They
Clara Agnes Mcmahan (Kresge) - A Vice Contrary to Nation: The Emerging Heteronormative Nationalism of the French Revolution
Bailey Jonathan Troth (Crown) - Aristotle’s Politics and The Charge of Egoism
Cynthia Lissete Gonzalez (Oakes) - Goodness without God is Good Enough
Landon Austin Mitchell (Porter) - Properties of Match and Align in Kinyambo
Max Mason Tarlov (Kresge) - The Far Eastern Republic and Historical Memory
Charles Raymond Wagoner (Kresge) - The Grey Area: Rethinking the Problem of the Color Line in Vietnam War-era Korea and Japan
Farrah Safari (Kresge)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- CONSTRAINING THE RELATION BETWEEN CLUSTER VELOCITY DISPERSION AND RICHNESS USING THE REDMAPPER YEAR 3 CATALOG
Vernon Robert Wetzell (Stevenson) - Structural Studies of a New Class of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor for Cancer Immunotherapy
Nina Miranda Harpell (Eight)
Dean’s Award
- A Chandra X-Ray Follow-Up To The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer Catalog
Lena Sofia Eiger (Nine) - An Analysis of Germanium Quantum Dots in conjunction with MAPbI3 Host Perovskites for Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials
Phoenix Nalu Hakumele Gallagher (Stevenson)
Shayan Hassanzadeh Zargar (Cowell) - Constraints on the Final Fermions of an Exotic Higgs Decay
Violet Piper (Crown) - Manganese Oxide Deposition on Defective Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Enhanced Antibacterial Activity Under Monochromated Light
Jasmine Chiayu Liu (Crown) - Optimizing Molecular Inversion Probe Assays to Characterize Human-Specific Neurodevelopmental Genes
Taylor Dolores Real (Porter) - The Reducing Capabilities of Diisobutylaluminum Borodhydride
Madison E Landi (Eight) - ANION-DRIVEN CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN CK1δ REGULATE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
Alfred Manning Freeberg (Eight)
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- A California Case Study on Procedures to Reassemble and Reevaluate Archaeological Artifact Processing
Allysha Ann Leonard (Eight) - Adding New Lenses: Making Health Equity Work in Immigrant Communities Marked By Various Forms of Violence
Cinthia Cristal Magana Moreno (Porter) - Incarceration and Healthcare in the Santa Cruz County
Priyanka Praveen Kulkarni (Oakes)
Dean’s Award
- “Agents of Change”: Progressive Democratic ‘Diffusion’ Across U.S. House and State Legislative Elections in 2018
Margarita Vargas (Porter) - Analyzing the Effects of Federal Aid on Partisan Representation in the American States
Parker James Strohmeyer (Oakes) - Comparing Sexual Themes in Rap Music by Female and Male Music Artists: A Qualitative Study
Jessica Lorraine Walsh (Stevenson) - Differential Vulnerability to Climate Related Disasters Among Communities Along the Santa Cruz Coastal Landscape
John Calvin Mcclure (Crown) - Harm, Responsibility, and Ambiguity in Judgements about Sexual Behaviors
Anjuli Megan Corzine (Cowell) - Oakland, California’s Points of Nutritional Hope
Louis William Garcia (Stevenson)
2019 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- Anak, how are you? (My child, how are you?)
Jelica Ross Alcarmen Hipolito (Porter)
Sabrina Anne Ilumin (Nine)
May Michele Alvarez (Merrill)
Angie Morales (Eight) - HAVC 100A Research Paper: Refining Tastes
Ava Lizette Kristy (Cowell) - John Hughes, Teenagers, and the Corporate American Dream
Nicholette Lindsay (Kresge) - Our World in Wilson’s Hands
Samwell Tarciano Gervacio (Cowell) - Sister of Mine
Leah Esther Fuentes (Cowell)
Samuel Joseph Noval Gouldthorpe (Cowell)
Leslie Carrillo-Lorenzo (Eight)
Ariel Baruch (Cowell)
Cameron Currie Mccrea (Stevenson)
Megan Lucille Neelley (Cowell) - The Duality of the Face in Cinema: From Ubiquity to Obscurity
Rachel Aisha Abrahams (Porter) - The Myth of Leisure: Bean Bag Chairs and Corporate Tech Campuses
Daniel Scott Fisher (Porter) - Worlds: An Exploration of the Self
Zoe Joy Elliott (Eight)
Chancellor’s Award
- dinosaurily
Joyce Wei-Shin Lin (Porter)
Fen Swanson (Kresge) - Fabrications, Articulations, Activations: Creating Vā Through Intentional Juxtapositions & Decolonizing the ‘Dusky Maiden.’
Alex Simpson Hiatt (Kresge)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- Computational Models of Polymer Synthesis Driven by Dehydration/Rehydration Cycles: Repurination in Simulated Hydrothermal Fields
Mason Ellis Hargrave (Crown)
Spencer K Thompson (Stevenson) - Dissecting the impact of signaling strength on T cell function using chimeric antigen receptors
Lilian Eden Yao (Ten) - Lens Characterization for Multifocus Microscopy Applications
Brandon Jared Lynch (Porter) - Significance of NRROS in CNS Homeostasis
Amr Khalid Makhamreh (Ten) - Understanding the Role of ZNF765 and/or L1PA Retroelements in Defining Embryonic Stem Cell Phenotypes
Paola Isabel Angulo (Merrill) - Virtual Reality Video Games for Eye Disability (Lazy-Eye)
Ocean Lavonne Hurd (Crown) - Waterlab 3
Jared Jonathan Roberts (Ten)
Randall Jamison Abel (Porter)
Alexander James Koran (Stevenson)
Joshua Douglas Spangler (Nine)
Liam Thomas Corcoran (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Design Framework for the Electrical Characterization of Alcohol Sensors
Alexander John Flora (Oakes)
Nebyu Tilahun Yonas (Crown)
Brian Hien Nguyen (Kresge) - Introner Elements Persist in Algal and Protist Species
Landen Zackery Gozashti (Eight) - Portable Progesterone Production in Yeast
Jessica Faith Scherer (Eight)
Mykhaylo Dudkin (Ten)
Laura Diane Valine (Crown)
Dante Moreno (Porter)
Gina Y-Vang Tran Cuneo (Merrill)
Claire Elizabeth Bispo (Merrill)
Justin Lau (Nine)
Harman Singh (Oakes)
Manuel Varela (Merrill)
Emily Katherine Mount (Ten)
Vanessa Jasmine Ventura (Nine)
Ryan Michael Modlin (Crown)
Nicholas Scott Hammond (Crown)
Morgan Claire Tardy (Stevenson)
Larry Hinojos (Ten)
Megan Eleanor Macpherson (Crown)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- “Hello, My Name is “Foster Kid.”
G Grayson (Oakes) - “I Remain an Irishman…and a Jew:” Conflicting Identities of Ireland’s Jewish Politicians
Michele Lipson Cole (Cowell) - Anger and Forgiveness in “The Tempest” and “Cymbeline”
Cynthia Lissete Gonzalez (Oakes) - Monster and Memory: Godzilla and the Unearthing of Grief in the Wake of Nuclear Disaster
Anney Traymany (Kresge) - Reverberations from the “Earthquake”: Collective Memory and Why Mizrahi Israelis Vote for the Israeli Right
Avery Jayne Weinman (Nine) - Right to a Roof: The Fight for Rent Control and Tenant Protections in California 1978-1995
Jessica Brittany Ann Chuidian-Ingersoll (Merrill) - South Sudanese Refugees and Youth: Complex Narratives of Gender, War, and Diaspora
Nyereath Dep Nhial (Ten)
Chancellor’s Award
- Anglicisms: Use and Perceptions in the Tijuana-San Diego Border
Brianda Alicia Caldera (Kresge) - Imagining the Future Human through Design Fiction & Speculative Fiction
Natalie Gonzales (Merrill) - My Body Can’t Salute A War Machine: Bodily Resistance in Leslie M. Silko’s Ceremony
Fatima Sadaf Mohammadi (Cowell)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- An Analysis into the AGN Fraction in Dark Energy Survey Galaxy Clusters
Raziq Shaquille Noorali (Porter) - Effects of simulated solar arrays on seed dynamics in California desert plant species
Sophia Haji (Eight) - Elucidating the Role of ROBO1 in NOTCH Activation Within the Mammary Gland
Pinky Lee (Stevenson) - Enrichment of Damaged DNA by Target Replacement of Deaminated Cytosines
Lourdes Marcela Gomez (Crown) - The Evolution of Binaries in a Gaseous Medium: Three-Dimensional Simulations of Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion
Andrea Carol Antoni (Kresge) - The Origin of LIGO Sources: Understanding The Formation Channels of Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes
Martin Jose Lopez (Crown) - Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars of Varying Mass and Age: Inferences from the Composition of the Fallback Material
Monica Paulina Gallegos Garcia (Oakes)
Chancellor’s Award
- Ion Microprobe Depth Profile Analysis of Micron-Scale Metamorphic Rims on Detrital Zircons from the Pelona-Orocopia-Rand Schist
Elizabeth Anne Langdon-Lassagne (Porter) - Structure and Binding Kinetics of Monoclonal Antibody 1G1 Support the Inclusion of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus G Protein in Vaccine Development
Joshua Ryan Dillen (Cowell)
Steck Award
- Evolution of Helium Star – White Dwarf Binaries Leading up to Thermonuclear Supernovae
Tin Long Sunny Wong (Crown)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Propagating Discourse: Community Gardener Motivations in the California Central Coast
Tina Milz (Kresge) - BLACK ON WHITE LOVE: HOW RACIAL/ETHNIC IDENTITIES INFLUENCE PARTNER-DECISIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Manfred Cullen Sy (Crown) - Emotional Granularity, Coping, and Adjustment in First-Generation College Students
Edward Wonbin Kim (Crown) - People Who Garden: A Closer Look at Urban Community Gardeners in the California Central Coast Region
Yeun Byun (Eight) - The Role of Cognitive Biases in Identifying and Disciplining Plagiarism
Carmelle Bareket-Shavit (Stevenson) - Violence vs. Violence: Why the Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto Administrations Exacerbated Violence in Michoacán
Karen Michelle Lazo (Merrill) - Worse than Death: An Analysis of Excess Death and the Necropolitics of Dying in Public Space
Sara Jane Kelley (Ten)
Chancellor’s Award
- Beyond the Duality of Sumak Kawsay: Living Well amongst the Waorani
Alejandra Aviah Zeiger (Nine) - Failure of International Mediation in Ethnic Conflict: the Oslo Accords and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Shannon Elise Nichols (Nine) - Raising (Pitch)forks for Climate Justice: Leveraging a Just Transition in Dismantling Big Meat
Laurel Brooke Levin (Stevenson)
2018 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- Bachelor of Music Senior Recital, Voice
Madeline Erica Lippmann (Cowell) - Queer Selfies and the Shifting Landscapes of Queer Space
Addison Wilks (Kresge) - Senior Recital- Baroque Violin
Benjamin Andrew Dorsey (Porter) - Sleep Talk
Kristal Nur Chan (Porter)
Sarah Elizabeth Romero (Porter) - Sunset Bubbles
Rachel Maryam Smith (Porter) - The Light Years
Natalie Jauregui Ortiz (Porter) - The Missionary Image Paradigm and Response
Hattie Clark Fletcher (Cowell)
Chancellor’s Award
- Performing Resistance: Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck in Postwar Cinema
Asher Guthertz (Porter) - Reflecting on Blackness: Conceptual Art, Race, and Racial Issues in the Art of Adrian Piper and Glenn Ligon
Paula Yahaira Lopez (Stevenson) - Trauma
Sophia Catherine Restall (Merrill)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- Automatized Surface Functionalization for Diagnostic System
Eduardo Hirata Miyasaki (Crown)
Aditya Anantha Narayan Gumparthi (Crown)
Ali M E Kh H Aljuraidan (Crown) - Bugs without Borders
Pratibha Jagannatha (Crown)
Thuy-Khanh Tran-Dao (Crown)
Tyler Dylan Myers (Eight)
Alexander Bryant Pearce (Kresge)
Brittney Dalleen Wick (Stevenson)
Casidee Frances McDonough (Eight)
Daniel Martin Schmelter (Kresge)
Evan Alec Pepper-Tunick (Stevenson)
Jethro Mitchell Marasigan (Ten)
Marissa Victoria Taub (Ten)
Mark Christian Lund (Eight)
Mckenna Hicks (Stevenson)
Sara Medor (Stevenson)
Thomas Miranda Sousa (Ten) - CNNs on FPGAs for Track Reconstruction
Thomas D Boser (Eight) - Designing an EMG Controlled Assistive Glove for Stroke Survivors
Margaret A Pearce (Crown) - Elucidating the relationship between Wnt and AR pathways in Prostate basal cells during Homeostasis
Alexander Kenneth Zee (Nine) - Indoor Autonomous Navigation System
Daniel Cornelius Hunter (Crown)
Kelvin Chau Silva (Nine)
Kevin Antonio Beher (Crown)
Kyle Stokes Ebding (Crown)
Juan Cristian Huerta (Merrill) - Sources of HIV-1 Mutations During Infection
Jimmy Chan (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Electrospatial Analog Front End for Monitoring of Cerebral Organoids
Henry Julian Hinton (Merrill) - Sequencing and Assembly of Varroa Destructor Genome
Blaise Arman Nasri (Stevenson)
Ash O’Farrell (Ten)
Juan Carlos Perez (Crown)
Adam Lamine Zoubeidi (Eight)
Samuel Robert Royle (Cowell)
Steck Award
- Exploring Transposable Elements Regulated by ZNF649
Invalid User (Ten)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- Nationalist Propaganda During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Appeals for International Support and the Western Fear of Communism
Christian Allen Culton (Nine) - Shifting Through the Madness: Nature in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Georg Büchner
Angel Hinojosa (Merrill) - Small Victories: Identity, Autonomy, and Female Memory of Soviet GULAGs
Riley Lynn Gervin (Nine) - South Asian Cultural Productions and the Garden
Deanna Corrine Duffy (Merrill) - Speculative Fiction as a Weapon of Intellectual Warfare: The Battle to Imagine a Racist or an Anti-Racist Future
Zachary Clay Brenner (Stevenson) - The Necessity of Sacrifice: Female Martyrdom and the Heroic Figure
Victoria Skye Jones (Merrill) - Trials of Multicultural Liberalism: A Visual Examination of Occupy Wall Street’s Resistance Art and Settler Colonial Expressions of Power
Issabella Ann Nguyen (Eight)
Chancellor’s Award
- Designating “human” versus “other” in a post-human world: A pragmatic approach to the problem of human essence
Misa Courtney Hayashi (Merrill) - Kinderlach and Communists: or A Comparison between Soviet Ethnic Policy and Labour Zionism Through the Lens of the Infamous JAO
Ian Joseph Kussin-Gika (Cowell) - On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party
Rosa Lee Petterson (Merrill)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- A Widespread Nitrogen-fixing Invader Experiences Negative Soil Feedbacks Despite Increased Root Nodulation and Mycorrhizal Colonization
Elizabeth Jane Davis (Merrill) - Constraining Dark Matter Models Using Isolated Elliptical Galaxies
Megan Renee Splettstoesser (Merrill) - Creating Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Zafar Rustamkulov (Crown) - Mechanistic and Structural Studies on Human Astrovirus Serotype 8
Carolina Cuellar (Stevenson) - Partial Obscuration and Reddening of Active Galactic Nuclei by Outflowing Dust
Peter Zachary Harrington (Eight) - The Location and Quantity of the Dust Causing Internal Reddening of Active Galactic Nuclei
Clio Zane Powell Heard (Merrill) - The regulatory roles of alternative splicing and intrinsically disordered regions of proteins in circadian rhythms
Ivette Perez (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- A new statistical method for characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets
Cassandra Starr Henderson (Kresge) - Constraining Type Ia Supernova Progenitor Scenarios with Extremely Late-time Photometry of Supernova SN 2013aa
Wynn Vicente Jacobson-Galan (Crown) - Operation of the Prospective SiD BeamCal in the Expected High-Radiation Forward Environment of the ILC
Benjamin Randolph Smithers (Merrill)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Beyond Inclusion: Ethnographic analysis regarding the precarity of disability and the need for belonging on UCSC campus
Evelyn T Drake (Ten) - Bridging Theory & Practice: A Critical Understanding of Sustainability at UCSC
Cristal Santamaria Gonzalez (Oakes) - Building Renter Power: Rethinking the Role of the Nonprofit in California’s Tenants Rights Movement
Jessica Brittany Ann Chuidian-Ingersoll (Merrill) - Can Re-Enfranchisement Help Offenders Rehabilitate? Exploring the Relationship Between State Felon Disenfranchisement Laws and Three-Year Prison Recidivism Rates
Alice Marie Malmberg (Cowell) - Mergers and Acquisitions: An Investigation of Changes in Firm Value
Christopher James Connelly (Oakes) - Talk to Me, Not About Me: Has News Coverage about Autism Begun to Embody More Perspectives of the Neurodiversity Movement?
Noa Sarah Moskowitz Lewin (Kresge) - “Toward Cultural Sensitivity for Marginalized Patients”
Rosemary Garcia (Oakes)
Chancellor’s Award
- CONTEMPORARY COLONIALISM: OKINAWA EXPERIENCES OF U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION
Riri Shibata (Stevenson) - The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Stockton
Natalie Ariana Keller (Stevenson) - “Becoming American” One Word at a Time: Refugee English Classrooms and the Language of Personhood.
Sarah Jane Cameron (Eight)
2017 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- BOUQUET
Alex Escobedo (Porter) - Ghosts, Copper and Flies: Sammy Baloji’s Reconciliation with the Past
Lucy Shannon Ashton (Kresge) - Immigration Game
Hesiquio Mendez Alejo (Oakes) - Marshall
Benjamin Howland Gartzman Judkins (Kresge) - Ola
Emilio Kobak (Porter) - Performing the Everyday: The Postmodern Aesthetics of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A
Sophia Jeanne Dimatteo (Merrill) - Reconciliation
Roan Talullah La’Roue Bontempo (Porter)
Chancellor’s Award
- Bachelor of Music Senior Recital, Guitar
Janet Sanchez (Eight) - Blasting Through the City: Combating Feminicide Through Public Art in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Stephanie Ethel Howe (Ten) - Trash Toss
Aubrey Lynn Isaacman (Porter)
Hesiquio Mendez Alejo (Oakes)
Nathan John Lie (Ten)
Grace Ko (Nine)
Linda Viet Nguyen (Crown)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue
Davan Harrison (Kresge) - High-throughput functional screen of skipped exons contributing to lung cancer development
Maximillian Gabriel Marin (Crown) - Home Assistance Help Alert Senior Design Project
Conrad Leroy Christensen (Crown)
Jeffrey Zheng (Porter)
August Salay Valera (Crown)
Jesus Soto (Eight)
Brian Keith Nichols (Crown)
Kevin Chung-Kit Lee (Ten)
Jacob Jonathan Giefer Lee (Eight)
Marco Antonio Carmona (Ten)
Jamielynne Albay Batugo (Crown) - Nanocell: Simple Nanopore Sensor with Smartphone Interface
Alexander Phillip Martin-Ginnold (Porter) - Nautilus Senior Design Project
Joseph Robert Carlos (Nine)
Andrew Mikhail (Crown)
Michael Brian Bissani (Cowell)
Patrick Miskill Lee (Kresge)
Xiang Qi He (Crown) - Real Time Peak Detection for Translocation, Control, and Analysis in Solid State Nanopores
Mark Wyatt Harrington (Nine) - SlugSat
Matthew Richard Carberry (Kresge)
Eric Fredric Wells (Nine)
Eric Ortega (Eight)
Matthew David Moranda (Cowell)
Marcel Tress (Ten)
Navneet Kaur (Crown) - Structural and Kinetic Studies of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Neutralizing Antibodies
Jacob Thomas Wolff (Cowell)
Natasha Lorraine George (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Project Star Catcher: Virtual Reality Game for Upper Limb Exercises Based on Constraint Induced Therapy
Aviv Elor (Nine) - UCSC iGEM 2016 Individual Thesis
Henry Julian Hinton (Merrill)
Steck Award
- Structural Studies to Understand Evasion of an Astrovirus serotype-2 subtype to a Potent Neutralizing Antibody
Edmundo Ismael Perez (Ten)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- From ‘Oriental Despotism’ to the Obshchina: The Place of Asia and the Asiatic Mode of Production in the Works of Marx and Engels
Arash Ehya (Stevenson) - Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems
Marcus James Dovigi (Porter) - Male Homosexuality in German Cinema: The Lurid Ride Through the West and the Discrete Cruise Through the East
Serene Tseng (Oakes) - Shaping the Terrain: Racing the Movies 2011-2015
Sydney Kimiko Kasahara (Porter) - The Contrast Between Moral Interaction and Amoral Conduct in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Martin Heeney Dietz (Merrill) - The Hijra Community of Bangladesh
Mariel Paul (Oakes)
Chancellor’s Award
- Deir el Bahri Project: The Lineage of Royal Legitimization
Cori Ann Hoover (Stevenson) - Prostitution at the Border Towns: Moral Reform and Abolition along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1903-1920
Miguel Angel Giron (Oakes) - The Art of Living Archives: Heartographies in Queer/Feminist Historiography
Hannah Kamilla Higgins (Oakes)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- A vibrational study of Fe2P2O7 and Cr2P2O7 under high-pressures: Structural implications for novel phosphate materials
Nicolas Alexis Blanc (Oakes) - Determination of the Structural Mechanism of the CDK4-Cyclin D1-p27 Complex
Katharine Leilani Bunch (Oakes) - EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF A GLOBULAR CLUSTER
Krystal M Ruiz-Rocha (Stevenson) - Kondo-Ising and Tight-Binding Models for TmB4
John Young Shin (Porter) - Potential of Industrial Sapphire Sensors for Use in ILC Calorimetry
Gregory Ransford Carl Rischbieter (Eight) - Single Cell Knock-out of the Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 Gene in the Mice Cortex
Alejandro Anaya Rocha (Oakes) - The Role of Pds1 in Cell Size Control in Budding Yeast Cells
Quincy Joseph Okobi (Eight)
Chancellor’s Award
- MODELLING ACCRETION STREAM AND DISK EVOLUTION IN WASP-12/b
Ian Curtis Weaver (Merrill) - Removal of Oxoanion Pollutants via Silver Bipyridine Acetate
Derek Chase Popple (Merrill) - The Existence of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes that Paralyze RHESSI
Alexander Gerd-Dara Infanger (Kresge)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- An Eco-Archaeological Study of Indigenous Clam Bed Management at Colonial Period Toms Point (CA-MRN-202), Tomales Bay, California
Alec Jazz-Rio Apodaca (Merrill) - Bats in the Agricultural Matrix: The Effects of Agricultural Intensification on Bat Community Composition
Molly Rose Carter Jacobsen (Kresge) - Growing up as a Second-Generation White American Hindu: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to an Ethnographic Study
Darshani Alahan (Cowell) - Transitioning from Ego to Eco-Focused Cognition: Altruistic Intelligence and the Momentum of Social Justice Engagement
Celia Willson Ringstrom (Merrill)
Chancellor’s Award
- Can the Heartland Be Healed?: Challenges to Community Organizing in Poor White Rural America
Madeleine Lorna Keller (Kresge) - Flooding and Sustainable Flood Management in the UK
Rosemary Dekker Applen (Porter) - Popular Liberation in the Midst of a Peaceful War
Joanna del Carmen Beltran Giron (Porter)
2016 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- DeCamp – Alzheimer’s Awareness Short Film
Jared Scott Zabel (Merrill) - Overground
Alexandra Susannah Willis-Paulsen (Oakes) - Pas de Trois: Trio A Dancing Between Performance, Film, and Art
Quest Sky Zeidler (Porter) - Remembering the American Vietnam War Veteran: A Holistic Quagmire of Memory
Britany Aganon Valdez (Nine) - Tehching Hsieh’s Outdoor Piece: The Invisibility of Hegemonic Poaching in the Public Sphere
Saeli Claire Lucia Miller Eshelman (Stevenson) - The Death and Rebirth of Anna May Wong: Strategic Re-Narrativization and De-Reification Through Social Media
Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt (Porter) - Visual Designs for Love’s Labour’s Lost: A Shakespeare to Go Performance
Emily Graily (Porter)
Chancellor’s Award
- How Many Syrians?
Rachel Maryam Smith (Porter) - Loteria Vida
Marisol I. Medina-Cadena (Oakes) - Posing Questions: Identity Construction in the Portrait Studios of Bamako, Mali
Jessica Harumi Owens (Kresge)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- Bolt Motorbike Senior Design Project
Alexis Anne Bartels (Crown)
Zachary Spike Levenberg (Oakes)
Bruce Dylan Gordon (Crown)
Garrett Austin Deguchi (Cowell)
Francisco Javier Alvarado (Oakes) - DEVELOPMENT OF A QUARTZ NANOPIPETTE FOR INTRACELLULAR SUPEROXIDE SENSING
Joanna Bridgett Perez (Oakes) - Hyper Spectral Imaging for Precision Agriculture
Niraj Raniga (Ten) - Motor-Assistive Glove
Victor Ardulov (Merrill)
Kyle Jeremy Cordes (Crown)
Devin Martin Cody (Crown) - Roton Rotary Rocket
Gabriel Andrew Orpia (Merrill)
Andrew Wu (Cowell)
Oliver Pablo Rene (Kresge) - SEADS (Smart Energy Analytic Disaggregation System)
Ian Anders Lofgren (Crown)
Nikita Maximovich Sokolnikov (Stevenson)
Ramin Ebrahimi (Oakes)
Colin Y Peter (Ten) - SlugLife
Michael Young (Ten)
Ahmadullah Tokhi (Eight)
Ivan Alvarado (Eight)
Jose Luis Guzman (Merrill)
Raquel Julie Abrams (Cowell) - User requirements of games designed for people with developmental disabilities
Taylor Lane Gotfrid (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Nanofabrication of Patterned Nanomagnet Arrays
Soren Eric Almquist (Eight) - Structural Studies on Respiratory Syncytial Virus Fusion Glycoprotein
Sara Teodros Haile (Crown)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- Rachel Dolezal’s Drag Race: A Critical Psychoanalytic and Cultural Analysis of Post-racial Melancholia and the Racial Passing Narrative
Steven Isaac Hernandez (Ten) - El español en los EEUU: El fenómeno del ‘Bilingual Compound Verb’
Martin Calderon (Merrill) - Incarcerated Words
Ciera-Jevae Timiza Gordon (Oakes) - Sean and Julia O’Faolain: Generationally Conceptualizing Collective Memories of Trauma in Fiction
Clare Elizabeth Moran (Cowell) - The Qualiafications (or Lack Thereof) of Epiphenomenal Qualia
Francesca Jean Hovagimian (Porter)
Chancellor’s Award
- African Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Nationalism in Israel
Hana Faye Rothstein (Kresge) - An investigation of phonetic and phonological change and the influence of English on Modern Irish
Eileen Rose O’Neill (Cowell) - Yours, Truly
Robin Aleksandra Estrin (Porter)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Allelopathic alkaloids of an invasive shrub and their effect on the growth of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Jennifer Briana Thompson (Cowell) - ENERGY DENSITIES OF FORAGE FISH FROM THE MESOPELAGIC ZONE OF THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A HIGH-LEVEL MARINE PREDATOR, THE NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL (MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS)
Xochitl Seancia Clare (Kresge) - From dirt to diamonds: A mineralogical comparison of granular rheologies
Marshall James Danese (Eight) - INVESTIGATION OF A ONCHOCERCIASIS BIOMARKER DERIVATIVE (GLUCURONIC ACID) VIA A TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM BASED ON BORONIC ACID APPENDED VIOLOGENS RECEPTORS
Adriana Guevara Landeros (Ten)
Angel Resendez (Ten) - Scaling of Dentition and Prey Size in the California Moray (Gymnothorax mordax)
Jacob Saunders Harrison (Kresge) - Spectroscopic Galaxy Cluster Measurements for the Dark Energy Survey
Benjamin Ernest Stahl (Crown) - X-Ray Analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters from the Dark Energy Survey
Erica Marie Bufanda (Eight)
Chancellor’s Award
- CLOCKWORK: EXPLORING ACTIVATION MECHANISMS OF THE CIRCADIAN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK:BMAL1
Kyle Madison Franks (Cowell) - Influences of floral abundance, richness, and spatial distribution on urban garden bee communities
Montserrat Plascencia (Stevenson)
Steck Award
- Editing of Kinesin Heavy Chain to Elucidate its roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Alexandra Marie Houser (Eight)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- 32 Years After Orwellian “1984”: The Surveillance State and National Security
Ean Lyons Brown (Stevenson) - An Illustration of Converging Placekeeping Strategies in the Face of the Cultural and Economic Violence of “Columbusing” in San Francisco’s Mission District
Cecilia C. Pena-Govea (Kresge) - EFFECTS ON SOIL CARBON AND NITROGEN CYCLING ASSOCIATED WITH GRAZING BY DIFFERENT SPECIES IN A KANSAS TALLGRASS PRAIRIE
Christopher James Barnard (Porter) - Justice Jettisoned: The Culture of ‘National Security’ in Mexico
Alvaro Manoelle Mendizabal (Oakes) - Modes of Resistance: Signs, Olives, and Fire
Melissa Suzanne Otero (Merrill) - Seed Saving Strategies in San Ramon, Nicaragua
Adriana Murguia (Oakes) - The Naypyidaw Rationale: Cultures of Power and Constructions of Legitimacy in the Republic of Myanmar
Nicholas David Zinter (Porter)
Chancellor’s Award
- How Will the Kayapó be Dammed? The Impacts of Environmentalist Assumptions on a Kayapó Community in the Brazilian Amazon
Antonio Egidio Peluso (Merrill) - Social Dominance Orientation’s Effects on Attitudes Towards Crime, Prisoners and Prison Reform
Beverly Iniguez Conrique (Cowell) - UNTOLD DELIVERY STORIES: ZAPOTEC WOMEN’S BIRTHING EXPERIENCES IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF OAXACA
Mireya Mateo (Oakes)
2015 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- Construction of Critique
Naja Le Fevre Grundtmann (Nine) - De-historicized
Melanya Hamasyan (Porter) - Empathy: A Granddaughter’s Story
Regina Alyana Decastro Ortanez (Kresge) - Phenomenological Formations and an Aesthetics of Diaspora: the Work of Yinka Shonibare
Haley Katherine Bott (Kresge) - Social Structure Through Architecture Research Project
Kristen Erina McCormick (Nine) - Still Life Studies on Paper and Photo
Karina Jimenez Hernandez (Porter) - The Play About The Baby
Lily Ann Sorenson (Porter)
Chancellor’s Award
- Alimento
Karina A Monroy (Porter) - Shifting American Ideologies from the 1930s through 1950s: John Garfield’s Hollywood Persona As a Case Study
Krystal Catalina Cardenas Ledesma (Merrill)
Steck Award
- Bodies of Trauma
Dominic Romano (Porter)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- 96-Well Plate Optical Sensor Project
Stephanie Erin Owyang (Crown)
Cory Robert Ibanez (Crown)
Justin Thomas Blaich (Crown) - Eye Tracking Autism for Mobile
John-Michael Burke (Merrill)
Michael William Madsen (Crown)
Nathaniel James Cancio (Crown) - Hyperspectral Imaging UAV
Edgar Guadalupe Valdez (Oakes)
Eric Paredes (Merrill)
Matthew Anthony Silva (Kresge) - MECH v2
Robert Michael Hoffman (Crown)
Donald Joseph Fuller (Stevenson)
Patrick David Ayers (Crown)
Andre Lepin Nguyen Van Qui (Cowell) - Reprogramming Orangutan Fibroblasts to Integration-free Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Alex Preston Richard Phillips (Eight)
Andrea Marina Reyes-Ortiz (Eight)
Vincent F. Meng (Nine) - SiO2 nano-rod Distributed Bragg Reflector
Gregory Ryan Jorgensen (Stevenson) - Smart Energy Analytic Disaggregation System (SEADS)
Henry Clemens Crute (Crown)
Bryan Abraham Smith (Cowell)
Pavlo Milo Manovi (Eight)
Andrew Jacob Ringer (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Enabling genotype associations of large insertions and deletions by canonicalizing variants across collections of bacterial strains
Alex Navarro Salazar (Crown) - High-throughput Cell-capture Device for Semi-automated Single-cell Nanobiopsy and Nanomanipulation
Rolando Cruz Perez (Kresge) - Modular Smart Solid Wingsail
Tyler Eliot Peterson (Crown)
John Summons McCullough (Crown)
Eric Cao (Nine)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- A Call for Older, Holier States: Blood as Ink and the Count’s Electric Telegraphy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Michael Joseph Moreno (Crown) - Against the Monster: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Radical Detroit and the African American Struggle for Democracy in the Workplace
Nicholas Claymore Watter (Stevenson) - Reluctant Solidarity: The Positioning of Free Blacks During the Baptist War
Marley Gwen Lix-Jones (Kresge) - The “Gente-ficatio” of Boyle Heights
Magally Alejandra Miranda Alcazar (Kresge) - The Sadeian Fairy Tale Pornography: An Exploration Into A New Feminist Language
Sophia Gabrielle Blaauw Apt (Kresge) - Tu comprends tu? – Questions of Quebecois
Chantale Yunt (Merrill) - ייִדישע פֿאָלקסמעדיצין פֿון דעם בעל שם טובֿ צו אַנ-סקי און אַריבער/Jewish Folk Medicine from the Baal Shem Tov to An-sky and Beyond
Noah Barrera (Stevenson)
Chancellor’s Award
- Contemplations of the Whale
Paige Hamilton Welsh (Kresge) - Rhyme in the Chamorro language poetry of Joaquin Flores Borja (And what it tells us about poetry and language)
Jake Wayne Vincent (Stevenson) - Tracing Contributions: Salvadoran Women in the Diaspora and the 2014 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) Presidential Campaign
Samantha Pineda (Ten)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Destabilization of the PAS domain core in the Earlydoors mutation of mouse Period2 accelerates the circadian clock
Colby Renee Sandate (Kresge) - Impairment of microtubule motors and their interactions with affiliated proteins leads to disrupted axonal transport in Drosophila motor neurons
Michael Jon Malone (Oakes) - Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of CHRONO: A Novel Repressor of the Circadian Clock
Nicolette Fatima Goularte (Eight) - Kinesin Light Chain Involved in Kinesin-1 Driven Cytoplasmic Streaming in Drosophila Oocytes
Steven Paniagua (Crown) - Stochasticity in Nebular Emission Lines
Theodore Frederick Rendahl (Porter) - The effects of different bacterial food on germline development
Kristen Renee Brosamer (Cowell) - Vector Boson Scattering at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
Niklas Kelly Garner (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Beyond cyclosporine A: conformation-dependent passive membrane permeabilities of cyclic peptide natural products
Christopher Liam Ahlbach (Ten) - Lipoxin biosynthesis by human lipoxygenases
Shannon Renee Barbour (Kresge) - Seeing and Hearing Massive Black Holes Feeding on White Dwarfs
Jacqueline Goldstein (Crown)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Changes in species richness, abundance and community composition of arboreal twig-nesting ants along an elevational gradient
Penelope Noel Gillette (Kresge) - Forced Youth Gay to Straight Conversion Therapy: A Form of Child Abuse
Markie Lauren Flores (Kresge) - Images in Humanitarianism: The UNHCR and Appeals Imagery
Mallika Ponnappa Palecanda (Nine) - Political Participation of Students in Istanbul: Revitalized Turkish Youth as Influential Political Actors
Zoe Rose Mackay (Stevenson) - Resistance of Mayan Women Against Obstetric Violence
Marina Gonzalez Flores (Ten) - Seductive Images in Lecture: Does Extending the Time Between Testing and Learning Still Produce The Seductive Details Effect?
August Twopearls Masonheimer (Ten) - The Social, Economic and Political Impacts of Direct Trade Coffee Production in Santa Barbara, Honduras
Katherine Suzanne Slocum (Kresge)
Chancellor’s Award
- Debugging the Industry: An Ethnography of Exclusion in the Technology Workplace
Natasha Colette Buck (Porter) - The Benefits of Saving on New Learning
Sean Michael Stone (Ten) - WATER RELATIONS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS FOR ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA ACROSS A GREAT BASIN DESERT-SIERRA NEVADA ELEVATION GRADIENT IN THE HISTORIC DROUGHT YEAR OF 2014
Charlotte Chiara Reed (Eight)
2014 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- Die Antwoord: An Antagonistic Negotiation of Post-Apartheid Afrikaner Identity
Atara Melody Jaffe (Stevenson) - Art Department Promotional Film
Shawheen Keyani (Kresge) - Bachelor of Music Recital in Percussion
Aiden Michael McKee (Porter) - Imaging Identity: Amateur Photography from Kodak to the Camera Phone
Lauren Paulina Tomicich (Porter) - In Absence of a Portrait: The Mrs True Series
Kiera Lauren Stasny (Porter) - Machinal: Costume Design
Karina Sookwongse Chavarin (Kresge) - Midnight Warrior
Alex Santana (Porter) - Random With A Purpose XXII
Amelia Rae Nommensen (Porter)
JJ Hersh (Merrill)
Amanda Linn Newsum (Crown) - Santa Cruz Silent Cinema
Seth Martin Crumrine (Merrill) - Werewolf
Sam Griffin Clevenger (Porter)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- ABEL trap circuit analysis and upgrades
Felipe Neira Barreto (Merrill) - Analysis of Solar Array in a Solar Window Wall
Michael Joseph Flores (Crown) - ARS Ground Station Rev. 2
Kayla Castillo Hidalgo (Oakes)
William Ye (Cowell)
Julie Thao Do (Crown) - Crystal Structure of the Human Astrovirus Capsid Core
Payam Angha Yousefi (Porter) - Dental Robotics: A Method to Automatize Dental Veneer Preparation.
Ikuru L Kanuma (Kresge) - Evaluating Dynamic Storytelling in Fables
Carolynn Renee Jimenez (Porter) - Illuminating the Mitochondria and the Mitochondrial Genome’s role in Neurodegeneration with Nanopipettes
Akshar Venkatramanan Lohith (Crown) - Motorized EMG-Controlled Hand, M.E.C.H
Taylor Eric Furtado (Crown)
Ivan Romero (Ten)
Kyle D. Lawrence (Merrill)
Alexander Paul Lynchosky (Kresge)
Michael Gee Ho Sit (Oakes) - P-OSRA
Thomas Joseph Goddard (Ten)
Konstantin Litovskiy (Merrill)
Nathan Melaai Nichols-Roy (Eight)
Matthew Brian Reed (Crown)
Igor Shvartser (Kresge)
Nicholas Hayden Smith (Eight)
David Steven Zeppa (Porter)
Steck Award
- Computational Design of ASiP as Drug to Treat Melanoma
Beau Norgeot (Porter)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- Back to Nature: Human Subjectivity and the Possibility of Empirical Knowledge through Education
Camille Avril Charette (Cowell) - Epistemology as Therapy: John McDowell on Truth and “the Space of Reasons”
Jan Willem Jorritsma (Eight) - Marguerite Porete in the Context of Female Religiosity and the Heresy of the Free Spirit
Jan Willem Jorritsma (Eight) - Maria – a Telenovela for the Stage (Medea)
Stephen Eugene Richter (Porter) - On the Causative Construction
Rachelle Sierra Boyson (Stevenson)
Nicholas William Eggert (Cowell)
Hannah Elizabeth Dorothy Elston (Porter)
Brittny H Fadelli (Nine)
Sean Isamu Johnson (Ten)
Cecilia Rose Lopez (Kresge)
Chelsea Ann Miller (Porter)
Vincent James Del Prado (Kresge)
Kristen Anne Sheets (Merrill)
Anthony Randall Zavala (Stevenson) - OUR STRUGGLE: WHY THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE EXPELLED ITS WHITE MEMBERS
Trevor Michael Stober (Kresge) - Perpetuation, Subjugation or Colonial Prosperity: The Laws of Slavery and Elite White Power within Colonial Virginia, New Netherlands, and New York
Samantha Marie House (Ten) - Splendid Failures in Blake and The Marrow of Tradition
Emily B Wolper (Stevenson) - The Semantics of Nothing If Not Constructions
Michael Anthony Titone (Kresge) - “AN AESTHETICS—OR ETHICS—OF INCOMPLETION”: J.M. COETZEE’S NOVELS AS WORKS OF ETHICAL MOURNING
Emma Juliette Train (Porter)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- An introduction to the symplectic embedding capacity of 4-dimensional ellipsoids into polydiscs
Priera Hortenzia Panescu (Kresge) - Application of Inorganic Materials to Desulfurize Jet Fuel
Laura Yon-Why Chong (Crown) - Effects of Ehrharta erecta on the redwood understory and implications for restoration
Anna Lane Godinho (Eight) - Energy Minimization of Knotted Vortex Tubes
Emily Yvonne Healy (Cowell) - Identification of Yersinia genes that influence activation of host NFκB triggered by the Type III Secretion System
Natalia Guadalupe Herrera (Kresge) - Modeling the Complex Dynamics of Financial Markets using a Physical System with Stochastic Properties
Indra John Heckenbach (Kresge) - Polymer and Dye Characterization for Optimization of Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Kaitlin L Hellier (Porter)
Brett Akihiko Petersen (Cowell) - Structural and Functional Studies of the Human Astrovirus Capsid Protein
Elizabeth Ariadne Lagesse (Crown) - Synthesis and Reactivity of Chloromagnesium Dialkylaminoborohydride
Christopher Lindsay Anderson (Porter)
Alexander Thomas Lill (Ten)
Alexander Yueharn Joh (Oakes)
Zefan Quinn Hurley (Cowell) - The Effects of El Niño Conditions on Marine Mammal Strandings in Central California
Kathryn Lee Pelon (Crown)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- A WOMENS WORK IS NEVER DONE: GENDERED DIVISIONS OF LABOR, PATRIARCHY, AND EMPOWERMENT IN BAHÍA DE CARAQUEZ, ECUADOR
Nicholas Charles Bendinelli (Stevenson) - Bringing Learning to Life: Utilizing Gardens as Tools for Experiential Education and Assessing the 2014 California School Garden Survey
Sarah Diane Hendrix (Stevenson) - Politics of Invisibility: The Violence of Mass Incarceration for the Mentally Ill
Rosalie Bronwen Evans (Merrill) - PRIVILEGED PERSPECTIVES OR DIVERSE DISCOURSE? DISPARITIES IN STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF AND PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT AT UCSC
Cheslea Michelle Pack (Eight) - Struggling for the Commons: An Ethnography of Ruins, Gentrification, and Social Justice in Detroit, Michigan
Andrew Ryan Szeto (Kresge) - The Bittersweet Truth of Strawberries Among Farmworkers in Watsonville
Abel Rivas (Merrill) - The Effect of Poverty on Expectations and Aspirations of Youth in Ejido Ruben Jaramillo, Mexico
Kimberly Susan Pistilli (Crown) - The Historic and Contemporary Use of Sterilization: A Method of State Control and Genocide
Sarah Megan Gray (Ten) - Witnessing Femininity: Evangelical Women and Gender Construction
Rebecca Irene Maness (Porter) - “De-Facing” Power to Reduce Partner Violence and Enhance Psychological Well-being: Maasai Women and Land Ownership
Marina Dominguez Castro (Porter)
2013 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- B.M. Senior Recital
Elliott Viet Quoc Nguyen (Kresge)
Jennifer Ying Lependorf (Porter) - Big, Black, and Bold: A Historical Textual Analysis of Black Women on Television Sitcoms
Ashley Simone Young (Ten) - By Resort to Parables: Space, Time, and Awakened Minds in The Lotus Sutra.
Michael Patrick Yarnell (Porter) - Rethinking Fragonard: Jean-Jacques Rosseau and the Contemporary Rococo
Lois Ruby Rosson (Merrill) - Sean Hayward – Senior Recital
Sean Pryce Hayward (Kresge) - The Dichotomy of Visual Beauty: Portraiture of the Ideal and Anti-Ideal
Tiffany Ann Seagrave (Porter)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- A Novel Method to Mobilize Stem Cells for Transplantation in Cancer Therapies
Herman Tsang (Eight) - Assessing Functionality of GFP+ Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Neonate Bone Marrow
Chethan Jujjavarapu (Crown) - Co-functionality of AlkB and BER DNA Repair Genes in Response to Chemotherapeutic Agents
Ramsey N Aweti (Nine) - Error Rates for Nanopore Discrimination Among Cytosine Markers Along Individual DNA Strands
Jacob Matthew Schreiber (Crown) - Evaluation of the Effect of Age on the Function of Fibroblasts through a Wound-healing Assay
Margaret Kathleen Rose Donovan (Nine) - LASSIE (Live-in ASSistant for Independence and Eldercare)
Peter Samuel Cottrell (Merrill) - MOCVD Growth of Indium Phosphide Nanowire Networks for Thermoelectrics
Amanda Nicole Flores (Crown)
Juan Jose Diaz Leon (Ten) - Nanomaterials for energy
Juan Jose Diaz Leon (Ten) - Saccharid Sensitive Polyelectrolyte for Charge-based Sensing with a Solid State Nanopore
Ace Gita Galermo (Crown)
Alexander Lee Wollenberg (Crown) - Unfoldase-mediated protein translocation through an α-hemolysin nanopore
Douglas Benjamin Marks (Kresge)
Jeffrey Matthew Nivala (Porter)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- A Tale of Two Dummies
Matilda Catherine Morrison (Merrill) - Gothic and Dickens: An Examination of Ghosts, Memory, and Self/Other Relations
Melissa Ann Ottele (Cowell) - Italian Clitics
Emma Marie Peoples (Stevenson) - Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers
Sylvia Opal Primrose (Merrill) - Surviving on the Interface
Kristoffer Walter Hellen (Cowell) - The “Fortuyns” of Europe
Cory Robert Schiff (Nine) - Vegetable Gold: Gardens as Transition Points in Marvell and Milton
Lauren Elizabeth Young (Porter) - Where Light Looks: Edward Hopper and Ekphrasis
Conner Killian Lowe (Cowell)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- A SPICE Analysis of ILC Long-Ladder Noise
Khilesh Pradip Mistry (Crown) - An investigation into small RNAs’ role in the genomic gymnastics that take place during macronuclear
Cameron Walker Ferguson (Stevenson) - BioCAM: Biological and Chemical Annotation by Mode-of-Action
Emerson Walker Glassey (Merrill) - Critical Conditions For The Detonation of Helium Matter: An Investigation Into The Destruction Of Wh
Cole James Holcomb (Nine) - In Situ Generation of Dichloroindium Hydride via Reduction of Indium (III) Chloride
Panathda Victoria Bayrasy (Nine) - REGULATION OF LIFESPAN BY THE MES-2/3/6 COMPLEX AND H3K27ME3 DEPLETION DURING AGING IN C. ELEGANS
Geoffrey Thomas Slaughter (Oakes) - Searches of RHESSI Data for Weak Signals Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
Paul Robert Buzbee (Eight)
Justine Whitney Matten (Crown) - Studies with Helicobacter pylori: Filling in the mystery sequence of the cagY gene and determining w
Sarina Yvonne Porcella (Merrill) - THE EFFECTS OF AUTOPHAGIC PROTEINS ON FOCAL ACCUMULATIONS OF KINESIN MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA AXONS
Michelle Fay Sloan (Cowell)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- For The Record: The Struggle Over Foreclosures and Loan Modifications in the Immigrant Community of
Aleshia Barajas (Merrill) - Indigeneity in the Neoliberal Era: Anti-Mining Protests in Puno, Peru
Emma Katherine McDonell (Eight) - Indigenous Youth Perspectives, Oil Development and Human Environmental Rights in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Nestor Silva (Merrill) - Neoliberalism, International Law, and the Failures of Privatized Water Systems to Increase Access to
Allison Jill Bach (Kresge) - New Media & Communication Paradigms: Intersections of Social and Technological Progress
Daniel Alexander Kagan (Stevenson) - Sanitation Services and Perceptions of Possibilities: A Case Study of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana
Carson Brian Watts (Oakes) - Testing the Predictive Validity of the Sexual Double Standards Scale in Undergraduate Women
Alexa Rae Paynter (Cowell) - What is Water Equity?
Matthew Alan Goff (Kresge)
2012 Winners
Arts
Dean’s Award
- A Little Perspective
Julia Marjorie Reardin (Porter), Nicholas Anthony Denova (Porter), Wilsa Nadinne Querubin Derro (Cowell), Dylan Alexander Sachse (Porter), Laura Maili Lindauer (Kresge) - Championship Boxing game/bookset
Louise Leong (Porter) - Huichol Foundation 501c3 – Sustaining Indigenous Culture Through Art
Nicolas Benjamin Secunda (Eight) - Stephanie Hoffman Senior Recital in Classical Voice
Stephanie Karen Hoffman (Kresge), Zachary Lev Ragent (Cowell) - The Madrid Skylitzes: Norman Interpretation in a Byzantine Chronicle
Michele Lee Jennings (Ten) - Thinning Veil
Erik Nelson Ladue (Porter), Marissa Kahn Putnick (Kresge), Jennifer Ellen Schuler (Porter), Ashley Elizabeth Bowen (Kresge), Gregory Wren Towle (Porter)
Dean’s and Chancellor Award
- Landscape as Cultural and Political Process in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Margaret Florence Wander (Porter) - Senior Recital in Violin Performance
Zachary Lev Ragent (Cowell), William Joseph Long (Nine)
Engineering
Dean’s Award
- A Declarative Approach for Machine Learning at Scale
Joshua Daniel Rosen (Crown) - Dual Motor Differential
Gregory Alan Dreisen (Ten)
Peter Kingman Turner (Ten)
Steven Paul Lewis (Porter) - FMVilla
Gabriel Sanchez (Oakes)
Leland Noboru Takamine (Stevenson)
Tiffany G Yee (Ten)
Jian Wang (Crown) - Fully Automated RNA-Seq Sample Preparation
Wilson Liang Liu (Eight) - Metal Detection with Functionalized Nanopores
Xiang Li (Crown) - Programmable LED Signs for Campus Buses
Benjamin Jacob Cizdziel (Crown) - PsySlug
Vadim Maximov (Crown)
Nicholas F Lutz (Cowell)
Maria Arbuzova (Stevenson)
Maria Hristova Mishkova (Ten)
Brian Sean Nguyen (Ten) - sixtypercentoff.com
Sarah Elizabeth Ross (Crown) - Thermal Challenges on Solar Concentrated Thermoelectric CHP Systems and Thermal Battery Systems
Vernon Keith Wong (Crown)
Chancellor’s Award
- Single-cell Manipulation Using Nanopipettes
Michelle Marie Maalouf (Oakes)
Humanities
Dean’s Award
- Ambrosia: Slightly Tilted
Cheyenne Christine Street Houck (Porter) - Iris
Julianne Dolores Ruetz (Cowell) - Libertine Culture in Pre-Revolutionary France: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ in Historical Perspective
Mary Elizabeth Wolff (Kresge) - Peeling the Onion: Feminism, the Media, and Unchanged Fairy Tale Discourses Beneath the Surface of S
Victoria Bonnie Zdeb (Kresge) - Re-collecting the Past: Memory and Literature as Historical Intervention
Ronald Allen Rose (Eight) - Shedding Light on a Dark Age: Britain in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
Ian Powell Hickey (Stevenson) - The Disenfranchised Culture of the Lower Literati: Wealth, Status, and Transcendence of Elite Cultur
Dylan Andrew McCarty (Merrill)
Chancellor’s Award
- “Naked” Security: Re-Imagining Full-Body Scanners
Angelo Jack Haidaris (Kresge) - THE DUTY OF INTELLECTUALISM: Reconciling Chomskyan Activism and Foucauldian Excavation
Lisa Johanna Clark (Kresge)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s Award
- A Glimpse of the Markoff Spectrum
Travis William Morrison (Nine) - Alternative Splicing Coupled To Nonsense-Mediated Decay in Regulation of Splicing Factor Expression
Diana Kathleen Summers (Crown) - Attractiveness of California Native Perennial Plants to Natural Enemy and Pest Insects
Maya Sertic (Porter) - Calibration and Deployment of an Electromagnetic Flowmeter for Cross-Hole Hydrogeologic Experiments
Amalia Evangeline Slovacek (Nine) - Examining Long Ladder Limits for ILC Silicon Strip Detectors
Taylor Christopher Cunnington (Cowell) - Inhibition of the Primary Circadian Transcription Factor by PASD1, a Cancer Testis Antigen
Patrick Jack Sammons (Eight) - Properties of antibiotic resistance in H. pylori and enzymatic studies of P. aeruginosa lipoxygenase
Jason Vu Minh Hien Nguyen (Merrill) - Stability Analysis for a Borehole to be Drilled into the Tohoku Fault Zone, Japan
Stephanie Michelle Nale (Eight) - Stability Analysis of the Companions of Upsilon Andromedae
Irina Goriatcheva (Stevenson)
Chancellor’s Award
- Creation of Synthetic Radial Velocities to Follow Up TESS Observations
Barbara Giusti (Oakes)
Social Sciences
Dean’s Award
- Constructing a ~100 Year Record of 15N in the California Bay Area Utilizing Foliar Tissue of Four Sp
Johnathan Robert Becker (Porter) - Contesting Hegemonic Understandings of Security: The Need for the Prioritization of Human Security
Tessa Adriana Mizokami (Stevenson) - Drinking the Kool-Aid: How Race, Gender, and the NPIC Create a Recipe for Low Accountability
Rio Edleson Scharf (Eight) - Legacies of Development in Intibucá, Honduras: An Analysis of State and Non-State Intervention
Savanna Teale Susnow (Nine) - Patient Information Privacy and Security in Ghana: Current Policy and Suggestions for the Future
Lucas Burton Healy (Oakes) - Sustainable Development in Low-Income Housing: A New Technology
Aldinette Marceline Lockett (Eight) - The effect of Soil and Canopy Heterogeneity on Seedling Recruitment in Restored Tropical Pasture
Victoria Marie Stout (Stevenson) - The Roles of Belonging, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Family in First Generation of College students G
Jose Luis Ochoa (Ten)
Michael J Levine (Stevenson)
Chancellor’s Award
- Patterns of Intimacy and Distancing in Young Women’s (and Men’s) Romantic Relationship Stories
Jerika Christine Norona (Oakes)
Steck Family Awards
2025 Winner
Engineering
Naomi Rehman (College Nine)
Project: Incorrect-Path Prediction for Power Throttling Speculative Execution
Mentor: Heiner Litz
2024 Winners
Science
Eva Zlimen (Carson College)
Project: Extensive Ice Pollution of Uranus and Neptune’s Atmospheres by Upsweep of Material During the Nice Model Migration. Mentor: Ruth Murray-Clay
Social Sciences
Ameyalli De La Rosa (Merrill College)
Project: ¡El es Dios!: Mexican Folk Catholicism and its Rebellious Ecologies.
Mentor: Mayanthi Fernando
2023 Winners
Arts
lavender higley (Kresge College)
Project: Random With A Purpose XXXI: The Community Movement
Mentor: Ted Warburton
Science
Student: Joseph M Cruz (Kresge)
Project: Investigating the COBRA NG2 Hemagglutinin for Universal Flu For Vaccine Development
Mentor: Rebecca DuBois and John Dzimianski
2022 Winner
Science
Elizabeth Yunerman (Crown College)
Project: A Pathway for Collisional Planetesimal Growth in the Ice Dominant Region of Protoplanetary Disks
Mentor: Ruth Murray-Clay
2021 Winner
Science
Olivia Ross (Kresge College)
Project: Searching for Primordial Black Holes
Mentor: Stefano Profumo
Archives
2020 Winners
Arts
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- Cat’s Cradle
Georgio Klironomos (Crown)
Erica Li (Ten)
Herman Wei-Jye Wu (Merrill) - Exploring Personal Boundaries with Adults who have Developmental Disabilities through Serious Games and Brainwaves
Samantha Conde (Merrill) - Inspiration Point / Filling the Imaginary Void: Addressing “Documentary Distance” in the Representation of Historical Violence (FILM AND PAPER)
Keanu Ramos (Porter)
Dean’s Award
- Gateway into The Abyss: Unlocking the Transcending Realms and Enlightened Truth Through Exploration of Occult Iconography in Hilma Af Klint’s The Swan No.24
cnconti (Cowell) - A Portrait of G.H. Wells
Eli Crespin (Kresge)
Katelin Kai-Lin Ong (Stevenson), Laura Gonzalez (Cowell), Yvonne Gonzalez (Crown) - Cendrillon – Winter 2020
David Kronenberg (Porter) - Nymph Mania: J. W. Waterhouse’s Femme Fatales and Victorian Anxieties About Shifting Gender Dynamics
Chloe Calhoun (Crown) - Psychopathic Dismemberment and Psychic Slaughter: Spectatorship, Affect, and Gender in the Slasher Cycle
Snow Martin (Porter) - The Norris Center Archives
Saul Villegas (Porter) - The Pirates of Penzance Spring Opera 2019
Kylie Paige Smith (Ten)
Engineering
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- De novo creation of spliceosomal introns by different transposition mechanisms across diverse eukaryotes
Landen Gozashti (Eight) - Flow-based Detection of Rip Currents
Issei Mori (Nine) - Posture Monitoring and Corrective Seat Cover
Ali Fallahi (Porter), Christopher Cheney (Ten), Zachary Haughton (Cowell)
Dean’s Award
- Ancestry HMM with Gene Conversion
Trevor Ridgley (Crown) - Characterization of the Differentiation Patterns of Histone H3 K27M Neural Stem Cells
Liam Tran (Nine) - Identifying and validating Wolbachia-to-arthropod HGT events
Serafina Nieves (Eight) - Introner Elements drive ongoing intron gain in Oikopleura dioica
Preet Kaur (Eight), Landen Gozashti (Eight) - Investigating Regulation of Nonsense-Mediated Decay During the Inflammatory Response
Matthew Cattle (Cowell) - Protecting Newcastle Disease Vaccine with Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
James Hahn (Cowell), Andrew Zarzar (Nine), Aren Pageler (Crown), Ikenna Anigbogu (Eight), Jiasui Xu (Nine), Jonah Pierce (Merrill), Liana Shuang Beld (Eight), Preet Kaur (Eight), Marcella Mirabelli (Stevenson), Marcus-Charles Strauss (Cowell), Martina Pedersen (Porter), Melody Azimi (Ten), Rita Ousterhout (Stevenson), Shayan Vahdani (Porter), Varuna Amita Dharasker (Ten), Kaitlyn Myers (Merrill) - Sorting an Array Using the Topological Sort of Corresponding Comparison Graph
Balaram Das Behera (Crown)
Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- An Intellectual History of Public Discourse in the Post-Civil War Era: Infanticide and Emerging Reproductive Regulations
Angela L Cortes (Stevenson) - One Does Not Simply Define Memes: A Prototypical Theory to Understanding Internet Memes
Samrawit Tariku Ayele (Nine) - Pure Potential
Irma Yuliana Barbosa (Porter)
Dean’s Award
- A Pragmatic Account of Singular They
Clara Agnes Mcmahan (Kresge) - A Vice Contrary to Nation: The Emerging Heteronormative Nationalism of the French Revolution
Bailey Jonathan Troth (Crown) - Aristotle’s Politics and The Charge of Egoism
Cynthia Lissete Gonzalez (Oakes) - Goodness without God is Good Enough
Landon Austin Mitchell (Porter) - Properties of Match and Align in Kinyambo
Max Mason Tarlov (Kresge) - The Far Eastern Republic and Historical Memory
Charles Raymond Wagoner (Kresge) - The Grey Area: Rethinking the Problem of the Color Line in Vietnam War-era Korea and Japan
Farrah Safari (Kresge)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- CONSTRAINING THE RELATION BETWEEN CLUSTER VELOCITY DISPERSION AND RICHNESS USING THE REDMAPPER YEAR 3 CATALOG
Vernon Robert Wetzell (Stevenson) - Structural Studies of a New Class of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor for Cancer Immunotherapy
Nina Miranda Harpell (Eight)
Dean’s Award
- A Chandra X-Ray Follow-Up To The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer Catalog
Lena Sofia Eiger (Nine) - An Analysis of Germanium Quantum Dots in conjunction with MAPbI3 Host Perovskites for Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials
Phoenix Nalu Hakumele Gallagher (Stevenson)
Shayan Hassanzadeh Zargar (Cowell) - Constraints on the Final Fermions of an Exotic Higgs Decay
Violet Piper (Crown) - Manganese Oxide Deposition on Defective Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Enhanced Antibacterial Activity Under Monochromated Light
Jasmine Chiayu Liu (Crown) - Optimizing Molecular Inversion Probe Assays to Characterize Human-Specific Neurodevelopmental Genes
Taylor Dolores Real (Porter) - The Reducing Capabilities of Diisobutylaluminum Borodhydride
Madison E Landi (Eight) - ANION-DRIVEN CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN CK1δ REGULATE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
Alfred Manning Freeberg (Eight)
Social Sciences
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Award
- A California Case Study on Procedures to Reassemble and Reevaluate Archaeological Artifact Processing
Allysha Ann Leonard (Eight) - Adding New Lenses: Making Health Equity Work in Immigrant Communities Marked By Various Forms of Violence
Cinthia Cristal Magana Moreno (Porter) - Incarceration and Healthcare in the Santa Cruz County
Priyanka Praveen Kulkarni (Oakes)
Dean’s Award
- “Agents of Change”: Progressive Democratic ‘Diffusion’ Across U.S. House and State Legislative Elections in 2018
Margarita Vargas (Porter) - Analyzing the Effects of Federal Aid on Partisan Representation in the American States
Parker James Strohmeyer (Oakes) - Comparing Sexual Themes in Rap Music by Female and Male Music Artists: A Qualitative Study
Jessica Lorraine Walsh (Stevenson) - Differential Vulnerability to Climate Related Disasters Among Communities Along the Santa Cruz Coastal Landscape
John Calvin Mcclure (Crown) - Harm, Responsibility, and Ambiguity in Judgements about Sexual Behaviors
Anjuli Megan Corzine (Cowell) - Oakland, California’s Points of Nutritional Hope
Louis William Garcia (Stevenson)
2019 Winner
Science
Tin Long Sunny Wong (Crown College)
Project: Evolution of Helium Star – White Dwarf Binaries Leading up to Thermonuclear Supernovae
Mentor: Enrico Jorge Ramirez-Ruiz
2018 Winners
Engineering
Joshua Shueng Gu (College Ten)
Project: Exploring Transposable Elements Regulated by ZNF649
Mentor: David Haussler
2017 Winners
Engineering
Edmundo Ismael Perez (College Ten)
Project: Structural Studies to Understand Evasion of an Astrovirus serotype-2 subtype to a Potent Neutralizing Antibody
Mentor: Rebecca DuBois
2016 Winners
Science
Alexandra Marie Houser (College Eight)
Project: Editing of Kinesin Heavy Chain to Elucidate its roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mentor: William M. Saxton
2015 Winners
Arts
Dominic Romano (Porter College)
Project: Bodies of Trauma
2014 Winners
Enginering
Beau Norgeot (Porter College)
Project: Computational Design of ASiP as Drug to Treat Melanoma