2024 Winners
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Arts
Dean's Award
- From Giving Violets to Gaining Visibility: Looking at Artwork by Self-Identified Lesbian Artists
Zella Bonita Vacaron (Kresge)
- Always Offer a Gift of Silver to the First Magpie Seen in Spring
Alice Jean Clarice Barreras (Porter)
- Climate Grief Quilting Bee
Lily Mia Nash (Eight)
- Fragmented Mind of the Torn Soul / Womanhood
Kasey Jocelyn Morales (Kresge)
- Hybridity of Costume and the Development of Race: Conflicting Meanings within the Portrait of Don Francisco de Arobe and Sons Pedro and Domingo
Celeste Catherine Wilkinson (Merrill)
- Indigenous Land Politics: Artistic Resistance Presented by Zapatista Climate Justice
Cece Selznick (Stevenson)
- The Reclamation of Hawaiian Featherwork: Exploring History and Tradition in Relation to the Present
Chanel Chavira (Stevenson)
Chancellor's Award
- Clyde's
Kairo Chou Chin (Porter)
- Theories on How to Decarcerate the Museum
Kyla Perkins (Merrill)
- Unforgettable Lies: Framing Jamie Snow
Danny Moshayedi (Stevenson)
Katherine M Garcia De La Rosa (Kresge)
Madeline Alice Finkel (Kresge)
Engineering
Dean's Award
- Assessing the Impact of Prompting Methods on ChatGPT’s Mathematical Capabilities
Yuhao Chen (Ten)
Hanwen Yang (Ten)
Chloe Wong (Ten)
Juan Tan Aguenza (Cowell)
Sai Bhujangari (Cowell)
Benthan Vu (Cowell)
- AUTOMATED TOOLS FOR ACCURATE AND PRECISE DOSING OF GRANULAR SOLIDS
John Richard Minnick (Eight)
- Automatic Vectorization of Architectural Floor Plans
Luqman Zaceria (Cowell)
- Can Large Language Models Explain Themselves? A Study of LLM-Generated Self-Explanations
Siddarth P Mamidanna (Crown)
Shiyuan Huang (Merrill)
Shreedhar Anil Jangam (Ten)
- Embers, Wind, and Fire: An investigation of the effects of embers and wind on wildfire propagation
Ananthajit Srikanth (Nine)
Jasmine Tai (Ten)
- Knowledge Distillation Through Time For Future Event Prediction
Akhil Gunasekaran (Crown)
- TABI: Toxic Algal Bloom Interference
Varun Chandra Kodur (Crown)
Jordan Anthony Nichols (Stevenson)
Allison Claire Jaballas (Crown)
Julia Joanne Saltz (Cowell)
Nikita Rajesh (Crown)
James Kane Larbalestier (Kresge)
Zokhira Mukhammadyunusova (Ten)
Tyler Alan Gaw (Oakes)
Srikar Bevara (Ten)
McKenna Elizabeth Smith (Crown)
Ashlyn Nhu-Ngoc Huynh (Nine)
Blanca Davila Gil (Merrill)
Katie Nicole Warren (Porter)
Daniel Li (Oakes)
Edgar Daniel Cruz Vasquez (Porter)
Chancellor's Award
- Connectivity-Based Heuristic Algorithms for Restoration Prioritization
Natalie May Valett (Nine)
- Fair Augmentation of Decision Trees Through Selective Node Retraining
Coen Timothy Adler (Crown)
- Structure and antigenicity of the porcine astrovirus 4 capsid spike
Danielle J Haley (Porter)
Humanities
Dean's Award
- A Night in Harlem: Mapping the Nightclubs of 1930's Harlem
Jackson Thomas Young (Cowell)
Isabel Catherine Annuncia De Blois (Kresge)
Valerie Sainz (Stevenson)
- Ireland As We Would Surely Have Her
Leo Sullivan Colletta (Stevenson)
- Sex Work and Prostitution in the American-Occupied Philippines
Maia Michelle Jardenil Mislang (Porter)
- Silent Soldiers: Uncovering the Stories of Indigenous Nurses in the First World War
Bronwyn Elisabeth Eyre (Oakes)
- Tensions in Paradise: The Om Commune as an Alternative Cultural Experiment
Molly Penelope Maher (Porter)
- the earth as skin
Lily Fahringer Marx (Kresge)
Chancellor's Award
- Red Dawn Over Derry: A History of Socialist Republicanism and Radicalism in the Troubles
Ian Hunte Doyle (Oakes)
- Regulation of Prostitution in 19th Century Paris: Effects of Urbanization on Sexual Institutions
Ethan Waldo (Ten)
- “You Just Take It For Granted When You're Growing Up”: Filipino Cockfighting in the Pajaro Valley
Jacob Press (Stevenson)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean's Award
- Accuracy of the disconnected bump scan conducted on ATLAS prototype pixel modules using the RD53a readout chip
Keaton Muir Ferguson (Crown)
- Biogeography and activity of cyanobacterial and non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs throughout the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Anna V Voznyuk (Merrill)
- Comparative RNA sequencing analysis reveals KRAS A146P presence in rare form of Gliosarcoma
Kathryn Eliana Echandía-Monroe (Nine)
- Equipped with a Cre-Dependent CRISPR-CAS9 System to Investigate Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Bengalese Finch Models
Alekhya Meduri (Crown)
- Mapping Cell-Type-Specific Gene Expression across the Developing Songbird Forebrain
Darian Sassan Mohsenin (Kresge)
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
Nitya Jain (Nine)
- PIENU to PIONEER: Constraints on Rare Pion Decays in Search of Dark Sector Physics
Ollie Jackson (Eight)
Chancellor's Award
- Addressing Discrepancies Within Emission-line Modeling Using a Machine Learning Approach
Darshika Ravulapalli (Kresge)
- Extensive Ice Pollution of Uranus and Neptune's Atmospheres by Upsweep of Material During the Nice Model Migration
Eva Teresa Zlimen (Eight)
- Optics Testing for SCALES
Aditi Gangadharan (Nine)
Social Sciences
Dean's Award
- Bringing Each Other to Greatness: Narratives of the Revolutionary Vanguard and Horizontal Alternatives in Zapatista Theory and Practice
Gerard Wesley Labriola (Merrill)
- Ending Solitary Confinement: A Look Outside the Eighth Amendment and Litigation
Reva Sudhir Samant (Merrill)
- Peer Relations and the Importance of Cultural Identity in Classroom Motivation
Diana Garcia (Merrill)
Sydrah Al-Saegh (Cowell)
- Radio Activities: Extracurricular College Radio and Academic Success
Shavit Melamed (Eight)
- The Judicial Paintbrush: The Ongoing Evolution of Copyright Law and its Relationships with Creators, Corporations, and Artificial Intelligence
Lauren Julia Elscott (Eight)
- What Was My Error?: Online Processing of Speech Disfluency by Foreign-Accented Speakers
Kasey La (Merrill)
Chancellor's Award
- Repression and Mobilization in the Digital Age: a Triangular Set of Relations
Alexandra Thanhha Singer (Nine)
- Women Talking: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Requirements of Womanhood
Lila Alena Mandros Bell (Kresge)
- ¡El es Dios!: Mexican Folk Catholicism and its Rebellious Ecologies
Ameyalli Mercedes De La Rosa (Merrill)