2012 Winners

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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)
  

Chancellor's 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)