2015 Winners

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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)