2017 Winners

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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)