2018 Winners
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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)