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)