2019 Winners

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Arts

Dean's Award

• Anak, how are you? (My child, how are you?)
  Jelica Ross Alcarmen Hipolito (Porter)
  Sabrina Anne Ilumin (Nine)
  Maybelle Michele Alvarez (Merrill)
  Angie Paola Morales Molina (Eight)
  
• HAVC 100A Research Paper: Refining Tastes
  Ava Lizette Kristy (Cowell)
  
• John Hughes, Teenagers, and the Corporate American Dream
  Nicholette Lindsay (Kresge)
  
• Our World in Wilson's Hands
  Samwell Tarciano Gervacio (Cowell)
  
• Sister of Mine
  Leah Esther Fuentes (Cowell)
  Samuel Joseph Noval Gouldthorpe (Cowell)
  Leslie Carrillo-Lorenzo (Eight)
  Ariel Baruch (Cowell)
  Cameron Currie Mccrea (Stevenson)
  Megan Lucille Neelley (Cowell)
  
• The Duality of the Face in Cinema: From Ubiquity to Obscurity
  Rachel Aisha Abrahams (Porter)
  
• The Myth of Leisure: Bean Bag Chairs and Corporate Tech Campuses
  Daniel Scott Fisher (Porter)
  
• Worlds: An Exploration of the Self
  Zoe Joy Elliott (Eight)
  

Chancellor's Award

• dinosaurily
  Joyce Wei-Shin Lin (Porter)
  Jacob A Swanson (Kresge)
  
• Fabrications, Articulations, Activations: Creating Vā Through Intentional Juxtapositions & Decolonizing the ‘Dusky Maiden.’
  Alexandra Simpson Hiatt (Kresge)
  

Engineering

Dean's Award

• Computational Models of Polymer Synthesis Driven by Dehydration/Rehydration Cycles: Repurination in Simulated Hydrothermal Fields
  Mason Ellis Hargrave (Crown)
  Spencer K Thompson (Stevenson)
  
• Dissecting the impact of signaling strength on T cell function using chimeric antigen receptors
  Lilian Eden Yao (Ten)
  
• Lens Characterization for Multifocus Microscopy Applications
  Brandon Jared Lynch (Porter)
  
• Significance of NRROS in CNS Homeostasis
  Amr Khalid Makhamreh (Ten)
  
• Understanding the Role of ZNF765 and/or L1PA Retroelements in Defining Embryonic Stem Cell Phenotypes
  Paola Isabel Angulo (Merrill)
  
• Virtual Reality Video Games for Eye Disability (Lazy-Eye)
  Ocean Lavonne Hurd (Crown)
  
• Waterlab 3
  Jared Jonathan Roberts (Ten)
  Randall Jamison Abel (Porter)
  Alexander James Koran (Stevenson)
  Joshua Douglas Spangler (Nine)
  Liam Thomas Corcoran (Crown)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Design Framework for the Electrical Characterization of Alcohol Sensors
  Alexander John Flora (Oakes)
  Nebyu Tilahun Yonas (Crown)
  Brian Hien Nguyen (Kresge)
  
• Introner Elements Persist in Algal and Protist Species
  Landen Zackery Gozashti (Eight)
  
• Portable Progesterone Production in Yeast
  Jessica Faith Scherer (Eight)
  Mykhaylo Dudkin (Ten)
  Laura Diane Valine (Crown)
  Danette Patricia Moreno (Porter)
  Gina Y-Vang Tran Cuneo (Merrill)
  Claire Elizabeth Bispo (Merrill)
  Justin Lau (Nine)
  Harman Singh (Oakes)
  Manuel Varela Jr (Merrill)
  Emily Katherine Mount (Ten)
  Vanessa Jasmine Ventura (Nine)
  Ryan Michael Modlin (Crown)
  Nicholas Scott Hammond (Crown)
  Morgan Claire Tardy (Stevenson)
  Larry Hinojos (Ten)
  Megan Eleanor Macpherson (Crown)
  

Humanities

Dean's Award

• "Hello, My Name is "Foster Kid."
  Regina Celine Grayson (Oakes)
  
• "I Remain an Irishman...and a Jew:" Conflicting Identities of Ireland's Jewish Politicians
  Michele Lipson Cole (Cowell)
  
• Anger and Forgiveness in "The Tempest" and "Cymbeline"
  Cynthia Lissete Gonzalez (Oakes)
  
• Monster and Memory: Godzilla and the Unearthing of Grief in the Wake of Nuclear Disaster
  Anney Traymany (Kresge)
  
• Reverberations from the "Earthquake": Collective Memory and Why Mizrahi Israelis Vote for the Israeli Right
  Avery Jayne Weinman (Nine)
  
• Right to a Roof: The Fight for Rent Control and Tenant Protections in California 1978-1995
  Jessica Brittany Ann Chuidian-Ingersoll (Merrill)
  
• South Sudanese Refugees and Youth: Complex Narratives of Gender, War, and Diaspora
  Nyereath Dep Nhial (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Anglicisms: Use and Perceptions in the Tijuana-San Diego Border
  Brianda Alicia Caldera (Kresge)
  
• Imagining the Future Human through Design Fiction & Speculative Fiction
  Natalie Gonzales (Merrill)
  
• My Body Can't Salute A War Machine: Bodily Resistance in Leslie M. Silko's Ceremony
  Fatima Sadaf Mohammadi (Cowell)
  

Physical and Biological Sciences

Dean's Award

• An Analysis into the AGN Fraction in Dark Energy Survey Galaxy Clusters
  Raziq Shaquille Noorali (Porter)
  
• Effects of simulated solar arrays on seed dynamics in California desert plant species
  Sophia Haji (Eight)
  
• Elucidating the Role of ROBO1 in NOTCH Activation Within the Mammary Gland
  Pinky Lee (Stevenson)
  
• Enrichment of Damaged DNA by Target Replacement of Deaminated Cytosines
  Lourdes Marcela Gomez (Crown)
  
• The Evolution of Binaries in a Gaseous Medium: Three-Dimensional Simulations of Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion
  Andrea Carol Antoni (Kresge)
  
• The Origin of LIGO Sources: Understanding The Formation Channels of Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes
  Martin Jose Lopez (Crown)
  
• Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars of Varying Mass and Age: Inferences from the Composition of the Fallback Material
  Monica Paulina Gallegos Garcia (Oakes)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Ion Microprobe Depth Profile Analysis of Micron-Scale Metamorphic Rims on Detrital Zircons from the Pelona-Orocopia-Rand Schist
  Elizabeth Anne Langdon-Lassagne (Porter)
  
• Structure and Binding Kinetics of Monoclonal Antibody 1G1 Support the Inclusion of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus G Protein in Vaccine Development
  Joshua Ryan Dillen (Cowell)
  

Steck Award

• Evolution of Helium Star - White Dwarf Binaries Leading up to Thermonuclear Supernovae
  Tin Long Sunny Wong (Crown)
  

Social Sciences

Dean's Award

• Propagating Discourse: Community Gardener Motivations in the California Central Coast
  Tina Milz (Kresge)
  
• BLACK ON WHITE LOVE: HOW RACIAL/ETHNIC IDENTITIES INFLUENCE PARTNER-DECISIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
  Manfred Cullen Sy (Crown)
  
• Emotional Granularity, Coping, and Adjustment in First-Generation College Students
  Edward Wonbin Kim (Crown)
  
• People Who Garden: A Closer Look at Urban Community Gardeners in the California Central Coast Region
  Yeun Byun (Eight)
  
• The Role of Cognitive Biases in Identifying and Disciplining Plagiarism
  Carmelle Bareket-Shavit (Stevenson)
  
• Violence vs. Violence: Why the Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto Administrations Exacerbated Violence in Michoacán
  Karen Michelle Lazo (Merrill)
  
• Worse than Death: An Analysis of Excess Death and the Necropolitics of Dying in Public Space
  Sara Jane Kelley (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Beyond the Duality of Sumak Kawsay: Living Well amongst the Waorani
  Alejandra Aviah Zeiger (Nine)
  
• Failure of International Mediation in Ethnic Conflict: the Oslo Accords and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
  Shannon Elise Nichols (Nine)
  
• Raising (Pitch)forks for Climate Justice: Leveraging a Just Transition in Dismantling Big Meat
  Laurel Brooke Levin (Stevenson)