2020 Winners

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Arts

Dean's Award

• Gateway into The Abyss: Unlocking the Transcending Realms and Enlightened Truth Through Exploration of Occult Iconography in Hilma Af Klint’s The Swan No.24
  cnconti (Cowell)
  
• A Portrait of G.H. Wells
  Eli Samuel Crespin (Kresge)
  Katelin Kai-Lin Ong (Stevenson)
  Laura Elena Gonzalez (Cowell)
  Yvonne Lizeth Gonzalez (Crown)
  
• Cendrillon - Winter 2020
  David Garen Kronenberg (Porter)
  
• Nymph Mania: J. W. Waterhouse’s Femme Fatales and Victorian Anxieties About Shifting Gender Dynamics
  Chloe Rose Calhoun (Crown)
  
• Psychopathic Dismemberment and Psychic Slaughter: Spectatorship, Affect, and Gender in the Slasher Cycle
  Snow Martin (Porter)
  
• The Norris Center Archives
  Saul Villegas (Porter)
  
• The Pirates of Penzance Spring Opera 2019
  Kylie Paige Smith (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Cat's Cradle
  Georgio Lee Klironomos (Crown)
  Erica Ming Li (Ten)
  Herman Wei-Jye Wu (Merrill)
  
• Exploring Personal Boundaries with Adults who have Developmental Disabilities through Serious Games and Brainwaves
  Samantha Conde (Merrill)
  
• Inspiration Point / Filling the Imaginary Void: Addressing "Documentary Distance" in the Representation of Historical Violence (FILM AND PAPER)
  Keanu Ramos (Porter)
  

Engineering

Dean's Award

• Ancestry HMM with Gene Conversion
  Trevor Jay Ridgley (Crown)
  
• Characterization of the Differentiation Patterns of Histone H3 K27M Neural Stem Cells
  Liam Herrera Tran (Nine)
  
• Identifying and validating Wolbachia-to-arthropod HGT events
  Serafina Maria Nieves (Eight)
  
• Introner Elements drive ongoing intron gain in Oikopleura dioica
  Preet Kaur (Eight)
  Landen Zackery Gozashti (Eight)
  
• Investigating Regulation of Nonsense-Mediated Decay During the Inflammatory Response
  Matthew Arthur Cattle (Cowell)
  
• Protecting Newcastle Disease Vaccine with Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
  James Robert Hahn (Cowell)
  Andrew Walid Zarzar (Nine)
  Aren Kent Pageler (Crown)
  Ikenna Francis Anigbogu (Eight)
  Jiasui Xu (Nine)
  Jonah Addison Pierce (Merrill)
  Liana Shuang Beld (Eight)
  Preet Kaur (Eight)
  Marcella Isabella Mirabelli (Stevenson)
  Marcus-Charles Anderson Kelleher Strauss (Cowell)
  Martina Victoria Pedersen (Porter)
  Melody Saravi Azimi (Ten)
  Rita Mae Ousterhout (Stevenson)
  Shayan Vahdani (Porter)
  Varuna Amita Dharasker (Ten)
  Kaitlyn Nicole Myers (Merrill)
  
• Sorting an Array Using the Topological Sort of Corresponding Comparison Graph
  Balaram Das Behera (Crown)
  

Chancellor's Award

• De novo creation of spliceosomal introns by different transposition mechanisms across diverse eukaryotes
  Landen Zackery Gozashti (Eight)
  
• Flow-based Detection of Rip Currents
  Issei Mori (Nine)
  
• Posture Monitoring and Corrective Seat Cover
  Ali Fallahi (Porter)
  Christopher Robert Cheney (Ten)
  Zachary Joseph Haughton (Cowell)
  

Humanities

Dean's Award

• A Pragmatic Account of Singular They
  Clara Agnes Mcmahan (Kresge)
  
• A Vice Contrary to Nation: The Emerging Heteronormative Nationalism of the French Revolution
  Bailey Jonathan Troth (Crown)
  
• Aristotle’s Politics and The Charge of Egoism
  Cynthia Lissete Gonzalez (Oakes)
  
• Goodness without God is Good Enough
  Landon Austin Mitchell (Porter)
  
• Properties of Match and Align in Kinyambo
  Max Mason Tarlov (Kresge)
  
• The Far Eastern Republic and Historical Memory
  Charles Raymond Wagoner (Kresge)
  
• The Grey Area: Rethinking the Problem of the Color Line in Vietnam War-era Korea and Japan
  Farrah Safari (Kresge)
  

Chancellor's Award

• An Intellectual History of Public Discourse in the Post-Civil War Era: Infanticide and Emerging Reproductive Regulations
  Angela L Cortes (Stevenson)
  
• One Does Not Simply Define Memes: A Prototypical Theory to Understanding Internet Memes
  Samrawit Tariku Ayele (Nine)
  
• Pure Potential
  Irma Yuliana Barbosa (Porter)
  

Physical and Biological Sciences

Dean's Award

• A Chandra X-Ray Follow-Up To The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer Catalog
  Lena Sofia Eiger (Nine)
  
• An Analysis of Germanium Quantum Dots in conjunction with MAPbI3 Host Perovskites for Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials
  Phoenix Nalu Hakumele Gallagher (Stevenson)
  Shayan Hassanzadeh Zargar (Cowell)
  
• Constraints on the Final Fermions of an Exotic Higgs Decay
  Violet Piper (Crown)
  
• Manganese Oxide Deposition on Defective Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Enhanced Antibacterial Activity Under Monochromated Light
  Jasmine Chiayu Liu (Crown)
  
• Optimizing Molecular Inversion Probe Assays to Characterize Human-Specific Neurodevelopmental Genes
  Taylor Dolores Real (Porter)
  
• The Reducing Capabilities of Diisobutylaluminum Borodhydride
  Madison E Landi (Eight)
  

Chancellor's Award

• CONSTRAINING THE RELATION BETWEEN CLUSTER VELOCITY DISPERSION AND RICHNESS USING THE REDMAPPER YEAR 3 CATALOG
  Vernon Robert Wetzell (Stevenson)
  
• Structural Studies of a New Class of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor for Cancer Immunotherapy
  Nina Miranda Harpell (Eight)
  

Steck Award

• ANION-DRIVEN CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN CK1δ REGULATE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
  Alfred Manning Freeberg (Eight)
  

Social Sciences

Dean's Award

• “Agents of Change”: Progressive Democratic ‘Diffusion’ Across U.S. House and State Legislative Elections in 2018
  Margarita Vargas (Porter)
  
• Analyzing the Effects of Federal Aid on Partisan Representation in the American States
  Parker James Strohmeyer (Oakes)
  
• Comparing Sexual Themes in Rap Music by Female and Male Music Artists: A Qualitative Study
  Jessica Lorraine Walsh (Stevenson)
  
• Differential Vulnerability to Climate Related Disasters Among Communities Along the Santa Cruz Coastal Landscape
  John Calvin Mcclure (Crown)
  
• Harm, Responsibility, and Ambiguity in Judgements about Sexual Behaviors
  Anjuli Megan Corzine (Cowell)
  
• Oakland, California’s Points of Nutritional Hope
  Louis William Garcia (Stevenson)
  

Chancellor's Award

• A California Case Study on Procedures to Reassemble and Reevaluate Archaeological Artifact Processing
  Allysha Ann Leonard (Eight)
  
• Adding New Lenses: Making Health Equity Work in Immigrant Communities Marked By Various Forms of Violence
  Cinthia Cristal Magana Moreno (Porter)
  
• Incarceration and Healthcare in the Santa Cruz County
  Priyanka Praveen Kulkarni (Oakes)