2021 Winners

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Arts

Dean's Award

• "Other Art Histories: Islam,'Art,' and the Baptistère de Saint Louis" (Research Paper)
  Jourdain Boyd Barton (Kresge)
  
• Alexander the Great and Alexios III of Trebizond: Culture as Politics
  cnconti (Cowell)
  
• Farms, Farmers, and the Field
  Reya Simone Borbridge (Porter)
  
• Guerrilla Gardener
  Kirra Amanda Lilith Mccoll (Kresge)
  
• In Absentia
  Gioh Sung (Cowell)
  
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  Jordan Fickel (Porter)
  
• Speaking from the Heart: A Senior Lecture Recital
  Kylie Paige Smith (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• AFTER BURNS
  Jacinto Pruefer Salz (Porter)
  
• For Each Name, A Color; For Each Color, A Name
  Klytie Xu (Porter)
  
• Standing Watch for Wandjina: The Systematic Setbacks of Aboriginal Cultural Copyrighting
  Holly Genevieve Edelman (Stevenson)
  

Engineering

Dean's Award

• A New Dimension: Visualizing Immersive Genome Graphs
  Maxim Alexandr Kuznetsov (Crown)
  
• Co2 Monitoring Assembly - Arash Parsa
  Arash Parsa (Merrill)
  
• Development of a Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Glucose Sensor using Copper Oxide
  Michelle Beth Shimberg (Cowell)
  
• Komaplastics: Cellulose-Based Biodegradable Agricultural Plastic
  Kyra Skye Eyerman (Porter)
  Rachel Mace (Cowell)
  Melody Saravi Azimi (Nine)
  Alicia Charlotte Jorgenson (Eight)
  Sophia Alexis Huei Min Sneddon (Eight)
  Navdeep Singh Kalkat (Ten)
  Joshua Robert Elkins (Oakes)
  Claudia Fiorella Paz Flores (Ten)
  Faith Marie Williams (Crown)
  Taylor Ann Ziccardi (Cowell)
  Gabriel Sanchez (Kresge)
  Neil Oliver Smith (Merrill)
  Thomas Conor Kensok (Porter)
  
• Physarum Telam
  Issei Mori (Nine)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Analysis of the First Malware to Attack a Power Grid
  Dominic Alexander Lucchesi (Crown)
  Aviv Brook (Stevenson)
  
• Identifying and Investigating Wolbachia-to-Arthropod HGT Events
  Serafina Maria Nieves (Eight)
  

Humanities

Dean's Award

• #MeToo: An Intersectional Interrogation and Centering of Black Women
  Amelia Claire Huster (Eight)
  
• Modalities of Governance: Cartography in Colonial Africa
  Avni Sunaina Lal (Cowell)
  
• Remember Us: Holocaust Representations in European-Jewish Émigré Film, 1942-1945
  Maya Catalina Gonzalez (Cowell)
  
• The 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic and the Origins of the Opinion Editorial
  Matthew C Tracey-Cook (Stevenson)
  
• The Emergence of an Ever-Changing Hong Kong Identity
  Kimberly Ashley Szeto (Nine)
  
• The Idealized Feminine Self: 
Effortlessly Sexy, Confident, and Cool
  Jasmine Ava Simone (Kresge)
  
• The Stela of Maya: Family and Marriage Relations in Ancient Egypt
  Vicky Chin (Ten)
  Ollie Katherine Tarango (Cowell)
  Mary Shamon (Stevenson)
  Alyssa L Rodriguez (Cowell)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Expedited Removal in 2020. An Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security vs. Thuraisingam Supreme Court Case:
  Paola Alexandra Berumen (Kresge)
  
• Japan and Methamphetamine: the Afterlife of Occupation and the Hiropon Age
  Jonah Michael Gertz (Porter)
  
• The Effect of Reduced Relative Clauses on Agreement Production
  Ashley Ippolito (Ten)
  Yutong Guo (Cowell)
  Sage Brooke Meadows (Crown)
  Ollie Katherine Tarango (Cowell)
  Noa Nevo (Stevenson)
  

Physical and Biological Sciences

Dean's Award

• Characteristics of plant communities invaded by Dittrichia graveolens (Asteraceae), as it spreads away from roadsides in Santa Clara County
  Andrew Nicholas Lopez (Eight)
  
• Constraining the Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae using Late-time Spectra
  Erika Grace Strasburger (Crown)
  
• Examining the Self Interaction of Dark Matter through Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets
  Dane Noelle Cross (Porter)
  
• Geochemical and Isotopic Evidence for the Escape of Ice Sheet Fluids
  Michael Gregory Scudder (Crown)
  
• Pan-Cancer Analysis of Driver Mutations and Modules in Cancer Genomes
  Carlos Arevalo (Porter)
  
• Unburned carbon in the Outer Layers of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta
  Rodrigo Angulo (Crown)
  
• X-RAY-OPTICAL SCALING RELATIONS FOR THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY Y3 REDMAPPER CLUSTERS
  Jose Elias Jobel (Oakes)
  Paige Marie Kelly (Porter)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Molecular Classification of Pediatric High-Risk Leukemias Using Expression Profiles of Multimodally Expressed Genes
  Sneha Sandip Jariwala (Ten)
  
• Variation in resting strategies across trophic levels and habitats in mammals
  Ishana Shukla (Oakes)
  

Steck Award

• Searching for Primordial Black Holes
  Olivia Grace Ross (Kresge)
  

Social Sciences

Dean's Award

• Central Bank Features and Recession Severity: Evidence from 2008
  Samuel Jeffrey Lindquist (Porter)
  
• Consent as a Defense to Assault Charges: A BDSM Case Study
  Lauren Michiko Woo (Cowell)
  
• Evaluation, Adherence, and Reporting: When, Why, and How College Students Support New Behavioral Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic 
  Sophie Marie Kennedy (Nine)
  
• Fat as Flawless or Fatal? Weight Stigma and its Effect on Perceptions of Fat, Health, and Eating Disorders.
  Nivie Oron (Kresge)
  
• Meanings of Magic: The Pickets and Undergraduate Participation
  Chiara Marie Fishburne (Porter)
  
• Pakistan's Military Legacies: Army, Nation, and State
  Aryan D'Rozario (Merrill)
  
• “Through the Dignity of Work”: The Tension Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Remediation of Homelessness Taking Place in Santa Cruz, CA
  Siena Jane Elvins (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Investigations on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) termite-fishing cognition: Issa, western Tanzania
  Cielo De La Rosa (Eight)
  
• Propelling UCSC Undergraduates of Color in Environmental Studies Through Mentorship
  Kimberly Paige Dare (Nine)
  
• The New Vagrancy: The Evolution of Moral Policing in Anti-Homeless Policy
  Morgan Colleen Bishop (Oakes)