2022 Winners

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Arts

Dean's Award

• (Don't) Just be Yourself: Fashion, Play, and Identity in the Post-Ironic Age
  Gabriel Ephraim Wall (Porter)
  
• All Day I Dream About Soil
  Aja Rose Bond (Cowell)
  
• From Me to You
  Christy Maefong Yee (Merrill)
  
• IMPRESSIONS
  Claire June Apana (Porter)
  
• Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl
  Brandon Castro (Porter)
  
• The Dream is Gone/ What Cinema Could've Been ... Gender and Sexual Ambiguity in Pre-Code Hollywood and the Motion Picture Production Code of 1934
  Ira Irvani (Porter)
  
• we're here because we're here
  Robert Anthony Jeffrey (Merrill)
  Spencer William Greene (Porter)
  Philippa Robin Fuschich (Porter)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Any Face, Whatever Body
  Luis S Booth (Nine)
  Blair Landis Hammond (Kresge)
  
• Jane Avril: Spectacle and Spectator in the Art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  Sofia Mila Tomanov (Porter)
  
• Seance of Duality: Summoning Those Living In-Between
  Nicole Jenine Rudolph (Porter)
  

Engineering

Dean's Award

• Bell Jar: A Semi-Automated Registration and Cell Counting Tool for Mouse Neurohistology Analysis
  Alec Leon Ray Soronow (Merrill)
  
• CRISPy Lettuce
  Meghan Marthenia Mathers (Eight)
  Meghan Anne Burr (Cowell)
  Samuel Nicholas Magdaleno (Eight)
  Aiden Michael Mcfadden (Eight)
  
• Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Using CRISPR Activation
  Sayaka Kozuki (Nine)
  
• Inferring non-additive multi-locus selection in introgressed populations using hidden Markov models
  Nicolas Maggiani Ayala (Crown)
  
• Organoid-Ion Pump Integration
  Elana M Muzzy (Nine)
  
• Quantum Circuit Superoptimization
  Alan Arthur Brilliant (Nine)
  
• Towards a Gaze-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Improving Visual Acuity with Amblyopia
  rjhangia (Stevenson)
  Adrian Parrales (Ten)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Hardware Acceleration For Multi-Scalar Multiplication In Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  Connor Curran Masterson (Eight)
  
• Labelled Control Improvisation
  Eric Elijah Vin (Oakes)
  
• Progenie: Programmable Gene Disruption in Pathogenic Bacteria
  Torrey Delphine Brownell (Porter)
  Franklin Zheng (Ten)
  Tobin Lior Berger-Cahn (Porter)
  Denise Rosalinda Calderon (Kresge)
  Yi-Chi Chu (Merrill)
  Rose M Delvillar (Eight)
  Fonz Cazarez Gamino (Merrill)
  Tarabryn Shepherd Grismer (Cowell)
  Emily Marie Hallamasek (Eight)
  Julia Andrianna Howard (Crown)
  Stephen Jen-Der Hwang (Merrill)
  Tanya Elise Ivanov (Crown)
  Rhea Rajesh Kamath (Ten)
  David James Kelaita (Porter)
  Wen Liu (Eight)
  Nabil Mohammed (Ten)
  

Humanities

Dean's Award

• Across Many Oceans: The Strange Journey of the Northwest Palace Reliefs
  Daithi Willis (Porter)
  
• in my briefs and opera gloves
  Arianna Irene Nocelo (Merrill)
  
• Pens of Iron: Echoes of the Psalms of David in Hebrew Poetry from Samuel HaNagid to Yehuda Amichai
  Maia Danielle Zelkha (Stevenson)
  
• The Blood of the Nopal: A Case of Indigenous Cochineal Cultivation from 1521-1796
  Gavin Riley Williams (Merrill)
  
• The Curious Female Traveler: Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone
  Chloe Zane Seifert (Kresge)
  
• The Site and the Memorial: Hiroshima's Peace Complex in Cold War Japan
  Nicholas Orion Mosher (Oakes)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Apartheid and the Bloody Origins of Khayelitsha
  Rane Giovanni Vigil (Kresge)
  
• Memories of the Blacklist Era
  Lucy Rose Dasilva (Stevenson)
  
• Power, Law, and Symbolism: Hammurabi’s Code over 3700 years
  Ryan Gordon Merrill Hart (Merrill)
  

Physical and Biological Sciences

Dean's Award

• Cloudy and Cloud-free Thermal Phase Curves with PICASO: Applications to WASP-43b
  Nina Robbins Blanch (Porter)
  
• Determining Single-Cell Multilineage Capacity of Developmentally Restricted Hematopoietic Stem Cells (drHSCs)
  Tobin Lior Berger-Cahn (Porter)
  
• Fezf2 promotes differentiation in hippocampal post-natal neural stem cells
  Ariella Angelini Stewart (Cowell)
  
• Identifying Nonstationarity in Ecological Time Series using Empirical Dynamical Modeling
  Kenneth Ellis Gee (Crown)
  
• Investigating the Binding of Amyloid-beta with the Prion Protein Regulatory Domain
  Irene Carolina Franco (Eight)
  
• RNA-seq Analysis Reveals Mode of Splicing Inefficiency: Coordinated Intron Retention
  Jodi Kaelin Lee (Merrill)
  
• Selection against mitochondrial mutations occurs across life stages in Drosophila
  Mara Coel Baylis (Cowell)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Cleaning our Hazy Lens: Statistical Trends in Transmission Spectra of Warm Exoplanets
  Austin Hunter Dymont (Cowell)
  
• Two Approaches to the Search for Life: Comparison Study of Titan Haze Analogs and Coronagraph Mask Designs for Exoplanet Imager
  Jialin Li (Nine)
  

Steck Award

• A Pathway for Collisional Planetesimal Growth in the Ice Dominant Region of Protoplanetary Disks
  Elizabeth Simone Yunerman (Crown)
  

Social Sciences

Dean's Award

• Beyond Survival: Fostering Thriving Immigrant Communities in Santa Cruz through Multi-Faceted Social Services
  Claudia Marina Torres Arias (Oakes)
  
• Field Guide to Birds of the UCSC Arboretum
  Grace Rae Brieger (Cowell)
  
• Neighborhoods: What Exactly Are We Defending? Representation, Race, and Land-use Politics in Santa Cruz
  John Robert Jezek (Stevenson)
  
• Sustainable Fiefdoms: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Economy of Tourism in Northwest Peru
  Leigh Shattuck Rodi (Stevenson)
  
• The Geo-Legal History of the Kabarra Wetland & al-Gawarna People in Israel/Palestine
  Nona Golan (Merrill)
  
• “No Harm, No Foul?” Evaluations of Cheating Across Contexts
  Fiona Claire Debernardi (Kresge)
  

Chancellor's Award

• Mexico’s Response to COVID-19: How a Comparison with Brazil Explains the Country’s Deficient Response
  Joel Samuel Montejo (Oakes)
  
• Uprooted: (Un)Natural Histories of Eucalyptus in California
  Ciara Catherine Clarke (Kresge)
  
• Without an Umbrella in a Rainstorm: The Significance of Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
  Chloe Alysse Magidoff (Ten)