2014 Winners
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Arts
Dean's Award
- Die Antwoord: An Antagonistic Negotiation of Post-Apartheid Afrikaner Identity
Atara Melody Jaffe (Stevenson)
- Art Department Promotional Film
Shawheen Keyani (Kresge)
- Bachelor of Music Recital in Percussion
Aiden Michael McKee (Porter)
- Imaging Identity: Amateur Photography from Kodak to the Camera Phone
Lauren Paulina Tomicich (Porter)
- In Absence of a Portrait: The Mrs True Series
Kiera Lauren Stasny (Porter)
- Machinal: Costume Design
Karina Sookwongse Chavarin (Kresge)
- Midnight Warrior
Alejandro Santana Jr (Porter)
- Random With A Purpose XXII
Amelia Rae Nommensen (Porter)
Jessica Claire Sandler Hersh (Merrill)
Amanda Linn Newsum (Crown)
- Santa Cruz Silent Cinema
Seth Martin Crumrine (Merrill)
- Werewolf
Sam Griffin Clevenger (Porter)
Engineering
Dean's Award
- ABEL trap circuit analysis and upgrades
Felipe Neira Barreto (Merrill)
- Analysis of Solar Array in a Solar Window Wall
Michael Joseph Flores (Crown)
- ARS Ground Station Rev. 2
Kayla Castillo Hidalgo (Oakes)
William Ye (Cowell)
Julie Thao Do (Crown)
- Crystal Structure of the Human Astrovirus Capsid Core
Payam Angha Yousefi (Porter)
- Dental Robotics: A Method to Automatize Dental Veneer Preparation.
Ikuru L Kanuma (Kresge)
- Evaluating Dynamic Storytelling in Fables
Carolynn Renee Jimenez (Porter)
- Illuminating the Mitochondria and the Mitochondrial Genome’s role in Neurodegeneration with Nanopipettes
Akshar Venkatramanan Lohith (Crown)
- Motorized EMG-Controlled Hand, M.E.C.H
Taylor Eric Furtado (Crown)
Ivan Romero (Ten)
Kyle D. Lawrence (Merrill)
Alexander Paul Lynchosky (Kresge)
Michael Gee Ho Sit (Oakes)
- P-OSRA
Thomas Joseph Goddard (Ten)
Konstantin Litovskiy (Merrill)
Nathan Melaai Nichols-Roy (Eight)
Matthew Brian Reed (Crown)
Igor Shvartser (Kresge)
Nicholas Hayden Smith (Eight)
David Steven Zeppa (Porter)
Steck Award
- Computational Design of ASiP as Drug to Treat Melanoma
Beau Norgeot (Porter)
Humanities
Dean's Award
- Back to Nature: Human Subjectivity and the Possibility of Empirical Knowledge through Education
Camille Avril Charette (Cowell)
- Epistemology as Therapy: John McDowell on Truth and "the Space of Reasons"
Jan Willem Jorritsma (Eight)
- Marguerite Porete in the Context of Female Religiosity and the Heresy of the Free Spirit
Jan Willem Jorritsma (Eight)
- Maria - a Telenovela for the Stage (Medea)
Stephen Eugene Richter (Porter)
- On the Causative Construction
Rachelle Sierra Boyson (Stevenson)
Nicholas William Eggert (Cowell)
Hannah Elizabeth Dorothy Elston (Porter)
Brittny H Fadelli (Nine)
Sean Isamu Johnson (Ten)
Cecilia Rose Lopez (Kresge)
Chelsea Ann Miller (Porter)
Vincent James Del Prado (Kresge)
Kristen Anne Sheets (Merrill)
Anthony Randall Zavala (Stevenson)
- OUR STRUGGLE: WHY THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE EXPELLED ITS WHITE MEMBERS
Trevor Michael Stober (Kresge)
- Perpetuation, Subjugation or Colonial Prosperity: The Laws of Slavery and Elite White Power within Colonial Virginia, New Netherlands, and New York
Samantha Marie House (Ten)
- Splendid Failures in Blake and The Marrow of Tradition
Emily B Wolper (Stevenson)
- The Semantics of Nothing If Not Constructions
Michael Anthony Titone (Kresge)
- “AN AESTHETICS—OR ETHICS—OF INCOMPLETION”: J.M. COETZEE’S NOVELS AS WORKS OF ETHICAL MOURNING
Emma Juliette Train (Porter)
Physical and Biological Sciences
Dean's Award
- An introduction to the symplectic embedding capacity of 4-dimensional ellipsoids into polydiscs
Priera Hortenzia Panescu (Kresge)
- Application of Inorganic Materials to Desulfurize Jet Fuel
Laura Yon-Why Chong (Crown)
- Effects of Ehrharta erecta on the redwood understory and implications for restoration
Anna Lane Godinho (Eight)
- Energy Minimization of Knotted Vortex Tubes
Emily Yvonne Healy (Cowell)
- Identification of Yersinia genes that influence activation of host NFκB triggered by the Type III Secretion System
Natalia Guadalupe Herrera (Kresge)
- Modeling the Complex Dynamics of Financial Markets using a Physical System with Stochastic Properties
Indra John Heckenbach (Kresge)
- Polymer and Dye Characterization for Optimization of Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Kaitlin L Hellier (Porter)
Brett Akihiko Petersen (Cowell)
- Structural and Functional Studies of the Human Astrovirus Capsid Protein
Elizabeth Ariadne Lagesse (Crown)
- Synthesis and Reactivity of Chloromagnesium Dialkylaminoborohydride
Christopher Lindsay Anderson (Porter)
Alexander Thomas Lill (Ten)
Alexander Yueharn Joh (Oakes)
Zefan Quinn Hurley (Cowell)
- The Effects of El Niño Conditions on Marine Mammal Strandings in Central California
Kathryn Lee Pelon (Crown)
Social Sciences
Dean's Award
- A WOMENS WORK IS NEVER DONE: GENDERED DIVISIONS OF LABOR, PATRIARCHY, AND EMPOWERMENT IN BAHÍA DE CARAQUEZ, ECUADOR
Nicholas Charles Bendinelli (Stevenson)
- Bringing Learning to Life: Utilizing Gardens as Tools for Experiential Education and Assessing the 2014 California School Garden Survey
Sarah Diane Hendrix (Stevenson)
- Politics of Invisibility: The Violence of Mass Incarceration for the Mentally Ill
Rosalie Bronwen Evans (Merrill)
- PRIVILEGED PERSPECTIVES OR DIVERSE DISCOURSE? DISPARITIES IN STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF AND PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT AT UCSC
Cheslea Michelle Pack (Eight)
- Struggling for the Commons: An Ethnography of Ruins, Gentrification, and Social Justice in Detroit, Michigan
Andrew Ryan Szeto (Kresge)
- The Bittersweet Truth of Strawberries Among Farmworkers in Watsonville
Abel Rivas (Merrill)
- The Effect of Poverty on Expectations and Aspirations of Youth in Ejido Ruben Jaramillo, Mexico
Kimberly Susan Pistilli (Crown)
- The Historic and Contemporary Use of Sterilization: A Method of State Control and Genocide
Sarah Megan Gray (Ten)
- Witnessing Femininity: Evangelical Women and Gender Construction
Rebecca Irene Maness (Porter)
- “De-Facing” Power to Reduce Partner Violence and Enhance Psychological Well-being: Maasai Women and Land Ownership
Marina Dominguez Castro (Porter)