Graduate Symposium
2022 Winners
Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000
Courtney Kersten
Humanities Division
Literature
The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman
Talk presentation via Zoom
Best Presentation of the Arts Division, $250
David Crellin
Digital Arts and New Media
Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture
Alternative media presentation in person
Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering, $250
Fahim Hasan Khan
Computer Science and Engineering
Machine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science
Poster presentation in person
Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, $250
Linda Ulbrich
History
“Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse
Talk presentation in person
Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division, $250
Best of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division, $250
Amy Freiberg
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology: Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
Analysis of C-Terminal Membrane Anchor on Cellular Prion Protein Structure and Function
Poster presentation in person
Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division, $250
Lucia Alvarado Cantero
Education
Animated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between”
Talk presentation in person
Chancellor Cynthia Larive (left) and Vice Provost and Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (right) hold a laptop with Best of the Symposium winner Courtney Kersten attending via Zoom.
Talks
| Name | Division or School | Program | Title |
| Alvarado Cantero, Lucia | Social Sciences | Education | Animated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between” |
| Brinkerhoff, Mykel | Humanities | Linguistics | The Ordering of Tone and Phonation in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec |
| Calderon, Elsa | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Threats to Black Land Ownership in the US Southeast |
| Chan, Man Ning | Humanities | History | High and Low in early modern China: Using qin-zither as an example |
| Chang, Xian | Baskin School of Engineering | Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics | Pangenomes reduce bias in genomic analyses |
| Chesney, Charlie | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Living Solar Panels: Towards Opuntia-based Electricity |
| Copulsky, Daniel | Social Sciences | Social Psychology | Ethical Slut Pandemic Preparedness |
| Gomez, Mario | Humanities | Latin American and Latino Studies | Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States |
| Gyalay, Szilárd | Physical and Biological Sciences | Earth and Planetary Science | Closing Pores and Cracking: A Window to Martian History from a Seismic Wave Speed Discontinuity in the Crust |
| Kersten, Courtney | Humanities | Literature | The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman |
| Krishnaswamy, Lakshmi | Baskin School of Engineering | Computer Science and Engineering | Adaptive, Dynamic Load Balancing for Data Center and WAN Traffic |
| mayford, kiley | Physical and Biological Sciences | Physics | Doped Hematite to Increase Efficiency of Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting |
| McCarrin, Michael | Humanities | History of Consciousness | Intelligence as Artifice: Toward a Secular Theory of Agency |
| McCartha, Madison | Humanities | Literature | The Real Poem: On Artists’ Books, the Frame, & Digital Poetry |
| McFaul, Kelsey | Humanities | Literature | Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa |
| Miller, Sam | Physical and Biological Sciences | Mathematics | A splendid source of equivalences: Lifting p-permutation equivalences to splendid Rickard complexes |
| Miller, Thaïs | Humanities | Literature | Vaudeville to GLOW: One Hundred Years of Jewish Humor, Women, and Trauma in Los Angeles |
| Prieto, Melanie | Social Sciences | Cognitive Psychology | Exploring boundary conditions of the Peak-End rule |
| Raghavan, Balakrishnan | Arts | Music | Queering Tradition, Embodying Story, Performing Song |
| Ricker, Adrienne | Physical and Biological Sciences | Earth and Planetary Science | Diet specialization in the Mediterranean island lizard Podarcis pityusensis |
| Ulbrich, Linda | Humanities | History | “Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse |
| Valenzuela Toro, Ana | Physical and Biological Sciences | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Unexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche |
| Van Handel, Nick | Humanities | Linguistics | Prosody matters in silent reading: Evidence from the Maze |
| Voitiuk, Kateryna | Baskin School of Engineering | Biomolecular Engineering | Neuroscience on the Internet of Things Lab |
| Wax Cavallaro, Maya | Humanities | Linguistics | Sounds of Dille’ Xhonh Laxup: Tonal fieldwork with Santiago Laxopa Zapotec |
| Wintz, Paul K. | Baskin School of Engineering | Applied Mathematics | Guaranteeing That a System Moves to a Target While Exploiting Properties of a Controller That Has No Guarantee |
| Zheng, Xiaotian | Baskin School of Engineering | Statistical Science | A Nearest-Neighbor Geostatistical Model to Predict Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature |
Posters
| Name | Division or School | Program | Title |
| Freiberg, Amy | Physical and Biological Sciences | Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology: Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering | Analysis of C-Terminal Membrane Anchor on Cellular Prion Protein Structure and Function |
| Howard, Shanna | Physical and Biological Sciences | Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology | Maternal choline supplementation (MCS) modulates the attentional deficits & gene expression changes produced by developmental manganese exposure |
| Khan, Fahim Hasan | Baskin School of Engineering | Computer Science and Engineering | Machine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science |
| Ligmond, Katie | Arts | History of Art and Visual Culture | Viva Los Libros: Latinx Artist Books in UCSC Special Collections |
| Matsushima, Levi | Physical and Biological Sciences | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Overcharging the semiconducting lipoplex: Influence on the exciton landscape |
| Nguyen, Tiffany | Baskin School of Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Electrode Optimization for Bioelectronic Ion Pumps |
| Richards, Rachael | Physical and Biological Sciences | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Transforming Exciton Energy in Aqueous Light-Harvesting Systems Based on Conjugated Polyelectrolytes |
| Santiago, Nicholas | Physical and Biological Sciences | Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology | Developmental manganese exposure induces lasting inflammatory, epigenetic, and neuronal system changes in the rat prefrontal cortex |
| Webb, Stephanie | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Unevenness in multiscalar seafood commerce derails visions for seafood localism in the United States: An analysis of power and embeddedness in the Pacific herring production network |
Alternative Media
| Name | Division or School | Program | Title |
| Cecchet, Alessia | Arts | Film and Digital Media | The Dinosaur and the Hyperreal |
| Crellin, David | Arts | Digital Arts and New Media | Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture |
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