Graduate Symposium
2017 Winners
Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000
Sarah Lindley, Physical and Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Optimizing Photothermal Therapy of Oral Cancer with Hollow Gold Nanospheres
Division of Graduate Studies Dean’s Award for runner-up best overall presentation, $250
Hamutahl Cohen, Social Sciences, Environmental Studies
Urbanization influences bee-microbe interactions
Arts Division Dean’s Award, $100 Bay Tree Bookstore gift certificate
Jay Arms, Music
Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and the Internationalization of Indonesian Arts
Baskin School of Engineering Dean’s Award, $100 Bay Tree Bookstore gift certificate
Sara Nasab, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
New inertia-driven instabilities in particle-laden flows
Humanities Division Dean’s Award, $100 Bay Tree Bookstore gift certificate
Nicole VanderMeer, History
“A Word to the Commercially Wise”: Mark Twain, the Hawaiian Landscape, and the Narrative Mapping of Imperial Desire in American Print Culture, 1866-1908
Physical and Biological Sciences Division Dean’s Award, $100 Bay Tree Bookstore gift certificate
Helen Holmlund, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ferns living on the edge: Differential traits for survival during California’s drought
Social Sciences Division Dean’s Award, $100 Bay Tree Bookstore gift certificate
Mecaila Smith, Education
Thinking about Learning in College
Poster Presentations
| Name | Division | Program | Title |
| Gbolahan Adesoye | Engineering | Computer Science | Visualization of Internal Human Body Parts on Mobile Devices |
| Sarah Beganskas | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Carbon-rich amendments stimulate nitrate removal in pilot infiltration studies |
| Megan Boivin | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Force Feedback Control and Navigation of a Flexible Needle with Anatomical Uncertainties |
| Hamutahl Cohen | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Urbanization influences bee-microbe interactions |
| Charles Cole | Engineering | Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics | Characterizing CD27CD38 positive B cell populations through single cell RNA sequencing |
| Jack Conrad | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Preliminary Distribution and Statistics of “Bacilli” in the Southern Region of Sputnik Planitia, Pluto |
| Juan Diaz | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Study of thin film oxidation kinetics using a combination of simulations and advanced characterization |
| Jolene Draper | Physical & Biological Sciences | Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology | Tracking mRNA isoform fate during neurodifferentiation |
| Adrian Drummond-Cole | Humanities | History of Consciousness | The Highway and the City of God |
| Karen Duek | Humanities | Linguistics | Meaning flexibility: the view from containers |
| Monika Egerer | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Provision through Urban Food Cultivation |
| Daniel Eliahu | Engineering | Computer Engineering | A Sensor System for the Objective Quantification and Classification of Tremors |
| Xiaofei Gao | Humanities | History | Maritime Manchuria, 1905-1999 |
| Devika Garg | Physical & Biological Sciences | Science Communication | Communicating Precision Medicine to the Public |
| Elizabeth Goldman | Social Sciences | Psychology | Five-Month-Olds Detect Changes with Contextual Support |
| Hyejin Han | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Hybrid Control Algorithm for Object Grasping Using Multiple Agents |
| Ehsan Hemmati | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Name-Based Content Routing in ICN Using Diffusing Computations |
| Luke Hibbard-Lubow | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Fabrication and Characterization of Two-Material Nanomagnetic Arrays |
| Mike Jaris | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Ultrafast Dynamics of a Single Nanomagnet Coupled to Surface Acoustic Waves |
| Madeleine Kerrick | Social Sciences | Psychology | Diapers & Degree Completion: Understanding the Needs of Students with Dependent Children |
| Michael Lavell | Engineering | Scientific Computation & Applied Mathematics | Pursuing accurate solutions of slowly moving shocks |
| Sarah Lindley | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Optimizing Photothermal Therapy of Oral Cancer with Hollow Gold Nanospheres |
| Jordan Liss | Engineering | Computer Engineering | High Precision Sunphotometer using Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) Camera Tracking |
| Chester Liwosz | Social Sciences | Anthropology | Canyons, Cosmology, and Coyote Calls: Acoustics and experimental ethnoarchaeology in two California desert rock art landscapes |
| Muiris MacGiollabhui | Humanities | History | Sons of Exile: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1795-1830 |
| Harleigh Marsh | Engineering | Statistics & Applied Mathematics | Energy Constrained Shortest-Time Maneuvers For Reaction Wheel Satellites |
| Jo Mazeika | Engineering | Computer Science | Solusforge: Controlling the Generation of the 3D models with Spatial Relation Graphs |
| Gisele Miglioranza Rizzi | Physical & Biological Sciences | Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology | Lead Concentrations Within the Condor Skeleton: Advancing Biomarkers of Lead exposure History and Poisoning |
| Wilson Miu | Humanities | History | Becoming a Better Man: Masculinity and Domesticity in Republican China, 1925-1937 |
| Stephanie Montgomery | Humanities | History | Ignorant Women, Violent Men: Spousal Murder in 1930s Tianjin |
| Alexey Munishkin | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Stochastic Optimal Control Navigation with the Avoidance of Unsafe Configurations |
| Vijay Muthukumaran | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Obstacle Detection and Avoidance Using Radar and Robust Hybrid Controller |
| Sara Nasab | Engineering | Statistics & Applied Mathematics | New inertia-driven instabilities in particle-laden flows |
| Steven Reeves | Engineering | Scientific Computation & Applied Mathematics | GPU Accelerated Simulation of Shallow Water Waves Including the Effects from Source Terms |
| Michael Saccone | Physical & Biological Sciences | Physics | Neural Network Reduction via Clustering Analysis |
| Renée Sully | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Size and Ligand Effects on Optoelectronic and Structural Properties of Germanium Quantum Dots |
| Nicole VanderMeer | Humanities | History | “A Word to the Commercially Wise”: Mark Twain, the Hawaiian Landscape, and the Narrative Mapping of Imperial Desire in American Print Culture, 1866-1908 |
| Roger Volden | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | DSCAM Isoforms in Single Drosophila Neurons |
| Margaret Wander | Arts | Visual Studies | Archiving the Public University: From the Local to the Global |
| Lindsay Weinberg | Humanities | History of Consciousness | From Mass Culture to Personalization |
| Samantha Williams | Humanities | History | “That was our home, and it needs to be remembered”: Erasing and Reclaiming the History of the Stewart Indian School |
| Bin Yao | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Flexible Metal Oxide Nanopaper for High-Performance Energy Storage Devices |
| Liam Zarri | Physical & Biological Sciences | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Machine Learning for Ecology: Automated Invertebrate Monitoring on Large Rivers |
Oral Presentations
| Name | Division | Program | Title |
| Jay Arms | Arts | Music | Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and the Internationalization of Indonesian Arts |
| Cassidy Berk | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Two-Pump Dynamics in Exchange Coupled Magnetic Multilayers |
| Carver Bierson | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Forming Icy Worlds: Things get hot |
| Carolyn Branecky | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Observations below an Antarctic ice shelf reveal slow melting |
| Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | MMI waveguide based multispectral detection of nucleic acids for analysis of drug-resistant bacteria |
| Helen Holmlund | Physical & Biological Sciences | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Ferns living on the edge: Differential traits for survival during California’s drought |
| Suraiya Jetha | Social Sciences | Anthropology | The Center for Emerging Worlds: the Global South |
| Jorge Jimenez | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemisty & Biochemistry | Stable and highly water soluble silver complexes derived from 2,6-(pyridyl)iminodiaadamantanes for bacterial eradication |
| Daniel Killam | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Tracking Giant Clam Growth Through Time as a Measure of Coral Reef Health |
| Nickolas Knightly | Humanities | Philosophy | Revisioning Philosophy: Discovering Practical Wisdom in a Time of Crisis |
| Tianyu Liu | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Lessons Learned by Designing and Instructing an Undergraduate Chemistry Course |
| Sarah Neuhaus | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Quantifying iceberg melt in a temperate fjord |
| Saugher Nojan | Social Sciences | Education | Afghan-Americans Negotiating Racialized Logics In and Out of Schools |
| José Armando Oviedo | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Fundamentals of Fair Power Allocation in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Wireless Systems |
| Allison Pfeiffer | Physical & Biological Sciences | Earth Sciences | Flying green lasers and a giant selfie-stick: seeing the river bed in the context of the river valley |
| Sharon Rabinovich | Engineering | Computer Engineering | Multi-UAV Path Coordination Based on Uncertainty Estimation |
| Md Mahmudur Rahman | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Single Particle Fluorescence Analysis on Demand on Electro-Optofluidic Chip with Gated Particle Delivery |
| April Reber | Social Sciences | Anthropology | Rightist, right-wing, extremist movements in Germany: New frames for old discourses? |
| Michael Roders | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Characterization of Charge Transport Networks in Polymer/Non-fullerene Solar Cells |
| Julian Rodriguez | Social Sciences | Sociology | Coming Out to Play: Exploring Online Communications and the Gay and Lesbian Presence in Video Game Culture |
| Mauricio Rojas-Andrade | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Controlled Phototoxicity of Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots Through Chemical Functionalization |
| Tatiane Santa Rosa | Arts | Visual Studies | The Eternal Encounter: Indigenous Visual Culture and the Legacies of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil |
| Sabrina Shirazi | Physical & Biological Sciences | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | A Tale of Two Mice: A Trans-Holocene Record of Peromyscus nesodytes and P. maniculatus at Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California |
| Mecaila Smith | Social Sciences | Education | Thinking About Learning in College |
| Alexandra Stambaugh | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Spectral and Spatial Multiplex Detection of Six Different Influenza Panel Viruses on a Multi-mode Interference Waveguide Platform |
| Jeff Swan | Physical & Biological Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Mechanisms of Output Signaling from the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock |
| Stephanie Webb | Social Sciences | Environmental Studies | Food Systems of Eastern Africa: Political Economics and Consumption of Cultured Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) |
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