2019 Winners

Steck Family Prize for Graduate Research Excellence, $1000

Best Presentation of the Arts Division, $250

Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering, $250

Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, $250

Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division:

Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division, $250

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS 

Name	Division	Program	Title
Chessa Adsit-Morris	Social Sciences	Education	Graduate Training in Pedagogy: Strategies, Practices and Small Teaching Techniques
Christian Alvarado	Humanities	History of Consciousness	“Custodians of Tradition”: Education, Pedagogy, and Culture in (Anti)Colonial Kenya
Md Nafiz Amin	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Free space excitation in optofluidic platforms for detection of single particles
Danielle Crawford	Humanities	Literature	Storms, Bombs, and Ecologies of Destruction: The Intimacies of Weather Disasters and U.S. Militarization in the Pacific
Brynna Downey	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Orbital Inclination Damping on Titan and Callisto
Vahid Ganjalizadeh	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Single Particle Detection Enhancement with Wavelet-based Signal Processing Technique
Steven Green	Humanities	History	Noshing in the Hawkeye State: Food and Foodways in the Construction of Iowa’s Jewish Communities, 1890–1940
Yizhou Guo	Humanities	Feminist Studies	Understanding Film Propaganda/Censorship from the Audience Side: Postsocialist Youth and Online Film Discussion in China
Kyuhyun Han	Humanities	History	Rethinking Mao China’s Environmental Policies: Forestry Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949–1965
Amy Hart	Humanities	History	Wisconsin in the 1840s: The Frontier of Women’s Rights
Steven Haug	Humanities	Philosophy	Art and Community
Emily Hentschke	Social Sciences	Psychology	Maximizing Student Volunteer Impact with Unhoused Populations
Donald Thomas Hickey	Humanities	History	Bedeviled Reconciliation: Ambrose Bierce and the American Civil War
Manping Jia with Sushmita Joardar	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Spaciotemporal control of ion delivery for tissue patterning
Daniel Joesten	Humanities	History	“Our Domiciles are in England”: Irish Deportees and Claims for British Civic Identity 1922–1925
Alirio Karina	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Witchcraft, Medicine and Magic in Livingstone, Zambia
Daniel Kirsner	Baskin School of Engineering	Statistics and Applied Mathematics	Multi-Scale Shotgun Stochastic Search for Large Spatial Datasets
Giselle Laiduc	Social Sciences	Psychology	Perceptions of Help-Seeking, Resource Use, and College Adjustment Among UCSC Undergraduates
Azucena Lucatero	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Campus garden groups and sense of belonging in college students of color
Muiris MacGiollabhui	Humanities	History	Sons of Exile: The Transnational History of the United Irishmen, 1791–1830
Bhishek Manek	Baskin School of Engineering	Statistics and Applied Mathematics	Solar Hemispheric Helicity Selection Rules : A New Theory Explaining Recent Solar Observations
Priscilla Martinez	Humanities	History	Re(membering) the Borderlands: Negotiating Belonging and Building Community in Chinese Tucson
Sara Nasab	Baskin School of Engineering	Statistics and Applied Mathematics	The effect of particle inertia in particle-laden flows
Radhika Prasad	Humanities	Literature	Language and Transnationalism in the Works of Nirmal Verma
Tyler Sano	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Optofluidic Distributed Feedback Dye Laser Using Corrugated Sidewall Structure
John Selberg with Harika Dechiraju	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	A Bioelectronic Ion Pump Array for Control of Cell Membrane Potential
Karen Tanner	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Testing novel science-based strategies to improve salt marsh restoration success
Brad Thompson	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Engineering	Immersive Virtualization of Guided Inquiry
Bruno Tomasini	Humanities	History	Segregation by Hook or by Crook: Segregationist Women and the Little Rock Crisis
Claire Urbanski	Humanities	Feminist Studies	The Afterlife of Settler Colonial Occupation: Archeological Excavation as Militarization in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Delio Vasquez	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Michel Foucault’s Lost Theory of Resistance: From Political Crime to Popular Illegalisms

Talk Presentations

Name	Division	Program	Title
Jacob Abrahams	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Iron Volcanism on Metallic Asteroids
Rakshit Agrawal	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	Learning Edge Properties in Graphs from Path Aggregations
Erik Bernardino	Humanities	History	What is Labor? A Historical Perspective in the California Borderlands
Carver Bierson	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Exploration at the edge of the solar system: First results from the New Year 2019 flyby of MU69
Faeze Brahman	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	Interactive Story Generation Using Content-Introducing Approaches
Charley Brooks	Social Sciences	Education	Unmasking Neutrality: Surfacing White Logics in the Teaching of the Civil Rights Movement
Amanda Carbajal	Physical and Biological Sciences	Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology	What prion proteins found across species can tell us about evolution
Bristol Cave-LaCoste	Humanities	History	Chy Lung: Lewd Women, States’ Rights, and California Immigration Control
Shimul Chowdhury	Arts	Digital Arts and New Media	Stitching Solidarity: Belonging as a Muslim in the U.S.
Joseph Cutler	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Dam, Dam, Dam – Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Hydropower Production in Gabon
Akhil Dixit	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	CAvSAT: A System for Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases
Alberto Ganis	Social Sciences	Politics	Sub-State Nationalism and the Other(s): Mediated Identity in Friuli
Huazhi Ge	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Minerva++: A New Planetary Atmospheric Model to Simulate the Tropospheric Dynamics of Jupiter
Szilard Gyalay	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	A Survey of Saturnian Satellites’ Sub-Surfaces
Rachel Harbeitner	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ocean Sciences	Strong, highly resolved vertical gradients of diversity and distributions of bacteria in the oceanic water column
Eduardo Hirata-Miyasaki	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	25 Plane Multifocus Microscopy with Camera Array
Lisa Jackson	Humanities	History	“A Free Man on Sundays”: Physical Culture and the Making of British Communist Bodies
Nickolas Knightly	Humanities	Philosophy	Visionary LoveWisdom: Notes Toward a Relational Way of Knowing
Natalia Koulinka	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Social Change and Democratic Participation in the Soviet Union and Beyond
Alina Larson	Social Sciences	Psychology	Do The Robot! Keeping the Beat with Humans and Machines – Which Do We Prefer?
Benjamin Lehmann	Physical and Biological Sciences	Physics	Catching black holes in the lab
Sarah Neuhaus	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Timing of recent grounding line advance of the Whillans Ice Plain, Antarctica
Jason Ott	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth Science	Tremolite Under Pressure: Understanding the High Pressure Behavior of Hydrated Amphibole Minerals in Subduction Zones
Darrin Schultz	Baskin School of Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	Genomes of Deep-Sea Bioluminescent Jellies
Jaclyn Schultz	Humanities	History	Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the U.S., 1820–1900
Yiluan Song	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Are plants keeping up with the climate?
Niky Taylor	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ocean Sciences	Using Optics to See Where the Ocean is Toxic
Abigail Walsh	Social Sciences	Psychology	The Effects of Watching Nonbinary Television Characters
Bin Yao	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	3D Printing Boosts the Record of Capacitance for Supercapacitors
Chao Zhao	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	Unsupervised opinion summarization from online product reviews

Alternative Media Presentations

Name	Division	Program	Title
Kathleen Deck	Arts	Digital Arts and New Media	Enviro-Envision
Taylor Kirsch	Humanities	History	“The Way Narrow That Leadeth Unto Life”: Legacies of New England’s Indigenous Praying Towns
Thomas Ng	Baskin School of Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	PedFac: factor-graph based Bayesian pedigree inference

Scenes from the 2019 Graduate Research Symposium

VPDGS Lori Kletzer and Chancellor George Blumenthal open the 15th annual Graduate Research Symposium in the Information Commons South and kick off the judging.

Alirio Karina of the History of Consciousness program presents a poster titled Witchcraft, Medicine and Magic in Livingstone, Zambia (left). Delio Vasquez, also of the History of Consciousness program, presents a poster titled Michel Foucault’s Lost Theory of Resistance: From Political Crime to Popular Illegalisms (right).

Members of the public, including graduate student alumni, browse presentations at the 15th annual Graduate Research Symposium (left). Thomas Ng of the Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics program gives his alternative media presentation titled PedFac: factor-graph based Bayesian pedigree inference to Rachel Neuman, director of graduate student life and manager of the Graduate Student Commons with the Division of Graduate Studies.

Symposium attendees enjoyed the award reception after the close of judging at 3:30 p.m.

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