2020 Winners – Division of Graduate Studies

Tie for Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000

Shirin Bakhshay
Social Sciences Division
Psychology

Satisfying the Urge to Punish: Exploring Strategies for Increasing Support for Restorative Justice Practices

Tie for Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000

Mali’o Kodis
Physical and Biological Sciences Division
Coastal Science and Policy

Strategic Retreat for Resilient Climate Adaptation

Best Presentation of the Arts Division, $250

Joseph Finkel
Music

Music + Mycology = Local Musicology: John Cage and the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections

Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering, $250

Vishal Chakraborty
Computer Science

Possible Winners on Partial Chains

Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, $250

Taylor Kurupas
History

Stereotyping the Stereo: Sound, Space, Race, and Technology in New York City from the 1970-1980s

Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division, $250

Nolan Smyth
Physics

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division, $250

Abigail Walsh
Psychology

Examining the Impact of Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse Television Characters on Attitudes and Behaviors

Zoom Talk Presentations

Presentations may include optional screen-shared slides (single slides for “posters”) or alternative media, such as audio-video clips.

Name	Division	Program	Title
Monica Ambalal	Arts	Music	Learning about Stockton’s ‘Little Symphony’ through the Archive
Andrew Angeles	Humanities	Linguistics	Prosodic adjunction in Kyoto Japanese compound words
Shirin Bakhshay	Social Sciences	Psychology	Satisfying the Urge to Punish: Exploring Strategies for Increasing Support for Restorative Justice Practices
Genesis Berlanga	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth and Planetary Science	Raman Spectral Mineral Component Identification Under Dusty Conditions Using CNNs: Towards a Mars Mineral Tricorder
Vishal Chakraborty	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	Possible Winners on Partial Chains
Haoran Chang	Arts	Digital Arts and New Media	Untitled (Disappearing): A Recompiled Virtual Reality Experience on Web
Daniel Copulsky	Social Sciences	Psychology	Some People Identify BDSM as Their Sexual Orientation
Akila de Silva	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science	rip current detection
Kira Dralle	Arts	Music	La Guerre du Jazz: On the racial imagination and historiography of black jazz in the Third Reich
Jack Duff	Humanities	Linguistics	The processing of direct discourse: When a subordinate speech act sticks around
David Duncan	Humanities	History	The Salt and Pepper Talks: A Story of Voluntary Desegration in the West
Joseph Finkel	Arts	Music	Music + Mycology = Local Musicology: John Cage and the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections
Morgan Gates	Humanities	Literature	Listening to The Star of Ethiopia in 1915: Sonic Paratexts, Aural Histories, and Cinematic Conjunctions
Elizabeth Goldman	Social Sciences	Psychology	To Share or Not to Share
Ahsan Habib	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Electro-Plasmonic Wireless Nanoelectrodes for Millionplex Electrophysiological Recordings with Subcellular Resolution
Sam Hughes	Social Sciences	Psychology	Sexual Healing: The Benefits of Erotic Hypnosis for Coping with Negative Physical and Mental Health Symptoms among Erotic Hypnosis Fetishists
Sona Kaur	Social Sciences	Psychology	“I’m not a maybe. I’m the one.”: Romanticized abuse in the Netflix Original Series “You.”
Brian Kawahara	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Overcoming Chemotherapeutic Resistance: Inhibition of Cytochrome P450-mediated Metabolism of Paclitaxel in Human Breast Cancer Cells In situ with Carbon Monoxide
Robin Keller	Humanities	History	“Hell in the Fullest Sense of the Word”: Holocaust Refugees in Wartime Shanghai
Tori Klein	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Using zombie insects to find cures for human diseases: Optimizing natural products from the Cordyceps genus of fungi
Mali’o Kodis	Physical and Biological Sciences	Coastal Science and Policy	Strategic Retreat for Resilient Climate Adaptation
Taylor Kurupas	Humanities	History	Stereotyping the Stereo: Sound, Space, Race, and Technology in New York City from the 1970–1980s
Bhishek Manek	Baskin School of Engineering	Applied Mathematics	Formation of X-ray Rotating Jets in Solar Corona: Simulations and Observations
Mays Mohammed Salih	Physical and Biological Sciences	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	An RNA Processing Protein as a Novel Regulator of the Innate Immune Response
Anna Nisi	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Exurban development creates an ecological trap for pumas in a fragmented landscape
Pegah Ojaghi	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Engineering	A Model Predictive Control Framework for Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Alexandra Race	Social Sciences	Education	“A More Competent Ecologist”: Impacts of a Field-based Research Internship on Undergraduate Researchers’ Science Identity, Self-efficacy, and Science Community
Nolan Smyth	Physical and Biological Sciences	Physics	Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
Niky Taylor	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ocean Sciences	Looking a Little Green: Linking Water Color and Quality in San Francisco Bay
Abigail Walsh	Social Sciences	Psychology	Examining the Impact of Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse Television Characters on Attitudes and Behaviors
Nan Wang	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Engineering	Motion Planning for Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Jacob Winnikoff	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Made of Other Stuff: Membrane Composition of Deep, Shallow, Cold, and Warm Comb Jellies
Daniel Wright	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Correcting the count: Genetic cryptic speciation and species richness revisited in South Africa’s rocky intertidal