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2022 Winners

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Courtney Kersten
Humanities Division
Literature

The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman
Talk presentation via Zoom

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David Crellin
Digital Arts and New Media

Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture
Alternative media presentation in person

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Fahim Hasan Khan
Computer Science and Engineering

Machine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science
Poster presentation in person

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Linda Ulbrich
History

“Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse
Talk presentation in person

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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

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Lucia Alvarado Cantero
Education

Animated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between”
Talk presentation in person

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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

NameDivision or SchoolProgramTitle
Alvarado Cantero, LuciaSocial SciencesEducationAnimated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between”
Brinkerhoff, MykelHumanitiesLinguisticsThe Ordering of Tone and Phonation in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
Calderon, ElsaSocial SciencesEnvironmental StudiesThreats to Black Land Ownership in the US Southeast
Chan, Man NingHumanitiesHistoryHigh and Low in early modern China: Using qin-zither as an example
Chang, XianBaskin School of EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering and BioinformaticsPangenomes reduce bias in genomic analyses
Chesney, CharlieSocial SciencesEnvironmental StudiesLiving Solar Panels: Towards Opuntia-based Electricity
Copulsky, DanielSocial SciencesSocial PsychologyEthical Slut Pandemic Preparedness
Gomez, MarioHumanitiesLatin American and Latino StudiesColonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States​
Gyalay, SzilárdPhysical and Biological SciencesEarth and Planetary ScienceClosing Pores and Cracking: A Window to Martian History from a Seismic Wave Speed Discontinuity in the Crust
Kersten, CourtneyHumanitiesLiteratureThe Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman
Krishnaswamy, LakshmiBaskin School of EngineeringComputer Science and EngineeringAdaptive, Dynamic Load Balancing for Data Center and WAN Traffic
mayford, kileyPhysical and Biological SciencesPhysicsDoped Hematite to Increase Efficiency of Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
McCarrin, MichaelHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessIntelligence as Artifice: Toward a Secular Theory of Agency
McCartha, MadisonHumanitiesLiteratureThe Real Poem: On Artists’ Books, the Frame, & Digital Poetry
McFaul, KelseyHumanitiesLiteratureLandscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa
Miller, SamPhysical and Biological SciencesMathematicsA splendid source of equivalences: Lifting p-permutation equivalences to splendid Rickard complexes
Miller, ThaïsHumanitiesLiteratureVaudeville to GLOW: One Hundred Years of Jewish Humor, Women, and Trauma in Los Angeles
Prieto, MelanieSocial SciencesCognitive PsychologyExploring boundary conditions of the Peak-End rule
Raghavan, BalakrishnanArtsMusicQueering Tradition, Embodying Story, Performing Song
Ricker, AdriennePhysical and Biological SciencesEarth and Planetary ScienceDiet specialization in the Mediterranean island lizard Podarcis pityusensis
Ulbrich, LindaHumanitiesHistory“Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse
Valenzuela Toro, AnaPhysical and Biological SciencesEcology and Evolutionary BiologyUnexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche
Van Handel, NickHumanitiesLinguisticsProsody matters in silent reading: Evidence from the Maze
Voitiuk, KaterynaBaskin School of EngineeringBiomolecular EngineeringNeuroscience on the Internet of Things Lab
Wax Cavallaro, MayaHumanitiesLinguisticsSounds of Dille’ Xhonh Laxup: Tonal fieldwork with Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
Wintz, Paul K.Baskin School of EngineeringApplied MathematicsGuaranteeing That a System Moves to a Target While Exploiting Properties of a Controller That Has No Guarantee
Zheng, XiaotianBaskin School of EngineeringStatistical ScienceA Nearest-Neighbor Geostatistical Model to Predict Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature

Posters

NameDivision or SchoolProgramTitle
Freiberg, AmyPhysical and Biological SciencesMolecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology: Program in Biomedical Sciences and EngineeringAnalysis of C-Terminal Membrane Anchor on Cellular Prion Protein Structure and Function
Howard, ShannaPhysical and Biological SciencesMicrobiology and Environmental ToxicologyMaternal choline supplementation (MCS) modulates the attentional deficits & gene expression changes produced by developmental manganese exposure
Khan, Fahim HasanBaskin School of EngineeringComputer Science and EngineeringMachine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science
Ligmond, KatieArtsHistory of Art and Visual CultureViva Los Libros: Latinx Artist Books in UCSC Special Collections
Matsushima, LeviPhysical and Biological SciencesChemistry and BiochemistryOvercharging the semiconducting lipoplex: Influence on the exciton landscape
Nguyen, TiffanyBaskin School of EngineeringElectrical and Computer EngineeringElectrode Optimization for Bioelectronic Ion Pumps
Richards, RachaelPhysical and Biological SciencesChemistry and BiochemistryTransforming Exciton Energy in Aqueous Light-Harvesting Systems Based on Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
Santiago, NicholasPhysical and Biological SciencesMicrobiology and Environmental ToxicologyDevelopmental manganese exposure induces lasting inflammatory, epigenetic, and neuronal system changes in the rat prefrontal cortex
Webb, StephanieSocial SciencesEnvironmental StudiesUnevenness 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

NameDivision or SchoolProgramTitle
Cecchet, AlessiaArtsFilm and Digital MediaThe Dinosaur and the Hyperreal
Crellin, DavidArtsDigital Arts and New MediaTroubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture
Last modified: Mar 21, 2025