21st Annual Graduate Symposium, Friday, May 16, 2025
Symposium: Main Page
1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks
1:15-3:10 Presentations and Judging
3:10-3:45 Break (Tallying judges scores)
3:45-4:00 Award Announcements
Arts
Ksenia Fir, Film & Digital Media – Quiet Study Room (1:15-1:25)
RoboCops and Prison Planets: Carceral Futurism and Abolitionist Potentialities in Science Fiction Film and Television
Shireen Nabatian, Music – Room 2359 (1:15-1:25)
“Spiritual jam”: Tracing the definition of meşk from Ottoman pedagogy to summer music camp
Baskin School of Engineering
Alexis Teter, Applied Mathematics – Room 2353 (1:15-1:25)
Contractions and Reactions in Schrödinger Bridges
Paul Wintz, Applied Mathematics – Room 2359 (2:20-2:30)
Globally Stabilizing Hybrid Control While Exploiting Uncertified Controllers
Ivana Pačar, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics – Quiet Study Room (1:25-1:35)
NOTCH Your Average Genes: Using Ultra-long DNA Reads to Understand the Role of 1q21.1 Locus in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Prajna Hebbar, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics – 2359 (2:30-2:40)
Looking for genes in genomes & pangenomes
Shloka Negi, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics – Room 2359 (1:25-1:35)
Advancing rare disease diagnosis with long read sequencing and pangenomics
Dustin Palea, Computational Media – Poster # 1 (1:35-1:45)
Annota: Peer-based AI Hints Towards Learning Qualitative Coding at Scale
Minghao Liu, Computer Science & Engineering – Room 2353 (1:25-1:35)
Human and AI Perceptual Differences in Image Classification Errors
Niloofar Asefi, Electrical & Computer Engineering – Quiet Study Room (1:35-1:45)
Data driven Lagrangian data assimilation for ocean dynamics
Shourya Bose, Electrical & Computer Engineering – Room 2353 (2:30-2:40)
AI meets the Grid: Towards an Efficient and Greener Future
Humanities
Amanda Huse, History – Poster # 11 (2:30-2:40)
Speech and Power: Women’s Social Networks and Reconstruction-Era Ku-Klux Violence
Ania Mah Gricuk, History – Poster # 16 (1:35-1:45)
Medicine in Diaspora: A Modern History of Cooling Herbal Tea, 1880s-present
Elliot Richardson, History – Poster # 14 (3:00-3:10)
Trans Transnationalism: Travestís en Tijuana
Kristine Swarts-Zanin, History – Poster # 8 (1:35-1:45)
The Permanent Mark of the British Mandate on Jerusalem
Leonard Butingan, History – Poster # 19 (2:30-2:40)
What is this ‘Black’ in Black Britain? Television and the Shifting Articulations of Blackness 1976-2000
Manning Chan, History – Poster # 2 (1:45-1:55)
Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of the Qin-zither in Early Modern China
Meleia Simon-Reynolds, History – Quiet Study Room (2:40-2:50)
Santa Cruz County history from our own mouth: Community Archiving and Liberatory Activation among Second-Generation Filipino Americans
Anna Egorova, History of Consciousness – Poster # 22 (3:00-3:10)
Muslim Socialist Visions: Volga Tatars and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Russia
Darien Acero, History of Consciousness – Poster # 4 (2:30-2:40)
July 11: A New Era of Class Struggle in Cuba?
Lilith Frakes, History of Consciousness – Poster # 15 (1:25-1:35)
Care, Beyond Conservation
Robin Jones, History of Consciousness – Poster # 24 (3:00-3:10)
Dissident Communism: Trajectories of the Independent Left in Postcolonial Syria
Stefania Cotei, History of Consciousness – Poster # 27 (2:20-2:30)
Unarchiving Memory
Max Kaplan, Linguistics – Poster # 9 (1:45-1:55)
Native language & systematic mishearing
Maya Wax Cavallaro, Linguistics – Poster # 12 (2:40-2:50)
An Acoustic Study of Final Sonorant Devoicing in Two Indigenous Mesoamerican Languages
Vishal Sunil Arvindam, Linguistics – Room 2359 (1:35-1:45)
Processing anti-local reflexives in Telugu
Annika Berry, Literature – Poster # 20 (2:40-2:50)
Thick, Squiggly, and Generative: Collaboration and Entanglement in Donna Haraway’s Archive
Anny L. Mogollón, Literature – Poster # 26 (2:05-2:15)
We Fight Alongside Our Mothers
Kristen Nelson, Literature – Poster # 17 (1:45-1:55)
The Witches of Benevento
Melissa Mack, Literature – Poster # 6 (2:50-3:00)
The Language of Acknowledgement and Memorialization: Memorial Ceremonies and Slave Ship Landing Site Markers on the Georgia Coast, and a University Poetry Commission in Upland South Carolina
Monica Multer, Literature – Poster # 5 (2:40-2:50)
De-Forming the Devil: Disability and Impairment in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Rico Rushworth, Literature – Quiet Study Room (2:50-3:00)
Indigenous American Rap and Activism
Quyen Pham, Literature – Poster # 25 (2:05-2:15)
Disorienting Poetics: Book/Archive/Body
Philip Groth, Philosophy – Room 2359 (2:40-2:50)
The Epistemology of Mental Imagery and Perception
Physical & Biological Sciences
Lordrick Kahinga, Astronomy & Astrophysics – Room 2353 (2:40-2:50)
Weighing the Unseen: How Cosmic Flashes Reveal Andromeda’s Hidden Atoms
Sierra Dodd, Astronomy & Astrophysics – Room 2353 (1:35-1:45)
Disk Perturbations: A Potential Model for Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei
Nathan McGregor, Earth & Planetary Sciences – Quiet Study Room (1:45-1:55)
What Meteorites Tell Us About Planets Around Other Stars
Mané Ohanyan, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology – Room 2353 (1:45-1:55)
Skilled Sailor, Stormy Sea: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis navigates host environments to cause disease
Md Ziaur Rahman, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology – Room 2359 (2:50-3:00)
Effects of antenatal hormones and immune status on maternal gut microbiome and child stress response
Meredith Stevers, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology – Poster # 13 (2:50-3:00)
Human U2 snRNA sequence mediates splicing efficiency driven by branchpoint sequence complementarity
Yufei Si, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology – Room 2359 (1:45-1:55)
Is sensory experience required to form a map of auditory space in the superior colliculus
Aubrey Trapp, Ocean Sciences – Room 2353 (2:50-3:00)
A Tale of Two Blooms: Distinct environmental drivers result in consecutive toxin events in Monterey Bay, CA
Mar Arroyo PBSCI, Ocean Sciences – Poster # 7 (3:00-3:10)
Representations of the changing ocean carbon cycle in ocean biogeochemical models
Rene M Padilla, Physics – Poster # 18 (1:55-2:05)
Ultra-fast diamond detectors for Xray applications
Sri Aditya Gadam, Physics – Quiet Study Room (1:55-2:05)
Hidden Clues in the Fundamental Structure of Nature
Social Sciences
kalina kassadjikova, Anthropology – Poster # 21 (2:50-3:00)
Ancient DNA at the Intersection of Community and Genetics in the African Diaspora
Piyush Gandhi, Economics – Room 2359 (1:55-2:05)
Extinguishing the Blaze: Reducing Air Pollution
Rolly Kapoor, Economics – Quiet Study Room (3:00-3:10)
Together in Search: Experimental Evidence from Coordinating Travel Among Women Job-Seekers in Urban India
Raul Meneses Samperio, Education – Room 2359 (3:00-3:10)
(Un)Documenting Citizenship: The Experiences of Undocumentized Educators in Secondary Schools
Danielle Klawitter, Social Sciences, Environmental Studies – Poster # 23 (2:05-2:15)
Inter-row cover cropping with deep-rooted perennial grasses for soil health benefits
Adriana Maroto Vargas, Latin American and Latino Studies – Room 2353 (1:55-2:05)
Can a Feminist and Conservative Christian Women Really Talk?
Md Mizanur Rahman, Politics – Poster # 3 (1:55-2:05)
Ethical Visions of Politics in Anticolonial Muslim Thought
Wei Dou, Psychology – Quiet Study Room (2:05-2:15)
Introspective Metacognition Alters Perceptual Decision-Making Mechanisms
Betsy Centeno, Psychology – Room 2353 (2:05-2:15)
Perspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Education Among Latine/x College Students at an HSI
Cathrine Jacobsen, Sociology – Room 2359 (2:05-2:15)
Distorted Justice: Solitary Confinement as Acts of State-Sanctioned Violence Against Youth