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2025 Winners

Monica Multer

Literature
Poster: De-Forming the Devil: Disability and Impairment in Milton’s Paradise Lost

Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (right) presents the Best Overall Presentation of the Symposium Certificate to Monica Multer (left)

TIE! $250 each

ksenia fir

Film & Digital Media
Talk: “RoboCops and Prison Planets: Carceral Futurism and Abolitionist Potentialities in Science Fiction Film and Television”

Assistant Dean for Student Success and Chief of Staff, Esthela Bañuelos (right), presents the Best Presentation of the Arts Division Certificate to ksenia fir (left)

Shireen Nabatian

Music

Spiritual Jam: Tracing the Definition of Meşk from Ottoman Pedagogy to Summer Music Camp

Assistant Dean for Student Success and Chief of Staff, Esthela Bañuelos (right), presents the Best Presentation of the Arts Division Certificate to Shireen Nabatian (left)

Shourya Bose

Electrical & Computer Engineering

AI Meets the Grid: Towards an Efficient and Greener Future

Associate Dean for Graduate Experience for Baskin School of Engineering, Roberto Manduchi (right), presents the Best Presentation of the Baskin School of Engineering Certificate to Shourya Bose (left)

Meleia Simon-Reynolds

Literature

Santa Cruz County History from Our Own Mouth:” Community Archiving and Liberatory Activation Among Second-Generation Filipino Americans

Former Professional Development Coordinator for the Graduate Division, Sonya Newlyn (left), presents the Best Presentation of the Humanities Division Certificate to Meleia Simon-Reynolds (right)

Nathan McGregor

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Talk: “What Meteorites Tell Us About Planets Around Other Stars”

Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Bryan Gaensler (left) presents the Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division Certificate to Nathan McGregor (right)

Piyush Gandhi

Economics
Talk: Extinguishing the Blaze: Reducing Crop Residue Burning in India

Dean of Social Sciences, Katherine Mitchell (right), presents the Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division Certificate to Piyush Gandhi (left)


NameDivisionProgramTitle
Acero, DarienHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessJuly 11: A New Era of Class Struggle in Cuba?
Arroyo, MarPhysical and Biological SciencesOcean SciencesRepresentations of the changing ocean carbon cycle in ocean biogeochemical models
Berry, AnnikaHumanitiesLiteratureThick, Squiggly, and Generative: Collaboration and Entanglement in Donna Haraway’s Archive
Butingan, LeonardHumanitiesHistoryWhat is this ‘Black’ in Black Britain? Television and the Shifting Articulations of Blackness 1976-2000
Chan, ManningHumanitiesHistory“Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of the Qin-zither in Early Modern China”
Cotei, StefaniaHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessUnarchiving Memory
Egorova, AnnaHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessMuslim Socialist Visions: Volga Tatars and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Russia
Frakes, LilithHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessCare, Beyond Conservation
Huse, AmandaHumanitiesHistorySpeech and Power: Women’s Social Networks and Reconstruction-Era Ku-Klux Violence
Jones, RobinHumanitiesHistory of ConsciousnessDissident Communism: Trajectories of the Independent Left in Postcolonial Syria
Kaplan, MaxHumanitiesLinguisticsNative language & systematic mishearing
kassadjikova, kalinaSocial SciencesAnthropologyAncient DNA at the Intersection of Community and Genetics in the African Diaspora
Klawitter, DanielleSocial SciencesENVSInter-row cover cropping with deep-rooted perennial grasses for soil health benefits
Mack, MelissaHumanitiesLiteratureThe 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
Mah Gricuk, AniaHumanitiesHistoryMedicine in Diaspora: A Modern History of Cooling Herbal Tea, 1880s-present
Mogollón, Anny L.HumanitiesLiteratureWe Fight Alongside Our Mothers
Multer, MonicaHumanitiesLiteratureDe-Forming the Devil: Disability and Impairment in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Nelson, KristenHumanitiesLiteratureThe Witches of Benevento
Padilla, Rene M.Physical and Biological SciencesPhysicsUltra-fast diamond detectors for Xray applications
Palea, DustinBaskin School of EngineeringComputational MediaAnnota: Peer-based AI Hints Towards Learning Qualitative Coding at Scale
Pham, QuyenHumanitiesLiteratureDisorienting Poetics: Book/Archive/Body
Richardson, ElliotHumanitiesHistoryTrans Transnationalism: Travestís en Tijuana
Stevers, MeredithPhysical and Biological SciencesMolecular, Cell and Developmental BiologyHuman U2 snRNA sequence mediates splicing efficiency driven by branchpoint sequence complementarity
Swarts-Zanin, KristineHumanitiesHistoryThe Permanent Mark of the British Mandate on Jerusalem
Wax Cavallaro, MayaHumanitiesLinguisticsAn Acoustic Study of Final Sonorant Devoicing in Two Indigenous Mesoamerican Languages
NameDivisionProgramTitle
Aditya Gadam, SriPhysical and Biological SciencesPhysicsHidden Clues in the Fundamental Structure of Nature
Asefi, NiloofarBaskin School of EngineeringElectrical & Computer EngineeringData driven Lagrangian data assimilation for ocean dynamics
Bose, ShouryaBaskin School of EngineeringElectrical & Computer EngineeringAI meets the Grid: Towards a Efficient and Greener Future
Centeno, BetsySocial SciencesPsychologyPerspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Education Among Latine/x College Students at an HSI
Dodd, SierraPhysical and Biological SciencesAstronomy & AstrophysicsDisk Perturbations: A Potential Model for Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei
Dou, WeiSocial SciencesPsychologyIntrospective Metacognition Alters Perceptual Decision-Making Mechanisms
fir, kseniaArtsFilm and Digital MediaRoboCops and Prison Planets: Carceral Futurism and Abolitionist Potentialities in Science Fiction Film and Television
Gandhi, PiyushSocial SciencesEconomicsExtinguishing the Blaze: Reducing Air Pollution
Groth, PhilipHumanitiesPhilosophyThe Epistemology of Mental Imagery and Perception
Hebbar, PrajnaBaskin School of EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering & BioinformaticsLooking for genes in genomes & pangenomes
Kahinga, LordrickPhysical and Biological SciencesAstronomy & AstrophysicsWeighing the Unseen: How Cosmic Flashes Reveal Andromeda’s Hidden Atoms
Kapoor, RollySocial SciencesEconomicsTogether in Search: Experimental Evidence from Coordinating Travel Among Women Job-Seekers in Urban India
Liu, MinghaoBaskin School of EngineeringComputer Science & EngineeringHuman and AI Perceptual Differences in Image Classification Errors
Maroto Vargas, AdrianaSocial SciencesLatin American and Latino StudiesCan a Feminist and Conservative Christian Women Really Talk?
McGregor, NathanPhysical and Biological SciencesEarth & Planetary ScienceWhat Meteorites Tell Us About Planets Around Other Stars
Nabatian, ShireenArtsMusic“Spiritual jam”: Tracing the definition of meşk from Ottoman pedagogy to summer music camp
Negi, ShlokaBaskin School of EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering & BioinformaticsAdvancing rare disease diagnosis with long read sequencing and pangenomics
Ohanyan, ManéPhysical and Biological SciencesMicrobiology & Environmental ToxicologySkilled Sailor, Stormy Sea: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis navigates host environments to cause disease
Pačar, IvanaBaskin School of EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering & BioinformaticsNOTCH Your Average Genes: Using Ultra-long DNA Reads to Understand the Role of 1q21.1 Locus in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Rushworth, RicoHumanitiesLiteratureIndigenous American Rap and Activism
Si, YufeiPhysical and Biological SciencesMolecular, Cell and Developmental BiologyIs sensory experience required to form a map of auditory space in the superior colliculus
Simon-Reynolds, MeleiaHumanitiesHistory“Santa Cruz County history from our own mouth:” Community Archiving and Liberatory Activation among Second-Generation Filipino Americans
Sunil Arvindam, VishalHumanitiesLinguisticsProcessing anti-local reflexives in Telugu
Teter, AlexisBaskin School of EngineeringApplied MathematicsContractions and Reactions in Schrödinger Bridges
Trapp, AubreyPhysical and Biological SciencesOcean SciencesA Tale of Two Blooms: Distinct environmental drivers result in consecutive toxin events in Monterey Bay, CA
Wintz, PaulBaskin School of EngineeringApplied MathematicsGlobally Stabilizing Hybrid Control While Exploiting Uncertified Controllers
Ziaur Rahman, MdPhysical and Biological SciencesMicrobiology & Environmental ToxicologyEffects of antenatal hormones and immune status on maternal gut microbiome and child stress response
Last modified: May 30, 2025