2024 Winners – Division of Graduate Studies

Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000

Brynna Downey

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Poster: The History of Titan Hidden in How It Spins

Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (left) presents the Best Overall Presentation of the Symposium Certificate to Brynna Downey (center) with Physical and Biological Sciences Dean Bryan Gaensler (right)

Best Presentation of the Arts Division, $250

Stephanie Valadez

Music
Talk: (Mis)translation and Appropriation: Indigenous Resilience in Colonial Reverberations

Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu (left) presents the Best Presentation of the Arts Division Certificate to Stephanie Valadez (right)

Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering, $250

Vikas Peddu

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
Talk: Tiny Tech, Big Impact: Nanopore Sequencing vs. Cancer

Dean of Baskin School of Engineering Alexander Wolf (left) presents the Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering Certificate to Vikas Peddu (right)

Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, $250

Emre Keser

History of Conciousness
Talk: Man/Monster/State: Genealogies of the Nation-State and the (In)Human

Dean of the Humanities Division Jasmine Alinder (right) presents the Best Presentation of the Humanities Division Certificate to Emre Keser (left)

Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division:

TIE!, $250 each

Ellie Fisher

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
Talk: Guanfacine Ameliorates Manganese-Induced ADHD-Like Symptoms: Impulsivity and Sensorimotor Deficits

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

Laura Rodriguez Velandia

Chemistry and Biochemistry
Talk: Chemical Imaging at the Disco: Pyrroles

Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Bryan Gaensler (left) presents the Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division Certificate to Laura Rodriguez Velandia (right)

Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division, $250

Piyush Gandhi

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

Psychology Professor Su-hua Wang (right) presents the Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division Certificate to Piyush Gandhi (left)

All Participants

Alternative Media

Name	Division	Program	Presentation Title
Alvarado Cantero, Lucía	Social Sciences	Education	Forcibly Displaced Learning: The Educational Journey of Refugee Children from Central America and Mexico to the U.S. Border
Crosby, Alison	Baskin Engineering	Computational Media	Immersive Evacuation: Harnessing Virtual Reality for Wildfire Preparedness and Education
Johns, MJ	Baskin Engineering	Computational Media	Playful Solutions to Serious Problems

Posters

Name	Division	Program	Presentation Title
Alicea, Joe	Humanities	Literature	Writing/Rioting on Division Street: Puerto Rican Chicago and the “Rainbow Poets”
Beulke, Anne	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ocean Sciences	Fishing for Answers: Demystifying the Variation in Migration Patterns of Steelhead Trout
Butingan, Leonard	Humanities	History	European Horizons of the Late Twentieth Century Anti-Racist Struggle in Britain
Carrillo, Elsie	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	A Bubble for Trouble: Narial Bubble Rebreathing in Semi-Aquatic Snakes as an Alternate Strategy for Extending Submergence
Downey, Brynna	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth and Planetary Sciences	The History of Titan Hidden in How It Spins
Feberwee, Bart	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Crisis, Revolutionary Subjectivity, and Dutch Council Communism
Gonzales, Edith	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Land-Based Relationships in Urban Agriculture: Insect Diversity, Gardening Practices and Gardeners’ Knowledge of Insects
Inum, Reefat	Baskin Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Advancements in Viral Protein Detection: Leveraging Micropore Technology
Keser, Emre	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Man/Monster/State: Genealogies of the Nation-State and the (In)Human
Mah Gricuk, Ania	Humanities	History	Mining Tin, Mining Herbal Knowledge: Liangcha in Malaysia
McElfish, Maya	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Morays out of Water! Can Gymnothroax mordax Use Prey Odor for Semi-Terrestrial Navigation?
Mora, Ivette	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Elucidating the Mechanism of Semiconducting Simple Coacervates via Liquid/Liquid Phase Separation of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
Pachon, Maria	Humanities	Literature	Reconfiguring Displacement and the American(o) Dream through Borderland Stories
Padilla, Rene M.	Physical and Biological Sciences	Physics	Facilitating a Multi-GHz Ionizing Particle Detection System Using Diamond-Based Sensors
Paramore, Jonathan	Humanities	Linguistics	Abstract Underlying Representations
Pandjaitan, Yasmine	Social Sciences	Education	The Cacophony of the Mind: How Neurodivergent Students Navigate Their Being and Doing in a Neurotypical College Landscape
Prasad, Radhika	Humanities	Literature	Hindi Modernism and the Shaping of a National Language
Richards, Rachael	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Exciton Transfer Between Extended Electronic States in Conjugated Inter-Polyelectrolyte Complexes
Rivera Hernandez, Brian	Humanities	Literature	The Promise of Agrarian Reform in the Mexican Revolution
Simon-Reynolds, Meleia	Humanities	History	Community-Engaged Descriptive Practices and the Records of the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League
Smyth, Nolan	Physical and Biological Sciences	Physics	Rogue Worlds Meet the Dark Side
Stoia, Adriane	Humanities	History	Hajichi Reclamation in the 21st Century
Sunil Arvindam, Vishal	Humanities	Linguistics	Evidence for Language Processing Universals in Telugu
Ulbrich, Linda	Humanities	History	“My poor little boy, Kerr”: Nursing and the First World War Emotional Regime
Voitiuk, Kateryna	Baskin Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	A Feedback-Driven IoT Microfluidic, Electrophysiology, and Imaging Platform for Brain Organoid Studies
Yun, Grace	Humanities	Literature	Mourning through Literature: Making an Altar of Texts
Zhao, Ke	Humanities	History	Ginseng Comes Full Circle: From Peking to New York

Talks

Name	Division	Program	Presentation Title
Ayson-Plank, Christina	Arts	History of Art and Visual Culture	Counter-Productivity as Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Filipino Labor Diaspora
Bittner, Dana-Lis	Social Sciences	Psychology	“Ungoogleable”: Internet Fixation in the Context of Unsuccessful Online Searching
Boucher, Renée	Social Sciences	Anthropology	What Trace Metal Stable Isotopes Can Tell Us about the Taï Chimpanzees
Brown, Hallie	Physical and Biological Sciences	Coastal Science and Policy	Advancing Indigenous Coastal Stewardship through Aquaculture in California
Contuchio, Jenna	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Novel Minimally Invasive Tag Method to Remotely Track Neonate Sea Turtles
ELFikky, Abdelrahman	Baskin Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Navigating the Complexities: Understanding Non-Differentiable Space Optical Channels
Everson, Rosa	Physical and Biological Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Cosmic Choreography: The Dramatic Dance of Stellar Partners
Fisher, Ellie	Physical and Biological Sciences	Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology	Guanfacine Ameliorates Manganese-Induced ADHD-Like Symptoms: Impulsivity and Sensorimotor Deficits
Gandhi, Piyush	Social Sciences	Economics	Extinguishing the Blaze: Reducing Crop Residue Burning in India
Gao, Xiangjian	Baskin Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Harsh Environment Through-Wall UWB Communication System
Hebbar, Prajna	Baskin Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	Going Bananas for Genes: Using the Complete Telomere-to-Telomere Genomes of Non-Human Primates to Analyze Genes
Kang, Jizhou	Baskin Engineering	Statistical Science	SAVE Lives as a Bayesian Statistician
Kirkpatrick, Melanie	Physical and Biological Sciences	Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology	Tiny Guts, Big Science: Building Models to Fight Childhood Viral Diarrhea
Li, Jiayi	Arts	Film and Digital Media	Guardians of Oakland Chinatown
Loucks, Hailey	Baskin Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	What is a Centromere?
Matsushima, Levi	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry	Transformation and Stabilization of an Optoelectronic Lipoplex
McHugh, John	Physical and Biological Sciences	Mathematics	Strong Isotypes
Mindel, Gabriel	Humanities	History of Consciousness	On Tumult: The Political Possibilities of the Crowd and its Noise
Peddu, Vikas	Baskin Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	Tiny Tech, Big Impact: Nanopore Sequencing vs. Cancer
Reid-Shaw, Indiana	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Taking Stock: Contrasting Methodologies for Small-Scale Fishery Management
Rho, Aiden	Social Sciences	Economics	The Impact of Mental Shock on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Presidential Election in 2016
Robertson, Emily	Humanities	Philosophy	Philosophy, More Ways Than One
Rodriguez Velandia, Laura	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry	Chemical Imaging at the Disco: Pyrroles
Sachdeva, Gagandeep	Social Sciences	Economics	Female Instructors in Engineering Education
She, Yasheng	Arts	Film and Digital Media	The Giant Woman at the End of the World
Shieh, Harrison	Social Sciences	Economics	Journey to the (North, South, East, and) West: Global Spillovers of Chinese Monetary Policy
Simha, Sunil	Physical and Biological Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Probing the Invisible Universe with Fast Radio Bursts
Valadez, Stephanie	Arts	Music	(Mis)translation and Appropriation: Indigenous Resilience in Colonial Reverberations
Wang, Christina (Mengying)	Humanities	History	Breaking the Glass Case: Memory-Making, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Japanese Postwar Museums
Yim, Enoch	Humanities	Philsophy	Perceptual Bias and Epistemic Blame
Yun, Hyunjin	Social Sciences	Economics	Private Insurers’ Incentives in Response to Increased Government Payments: Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Market