Graduate Symposium 2023
Winners
Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000
Sarah Chang Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (left) presents the Best Overall Presentation of the Symposium Certificate to Sarah Chang (right) |
Best Presentation of the Arts Division, $250
Saul Villegas Dean of the Arts Celine Parreñas Shimizu (right) presents the Best Presentation of the Arts Division Certificate to Saul Villegas (left) |
Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering, $250
Harika Dechiraju Dean of Baskin School of Engineering Alexander Wolf (right) presents the Best Presentation of Baskin Engineering Certificate to Harika Dechiraju (left) |
Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, $250
Angie Sijun Lou Dean of the Humanities Jasmine Alinder (right) presents the Best Presentation of the Humanities Division Certificate to Angie Sijun Lou (left) |
Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division, $250
Shanna Howard Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Paul Koch (left) presents the Best Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division Certificate to Shanna Howard (right) |
Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division, $250
Matt Evans Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (left) presents the Best Presentation of the Social Sciences Division Certificate to Matt Evans (right) |
Winners with certificate presenters: Angie Sijun-Lou, Best Humanities Presentation; Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl; Sarah Chang, Best Presentation of the Symposium; Dean of Humanities Jasmine Alinder; Saul Villegas, Best Arts Presentation; Dean of Arts Celine Parreñas Shimizu; Matt Evans, Best Social Sciences Presentation; Shanna Howard, Best Physical and Biological Sciences Presentation; Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Paul Koch; Harika Dechiraju, Best Baskin Engineering Presentation; Dean of Baskin Engineering Alexander Wolf
Participants
Alternative Media | |||
Name | Division | Program | Presentation Title |
Kelley, Colleen | Arts | Film and Digital Media: Social Documentation | Public Entities: The Intersections of Hunting, Conservation, and Public Land Use in Montana |
Villegas, Saul | Arts | Digital Arts and New Media |
Deep-Sea Coral III |
Posters | |||
Name | Division | Program | Presentation Title |
Chan, Man Ning | Humanities | History | Qin-Zither Music and the Reinvented Hierarchization of Aesthetic Taste in the Kangxi Reign (1661-1722) |
Chang, Sarah | Humanities | History | Visuality, Gender, and Factory Space during China’s Early Economic Reforms, 1978-1989 |
Crouse, Monique | Social Sciences | Psychology | Consequences for Augmented Reality Training |
Dechiraju, Harika | Baskin Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | On-chip on-demand K+ delivery for in vitro bioelectronics |
Duncan, David | Humanities | History | Voices in the Tule: School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area |
Grady, Kendall | Humanities | Literature | Couple(t): The Museum of Love |
Green, Steven | Humanities | History | Noshing in the Midwest: Foodways and Midwestern Jewish Communities |
Gross, Rebecca | Humanities | Literature | Memory, Affect, and The Radical Fantastic in Jewish Diasporic Graphic Novels |
Liu, Simeiyun | Physical and Biological Sciences | Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology | Insights into the Role of Environmental Cues in tRNA Regulation |
McClellan-Ufugusuku, Alexyss | Humanities | History | Perpetuation of the postwar iméji appu and ryokka campaigns and the “Hawaiianization” of Okinawa: seen through the 2022 Pokélids launch |
McFaul, Kelsey | Humanities | Literature | The Wind Sketches Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa |
Mindel, Gabriel | Humanities | History of Consciousness | Profanity: Performance, Protest, and the Sovereign Politics of Noise |
Mogollón, Anny L. | Humanities | Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies | Creating Legacies of Change: Testimonials from Domestic Workers of the California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC) |
Napatalung, Anne | Humanities | Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Re-membering Healing: The Tuskegee School of Midwifery and Its Legacies for Reproductive Care |
Nguyen, Tiffany | Baskin Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | The importance of electrode material in bioelectronic electrophoretic ion pumps |
Paramore, Jonathan | Humanities | Linguistics | Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Mankiyali |
Polzin, Matt | Humanities | Literature | Reproducing Utopia: Race, Gender, and Science in Early 20th Century Feminist Utopian Fiction |
Sijun Lou, Angie | Humanities | Literature | Double Happiness: Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution |
simon-reynolds, meleia | Humanities | History | Photographing Filipinos: Documenting Twentieth Century Transpacific Migration |
Tan, Joshua | Humanities | History | The Cold War and the (Chinese) University: Education as Containment in Asia’s Cultural Cold War (1950s-60s) |
Ulusoy, Elifnur | Humanities | Linguistics | The role of syntactic connectivity in agreement attraction: Evidence from Turkish |
van Harmelen, Jonathan | Humanities | History | Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans |
Zhang, Jinghong | Humanities | History | Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Oral Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-2021 |
Talks | |||
Name | Division | Program | Presentation Title |
Blanco, Diana | Physical and Biological Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Unleashing the Secrets of the Universe: A Unified Redshift Calibration for Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Studies |
Carbajal, Amanda | Physical and Biological Sciences | Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology | Leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing Data from Pathogenic E. coli to Stay Ahead of Antibiotic Resistance |
Evans, Matt | Social Sciences | Psychology | Absolute Pitch in Involuntary Musical Imagery |
Glasenapp, Matthew | Physical and Biological Sciences | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Hybridization and Introgression among Pacific Sea Urchins |
Howard, Shanna | Physical and Biological Sciences | Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology | Can nutritional interventions protect us against neurodevelopmental insults? |
Huse, Amanda | Humanities | History | ‘She was afraid I would tell it’: Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Postwar, Post-Emancipation Georgia |
Kang, Jizhou | Baskin Engineering | Statistical Science | Flexible Bayesian Modeling for Analyzing College Students’ Emotional Status |
McGregor, Nathan | Physical and Biological Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Evidence for a Heat-Pipe Venus |
Mulenga, Aaron Samuel | Arts | History of Art and Visual Culture | The Role of Africa in Present-Day Interventions of Afrofuturism |
Pedicino, Natalie | Physical and Biological Sciences | Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology | Exploring enteric virus pathogenesis and vaccine development |
Rojas-Bravo, César | Physical and Biological Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Using Exploding Stars to Decipher Dark Energy, the Universe’s Biggest Mystery |
Zavala Jiménez, Aldo Alfonso | Physical and Biological Sciences | Coastal Science and Policy | Oceanic manta ray conservation through participatory dynamic ocean management in Bahía de Banderas, Mexico |