2024 Graduate Symposium Participants
Friday, May 17, 2024
1:00-4:00 p.m. Pacific Time
McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor
1:00-4:00 p.m. Pacific Time
McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: MAY 3, 2024, 12:00 PM PACIFIC (NOON)
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 |
Darling, Vega |
Arts | Social Documentation | In the Shadow of AIDS |
Johns, MJ |
Baskin Engineering | Computational Media | Playful Solutions to Serious Problems |
Zong, Jingtian | Arts | Environmental Art and Social Practice | Anonymous Cyborgs and the (Im)Possibility of Data Preservation |
Posters | |||
Name | Division | Program | Presentation Title |
Alicea, Joe | Humanities | Literature | Writing/Rioting on Division Street: Puerto Rican Chicago and the "Rainbow Poets" |
Bergamini, Clara |
Humanities | History | Catfish Curriculum: Teaching Crisis Preparation through Memorialization of the 1923 Kantō Disaster |
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 |
Escudero, Pablo |
Humanities | History of Consciousness | Towards a Different Sense of History: How Ideas of Development and Underdevelopment Govern the Politics of Time |
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 |
Gordon, Kaiya |
Humanities | Feminist Studies | Surviving the Archives: A Trans Poetic Encounter |
Gougol, Navid | Baskin Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Yektasonics Phased Array and Power Module |
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 |
Liu, Dongyi | Physical and Biological Sciences | Physics | How Does the Higgs Particle Give Things Mass? |
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 | Experimenting in a National Language: Postcolonial Hindi Modernism |
Richards, Rachael |
Physical and Biological Sciences | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Exciton Transfer Between Extended Electronic States in Conjugated Inter-Polyelectrolyte Complexes |
Richardson, Elliot |
Humanities | History | Expanding the Field of Trans History: Gender Fluidity and Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border |
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 |
Harenčár, Julia | Physical and Biological Sciences | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | The Ecology and Genetics of Species Boundaries between Hybridizing Neotropical Spiral Gingers |
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 |
Howard, James |
Physical and Biological Sciences | Mathematics | Graver Bases: The Joysticks of Discrete Optimization |
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 |
Liu, Yi |
Baskin Engineering | Computer Science and Engineering | High Throughput and One-Round-Trip RDMA for Disaggregated Memory Systems |
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 |
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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 |