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Graduate Symposium 2022

Winners

	Best Overall Presentation of the Symposium, $1000 Courtney Kersten Humanities Division Literature The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman Talk presentation via Zoom
	Best of the Arts Division, $250 David Crellin Digital Arts and New Media Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture Alternative media presentation in person
	Best of the Baskin School of Engineering, $250 Fahim Hasan Khan Computer Science and Engineering Machine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science Poster presentation in person
	Best of the Humanities Division, $250 Linda Ulbrich History “Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse Talk presentation in person
	Best of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division, $250 Amy Freiberg Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology: Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Analysis of C-Terminal Membrane Anchor on Cellular Prion Protein Structure and Function Poster presentation in person
	Best of the Social Sciences Division, $250 Lucia Alvarado Cantero Education Animated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between” Talk presentation in person

Chancellor Cynthia Larive (left) and Vice Provost and Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl (right) hold a laptop with Best of the Symposium winner Courtney Kersten attending via Zoom.

Talks

Name	Division or School	Program	Title
Alvarado Cantero, Lucia	Social Sciences	Education	Animated Cuentos in an Escuela in Borderlands: Education “in between”
Brinkerhoff, Mykel	Humanities	Linguistics	The Ordering of Tone and Phonation in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
Calderon, Elsa	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Threats to Black Land Ownership in the US Southeast
Chan, Man Ning	Humanities	History	High and Low in early modern China: Using qin-zither as an example
Chang, Xian	Baskin School of Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics	Pangenomes reduce bias in genomic analyses
Chesney, Charlie	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Living Solar Panels: Towards Opuntia-based Electricity
Copulsky, Daniel	Social Sciences	Social Psychology	Ethical Slut Pandemic Preparedness
Gomez, Mario	Humanities	Latin American and Latino Studies	Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States
Gyalay, Szilárd	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth and Planetary Science	Closing Pores and Cracking: A Window to Martian History from a Seismic Wave Speed Discontinuity in the Crust
Kersten, Courtney	Humanities	Literature	The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman
Krishnaswamy, Lakshmi	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering	Adaptive, Dynamic Load Balancing for Data Center and WAN Traffic
mayford, kiley	Physical and Biological Sciences	Physics	Doped Hematite to Increase Efficiency of Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
McCarrin, Michael	Humanities	History of Consciousness	Intelligence as Artifice: Toward a Secular Theory of Agency
McCartha, Madison	Humanities	Literature	The Real Poem: On Artists’ Books, the Frame, & Digital Poetry
McFaul, Kelsey	Humanities	Literature	Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa
Miller, Sam	Physical and Biological Sciences	Mathematics	A splendid source of equivalences: Lifting p-permutation equivalences to splendid Rickard complexes
Miller, Thaïs	Humanities	Literature	Vaudeville to GLOW: One Hundred Years of Jewish Humor, Women, and Trauma in Los Angeles
Prieto, Melanie	Social Sciences	Cognitive Psychology	Exploring boundary conditions of the Peak-End rule
Raghavan, Balakrishnan	Arts	Music	Queering Tradition, Embodying Story, Performing Song
Ricker, Adrienne	Physical and Biological Sciences	Earth and Planetary Science	Diet specialization in the Mediterranean island lizard Podarcis pityusensis
Ulbrich, Linda	Humanities	History	“Indeed it isn’t fighting”: Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse
Valenzuela Toro, Ana	Physical and Biological Sciences	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Unexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche
Van Handel, Nick	Humanities	Linguistics	Prosody matters in silent reading: Evidence from the Maze
Voitiuk, Kateryna	Baskin School of Engineering	Biomolecular Engineering	Neuroscience on the Internet of Things Lab
Wax Cavallaro, Maya	Humanities	Linguistics	Sounds of Dille’ Xhonh Laxup: Tonal fieldwork with Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
Wintz, Paul K.	Baskin School of Engineering	Applied Mathematics	Guaranteeing That a System Moves to a Target While Exploiting Properties of a Controller That Has No Guarantee
Zheng, Xiaotian	Baskin School of Engineering	Statistical Science	A Nearest-Neighbor Geostatistical Model to Predict Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature

Posters

Name	Division or School	Program	Title
Freiberg, Amy	Physical and Biological Sciences	Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology: Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering	Analysis of C-Terminal Membrane Anchor on Cellular Prion Protein Structure and Function
Howard, Shanna	Physical and Biological Sciences	Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology	Maternal choline supplementation (MCS) modulates the attentional deficits & gene expression changes produced by developmental manganese exposure
Khan, Fahim Hasan	Baskin School of Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering	Machine Learning Supported Mobile Apps for Citizen Science
Ligmond, Katie	Arts	History of Art and Visual Culture	Viva Los Libros: Latinx Artist Books in UCSC Special Collections
Matsushima, Levi	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Overcharging the semiconducting lipoplex: Influence on the exciton landscape
Nguyen, Tiffany	Baskin School of Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Electrode Optimization for Bioelectronic Ion Pumps
Richards, Rachael	Physical and Biological Sciences	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Transforming Exciton Energy in Aqueous Light-Harvesting Systems Based on Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
Santiago, Nicholas	Physical and Biological Sciences	Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology	Developmental manganese exposure induces lasting inflammatory, epigenetic, and neuronal system changes in the rat prefrontal cortex
Webb, Stephanie	Social Sciences	Environmental Studies	Unevenness in multiscalar seafood commerce derails visions for seafood localism in the United States: An analysis of power and embeddedness in the Pacific herring production network

Alternative Media

Name	Division or School	Program	Title
Cecchet, Alessia	Arts	Film and Digital Media	The Dinosaur and the Hyperreal
Crellin, David	Arts	Digital Arts and New Media	Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in California Surf Culture