Graduate Symposium 2023
2023 UCSC Graduate Symposium Winners left to right: Angie Sijun Lou (Best of the Humanities Division), Sarah Chang (Best Overall Presentation of the Symposium), Saul Villegas (Best of the Arts Division), Matt Evans (Best of the Social Sciences Division), Shanna Howard (Best of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division), and Harika Dechiraju (Best of Baskin Engineering)
Winners
Best Presentation of the Symposium, $1000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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 |
