2015 Deans’ & Chancellor’s Awards
These awards recognize outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in each division. Each student or student team works on a senior reseach or milestone project and is mentored by a faculty member (noted in parentheses below). A committee in each division selects that year’s Deans’ Award recipients. Winners of the Chancellor’s Awards (noted in bold and by an *asterisk below) are selected from recipients of Deans’ Awards.
Division of the Arts
*Krystal Ledesma, "Shifting American Ideologies From The 1930S Through 1950S: John Garfield'S Hollywood Persona As A Case Study" (Shelley Stamp)
*Karina Monroy, "Alimento" (Kyle McKinley)
*Dominic Romano, "Bodies Of Trauma" (Peter Limbrick and Irene Lusztig)
Haley Bott, "Phenomenological Formations And An Aesthetics Of Diaspora: The Work Of Yinka Shonibare" (Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent)
Naja Le Fevre Grundtmann, "Construction Of Critique" (Maria Evangelatou)
Melanya Hamasyan, "De-Historicized " (Elliot Anderson)
Karina Hernandez, "Still Life Studies On Paper And Photo" (Norman Locks and Melissa Gwyn)
Kristen McCormick, "Social Structure Through Architecture Research Project" (Elizabeth Aguilera)
Regina Ortanez, "Empathy: A Granddaughter'S Story" (Irene Gustafson)
Lily Sorenson, "The Play About The Baby" (Daniel Scheie and Kimberly Jannarone)
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
*Rolando Perez, "High-Throughput Cell-Capture Device For Semi-Automated Single-Cell Nanobiopsy And Nanomanipulation" (Nader Pourmand and David Bernick)
*Tyler Peterson, *John McCullough, *Eric Cao, "Modular Smart Solid Wingsail" (Gabriel Elkaim and Patrick Mantey)
*Alex Salazar, "Enabling Genotype Associations Of Large Insertions And Deletions By Canonicalizing Variants Across Collections Of Bacterial Strains" (Alan Zahler)
John-Michael Burke, Michael Madsen, Nathaniel Cancio, "Eye Tracking Autism For Mobile" (Patrick Mantey and Paul Naud)
Henry Crute, Bryan Smith, Pavlo Manovi, Andrew Ringer, "Smart Energy Analytic Disaggregation System (SEADS)" (Patrick Mantey and Paul Naud)
Robert Hoffman, Donald Fuller, Patrick Ayers, Andre Nguyen Van Qui, "MECH V2" (Patrick Mantey and Paul Naud)
Gregory Jorgensen, "Sio2 Nano-Rod Distributed Bragg Reflector" (Holger Schmidt and Tom Yuzvinsky)
Stephanie Owyang, Cory Ibanez, Justin Blaich, "96-Well Plate Optical Sensor Project" (Stephen Petersen)
Alex Phillips, Andrea Reyes-Ortiz, Vincent Meng, "Reprogramming Orangutan Fibroblasts To Integration-Free Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" (Sofie Salama)
Edgar Valdez, Eric Paredes, Matthew Silva, "Hyperspectral Imaging UAV " (Joel Kubby and Enes Mentese)
Division of Humanities
*Samantha Pineda, "Tracing Contributions: Salvadoran Women In The Diaspora And The 2014 Farabundo Martã National Liberation Front (FMLN) Presidential Campaign" (Felicity Schaeffer and Hector Perla)
*Jake Vincent, "Rhyme In The Chamorro Language Poetry Of Joaquin Flores Borja (And What It Tells Us About Poetry And Language)" (Sandra Chung)
*Paige Welsh, "Contemplations Of The Whale" (Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Magally Alcazar, "The "Gente-Ficatio" Of Boyle Heights" (Felicity Schaeffer)
Sophia Apt, "The Sadeian Fairy Tale Pornography: An Exploration Into A New Feminist Language" (Kimberly Lau)
Noah Barrera-Stanford, "Jewish Folk Medicine From The Baal Shem Tov To An-Sky And Beyond" (Nathaniel Deutsch and Bruce Thompson)
Marley Lix-Jones, "Reluctant Solidarity: The Positioning Of Free Blacks During The Baptist War" (Gregory O'Malley)
Michael Moreno, "A Call For Older, Holier States: Blood As Ink And The Count'S Electric Telegraphy In Bram Stoker'S Dracula" (Jessica Kuskey)
Nicholas Watter, "Against The Monster: The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers, Radical Detroit And The African American Struggle For Democracy In The Workplace" (David Brundage)
Chantale Yunt, "Tu Comprends Tu? - Questions Of Quebecois" (James McCloskey and Donka Farkas)
Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
*Christopher Ahlbach, "Beyond Cyclosporine A: Conformation-Dependent Passive Membrane Permeabilities Of Cyclic Peptide Natural Products" (Scott Lokey)
*Shannon Barbour, "Lipoxin Biosynthesis By Human Lipoxygenases" (Ted Holman)
*Jacqueline Goldstein, "Seeing And Hearing Massive Black Holes Feeding On White Dwarfs" (Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz)
Kristen Brosamer, "The Effects Of Different Bacterial Food On Germline Development" (Susan Strome)
Niklas Garner, "Vector Boson Scattering At The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider" (Jason Nielsen)
Nicolette Goularte, "Investigating The Molecular Mechanism Of CHRONO: A Novel Repressor Of The Circadian Clock" (Carrie Partch)
Steven Paniagua, "Kinesin Light Chain Involved In Kinesin-1 Driven Cytoplasmic Streaming In Drosophila Oocytes" (William Saxton and Donna Fullerton)
Michael Malone, "Impairment Of Microtubule Motors And Their Interactions With Affiliated Proteins Leads To Disrupted Axonal Transport In Drosophila Motor Neurons" (William M Saxton, Inna Djagaeva)
Theodore Rendahl, "Stochasticity In Nebular Emission Lines" (Mark Krumholz)
Colby Sandate, "Destabilization Of The PAS Domain Core In The Earlydoors Mutation Of Mouse Period2 Accelerates The Circadian Clock" (Carrie Partch)
Division of Social Sciences
*Natasha Buck, "Debugging The Industry: An Ethnography Of Exclusion In The Technology Workplace" (Megan C Moodie)
*Charlotte Reed, "Water Relations And Photosynthesis For Artemisia Tridentata Across A Great Basin Desert-Sierra Nevada Elevation Gradient In The Historic Drought Year Of 2014" (Michael Loik)
*Sean Stone, "The Benefits Of Saving On New Learning" (Benjamin Storm)
Markie Flores, "Forced Youth Gay To Straight Conversion Therapy: A Form Of Child Abuse" (Gary Patton)
Marina Gonzalez Flores, "Resistance Of Mayan Women Against Obstetric Violence" (Pat Zavella and Flora Lu)
Penelope Gillette, "Changes In Species Richness, Abundance And Community Composition Of Arboreal Twig-Nesting Ants Along An Elevational Gradient" (Stacy M Philpott)
Zoe Mackay, "Political Participation Of Students In Istanbul: Revitalized Turkish Youth As Influential Political Actors" (Eleonora Pasotti)
August Masonheimer, "Seductive Images In Lecture: Does Extending The Time Between Testing And Learning Still Produce The Seductive Details Effect?" (Christy Byrd)
Mallika Palecanda, "Images In Humanitarianism: The UNHCR And Appeals Imagery" (Lamis Abdelaaty)
Katherine Slocum, "The Social, Economic And Political Impacts Of Direct Trade Coffee Production In Santa Barbara, Honduras " (Megan Moodie)
