2021-22 Koret Scholars
2021-22 Koret Scholars Photo Collage
Congratulations to the 2022 Koret Scholars
| Justine Alberto (Psychology BA) Mentor: Su-hua Wang Project: How do parents and children collaborate through question asking? |
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| Claire Apana (Art BA) Mentor: Karolina Karlic Project: Archival Imaging: Recontextualizing the Past for the Future |
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| Daniel Arriaza (Biomolecular Engr & Bioinformatics BS) Mentor: Daniel Kim Project: Non-coding RNA Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection |
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| Chailen August (Critical Race & Ethnic Studies BA) Mentor: Michelle Gomez Parra Project: The Cultural Appropriation of Hip Hop Through White Consumerism |
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| Kaylee Baker (Psychology BA) Mentor: Hannah Hausman Project: Remembering History: How Experience, Identity, and Implicit Bias Affect Memory of Historical Figures |
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| Mara Baylis (Neuroscience BS) Mentor: Russell Corbett-Detig Project: Somatic Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA of Drosophila |
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| Griffin Bertucco (Linguistics) Mentor: Grant McGuire Project: Phonetic Inventorying of L2 English Speakers |
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| Micaela Bisaccio (Linguistics) Mentor: Grant McGuire Project: Phonetic Inventorying of L2 English Speakers |
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| Aja Bond (Art BA, History of Art and Visual Culture BA) Mentor: Kyle Parry Project: Sites of Decomposition |
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| Lia Bonver (Classical Studies BA, Literature BA) Mentor: Kristina Chew Project: Weaving, Witchcraft, and Women in Ancient Greece |
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| Annabel Bouwer (Cognitive Science BS) Mentor: Hannah Raila Project: The Mindful Gaze: Correlations Between Trait Mindfulness and Selective Attention to Positive Stimuli |
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| Noah Brigham (Earth Sciences BS) Mentor: Terry Blackburn Project: Subglacial Gypsum Precipitates |
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| Colin Campbell (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Martin Devecka Project: Ancient Astronomy |
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| Samantha Carreno (Anthropology BA) Mentor: Nancy Chen Project: Reframing My Mother’s Still Born Dreams: Examining Intergenerational Trauma For First Generation Students |
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| Madeline Chertkow (Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics) Mentor: Daniel Kim Project: Noncoding RNA biomarkers for early cancer detection |
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| Magali Chonteco (Literature BA, Spanish Studies BA) Mentor: Zachary Zimmer Project: Design, Production, and Intellectual Property: The Evolution of Fast Fashion in the Age of Social Media |
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| Cambell Conour (Chemistry BS) Mentor: Scott Oliver Project: Ligand Length Impacts On MOF Anion Exchange |
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| Joseph Cruz (Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics) Mentor: Rebecca DuBois Project: Investigating the COBRA NG2 Hemagglutinin for Universal Flu Vaccine Development |
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| Trevin Dace (Sociology BA) Mentor: Rebecca London Project: The social and psychological benefits of agriculture |
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| Fiona DeBernardi (Psychology BA) Mentor: Audun Dahl Project: Cheating in everyday scenarios: How situational pressures impact students’ judgments. |
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| Phoebe Dunbar (Environmental Studies BA) Mentor: Weixin Cheng Project: Establishing baseline soil carbon contents in campus ecosystems using a method calibrated for each location |
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| Austin Dymont (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Xinting Yu Project: Cleaning our Hazy and Cloudy Lens on Temperate Exoplanets |
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| Joel Earwicker (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Jonathan Fortney Project: The Effects of Density Perturbations on Models of the Interior Structure of Jupiter and Saturn |
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| Samuel English (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Stefano Profumo Project: The Hidden Friend’s Wake: Dark Matter and a Binary at the Galactic Center |
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| Tony Estrella (Anthropology BA, Psychology BA) Mentor: Vicky Oelze Project: An ethnographic inventory of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) termite eating behaviors of the Issa Valley, Tanzania |
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| Jordan Fickel (Art & Design: Games & Playable Media BA) Mentor: micha cárdenas Project: Augmented Reality Climate Art Research |
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| Kenneth Gee (Computer Science BS) Mentor: Stephan B. Munch Project: Making forecasts in exogenously driven ecosystems |
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| Cristina Gonzalez (Psychology BA, Latin American Studies/Sociology Comb BA) Mentor: Steven McKay Project: We Belong |
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| Sophia Grewell (Critical Race & Ethnic Studies BA, Feminist Studies BA) Mentor: Katie Keliiaa Project: Unsettling Domesticity |
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| Sydney Haith (Earth Sciences BS) Mentor: Joshua Krissansen-Totten Project: Testing Models of Biosignature False Positives: Predicted Trends in pO2 Across Time and Space for Lifeless Terrestrial Planets |
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| Lauren Hatcher (Classical Studies BA) Mentor: Martin Devecka Project: Ancient Astronomies |
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| Dakota Hughes (Psychology BA) Mentor: Audun Dahl Project: Helpful or hurtful? An exploration of students' perspectives on the academic misconduct process at UCSC |
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| Lindsay Jones (Earth Sciences BS) Mentor: Grace Pearsall Project: Examining the relationship between pesticide and herbicide pollution and tidal marsh greenhouse gas emissions in the Elkhorn Slough |
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| Harpreet Kaur (Legal Studies BA, Feminist Studies BA) Mentor: Alison Hanson Project: How are hegemonic masculinities produced and mobilized in globalization and their effects on women's class, racial, and sexual bodies? |
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| Sayaka Kozuki (Biotechnology BA, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology BS) Mentor: Gerrald Lodewijk Project: A CRISPR-based Method for Generation of a Synthetic Model of the Embryo |
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| Jasmine Krause (Environmental Sciences BS) Mentor: Margaret Zimmer Project: Wildfire Effects On Physical and Chemical Properties of Soil in Northern California |
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| Victoria Lacerca-Desrosiers (Literature BA) Mentor: Martin Devecka Project: Ancient Astronomy |
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| Sarah Lange (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Natalie Batalha Project: Comprehensive catalog of TESS planet masses |
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| Jodi Lee (Biochemistry & Molecular Bio BS) Mentor: Melissa Jurica Project: Harnessing Transcriptomics to Assess the Importance of Intron Retention |
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| Luiza Leonovich (Legal Studies BA) Mentor: Kent Eaton Project: The Politics of Brazil’s Response to COVID-19 |
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| Jialin Li (Physics (Astrophysics) BS) Mentor: Andy Skemer Project: Lyot Stop Designs for New Exoplanet Imager - SCALES |
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| Raquel Lozano (Ecology and Evolution BS) Mentor: Roxanne Beltran Project: Moult Phenology of Northern Elephant Seals at Año Nuevo State Park |
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| Elina Luong (Molecular Cell Developmental Biology BS) Mentor: Stefany Rubio Project:Van Gogh-like 2 Paints the Milky Way |
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| Jasmine Lyng (Psychology BA) Mentor: Regina Day Langhout Project: Student Veteran Photovoice Project: Capturing, Enhancing, and Increasing Student Veteran Visibility and Engagement on Campus |
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| Manisha Magal (Business Mgmt Economics BA) Mentor: Gueyon Kim Project: The Effect of Crime Rates and Perceptions of Safety on the Female Labor Force Participation Rate in Rural and Urban India |
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| Anika Mahajan (Comp Sci Computer Game Design BS) Mentor: Eddie Melcer Project: How Rewind Mechanics Affect Reflection, Player Experience, and Perceived Challenge in Emotionally Complex Games |
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| Jenna Martinez (Environmental Sciences BS) Mentor: Phoebe Lam Project: Particulate Cd:P through trophic levels in the California Current |
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| Jennifer Aimee Martinez (Sociology BA, Education, Democracy, & Justice BA, and Latin American & Latino Studies) Mentor: Steven McKay Project: We Belong: How Immigrant Communities Facilitate Their Sense of Belonging Through Acts of Resistance |
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| Nikhil Marudai (Human Biology BS) Mentor: David Boyd Project: Determining differentiation pathways and lifespans of lung fibroblasts responding to viral infections |
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| Malaika Menon (Human Biology BS) Mentor: Needhi Bhalla Project: Investigating PCH-2's Molecular Mechanism in Promoting Meiotic Fidelity |
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| Rhea Modi (Psychology BA, Cognitive Science BS) Mentor: Hannah Raila Project: The Mindful Gaze: Correlations Between Trait Mindfulness and Selective Attention to Positive Stimuli |
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| Elana Muzzy (Bioengineering BS) Mentor: Harika Dechiraju Project: Integrating Iontronics with Cerebral Organoids |
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| Khang Ngo (Physics BS) Mentor: Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta Project: Kinematical, Chemical, and Physical Properties of the Ionized Gas Disks of Andromeda and Triangulum |
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| Jeremiah Ockenfuss (Physics BS) Mentor: Jason Nielsen Project: High-Energy Particle Kinematics in Vector Boson Fusion |
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| Isabella Ossiander (Marine Biology BS) Mentor: Melissa Cronin Project: Investigating Seafood Fraud of Mobula Rays in the Markets of Baja Mexico |
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| Sophia Pinter (Earth Sciences BS) Mentor: Terry Blackburn Project: A ten thousand year record of active Antarctic subglacial lake flushing cycles and response to millennial scale climate shifts |
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| James Retana (Film and Digital Media BA) Mentor: Emily Hentschke Project: Have You Eaten Today? A Study On CalFresh Usage and Accessibility by UCSC Students |
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| Peter Schadlich (Anthropology BA) Mentor: Michelaina Johnson Project: Equitable Stakeholder Representation in the Pajaro Valley, California |
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| Turvi Sharma (Biomolecular Engr & Bioinf BS) Mentor: Melissa Jurica Project: Early Assembly of the Spliceosome |
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| Justin Sim (Biochemistry & Molecular Bio BS) Mentor: Manuel Ares Project: Detection and mechanism of intron gain in human cells |
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| McKenna Smith (Marine Biology BS) Mentor: Peter Weiss Project: The Effect of Forest Fires on Mercury Contamination in Watersheds |
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| Amelia Smyth (Art BA, Chemistry BA) Mentor: Shaun McKinnie Project: Synthesis of Diazepinomicin by Exploration of new VHPO b-cluster |
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| Alec Soronow (Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics BS) Mentor: Euiseok Kim Project: Connectivity of Cortico-cortical Neurons in Mouse Visual Cortex |
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| Casey Vigilia (Environmental Sciences BS) Mentor: Gracie Pearsall Project: Impacts of Microplastics on Wetland Soil Structure and Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
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| Urvi Vyas (Neuroscience BS) Mentor: David Feldheim Project: Histological registration of auditory neurons and probe placement in Superior Colliculus |
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| Emma Willis (Classical Studies BA, History BA) Mentor: Elaine Sullivan Project: Witness the Weeping Woman: Feminized Mourning in Egypt and Rome |
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| Daniel Wruck (Biochemistry & Molecular Bio BS) Mentor: Carrie L. Partch Project: Examining the Role of NHR-23 in C. elegans Molting and its Links to Mammalian Circadian Rhythms |
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| Amy Wu (Environmental Sciences BS) Mentor: Claudie Beaulieu Project: Investigating Global Warming Surges |
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| Michelle Yi (Psychology BA) Mentor: Heather Bullock Project: Ensuring Basic Needs: Studying Barriers to CalFresh Among College Students |
2021-2022 Koret Mentor Award Recipients
Social Sciences
Rebecca London (Sociology)
Steven McKay (Sociology)
Humanities
Elaine Sullivan (History)
Caitlin Keliiaa (Feminist Studies)
Physical & Biological Sciences
Jason Nielsen (Physics)
Raja Guha Thakurta (Astronomy & Astrophysics)
Shaun McKinnie (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Brian Mullen ( Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology)
Engineering
Jackob McBroom (Biomolecular Engineering)
John Dzimianski (Biomolecular Engineering)
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