2022-23 Koret Scholars
Congratulations to the Current Koret Undergraduate Research Scholars
| Alina Aguilar Mentor: Andrew Skemer Project: SCALES diffraction grating design project for Keck Observatory |
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| Maxine Altura Mentor: Mark Amengual Project: Cross-linguistic influence in Tagalog-English bilingual speech |
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| Donovan Baker Mentor: Melissa Jurica Project: Determining required factors for intron recognition by U2 snRNP |
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| Megumi Barata Mentor: Martha Zúñiga Project: How do autoreactive T cells escape the Grim Reaper? |
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| Kora Cadle Mentor: Rut Molinuevo Project: Investigating endoreplication in human endometrial cells and its effects on endometriosis |
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| Jaxon Chester Mentor: Alan Christy Project: Chanpuru: An exploration of contemporary Okinawan & Hawaiian material cultures |
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| Natasha Cohen Mentor: Kristina Chew Project: Potions and distortions: Who were the witches of ancient Rome? |
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| Samantha Contreras Mentor: David Lederman Project: Magnonics for THz applications |
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| Atirath Dhara Mentor: Ryan Foley Project: Investigating the hypo-luminous supernova 2008ha |
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| Karina Diaz Alvarez Mentor: Heather Bullock Project: Breaking the silence: Investigating food insecurity for undocumented communities |
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| Rebeca Diaz-Perez Mentor: Jennifer Parker Project: We Triumph” mural proposal |
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| Valeria Galindo-Eguiarte Mentor: Susan Pit Project: The effect of alkalinity on subsurface carbon cycling in Elkhorn Slough |
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| Andrea Galvez Mentor: Chris Vollmers Project: DNA sequencing protocol enhancement |
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| Valerie Garcia Mentor: Rebecca London Project: Whose HSI?: A look into the Latinx student experience at UC Santa Cruz |
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| Ann Gobei-Bacaylan Mentor: Frankie Gerraty Project: Coastal connections: Assessing vertebrate scavenger assemblages across an urbanization gradient |
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| Benjamin Goldstein Mentor: Kat Gutierrez Project: Sowing seeds: Filipino American stories from the Pajaro Valley |
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| Noe Gonzalez Mentor: Jason Nielsen Project: Study of boosted Higgs bosons in vector boson fusion and associated production |
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| Spencer Greene Mentor: Emily Sinclair Project: Lost passion - a bachelor's of music recital |
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| Maryke Grobler Mentor: Needhi Bhalla Project: Putting the “snap” in synaptonemal complex: Identifying how a meiotic checkpoint protein gets recruited to chromosomes |
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| Sawyer Hall Mentor: Joshua Krissansen-Totton Project: Constraining background N2 atmospheric inventories of exoplanets to distinguish biotic O2 |
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| Emily Hallam Mentor: Craig Fellers Project: Impact of analogy on planned behavior in a medical context |
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| Nathan Ho Mentor: Michael Stone Project: Building understanding of telomerase search behavior by probing telomeric proteins POT1-TPP1 complex |
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| Melanie Jones Mentor: Shaun Mckinnie Project: Engineering enzyme IboH to a kainoid synthase |
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| Elina Juvonen Mentor: Megan Moodie Project: Drafting the new American woman: International relations in women’s magazines during the Cold War |
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| Kasey La Mentor: Liv Hoversten Project: What was my error?: Online processing of speech disfluency by foreign-accented Speakers |
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| Nancy Lau Mentor: Alvaro Cardenas Project: Security of embedded vehicle access system software implementations |
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| Yitong Lei Mentor: Noriko Aso Project:Imaging of Chinatown: Dreams, futures, and changing racializations of 唐人街 |
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| Sadira Lewis Mentor: Jess H.K. Law Project: Event derived modification, an experimental approach |
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| Nathan Ling Mentor: John Morgan Project: How does urbanization and human population density influence puma behaviors in the Santa Cruz mountains |
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| Zoë Hruby Linstrom Mentor: Dee Hibbert-Jones Project: Deities of pollution |
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| Rae Mancuso Mentor: Peter Raimondi Project:The potential recovery of Heliaster kubiniji following a mass mortality event: an investigation into a marine carnivore |
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| Emmett Marks-Froot Mentor: Martin Devecka Project: The evolution of magical names in classical antiquity |
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| Julian Martinov Mentor: Peter Rothman Project: Decentralized information verification |
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| Shivani Modha Mentor: Steven McKay Project: We Belong-Pertenecemos: Institutions of belonging vs. not belonging in mixed status communities |
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| Axel Nateras Mentor: Angela Brooks Project: Overexpression Vs. endogenous expression |
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| Sabrina Nguyen Mentor: Kristina Chew Project: Jewish art and archeology in the Roman empire |
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| Ivette Orozco Sanchez Mentor: Zac Zimmer Project: Tijuana, transformations of a City |
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| Remington Plischke Mentor: Laurel Fox Project: Oak tree response to microhabitats |
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| Nataliia Rivera Mentor: Sean Keilen Project: Human suffering through eyes of Buddha and Shakespeare |
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| Damiana Rojas Mentor: Greg Gilbert Project: The role of fire in controlling Botrytis cinerea presence in the redwood forest |
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| Isabelle Shapiro Mentor: Phoebe Lam Project: Carbon cycling in the remote south pacific and southern ocean |
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| Rakshya Sharma Mentor: Angela Brooks Project: Identifying RNA splicing patterns in cancer using MESA |
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| Sara Sotelo Mentor: Michael Chemers Project: UNIBEAUTY and her evil daughters: A complete dramaturgy |
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| Damien Stoffel Mentor: Juan Poblete Project: Critical approaches to the information age: The commodification and colonization of the personal |
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| Iakov Taranenko Mentor: Alvaro Cardenas Project: Drone security standards research |
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| Lucas Tilley Mentor: Kent Eaton Project: Informal mining in the Orinoco Basin: Indios, Selva y Soldados |
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| Zia Truong Mentor: David Haussler Project: Counterpoise |
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| Dylan Waste Mentor: Kent Eaton Project: Disinformation and deception: Measuring russian operations in the Latin American information environment |
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| Noelle Yaitanes Mentor: Carrie Partch Project: Investigating the role of kinase tails in the regulation of circadian rhythms |
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| Michela Yang Mentor: Yuk Shing Lam Project: Use and access of mental health resources among college students |
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| Jaiden Zak Mentor: Will Steinhardt Project: The effect of contact area distribution on the frictional properties of a modeled fault |
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| Austin Zaman Mentor: Oskar Elek Project: 3D visualization of polyphy |
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| Joe Zheng Mentor: Charlie Chesney Project: Living solar panel (temperature project) |
2023 Koret Mentor Award Recipients
At the end of the spring quarter, before the Koret Slam event, students are sent a google form to nominate their mentor for special recognition. The Faculty Director of Honors reviews the student responses and selects up to 10 mentors (2 in each division) for the Koret Mentor Award. Mentors recieving this award are recognized at the Koret Research Slam and their names and Divisions will be listed here on this page.
To see last year's Koret Mentor Award winners, click here.
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