2022-23 Koret Scholars
Congratulations Current Koret Undergraduate Research Scholars
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Maxine Altura Mentor: Mark Amengual Project: Cross-linguistic influence in Tagalog-English bilingual speech Major: Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism College: Nine |
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Donovan Baker Mentor: Melissa Jurica Project: Determining required factors for intron recognition by U2 snRNP Major: Neuroscience College: Stevenson |
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Megumi Barata Mentor: Martha Zúñiga Project: How do autoreactive T cells escape the Grim Reaper? Major: Human Biology College: Rachel Carson |
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Kora Cadle Mentor: Rut Molinuevo Project: Investigating endoreplication in human endometrial cells and its effects on endometriosis Major: Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology College: John R. Lewis |
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Jaxon Chester Mentor: Alan Christy Project: Chanpuru: An exploration of contemporary Okinawan & Hawaiian material cultures Major: Film and Digital Media and Global Economics College: Porter |
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Tasha Cohen Mentor: Kristina Chew Project: Potions and distortions: Who were the witches of ancient Rome? Major: Anthropology and Classical Studies College: Rachel Carson |
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Samantha Contreras Mentor: David Lederman Project: Magnonics for THz applications Major: Physics College: Porter |
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Atirath Dhara Mentor: Ryan Foley Project: Investigating the hypo-luminous supernova 2008ha Major: Physics College: Cowell |
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Karina Diaz Alvarez Mentor: Emily Hentschke Project: Breaking the silence: Investigating food insecurity for immigrant communities Major: Psychology and Legal Studies College: Oakes |
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Rebeca Diaz-Perez Mentor: Jennifer Parker Project: "We Triumph” mural proposal Major: Art College: Kresge |
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Valeria Galindo-Eguiarte Mentor: Susan Pit Project: The effect of alkalinity on subsurface carbon cycling in Elkhorn Slough Major: Earth Sciences College: College Nine |
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Andrea Galvez Mentors: Chris Vollmers, Alex Zee, Kayla Schimke, Matthew Adams, Dori Deng Project: Optimizing the R2C2 protocol for the sequencing of mammalian cDNA Major: Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics College: Stevenson |
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Valerie Garcia Mentor: Rebecca London, Xiomara Lopez, María Dolores Castillo Project: Whose HSI?: A Look into the undergraduate Latinx/e/a/o and Chicanx/e/a/o student experience at the University of California, Santa Cruz Major: Sociology College: Merrill |
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Ann Gobei-Bacaylan Mentor: Frankie Gerraty Project: Coastal connections: Assessing vertebrate scavenger assemblages across an urbanization gradient Major: Ecology & Evolution College: Rachel Carson |
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Ben Goldstein Mentor: Kat Gutierrez Project: Sowing seeds: Filipino American stories from the Pajaro Valley Major: Film & Digital Media and Literature College: Porter |
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Spencer Greene Mentor: Emily Sinclair Project: Lost passion - a bachelor's of music recital Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Music College: Porter |
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Maryke Grobler Mentor: Needhi Bhalla Project: In C. elegans, does PCH-2 inhibit early double-stranded breaks from becoming crossovers? Major: Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology College: Oakes |
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Sawyer Hall Mentor: Joshua Krissansen-Totton Project: Constraining background N2 atmospheric inventories of exoplanets to distinguish biotic O2 Major: Astrophysics and Computational Math College: Cowell |
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Emily Hallam Mentor: Craig Fellers, Hannah Hausman Project: Offloading illusions: Unravelling beliefs about note-taking Major: Psychology College: Kresge |
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Nathan Ho Mentor: Michael Stone Project: Bulk in vitro expression of the three-way junction of RNA from human telomerase for cyclic peptide screening Major: Chemistry with a biochemistry concentration College: Kresge |
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Mel Jones Mentor: Shaun McKinnie Project: Directed evolution of cyclase dsKabC: Transforming a glutamate receptor agonist producing enzyme into an antagonist producer Major: Chemistry with a biochemistry concentration College: Oakes |
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Elina Juvonen Mentor: Megan Moodie Project: Family and foreign: Investigating representation and contradiction in 1950's women's magazines Major: History and Anthropology College: Stevenson |
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Kasey La Mentor: Liv Hoversten Project: What was my error? Online processing of speech disfluency by foreign-accented speakers Major: Cognitive Science and Linguistics College: Merrill |
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Nancy Lau Mentor: Alvaro Cardenas Project: Security of embedded vehicle access system software implementations Major: Computer Engineering College: Crown |
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Yitong Lei Mentor: Noriko Aso Project: Imaging of Chinatown: Dreams, futures, and changing racializations of 唐人街 Major: Critical Race & Ethnic Studies College: John R. Lewis |
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Sadira L. Lewis Mentor: Jess H.K. Law Project: Ambiguity in adjectival modification of -er nominals: An experimental approach Major: Linguistics College: Merrill |
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Nathan Ling Mentor: John Morgan Project: Disease and development: Bobcat (Lynx rufus) response to ongoing threats in the Santa Cruz Mountains Major: Environmental Studies College: Cowell |
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Zoë Hruby Linstrom Mentor: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Sean Monaghan Project: Deities of pollution Major: Art College: Porter |
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Rae Mancuso Mentor: Peter Raimondi Project: The ongoing recovery of Heliaster kubiniji following a disease and subsequent mass mortality event Major: Art and Marine Biology College: Porter |
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Emmett Marks-Froot Mentor: Martin Devecka Project: The evolution of magical names in classical antiquity Major: Philosophy and Classical Studies College: Porter |
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Julian Martinov Mentor: Peter Rothman Project: Decentralized information verification Major: Computer Science College: Crown |
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Shivani Modha Mentor: Steven McKay Project: We Belong-Pertenecemos: Institutions of belonging vs. not belonging in mixed status communities Major: Sociology and Philosophy College: Cowell |
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Axel Nateras Mentor: Angela Brooks Project: Overexpression vs. endogenous expression Major: Human Biology College: Cowell |
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Sabrina Nguyen Mentor: Kristina Chew Project: Roman conceptions of Jewish people Major: Classical Studies College: Cowell |
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Ivette Orozco Sanchez Mentor: Zac Zimmer Project: Tijuana, transformations of a city Major: Spanish Studies and Literature College: Merrill |
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Remington Plischke Mentor: Laurel Fox Project: Oak response to stress: water-use efficiency and community interactions on a scale of lichen overgrowth Major: Ecology & Evolution College: Cowell |
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Nataliia Rivera Mentor: Sean Keilen Project: Human suffering through eyes of Buddha and Shakespeare Major: Literature College: Cowell |
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Damiana Rojas Mentor: Greg Gilbert Project: The response of Botrytis cinerea to fire in the coast redwood forest Major: Environmental Studies College: Oakes |
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Isabelle Maru Shapiro Mentor: Phoebe Lam Project: Inorganic carbon in the remote South Pacific and the California Coast Major: Environmental Sciences College: Merrill |
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Rakshya Sharma Mentor: Angela Brooks Project: Identifying RNA splicing patterns in cancer using MESA Major: Computer Science College: Nine |
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| Sara Sotelo Mentor: Michael Chemers Project: UNIBeauty and her wicked daughters: A complete dramaturgy Major: Education, Democracy, & Justice College: Merrill |
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Damien Stoffel Mentor: Juan Poblete Project: Attention and autonomy in the information age Major: Literature College: Porter |
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Iakov Taranenko Mentor: Alvaro Cardenas Project: Security of software implementations in embedded vehicle access systems Major: Computer Engineering College: Cowell |
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Lucas Tilley Mentor: Kent Eaton Project: Informal mining in the Orinoco Basin: Indios, selva y soldados Major: Politics College: Kresge |
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Zia Truong Mentors: David Haussler, Yohei Rosen Project: Modeling of pH in a cell culture system Major: Biomolecular Engineering College: Nine |
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Dylan Waste Mentors: Kent Eaton, Kristy Golubiewski-Davis Project: Disinformation and deception: Measuring Russian operations in the Latin American information environment Major: Politics College: John R. Lewis |
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Noelle Yaitanes Mentor: Carrie Partch Project: Investigating the role of kinase tails in the regulation of circadian rhythms Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology College: Porter |
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Michela Yang Mentor: Yuk Shing Lam Project: Use and access of mental health resources among college students Major: Psychology College: Cowell |
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Jaiden Zak Mentor: Will Steinhardt Project: The effect of contact area distribution on the frictional properties of a modeled fault Major: Earth Sciences College: Stevenson |
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Austin Zaman Mentor: Oskar Elek Project: 3D visualization of polyphy Major: Computer Science College: John R. Lewis |
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Joe Zheng Mentor: Micheal Loik Project: Living solar panel (temperature project) Major: Molecular, Cellular, Development Biology College: Rachel Carson |
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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