Semifinals Round Schedule 

ROUND 1 (See Recap)
Mon Apr 13 | 11a-12p

SRB Multipurpose Room

Sarah Abdul-Wajid | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology 
Advanced to Final Round
Using Sea Squirts to Find New Genetic Factors Controlling Birth Defects

David Copp | Mechanical Engineering
Advanced to Final Round
Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas

Brian Hoskins | Materials

Synaptic Engineering

Joshua Kuntzman | Education

Do You See Why I Love This Subject?: Educational Dialog and the Importance of Real Human Teachers

Jessica Perkins | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management 

Advanced to Final Round
Life Cycle Assessment & Decision Making - Finding a Solution, Not Just Changing the Problem

Laura Reynolds | Earth Science

Memories in Mud: How Marshes Tell Us about Past, Present, and Future Sea-Level Change

Wencheng Yan | History of Art and Architecture

Advanced to Final Round
Writing Modernity: Constructing a History of Chinese Architecture, 1920 – 1949

ROUND 2 (See Recap)
Tue Apr ​14 | ​4-5p
SRB Multipurpose Room

Ty Brandt |  Bren School of Environmental Science ​& Management
Why Study Snow from the Beach

Aileen Fullchange | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology
The HEROES Project

Abel Gustafson | Communication

Advanced to Final Round
Predicting Election Outcomes Using Wikipedia

Umihiko Hoshijima | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Kelp Forests on Acid: Local Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Ocean

Richard Huskey | Communication

Using Brains to Change Minds

Sabrina Liu | Counseling, Clinical ​& School Psychology

The Power of Hope: First Year Students' Adjustment to College Amidst Tragedy

Ian McCullough | Bren School of Environmental Science ​& Management

A Last Stand? Will California's Ponderosa Pine Forests Survive Climate Change?

Lakshmanan Nataraj | Electrical & Computer Engineering

Advanced to Final Round
Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software

Ken Sterling | Education

Imagine a Reality TV Show with a Boss Handing a Scan-Tron Form to an Employee

ROUND 3 (See Recap)
Wed Apr ​15 | ​11a-12p
Engineering Science Building 1001

Jamie Booth | Mechanical Engineering
Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Materials

Selvi Ersoy | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Advanced to Final Round
Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics
 
Matthew Gebbie | Materials

Advanced to Final Round
Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues

Daniel Hieber | Linguistics

Renaissance on the Bayou: Reviving the Chitimacha Language

Celeste Pilegard | Psychological ​& Brain Sciences

Advanced to Final Round
What Can We Learn From Video Games?

Ashley Sanford | Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

The Science of Meaning-Making

Erik Spickard | Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Advanced to Final Round
Gonads to Guts: Reprogramming an Organ in the Nematode C. elegans

Mary Toothman | Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology

In the Water or in the Genes? What Makes an Infectious Disease Deadly (or Not)?

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