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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