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2016 Grad Slam Champion

Nicole Leung

Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain

2016 Grad Slam Runners-up

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Phillip Rogers

Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
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Geoff Willard

Environmental Science & Management

Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California

2016 Grad Slam Finalists

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Gokh A. Alshaif

Global Studies

Seven Years, Three Yemens: The Empowerment and Disenfranchisement of Yemeni Women Between 1989 and 1995
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Savannah Dearden

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Sparkling Sea-Slug Photonics: The Discovery of Nanoscopic Multi-Layer Reflectors in F. Iodinea
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Jesilyn Faust

Global Studies

Challenging Global Responses to Violence Against Women: The case of Amina al Falali
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Elizabeth Hiroyasu

Environmental Science & Management

Fun Facts about Wild Pigs and Why We Should Care about Them
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David Hwang

Materials

LEDs: Enablers of the Future
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Nicole Leung

Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain
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Katherine Millage

Environmental Science & Management

Fishing for Benefits: Seafood Certifications in Small-Scale Fisheries
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Kendall Mills

Environmental Science & Management

The Market Value of Non-Market Goods: Conservation of Endangered Whale Species in the Santa Barbara Channel
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Phillip Rogers

Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
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Sara Weinstein

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Worms in Raccoons: Worms in You?
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Geoff Willard

Environmental Science & Management

Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California

2016 Grad Slam Semifinalists

Gokh A. Alshaif

Global Studies

Seven Years, Three Yemens: The Empowerment and Disenfranchisement of Yemeni Women Between 1989 and 1995

Rohan Bhandari

Physics

Searching for the Universe: Particle Physics in One Sentence

Nissa Cannon

English

An Expatriate by Any Other Name

Forest Cannon

Geography

Weather and Climate Modeling in High Mountain Asia: Uncertainty in the Future of Asia's Water Resources

Brett Carpenter

Technology Management

The Behavioral Science of Water Consumption: A Venture for Drought Decision Architecture

Mallorie Chase

Art History

Paper Thrones? and Unruly Urbanism in Modern Lisbon

Savannah Dearden

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Sparkling Sea-Slug Photonics: The Discovery of Nanoscopic Multi-Layer Reflectors in F. Iodinea

JV Decemvirale

Art History

Knowing Your Place and Making Do: Radical Arts Organizing in Black and Latino Los Angeles, 1960 to Present

Jesilyn Faust

Global Studies

Challenging Global Responses to Violence Against Women: The case of Amina al Falali

Abel Gustafson

Communication

Good Intentions, Bad Effects: Cumulative Advantage in Science Communication

Fang He

Golden Lilies' across the Pacific: American Imagination of Footbinding and the Shaping of Immigration Inspection

Elizabeth Hiroyasu

Environmental Science & Management

Fun Facts about Wild Pigs and Why We Should Care about Them

Jeffrey Hunger

The Notorious B.M.I.

David Hwang

Materials

LEDs: Enablers of the Future

Stephanie Karba

Environmental Science & Management

Microsynthetic Fiber Pollution and the Apparel Industry

Amanda Kautzman

Building a Retina from the Genome Up

Joshua Kuntzman

Education

Educational Dialogs: Uncovering the Foundation for School Reforms

Nicole Leung

Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain

Katherine Millage

Environmental Science & Management

Fishing for Benefits: Seafood Certifications in Small-Scale Fisheries

Kendall Mills

Environmental Science & Management

The Market Value of Non-Market Goods: Conservation of Endangered Whale Species in the Santa Barbara Channel

Sarah Neace

Global Studies

Religious Violence in Brazil: The Rise of Militant Pentecostalism and Implications for Afro-Brazilian Religions

Curt Nehrkorn

Physics

Mining for Dark Matter

Isabel Ochoa

Global Studies

A Failed Mexican State? Challenging the Oversimplified Narrative of Mexico's Drug War

Joseph Palazzo

Environmental Science & Management

Waste Opportunities: The Real Reason to Recycle

Celeste Pilegard

Achieving Meaningful Learning with Video Games

Nathan Prisco

Chemical Engineering

Molecular Insights into Natural Pozzolans as CO2 Avoiding Construction Materials

Phillip Rogers

Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea

Dara Seidl

Geography

Where You At? Protecting Privacy through Location Masking

Chad Spensky

Computer Science

Single Device Authentication

Will Summers

Materials

Designing New Materials for Jet Engines

Ester Trujillo

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Understanding U.S. Salvadoran Ethnic Identity

Sara Weinstein

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Worms in Raccoons: Worms in You?

Geoff Willard

Environmental Science & Management

Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California

2016 Grad Slam Presenters

Gokh A. Alshaif

Global Studies

Seven Years, Three Yemens: The Empowerment and Disenfranchisement of Yemeni Women Between 1989 and 1995

Adam Arce

Earth Science

Understanding Earth's Interior from Listening to It Break

Dana Bardolph

Anthropology

Why Archaeology (Still) Needs Feminism

Rohan Bhandari

Physics

Searching for the Universe: Particle Physics in One Sentence

Francisco Brandao

Political Science

Polarization and Homophily on Facebook

Nicholas Browne

Earth Science

Getting a Handle on Quark Confinement

Nissa Cannon

English

An Expatriate by Any Other Name

Forest Cannon

Geography

Weather and Climate Modeling in High Mountain Asia: Uncertainty in the Future of Asia's Water Resources

Brett Carpenter

Technology Management

The Behavioral Science of Water Consumption: A Venture for Drought Decision Architecture

Mallorie Chase

Art History

Paper Thrones? and Unruly Urbanism in Modern Lisbon

Ying-Jung Chen

Geography

Do We Have Enough Water Resources? A View from Storage-Discharge Relations among Local Watersheds

Andrew Choi

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

Measuring Prejudice and Encouraging Change from Within

Owen Colegrove

Physics

Searching for New Physics at the LHC

Kyle Crocco

Education

Why Is My Message So Repetitive Repetitive? Strategies for Improving Multiplatform Writing

Aditya Dalakoti

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Communication Links: Why Did We Forget the Basic and Awesome Approach!!

Taylor Damiani

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

Path to Purpose: Finding Our Inner Music

Savannah Dearden

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Sparkling Sea-Slug Photonics: The Discovery of Nanoscopic Multi-Layer Reflectors in F. Iodinea

JV Decemvirale

Art History

Knowing Your Place and Making Do: Radical Arts Organizing in Black and Latino Los Angeles, 1960 to Present

Kevin Delucio

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

Come Out, Come Out, However You Want: Exploring an Alternative to Verbal Disclosure of Gay Identity

Chloe Diamond-Lenow

Feminist Studies

The Politics of Puppy Love in War: Race, Gender, Sex, and Species in US Militarism

Rachael Drew

Global Studies

It's in the Syllabus: Identity, National Narratives, and Curricular Politics in Postcolonial Education

Jesilyn Faust

Global Studies

Challenging Global Responses to Violence Against Women: The case of Amina al Falali

Veronica Fematt

Education

Transfer Student Microaggressions and Stereotypes: A Closer Examination of the Campus Climate at a Four-Year Research University

Zhe Fu

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Deep Learning for Health Informatics

Song Gao

Geography

Earth's Biggest Seasonal Human Migration on a Map

Abel Gustafson

Communication

Good Intentions, Bad Effects: Cumulative Advantage in Science Communication

Fang He

Golden Lilies' across the Pacific: American Imagination of Footbinding and the Shaping of Immigration Inspection

Elizabeth Hiroyasu

Environmental Science & Management

Fun Facts about Wild Pigs and Why We Should Care about Them

Laura Hooton

Co-Opting the Border: An African American Agricultural Colony in Baja California

Jeffrey Hunger

The Notorious B.M.I.

David Hwang

Materials

LEDs: Enablers of the Future

Mike Johnson

Geography

Spatiality: An Opportunity in Water Security Research

Amanda Kaczmarek

Moral Decision Making and the Magnocellular Pathway

Stephanie Karba

Environmental Science & Management

Microsynthetic Fiber Pollution and the Apparel Industry

Amanda Kautzman

Building a Retina from the Genome Up

Sarah Kerchusky

Anthropology

Socio-Economic Change at Sodom and the Textiles that Told the Tale

Jacob Kirksey

Education

Teacher Education SPED Up: A Natural Experiment

Joshua Kuntzman

Education

Educational Dialogs: Uncovering the Foundation for School Reforms

Shabnam Larimian

Electrical & Computer Engineering

VeSFET: The New Approach to Mitigate Current Electronic Circuits' Problems

Evan Layher

Improving Memory-Based Decision-Making Through Neurostimulation

Theo LeQuesne

Global Studies

Communicating Climate Justice

Nicole Leung

Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain

Aditya Maheshwari

Empirical Estimation of Goodwin Growth Models

Sarah Manski

Global Studies

A New Global Economic Polity and Co-Constructing a Global Commonwealth

Emmie Matsuno

Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology

Moral Decision Making and the Magnocellular Pathway

Katherine Millage

Environmental Science & Management

Fishing for Benefits: Seafood Certifications in Small-Scale Fisheries

Kendall Mills

Environmental Science & Management

The Market Value of Non-Market Goods: Conservation of Endangered Whale Species in the Santa Barbara Channel

Sarah Neace

Global Studies

Religious Violence in Brazil: The Rise of Militant Pentecostalism and Implications for Afro-Brazilian Religions

Curt Nehrkorn

Physics

Mining for Dark Matter

Isabel Ochoa

Global Studies

A Failed Mexican State? Challenging the Oversimplified Narrative of Mexico's Drug War

Joseph Palazzo

Environmental Science & Management

Waste Opportunities: The Real Reason to Recycle

Kaushal Patel

Physics

Man vs. Nature: The Dawn of Quantum Computing

Luke Patterson

Mechanical Engineering

Hammer: Impacting Neuroscience One Cell at a Time

Celeste Pilegard

Achieving Meaningful Learning with Video Games

Nathan Prisco

Chemical Engineering

Molecular Insights into Natural Pozzolans as CO2 Avoiding Construction Materials

Barbara Quimby

Geography

Tradition, Equity, and Conservation: Coastal Comanagement in Samoa

Avila Reese

Theater & Dance

Impossible Women: Performance and Practice, Femininity and Power in Contemporary Representations of Medea and Lady Macbeth

Laura Reynolds

Earth Science

Megafloods of California's Past

Phillip Rogers

Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea

Tanmoy Sanyal

Chemical Engineering

Folding Proteins Faster

Dara Seidl

Geography

Where You At? Protecting Privacy through Location Masking

Yan Shoshitaishvili

Computer Science

Hacked by a Robot or Steal This Movie: Breaking Copy Protection in Netflix and Friends

Adrianna Simone

Chicana & Chicano Studies

It Was NEVER Fiction: The Decolonized Voice of Michele Serros

Chad Spensky

Computer Science

Single Device Authentication

Elijah Spina

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Good As New: Evolution Meets Data Science to Predict New Therapies for Regenerative Medicine

Will Summers

Materials

Designing New Materials for Jet Engines

Elayne Thomas

Materials

Organic Thermoelectrics: Creating Energy Through Heat

Gaoyuan Tian

Income Inequality

Ester Trujillo

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Understanding U.S. Salvadoran Ethnic Identity

Alexandra Vasquez

Environmental Science & Management

Finding a Place for Conservation in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

Sara Weinstein

Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology

Worms in Raccoons: Worms in You?

Jason Wien

Physics

Getting a Handle on Quark Confinement

Geoff Willard

Environmental Science & Management

Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California