The University Center on campus was abuzz with discussion on Friday, May 14, as 77 UC Santa Cruz students presented their research via poster, oral, or multimedia presentations at the sixth annual Graduate Research Symposium.
A panel of judges determined recipients of a number of best-of-symposium awards; UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal and Tyrus Miller, acting vice provost and dean of graduate studies, presented the following awards at the conclusion of this year's event:
Chancellor's Graduate Research Prize: $500 cash award
Sara Maxwell, Ocean Sciences
THE NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: THE IMPORTANCE OF APEX PREDATORS IN PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE (Poster)
Graduate Dean's Prize: $250 cash award
ChrisTopher Maraffi, Digital Arts/New Media
MIMESIS & MOCAP PERFORMANCE STUDY (Media)
Division of Arts
Alumni Prize: $150 bookstore gift certificate
Jessica Hayden, Digital Arts/New Media
SEEMINGLY EXTERNAL THINGS (Media)
Dean's Prize: $100 bookstore gift certificate
Drew Detweiler, Digital Arts/New Media
RODA DE VIDEO (Media)
Baskin School of Engineering
Alumni Prize: $150 bookstore gift certificate
Dent Earl, Bioinformatics
SIMULATING GENOME EVOLUTION (Poster)
Dean's Prize: $100 bookstore gift certificate
Xiang Zhu, Electrical Engineering
NON-ITERATIVE RESTORATION FOR WEAKLY BLURRED AND STRONGLY NOISY IMAGES (Poster)
Division of Humanities
Alumni Prize: $150 bookstore gift certificate
Kelly Anne Brown, Literature
CIRCLING THE SQUARE: INTERWAR EUROPEAN ART, PUBLICNESS, AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOCIAL SPACE (Oral/Live)
Dean's Prize: $100 bookstore gift certificate
Jimmy Fazzino, Literature
BEAT SUBTERRANEAN: ASSEMBLAGES OF INFLUENCE AND BEAT WRITING IN WORLD CONTEXTS (Oral/Live)
Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
Alumni Prize: $150 bookstore gift certificate
Marc Bresler, Chemistry
POROUS MATERIALS: SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS DISCOVERED THROUGH INQUIRY (Poster)
Dean's Prize: $100 bookstore gift certificate
Heidi Stauffer, Earth & Planetary Sciences
WHAT ARE THE REGIONAL CLIMATE EFFECTS OF LAND USE CHANGES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA? A SENSITIVITY STUDY USING A REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (Poster)
Division of Social Sciences
Alumni Prize: $150 bookstore gift certificate
Natalia Blackwell, Psychology
QUOTING WITH SAID (Poster)
Dean's Prize: $100 bookstore gift certificate
William Zahner, Education
TALKING WHILE COMPUTING IN GROUPS: THE NOT-SO-PRIVATE FUNCTIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL PRIVATE SPEECH IN MATHEMATICAL DISCUSSIONS (Oral/Live)
