2016
2016 Grad Slam Champion
Nicole Leung
Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Lighting the Path from the Eye to the Brain
2016 Grad Slam Runners-up
Phillip Rogers
Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
Geoff Willard
Environmental Science & Management
Where're Wolves?: Mapping Wolf Habitat and Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots in California
2016 Grad Slam Finalists
Gokh A. Alshaif
Global Studies
Seven Years, Three Yemens: The Empowerment and Disenfranchisement of Yemeni Women Between 1989 and 1995
Savannah Dearden
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Sparkling Sea-Slug Photonics: The Discovery of Nanoscopic Multi-Layer Reflectors in F. Iodinea
Jesilyn Faust
Global Studies
Challenging Global Responses to Violence Against Women: The case of Amina al Falali
Elizabeth Hiroyasu
Environmental Science & Management
Fun Facts about Wild Pigs and Why We Should Care about Them
David Hwang
Materials
LEDs: Enablers of the Future
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
Phillip Rogers
Featuring the Bituri: Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
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 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