Undergraduate Symposium - Academic Honors and Fellowships

Undergraduate Symposium - Academic Honors and Fellowships
Academic Programs Presents:
Presented by the Office of Academic Programs, the
27th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work
provides students with the opportunity to exhibit and share examples of their significant research and creative work with the university community.
The 27th annual Undergraduate Symposium will be held on
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 11am-2pm in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Ballroom.
Students may present work in a variety of ways, such as through poster presentations, art exhibitions, and electronic media. All undergraduates are invited to participate and exhibit work in the categories of:
ARTS
HUMANITIES
SOCIAL SCIENCES
LIFE SCIENCES
PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATH, & ENGINEERING
The Undergraduate Symposium culminates with an
Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 13, 2026
in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Ballroom.
The ceremony celebrates all undergraduate participants and their faculty sponsors and honors the most outstanding projects. A panel of judges will review submissions and award
First Prizes of $1000
and
Second Prizes of $500
in the five major academic categories*: (1) Arts & Architecture, (2) Humanities, (3) Life Sciences, (4) Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering, and (5) Social Sciences.
* Additional recognition may be given for Interdisciplinary or Digital Technology submissions, plus awards from the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, USC Office of Sustainability, and the American Physiological Society.
Registration for the 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium is now closed as capacity has been reached.
The registration deadline is Monday, March 23 by 12pm noon.
Space is limited.
The registration form will close before the deadline if capacity is reached.
Program Details
Eligibility
Eligibility
The Symposium is open to all current USC students enrolled as undergraduates.
Graduate students interested in presenting research may consider participating in the
Annenberg Graduate Symposium
Undergraduate students can submit a group or individual project that falls under one of the following academic categories:
Arts & Architecture
Humanities
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Social Sciences
A USC faculty sponsor is required for all submissions. All other collaborators of the work (USC undergraduates, graduate students, and/or non-USC collaborators) must also be acknowledged.
Students can only submit
one individual project
where they would be the sole presenter. Students may also be included in a second submission as part of a group project.
Students must be available to present their project(s) on
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 11am-2pm
Registration
Registration
Space is limited. The registration form will close once capacity is reached. Registration includes the following components:
Student Information
Group projects must include all undergraduate group members’ information.
Faculty Sponsor(s)
At least one faculty sponsor is required for the project submission.
Project Details
Includes category, title, abstract, and description of individual contributions.
Electronic Poster
One-page PDF of research poster. Please consult the Presentation Guidelines below for further details.
Video Summary
A video presentation summarizing your project. The video must be no longer than 2 minutes and should give judges an overview of the research question, methodologies, and findings.
There is no emphasis on production value and can be recorded using a phone or laptop camera. The video is intended to give the judges a snapshot of your project prior to the formal presentation on your assigned exhibit day.
Registration is closed.
Poster Exhibits
Poster Exhibits
The Symposium will feature Poster and Creative Art Exhibits, which provide students the opportunity to share their work with the judging panel, peer researchers, and the campus community.
Participants must be available to present on
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 11am-2pm
Students will indicate their schedule availability on the Symposium registration form. We strongly encourage you to minimize unavailable times in order to ensure an exhibit visit with the judges!
Special note for arts presenters
If you are presenting a visual artwork, digital media project, musical composition, film production, or animation, your submission must include digital files. You may include links to e-Portfolios or other websites for judges to review your work in advance of your exhibit date.
For arts presenters, a traditional research poster is not required. However, you should prepare alternative materials that further explain your project and can be displayed on Exhibit Day.
Judging & Rubric
Judging & Rubric
Judges will review projects in their category prior to the Poster Exhibits. During the exhibit sessions, participants will have the opportunity to interact with judges to answer any questions they may have about their project. At the end of each day, judges will finalize decisions for first place, second place, and honorable mentions.
Judges consist of USC faculty members and doctoral students who are recognized experts in their disciplines. Each category has a panel of 6 – 8 judges. Faculty judges are nominated and serve based upon their expertise in each of the categories.
Symposium judges will use a rubric to evaluate all student posters and presentations. View the
Scoring Rubric here
. The areas of evaluation consist of:
Articulate purpose/ research question/ description of problem
Selection of methods/ approach
Identification of findings and next steps
Presentation style
Quality of Question and Answer
Awards Ceremony & Prizes
Awards Ceremony & Prizes
The Awards Ceremony will be held on
Monday, April 13, 2026
in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Ballroom.
The program will include lunch along with announcements of prize recipients in all categories. The judges will award the following prizes:
First Prize (All Categories):
One $1000 First Prize will be awarded in each of five academic categories.
Second Prize (All Categories):
One $500 Second Prize will be awarded in each of five academic categories.
Additional prize categories (availability subject to change):
USC Office of Sustainability:
Prize to students whose work addresses understanding the challenges and solutions related to climate change and other environmental issues that impact the well-being of people and the planet. In line with President Folt’s
vision for a more sustainable USC
, we encourage submissions related to sustainability and sustainable solutions, including topics such as (but not limited to): biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, climate change, environmental justice and sustainable design. One $1000 First Prize and one $500 Second Prize will be awarded in this category.
USC Schwarzenegger Institute:
For projects proposing real world solutions to serious policy challenges and improves the lives of people and communities with regard to issues in Environment & Energy, or Political Reform & Voter access, or Terminate hate. One $1000 First Prize and one $500 Second Prize will be awarded in this category.
American Physiological Society and Human and Evolutionary Biology (HEB) Department Award:
For projects investigating an area of Human Biology and/or Physiology functions (most like to be from Life Sciences category). Winners of this award receive:
a complimentary one-year APS membership
a certificate of congratulations on behalf of the American Physiological Society, Careers & Professional Development Department; and
APS brochures describing awards and resources offered by the Society.
The one-year free undergraduate trainee membership gives you access to a variety of
journals
published by the Society, professional development skills training courses and discounted registration to APS meetings and conferences. Additionally, the APS Learning & Career Development Department and Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee would like to congratulate you on the
APS website
, X platform (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
Interdisciplinary Prize
: One additional prize
may
be awarded to significant entries that demonstrate interdisciplinary work.
Digital Technology:
Additional prizes
may
be awarded to significant entries incorporating digital media and technology. This award criteria includes:
Digital technology is foundational to the research and/or project
Digital technology is used in creative, novel, and innovative ways
The project critically engages with digital technology
Prize Claims
A Symposium Prize is disbursed as a stipend in the spring as a check issued to the student.
This may affect student financial aid packages.
Students are encouraged to email the Financial Aid Office through the
askUSC
portal to discuss the potential effects of a Symposium Prize.  The award could adversely affect students with Pell grants and/or loans.
Presentation Guidelines
The USC Undergraduate Symposium is primarily a “Poster Session” in which your project will be exhibited. These guidelines apply principally to traditional “poster” presentations, but students entering artistic work or other non-traditional entries should provide similar summary information about their work. The Poster Session is designed to allow you and an audience to dialog about your work. During the exhibition, faculty, staff and students will walk throughout the displays and talk with those presenting work that is of interest to them.
Content & Layout
Content
Your poster should address key points of your work and should not include overly detailed information. You will be given the opportunity to provide the fine points about your work to the faculty judges and to others who are interested as they review your poster. Well-prepared posters facilitate discussion and achieve good coverage of the topic while maintaining clarity. We suggest that your poster provide a brief overview of your work in an attractive manner.
Traditional research posters follow a 3-column layout and generally contain the following components if applicable:
Title and Author(s) Names
Introduction / Abstract / Background
Hypothesis
Materials & Methodology
Results / Analysis / Discussion
Conclusion / Limitations / Recommendations
References / Citations / Acknowledgements
Layout
Your poster should concisely address key points of your work. Posters should achieve wide coverage of the topic while maintaining clarity. Below are additional suggestions for creating an effective poster:
Put the project title in banner format at the top center of the poster in capital letters about 1” high.
Below the title, put your name (and names of group members, if applicable) and the category in which you are competing.
Create a visual flow of your components so they move downward in columns, starting at the top left and ending at the bottom right.
Make sure your poster can be read from a distance. State your main result in six or seven lines or less, in lettering about 5/8” high (60pt. font). The smallest text on your poster should be at least 3/8” high (36pt. font) and your important points should be in a larger type.
Concision is key. Do not overwhelm your sections with text.
Avoid heavy use of technical jargon (if possible).
Incorporate visual elements (e.g. pictures, photographs, diagrams, figures, tables) when appropriate.
Keep formatting consistent and clean. Avoid using too many colors or different font types.
Try to craft your poster to be as self-explanatory as possible, which will facilitate your discussion with the audience during the session.
Materials
Materials
Please review all exhibit display policies:
Unless your submission is artwork or web-based, it is expected that you will present your work with a poster.
Standard poster dimension is 36″ high x 48″ wide.
Each presenter will be provided with a 6-foot square exhibit space that will include a
6’x2′ table
and
one chair
. Posters should be mounted on foam boards with three panels and free-standing so they can display on the table. Floor easels are
not
permitted and foam boards will
not
be provided.
A limited number of tabletop easels and electrical outlet access are also available upon request, but are not guaranteed.
Hanging or affixing any items on the exhibit spaces’ walls or ceilings will not be permitted.
We will not be able to provide you with additional equipment, such as computers, projectors, or screens. On exhibition day, you must bring your own laptop or other equipment needed to view your digital media, if applicable.
The poster should be mounted on a rigid backing (usually foam-core poster board) that is also approximately 36″ x 48″.  Foam boards are available from the USC bookstore or arts and supply stores. Larger size posters may be used, if desired.  However, with several tables in each exhibit row, there is no space between tables, so the maximum width should be no more than 5′.
There are several ways to assemble a poster: you may paste individual pages, cutouts, images, sections, or presentation slides onto a poster board, or have a large single poster sheet printed on a wide-format plot printer.
Poster printing and posterboards are
not
provided by the event.  You will need to make arrangements to print and mount your poster prior to the submission drop off day.
Academic departments may have a wide-format printer you can use. Check with your faculty sponsor about printer availability. Local full-service printing vendors are also an option but plan to allow up to 48 business hours for printing services.
Video Statement
Video Statement
As part of the event registration, you will include a short video statement that provides a brief overview of your research project. You are welcome to use existing language from your abstract or project description. This is also good practice for your live presentation during your Poster Exhibit session.
This video will be viewed by judges in advance of your Exhibit Session. With your permission, we may also share your video on the AHF website and social media platforms to promote the event.
Video must be no more than
2 minutes
in duration.
Your statement should include the following:
Start with your name, and the title of your research project.
Explain your research question and any relevant background or context.
Provide summary of methodology, findings, and next steps (if any).
There is no emphasis on production value. You are welcome to record yourself using your laptop or phone camera. Again, this is meant to give judges a quick snapshot of your research project.
Please upload video file as .mp4 or .mov
Exhibit Presentation
Exhibit Presentation
Prepare a
3-minute presentation
that you will deliver in real time during the event.
Tips for Delivering a Successful Presentation:
What is the Why?
Why is the research topic significant? Why should the audience care about this topic? How does the research question add to or fill in gaps of existing literature? These should be addressed at the start of your presentation to capture audience interest.
Know Your Audience
Keep in mind that the event is intended for a general audience. While your project will be evaluated by faculty judges and postdocs who are generally familiar with your field of study, they may not know the specific contexts around your project. Similarly, those unfamiliar with your field will benefit from the context you provide.
Think of ways to relate complex ideas to everyday experiences. Use analogies or current events to situate abstract concepts to concrete examples.
Avoid heavy technical jargon. If there are terms specific to your field of study, be sure to define them at the start of the presentation.
Conclude with Takeaways
At the end of your presentation, summarize conclusions and potential next steps. Give the audience 1-2 significant points to take way from your presentation.
Practice, practice, practice!
Rehearse with a timer to make sure you are able to address all of your points. You can also record yourself or practice in front of a mirror.
Pay attention to your pacing — it’s okay to take a breath and have a few pauses — you want to try and sound as natural and conversational as possible.
Get feedback from your faculty advisor or project partners.
Study Examples of Great Presentations
There are many tips and examples of successful elevator pitches available online. Listen to some TED Talks or examples of 3-minute poster presentations. Here are some places to start:
Young Post: Learn how to give a 3 minute presentation in under 3 minutes
Undergraduate Research Initiative – USask: Three minute poster talk and elevator pitch
University of South Australia: 2014 Three Minute Thesis winning presentation by Emily Johnston
Prize Recipients
Each year, the Undergraduate Symposium awards First and Second prizes for outstanding work in each of the five academic categories. Additional recognition include Honorable Mentions, Interdisciplinary Awards, Digital Technology, and USC Schwarzenegger Institute.
Student Name
Year
Award Category
Award Type
Project Title
Matthew Pekarek
2026
Arts & Architecture
First Prize
Bread and Roses: A Lawrence Mill (1912)
Kaitlyn Son
2026
Arts & Architecture
Second Prize
From Scratch: Seven Friends, Seven Years Later
Madeline Cheng
2026
Arts & Architecture
Second Prize
From Scratch: Seven Friends, Seven Years Later
Simone Obregon
2026
Arts & Architecture
Honorable Mention
See No Evil: Censorship and Identity Politics in American Art, 1950s-Present.
Cardin Chung
2026
Digital Technology
First Prize
Visceral Resonance: How Wearable Technology Can Strengthen Thematic Expression in Dance
Kira Giummo
2026
Digital Technology
Second Prize
Ritual Space, Embodied Recovery: Spatial Discipline and Collective Identity in Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings
Lori Khatchaturian
2026
HEB & APS
First Prize
Characterizing the HDAC1–Malat1 Axis in Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells to Understand Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Response​
Ethan Fayne
2026
HEB & APS
Honorable Mention
Development of PARP1-Based Antibody-Drug Conjugates Targeting Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis
Henry Barnes
2026
Life Sciences I
First Prize
Pseudomonas with Pf bacteriophage infection is present in a cohort of pediatric individuals with cystic fibrosis at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Qiao Yuan Ann Law
2026
Life Sciences I
Second Prize
GIPR Agonism Dampens Motivation for Palatable Food
Joseph Kim
2026
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Noise Exposure in Mice Results in Upregulation of SOX2 in Spiral Ganglion Neurons
Jared Smith
2026
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Appetite Hormone Dysregulation in Children Exposed In Utero to Gestational Diabetes or Maternal Obesity
Jiaqi Fan
2026
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Application of Hidden Markov Model to Identify Latent Symptom States and Transition Dynamics in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Garnik Arustamyan
2026
Life Sciences II
First Prize
Distinct Molecular Mechanisms of PPAR-δ Agonists in Alleviating Hepatocyte Injury in Primary Biliary Cholangitis
Lori Khatchaturian
2026
Life Sciences II
Second Prize
Characterizing the HDAC1–Malat1 Axis in Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells to Understand Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Response​
Ethan Tjoa
2026
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
RNA Exosome Driven Regulation of RNA Coordinates Developmental Trajectories in the Human Cerebellum
Matthew Wade
2026
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
RNA Exosome Driven Regulation of RNA Coordinates Developmental Trajectories in the Human Cerebellum
Keira Izumi
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
First Prize
Predictive Framework for Twinning-Induced Plasticity Across Rare Earth Orthophosphates
Rowan Simon
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Second Prize
Collecting Duct Targeting Lipid Nanoparticles Loaded with Pkd2 mRNA Restore Polycystin-2 and Slow the Progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease
Long-Siang Lee
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Feasible Fabrication of Chitosan-Capped Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as a Smart Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Platform for Dexamethasone as Long-term Lung Treatment
Bhuvi Kedia
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
ADAProsthetics: A Lower-Limb Adjustable Pylon for Pediatric Amputees
Ishaani Pradeep
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
ADAProsthetics: A Lower-Limb Adjustable Pylon for Pediatric Amputees
Sam Doane
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
ADAProsthetics: A Lower-Limb Adjustable Pylon for Pediatric Amputees
Tej Desai
2026
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
ADAProsthetics: A Lower-Limb Adjustable Pylon for Pediatric Amputees
Lucy Westlake
2026
Schwarzenegger Institute
First Prize
Temporal and Elevational Variability of Light-Absorbing Particles and Surface Snow Reflectivity on Mount Baker and Mount Rainier Glaciers
Aiden Mardani
2026
Schwarzenegger Institute
Second Prize
End-Tidal Control in the Operating Room: Impact and Future Direction
Raghav Sinha
2026
Schwarzenegger Institute
Honorable Mention
Characterizing Key Battleground Areas and Echo Chambers on Popular Online Forums
Cynthia Guanga
2026
Social Sciences I
First Prize
Analysis of Barriers to Regulatory Approval found in Newly Released FDA Complete Response Letters
Benjamin Ertl
2026
Social Sciences I
First Prize
Analysis of Barriers to Regulatory Approval found in Newly Released FDA Complete Response Letters
Jenny Wu
2026
Social Sciences I
Second Prize
Optimizing Emergency Medical Services: Predicting Population Health Risk-Level of LA City Neighborhoods in the Next Decade
Sophia Hameed
2026
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
More to Medicine: Examining Interventions for Lifestyle Change in Older Adults
Samantha Schilling
2026
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Translating Attachment and Coping Research Into a Grief Toolkit for Widowed Older Adults and Their Support Networks
Anwita Chandrasekhar
2026
Social Sciences II
First Prize
The Waiting Game: Neural Reward Anticipation and Its Links to Anxiety in Adolescents
Chase Dinkel
2026
Social Sciences II
Second Prize
Children Seek Help from Technological and Human Agents Depending on Domain
Luella Soranson Way
2026
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Little Faces, Big Reactions: Infant Stranger Reactivity and Caregiver-Reported Social Exposure
Lauren Jester
2026
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Assessing Parent-Child Communication as a Protective Factor for Adolescent Susceptibility to and Initiation of Substance Use
Steven Wei
2026
Sustainability
First Prize
Sunkissed Solutions: Harnessing Sunflowers for Practical Nickel Extraction and Soil Restoration
Jackeline Godinez Gonzales
2026
Sustainability
First Prize
Sunkissed Solutions: Harnessing Sunflowers for Practical Nickel Extraction and Soil Restoration
Annika Harusadangkul
2026
Sustainability
First Prize
Sunkissed Solutions: Harnessing Sunflowers for Practical Nickel Extraction and Soil Restoration
Ian Santillan
2026
Sustainability
Second Prize
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN HEALTHCARE: REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY THROUGH OPTIMIZATION
Jose Sosa
2026
Sustainability
Honorable Mention
Advancing Affordable Organic Photovoltaics Through Novel Molecular Design
Chengxiang Huang
2026
Sustainability
Honorable Mention
Rapid Assessment of Dioxyboranes for Organic Photovoltaics
Lindsay Thomas
2025
Physical Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Culturing a Novel Greenhouse Gas–Consuming Microbe from Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Rowan Simon
2025
Physical Sciences
Honorable Mention
Lipid nanoparticles loaded with Pkd2 mRNA restore polycystin-2 and slow the progression of polycystic kidney disease
Naazneen Shafeer Vemmerath Kulangara
2025
Physical Sciences
Second Prize
Simulating Effects of Dynamical Friction in a Supermassive Black Hole Binary Merger
Hannah Lee
2025
Physical Sciences
First Prize
Development of a Novel Fluorescent Nano-Based Imaging Approach to Guide Intra-Operative Solid Tumor Resection
Maggie Kosierowski
2025
Sustainability
Second Prize
Enrichments from Wastewater Treatment Plants Characterized by Distinct Methane Consuming Microbial Communities
Aiden Mardani
2025
Sustainability
First Prize
Engagement in Sustainable Healthcare: Operational Improvement and Efficiency to Deliver High Quality Care
Abhiram Gunna
2025
Digital Technology
Second Prize
ReguVisionTM: Revolutionizing drug development by charting FDA-Facilitated Pathways through multidimensional mapping
Jackson Hanf
2025
Digital Technology
Second Prize
ReguVisionTM: Revolutionizing drug development by charting FDA-Facilitated Pathways through multidimensional mapping
Daniel He
2025
Digital Technology
Second Prize
ReguVisionTM: Revolutionizing drug development by charting FDA-Facilitated Pathways through multidimensional mapping
Anna Chi
2025
Digital Technology
Second Prize
ReguVisionTM: Revolutionizing drug development by charting FDA-Facilitated Pathways through multidimensional mapping
Rushaanaaz Sokeechand
2025
Digital Technology
Second Prize
ReguVisionTM: Revolutionizing drug development by charting FDA-Facilitated Pathways through multidimensional mapping
Riva Verma
2025
Digital Technology
First Prize
Quantitative Clustering and Visualization: Spatial Analysis of Insulin Secretory Granules in Pancreatic ß Cells
Maria Carolina Zensen Simoes
2025
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Virtual Archaeology at La Milpa North: From Field Excavation to Digital Reconstruction
Cain Trevino
2025
Humanities
Honorable Mention
ScrewedUpRegio: "Slowed" corridos and truck culture in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
Bridget Zhang
2025
Humanities
Second Prize
A Liminal Underworld: Representations of the Posthumous Journey in Tombs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties
Aliyah Blank
2025
Humanities
First Prize
Jewish Resistance in The Vilna and Kovno Ghettos from 1941 to 1943
Bryce Savoy
2025
Life Sciences II
Interdisciplinary
The Moderating Effect of Personality on the Genetic and Environmental Causes of DNA Methylation Age Acceleration
Sree Gelle
2025
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Exo-Metabolomics Analysis Serves as a Source for Diagnostic Biomarkers Specific to Tuberculosis Infection
Monica Rodriguez
2025
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Investigating the Impact of Copy Number Alterations on Gene Expression in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
Sanaa Alam
2025
Life Sciences II
Second Prize
The Neurotrophic Factor Artemin and its Receptor GFRa3 Mediate Migraine-like Pain via the lon Channel TRPM8
Ziyue Zhu
2025
Life Sciences II
First Prize
Precise CAR-T Tumor Therapy: Activated by Focused Ultrasound, Controlled by Tumor-Specific Promoter
Steven Fu
2025
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Characterizing Neural Stem Cells in Aging Mouse Models Investigating the Impact of Aging on Neural Stem Cell Behavior in the Hippocampus
Kevin Chaw
2025
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Testing Nr1h3 ASO as Treatment for TDP43Tg/Tg ALS Mice Model
Zoey Taylor
2025
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Role of Serotonin in MDSCs in Breast-to-Brain Metastasis
Celia Wood
2025
Life Sciences I
Second Prize
Heterotrophic Isolations From Trichodesmium
Matthew Layne
2025
Life Sciences I
First Prize
A Novel Tissue Clearing and Labeling Methodology for 3D Visualization of Intact Eye Tissu
Rebecca Pan
2025
American Physiological Society Award
Honorable Mention
GIPR agonism amplifies GLP-1 mediated weight loss and feeding motivation
Ann Law
2025
American Physiological Society Award
Honorable Mention
GIPR agonism amplifies GLP-1 mediated weight loss and feeding motivation
Brandon Do
2025
American Physiological Society Award
First Prize
Determining the Efficacy and Mechanism-of-Action of Cyclic Di-Peptides (CDP’s) Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Taylor Wardsworth
2025
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Mapping the Journey: Pediatric Patients' Access to Children's Hospital via Public Transit
Viviane Rosales
2025
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Maternal Momentary Negative Interactions.
Hanae Courcoux
2025
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
“Police Reports’ Failure to Describe Children’s Language About Sexual Body Parts.
Olivia Efird
2025
Social Sciences
Second Prize
Election Stress, Depression and Anxiety Symptoms, and Alcohol Use Among Southern Californian Adolescents
Elizabeth Ochei
2025
Social Sciences
First Prize
Penetration Bias & Force Oversight in Police Interviews with Child Sexual Abuse Victims
Kelly Kwok
2025
Schwarzenegger Institute
Honorable Mention
Ambient Air Quality Exposure Among Pediatric Patients
Michael Veres
2025
Schwarzenegger Institute
Second Prize
Beyond the Books: Extracurriculars Associated with Reduced Academic Stress and Improved Life Quality
Jasmine Yip
2025
Schwarzenegger Institute
First Prize
TrojanEats Mobile App: Quantifying and Reducing Food Waste at USC
Ayla Schorn
2025
Schwarzenegger Institute
First Prize
TrojanEats Mobile App: Quantifying and Reducing Food Waste at USC
Amshu Pudhota
2024
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Finding Your Flow: Exploring the Relationship Between Flow-state Engagement and Burnout in Undergraduate Students
Matthew Cheah
2024
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Finding Your Flow: Exploring the Relationship Between Flow-state Engagement and Burnout in Undergraduate Students
Anna Miner
2024
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Smoking/Abstinence Outcomes in LGBTQ+ Couples
Trisha Iyer
2024
Social Sciences II
Second Prize
Association Between Viewing Substance Use-Related Content on Social Media and Cannabis and E-Cigarette Use Among Adolescents
Derek Balsamini
2024
Social Sciences II
First Prize
A Thematic Analysis of Mother’s Negative Experiences Captured Using Ecological Momentary Assessment: The Baby Diary
Blanca Godoy
2024
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
From Barriers to Bridges: Examining Black and Latine Youths’ Community Cultural Wealth
Eimon Amjadi
2024
Social Sciences I
Second Prize
All is Fair in Love and War: Moral Foundations in English-Language Tweets during the First 36 Weeks of Conflict Between Ukraine and Russia
Audrey Joachim
2024
Social Sciences I
First Prize
The Phenomenology of Silence: A Spatial Ethnography of the Little Chapel of Silence
Rachel Perry
2024
Digital Technology
Second Prize
Quiet is the Eyes
Ally Guo
2024
Digital Technology
Second Prize
Quiet is the Eyes
Sawyer Lazar
2024
Digital Technology
First Prize
Documenting Underwater Cultural Heritage of Cat Harbor Santa Catalina Island, CA
Divya Suresh
2024
APS Award
Honorable Mention
Determining the efficacy of ExThera Seraph100 blood filtration in patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer through the liquid biopsy
Priya Shah
2024
APS Award
Second Prize
The Effects of Neuronal Exposure on HER2+ Breast Tumor Cells
Patrick Belen
2024
APS Award
First Prize
Generation of CDKN2A Knockout iPSCs through CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering to Investigate its Role in Retinoblastoma Tumorigenesis
Tricia Lim Castro
2024
Arts & Humanities
Interdisciplinaray Award
Moving in (American) Time: The formation of Philippine dance culture in the era of Filipinization
Ariel Gilmore
2024
Arts & Humanities
Honorable Mention
Stupendous Stupas: A provenance of a Gandharan Grey Schist frieze
Rylan Giorgetta
2024
Arts & Humanities
Second Prize
Reanimating the Dead with Pasta and Lead
Alissa Silva
2024
Arts & Humanities
First Prize
Undocumented Workers in Arizona’s Fields
Chloe Seo
2024
Physical Sciences
Interdisciplinaray Award
Determining Physical and Bioenergetic Properties of Cable Bacteria With Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Thioflavin T (ThT)
Helen Highland
2024
Physical Sciences
Honorable Mention
Using Electrochemical Catalysts to Reduce Nitrogen to Ammonia: Feeding the Planet!
Julia Cashman
2024
Physical Sciences
Second Prize
Sulfonation of Hydrocarbons with Trifluoroacetic acid and SO2
Emy Li
2024
Physical Sciences
First Prize
The Speed Limit of Atmospheric Chemistry: Tracking Cycles in Species-Reaction Graphs
Rohan Bhave
2024
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Investigating the Effects of Fkh1-dsm on Replication Origin Activation using Quantitative BrdU Immunoprecipitation (QBU)
Omar Salah
2024
Life Sciences II
Second Prize
The Role of Voltage-dependent Anion Channel (VDAC) Isoforms in Mitochondrial Function
Maria Oorloff
2024
Life Sciences II
First Prize
Mechanical stress through growth on stiffer substrates has mild impacts on animal health and longevity in C. elegans.
Talia Ginsberg
2024
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary
Age-related changes in neural activation associated with semantic details of music-evoked autobiographical memories
Sanaa Alam
2024
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Characterization of the spinal circuit of cold sensation through the identification of cold-sensitive neurons
Caleb Dehn
2024
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Genetic dissection of the BLOC-1 at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
Xiaowei Di
2024
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Supported Treadmill Stepping Motivates Selective Motor Control of Infants at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy
Manouk Manoukian
2024
Life Sciences I
Second Prize
Impact of arboreal substrate diameter on locomotor performance in the northern tree shew (Tupaia belangeri)
Vandita Gorla
2024
Life Sciences I
First Prize
Identifying novel regulators of SKN-1/Nrf2 in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jillian Gorman
2024
Sustainability
Honorable Mention
Food Base L.A. Dashboard
Krissie Essilfie
2024
Sustainability
Second Prize
USC Sustainability Data Hub Phase 3: Promotion and Collaboration Across Campus
Cora Sverdrup
2024
Sustainability
First Prize
Efficacy of Green Gravel Restoration Methods of Macrocystis pyrifera
Katherine Robinson
2024
Schwarzenegger
Honorable Mention
Urban Green Space Access and Children's Health in Los Angeles
Julia Cashman
2024
Schwarzenegger
Honorable Mention
Sulfonation of Hydrocarbons with Trifluoroacetic acid and SO2
Kelly Kwok
2024
Schwarzenegger
Second Prize
Ambient Air Quality Exposure Among Pediatric Patients
Avery Fratto
2024
Schwarzenegger
Second Prize
Developing an Equity Index to Maximize Thermal Comfort
Blanca Godoy
2024
Schwarzenegger
First Prize
From Barriers to Bridges: Examining Black and Latine Youths’ Community Cultural Wealth
Claire Post
2023
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
What’s in a name? What’s in a name? An experimental investigation of last names and gender
Helen Wu
2023
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Neural Event Segmentation During Natural Story Listening
Adam Wang
2023
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Empathy Effects on the Story Model for Juror Decision-Making
Melanie Kwan
2023
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Sibling Relationships and Recantations in Child Sexual Abuse Contexts
Isabella Gonzalez
2023
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
The Great Redwood Trail: Mapping Northern California’s Repurposed Trails
Julian Kaiser
2023
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
The Great Redwood Trail: Mapping Northern California’s Repurposed Trails
Sumiya Naksi
2023
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
STEM Perspectives: Neuroscience Program Increases STEM-centered College Prospects, Occupation Prospects, and Knowledge in Minority High School Students
Alethea de Jesus
2023
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
STEM Perspectives: Neuroscience Program Increases STEM-centered College Prospects, Occupation Prospects, and Knowledge in Minority High School Students
Rojan Javaheri
2023
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
STEM Perspectives: Neuroscience Program Increases STEM-centered College Prospects, Occupation Prospects, and Knowledge in Minority High School Students
Endiya Griffin
2023
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Re-Membering Us:Oppositional Geographies, Images and Critical Black Memory in Leimert Park
Baoqi “Eileen” Chen
2023
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
EV in LA: An Improved Two-step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) Method to Evaluate Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Accessibility in Los Angeles
Khaled Alzamel
2023
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Mitigating Seizures in Epileptic Patients
Yaoyue Wang
2023
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Mitigating Seizures in Epileptic Patients
Kara Ushijima
2023
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Personalized Monitoring of Valproic Acid: Point-of-Care Tools for Bipolar Disorder Management
Miguel Mercado
2023
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Topological Protection Against Disorder in Chiral Symmetric Matter
Ajay Srinivasan
2023
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Collision Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Two Spatial Dimensions
Arun Ahuja
2023
Life Sciences II
1st Prize
Dysregulated hippocampal acetylcholine signaling underlies long-lasting memory impairments associated with early life Western diet consumption
Yunsun Eoh
2023
Life Sciences II
2nd Prize
Harnessing Neuroprotective Microglia for Therapeutic Benefit in C9ORF72 ALS
Lisa Tchitchkan
2023
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Examining the mechanisms of endocytosis in Drosophila melanogaster through stimulated emission-depletion microscopy
Catcher Salazar
2023
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Learning the Synthetic Design Principles for Programming Self-Organizing Elongating Structures with a Computational Tissue Model
Christian Chung
2023
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Learning the Synthetic Design Principles for Programming Self-Organizing Elongating Structures with a Computational Tissue Model
Oscar Peng
2023
Life Sciences I
1st Prize
Testing candidate mifepristone receptor Eip75B in Drosophila using FLP-out RNAi
Joshua Senior
2023
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Mechanisms of Attentional Control and Suppression in Aging
Maggie Torstrick
2023
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Exploiting Drosophila to Examine RNA Exosome Function in Neuronal Development and Homeostasis
Lily Xia
2023
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Role of a Novel Mitochondrial-Encoded Microprotein in Adaptive Cellular Response to Metabolic Stress
Emily Eid
2023
Arts, Architecture, & Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
From Alcatraz to the BIA: Portraits of Modern Native American Leaders
Koji Sakano
2023
Arts, Architecture, & Humanities
1st Prize
Ainu Vocal Music Research Guide
Ricardo Perez
2023
Arts, Architecture, & Humanities
2nd Prize
A Look into the lives of Now Adult Children of Street Vendors
Jasmine Salas-Arteaga
2023
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
Honorable Mention
Til Death and My Properties Do Us Part: Wills and Testaments of Indigenous Elite Women of Early Colonial Mexico
Isabella Gonzalez
2023
Digital Media
1st Prize
The Great Redwood Trail: Mapping Northern California’s Repurposed Trails
Julian Kaiser
2023
1st Prize
Digital Media
The Great Redwood Trail: Mapping Northern California’s Repurposed Trails
Nadia Makmak
2023
Digital Media
2nd Prize
The USC Sustainability Data Hub: Developing an Online Source for Sustainability Data at USC
Katie Robinson
2023
Digital Media
2nd Prize
The USC Sustainability Data Hub: Developing an Online Source for Sustainability Data at USC
Andrew Bawiec
2023
Digital Media
2nd Prize
The USC Sustainability Data Hub: Developing an Online Source for Sustainability Data at USC
Madhavan Anbuchelvan
2023
American Physiological Society (APS)
1st Prize
Epimuscular Fat Infiltration and Muscle Residing PDGFRβ+ Progenitors Contribute to Fatty Degeneration Following Massive Rotator Cuff Tears in a Mouse Model
Franchesca Magana
2023
American Physiological Society (APS)
2nd Prize
Control of Early Colorectal Cancer Cell States by Transcription Factor Sox17
Hyeyoon “Clarissa” Noh
2023
American Physiological Society (APS)
2nd Prize
Control of Early Colorectal Cancer Cell States by Transcription Factor Sox17
Taylor Simonian
2023
American Physiological Society (APS)
Honorable Mention
Identification of sex and depot specific proteins via cytoplasmic adipocyte proximity labeling
Joan Lee
2022
Sustainability
2nd Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Jackson Fitzgerald
2022
Sustainability
2nd Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Charles Curtin
2022
Sustainability
2nd Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Emma Johnson
2022
Sustainability
2nd Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Naman Casas
2022
Sustainability
2nd Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Kelley Green
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Jessica Zhang
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Nicole Carrera
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Anna Curtis
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Carolyn Koh
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Rachel Ablondi
2022
Sustainability
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Nathan Zhang
2022
HEB & APS
2nd Prize
Chronic air pollution exposure decreases neurotrophin expression and increases neural stem cell quiescence in hippocampus
Kara McBurnett
2022
HEB & APS
1st Prize
Melanin-Concentrating Hormone activation increases appetitive responses to both discrete and contextual cues
Naman Casas
2022
Schwarzenegger
2nd Prize
Developing low-cost air quality monitors for microscale analyses in an urban environment
Emma Johnson
2022
Schwarzenegger
2nd Prize
Developing low-cost air quality monitors for microscale analyses in an urban environment
Joan Lee
2022
Schwarzenegger
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Jackson Fitzgerald
2022
Schwarzenegger
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Charles Curtin
2022
Schwarzenegger
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Emma Johnson
2022
Schwarzenegger
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Naman Casas
2022
Schwarzenegger
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative Phase 2
Jeremy Barajas
2022
Social Sciences II (Behavioral)
1st Prize
What You Think You Know But Don't My Be Harmful During a Global Health Crisis
Abigail Jarvis
2022
Social Sciences II (Behavioral)
2nd Prize
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Phonology Switches in 'Dora the Explorer'
Nikki Jafarzadeh
2022
Social Sciences II (Behavioral)
Honorable Mention
Associations Between Anxiety Disorder Symptoms and Barriers to Cessation Among African American Smokers
Eric Penichet
2022
Social Sciences II (Behavioral)
Honorable Mention
The Etiology of Infant Temperament and Childhood Aggression: A Twin Study
Selin Yalcinkaya
2022
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary
Misleading, suggestive, or both?”: Forced choice questions in child sexual abuse trials
Arianna Crovetto
2022
Social Sciences I (Applied, Analytical)
1st Prize
The Role of Antiretroviral Treatment Patenting on Consumer Pricing: Declining Viral Suppression and Treatment Non-Adherence Among HIV Patients in Los Angeles County
Harlan Tsui
2022
Social Sciences I (Applied, Analytical)
2nd Prize
A Regulatory Investigation of Disposable Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and Cannabis
Griff Riggs
2022
Social Sciences I (Applied, Analytical)
2nd Prize
A Regulatory Investigation of Disposable Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and Cannabis
Amber Birdwell
2022
Social Sciences I (Applied, Analytical)
Honorable Mention
Improving Spatial Road Network in Malawi
Jackson Fitzgerald
2022
Social Sciences I (Applied, Analytical)
Honorable Mention
Heritage Data Resources and Practices Critical to Future Preservation and Management in California
Sabrina Sy
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Peripheral Vasoconstriction as a Marker of Future Vaso-occlusive Pain in Sickle Cell Anemia
Sydney Rashid
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Simulating Disease Spread: A Closer Look at Contact Tracing
Naman Casas
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Developing low-cost air quality monitors for microscale analyses in an urban environment
Emma Johnson
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Developing low-cost air quality monitors for microscale analyses in an urban environment
Collette Gordon
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Choline Chloride, a Biocompatible Cocatalyst in the Perfectly-Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides
Woori Lee
2022
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Effects of miR145 micelle on endothelial cells
Helen Wu
2022
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Automated Assessment of Resting Body Tremor in the Parkinson’s Disease Mice Model
Christine Lee
2022
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Fasting Mimicking Diet Treats High Fat Diet-Induced Hyperleptinemia
Sana Shah
2022
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Effect of Gemcitabine on Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Organoid Growth
David Wen
2022
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Cis-Regulation of hand2 Expression in Heart Development
Alethea de Jesus
2022
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Absence of Amygdala Volume Differences in U.S. Adolescents Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Kelley Green
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Jessica Zhang
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Nicole Carrera
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Anna Curtis
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Carolyn Koh
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Rachel Ablondi
2022
Digital Media
1st Prize
USC Sustainability Hub
Sameer Ahmed
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Violations of Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) Among Individuals that Died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities, 2011-2018
Dustin Wong
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
1st Prize
Individual Networks: Globalisation in the Hellenistic World
Kirsten Hoang
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
2nd Prize
A Beautiful Nightmare
Madison Holbrook
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
2nd Prize
A Beautiful Nightmare
Kevin Maxwell
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
2nd Prize
A Beautiful Nightmare
Adam Jackman
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
Honorable Mention
Heirs of Paranoia: No Abolition nor Expansion of Slavery without Representation
Georgia Burki
2022
Arts, Architecture & Humanities
Honorable Mention
Inner Worlds
Karina Godoy
2006
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present
Kathleen Benton
2006
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present
Archana Prakash
2006
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present
Elizabeth Cook
2006
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present
Matthew Borba
2006
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
The Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes in Multisystemic Therapy
Kareem El Sawy
2006
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Issues In Outsourcing Management: A Balanced Scorecard
Meredith Goldin
2006
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Impact of Subtyping Salience on Consensus Estimation and the Black Sheep Effect
Lauren Baron
2006
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary
The ability of child witnesses alleging sexual abuse to make numerosity judgment
Fiona Torrance
2006
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Independent Study in Corporate Blogging
Tommy Cavanagh
2006
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Awareness and Physiological Arousal in a Classical Conditioning Experiment
Shaheen Munir
2006
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Skills in Three Treatment Groups
Daniel Goldman
2006
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Alcohol, Expectancies, Dispositional Aggression, & Aggressive Behaviors
Aaron Kositsky
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Justin Perez
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Ifraz Haqque
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Thomas Robinson
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Ee Ling Ooi
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Joshua Garcia
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Edgar Evangelista
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Randy Robertson
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Kristy Akullian
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Interdisciplinary
SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System
Timothy Kowalczyk
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Electronic structure and spectroscopy of carbon trioxide
Dolce Wang
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
Honorable Mention
A Shocking Demand
Krystal Sly
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
2nd Prize
The Effect of Varying the Cathode Composition on Organic Solar Cell Performance
Pavitra Krishnaswamy
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
1st Prize
Long Term Effects of Nanosecond Electroperturbation Therapy on Cancer Cells
Suet Ying Christin Chong
2006
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering
1st Prize
Long Term Effects of Nanosecond Electroperturbation Therapy on Cancer Cells
Mahira Kakajiwala
2006
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Spacial and temporal divesity of marine viruses in the San Pedro Channel
Raymond Jone
2006
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Modeling and characterizing Synapse Elimination using Xenopus laevis
Ricardo Mestres
2006
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Effects of Prenatal Stress on Cell Quantity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate Cortex Area 3 in the Animal Model of Schizophrenia
Ryan Kohlbrenner
2006
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Effects of Prenatal Stress on Cell Quantity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate Cortex Area 3 in the Animal Model of Schizophrenia
Anna Maria Maglunog
2006
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
The Role of Netrin-1 in Commissural Axon Guidance
Jatturong Wichianson
2006
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Prevalence of Night Eating Syndrome Among College Undergraduate Students
Stephanie Bughi
2006
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Prevalence of Night Eating Syndrome Among College Undergraduate Students
Shaun Lea
2006
Humanities
Interdisciplinary
Andean Dye Project: The Mysteries of Textiles
Georgiana Nikias
2006
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Lost Shawabti: A Scribe's Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurine
Brian Ronge
2006
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Silent Speech Gestures in Kinyarwanda
Celeste DeFreitas
2006
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Silent Speech Gestures in Kinyarwanda
Brigid McManama
2006
Humanities
2nd Prize
Imag(in)ing Race After Slavery: Race and Service in the White House
Kristin Butler
2006
Humanities
1st Prize
Khirbet Mazra'a: The Lost Excavation
Hannah Marcuson
2006
Humanities
1st Prize
Khirbet Mazra'a: The Lost Excavation
Georgiana Nikias
2006
Humanities
1st Prize
Khirbet Mazra'a: The Lost Excavation
Julianne Gale
2006
Arts
Interdisciplinary
Who am I? Trans Identity in Los Angeles
Claudia Zhang
2006
Arts
Honorable Mention
Ancient Modernism
Roger Zare
2006
Arts
2nd Prize
The Other Rainbow
Paul Dooley
2006
Arts
1st Prize
Pomo Canyon Air, for orchestra
Aaron Levinson
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
Honorable Mention
The Red Earth: Living With Nature in East Africa
Jeanie Paik
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
2nd Prize
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Israel Morales
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
2nd Prize
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Pavitra Krishnaswamy
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
2nd Prize
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Kristin Swihart
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Wave Generation for a Surfing Environment by Bottom Moving Bumps
Joel Linke
2007
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Wave Generation for a Surfing Environment by Bottom Moving Bumps
Melanie Billow
2007
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
Young Maltreated Children's Ability to Answer and Understand Oath-Taking Competency
Matt Wallace
2007
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Sources of Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language English Article Acquisition
Anna Bokarius
2007
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Sources of Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language English Article Acquisition
Kimberly White
2007
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Manipulating Skin Tone: The Effects of Skin Tone on Self Esteem and Mood
Hala Mohammad
2007
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Media portrayal & Middle Eastern women: Reconstructing Orientalism & Empire?
Ashlee Welday
2007
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Baby Linguists: Infants attend to complex vowel patterns to understand speech
Celeste DeFreitas
2007
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Baby Linguists: Infants attend to complex vowel patterns to understand speech
Ashley Sands
2007
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Rewriting the History of Technology: unique proof of tin bronze manufacture
Nicole Schneider
2007
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
The relation between self-esteem and eating behavior
Nicholas Scurich
2007
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Applying Value to Decisions in Actuarial Predictions of Violence: A Bayesian
Camille Boudreau
2007
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Finding An Effective Way to Question Children Using ‘Before' and ‘After'
David Press
2007
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Religiosity and Perceived Stress among College Students
Hannah (Brice) Keltner
2007
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Religiosity and Perceived Stress among College Students
Janelle Colangelo
2007
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Religiosity and Perceived Stress among College Students
Jeanie Paik
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Israel Morales
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Pavitra Krishnaswamy
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
An Interdisciplinary Study of Apoptotic Effects Induced by Nanoelectropulses on Cancer Cells
Becky Gallagher
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
The Efficiency of Biogenic Silica Burial in Cascadia Basin Sediments
Mario Bialostozky
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
A Non-Invasive Method for Evaluating Cardiovascular Health
Jeffrey Thompson
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2006-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra
Bradford Foley
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2006-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra
Glenn Fischer
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2006-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra
Elizabeth (Nicole) Ball
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Magmatic and Volcanic Plumbing Systems, Crustal Evolution, and the Search for the Mysterious Mojave-Snow Lake Fault: 2006-07 Earth Sciences Undergraduate Team Research in th High Sierra
Andrew Horning
2007
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Around the Ring: Molecular Geometry & Energy Transfer In Photosynthetic
Brad Johnson
2007
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Anammox in Catalina Island Sediments
Anuj Aggarwal
2007
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Molecular Strategies to Identify Sites of Alcohol Action in LGICs
Nihal Patel
2007
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Sites of Ethanol Action in Purinergic P2X3 Receptors
Margaret (Maggie) Cass
2007
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Novel repellant activity of motorneurons in the guidance of commisural axons
Brad Johnson
2007
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Anammox in Catalina Island Sediments
Martin Wainstein
2007
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Ultrabasic Geomicrobiology from the Cedars Peridotite: Life at pH 11.5
Tina Huynh
2007
Humanities
2nd Prize
More than Pretty Women: The Geisha and Courtesan in Popular Western Film
Ashley Sands
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Georgiana Nikias
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Elizabeth Martin del Campo
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Hannah Marcuson
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Carly Dykes
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Kristin Butler
2007
Humanities
1st Prize
Reexamining the Past: a Multi-University Collaborative Research and Mentoring
Mariana Evans
2007
Arts
Honorable Mention
Sunrise (short film)
Aaron Levinson
2007
Arts
Honorable Mention
The Red Earth: Living With Nature in East Africa
Eugenia Sangiovanni
2007
Arts
2nd Prize
Complicating Oversimplification
Roger Zare
2007
Arts
1st Prize
Green Flash
Jeannette Chang
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
Honorable Mention
Multimodal Analysis of User Uncertainty in Child-Machine Problem Solving Interactions
Noelle Stiles
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
2nd Prize
Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses
Carlos Tagabuel
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Tanya Nguyen
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Megan Miller
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Ekaterina Gee
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Chanel Fischetti
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Sarah Childers
2008
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Prenatal Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism: Potential Benefits of Choline
Benjamin Paul
2008
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
Physiology of music-related mystical experiences
Charlina Gozali
2008
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Reluctance and Response in Child Sexual Abuse Victims
Hilary Feybush
2008
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Do Attorneys Follow Good Practice in Preparatory Examination of Child Sexual Abuse Victims?
Karoline Brandt
2008
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Trauma Disclosure and Pronoun Use: How Our Words Reflect Our Health
Candise Chen
2008
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
The Critical Period Hypothesis: Differential Influences on Aspects of Second Language Acquisition
Debi Ogbonna
2008
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Children's Explanations of Delaying Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
Maynard Hughes
2008
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Turning Cold Water into Salsa: Effects of Pain as a Time One Provocation
Diana Bennett
2008
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Youth Reports of Parents' Marital Conflict: What is Upsetting?
Becky Turner
2008
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
The Effectiveness of a Development Project in a Small Community in Rural Ecuador
Dawn Powell
2008
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
The Effectiveness of a Development Project in a Small Community in Rural Ecuador
Michael Kane
2008
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Birds of a Feather, Psychopathic Together?
Kirstin Heinle
2008
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Scene, Not Heard: The Presence & Influence of Movie-Making Women (or lack thereof) in G-rated films
Sarah Erickson
2008
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Scene, Not Heard: The Presence & Influence of Movie-Making Women (or lack thereof) in G-rated films
Maya Babla
2008
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Scene, Not Heard: The Presence & Influence of Movie-Making Women (or lack thereof) in G-rated films
Marie Anne Cuevas
2008
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Very Low-Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals
Bradford Foley
2008
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Generation of Plate Tectonics from a 3-D Spherical Convection Model
Megan Thorson
2008
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Towards a General Hydride Abstraction Catalyst: Mechanistic Studies of C-H Oxidation with Cyclopentadienone-Ligated Metal Carbonyls (M= Ru, Fe)
Sonya Hanson
2008
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
A docking study of the autoantibody-nAChR interaction in myasthenia gravis
Shen Yee Soh
2008
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Large T Helicase Mutagenesis
Matthew Getz
2008
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Role of the SPN/FACT Complex in DNA Replication in the Fission Yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Robert Saddawi-Konefka
2008
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Repellent Role of Motor Neurons in Axon Guidance
Gerald Sun
2008
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Expression of melanopsin-containing ganglion cells in degenerative retina
Sarah Hawley
2008
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah
Jacob Bongers
2008
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah
Melissa Shimizu
2008
Humanities
Honorable Mention
American Fertility Decline in the 19th Century
Sadaf Nejat
2008
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Literary-Scientific Culture of the Late Nineteenth Century and its Relationship with Natural Theology: Representations of Science and Scientists in the Victorian Era
Sarah Hawley
2008
Humanities
2nd Prize
Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah
Jacob Bongers
2008
Humanities
2nd Prize
Revolutionizing Research: Online Publication of Figurines from Tell al-Judaidah
Divinity Barkley
2008
Humanities
1st Prize
Kaya Hip-Hop in Coastal Kenya: The Urban Poetry of Ukoo Flani
Leanne Joyce
2008
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Whitees
Robert Lydecker
2008
Arts
Honorable Mention
Rancid Roots No. 2 (an original music composition)
Dalton Gaudin
2008
Arts
Honorable Mention
Dirge To Earth and Sky - The Colour
Geoffrey Pope
2008
Arts
2nd Prize
Chamber Concerto for Two Violins
Jonathan Ortega
2008
Arts
1st Prize
Anguished Windsong Exultant
Ashley Maker
2009
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
Honorable Mention
Design and Fabrication of Waveguide Sensors
Amy Hurwitz
2009
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
Honorable Mention
Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli
Tina Hovsepian
2009
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
2nd Prize
Cardborigami
Marie Anne Cuevas
2009
USC Stevens Center - Most Innovative
1st Prize
Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics
Nicole Hummel
2009
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Deconstructing Sex Tourism: Imperialism, Patriarchy, and Women's Bodies
Rachel Rice
2009
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
You Defriended Me!?: The Scope and Prevalence of Interpersonal Aggression
Lauren Ford
2009
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
You Defriended Me!?: The Scope and Prevalence of Interpersonal Aggression
Ashley Flor
2009
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Rhythm in Second Language Speech
Amanda Bogart
2009
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Rhythm in Second Language Speech
Diana Bennett
2009
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
You Defriended Me!?: The Scope and Prevalence of Interpersonal Aggression
Noelle Miller
2009
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
A Question of Reproductive Freedom
Joshua Lang
2009
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Cuban Health Care: First Class Public Health on a Third World Budget
Lydia Green
2009
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Central Alaskan Yup'ik: A Linguistic Research Project
Leslie Koehn
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Positive Train Control – The Answer to Rail Safety Calamity
Harris Talsky
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Emanation Rates of Radon and Radium from Coastal Sands: A tool for estimating seawater circulation rates through permeable sediments
Sharla Shimono
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
U-Pb Zircon Age Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Margin of the North China Craton and Souther Margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Balyn Zaro
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Solvent-Free, One-Pot Synthesis of Alpha-Aminonitriles Using Acid Catalysts
Kedar Naik
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Heat Transfer from a Cylinder undergoing Streamwise Oscillations in a Cross-flow
Joseph Lubinski
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Heat Transfer from a Cylinder undergoing Streamwise Oscillations in a Cross-flow
Hubert Lau
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Solvent-Free, One-Pot Synthesis of Alpha-Aminonitriles Using Acid Catalysts
Marie Anne Cuevas
2009
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Low Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Applications to Nanocomposite Dielectrics
Sara Kingston
2009
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Bacterial Aging: the cause of death phase in E. coli
Amy Hurwitz
2009
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Exploring the Nature of 7 rrn Operons Through Their Effects on Growth Rate and Survival of E. coli
Miriam Lassiter
2009
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Pharyngeal Pouch Development in Zebrafish
Stephanie Hudiburgh
2009
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Investigating the Role of Smads in Commissural Neuron Specification
Valerie Yuan
2009
Life Sciences
1st Prize
The Roles of Oncogene Homolog Sch9 and Rev1 Polymerase in Age-Dependent Genomic Instability
Jacob Bongers
2009
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Illuminating Culture Clash: Material Smashing in Northern Chile
Joseph Henderer
2009
Humanities
2nd Prize
Southern California's Indigenous Languages: Documenting Our Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Fight Against Language Endangerment
Jennifer Crawford
2009
Humanities
1st Prize
Bringing the Past to Life: Recreating an Ancient Egyptian Gilding Technique
Emily Yu
2009
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
A Travelogue from Botswana
Nicole Ferguson
2009
Arts
Honorable Mention
Knowledge and Art
Ciaran Vejby
2009
Arts
2nd Prize
Ishi's Legacy
Elke Schnittker
2009
Arts
1st Prize
Greensburg "Natural Swim Park"
Daniel Wu
2010
Social Sciences
Second Prize
Reimagining the Figueroa Corridor, 1960-2000: Growth Politics, Policy, and Displacement
Shelly McArdle
2010
Social Sciences
Second Prize
The Best Boss You Will Ever Have: A Field Study on Personality Traits in Student Leaders
Marrissa Emond
2010
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Menstrual Culture from Seven Ethnic Dayak Tunjung and Benuaq Villages of West Kutai (Borneo): Associated Spiritual Practices, Attitudes, and Distress
Ellen Lee
2010
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Falling out of favor: Processes of status loss within groups
Zachary Kleiman
2010
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Emotion Driven Outcome Assessment in Sports
Emilie Winckel
2010
Social Sciences
First Prize
The "Monster Molester" and the "Innocent Victim": Child Sexual Abuse Stereotypes and Their Effects on Jury Decisions
Jenna Tomei
2010
Social Sciences
First Prize
The "Monster Molester" and the "Innocent Victim": Child Sexual Abuse Stereotypes and Their Effects on Jury Decisions
Lesley Petrie
2010
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Hydrogen Isotopic Analyses of Leaf Wax Biomarkers in Miocene and Pliocene Age Marine Sediments off NE Africa
Ryan Berti
2010
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Bridging the Gap: The Use of Ad-Hoc Enabled Smart Phones to Distribute Data Locally in the Cellular Network
Henry Yuen
2010
Physical Sciences & Engineering
First Prize
Fingerprinting DNA with Quantum Mechanics: DNA Nanopore Sequencing via Principal Component Analysis
Hannah Gray
2010
Physical Sciences & Engineering
First Prize
Bio-Sand Filters for Removal of Pathogenic Bacteria and Arsenic from Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries
Szeyan Charlotte Chan
2010
Physical Sciences & Engineering
First Prize
Bio-Sand Filters for Removal of Pathogenic Bacteria and Arsenic from Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries
Dustin Tetzl
2010
Life Sciences
Second Prize
FMRI study of the neural correlates of ADHD
Rebecca Gibbs
2010
Life Sciences
Second Prize
Selective vulnerability of the neuromuscular junction in a mouse model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Matthew Williams
2010
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players
Kotaro Uyeda
2010
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players
Darcelle Kimble-Manalo
2010
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players
Michael Hazboun
2010
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players
Rami Hamzey
2010
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Biomechanical Analysis of Movement Strategies in Collegiate Women's Volleyball Players
Jeannie Zhang
2010
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Phosphotyrosine-like immunoreactivity marks putative microglia in the hypothalamus and thalamus
Jasmine Thum
2010
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Are You Breathing?: Monitoring Autonomic Function using Spontaneous Cardiorespiratory Variability
Negar Kahen
2010
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Rizobia and Crop Productivity in High Salinity Areas
Grace Hwang
2010
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Assessing the impact of handling sea turtles and exploring ways to improve conservation efforts by reducing injury incurred
James Chalfant
2010
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Reciprocal Relations of Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat to Bone Structure and Strength
Marissa Srour
2010
Life Sciences
First Prize
Development of a Rib Regeneration Model in Mammals
Alexandra Sinnott
2010
Humanities
Second Prize
Rome Goes Green: A study of glass recycling in the ancient Roman Empire
Tiffany Tsai
2010
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Middle East
Gemma Morales
2010
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Early Acquisition of Spanish Tense and Verbal Aspect by Spanish-English Bilinguals
Janinda Gunawardene
2010
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Early Acquisition of Spanish Tense and Verbal Aspect by Spanish-English Bilinguals
Sarah Butler
2010
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Middle East
Sarah Hawley
2010
Humanities
First Prize
The Iconography of Empire: Political Transition as Demonstrated in the Terracotta Figurines of Tell al-Judaidah
Andrea Vancura
2010
Arts
Second Prize
Orange Appeel
Saul James Tobin
2010
Arts
Second Prize
Piano Sonata HaTzmichah
Annamaria Feist
2010
Arts
Second Prize
Orange Appeel
Bradley Sutton
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Zlatan Sehovic
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Michael David Hoffman
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Ryan Fischvogt
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Nathan Doctor
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Olivia Burke
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Vernacular Architecture in Panama
Martin Benson
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
A Self Expressive Truth
Jeremy Allen
2010
Arts
Honorable Mention
Paris Portraits
Yuan-Yu Chang
2010
Arts
First Prize
Latrine Lander
Brian Rose
2011
USC Stevens Institute
Honorable Mention
Silica Sol-Gel Synthesis for Integrated Photonics
Bernice Ngo
2011
USC Stevens Institute
2nd Prize
Housing and Medical Facility in Floating Village of Tonle Sap Lake
Laura Corrales-Diaz Pomatto
2011
USC Stevens Institute
1st Prize
The Oxygen Conundrum
Sarah Camarda
2011
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
When Material and Digital Culture Collide: Ethnographic Expressions of "The Contemporary"
Joshua Real
2011
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Linking Blink Rate to Motivational Systems and its Neural Substrates
Dana Jebreel
2011
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Young Children's Ability to Generate False Statements as a Precursor to False Belief Understanding
Daniel Paris
2011
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Conceptual and Empirical Definitions of Group Membership: Measuring Street Gang Affiliation
Shelly McArdle
2011
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
National Responses to September 11 Over Time: Analyzing Changes in Emotions, Beliefs, and Behaviors
Jordan Vieira
2011
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Performance, Sex, and Politics: The Quest for Identity in Southern Uganda
Niral Patel
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Symmetry-Breaking Intramolecular Charge Transfer in meso-Linked BODIPY Dyadsk
Tisa Thomas
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
One-pot synthesis of N-(Fluoroethyl)amines by MCR strategy using Fluoroalkyl Sulfones as Efficient Fluoromethyl-Transfer Motifs
Lillian Ware
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries
Kristen Sharer
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries
Avril Pitter
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries
Hannah Gray
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries
Szeyan (Charlotte) Chan
2011
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Investigating the mechanisms of arsenic removal by microbial layer in a bio-sand filter used for drinking water purification in developing countries
Mathew Schur
2011
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Mathew Schur
Meghan Brown
2011
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Independent and Interactive Effects of Estrogen and Progesterone on Neuroprotection in an Animal Model of Neurodegeration
Lindsay Agostinelli
2011
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Distribution of neurons expressing nitric oxide synthase, acetylcholinesterase, and hypocretin/orexin in the rat hypothalamus: relation to basal and stimulated levels of Fos and phospho-ERK
Marissa Srour
2011
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Rib Regeneration in a Mammalian Model
John Choi
2011
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
The effects of oxidative damage on competitive fitness in aging E. coli
Cara Bickers
2011
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Novel Mutants Link DNA Replication and Centromere Function in the Fission Yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Bradford Jackson
2011
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Near East
Katelyn Endow
2011
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Katelyn Goes to Japan – Spring 2010
Renee Duncan-Mestel
2011
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Near East
Grant Dixon
2011
Humanities
Honorable Mention
What is a King to Do: An Investigation of Images of Kingship
Sarah Butler
2011
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Front Lines of Empire: Metal Arrowheads and Projectile Points as Indicators of Social and Political Transformation in the ancient Near East
Parin Patel
2011
Humanities
2nd Prize
Archaeology and the Literary Narrative: Using Written Language to Understand Material Culture in the Buddhist World
Jacob Bongers
2011
Humanities
1st Prize
Landscapes of Death: GIS-based Analyses of Chullpas in the Western Lake Titicaca Basin
David Sommer
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Patrick Shay
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Lawrence Sequino
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Raunak Roy
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Blade Olson
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Andrew Ogden
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Daniel Lum
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Katelyn Endow
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Jonathan Carmel
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Nicholas Brice
2011
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Dance Pad – Social iPad Game
Michelle Khazaryan
2011
Arts
Honorable Mention
The Sweetest of Pomegranates
Simon Fink
2011
Arts
Honorable Mention
Out of Hand
Tiffany Pereira
2011
Arts
2nd Prize
Nothing is Black and White: Depicting an Environmental Case Study through Scientific Illustration
Bernice Ngo
2011
Arts
1st Prize
Housing and Medical Facility in Floating Village of Tonle Sap Lake
Lori Chen
2012
USC Stevens Institute
Honorable Mention
Architecture as a Vehicle for Social Change in Southeast Asia
Stephanie Lam
2012
USC Stevens Institute
2nd Prize
A Novel Method for Rib Periosteum Autografts in the Mouse for the Purpose of Assessing Bone Regeneration
Kristen Sharer
2012
USC Stevens Institute
1st Prize
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Kirsten Rice
2012
USC Stevens Institute
1st Prize
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Avril Pitter
2012
USC Stevens Institute
1st Prize
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Linda Dahl
2012
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
The Golden Horde and the Emergence of Muscovy
Jordan Weiss
2012
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Antitrust: Policy, Prices, and Behavior
Mariah Gill
2012
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Predicting the Success of Community Based Resource Management Programs: Waihe'e, Maui, Hawai'i Case Study
Tyler Vestal
2012
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
The Accuracy of Pseudo-Temporal Questions in Interviews of Children
Leandra Fraser
2012
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Es Mejor Saber: A Proactive Approach to Gestational Diabetes Follow Up
Adrienne Scotti
2012
Social Sciences
1st Prize
The Effects of Database Type and Forensic Laboratory Error Rates on the Probative Value of DNA Evidence in a Cold Case
Emily Gee
2012
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Chinese and American Emotional Responses to Environmental Advertisements
Lei (Lisa) Cui
2012
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Chinese and American Emotional Responses to Environmental Advertisements
Kristen Sharer
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Kirsten Rice
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Avril Pitter
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Algae through Ultrasonication Extraction Method
Aaron Henehan
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Deconstructing the Rebound with Optical Tracking Data
Jenny Zhang
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Hydrogen generation from formic acid using ruthenium carbonyls as catalysts: kinetic and spectroscopic study of the reaction mechanism
William Murray
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Thrust Augmentation of a Solid Rocket Motor by Means of Inert Gas Injection
Steven Leverette
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Thrust Augmentation of a Solid Rocket Motor by Means of Inert Gas Injection
Sarah Hester
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Thrust Augmentation of a Solid Rocket Motor by Means of Inert Gas Injection
Aditi Yokota-Joshi
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Removal of radioactive uranium from groundwater using nanoparticle technology and adsorption mechanisms
Hannah Gray
2012
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Removal of radioactive uranium from groundwater using nanoparticle technology and adsorption mechanisms
Brooke Sanders
2012
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Intra-articular Glucocorticoid Injections as a Cause for Adrenal Insufficiency
Mary Boyadjian
2012
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Green Tea Polyphenols Preconditioning against Ischemic Stroke
Barsegh Barseghian
2012
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Green Tea Polyphenols Preconditioning against Ischemic Stroke
Sarah Waliany
2012
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Promoting Metastasis of Breast Cancer Cells to the Brain
Linda Peng
2012
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Genetic and Functional Analysis of CYCP2;1 in Arabidopsis
Ellen Park
2012
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Bioengineering a mechanism to override plasmid-based antibiotic resistance
Kevin Le
2012
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Bioengineering a mechanism to override plasmid-based antibiotic resistance
Anu Ramachandran
2012
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Faith: Friend or Foe? The Rise of Faith Healing in Tanzania and Its Impact on Community Understanding of HIV
Marrissa Emond
2012
Humanities
Honorable Mention
The Past and Present Menstrual Practices of the Dayak of West Kutai, Borneo: An Examination in Context for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Anna Bishop
2012
Humanities
2nd Prize
Macro-Mapping the Maya: A Large-scale GIS Analysis of Maya Settlement Patterns in Belize
Gregory Woodburn
2012
Humanities
1st Prize
Necessary of Life: Henry David Thoreau's Concepts of America's Problematic Progress, 1837 – 1862
John Farrace
2012
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Welcome to Beautiful Juarez
Erin Cuevas
2012
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Welcome to Beautiful Juarez
Marcello Dolce
2012
Arts
Honorable Mention
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Tam Banh
2012
Arts
2nd Prize
Revitalizing Los Angeles River – Taylor Yard Farm
Stacy Kwok
2012
Arts
1st Prize
Truth in Making, Craft: An Architectural Inquiry
Kathleen Roche
2013
USC Stevens Center
2nd Prize
Using Ivermectin Analogue-Based Drug Discovery for Alcohol Use Disorders
Jennifer Ko
2013
USC Stevens Center
2nd Prize
Using Ivermectin Analogue-Based Drug Discovery for Alcohol Use Disorders
Avril (Viveka) Pitter
2013
USC Stevens Center
1st Prize
Water Treatment Design and Implementation for Rural Regions of Developing Nations
Jay Todd Max
2013
USC Stevens Center
1st Prize
Water Treatment Design and Implementation for Rural Regions of Developing Nations
Avril (Viveka) Pitter
2013
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Water Treatment Design and Implementation for Rural Regions of Developing Nations
Jay Todd Max
2013
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Water Treatment Design and Implementation for Rural Regions of Developing Nations
Nicholas Farmer
2013
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Virtual Sprouts
Robert Rosencrans
2013
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Cognitive and Behavioral Responses to Disaster Narratives
Marissa Roy
2013
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
The UN's 8 Millennium Development Goals and the Unpopulatity of Global Distributive Justice
Kassandra Rosales
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The greatest band in the history of the universe: A look inside the emotions and behaviors of highly identified active sports fans
Ryan Lee
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Quantifying Presumption of Innocence In Relation to Criminal Stereotypes and Types of Crimes
Julia Mangione
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
An Exploratory Study of the Experience of the Arctic Council's Permanent Participants: Opportunities, Constraints, and the Future of Permanent Participation
Caroline Smith
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Future of Transportation in the U.S.: Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Kaitlin Mogentale
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Future of Transportation in the U.S.: Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Meghan Heneghan
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Future of Transportation in the U.S.: Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Moemoe Chaee
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Macroeconomic Trajectory of Myanmar
Matthew Prusak
2013
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Macroeconomic Trajectory of Myanmar
Angela Ross
2013
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Undocu-Queer: Queer Identity Development Among Undocumented Queer Youth
Uriel Kim
2013
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
A study of communities surrounding the University of Southern California and food desertification
Ariana Stobaugh
2013
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Misperceptions and Gender Differences in the Understanding of Acquaintance Rape and Sexual Assault
Jui Pai (Angie) Chen
2013
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Housing Matters: How Redevelopment Strategies Affect the New Shanghai(nese)
Diya Dwarakanath
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Optimization of Fabrication and Experimental Methodologies for MEMS Drug Delivery Devices and Neural Probes
Lesley Chan
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Enhanced Performance of Printed Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Microcells with Conformal, Graded Index Surface Nanostructures
Aditya Vaidyanathan
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Aerodynamic Performance of Stepped Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers
Awadi Rathugamage
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Aerodynamic Performance of Stepped Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers
Brendan Plecque
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Aerodynamic Performance of Stepped Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers
Kirsten Rice
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies for Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater and the Effects of Natural Organic Matter
Peter Grasso
2013
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies for Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater and the Effects of Natural Organic Matter
Rachel Kohan
2013
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
E. Musici: facilitating communication between researcher and bacteria through song
Stephan Genyk
2013
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
E. Musici: facilitating communication between researcher and bacteria through song
Megan Bernstein
2013
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
E. Musici: facilitating communication between researcher and bacteria through song
Wendiann Yamasaki
2013
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Exercise Ameliorates Depression-Like Behavior Observed in a Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease Prior to Motor Symptom Onset
Pavitra Krishnamani
2013
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Developing Ultra-Sensitive Ethanol Receptors (USERs) to Define the Molecular Mechanism of Alcoholism
Vivek Shah
2013
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Experience-Dependent Neuroplasticity in Dopamine-Linked Models of Chronic Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Use and Huntington's Disease
Divya Nair
2013
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Re-Engineering Mosaics of Cone Photoreceptors in Retinas Affected by Retinitis Pigmentosa
Jung-Gi Min
2013
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Targeting Cancer Metabolism: The Effects of a Novel Mitochondrial Derived Peptide on Breast Cancer Progression
Brandon Glousman
2013
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Targeting Cancer Metabolism: The Effects of a Novel Mitochondrial Derived Peptide on Breast Cancer Progression
Rikiesha Pierce
2013
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Gangsta Feminism? A Pilot Study Investigating the Feminist Potential of Big Rik Locc
Charnan Williams
2013
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Lost in the City of Angels: A Comparative Analysis of Central Avenue and Leimert Park as Black Cultural Spaces
Parin Patel
2013
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Remember What Siddh?rtha Said Under the Banyan Tree?: Safeguarding Material Culture in Modern-Day Anti-Buddhist Gandhara
Grant Dixon
2013
Humanities
2nd Prize
What Is A King To Do: An Investigation of Images of Kingship
Vellore Adithi
2013
Humanities
1st Prize
American-Born: An Analysis of Race Representation, Claims to Whiteness, and Ethnic Citizenship in Will Eisner's The Spirit and A Contract with God
Caleb Barnes
2013
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Lingua Musica
Osama (Sam) Iqab
2013
Arts
Honorable Mention
Rising with Rubble
Lori Chen
2013
Arts
Honorable Mention
A Modular Solution to Skid Row Housing
Eve White
2013
Arts
2nd Prize
Chaotic Focus
Devon Mott
2013
Arts
1st Prize
Uniform without Uniformity: An Architectural Inquiry of Craft
Tito Thomas
2014
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Polyamines Supported on Fibrous Silica Nanospheres: New Regenerable Adsorbents for CO2 Recycling
Peter Grasso
2014
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Sustainable Energy Recovery from Wastewater Treatment by Bioelectrochemical Fuel Cells (BEFCs)
Erica Arnold
2014
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Sustainable Energy Recovery from Wastewater Treatment by Bioelectrochemical Fuel Cells (BEFCs)
Stephanie Wetzel
2014
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in children and parents after child's admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Jack Koppa
2014
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
FrackMented – Contextualizing Environmental Policy
Elizabeth Volpicelli
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Twin Study of Accumulated Environmental Risk Factors on Childhood Antisocial Behavior
Janis Yue
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Effects of Marijuana Use on Cognitive Ability: A Twin Study
Svadharma Keerthi
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Effects of Marijuana Use on Cognitive Ability: A Twin Study
Da Eun Kim
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Breaking the Cycle – Cracking Gender Disparity in Game Development Education
Francesca Corley
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Pharmacological Pandemic: How counterfeit drugs have turned medicine against us & how we can stop it
Stephanie Chui
2014
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Pharmacological Pandemic: How counterfeit drugs have turned medicine against us & how we can stop it
Kelsey Bradshaw
2014
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
GABRA2 Associations with Conduct Problems in Childhood and Alcohol Dependence by Mid-Adulthood in a Non-Western Sample
Vivian Rotenstein
2014
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Restorative versus Punitive Justice: A College Student's Perspective
Corey Pettit
2014
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Restorative versus Punitive Justice: A College Student's Perspective
Kristene Hossepian
2014
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Restorative versus Punitive Justice: A College Student's Perspective
Mary Bassily
2014
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Characterizing Vowel Production in Post-Glossectomy Speech Using Real-time MRI
Michael Bertch
2014
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Hostile Takeover: The USIA and the Soviet Occupation of Austria, 1945-1955
Anta Safo
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Taylor Hellam
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Jeremy Chen
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Lindsay Arvin
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Carlos Portela
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
High Temperature Nanoindentation Method: reducing sample oxidation in metallic single crystals
Matthew Orr
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Photon-dominated Region Modeling of the [C I], [C II], and CO Line Emission from a Boundary in the Taurus Molecular Cloud
Renée Wang
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
2nd Prize
Trace Metal Transport and Illegal Gold Mining in Peru
Evan Brown
2014
Physical Sciences & Engineering
1st Prize
Nanowire Simulations Provide Key to Harnessing Sun
Brian Lentz
2014
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Rates and costs of ion transport are genetically determined during animal development
Yael Freiberg
2014
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Four-Chromosome Yeast Model for Robertsonian Translocation
Joshua Dreyzen
2014
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Characterization of sleep disruption in known sleep and homeostatic synaptic plasticity mutants
Karthik Vasan
2014
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Inhibition of cell growth and induction of apoptosis in KSHV-transformed cells by an inhibitor of sirtuins, Nicotinamide (Vitamin B3)
Eliza Asherian
2014
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Chronic Ethanol Exposure in Mice Leads to Neuroinflammatory Response and Increased P2X7 Receptor Expression
Elaine Roh
2014
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Adaptive Capacity to Bacterial Diet Modulates Aging in C. elegans
Jasmine Torres
2014
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Quyen Le
2014
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Katrina Miller
2014
Humanities
Honorable Mention
El Rexurdimento: The Redemption of Galician Poetry
Kalena Giessler
2014
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Examining Obsidian Provenance and Procurement: a pXRF Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts Found at Chavín de Huánta, Peru
Vivian Yan
2014
Humanities
2nd Prize
"Their History," "Our History": Constructions of Chinese American History and Community Identity, 1960-2013
Anneleise Azua
2014
Humanities
1st Prize
Curanderismo in the Rio Grande Valley: A Study of Transformation
Anaka Morris
2014
Arts
Honorable Mention
Somewhere in South Central
Saad Haddad
2014
Arts
Honorable Mention
Mai
Eunice Chang
2014
Arts
2nd Prize
Once Upon a Slave's Ambition
Jordan Perkins
2014
Arts
1st Prize
Disaster Relief: Deployable Shelters
Thomas Do
2015
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Proton Assisted Reduction of CO? by Cobalt Pyridine Amino Macrocycles
Joseph Yoo
2015
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Cobalt Dithiolene-like Metal Organic Surfaces for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution
Hania Adib
2015
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Questioning Children about Their Understanding of the Physician's Role
Luis Villanueva
2015
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
The New Entrepreneur – Bridging South Central
Janis Yue
2015
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Marijuana and the Mind: Brain Differences between Users and Non-Users
Tori Hirata
2015
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Habits and Self-Control: An Examination of the Benefit of Habit Performance on Self-Control
Rachel Jones
2015
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
We will not be silent no more: the case of Canada's Idle No More and Indigenous Political Resistance in the Digital Age
Engie Salama
2015
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Automated Curriculum Mapping Using Latent Semantic Analysis
Carolyn Windler
2015
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
How Purity Beliefs Impact Moral Judgments Regarding Vaccines
Roxana Ontiveros
2015
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Criminalization, Racialization, and Informality: Mexican Immigrant Labor Participation in the South Central and Compton Pallet Industry
Kristene Hossepian
2015
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Community Violence Exposure and the Moderating Effects of Coparenting
William Orr
2015
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Reckless and Indiscriminate: The Impact of Japanese Bombing in the Second Sino-Japanese War on pre-World War II American Depictions of Area Bombing
Evan Brown
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Reactive Force Field Parameters in Molecular Dynamics
Ryan Miller
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
The recreation of a unique shrimp's mechanically induced cavitation bubble
Christopher Dougherty
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
The recreation of a unique shrimp's mechanically induced cavitation bubble
Samuel Kushner-Lenhoff
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Low-threshold integrated red microlaser from samarium-doped silica
Karl Heyer
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Developing the Next Generation of Cancer Diagnostics
Ellie Hara
2015
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Characterization of organic carbon transport in the aftermath of a large earthquake
Vishnu Rao
2015
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Impact of Dosing Strategies and the Tumor Microenvironment on Drug Resistance
Kaitlin McGillivray
2015
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Impact of Dosing Strategies and the Tumor Microenvironment on Drug Resistance
Ryan Heintz
2015
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Exercise training reinstates cortico-cortical sensorimotor functional connectivity following striatal lesioning
Karthik Vasan
2015
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
The Role of Class III HDACs in the Growth and Survival of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Gio Suh
2015
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Engineering the Extracellular Matrix for Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Growth and Differentiation
Clara Hua
2015
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Engineering the Extracellular Matrix for Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Growth and Differentiation
Archana Bettadapur
2015
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Engineering the Extracellular Matrix for Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Growth and Differentiation
Amanda Semler
2015
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Methods of detecting submarine groundwater discharge and its implications for ancient and contemporary civilizations on Catalina Island
Janet Le
2015
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Reclaiming Community Space Through Wall Narratives: The Rise of Chicano/a and Latino/a Muralism in Pacoima
Cameron Tate Espinoza
2015
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Elements of Substance: An Analysis of Dostoyevsky's Stylistic Techniques in Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov
Alleluia Tyus
2015
Humanities
2nd Prize
Hasmonean Prutot: Cast or Struck?
Nina Castilla
2015
Humanities
2nd Prize
Hasmonean Prutot: Cast or Struck?
Rosebud Campion
2015
Humanities
1st Prize
Can Western Art Music Be Narrative?
Bronte Ficek
2015
Digital Media
Interdisciplinary Award
A Lecture Recital on the Brain and Music
Linda Wang
2015
Digital Media
Honorable Mention
Transcultural Reformations: History, Identity, and Politics in Dakar Hip-Hop Culture
Kylie Nicholson
2015
Digital Media
Honorable Mention
Standards of Self: Disordered Thoughts, Disordered Eating, and Eating Disorders
Yu Chuan Shan
2015
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Modeling 3D Campus And Visualizing Indoor Routing
Ziyu Ouyang
2015
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Modeling 3D Campus And Visualizing Indoor Routing
Jasmine Ying
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Ilani Fay Umel
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Christopher Brady Thomas
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Wai Hwa Tan
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Emma Smith
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Alexis Russell
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Max Pittsley
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Luke Patterson
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Alexander Morgan
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Adrian Mendoza
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Boston Mak
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Brendan Lobuglio
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Patrick Lancaster
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Jonathan Iskandar
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Fangli Hou
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Katherine Hood
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Maracel Guevarra
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Quentin Frere-Carossio
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Michael Duan
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Paula Collins
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Norman Chootong
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Catherine Chooljian
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Caroline Chiou
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Isabella Marie Benavente
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Deborah Bello
2015
Digital Media
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Susana Lopera
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Exocentricity
Michael Nader
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Amir Mojarradi
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
William Merrick
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
William Ilgen
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Sarah Huck
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Jonathan Ho
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Stephen Helstad
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Peter Franklin
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Michael Effenberger
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Miranda Due
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
William Cherry
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Gus Bendinelli
2015
Arts
Honorable Mention
Campbell's
Carrie Moore
2015
Arts
2nd Prize
Best Behavior: Stories of the Black Middle Class
Jasmine Ying
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Ilani Fay Umel
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Christopher Brady Thomas
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Wai Hwa Tan
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Emma Smith
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Alexis Russell
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Max Pittsley
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Luke Patterson
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Alexander Morgan
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Adrian Mendoza
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Boston Mak
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Brendan Lobuglio
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Patrick Lancaster
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Jonathan Iskandar
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Fangli Hou
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Katherine Hood
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Maracel Guevarra
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Quentin Frere-Carossio
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Michael Duan
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Paula Collins
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Norman Chootong
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Catherine Chooljian
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Caroline Chiou
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Isabella Marie Benavente
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Deborah Bello
2015
Arts
1st Prize
ElemenTerra
Yu Chuan Shan
2016
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks
Benjamin Banet
2016
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks
Katherine Van Winkle
2016
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Green Out Your Closet
Julia Loup
2016
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Exercise Self-Efficacy in Older Adults: Implementation of a Augmented Reality Fall Prevention Game and Intervention
Saadhya Singampalli
2016
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Using digital health interventions to form positive habit loops and decrease self-stigma and public stigma towards mental health
Nicole Tolbert
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
The Family and Self-Stigma in Patients with Schizophrenia
Jisoo Yoon
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Melissa Ward
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Olivia Shin
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Kiran Salehani
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Tsam Ning
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Jamie Nguyen
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Megan Murphy
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Arianna McMechan
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Eugenia Anya Hee
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Afsara Haque
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Ya Gao
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction
Sasha Hondagneu-Messner
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
Foreign Assistance and Reciprocity
Trista Benitez
2016
Social Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Study on an Acute Care Nursing Program at a Southern California For-profit Career College: Assessing the Vocational Training, Completion Rates, Job Placement, & Student Satisfaction
Vivian Rotenstein
2016
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
Adolescents' reasoning about the community violence they have witnessed predicts subsequent empathic emotional responding to others' true experiences
Sarah Weingust
2016
Social Sciences
2nd Prize
The Political Power of Dissonance: How liberals and conservatives respond to induced hypocrisy around the issue of climate change
Lillie Moffett
2016
Social Sciences
1st Prize
A New Measure For Testing Episodic Foresight Ability in Young Children
Thalia Henderson
2016
Social Sciences
1st Prize
Education for Life: An ethnography of an education program for formerly homeless men
Zixuan Zhou
2016
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Immersive Virtual Reality System for Neurorehabilitation using a Motion Capture System and a Self-Paced Treadmill
Yu Chuan Shan
2016
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks
Benjamin Banet
2016
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks
Eric Deng
2016
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Personalized Robot Control in Dynamic Human-Robot Interactions
Divya Gupta
2016
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Combining the Antimicrobial and Regenerative Properties of Copper Nanoparticles to Promote Tissue Repair in Grossly Infected Wounds
Andrew Morris
2016
Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Award
Tangle Analysis and Braid Solutions to the Action of the HIN Enzyme
Kaitlin Prechtl
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Dynamic Principals of Hydrostatic Movement in C. elegans: An Invertebrate Model for Parkinson's Disease
Jordan Kondo
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Dynamic Principals of Hydrostatic Movement in C. elegans: An Invertebrate Model for Parkinson's Disease
Laura Kagami
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Dynamic Principals of Hydrostatic Movement in C. elegans: An Invertebrate Model for Parkinson's Disease
Alexander Cuoci
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
Dynamic Principals of Hydrostatic Movement in C. elegans: An Invertebrate Model for Parkinson's Disease
Kathleen Tor
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Conserved Tumor Suppressor Encoded in the Mitochondrial Genome
Emmeline Kim
2016
Life Sciences
Honorable Mention
A Conserved Tumor Suppressor Encoded in the Mitochondrial Genome
Meagan He
2016
Life Sciences
2nd Prize
Identification of novel regulators of Maf1
Serena Zheng
2016
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Determining the subclinical significance of circulating tumor cells in epithelial ovarian cancer through single cell enumeration and genomic profiling
Asher Levy
2016
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Digital Reconstruction of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Practical Guide, Manual and Toolbox
Georgia Soares
2016
Humanities
Honorable Mention
To See is to Feel: Feminist Symbols of Perception in Woolf and Lispector
Brooke Kidner
2016
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Documenting Lakota: An Endangered Language
Irene Martinez
2016
Humanities
2nd Prize
The Voice of Community: Resiliency of Latina Immigrant Women
William Orr
2016
Humanities
1st Prize
From Condemnation to Celebration: Changing American Representations of the Bombing of Cities and Civilians in East Asia 1937-1945
Jamie Haberman
2016
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Hologram Dance Pack
Avni Barman
2016
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Hologram Dance Pack
Jonathan Fudem
2016
Digital Media
1st Prize
Privacy Lost: Owning Our Data In Digital Culture
Amy Suto
2016
Arts
Honorable Mention
Con TV Miniseries Season One
Jennifer Enfield-Kane
2016
Arts
Honorable Mention
Con TV Miniseries Season One
Storm Nylen
2016
Arts
Honorable Mention
Baby Blue Bird (B3): The Integration of Digital Media into Waldorf Education
John Nash
2016
Arts
2nd Prize
Words from Digital Dust: The Afterlife of Forgotten Images
Audrey Emerson
2016
Arts
1st Prize
The Pamoja Project
Samantha McVety
2017
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
A Synergetic Solution To Small-Scale Water Challenges
Lynn Le
2017
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Education Through Gaming and Game Development
Nisha Kale
2017
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
The role of visuospatial ability and musical training on piano sight-reading abilities in expert and amateur pianists
Kaitlin Hardin
2017
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Getting a Head Start: Using A Mobile Application to Monitor Sports Concussions
Elizabeth Hutton
2017
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
A New Model of Statistical Learning: Trajectories Through Perceptual Similarity Space
Hannah Nordberg
2017
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Anxiety, Physiological Arousal, and Executive Functioning in Younger Adults
Esther Jahng
2017
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Transitioning to Motherhood: Role of Mode of Delivery and Stressful Birth Experience on Mother-Infant Bonding
Vanessa Vucinic
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Brianna Thorpe
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Jasmin Nunez
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Tomás Mier
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Melissa Martinez
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Griffin Kantz
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Diana Jimenez
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Braulio Hoyos
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Andrea Diaz
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Sonia Chavez-Meza
2017
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Urban Development Assessment of Mexico City
Madison Eckert
2017
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Frats, Srats and Trojans: drawing the line between drunk sex and sexual assault
Jordan Elist
2017
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
The Rise of Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship in Mexico
Philippa Tucker
2017
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Evaluation of the KIDS AIDE Bicycle Intervention in Northern Peru
Nimisha Patil
2017
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Comparison of Basic Beatboxing Articulations using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Eric Deng
2017
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
Personalized Socially Assistive Robots for Children with Autism
Sébastien Arnold
2017
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Accelerating AI: A Practical Algorithm for Quadratic Convergence of Large-Scale Deep Learning
Christian Lau
2017
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistors for Large-Area and Flexible Electronics
Tsam Kiu (Ewina) Pun
2017
Life Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
A Biocompatible Impedance-based Microbubble Pressure Transducer to Treat Hydrocephalus
Carina Seah
2017
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
In vivo AAV gene targeting of the C9ORF72 repeat expansion in ALS
Christopher Halbur
2017
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Identification of microRNAs within HIV integration Sites in the Human Genome
Aditya Dutta Gupta
2017
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Identification of microRNAs within HIV integration Sites in the Human Genome
Brian Chin
2017
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Identification of microRNAs within HIV integration Sites in the Human Genome
Rahul Masson
2017
Life Sciences II
2nd Prize
Characterizing Circulating Tumor Cells in ERBB2 Mutant HER2 Non-Amplified Metastatic Breast Cancer
Sang Wun (Erick) Jung
2017
Life Sciences II
1st Prize
Discovering the First Immune System Encoded in the Human Mitochondrial Genome: The Antimicrobial Effects of a Mitochondrial-Derived Peptide on Bacteria
Sean Lim
2017
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Diversity of Self-Organizing Migration Patterns Across and Within Species of Swimming Bacteria
David Sutter
2017
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Extended Synaptotagmin is a presynaptic ER Ca2+ sensor that promotes neurotransmission and synaptic growth in Drosophila
Daniel Kim
2017
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Extended Synaptotagmin is a presynaptic ER Ca2+ sensor that promotes neurotransmission and synaptic growth in Drosophila
Shyam Hassan
2017
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Cycloheximide Resistance, Mechanisms, and Genetics in C. elegans
Richard Johnson
2017
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Developmental Exposure to particulate air pollutants reduces cell proliferation in the
hippocampus and impairs hippocampal dependent memory
Ashley Labarre
2017
Life Sciences I
1st Prize
A Study of the Pattern of Jawbone Regeneration in the Adult Zebrafish Upper and Lower Jawbone
Jacob Broussard
2017
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Examining Change in Traditional Navajo Music
Heather Duncan
2017
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Woven
Alleluia Tyus
2017
Humanities
Honorable Mention
A Petrographic Analysis of Late Bronze Age Alalakh pottery culture
Felicitas (Felicia) Reyes
2017
Humanities
2nd Prize
Community-based Efforts: Addressing the Needs of Undocumented Youth involved in the Juvenile Justice System
Morgan Mamon
2017
Humanities
1st Prize
Ibn Khald?n in Translation: An Examination of J?l in Franz Rosenthal's Muqaddimah
Emile Indik
2017
Digital Media
Honorable Mention
Dora Research Analytics
Kathy Sarah Jiang Liu
2017
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Bringing Paper to Life in the "1969" Virtual Reality Film
Noreen Chrysilla
2017
Digital Media
1st Prize
Seizure Monitor
Yimin Zhang
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Sagar Ramesh
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Andrew Okenfuss
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Erika Gomi
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Sze Yu (Awu) Chen
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Brenda Chen
2017
Arts
Honorable Mention
Santiago
Adrianne Ramsey
2017
Arts
2nd Prize
GIRLS Magazine
Devon Manney
2017
Arts
1st Prize
Cradle
Talia Oughourlian
2017
American Physiological Society (APS)
Honorable Mention
Mechanisms Behind Radial Glial-Like Cell Culture
San Wun (Erick) Jung
2017
American Physiological Society (APS)
Honorable Mention
Discovering the First Immune System Encoded in the Human Mitochondrial Genome: The Antimicrobial Effects of a Mitochondrial-Derived Peptide on Bacteria
Sarah Wong
2017
American Physiological Society (APS)
1st Prize
Sexual Dimorphism and the 20S Proteasome in Oxidative Stress and Adaptive Homeostasis
Christian Gayle
2018
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Stop Spreading the News: Ideology and the Spread of Fake News Within Social Media
Haoshi Wang
2018
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles
Richard Windisch
2018
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles
Austin Chow
2018
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles
Madelyn Mendlen
2018
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
Productivity and Emotional Response in Child Forensic Interviews
Tsam Ning
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Merai Estafanous
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Catherine Wang
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Linguistic Encoding of Subjectivity in News Discourse
Daniel Like
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Jisoo Suh
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Afsara Haque
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Arianna Lane
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Olivia Shin
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Jillian Pih
2018
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults
Arianna Lane
2018
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Does our Language Reflect How We Feel? Gender Differences in Word Use relative to Mood and Depressive Symptoms
Jacob Schwessinger
2018
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Linguistics and Climate Change: Does Language Affect Climate Change Response?
Julian Herren
2018
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions
Christian Relleve
2018
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions
Grace Corsi
2018
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions
Aarohi Mahableshwarkar
2018
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Urban and Rural Regions
Lillian Dyre
2018
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Urban and Rural Regions
Rae Lan
2018
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Urban and Rural Regions
Anbar Aizenman
2018
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Mobile Money Substitution Patterns With Financial Services: Evidence From Kenya
Ariana Arzani
2018
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Constitutionality of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
Lisa De Rafols
2018
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Autocratic Lobbying Strategies: A case study on Russia and Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution
Eva Isakovic
2018
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
Autocratic Lobbying Strategies: A case study on Russia and Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution
Ryland Mortlock
2018
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Award
Building a Computational Model to Stimulate Beta Cell Regeneration In Vivo
Benjamin Banet
2018
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
Honorable Mention
A Photographic Light Pollution Assessment across Western Public Lands
Eliza Gutierrez-Dewar
2018
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
2nd Prize
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Illuminated Boats at Night
Juliana Tichota
2018
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Evaluating the Performance of Bio-adsorber Technology in the Removal of Gasoline and its Toxic and Carcinogenic Components from Groundwater
Juan Rincon
2018
Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering
1st Prize
Evaluating the Performance of Bio-adsorber Technology in the Removal of Gasoline and its Toxic and Carcinogenic Components from Groundwater
Christina Sisliyan
2018
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Is the Adaptive Homeostatic Response to Oxidative Stress Sexually Divergent in D. melanogaster?
David Kim
2018
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Assessing ALS hallmarks in transgenic mouse models and their utility in drug discovery
Sarah Wong
2018
Life Sciences II
2nd Prize
The Gut and Nervous System – Sex-Specific Adaptation to Oxidative Stress Conferred
through Tissue-Specific Adaptation in D. Melanogaster
Jamie Clarke
2018
Life Sciences II
1st Prize
Melanin-Concentrating Hormone in the Ventral Hippocampus Increases Food Impulsivity in Rats
Kevin Jiang
2018
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Changes in Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalization Syllables and Syntax Across Social Contexts
Rahil Khasgiwale
2018
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Leg movement rate pre- and post-kicking intervention in infants with Down syndrome
Ryan Brankovic
2018
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Three-dimensional shape and locomotor function of the carnivoran pelvis
Sandhyarani Gullapalli
2018
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Potential Local Adaptation to Stress in Mitochondrial and Nuclear Protein Degradation Measured in Lon Protease and Proteasome Activity in a Widely Distributed Intertidal Marine Organism
Kylie Burdsall
2018
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Towards the Structure of the Melanocortin 4 Receptor
Aamna Asif
2018
Life Sciences I
1st Prize
On the male disadvantage: generation and characterization of a male specific mouse model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Thomas Zhang
2018
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Saints in Cyprus: Creating Interactive Research Materials for the Painted Medieval Churches of the Troodos Mountain Range
Rachel Kartin
2018
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Saints in Cyprus: Creating Interactive Research Materials for the Painted Medieval Churches of the Troodos Mountain Range
Kevin Mercy
2018
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Revelations from Lidar: Maya Ground Reconnaissance
Rosebud Campion
2018
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Forging the Folk: The Development of a National Musical Identity in Edwardian England
Rachel Tang
2018
Humanities
2nd Prize
How to Name a Heartbreak: Text, Titles and the Poetry of Didacticism in American
Mary Hickman
2018
Humanities
1st Prize
Spanish Politics and Religious Monuments: The Case of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
Kate Crellin
2018
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Transgender Students in the Choral Classroom: Creating Safe & Accepting Environments
Roxanna Pakkar
2018
Digital Media
1st Prize
Socially Assistive Robotics for Kids with Autism
Nicole Blue
2018
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
WastedLA: A Critique on Systemic Models of Waste
Noelle Brimble
2018
Arts
Honorable Mention
Seeing Red
Belinda Pak
2018
Arts
Honorable Mention
DIY Seismic Wall Paneling & Shelving System
Josephine Kihiu
2018
Arts
2nd Prize
African Tears Sold Separately
Karla Luna Cantu
2018
Arts
1st Prize
The Fringes
Jason Phillips
2018
Arts
1st Prize
The Fringes
Elizabeth Harty
2018
Arts
1st Prize
The Fringes
Jacqueline Gonzalez
2018
American Physiological Society (APS)
Honorable Mention
Deregulated mafr-1 in the germline alters organismal lipid homeostasis
Anthony Jusuf
2018
American Physiological Society (APS)
2nd Prize
Cetuximab Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Colorectal Cancer
Carina Seah
2018
American Physiological Society (APS)
1st Prize
Apilimod is a novel drug candidate that rescues cellular pathology in mouse models of C9ORF72 ALS
Srividya Dasaraju
2019
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
You Heard it Here First: Campaign Finance Laws as a Signaling Instrument
Avery Hogarth
2019
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
You Heard it Here First: Campaign Finance Laws as a Signaling Instrument
Zakary Baumann
2019
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Nanoparticle Coatings on Adsorbent Materials for the Removal of Low-Level Concentration of Lead from Drinking Water
Nicole Avendano
2019
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Nanoparticle Coatings on Adsorbent Materials for the Removal of Low-Level Concentration of Lead from Drinking Water
Juliana Tichota
2019
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
Nanoparticle Coatings on Adsorbent Materials for the Removal of Low-Level Concentration of Lead from Drinking Water
Zane Durante
2019
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
Natural Language Processing Techniques to Detect Deception in Child Forensic Interviews
Stephanie Chai
2019
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Efficacy of Transdermal Nicotine Patches Affected by Severity of Premenstrual Symptom Levels
Jennifer Sung
2019
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
The Unique Role of Agentic Engagement in Student's Classroom Experiences
Aili Qiao
2019
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
Fight, Flee, or Wait to See: The Psychology of Proactive Self-Defense
Charles Beckler
2019
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
Differences in Dysphoria between Transgender Men and Transgender Women
Seher Randhawa
2019
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Community Science Tree Inventory: Spatial Analysis of the Los Angeles Urban Forest
Jingran Tao
2019
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Community Science Tree Inventory: Spatial Analysis of the Los Angeles Urban Forest
Hector Reyes
2019
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
The Persistent Effects of Sugar Plantations on Poverty in Puerto Rico
Bryant Cong
2019
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Chinese Lobbying Practices: Comparing the Hu and Xi Eras
Jonathan Horwitz
2019
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
On the Border: The history of the U.S.-Mexican water regime and its current outlook
Kaitlyn Park
2019
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
An Analysis of Current Trends in Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Trials: Females, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics
Jacqueline Chen
2019
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
An Analysis of Current Trends in Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Trials: Females, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics
Annie Ly
2019
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
An Analysis of Current Trends in Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Trials: Females, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics
Pooja Bisarya
2019
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Award
Empathy and Symptom Prediction
Trey Cranney
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Sydney Mayer
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development and Design Validation Testing of Force Sensing Gloves for Intent Interpreting
Spencer Powers
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Samantha Cendro
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Kristen Pedersen
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Diego Ochoa-Cota
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
David Amaral
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Connor Powers
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Branden Kretschmer
2019
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Development Campaign of an Additively Manufactured, Inductively Heated Model of a Solid-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Janeline Wong
2019
Physical Sciences II
2nd Prize
Retinal Implant: An Optimized Protocol for Post-Fabrication Processing
Alexis Foroozan
2019
Physical Sciences II
2nd Prize
3D Stacking Insertion for Flexible Brain Probes
Margot Meldefontenay
2019
Physical Sciences II
1st Prize
Targeting Hydroxyapatite to Detect Atherosclerosis Using Micelle Nanoparticle Particles
Christina Najm
2019
Physical Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Impact of Hydrophobicity on the Performance of Electrospun Membranes in Emerging Wastewater Treatment Technology
Katelyn Michael
2019
Physical Sciences I
2nd Prize
Catalytic Oxidation of Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composites
Hannah Walker
2019
Physical Sciences I
2nd Prize
Bathymetric Modeling Using Arduino Technologies
Johan Joo
2019
Physical Sciences I
1st Prize
Shape Effects of Peptide Amphiphile Micelles for Targeting Monocytes
Kevin Liu
2019
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Patient-derived Circulating Tumor Cells Reveals Insight into Brain Metastasis
Daniel Yen
2019
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Synthesis of a Capture Antibody for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy-Based Long Term Hematopoietic Stem Cell Identification
Amanda Chau
2019
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
The potential role of TRPA1 channels in mediating noxious cold sensation through neurogenic proinflammatory intermediates
Tyler Gallagher
2019
Life Sciences II
2nd Prize
Lactate administration recapitulates the astrocyte-specific neuroplastic effects of exercise
Austen Le
2019
Life Sciences II
1st Prize
Creating virtual libraries of preferred novel compounds for structure-based drug discovery using combinatorial chemistry
Vanessa Garcia
2019
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Effect of mHealth on Patients with Uncontrolled Diabetes
Jennifer Gonzalez
2019
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Effect of mHealth on Patients with Uncontrolled Diabetes
Crystal Vargas
2019
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Effect of mHealth on Patients with Uncontrolled Diabetes
Ariadna Cruz
2019
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Award
Effect of mHealth on Patients with Uncontrolled Diabetes
Raveena Ghanshani
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
How Valuable Are Your Tears?
Miguel Jaime
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
The effects of PM2.5 levels on cerebral blood flow in young adults throughout Southern
California
Megan Ryu
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
P2X4 receptors in the brain: Implications in Alcohol Addiction and Drug Development
Emily Nixon
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
The effect of point source pollution on the health and resilience of the Southern California kelp forest ecosystem
Edward Jeon
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
P2X4 receptors in the brain: Implications in Alcohol Addiction and Drug Development
Aleksandra Konovnitsyna
2019
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
P2X4 receptors in the brain: Implications in Alcohol Addiction and Drug Development
Nicholas Guardino
2019
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
In vivo Optimization of Sciatic Nerve Regeneration in Mice
Martin Tran
2019
Life Sciences I
1st Prize
Fast and Efficient Expression of Multiple Proteins in Avian Embryos using mRNA Electroporation
Elizabeth Gunton
2019
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Integrating Web-based Interactivity into Academic Research
Amanda Curtis
2019
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Award
Integrating Web-based Interactivity into Academic Research
Jabrea Patterson
2019
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and the Post Black Eidetic
Kathy Pulupa
2019
Humanities
2nd Prize
Queer Latinx Coalition Building in Los Angeles
Eva Molina
2019
Humanities
1st Prize
The Enlightened Earth: Gender, Ethics, and Atomic Science at Los Alamos, 1942-45
Thomas Zhang
2019
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Capturing California's History: Research and Conservation Tools in Virtual Reality
Max Good
2019
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Capturing California's History: Research and Conservation Tools in Virtual Reality
Zhonghao Shi
2019
Digital Media
1st Prize
Affective Mixed Reality Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction
Roxanna Pakkar
2019
Digital Media
1st Prize
Affective Mixed Reality Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction
Mara Pleasure
2019
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Multi-Media Type 2 Diabetes Education App
Kylie Burdsall
2019
Arts
Interdisciplinary Award
Multi-Media Type 2 Diabetes Education App
Margaret Spencer
2019
Arts
Honorable Mention
Caffè
Ethan Bresnick
2019
Arts
Honorable Mention
Diseased Subject
Mallory Gabbard
2019
Arts
2nd Prize
Sunday In the Park With George: Designing the Visionary
Monique Schoech
2019
Arts
1st Prize
Triggered: A Biomythography
Ariana Chen
2019
American Physiological Society (APS)
Honorable Mention
Identifying the First Tumor Suppressor Encoded in the Mitochondrial Genome
Rae Lan
2019
American Physiological Society (APS)
2nd Prize
Activation of nucleus accumbens-projecting melanin-concentrating hormone neurons promotes palatable food intake
Carina Seah
2019
American Physiological Society (APS)
1st Prize
PIKfyve inhibition is a therapeutic target for C9ORF72 ALS and FTD
Cameron Audras
2021
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
2nd Prize
Reconciling Industrial-Scale Solar Siting and Community Concerns in the Mojave Using Mixed Methodologies
Rachel Ablondi
2021
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative
Jackson Fitzgerald
2021
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative
Erik Huisman
2021
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative
Seher Randhawa
2021
USC Schwarzenegger Institute
1st Prize
USC Urban Trees Initiative
Patrick Lee
2021
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Associations between partners' negative communication styles and physiological arousal in the lives of young adult romantic couples
Dahlia Earleywine
2021
Social Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Associations between partners' negative communication styles and physiological arousal in the lives of young adult romantic couples
Sumedha Attanti
2021
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Isometric Handgrip Exercise Improves Reaction Times on a Working Memory Task
Kyla-Rose Walden
2021
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Internalizing Behavior and Inhibition/Activation Sensitivity In Mauritian Youth With And Without A Parental History of Drinking Problems
Madeline Rouse
2021
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
The Effectiveness of Linguistic Manipulations on COVID-19 Related Health Messages
Haley Hsu
2021
Social Sciences II
2nd Prize
The Effectiveness of Linguistic Manipulations on COVID-19 Related Health Messages
Clarisa Wijaya
2021
Social Sciences II
1st Prize
The Meaning of Health and Illness in the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness: A Qualitative Study
Felix Goldwasser
2021
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
USC GeoHealth Hub
Naman Casas
2021
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
USC GeoHealth Hub
Alicia Adiwidjaja
2021
Social Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
USC GeoHealth Hub
Zachary Hrenko
2021
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Why Small Businesses Struggle to Get Loans in the Middle East and What Governments Can Do to Fix it
Sunyoung (Stacy) Uhm
2021
Social Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Chronically Left Out – Lack of Patient Diversity in Chronic Disease Clinical Trials in Los Angeles
Jackson Fitzgerald
2021
Social Sciences I
2nd Prize
Submerged Cultural Heritage Analysis
Kathy Lam
2021
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
USC Student Food Access
Elise Wimberly
2021
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
USC Student Food Access
Kyra Chan
2021
Social Sciences I
1st Prize
USC Student Food Access
Nicolas Van Houten
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Bari Noor
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Miru Jun
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Karina Yang
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Jessie Zhang
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Surya Nehra
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Maxwell Kofman
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Jethro Lim
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
John Heo
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Nisha Chatwani
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Leena Mathur
2021
Physical Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Multimodal Machine Learning Models for Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Dementia Detection
Julia Cordero
2021
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Radhika Agrawal
2021
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Nisha Chatwani
2021
Physical Sciences II
Honorable Mention
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Benjamin Ma
2021
Physical Sciences II
2nd Prize
Play it Again, Sam: How Music Characterizes Genre in Film
Karen Ly
2021
Physical Sciences II
1st Prize
Mobile MoveToCode: Creating Mobile, Kinesthetic, Augmented Reality Programming for K-12 Education
Ipek Goktan
2021
Physical Sciences II
1st Prize
Mobile MoveToCode: Creating Mobile, Kinesthetic, Augmented Reality Programming for K-12 Education
Radhika Bhuckory
2021
Physical Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
PyREM: Implementing a Computational Model of Airborne Respiratory Droplet-based Virus Transmission
Elizabeth Zhou
2021
Physical Sciences I
Honorable Mention
The Effect of Degeneracies on Molecular Free Energy
Juliana Tichota
2021
Physical Sciences I
2nd Prize
Optimized Catanionic Vesicle-to-Micelle Transition for Photoreversible Control of Membrane Protein Folding
Yubin Lin
2021
Physical Sciences I
1st Prize
In-Body Localization Technique Based on MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
Bryson Choy
2021
Life Sciences II
Interdisciplinary Prize
Activation Mechanism of Class A GPCRs is Dependent on Allosteric Sodium Binding
David Wen
2021
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Identifying Osteoclast Genes Involved in Bone Repair
Matthew Jeon
2021
Life Sciences II
Honorable Mention
AKT but not MYC promotes reactive oxygen species-mediated cell death in oxidative culture
Ariana Chen
2021
Life Sciences II
2nd Prize
MOTS-c: A Mitochondrial-Encoded Tumor Suppressor?
Kay Katada
2021
Life Sciences II
1st Prize
The role of Sprouty2 in regulating protective epithelial cell types in inflammatory bowel disease
Samuel Jump
2021
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
Functional analysis of an enhancer flanked by four tobacco smoke-responsive DNA methylation sites in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene
Anastasiya Demenko
2021
Life Sciences I
Interdisciplinary Prize
Functional Analysis of the Enhancer at cg05575921, a DNA Methylation Site that is Tobacco Smoke-Responsive and Highly Associated with Lung Cancer Risk
Jaden Mullin
2021
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Copy number analysis of early-stage NSCLC patients using HD-SCA 3.0 platform
Aubrey Martinez
2021
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Fully Automated Pipeline for the Cortical Thickness Estimation in TBI Rodents
Sweta Bhagavatula
2021
Life Sciences I
Honorable Mention
Fully Automated Pipeline for the Cortical Thickness Estimation in TBI Rodents
Lana Bridi
2021
Life Sciences I
2nd Prize
Early life Western Diet-induced memory impairments and gut microbiome changes in female rats are long-lasting despite healthy dietary intervention
Danika Banh
2021
Life Sciences I
1st Prize
Stepping Into the Future of Dentistry: Virtual Reality and Orthodontic Diagnosis
Chasia Jeffries
2021
Humanities
Interdisciplinary Prize
We've Been Knew: An Ode to Black Women Bearing Witness & Bearing History through Poetry
Maxwell Burlew
2021
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Herms, Nike, and Surveillance Art
Sean Silvia
2021
Humanities
Honorable Mention
Rebuilding the Roman Baths Embedded in Downtown Tarsus
Jack Casey
2021
Humanities
2nd Prize
Descendants of Ham: "Etiope" and Jose Antonio Aponte
Lucy Sun
2021
Humanities
1st Prize
Escapes and Deceptions: Chinese Women's Resistance to Sexual Violence During the Nanjing Massacre, 1937-38
Kristin Wong
2021
Digital Media
Honorable Mention
The La Brea Tar Pits: An Ice Age Storymap
Luis Rodriguez-Perez
2021
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge Through the Years: Historical Recreation and Accessible Interactive Experiences
Abriannah Aiken
2021
Digital Media
2nd Prize
Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge Through the Years: Historical Recreation and Accessible Interactive Experiences
Julia Cordero
2021
Digital Media
1st Prize
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Radhika Agrawal
2021
Digital Media
1st Prize
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Nisha Chatwani
2021
Digital Media
1st Prize
PoseToCode: Increasing Elementary Student Curiosity in Programming Through Web-Accessible, Multimodal, and Kinesthetic Learning
Lara Mendez
2021
Arts & Architecture
Honorable Mention
Urban Canopy
Lucy Lyu
2021
Arts & Architecture
Honorable Mention
Urban Canopy
Payton Truszkowski
2021
Arts & Architecture
Honorable Mention
The Inner White Girl Analogy
Amy Altman
2021
Arts & Architecture
2nd Prize
Two Paths, One Direction
Rudy Falagan
2021
Arts & Architecture
1st Prize
Untitled (Daily Logs)
Samuel Jump
2021
American Physiological Society
2nd Prize
Functional analysis of an enhancer flanked by four tobacco smoke-responsive DNA methylation sites in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene
Susan Kishi
2021
American Physiological Society
1st Prize
The role of lactate shuttling in mediating synaptogenesis and learning in motor cortex
Aaryan Midha
2024
Social Sciences II
Honorable Mention
Finding Your Flow: Exploring the Relationship Between Flow-state Engagement and Burnout in Undergraduate Students
Manouk Manoukian
2024
Life Sciences I
Second Prize
Impact of arboreal substrate diameter on locomotor performance in the northern tree shew (Tupaia belangeri)