18th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 14, 2016
Keynote Speaker: Michael Quick
2016 Symposium Program
2016 Awards Banquet Program
2016 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts18 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Jennifer Enfield-Kane, Amy Suto Con TV Miniseries Season One Faculty Sponsor: Joel Parker, Trojan Vision, School of Cinematic Arts |
| Honorable Mention |
Storm Nylen Baby Blue Bird (B3): The Integration of Digital Media into Waldorf Education Faculty Sponsors: Steve Anderson and Elizabeth Ramsey, Media Arts and Practice, School of Cinematic Arts |
| 2nd Prize |
John (Iain) Nash Words from Digital Dust: The Afterlife of Forgotten Images Faculty Sponsor: Shannon Ebner, Roski School of Art & Design |
| 1st Prize |
Audrey Emerson The Pamoja Project Faculty Sponsors: Michael Taylor, School of Cinematic Arts & USC Media Institute for Social Change; John Lavall and Kate Kelley, Devlo Media; Anne Wells, Unite the World With Africa; Robert Nazar Arjoyan; Ben Strang, Blueprint Motion Pictures; Kasey Henderson; Sean McCall |
Humanities19 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Georgia Soares To See is to Feel: Feminist Symbols of Perception in Woolf and Lispector Faculty Sponsors: Beatrice Bennett, French, Dornsife College; Elda Roman, English, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention |
Brooke Kidner Documenting Lakota: An Endangered Language Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Walker, Linguistics, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize |
Irene Martinez The Voice of Community: Resiliency of Latina Immigrant Women Faculty Sponsors: Macarena Gomez-Barris and George Sanchez, American & Ethnic Studies, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
William Orr From Condemnation to Celebration: Changing American Representations of the Bombing of Cities and Civilians in East Asia 1937-1945 Faculty Sponsor: Philip Ethington, History, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Asher Levy Digital Reconstruction of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Practical Guide, Manual and Toolbox Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Zuckerman, School of Religion, Dornsife College |
Life Sciences39 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Alexander Cuoci, Laura Kagami, Jordan Kondo, Kaitlin Prechtl Dynamic Principals of Hydrostatic Movement in C. elegans: An Invertebrate Model for Parkinson’s Disease Faculty Sponsors: Andrew Gracey, Biological Sciences, Dornsife College; Khalil Iskarous, Linguistics, Dornsife College; Alex Lopez; Kristi Tran |
| Honorable Mention |
Emmeline Kim, Kathleen Tor A Conserved Tumor Suppressor Encoded in the Mitochondrial Genome Faculty Sponsor: Changhan Lee, Davis School of Gerontology |
| 2nd Prize |
Meagan He Identification of novel regulators of Maf1 Faculty Sponsor: Sean Curran, Davis School of Gerontology/Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
Serena Zheng Determining the subclinical significance of circulating tumor cells in epithelial ovarian cancer through single cell enumeration and genomic profiling Faculty Sponsors: Carmen Ruiz Velasco, James Hicks, and Peter Kuhn, Bridge Institute, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Andrew Morris Tangle Analysis and Braid Solutions to the Action of the HIN Enzyme Faculty Sponsor: David Crombecque, Mathematics, Dornsife College |
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering32 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Benjamin Banet, Yu Chuan Shan ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks Faculty Sponsor: Travis Longcore, Architecture |
| 2nd Prize |
Eric Deng Personalized Robot Control in Dynamic Human-Robot Interactions Faculty Sponsors: Maja Matarić and Ross Mead, Computer Science, Viterbi School |
| 1st Prize |
Divya Gupta Combining the Antimicrobial and Regenerative Properties of Copper Nanoparticles to Promote Tissue Repair in Grossly Infected Wounds Faculty Sponsors: Thomas Bertolini, Chemistry, Dornsife College; Ben Wu, UCLA Department of Bioengineering |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Zixuan Zhou Immersive Virtual Reality System for Neurorehabilitation using a Motion Capture System and a Self-Paced Treadmill Faculty Sponsors: James Finley, and Aram Kim, Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy |
Social Sciences I15 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention | Trista Benitez 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 Faculty Sponsor: Estela Bensimon, Rossier School of Education |
| Honorable Mention | Sasha Hondagneu-Messner Foreign Assistance and Reciprocity Faculty Sponsor: Christian Grose, Political Science, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Sarah Weingust The Political Power of Dissonance: How liberals and conservatives respond to induced hypocrisy around the issue of climate change Faculty Sponsor: Nicole Sintov, Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy |
| 1st Prize | Thalia Henderson Education for Life: An ethnography of an education program for formerly homeless men Faculty Sponsor: Susan Harris, Rossier School of Education/Dornsife College Joint Educational Project |
| Interdisciplinary Prize Award | Saadhya Singampalli Using digital health interventions to form positive habit loops and decrease self-stigma and public stigma towards mental health Faculty Sponsor: Michael Napoliello, Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Marshall School of Business |
Social Sciences II26 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention | Eugenia (Anya) Hee, Olivia Shin, Jisoo Yoon, Afsara (Sara) Haque, Jamie Nguyen, Kiran Salehani, Ya (Mellisa) Gao, Tsam (Sanny) Ning, Melissa Ward, Megan Murphy, Arianna McMechan First person pronoun use: How everyday language is associated with relationship satisfaction Faculty Sponsor: Gayla Margolin, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention | Nicole Tolbert The Family and Self-Stigma in Patients with Schizophrenia Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver and Steven Lopez, Psychology Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Vivian Rotenstein Adolescents’ reasoning about the community violence they have witnessed predicts subsequent empathic emotional responding to others’ true experiences Faculty Sponsor: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Rossier School of Education |
| 1st Prize | Lillie Moffett A New Measure For Testing Episodic Foresight Ability in Young Children Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver and Henrike Moll, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Julia Loup Exercise Self-Efficacy in Older Adults: Implementation of a Augmented Reality Fall Prevention Game and Intervention Faculty Sponsors: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology, Dornsife College; Elizabeth Zelinski, Davis School of Gerontology |
Digital Media
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| 2nd Prize |
Avni Barman, Jamie Haberman Hologram Dance Pack Faculty Sponsor: Osvaldo Trujillo, Roski School of Art and Design |
| 1st Prize |
Jonathan Fudem Privacy Lost: Owning Our Data In Digital Culture Faculty Sponsor: Virginia Kuhn, Ph.D., Media Arts+Practice, School of Cinematic Arts |
USC Schwarzenegger Institute |
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| 2nd Prize | Benjamin Banet, Yu Chuan Shan ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks Faculty Sponsor: Travis Longcore, Architecture |
| 1st Prize | Katherine Van Winkle Green Out Your Closet Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Ramsey, Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts |
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