20th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for
Scholarly & Creative Work
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Michael Kassner
2018 Symposium Program
2018 Awards Banquet Program
2018 Undergraduate Symposium Prize Winners
$1000 First Prizes and $500 Second Prizes were awarded in each category
Arts12 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Noelle Brimble Seeing Red Faculty Sponsor: Holly Willis, Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts |
| Honorable Mention |
Belinda Pak DIY Seismic Wall Paneling & Shelving System Faculty Sponsor: Sofia Borges, School of Architecture |
| 2nd Prize |
Josephine (Jay) Kihiu, African Tears Sold Separately Faculty Sponsor: Emily Zeamer, Anthropology, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
Elizabeth (Lily) Harty, Karla Luna Cantu, Jason Phillips The Fringes Faculty Sponsor: Brenda Goodman, Production, School of Cinematic Arts; Helaine Head, Production, School of Cinematic Arts |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Nicole Blue WastedLA: A Critique on Systemic Models of Waste Faculty Sponsor: Andy Ku, School of Architecture; Virginia Kuhn, Ph.D., Media Arts + Practice, |
Humanities14 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Rosebud Campion Forging the Folk: The Development of a National Musical Identity in Edwardian England Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Cooper Vest, Music History and Literature, Thornton School of Music; Philip Ethington, History, Dornsife College; Lindsay O’Nei |
| Honorable Mention |
Kevin Mercy Revelations from Lidar: Maya Ground Reconnaissance Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Garrison, Ithaca College Department of Anthropology; Kenneth |
| 2nd Prize |
Rachel Tang How to Name a Heartbreak: Text, Titles and the Poetry of Didacticism in American Activist Art Faculty Sponsor: Rebecca Peabody, Art History, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
Mary Cate Hickman Spanish Politics and Religious Monuments: The Case of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Rachel Kartin, Thomas Zhang Saints in Cyprus: Creating Interactive Research Materials for the Painted Medieval Churches of the Troodos Mountain Range Faculty Sponsor: Marilyn Lundberg Melzian, Religion, Dornsife College; Bruce Zuckerman, Religion, Dor |
Life Sciences I23 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Ryan Brankovic Three-dimensional shape and locomotor function of the carnivoran pelvis Faculty Sponsor: Kristi Lewton, Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine |
| Honorable Mention |
Rahil Khasgiwale Leg movement rate pre- and post-kicking intervention in infants with Down syndrome Faculty Sponsor: Beth Smith, Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy |
| 2nd Prize |
Sandhyarani Gullapalli 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 Faculty Sponsor: Kelvin Davies, Davis School of Gerontology |
| 2nd Prize |
Kylie Burdsall Towards the Structure of the Melanocortin 4 Receptor Faculty Sponsor: Raymond Stevens, Chemistry, Dornsife College; Ariel Wein, Chemistry, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
Aamna Asif On the male disadvantage: generation and characterization of a male specific mouse model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia Faculty Sponsor: Gianluca Turcatel, Keck School of Medicine |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Kevin Jiang Changes in Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalization Syllables and Syntax Across Social Contexts Faculty Sponsor: Allison Knoll, Keck School of Medicine; Pat Levitt, Keck School of Medicine |
Life Sciences II26 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Christina Sisliyan Is the Adaptive Homeostatic Response to Oxidative Stress Sexually Divergent in D. melanogaster? Faculty Sponsor: Kelvin Davies, Davis School of Gerontology |
| Honorable Mention |
David Kim Assessing ALS hallmarks in transgenic mouse models and their utility in drug discovery Faculty Sponsor: Justin Ichida, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine; Kim Staats, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine |
| 2nd Prize |
Sarah Wong The Gut and Nervous System – Sex-Specific Adaptation to Oxidative Stress Conferred through Tissue-Specific Adaptation in D. Melanogaster Faculty Sponsor: Kelvin Davies, Davis School of Gerontology; John Tower, Molecular and Computational Biology |
| 1st Prize |
Jamie Clarke Melanin-Concentrating Hormone in the Ventral Hippocampus Increases Food Impulsivity in Rats Faculty Sponsor: Scott Kanoski, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Dornsife College; Emily Noble, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Dornsife College |
Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering31 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention |
Benjamin Banet A Photographic Light Pollution Assessment across Western Public Lands Faculty Sponsor: Travis Longcore, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize |
Eliza Gutierrez-Dewar Spatiotemporal Analysis of Illuminated Boats at Night Faculty Sponsor: Travis Longcore, School of Architecture and Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize |
Juan Rincon, Juliana Tichota Evaluating the Performance of Bio-adsorber Technology in the Removal of Gasoline and its Toxic and Carcinogenic Components from Groundwater Faculty Sponsor: Massoud Pirbazari, Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Interdisciplinary Award |
Ryland Mortlock Building a Computational Model to Stimulate Beta Cell Regeneration In Vivo Faculty Sponsor: Stacey Finley, Viterbi School of Engineering; Senta Georgia, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles |
Social Sciences I20 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention | Lillian Dyre, Rae Lan, Aarohi Mahableshwarkar Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Urban and Rural Regions Faculty Sponsor: Erin Quinn, Sociology, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention | Anbar Aizenman Mobile Money Substitution Patterns With Financial Services: Evidence From Kenya Faculty Sponsor: Juan Saavedra, Center for Economic and Social Research, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Ariana Arzani Constitutionality of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws Faculty Sponsor: Alison Renteln, Political Science, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Lisa De Rafols, Eva Isakovic Autocratic Lobbying Strategies: A case study on Russia and Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution Faculty Sponsor: Erin Baggott Carter, School of International Relations, Dornsife College; Brett Carter, School of International Relations, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Prize Award | Grace Corsi, Julian Herren, Christian Lance Relleve Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions Faculty Sponsor: Darren Ruddell, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College; Jennifer Swift, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College |
Social Sciences II24 submissions |
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| Honorable Mention | Merai Estafanous, Afsara (Sara) Haque, Arianna Lane, Daniel Like, Tsam (Sanny) Ning, Jillian Pih, Olivia Shin, Jisoo Suh Where you go is connected to how you feel: Links between median neighborhood income and depressive symptoms among young adults Faculty Sponsor: Gayla Margolin, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| Honorable Mention | Catherine Wang Linguistic Encoding of Subjectivity in News Discourse’ Faculty Sponsor: Elsi Kaiser, Linguistics, Dornsife College |
| 2nd Prize | Arianna Lane Does our Language Reflect How We Feel? Gender Differences in Word Use relative to Mood and Depressive Symptoms Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Barrett, Psychology, Dornsife College; Sohyun Han, Clinical Science, Dornsife College; Gayla Margolin, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Jacob Schwessinger Linguistics and Climate Change: Does Language Affect Climate Change Response? Faculty Sponsor: Ekaterina Svyatets, Environmental Studies, Dornsife College |
| Interdisciplinary Award | Madelyn Mendlen Productivity and Emotional Response in Child Forensic Interviews Faculty Sponsor: Victor Ardulov, Viterbi School of Engineering; Manoj Kumar, Viterbi School of Engineering; Shrikanth Narayanan, Viterbi School of Engineering |
Digital Media
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| 2nd Prize |
Kate Crellin Transgender Students in the Choral Classroom: Creating Safe & Accepting Environments Faculty Sponsor: Cristian Grases, Thornton School of Music |
| 1st Prize | Roxanna Pakkar Socially Assistive Robotics for Kids with Autism Faculty Sponsor: Maja Matarić, Viterbi School of Engineering |
USC Schwarzenegger Institute |
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| 2nd Prize | Christian Gayle Stop Spreading the News: Ideology and the Spread of Fake News Within Social Media Faculty Sponsor: Jo Ann Farver, Psychology, Dornsife College |
| 1st Prize | Austin Chow, Haoshi (Joanna) Wang, Richard Windisch Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles Faculty Sponsor: Beau MacDonald, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College; John Wilson, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College |
American Physiological Society |
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| Honorable Mention | Jacqueline Gonzalez Deregulated mafr-1 in the germline alters organismal lipid homeostasis Faculty Sponsor: Sean Curran, Davis School of Gerontology; Amy Hammerquist, Davis School of Gerontology |
| 2nd Prize | Anthony Jusuf Cetuximab Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Colorectal Cancer Faculty Sponsor: Colleen Garvey, Keck School of Medicine; Shannon Mumenthaler, Keck School of Medicine |
| 1st Prize | Carina Seah Apilimod is a novel drug candidate that rescues cellular pathology in mouse models of C9ORF72 ALS Faculty Sponsor: Justin Ichida, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine |
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