2022-2023 Finalists and winners
Keely Rodgriguez, Kendra Isable, Candi Block, Isabel Penaloza, Fatema Azmee, Yu Rong and Justice Best are pictured above.
Doctoral category
Winners:
FIRST PLACE: Cody Cris
- w88 sports betting program:Cell and Molecular Biology
- Title: Lighting the way: Tools to prepare for future pandemics
- Faculty advisor:Subhash Verma
SECOND PLACE: Anithakrithi Balaji
- w88 sports betting program: Biomedical Engineering
- Title: Electrifying the fight-or-flight response: Nanosecond electric pulses for neuromodulation
- Faculty advisor: Jihwan Yoon
THIRD PLACE: Noah Nieman
- w88 sports betting program:Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Title:Accelerating bridge construction connections behavior during near fault motions
- Faculty advisor: Floriana Petrone
2024 Finalists:
Francisco Calderon Abullarade
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. History
- Title: Creating the Enemy: The origins of the inter-american cold war in the 1940s
- Faculty advisor: Renata Keller
Anithakrithi Balaji
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Title: Electrifying the fight-or-flight response: Nanosecond electric pulses for neuromodulation
- Faculty advisor: Jihwan Yoon
Monika Bharti
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Education - Literacy Studies
- Title: Pre-service teachers experiences teaching K-8 Multilingual w88 sports betting' (MLS) writing
- Faculty advisor: Rachel Salas and Fares Karam
Cossette Canovas
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
- Title: Identifying predictors of racial trauma to inform treatment development
- Faculty advisor: Lorraine Benuto
Cody Cris
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Cell and Molecular Biology
- Title:Lighting the way: Tools to prepare for future pandemics
- Faculty advisor: Subhash Verma
Kaashifah
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Education - Equity, Diversity and Language
- Title: Bridging the gaps: Evaluating the intervention programs to overcome academic disparities
- Faculty advisor: Donald Easton-Brooks
Noah Nieman
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Title: Accelerating bridge construction connections behavior during near fault motions
- Faculty advisor: Floriana Petrone
Sanjeevan Pradhan
- w88 sports betting program: Ph.D. Political Science
- Title: Tough sell: Rising powers, domestic legitimation and costly international initiatives
- Faculty advisor: Xiaoyu Pu
Patricia Berninsone People's Choice Award
Abdulwarith Kassim
- w88 sports betting program: Chemistry
- Title: Chemically recyclable dithioacetal polymers
- Faculty advisor:Ying Yang
Master's category
Winners:
FIRST PLACE: Abdulwarith Kassim
- w88 sports betting program: Chemistry
- Title: Chemically recyclable dithioacetal polymers
- Faculty advisor: Ying Yang
SECOND PLACE (TIE):
- Name:Elizabeth Everest
- w88 sports betting program: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
- Title: Sustaining the beating heart of Cambodia: Fisheries management in southeast Asia's largest lake
- Faculty advisors: Zeb Hogan, Sudeep Chandra, Ken Nussear
- Name:Cathy Silliman
- w88 sports betting program: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
- Title: Winterfat restoration in a changing climate
- Faculty advisor: Elizabeth Leger
2024 Finalists:
Samantha DeTiberiis
- w88 sports betting program: M.A. Criminal Justice
- Title: What do our phones teach us about incarceration? A social media content analysis
- Faculty advisor: Jennifer Lanterman
Elizabeth Everest
- w88 sports betting program: M.S. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
- Title:Sustaining the beating heart of Cambodia: Fisheries management in southeast Asia's largest lake
- Faculty advisor: Zeb Hogan, Sudeep Chandra, Ken Nussear
Carolynn Fedarko
- w88 sports betting program: M.A. Criminal Justice
- Title: Zeroing in on gun violence
- Faculty advisor: Weston Morrow
Shipra Goswami
- w88 sports betting program: M.S. Biochemistry
- Title: May the pericytes be with you: Transport engineers you never knew existed!
- Faculty advisor: Albert Gonzales
Abdulwarith Kassim
- w88 sports betting program: M.S. Chemistry
- Title: Chemically recyclable dithioacetal polymers
- Faculty advisor: Ying Yang
Anthony Michell
- w88 sports betting program: M.A. History
- Title: Pushed to the limit: How the 1998 China floods revolutionized the relationship between China and the natural world
- Faculty advisor: Hugh Shapiro
Elizabeth Morgan
- w88 sports betting program: M.S. Teaching History (M.A.T.H.)
- Title: Dust in the wind dude: The Owens Valley everywhere except, in the Owens Valley
- Faculty advisor: Edward Schoolman
Cathy Silliman
- w88 sports betting program: M.S. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
- Title: Winterfat restoration in a changing climate
- Faculty advisor: Elizabeth Leger