Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Identity Unearthed
8:00 am to 9:15 am
CITRAL, Library 1576
Rural Latinx STEM Students Giving Back To Their Communities Through Bilingualism
Melissa Romero, Department of Education - Gevirtz Graduate School
Moonlight
Meiya Sidney, Department of Writing Program
Swallow
Kristen Wu, Department of Writing Program
The Song of Small Stories
Josephine Yi, Department of Writing Program
Speaking of Aspasia
Ileana Zuckerman, Department of Writing Program
Science from the Surface
9:30 am to 10:45 am
CITRAL, Library 1576
Achieving “Pure” Magnetic Dipole Emission with Resonator Metasurfaces
Roark Chao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Actin Shearing Reveals Transport Properties in Reconstituted Membrane Domains
Anika Jena, Department of Chemical Engineering
Characterizing the origin and function of the synaptic protein PSD95 in single-celled relatives
Riya Nilkant, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Investigating the Impact of Relevant Distractors on the Attentional Blink: An ERP Study
Georgia Valdez, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Expressions in Order
11:00 am to 12:15 am
CITRAL, Library 1576
Two Proposals for Comparing Structure of First-Order Theories
Caroline Baldan, Department of Philosophy
The Effects of Contrastive Accenting on Recognition Memory in the Visual World Paradigm
Bethany Clements
Deficit
Frances Manthorpe
A Deficit or Goal? Story Aside Expression in Older and Younger Adults' Autobiographical Stories
Teagan McCune, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
‘What is that sort of thing?’: Analysis of the morpheme ɬu as a demonstrative in the miluk language
Phoenix Neuscheler, Department of Linguistics
Difference in Education
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
CITRAL, Library 1576
Mastering the Transition: Graduate School Training for Emerging Master’s Level Clinicians
Jacqueline Lopez, Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology - GGSE
Effective Syllabi Language: How Professors can Optimize Student Belonging and Success
Maya Montez, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Teaching the Complexity of Latinidad in Rural Wisconsin: Teachers’ Perceptions of Latinx Identities
Abby Welch, Department of Education - Gevirtz Graduate School
Model Minority Invisibility: An Analysis of Asian Identity for Asian International Students
Zirui Zhou, Department of Sociology
Difference in Learning
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Kerr Hall, 1110F
Reach Out Your Hand: Discourses of Peer Support in the UCSB Undergraduate LGBT Community
Aris Merchant, Department of Linguistics
Understanding Asexuality: Navigating Social Environments at a Public University
Luna Moreno, Department of Sociology
A Study On The Effects of Societal Expectations And Stigma on Mental Health And Self Perception
Marina Raynaud, Department of Sociology
Showcasing the Art of Reproductive Biology: Student-Led Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Emilie Risha, Department of Anthropology
Anastasia Senavsky, Department of Anthropology
Community Voices
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
CITRAL, Library 1576
The Bloody Pants
Isabella Benetti, Department of Political Science
Reimagining The Pillowman: A development and production of Martin McDonagh’s play, in One-Act
Nicholas Enea and Wilder Marsden, Department of Theater and Dance
“Spiritually Unsexed”: Beliefs, Debates, and Narratives of the Publick Universal Friend
Hanna Kawamoto, Department of History
Beyond the Page: Exploring Jazz Through Writing
Leo Rubio, Department of Writing Program
Mapuche Women Mobilization in Post-Dictatorship Chile
Kalista Rae Tibbels-Guerrero, Department of Global Studies
The Legalities of Womanhood
Sierra van der Brug, Raab Writing Fellow
Friday, May 17, 2024
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Accountability
9:30 am to 10:45 am
CITRAL, Library 1576
Investigating the Validity of the Consent Decree: An Evaluation of Address Police Accountability
Odinakachukwu Elelleh, Department of History
Docile Bodies (of Cultural Production): Social Media and the Aesthetics of Identity Under Late Capitalism
Zoe Luu, Department of Communication
Mothering The Nation and The Space Between Them: Sex, Motherhood, and How Colonial, Antebellum, and Postbellum White Women Create White Supremacy in Their Betrayal of Black Liberation.
Sarah Margaron, Department of History
Holding the Police Accountable? A Conversation Analytic Approach to Procedural Justice
Samuel Olds, Department of Sociology
Constructing Race Online: Examining the Race Change to Another (RCTA) Community on TikTok & Discord
Alycia Wong, Department of Sociology
The Impact of Extreme Comments on the Chinese Internet on Women’s Rights in China.
Ruobing Zhao, Department of Sociology
Affects and Effects
11:00 am to 12:15 am
CITRAL, Library 1576
Identifying Emotion Expressions in Faces and Social Goals
Daniel Jin, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
The relationship between progesterone only contraceptive use and mood disorders
Katie Levitt, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
The Impact of Aesthetic Experiences on Apophenia and Creative Thinking
Jacqueline McGuinness, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Norm Conformity: Background Religiosity Effects Children's Norm Expectations from Religious Groups
Amelia Moore, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Learning and Seeing
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
CITRAL, Library 1576
Does reading a conversation help you learn?
Noa Kedmy, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Inter-Organ Cross-Frequency Coupling of Affect and Self-Compassion
Jonathan Roberts, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Aids to Textual Learning
Amisha Sharma, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dancing Against Degeneration: Exploring Visuospatial Mapping for Parkinson's Rehabilitation
Anniysh Sivakumar, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Biology of a Crisis
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm in Kerr Hall, 1110F
Resolving patterns in bacterioplankton communities across the SB Channel continental shelf
Brynn Campos, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Ectos, Oaks, and Drought: Effects of Fungal Communities on Drought Stressed Quercus lobata seedlings
Ronja Keeley, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Optimizing two different water filtration techniques for eDNA detection of frog-killing pathogen
Emily Nix, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Modeling Harmful Algal Blooms on the California Coast
Isabella Puchkova, Department of Environmental Studies
Fungal Pathogen Bd: Time Series and Location
Jasmine Tesoro, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Flammability of Wildland Fuel Types and Its Relevance to Fire Spread and Ignition
April Zhang, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Exploring Facets of Our Past
2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
CITRAL, Library 1576
Main Character Syndrome
Scarlett Adams, Writing Program
Title TBA
Emilie Difede
College Survival Guide
Tian Ding, Writing Program
Growing with Glimpses
Anissa Estrada, Writing Program
Title TBA
Sophie Girard, Raab Writing Fellow
In the Absence of Sound
Olive Howden, Writing Program
Does Culture Influence Affinity to Different Mindfulness Practices?
Dharma Lewis, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Biology Under a Microscope
2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Kerr Hall, 1110F
Elucidating the Relationship Between ATP Concentration and Stress Granule Size
Emily Beckett, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Electro-Reduced Tau Fragments Seed Tau Fibril Formation
Xagros Faraji, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Modulation of the Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Pathway with Synthetic Barbell Protein
Eric Hao, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Fast and Effective Xeno-Free Differentiation of Retinal Pigment Epithelium From Stem Cells
Amir Khan, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Uncovering the Molecular Mechanisms of Tau Clearance through the 13-Lined Ground Squirrel
Olivia Sclafani, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Function Characterization of a pathogenic Antibiotic Biosynthesis Monooxygenase
Tianzuo Zeng, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Critical Media
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
CITRAL, Library 1576
Overcoming Traditions of Silence in Central American Communities
Andrea Amaya, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Art-ificial Intelligence: Analyzing Perceptions of AI-Generated Literature
Amitha Bhat, Department of Communication
Elapse
Jasmine Liang, Writing Program
Social Media Perceptions from X to Z
Isabel Montalvo, Department of Political Science
The History and Impact of Western Screen Adaptations of Arabian Nights
Sophie Najm, Department of Film and Media Studies
Wellness: Insecurity's Profit Machine
Makenna Stark, Writing Program
Education in a Climate Crisis
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Kerr Hall, 1110F
Design, Integration, and Optimization of Mechanical Subsystems for a Student-Built Formula SAE Vehic
Ben Co, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sprout Up: Environmental Education for the Next Generation
Macey Hartmann, Department of Education - Gevirtz Graduate School
Increasing Alternative Transportation Use in Santa Barbara
Mariah Hudnut, Department of Environmental Studies
Sprout Up: Environmental Education for the Next Generation
Alethia Moreno, Department of Education - Gevirtz Graduate School
Solar Table
William Morgali, Department of Engineering Sciences
Climate Change
Siaa Singh, Department of Environmental Studies