June 4, 2001
Student Achievement Awards
Awards & Scholarships
Deans' & Chancellor's Awards
These awards recognize outstanding achievements by undergraduate students within
an academic division (Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences).
Ten Deans' Awards are awarded to students within each division. Of those students,
three are selected to receive a Chancellor's Award. (See recipients, below.)
Steck Award
This award honors the finest senior thesis completed during an academic year.
The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is open to all academic divisions, and
the winner is chosen from the Chancellor's Award candidates. (Recipient: Sarah
Cashman; faculty mentor, Campbell Leaper)
Donald A. Strauss Scholarship
The Strauss Foundation awards scholarships to students from selected four-year
California colleges and universities, who have demonstrated an interest in public
service, have outstanding leadership potential, and are in the upper one-third of
their class. (Recipient: Nickie Bazell)
Goldwater Scholarship
The Goldwater Scholarship supports and encourages excellence in education. Winners
must have outstanding potential and must intend to pursue careers in mathematics,
the natural sciences, or engineering. (Recipients: Arend van der Zand and
Krishna Roskin)
Andrew Mellon Fellowship
The Mellon Fellowships are designed to help exceptionally promising students
prepare for careers of teaching and scholarship in humanistic disciplines. (Recipient:
Anastasia Graf)
Huffman Prize
This award, honoring the memory of David A. Huffman, founding UCSC faculty member
in computer science, is given to a student for general excellence in computer engineering
or computer science. (Recipient: Robert Gramacy)
Deans' & Chancellor's Award Winners
Each student received invaluable guidance from a UCSC faculty mentor. These mentors
are listed in parentheses after the name of the student's project.
(Chancellor's Award winners are listed in italics.)
Division of the Arts
Kacy Boccumini. The Movement of Noir from a Style to a Genre (Shelley Stamp)
Michael Boyadjian. Psalm CL. Composition (Hi Kyung Kim)
Melissa Buckley. How to Make the Best Use of a Small Space: A 595 Square Foot
Apartment (Virginia Jansen)
Elisabeth Cernadas. Performing and Reprising in SSC's "Cinderella"
(Paul Whitworth)
Robert Chang. The Work of Xu Bing: Signification in Chinese
Avant-Garde Art or Productions of Chinese-ness (Jennifer Gonzalez)
Jamila Dunn. (1) Don't Forget to Write, and (2) Le Retour á l'ordre
in French Clothing, 1919-1939 (Norman Locks & Donna Hunter)
Aron Ford. Feminine Desire and Identification Cinema (Amelie Hastie)
Sarah Goldstein. Cultural Absorption (Janet Hess)
Katerina Lanfranco. The Interaction of Context, Viewing Rituals, and Sign
Systems in the Work of Joseph Kosuth (Joyce Brodsky)
Lindsay Marsak. Quit (Shelley Stamp)
Roberto Carlos Mendez. En la Calle, Bajo el Puente / On the
Street, Under the Bridge (Norman Locks)
Angela Primavera. Terminals (Jennie McDade)
Jordan Rose. Fact and Fiction: The Vesuvian Cities, le Goût Grec, and
Imitation in the Advancement of Neoclassical Theory (Donna Hunter)
Eric Schneeman. Kyrie, Christe, and Agnus Dei (Hi Kyung Kim)
Radha Weaver. Costume design for theater arts production "Translations"
(Megs Booker)
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Alexandra Carey. The Happy Assembly Class: Computer Engineering 12C/L Reader
(Richard Hughey)
Sandra Chu. The Columns Game (Linda L. Werner)
Alberto G. Fitting. Transient Response of Thin Film SIGe Micro Coolers (Ali
Shakouri)
Robert B. Gramacy. Shortest Paths and Network Flow Algorithms
for Electrostatic Discharge Analysis (David Helmbold)
Mark Kendrick. Kestrel Controller - Hardware Design of the Next Generation
Kestrel Controller (Richard Hughey)
Brian Parker. Dr. Mario Pill Placement Design (Martine Schlag)
Krishna M. Roskin. Topology Preserving Data Compression (Suresh K. Lodha)
Fred (Ricky) Shults III. The Columns Game (Linda L. Werner)
Nathan Thompson-Amato. The Columns Game (Linda L. Werner)
Ryan Weber. Perceptrons with Kernels for Secondary Protein Structure
Prediction (Kevin Karplus & Manfred Warmuth)
Bryan Wells. The Columns Game (Linda L. Werner)
Division of the Humanities
Jessica Victoria Brice. News Writing Portfolio--A Compilation of Articles
Representing a Variety of Different Formats Appearing in the News (Conn Hallinan)
Jacob Daly. Hume and Utilitarianism (Daniel Guevara)
Kevin Delapp. Anti-Supererogationism: The Moral Mandate for Exemplary Moral
Action (Ellen Suckiel)
Leah Hirsch. Just Say No to C.R.A.C.K.!: Reproductive Rights
on the Front Lines of the Drug War (Dana Frank)
Jessica May Howell. Seeing Blind (Peter Gizzi)
Blake Johnson. William Blake's Early Prophetic Writings and the Age of Revolution
(Jonathan Beecher)
Maeve Miller. Behold the Image of Death: The Black Death and the Failure of
the Medieval Church (Cynthia L. Polecritti)
Juno (Rheana) Parrenas. Masochism and Sadism of Las Filipinas in Jose Rizal's
"Noli Me Tangere" (Carla Freccero)
Sonya Julene Romanoff. Persistent Pathologies: From Nineteenth Century Sexology
to Twentieth Century AIDS (Radhika Mongia)
Sarah Simmons. The Cinema of Julio Medem (Paco Ramirez)
Division of Natural Sciences
Robin Ball. Inactivation of the Proteolipid Subunits of Vacuolar H+-ATPase
in Neurospora crassa (Barry Bowman)
Sasha Carter. West Antarctic Ice Stream Till Eroded from the
Trans-Antarctic Mountains: Geochemical Evidence from a Decade of Drill Cores (Slawek
Tulaczyk)
Yu-Ting Chen. Generation and Analysis of Chemoreceptor Mutant: TlpB (Karen
Ottemann)
Ian Dobbs-Dixon. Axi-Symmetric Accretion Disks: The Magnetic Field Structure
and Consequences (Gary Glatzmaier)
Robin Dunkin. A Comparison of the Thermal Features of Sea Otter, River Otter,
and Mink Pelage: Differential Effect of Salt Water and Fresh Water Immersion (Terrie
Williams)
Katherine Hayden. Plasticity in Cyanogenesis of Trifolium repens
L: Inducibility, Fitness Costs, and Variable Expression (Ingrid Parker)
Amanda Mayes. Impacts of Climate Changes on California's Water Resources:
Stream Flow and Precipitation (Lisa Sloan)
Ian Rowen. A Tour of the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis
(Debra Lewis)
Joel Silver. Synthesis of an Acid-Cleavable Linder Molecule (Bakthan Singaram)
Shelley Wright. An Optical SETI Detector for Lick Observatory
(Remington Stone)
Division of Social Sciences
Peter Adeney. Forgetting the Body: The Impossible Dream of the Information
Age (Melanie DuPuis)
Sarah Cashman. Predictors of Friendship Quality and Supportive
Communication Among Young Adults (Campbell Leaper)
Juli Chamberlin. A Personal and Political Ethnography of Place:
The Story of Gray Whale Ranch (Anna Tsing)
C. Philip Coffin. A Nature Guide to Berkeley Tuolumne Camp (Jennifer Anderson)
Brad Epperly. The Strategic Defense Initiative and Deterrence (Michael Urban)
Sean Fox. The Impact of Asymmetric Benefit Distributions on the Provision
Rate of Public Goods (Daniel Friedman)
Janet Inouye. Plowing Ahead: Working Social Concerns into the
Roots of the Sustainable Agriculture Movement (John Borrego)
Paul Myers. Social Journalism: Six Photographic Essays with Supporting Documents
(Nancy Chen)
Kathryn Owen. Bicultural Friends: When Group Membership Salience Matters (Stephen
Wright)
Monica Rudestam. A Personal and Political Ethnography of Place:
The Story of Gray Whale Ranch (Anna Tsing)
Delcianna Winders. Confronting the Privatization of Public Forums: Free Speech,
State Action, and Private Property (Jeremy Elkins)
Other Awards
The following is a listing of other awards and scholarships won by the UCSC students:
AAUC Research Award
ArtsBridge Special Merit Scholarship
Holly Day Barnett Memorial Scholarship
California Mineralogical Scholarship
C.DELSI (Center for Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface) Research Award
James Stuart Chanley Scholarship
CODEP (Center for Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets) Travel & Research
Grant
Richard Cooley Award
Grosvenor Cooper Memorial Scholarship
CUIP (Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program)
Dante Essay Prize
Draznin Memorial Scholarship
Eltinge Music Endowment
Fridley Scholarship
Terence Freitas Award
Gates Millennium Award
Geoscientist's Outstanding Woman Geologist
HUGRA (Humanities Undergraduate Research Award)
Kretschmer Music & String Competition
Kretschmer Music Scholarship
Blanche Mackenzie Scholarship
Kathryn Merriam Education Scholarship
Priscilla Newton Fellowship
Nancy Pascal Field-Study Scholarship
Karl S. Pister LOA (Leadership Opportunity Award)
Porter College Scholarship
PUF (President's Undergraduate Fellowship)
Regents Scholar
Skolnick Scholarship
Amy Beth Snader Memorial Scholarship
Surfrider/Skye Ksander Memorial Scholarship
Laurie Switzer Memorial Music Scholarship
Kenneth & Ann Thimann Scholarship
UCSC Endowment for Classical Music
UCSC Music Department String Competition
Weber/Holt Scholarship
J.W.T. Youngs Mathematics Prize
