UCSB Graduate Division presents Graduate Student ShowcaApril 12s to 23,e 2013 The Graduate Division is pleased to present the Graduate Student Showcase, a celebration of our extraordinary graduate students and their remarkable accomplishments. The Showcase includes many opportunities for graduate students to present their work to the broader campus public, and for departments across campus to celebrate and acknowledge the essential contributions of graduate students to the academic mission of UC Santa Barbara.

graddiv.ucsb.edu/showcase facebook.com/UCSBGradPost twitter.com/UCSB_GradPost youtube.com/ucsbgradpost #GradShowcase #GradSlam Friday, April 12 Monday, April 15 Bren School Class of 2013 Grad Slam Preliminary Round 3 Master’s Project Final Presentations 3 to 4 p.m. Noon to 6:15 p.m. GSA Lounge, 2nd floor Multicultural Center and the Marine Science Institute (various rooms) Exploding Brains: from Sea Squirts to Humans 17 Group Projects and 4 Eco-Entrepreneurship Projects, poster session Sarah Abdul-Wajid, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and reception to follow in Bren Courtyard at 5 p.m. The Hairy Business of Britain’s Empire David Baillargeon, History For a full schedule of student presentations, visit www.bren.ucsb.edu. When Three Languages Become One: Documenting Language Contact in Papua New Guinea Grad Slam Preliminary Round 1 Joseph Brooks, Linguistics 1 to 2 p.m. The Power of Biology: Harnessing Microorganisms for Energy IHC McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Chelsea Catania, Materials All Natural Wildfire The Walls that Divide, The Writings that Gather: Graffiti Art and Nathan Emery, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Archives in Germany E-Fishent Foods: Mimicking Natural Foodwebs to Produce Sustain- Samantha Chang, History of Art & Architecture able Seafood for Central Probing New Biophysics with a Single-Molecule Approach Gretchen Grebe, Bren David Jacobson, Physics Effective Literacy Instruction Organic Solar Cells for Green Energy Lois Harmon, Education Niva Ran, Chemistry & Biochemistry Your Brain on Literature Racial Animus and Labor Market Outcomes Cheryl Jaworski, English Anand Shukla, Economics How Do Nano-Motors Unzip Your Genes? K-12 Tech Tools Database: Understanding How Open Educational Bob Lansdorp, Materials Resources Shape Student Learning Why do Parents Play Favorites? Torrey Trust, Education Eva Padilla, Psychological and Brain Sciences Borderless Self: Mapping the Mestiza Way with Chicana Literature The Dumas Collection of Greek Pottery Tour Adrianna Simone, Chicana and Chicano Studies Monday, April 15, 3 to 4 p.m. Detection of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Southern California from Department of Classics, HSSB 4080 Array-Analysis of Love-waves Nathanael Troupe, a graduate student in Classics, will present a tour of Steph Tsang, Earth Science the Dumas Collection of Greek Pottery. Library Wine and Cheese Reception Monday, April 15, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Davidson Library Mary Cheadle Room, 3rd floor Monday, April 15 Enjoy refreshments and mingle with your peers. 21+ Please bring a driver’s license or other form of ID with your birthdate. Grad Slam Preliminary Round 2 11 a.m. to noon Elings Hall 1601 Tuesday, April 16 Why Images Matter Grad Slam Preliminary Round 4 Alisa Alexander, History of Art & Architecture 11 a.m. to noon Confessions of a “Sad Cosplayer”: The False Utopia of Comic-Con IHC McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Kane Anderson, Theater and Dance Relationships Between Precipitation over Eastern South America and Shipshaping and Fiafia (or, How I Became a Geographer) the South Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Kitty Currier, Geography Rodrigo Bombardi, Geography What a Brooklyn Buddhist from the 1920s Can Show Us About the Towards Reliable Tera-bit Scale Future Memories Potential of the Digital Humanities Amirali Ghofrani, Electrical and Computer Engineering Philip Deslippe, Religious Studies The Importance of Familia for Latina/o College Students: Examining Computing in the 21st century: The Time for a Better Mousetrap Familial Support on Intragroup Marginalization Miles Detrixhe, Mechanical Engineering Jasmin Llamas, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology No Internet? No Problem! Enabling Group Decision Making for the Masses Smart Growth Networks: A Sociological Analysis of New Urbanism Aaron Elmore, Computer Science Erik Nielsen, Sociology How to Wash Your Hands Localizing Archaeology and Tourism in the Middle East: The Case of Hannah Kallewaard, Chemistry & Biochemistry Baalbek Preserving Plant Names, Preserving Knowledge Alex Schultz, History of Art & Architecture Stephanie Morse, Linguistics How to Save the Planet with Edutainment Directly Reprogramming Human Cells to Treat Ocular Diseases Sarah Stark, Bren Britney Pennington, Biomolecular Science and Engineering The Haps with Apps: How Mobile Phones Can Bring Medical Contagion and Control: Cultural Connections Among Viruses, Diagnostics to Your Fingertips Zombies, and Modernism Faye Walker, Chemistry & Biochemistry Steven Pokornowski, English Finding the Shape of Symmetry Alex Troesch, Mathematics Tuesday, April 16 Wednesday, April 17 Religious Studies Collections Tour Grad Slam Preliminary Round 6 (continued) Noon to 1 p.m. A Reliable Cloud for Scientists and Entrepreneurs Davidson Library Special Collections, 3rd floor Faisal Nawab, Computer Science Philip Deslippe, graduate student in Religious Studies, and David Gartrell, Rethinking Time archivist, will lead a tour of the American Religion Collection followed by Christopher Proctor, Materials a tour of the Tibetan Studies Room led by Joel Gruber, graduate student The Bystander Effect in Social Media: How We Deal with Difficult Disclosures in Religious Studies. Stephanie Robbins, Communication GSRC Ice Cream Social The Plantation Economy: Material Culture, Architecture, and Global Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 2 to 3 p.m. Briana Simmons, History of Art & Architecture Graduate Student Resource Center, Student Resource Bldg 1215 Ashes to Almonds: Biochar as a Solution to Agricultural and Stop by the GSRC for an ice cream treat! Environmental Problems Ryan Wilson, Bren Grad Slam Preliminary Round 5 3 to 4 p.m. Grad Slam Preliminary Round 7 Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room 4 to 5 p.m. Davidson Library Mary Cheadle Room, 3rd floor Religion, Poverty and the State in American Politics Skylar Covich, Political Science Spatial and Temporal Variability of Giant Kelp Biomass over its Dominant Range in the NE Pacific Lighting the World from the Head of a Pin: Engineering Across Length Scales Tom Bell, Marine Science Cyrus Dreyer, Materials Snail Parasites and Division of Labor Cracking A Billion Dollar Problem: Understanding Catalysts On Ana Garcia, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Amorphous Materials Bryan Goldsmith, Chemical Engineering Citation Map: Visualizing the Spread of Scientific Ideas Through Space and Time Making the Invisible Visible: Coping with Racial Microaggressions Yingjie Hu, Geography Rafael Hernandez, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Resilient Emergency Communication with Wi-Fi Devices My MRSA: When Antibiotics Fail Daniel Iland, Computer Science Rachelle Oldmixon, Psychological and Brain Sciences Taking the Guesswork Out of Medicine: Sensors, Steamships, and Loops College Student Organizations, Social Interactions and Sense of Belonging Peter Mage, Materials Whitney O’Malley, Education Unicorn Horns, Hares, and the Mars Rover: Producing Knowledge Creating an Adaptive Management Tool to Link Natural Resource through Group Discussion Academics and Practitioners Sophia McCabe, History of Art & Architecture Claire Phillips, Bren On Why Quantum Computing is Cool The Tragedy of Ignorance; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Eugeniu Plamadeala, Physics Love GMO Esther Taxon, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Prediction of Disease Epidemics Using Particle Filtering Daniel Sheinson, Statistics and Applied Probability Why Unions Matter Today More Than Ever Samir Sonti, History Wednesday, April 17 What Do Test Scores of Students Tell Us? Graduate Students Association Bagel Hour Yin Yu, Education 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. GSA Lounge, 2nd floor MultiCultural Center Grab a bite to eat at this super-sized bagel hour. The Grad Slam During the Graduate Student Showcase, 82 graduate students will Grad Slam Preliminary Round 6 present three-minute talks on their research or other big ideas in 11 a.m. to noon a series of nine preliminary rounds. The winner of each round will Elings Hall 1601 head to the finals to compete for a $2,500 research grand prize and Do You Think Munch Would Scream for Museum Education? two $1,000 runners-up prizes. Rusha Al-Rawaf, Education Criteria for judging Sing a Different Tune: Transamerican Identities in Country, Gospel, and Jazz Music • Impact on an academic field or on society Randy Drake, Music • Clear and compelling presentation The Role of Distance in Spatial Interaction Revealed by Mobile Phone Data • Geared for a general university audience Song Gao, Geography Turning our Trash into Treasure: Using Waste Heat to Generate Electricity Attendance Prize Michael Gaultois, Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate students who attend preliminary rounds of the Grad Phosphorus Deep in the Earth: The Secret to Evolution of Complex Life? Slam, the Grad Slam finals, the Performance and Poster Showcase Forrest Horton, Earth Science and any of the graduate-student-led tours will be entered to win an Apple iPad.

Thursday, April 18 Friday, April 19 Grad Slam Preliminary Round 8 Tours of the AlloSphere, Systemics Lab, transLAB, 11 a.m. to noon Experimental Visualization Lab Engineering Sciences Building 1001 Open House, 10 a.m. to noon, Elings Hall 2nd floor Ethnobotany as a Means to Protect Knowledge and Diversity, and to Media Arts and Technology (MAT) graduate students will lead a tour Redefine Health in our Society of the work that is currently being conducted in some of the labs that Elyse Bernstein, Bren form the core of the program in Elings Hall. Stop by any time between A Well-Rounded Mechanism for the Emergence of Chirality in Self- 10 a.m. and noon. Assembled Structures Scott Carmichael, Chemical Engineering Performance Showcase Are You Sure it Hurts?: The Critical Problem of Communication in 1 to 3 p.m., Theater and Dance West 1507 Managing the Pain Experience Readings from new plays by Theater and Dance graduate students Samantha Coveleski, Communication Joyelle Ball, Gregory Dodds, Brian Granger, and Donald Molosi. What Does It Mean to ‘Get’ Art—and Who Gets to Get It? The Rise of a Q&A to follow. Dilemma in Renaissance Italy Thomas DePasquale, History of Art & Architecture Improvisation as Political Performance Poster Showcase Gregory Dodds, Theater and Dance 1 to 3 p.m. Seeing Sound: A New Method for Real-time Music Visualization Theater and Dance West Courtyard David Gordon, Music and Media, Arts, and Technology Political Consumerism: Boycotting, Buycotting, and the Expansion of Divorce and Economic Surprises Political Participation in the United States Jennifer Milosch, Economics Lauren Copeland, Political Science Direct Numerical Simulation of Supercapacitors’ Charging Dynamics Cardiovascular Implications of Posture and Environment Mohammad Mirzadeh, Mechanical Engineering Jessica Cornick, Psychological and Brain Sciences “Seeing” Octopus Skin Sheds Light on the Evolution of the Senses Mapping with strings attached Desmond Ramirez, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Kitty Currier, Geography Role Intensive Breeding of Thoroughbreds Played in Racial Formation A Unified Total Synthesis of Kushecarpin A in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century Zhengao Feng, Chemistry and Biochemistry Brian Tyrrell, History Modeling Catalyitic Sites on Amorphous Supports Bryan Goldsmith, Chemical Engineering Grad Slam Preliminary Round 9 Early Modern English Historiography: Searching for a Protestant Past 1 to 2 p.m. Lauren Griffin, Religious Studies Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room Seventh-Grade Students’ Judgments About the Historical Significance For-profit Grassroots Development of World Events, 500-1500 C.E. Prateek Choudhary, Electrical and Computer Engineering Cynthia Harvey, Education Runners In Scoring Position: How Baseball Diplomacy Can Help Shifts in amphibian symbiotic bacterial communities are linked to Improve US-Cuba Relations infection by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Marcus Cuellar, Latin American & Iberian Studies Andrea Jani, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Climate Science Meets Crowdsourcing: Tracking Nature’s Pulse with Your Brain on Literature the California Phenology Project Cheryl Jaworski, English Brian Haggerty, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Design for Recycling under extended producer responsibility The Role of Near-Death Experiences in the Emergence of a Movement Anastasiya Lazareva, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Michael Kinsella, Religious Studies Understanding Adaption to Climate Stimuli: Vulnerability Mapping, Threat Science Identity: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? Perception, and Subjective Adaptive Capacity among Peruvian Farmers Grayson Maas, Anthropology Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez, Geography Recanting Early Twentieth Century’s “Mexican Repatriations:” Sustainable Microforestry: An adaptive management tool for small- Three Generations of Familial Oral History holder agroforestry farms in Ganze District, Kenya Marla Ramirez, Chicana and Chicano Studies Claire Phillips, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Transitioning through the Disciplines Making a Face: Gender, Race, and Avatar Technologies Caitlin Rathe, History Amanda Phillips, English Reprogramming Cell Fate and Remodeling Organs in a Tiny Worm A C. elegans model for direct in vivo cellular reprogramming Misty Riddle, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Misty Riddle, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Coupling environmental history with physiological performance: a Spring Career Fair new direction for ocean acidification research 1 to 4 p.m., Corwin Pavilion Emily Rivest, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology The Spring Career Fair is UCSB’s largest recruiting event of the Amphibian Persistence vs. Die-Off in the Face of Pathogen Invasion year. Approximately 25 employers are specifically recruiting Mary Toothman, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Master’s and PhD level students. Transmission of Raccoon Roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, in Southern California Graduate Student Picnic Sara Weinstein, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology 5 to 7 p.m., Arrowhead Green, San Clemente Apartments (list continued on next page) Taco bar! Live music featuring Brengrass! ALL graduate students welcome! Friday, April 19 Saturday, April 20 Poster Showcase (continued) Graduate Students Association Spring Party 1 to 3 p.m., Theater and Dance West Courtyard 9 p.m. to late, Creekside, 4444 Hollister Avenue Assessing mechanisms of interactions between metal oxide There will be a DJ, dancing, and food provided by GSA. Free entry for nanoparticles and nitrogen fixing bacteria all UCSB graduate students (with student ID) and their partners until Zoe Welch, Marine Science 11 p.m., then $5 cover charge. Please arrive and return home safely! What Can Test Scores of Students Really Tell Us? Drink responsibly, ride with a designated driver, take the bus, or hire Yin Yu, Education a cab. Mitigating Climate Change Through Tropical Forests: An Analysis of U.S. Bilateral REDD+ Finance Kate Ziemba, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Monday, April 22 First Year MFA Art Exhibition and Reception Grad Slam Finals 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Building 534 (Art Building) Student Gallery 1328 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Theater and Dance West 1701 First year MFA students James Cathey, Catherine Ellis, Clare Little, The winners of each preliminary round will compete in the Grad Slam Maria Rendon, and Sommer Sheffield will present their artwork. Finals to win a $2,500 research fund or one of two $1,000 research The exhibition remains open until May 4. funds. Graduate Student Reception Tuesday, April 23 4:30 to 6 p.m., Hatlen Theater patio overlooking the lagoon Marine Science Poster Presentations and Faculty Club green 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Marine Science Research Building 2nd floor balcony Directly following the Grad Slam finals, join your fellow graduate students for refreshments and socializing. Informal poster session presenting the work of graduate students in the Marine Sciences.

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