Recent ucsc_graduatestudies items

The Secret Life of Larval Fish: A Geocaching Adventure

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Secret Life of Larval Fish: A Geocaching Adventure

Hansen’s Disease Patient’s Body as an Arena of the Cold War: The Case of Korean Poet Han Ha-Wun

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Hansen’s Disease Patient’s Body as an Arena of the Cold War: The Case of Korean Poet Han Ha-Wun

Fourteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2018

Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Fourteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2018

Fourteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, April 27, 2018

Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Fourteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, April 27, 2018

Doing Good, Behaving Badly: Fictions of American Philanthropy

Mon, 7 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Research poster

Property-Based Selection of Membrane Permeable Macrocyclic Scaffolds in a DNA-Encoded Library

Tue, 1 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Property-Based Selection of Membrane Permeable Macrocyclic Scaffolds in a DNA-Encoded Library

"By the Accident of Birth": British Subjects, Free State Citizens, and the Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1922-1950

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

"By the Accident of Birth": British Subjects, Free State Citizens, and the Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1922-1950

Vowels in Turkish onset clusters: Mind or Matter?

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vowels in Turkish onset clusters: Mind or Matter?

UCSC Graduate Research Symposium Website Announcement

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Announcement for the 2018 symposium.

The Natural History of Red Sea Giant Clams

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Natural History of Red Sea Giant Clams

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2017

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2017

Archiving the Public University: From the Local to the Global

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Archiving the Public University: From the Local to the Global

“That was our home, and it needs to be remembered”: Erasing and Reclaiming the History of the Stewart Indian School

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This conference poster highlights key aspects of my dissertation project, which focuses on the history and public representations of the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada.

Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and Internationalization of Indonesian Arts

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and Internationalization of Indonesian Arts

Ignorant Women, Violent Men: Spousal Murder in 1930s Tianjin

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Ignorant Women, Violent Men: Spousal Murder in 1930s Tianjin

Machine Learning for Ecology: Automated Invertebrate Monitoring on Large Rivers

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Machine Learning for Ecology: Automated Invertebrate Monitoring on Large Rivers

Urban landscapes impact the microbiome of the bee, Osmia lignaria

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

As a bee forages for pollen and nectar, it acquires beneficial and pathogenic microbes from flowers. In human-influenced landscapes, variation in vegetative and floral diversity may therefore influence bee-microbe interactions. This study asks how variation in the resources available to bees in urban settings influences the composition of the microbiome and infection by fungal parasites in the Blue Orchard Bee, Osmia lignaria. Bees were installed and collected in 17 urban garden field sites in along the central coast of California. At each garden we measured local vegetation using random sampling in 1x1m plots at the center of each garden. We determined landcover composition with ArcGIS. To determine if bee diversity influences microbiome composition, we measured bee diversity at each site using visual transects. At the time of bee installation, we also reared a subset of bees in sterile petri dishes as controls to determine if the environment is important for microbiome...

Multi-UAV Path Coordination Based on Uncertainty Estimation

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

One of the current autonomous systems research area in civilian and military applications is finding robust methods to track a ground area of interest (AOI) or airborne toxic substance. In case that the AOI is a spreading phenomenon (e.g., a wild forest fire), it is clear that a cooperative strategy for searching and monitoring with multiple UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is beneficial compared to one vehicle. Multi-UAV Systems have the ability to share tasks and therefore accomplish the mission objectives with greater efficiency. The main purpose of this study is to suggest an estimation approach that is carried out using statistical methods of quantized observations for multi-UAVs' path re-planning to minimize the uncertainty of the monitored area. The UAVs share their observations and estimate the disaster area periphery with associated mapping for the level of confidence. The study presents a thorough analysis of the monitoring algorithm which operates as an uncertainty-oriented...

Lessons Learned By Designing and Instructing An Undergraduate Chemistry Course

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Oral presentation slides for the 2017 UCSC Graduate Student Research Symposium.

Slides introducing my own-designed undergraduate chemistry course and what I learned from students' feedback.

Characterization of Charge Transport Networks in Polymer/Non-fullerene Solar Cells.

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Characterization of Charge Transport Networks in Polymer/Non-fullerene Solar Cells.

Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Provision through Urban Food Cultivation

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Provision through Urban Food Cultivation

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, May 12, 2017

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, May 12, 2017

Five-Month Olds Detect Changes with Contextual Support

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Five-Month Olds Detect Changes with Contextual Support

DSCAM Isoforms in Single Drosophila Neurons

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

DSCAM Isoforms in Single Drosophila Neurons

Becoming a Better Man: Masculinity and Domesticity in Republican China, 1925-1937

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Becoming a Better Man: Masculinity and Domesticity in Republican China, 1925-1937

'No Somos Animales:' Indigenous Survival and Persistence in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

'No Somos Animales:' Indigenous Survival and Persistence in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California

Highs & Lows of Riverbeds: Quantifying the impact of grain-scale topography on sediment transport rates

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Oral presentation from the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium. Videos are not active in PDF.

Measuring Handling Stress at Multiple Time Scales in the Chronically Lead-exposed California Condor

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Measuring Handling Stress at Multiple Time Scales in the Chronically Lead-exposed California Condor

Cytosine Methylation Variant Calling with MinION Nanopore Sequencing

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Cytosine Methylation Variant Calling with MinION Nanopore Sequencing

Limited Reactivation in Noun Phrase Ellipsis

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Award Winner: Humanities Division, Dean's Award

When and Why is it Wrong to Copy from Others? Variability in Students' Evaluations of Plagiarism

Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Presenter: Talia Waltzer

Co-authors: Elina Berman, Audun Dahl

Impacts of Sexual Assault Trauma and Mental Health on Graduate Student Retention and Academic Success

Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This project addresses student retention and success of underrepresented students. It examines the efficacy of current resources, education, and training available for addressing the effects of sexual assault, violence, and posttraumatic stress on graduate student mental health. I employ a combination of ethnographic research methods, participant observation, interviews, and content analysis, and techniques such as snow-balling and generative survey responses in order to reach particularly marginalized students. My expected outcomes include increased graduate retention and improved campus climate in regards to diversity and mental health, which, in turn, will encourage the growth of diverse student populations on our campus.

Listener Adaptation to Lexical Stress Misplacement in English

Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Listener Adaptation to Lexical Stress Misplacement in English

Leader-Follower UAVs for Formation Testing

Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Many aerial missions consist of various different tasks.Compared to a single manned aerial vehicle, UnmannedAerial Vehicle (UAV) has a greater operational capability.Furthermore, multi-vehicle systems have the abilityto share tasks and therefor accomplish the mission objectiveswith greater efficiency. The UAVs relay real-time informationbetween each other through a Ground ControlStation (GCS), this configuration is known as a centralizedsystem. Single point failures can cause a centralizedsystem to be non-functional[1]. Alternatively, the UAVscan transmit real-time information between group members,in this configuration the system operates in a decentralizedscheme. Understanding those different strategiesand major difficulties for formation flight testing we adopta Multi-UAVs system design with three components: a’Leader’ UAV, a ’Follower’ UAV and a GCS.

Growth of Ultrasmooth Silver Thin Films Deposited with a Germanium Nucleation Layer

Thu, 5 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Growth of Ultrasmooth Silver Thin Films Deposited with a Germanium Nucleation Layer

Precious Animals: State-Wildlife Relations in the Republic of China, 1949-1965

Thu, 5 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Precious Animals: State-Wildlife Relations in the Republic of China, 1949-1965

Twelfth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2016

Thu, 5 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Twelfth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2016

First Demonstration of 3D Printed Periodic Macroporous Graphene Aerogels as Supercapacitor Electrodes with Exceptional Rate Capability

Wed, 4 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

First Demonstration of 3D Printed Periodic Macroporous Graphene Aerogels as Supercapacitor Electrodes with Exceptional Rate Capability

Ninth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners