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Undergraduate Student Research Grants

2023-2024 Recipients

Scholar Name (Full Name) Major

Title of Research Project

Faculty Mentor's First Name Faculty Mentor's Last Name Amount Awarded

Daniel Baerwaldt

Chemistry

Role of inorganic Iron Sulfide on Mercury methylation in the presence of Redox-buffering sorption technology.

Peggy

O'Day

$1,500

Jenifer Hernandez Garcia

Bioengineering

Effects of Exogenous Thyroxine On Cardiac Thioredoxin Antioxidant Protein Expression in Insulin Resistant OLETF Rats Rudy Ortiz $1,500

Brian Hartman

Biology Identifying Factors in single cell migration Stephanie  Woo $1,500

Celia Jimenez

Psychology Environmental Influences on Mental State Conversations Rose Scott $1,500

Jungbin Park

Global Arts Studies

Music Memory Hour

Jayson

Beaster-Jones $1,500

Mirian Cruz

Biology

Determining Whether Bacteriophages Impact Intestinal Epithelial Internalization of Bacteria

Juris Grasis $1,500

Kaitlynn Elizabeth Totter

Cognitive & Information Sciences

Computational Neuroscience

David Noelle $1,500

Aanisha Kaur Gill

Biology

“How do African wild dogs adapt to a new ecosystem after reintroduction?“

Matthew

Hutchinson

$1,500

Andrew Joseph Demello

Chemistry

Discovery of sustainable catalysts for the reduction and functionalization of CO2

Rebeca Arevalo $1,500

Cristian Espinosa

Computer Science & Engineering, Applied Mathmatics

Decision Tree Visualization

Miguel

Carreira-Perpinan

$1,500

Keith Buchignani

Environmental  Systems Sciences

Tor Rocks Central Valley

Claire Lukens $1,500

Alejandro Rodriguez

Management and Business Economics

Foreign Direct Investment and Nearshoring vs Offshoring

Jesus Sandoval $1,500

Andrea Tabora Guerra

Psychology

Molecular and cell biology

Rudy Ortiz $1,500

Miriam Gonzalez Garcia

Sociology Climate Change Paul 

Almeida

$1,500

Ariadne Castaneda

Bioengineering

Rhodocollybia sp. nov. - Describing a novel fungal species from the Sierra Nevada Foothills

Carolin 

Frank $1,500

Iliana Romero

Management and Business Economics

Examining the Interplay between the Chicano Movement and Hispanic Americans’: Educational Attainment, College Enrollment, and

Todd

Sorensen

$1,500

Isabel Robles

Psychology

Finding the Link Between Rumination and Depression: Exploring First Generation Status as a Moderator

Matthew

Zawadzki

$1,500

Shang-Wen Stradleigh

Physics

Generating Entangled Photons with Birefringent Fibers

Jay Sharping $1,500

Melisa Lovos Palacios

Psychology, Spanish

Bilingualism and Cognitive Control in Young Adults

Elif

Isbell

$1,500

Karla Ramirez

Management and Business Economics

Exploring the Interplay between COVID-19 and Employment in California: Unraveling the Next Steps if it Reoccur

Justin Hicks $1,500

Hajin Park

Computer Science & Engineering

V-QUIP: A Vision-Based Quick Impromptu Polling System

Santosh

Chandrasekhar

$1,500

Ashley Liao

Biology

Current and future directions for shark diet research

Sora Kim $1,500

Nancy Ooi

Sociology

The exploitation of children for content creation and its outcome

Lisa Yeo $1,500

Robert Abramov

Bioengineering

Understanding the miRNA Regulation

Hirosha

Geekiyanage

$1,500

Brandon Castaneda

Management and Business Economics

Minimum wage and local economic impacts

Justin Hicks $1,500

Ariadne Castaneda

Management and Business Economics

Examining the Interplay between the Chicano Movement and Hispanic Americans’: Educational Attainment, College Enrollment, and

Todd

Sorensen

$1,500
        TOTAL $39,000