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PROJECT: Continuing Hybrid Out-of-School Activities Post-Pandemic: A Partnership with Salud y Cariño
FACULTY MENTOR: Rebecca London, Sociology
Yaneli Calderon
Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies
Lizeth Bautista Amaro
SociologyPROJECT: Climate Risk and FDI
FACULTY MENTOR: Galina Hale, Economics
Axel Morales Sanchez
Business Management Economics and Computational Mathematics
Dmitrius Rodrigues
Economics, Philosophy, and Environmental StudiesPROJECT: Chimpanzee Video Coding Team
FACULTY MENTOR: Vicky Oelze, Anthropology, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Anthropology
Tony Estrella
Psychology and Anthropology
Kayla Ott
Anthropology and Environmental StudiesPROJECT: Insect Diversity and Ecosystem Services in Urban Agroecosystems
FACULTY MENTOR: Stacy Philpott, Environmental Studies
Sheil Grandhi
Plant Sciences
Taemon Olukayode Omololu
Environmental StudiesLauren (Louie) Dunn
PsychologyPROJECT: Exploring Urban Politics in Taiwan and Around the World
FACULTY MENTOR: Ben Read, Politics
Marlena De Castro
Politics and Feminist StudiesPROJECT: Identifying Critical Environmental Work and Needs on Campus
FACULTY MENTOR: Hillary Angelo, Sociology, and Emily Murai, College Ten
Serena Campbell
SociologyPROJECT: Global Banks’ Foreign Exposure and Risk Management
FACULTY MENTOR: Grace Gu, Economics
Ken Chen
Business Management Economics
Joshua Yang
EconomicsPROJECT: Into the Depths: Examining the Deep-History of Fishing
FACULTY MENTOR: Eréndira Quintana Morales, Anthropology
Lauren Castaneda
Anthropology and Education
Evelin Aquino Cruz
AnthropologyPROJECT: Enhancing climate change education through personalized scientific communications on phenology
FACULTY MENTOR: Kai Zhu, Environmental Studies
Nikhita Kalluri
Computer Science and Environmental Studies
Luke Hamilton
Environmental SciencePROJECT: Can scraping and mounding help improve native annual wildflower establishment?
FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Holl, Environmental Studies
Janine Anne Tan
Plant Sciences
Jennifer Valadez
Environmental SciencePROJECT: Turning the Tide: Shifting Access, Equity, and Vulnerability in Coastal California
FACULTY MENTOR: Katherine Seto, Environmental Studies, and Juan Pedroza, Sociology
Joseph Lee
Marine BiologyPROJECT: Colonial Disease Transfer and the Impact on Native South Americans
FACULTY MENTOR: Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Anthropology
Polette Garrido
AnthropologyPROJECT: Understanding Attention and Language Comprehension
FACULTY MENTOR: Megan Boudewyn, Psychology
Lea Toledo
Psychology and Cognitive Science
Hassan Naeem
Cognitive SciencePROJECT: We Belong Mapping Advocacy (Focus Groups)
FACULTY MENTOR: Leslie Lopez, Oakes College and Community Studies
Abigail Eduardo Espinosa
Sociology and Psychology
Tara McAteer
Legal Studies and AnthropologyPROJECT: Whiteness and International Academic Mobility: The Impact of Living and Studying Abroad on the Racial Identity and Network Capital of White Brazilians
FACULTY MENTOR: Patricia Pinho, Latin American and Latino Studies
Alma Mungia-Galvan
Latin American and Latino Studies and Legal StudiesPROJECT: Building Research Capacity in Global Environmental Justice
FACULTY MENTOR: Ravi Rajan, Environmental Studies
Caitlin Schilt
Environmental Studies and Economics
Alcides Fuentes
Environmental StudiesPROJECT: “You gotta keep pushing”: How immigrant people regain ontological security and withstand colonial trauma
FACULTY MENTOR: Regina Langhout, Psychology
Mitzy Acevedo
Intensive Psychology, Education Minor
Lizeth Hernandez
Psychology
Jennifer Aimee Martinez
Sociology and Education, Democracy, and Justice, LALS Minor
Cristina Gonzalez
Psychology, Latina American and Latino Studies, and SociologyPROJECT: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality
FACULTY MENTOR: Robert Fairlie, Economics
Julian Barragan
Economics and Environmental Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies MinorPROJECT: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice
FACULTY MENTOR: Steve McKay, Sociology
Marlene Nava
SociologyPROJECT: Economic Valuation and Rent in the Bay Area Agri-food Tech Ecosystem
FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Guthman, Community Studies, Sociology, Environmental Studies, and Feminist Studies
Tamar Sasson
Economics and SociologyPROJECT: Watsonville is in the Heart: A Labor and Oral History Archive
FACULTY MENTOR: Steve McKay, Sociology
Toby Baylon
Psychology
Eva McBride
PsychologyPROJECT: Simple and Complex Contagion of Misinformation
FACULTY MENTOR: Jeremy Yamashiro, Psychology
Hananiel Suradji
Cognitive SciencePROJECT: Bodies of Evidence: Legibility, Medical Uncertainty, and the Knowledge Problem of ‘Rape Kits’
FACULTY MENTOR: Jamie Morse, Sociology
Valerie Garcie
Sociology
Juli Sofijski
PsychologyPROJECT: A Bibliography of Race and Health in Anthropology
FACULTY MENTOR: James Doucet-Battle, Sociology
Andrea Asher
Human Biology, Sociology
Camryn Newburn
AnthropologyPROJECT: Indigeneity in the Constitution: Struggles for Ethnic Autonomy in Latin America
FACULTY MENTOR: Kent Eaton, Politics
Dylan Waste
PoliticsPROJECT: Mapping farmland investment in the Mississippi Delta
FACULTY MENTOR: Madeleine Fairbairn, Environmental Studies
Marielena Benavides
Sociology/Legal StudiesPROJECT: Community Health Workers and the Mitigation of Misinformation about COVID
FACULTY MENTOR: Matt Sparke, Politics
Edwina Malmberg
SociologyPROJECT: What nudges lead to healthier food choices in dining halls?
FACULTY MENTOR: Galina Hale, Economics
Boi-van Nguyen
MCD BiologyPROJECT: Digital Voices: Latina youth voice the pandemic
FACULTY MENTOR: Rebecca London, Sociology
Yaneli Calderon
Sociology and Latin American and Latino StudiesLizeth Bautista Amaro
SociologyPROJECT: Recovering the Indigenous and Colonial History of Oak Trees on the UCSC Campus
FACULTY MENTOR: Andrew Matthews, Anthropology
Kahena Wilhite
Anthropology
Carmela Ceniceroz
Anthropology
Megan
Pajarito
Anthropology
Eliska Prochaska
AnthropologyPROJECT: Mistakes: A Friend or Foe of Learning?
FACULTY MENTOR: Hannah Hausman, Psychology
Kaylee Baker
Theater Arts/Intensive Psychology
Siobhan Moher
Intensive Psychology
Mariah Ryan
Cognitive SciencePROJECT: Unequal Loss: Social Impacts of Covid-19 Mortality in Latinx & Spanish-speaking Communities
FACULTY MENTOR: Alicia Riley, Sociology
Eileen Amador
Legal Studies
Robin Hernandez
Politics and SociologyPROJECT: Global Banks’ Value-at-Risk and Risk Management
FACULTY MENTOR: Grace Gu, Economics
Gavin Faridi
Business Management EconomicsPROJECT: Salinas Inclusive Economic Development Initiative (SIED): Storymapping
FACULTY MENTOR: Chris Benner, Sociology
Mia Perez
Sociology
Katherine Vanegas
Sociology
Nicasio Inchausti
SociologyPROJECT: Trans Migrant Life Histories in Iquitos, Peru
FACULTY MENTOR: Justin Perez, Legal Studies
Jesus Najera
Legal StudiesMelanie Renteria
Legal StudiesPROJECT: Documentary Film, Patient-Led Research, and the Question of Medical Evidence: A Project in
FACULTY MENTOR: Megan Moodie, Anthropology
Isabella Crespin
Anthropology and FilmPROJECT: Teaching Environmental Politics and Justice
FACULTY MENTOR: Sikina Jinnnah, Environmental Studies and Legal Studies
Arien Hernandez
Environmental Science and Legal StudiesAlycia Bernadino
Environmental SciencePROJECT: Ethnic Studies Research Collaboration with Santa Cruz County Office of Education
FACULTY MENTOR: Cynthia Lewis, Sociology and Education
Jaedyn Wells
Sociology/ Education
Lizeth Pena Sanchez
Sociology/ EducationPROJECT: EEG Replication Project
FACULTY MENTOR: Liv Hoversten, Psychology
Angel Sanchez
PsychologyPROJECT: Civic Identity Development and Social Media Use among U.S. College Students
FACULTY MENTOR: Adriana Manago, Psychology
