Previous Recipients Outstanding Thesis Award
| Recipient | Thesis Title | Department | Academic Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Noam Smilovich |
Data-Driven Control of Acoustic Waves Using Movable and Flexible Scatterers | Computer Engineering | 2024-2025 |
|
Dao Wang |
Cloud Phase Distributions At A Global-Scale And The Governing Factors Using Satellite And In-Situ Airborne Observations | Meteorology | 2023-2024 |
|
Daniel Van Hook |
Examining Communibiology During Adrenal Stress Scenario Training in Feminist Self-Defense: An Experimental Study | Communication Studies | 2022-2023 |
| Jesse Waco | Evidence of Active Reverse Faulting and a Left-Stepping San Andreas Fault (Mission Creek Strand) in the Eastern San Bernardino, Southern California |
Geology | 2021-2022 |
| Grace Shefcik | Assessment of Non-binary Individuals’ Self-perception of Voice | Communicative Disorders and Sciences | 2020-2021 |
| Jeffrey Greger | The Sillicon Valley Approach to Poverty's Humanitarian Designers at Work in Financial Inclusion | Applied Anthropology | 2019-2020 |
| Carrie Lynn Bowers | The Diablo Winds of Northern California: Climatology and Numerical Simulations | Meteorology | 2018-2019 |
| Emily Moffitt | Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Infer Breeding Latitude and Migratory Timing of Juvinile Pacific-slope Flycatchers (Empidonax Difficilis) | Environmental Studies | 2017-2018 |
| Mary Okin | 'New Man’ Feminism: Arthur F. Mathews at the San Francisco School of Design, 1890-1896 | Art History and Visual Culture | 2016-2017 |
| Paul Zimmer | Glacial Modification of Bedrock Valleys in the Sierra Nevada, California, Using a Novel Approach | Geology | 2016-2017 |
| Amanda Feldman | From Trauma to Trial: Proposing New Methods for Examining the Variability of Sharp Force Trauma on Bone | Applied Anthropology | 2015-2016 |
| Sarah Aghazadeh | Public Diplomacy for a Global World: The United States and Iran | Interdisciplinary Studies | 2014-2015 |
| Chris Keith | The Excavation and Analysis of Prehistoric Caribbean Remains: A Bioarchaeological Case Study from Nevis, West Indies | Applied Anthropology | 2014-2015 |
| Danielle Crawford | A Girlhood of Myth, Dreams, and Trauma: Redefining the Asian North American Female Bildungsroman | English and Comparative Literature | 2013-2014 |
| Karen Parker | Metabolic Network Construction Based on the Genome of the Marine Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana and the Analysis of Genome-Wide Transcriptome Data to Investigate Triacylglyceride Accumulation | MLML | 2013-2014 |
| Sarah Swift | Low-tech, Eye-Movement-Accessible AAC and Typical Adults | Communicative Disorders and Sciences | 2012-2013 |
| Shruthi Thirumalai | Opto-acoustic Interrogation and Ultrasound Imaging of Acoustically Sensitive Microcapsules | General Engineering | 2012-2013 |
| John Tilney | Containing Obscenity: The Gathings Committee, Moral Crusades, and Paperback Books | SLIS | 2011-2012 |
| Danielle Frechette | Impacts of Avian Predation on Juvenile Salmonids in Central California Watersheds | MLML | 2010-2011 |
| ±á±ð³¦³Ù´Ç°ù&²Ô²ú²õ±è;±·³Üñ´Ç | Functionalized Silica Nanostructures for Biosensing Applications | Chemical Engineering | 2010-2011 |
| Nancy Shostak | Intensity of the 1906 Earthquake in and near San José, California | Geology | 2009-2010 |
| Robin Putney | Customary Marine Tenure and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Palau | Environmental Studies | 2008-2009 |
| Jennifer Putney | Ecological Consequences of Morphological Variability in a Habitat-Forming Alga | MLML | 2008-2009 |
