Meet the 2021 Koret Scholars

Bre Aguilar (Ten), Community-relevant curriculum of histories: Ongoing resistance of marginalized peoples in the Santa Cruz county.

Victoria Akinsanya (Oakes), African American tourism in a pandemic: Weighing the benefits of international travel against a national history of racist health practices when deciding whether to vaccinate against COVID-19.

Vanessa Alarcon (Carson), Calibration of Swope survey supernovae for cosmological analysis.

Jeyson Aldana (Kresge), COLA, intimacy, and the politics of solidarity.

Kathryn Anderson-Mullett (Carson), Predicting occurrences of marine heatwaves using random forests.

Madison Bankosh (Stevenson), Barriers to adopting healthful diets across cultural and socio-economic groups.

Luis Bautista Castillo (Porter), Design of an electrical resistivity meter that is accessible and affordable for groundwater detection.

Tobin Berger-Cahn (Porter), Determining the single-cell multilineage capacity of developmentally restricted hematopoietic stem cells (drHSCs).

Micah Braly (Carson), Characterization of C-terminus in the novel gene pif of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

Lilianne Callahan (Merrill), Comparing Transient Electromagnetic Methods to Ground-Penetrating Radar Using Data from the McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Diana Carranza (Cowell), We Belong.

Anirudh Chaudhary (Oakes), Quantifying teeth curvature and function in the dual-jaw system of Gymnothorax mordax.

Collin Couch (Crown), Galaxy light correction of supernovae events.

Abigail Eduardo Espinosa (Merrill), We Belong: Community mapping data analysis.

Sagrario Eusebio (Oakes), We Belong: Uplifting the experience of mixed status families for immigrant justice.

Kyra Eyerman (Porter), PoPPY: Portable progesterone production in yeast.

Norberto Garcia (Merrill), "Mis Hijos, Su Futuro": Life as an immigrant parent to a K-5 student during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keanu Graham (Kresge), Cooling in clusters of galaxies and the relationship to cluster growth and supermassive black holes.

Marie Gredell (Carson), Effects of a single-cell Knockout of the fragile X mental retardation protein.

Anthony Jacquez (Stevenson), We Belong: Community mapping analysis.

Crystal Kim (Carson), NuSTAR constraints on the solar axion.

Chelsea Kintz (Carson), Prey handling behaviors in great blue herons and gray herons.

Samuel Lindquist (Porter), How does the news effect economic outlook?

Tara McAteer (Cowell), We Belong: Community mapping data analysis.

Wave Moretto (Carson), Effects of acute temperature change on the feeding behaviors of Gymnothorax mordax.

Vanessa Morgan (Carson), Influences In chimpanzee vocalizations.

Rafael Nunez (Carson), Spectroscopic classification of photometrically variable stars in Andromeda.

Nishaant Pandita (Stevenson), Wanderlust!

Marlen Reyes (Oakes), Family belongingness in mixed status families in Santa Cruz.

Samantha Rozal (Nine), Characterization of geographic and temporal patterns of marine debris on Santa Cruz and Monterey county beaches.

Gabrielle Serna (Kresge), Oceanic.

Payton Sime (Cowell), Temporal and spatial variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) prey species in the Issa valley, Tanzania.

Allegra Stahl (Crown), Effects of acute temperature change on the feeding behaviors of the California moray eel.

Erin Steckline (Cowell), Experiences of women in intramural sports and esports.

Connor Sweeney (Stevenson), Cosmic-ray transport and gamma-rays in the Milky Way.

Trey Vera (Crown), Cosmic-ray Diffusion due to pulsars in the Milky Way.

Ava Webber (Crown), Capture of primordial black holes in extrasolar systems.

Edward Wu (Stevenson), Determining cell cycle regulation in pluripotent stem cells with functional CRISPR screening.