2012 Awardees

Jean Alupay
Integrative Biology
The costs of octopus arm autotomy: Investing in a new arm or future offspring?

Kenneth Gotlieb
Physics
Ultrafast Spin Dynamics with Potential Applications for Energy-Efficient Spintronics

Jen Kanady
Clinical Psychology
Sleep Disturbance and Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder

Katie LaBarbara
Integrative Biology
Cryptic elevational range shifts in response to climate change in the Dark-eyed Junco

Christine Rivera
ESPM
Evolutionary loss of male courtship signals in a closely related group of jumping spiders

Heena Shah
School of Public Health
Microsavings and Health in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study in Nairobi, Kenya

Christian Herold
Molecular and Cell Biology
Probing Ion Channel Funtion in Pain Neurons with a Novel Photoswitch Molecule

Madeline Girard
ESPM
Sexual selection on multi-modal male displays in the peacock spider, Maratus volans

2011 Awardees

David Armitage
Integrative Biology
Functional ecology of bacterial communities in the California pitcher plant

Jeremy Chase Crawford
Integrative Biology
Role of GnIH in the inhibition of extrapair mating among pair-bonded animals

Dennis Evangelista
Integrative Biology
Aerial righting and directed aerial descent during ontogeny in birds

Traci Lee Grzymala
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Investigating the Systematics of the Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) to Elucidate the Evolution of Termitophilous Larval Behavior

Jessica Shade
Integrative Biology
Genetic differentiation of an outcrosser and selfer at different spatial scales

Jennifer Wang
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
Food Security and Slum Health: Pathway for Climate Change Impacts. The case of the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

2010 Awardees

Maya deVries
Integrative Biology
Measuring diet specialization in the formidable marine predator, Stomatopod Crustacea

Jenna Judge
Integrative Biology
The effect of past atmospheric oxygen levels on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in gastropod growth and metabolism

Joey Pakes
Integrative Biology
Behavior of the underwater cave crustacean, Remipedia

Yu Zeng
Integrative Biology
Biomechanics of the Aerial Righting Reflex in Stick Insects

Virginia Emery
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Chemical communication and behaviour in multi-partnered ant nests

Jennifer Hofmeister
Integrative Biology
Intrasexual interactions and sperm competition as drivers for mate guarding in the octopus Abdopus aculeatus

Patricia Lopes
Integrative Biology
Neuroendocrine basis of alloparental care

Anh-Thu Elaine Vo
Integrative Biology
Avian immunotoxicity in ecosystems contaminated by historical mercury mining

Molly Wright
Integrative Biology
A phylogenetic study of the role of sit-and-wait predation in the evolution of monogamy in the Lysiosquilloidea, a clade of mantis shrimps

Ekaphan Kraichak
Integrative Biology
Community assembly of epiphyllous bryophytes

Georgia Green
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
The Impact of Electronic Waste Disposal in Cote d’Ivoire: Assessing Exposure and Evaluating Health Effects

Sean Gross
Integrative Biology
Cell Signaling in Skeletal Muscle

Rachel Walsh
Integrative Biology
Influence of Microhabitat Characteristics & Resource Abundance on Persistence of Rodent Species in Altered Habitats

2004 Awardees

Lauryn Benedict
Integrative Biology
Functional Vocal Communication in California Towhees (Pipilo crissalis)

Damon C. Bradbury
ESPM
Microbial Community Physiology: The microbial community control over impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling

Christopher James Clark
Integrative Biology
Effects of body mass and tail length on maximal accelerations in hummingbirds

Sarah C. Crews
ESPM- Division of Insect Biology
Spiders of the Caribbean: Patterns and Processes of Diversification in the Spider Genus Selenops

Samuel L. Díaz-Muñoz
Integrative Biology
Reevaluating Kin Selection in Cooperative Societies

Eric Harris
Integrative Biology
Biological and Cultural Perspectives on the Ethnobotany of the Moss Plagiomnium Kop.

Samantha Hopkins
Integrative Biology
Macroevolutionary patterns in mammalian diets: Does environmental change drive within-lineage ecological dynamics?

Shanti Morell-Hart
Anthropology
Analysis of Chemical Signatures and Paleoethnobotanical Remains at the Site of T=isil

Elizabeth Roberts
Anthropology
Assisted Reproduction in Ecuador: Social Implications of In-Vitro Fertilization

Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Medical Anthropology
The Role of Stigma in the Daily Lives of HIV-positive Haitians and Haitian-Americans in the United States.

Denise Bonilla Steinlein
ESPM
Bartonellosis: an emerging tick-borne disease?

2003 Awardees

Matthew Daugherty
Integrative Biology
Do Omnivores Make Better Biological Control Agents?

Earth Duarte-Trattner
ESPM-Society and Environment
Colonial Ecologies: Domestication and Disease as Narratives of Genetic Engineering

Mark Jordan
Fisher Ecology in the Kings River Adaptive Management Area of the Sierra Nevada

Kanani K.M. Lee
Earth & Planetary Sciences
High-pressure experiments and planetary interiors

Alejandro Nettel-Hernanz
ESPM-Forest Science Molecular phylogeography of the Black Mangrove, Avicennia germanins

Justine Owen
ESPM-Ecosystems Science
Soil formation and geomorphology in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Lillian Park
Psychology
The Linguistic Route to Memory

Kristen Ruegg
Integrative Biology
Genetic, Morphological and Acoustic Variation Across a Migratory Divide in the Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus

Molly Smith
ESPM-Ecosystems Sciences
The combined effects of plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability on ecosystem processes in montane meadow habitat

Julie Spencer-Rodgers
Psychology
Dialectical thinking and East-West Differences in Psychological Well-being

Natasha Teutsch
Integrative Biology
Feedbacks between the soil microbial community and the performance of invasive and native grasses in California coastal prairies

Diane Pei Wu
ESPM
Environmental Justice and Pesticide Drift: California Farmworkers in the Central Valley

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