Funded CLGP Proposals

2024-26 CLGP

Arts

Jon Ayon: Niki Tomo Beto

Sharon Daniel: Reasonable Doubts: A media-rich, online archive designed to examine the role of police and prosecutorial misconduct in the wrongful convictions of people of color across the US, and increase awareness of racial bias in the criminal legal system

Anna Friz: Children of the Sun

Yi Yi Mon Kyo: Wesley Tongson: Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink

Kailani Polzak: Difference Over Distance: Visualizing Contact between Europe and Oceania

Susana Ruiz: Data Bodies: An Arab Futuristic Videogame about Liberation

Baskin Engineering

Sangwon Hyun: Next-Generation Statistical Gating and Characterization of Immune Cells in Health and Disease

Sri Kurniawan: Community-Engaged Culturally-Sensitive Development of Virtual Reality Stories of Fire Management by Karuk Native American Community

Katia Obraczka: Towards AI Democratization Through Decentralized Edge Intelligence

Alex Pang: VIP Navigation Assistant

Dustin Richmond: Repurposing DRAM for Neuromorphic Computation

Seyed Shariati: Generation of CRISPR-programmed Human Embryo Models

Humanities

Mark Amengual: Visibilizing the Linguistic Practices of Spanish-speaking Communities in California

Banu Bargu: Global Maxism Reader

Alan Christy: Food History, Sustainability, the Environment, and Adaptability in Okinawa

Muriam Davis: Decolonizing Sociology: Indigenous Knowledge and State-Building in the Muslim World

Bryan Donaldson: Evolution in Old French Sentential Coordination: Competition Between Et and Si

Filippo Gianferrari: Political Charity and Eschatology: Vernacular Visions of the Common Good

Elaine Sullivan: Selling Saqqara: Millionaires, Museums and the Commodification of Egypt's Cultural Heritage

Physical and Biological Sciences

Joshua Arribere: Empowering UCSC Researchers to Leverage Novel Machine Learning Tools for Structural Biology

Manel Camps: Development of a Shuttle Plasmid for the Bacterium Wolbachia Pipientis

Bruce Lyon: The Evolution and Ecology of an Island Giant: the Gray-crowned Rosy-finch of St. Paul Island Alaska

Malin Pinsky: Assessing Climate Impacts on Marine Food Webs in the Galapagos Islands with DNA Metabarcoding

Shaheen Sikander: Determining the Functional Effects of Pregnancy and Aging on the Mammary Gland

Sergey Syzranov: Uncovering a New State of Matter in Magnetic Materials: Quantum Spin Liquids

Social Sciences

Hannah Hausman: Improving Problem-Solving, Metacognition, and Mindsets Through Self-Explanation

Rene Kissell: School Debt Under Fiscal Surveillance: A Comparative Case Study of State Takeovers of California Districts

Nidhi Mahajan: Unruly Infrastructures: Constructing Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Indian Ocean

Sara Niedzwiecki: Immigrants and the Welfare State in South America

Ajay Shenoy: Raising Retail Productivity Through Data Pooling: A Randomized Intervention Using a Mobile Phone App

Christopher Wilmers: Pilot project: How Does Fear of Humans Affect African Lion and Leopard Behavior and Structure Their Food Webs?

Scott Winton: Sampling and Mapping Colombian Peatlands to Mitigate Soil Carbon Emissions

2023-25 CLGP

Arts

David Lee Cuthbert: Wireless Performative Lighting Rig for Remote Illumination 

Irene Gustafson: Between Disparate Bodies 

Dee Hibbert-Jones: Against the Odds: The Birth of the United Workers of America (a documentary film)    

Jennifer Horne: Digitization of 35mm Tinted and Toned Film Print by Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)

Yiman Wang: Socialist Environmental Media: From Cold War to Decolonization 

Baskin Engineering

Alvaro Cardenas: Ai Agents For Cyber Defense

Rebecca DuBois: Mapping of a Dominant Antibody Binding Site on the Norovirus Capsid Surface

Daniel Kim: Lung Cancer Diagnosis Via Extracellular Vesicles and Their RNA 

Shelbi Russell: Genomic Basis for Endosymbiont Domestication: How Drosophila Simulans and Wolbachia Coevolved Following the Bacterium’s Sweep Across California in the 1980s

Humanities

Shelly Chan: The Disappeared Nanyang (South Seas): A Modern History of China and Southeast Asia

Grace Delgado: Trafficking in Black and White: Confronting the Troubling History of Contemporary Slavery, 1865-2021

Kathleen Gutierrez: Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley -- A Public History and Arts Exhibition

Jenny Kelly: Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine 

Madhavi Murty: Sonic India: Sound and the Making of Folk Nationalisms

Amanda Smith: The Nature of Conflict: More-than-Human Victims of Colombia’s Fifty-Year War

Physical and Biological Sciences

Alexander Ayzner: Bio-Inspired Optoelectronic Underwater Adhesives via Spontaneous Liquid/Liquid Phase Separation

Valerie Cortez: The Secreted Secrets of Intestinal Goblet Cells

Yat Li: Materials and Chemical Sciences for Methane Capture

Rita Mehta: Does Recruitment to Different Thermal Regimes influence Predation in the California Moray?

Susan Schwartz (collaborating with Noah Finnegan): Detecting Seismic Precursors to Catastrophic Landslide Failure

Andrew Skemer: Searching for the First Exomoon with the James Webb Space Telescope

Social Sciences

Jeffery Erbig: Tracking Indigenous Forced Migration in Southern South America

Gregory Gilbert: Fire and Fungi: A Deadly Combination for Central Coast Forests

Rekia Gina Jibrin: Ethnic Studies, Race and Gendered Cultures of Violence, and School Safety

Flora Lu: Orient(e): China’s growing investment and influence in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Carlos Martinez: Examining Asylum Deterrence Policies & Migrant Captivity on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Megan Moodie: Resemblance: The Story of 21st Century Hysteria

Natalia Ocampo-Penuela: Assessing Current Economic and Conservation Benefits of Birdwatching Tourism to Inform its Potential Growth in Colombia

Hannah Raila: Virtual Reality (VR) Discarding to Reduce Subclinical Hoarding Tendencies

Jeremy West: Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Mandatory Evacuations