2017

Bhavesh Patel – Strauss Recipient

Bhavesh Patel – Strauss Recipient

Bhavesh Patel is a third year Biological Sciences major with a minor in Medical Anthropology. His experiences in clinical research at UCI Medical Center and volunteering in rural India and Mexico have inspired him to attend medical school to become a physician after...

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Manuel is a double-major in Computer Science and Mathematics with an interest in research in graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization. In 2016, he received the Chancellor's Award For Excellence in Undergraduate Research. He is also a mentor for the California...

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Rebecca is a graduating senior in Chemistry and a transfer student. She performed her undergraduate research in Professor Jenny Yang’s laboratory and received the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in 2016.

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Araceli Serrano – NSF Recipient

Araceli is a graduating senior in Earth System Science with specializations in Oceanography and Hydrology & Terrestrial Ecosystems. Over the past year she has been working under Professor Katherine Mackey for her research on “Evaluating the effects of...

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Michelle Herrera – NSF Honorable Mention

Michelle is a graduating senior in Biological Sciences. Her ambitions are inspired by her grandparents and mother, who immigrated from the Philippines. She will continue her research on prickleback transcriptomics and digestive biochemistry as a Ph.D. student in the...

Pauline Ho – NSF Honorable Mention

Pauline Ho – NSF Honorable Mention

Pauline is a graduating senior double-majoring in Education Sciences and Social Policy & Public Service, as well as a research assistant in Dr. Mark Warschauer’s Digital Learning Lab. Her honors thesis research focused on the effects of Learning Assistants on...

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Ashlee Davis – NSF Honorable Mention

Ashlee is a recent alumni in Chemistry and recipient of the UCI Undergraduate Research Award in Organic Chemistry in 2016. Her research with Professor Suzanne Blum on borylative heterocyclizations produced publications in both the Journal of the American Chemical...

Shaki Minami – NSF Honorable Mention

Shaki Minami – NSF Honorable Mention

Shiaki is a graduating senior whose interest in chemical and energy production brought him to the field of chemical engineering, in which he currently researches metabolic engineering for bio-sustainable polyketide production. He intends to obtain a Ph.D. in Chemical...

Manuel Torres – NSF Recipient

Jason Yu – NSF Honorable Mention

Jason is a graduating senior in Chemistry and received the Physical Sciences Undergraduate Achievement Award in 2016. His research focuses on using the computational software Turbomole to evaluate bioluminescent probes for disease detection. He will pursue his...

Emma Austin – Fulbright Recipient

Emma Austin – Fulbright Recipient

Emma is a cum laude graduate and Campuswide Honors Program alumna who has been writing creatively since the age of 8. As a winner of the Fulbright Uversity Master’s in Creative Process grant to Ireland, Emma designed her own master’s degree plan to support her novel...