Graduate Quarterly - Fall 2010 - UCLA Graduate Division

Message from the DeanGraduateQuarterlya publication of the UCLA Graduate DivisionContentsFall 2010Dear Graduate Student,For more than two decades, graduate students and their welfare havebeen my primary concern. As I approach the end of my tenure as ViceChancellor and Dean, I am more convinced than ever that graduatestudents are the linchpin and, in many ways, the abiding spirit ofthe university’s life, both as a research institution and as a providerof undergraduate education.Without your work as teaching assistants, of course, the schoolingof undergraduates would become difficult. More important, youare the future faculty of tomorrow’s colleges and universities. Wedepend on your hard work and preparation to ensure the excellenceof higher education in the century to come. You are also at the heart ofthe research enterprise, and not only as the workers who carry forwardthe initiatives of senior faculty. While that role is important, we also relyon you to bring to our research new perspectives, fresh inspiration, and theyouthful energy that expands the boundaries of knowledge in the sciences andengineering, the humanities and the arts.It has been one of my primary goals to tell the world about your crucial contributions toUCLA and to the fields you have chosen for study. This magazine is one way to spread the news, and in this issue,you’ll find an article about a new initiative—taking some of our best and brightest graduate students to Sacramentoeach year to make our case in person before the legislators who decide how the state will spend its money.It has always seemed to me that the best arguments for graduate education are individual students. In thisissue, you’ll meet the two who went to Sacramento—Marina Ziehn and Carlos Lazo, both of them working inthe life sciences on research that may impact diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. You’llalso hear from two scholars—Erin Broderick and Tanya Petrossian—whose work in chemistry and biochemistryearned them an opportunity to spend part of their summer vacation hanging out with Nobel Prize winners on anisland resort in Germany. And finally, there are four women—Cynthia Alvarez, Lucy Arellano, Marcela Cuellar,and Chelsea Guillermo-Wann—who are part of a project designed to help universities and colleges evaluate theircampus climate for diversity.While this handful of students is featured here, I am convinced that there are hundreds of great stories aroundcampus about men and women from diverse backgrounds pursuing many research goals. I hope you will all thinkof yourselves as ambassadors for graduate studies at UCLA and let the people you interact with know the valueof the education that engages your energies. It wouldn’t hurt to write your elected representatives, either. Yourcontributions are part of an important message they need to hear.Claudia Mitchell-KernanVice Chancellor Graduate StudiesDean, Graduate DivisionVice Chancellor Graduate StudiesDean, Graduate DivisionClaudia Mitchell-KernanAssistant Vice Chancellor, Graduate StudiesSamuel BersolaAssociate DeanCarlos V. GrijalvaAssociate DeanRoss ShidelerAssociate DeanM. Belinda TuckerAssistant Dean, Graduate Admissions/Student and Academic AffairsDaniel J. BennettDirector, Graduate Budgets and PersonnelChristine WangDirector, Graduate Student SupportAna LebonDirector, Information TechnologyChristopher TestaDirector, Postdoctoral and Visiting ScholarsApril DeStefanoManager, Fellowships & Summer ProgramsChérie FrancisManager, Outreach & Diversity InitiativesKaren RavagoEditor and DesignerMary WatkinsWriterJacqueline TaschProofreaderMichael RodriguezPlease send correspondence to:1237 Murphy Hall, Box 951419Los Angeles, CA 90095-1419graduatequarterly@gdnet.ucla.eduThe Graduate Quarterly is published Fall, Winter and Springquarters by the UCLA Graduate Division. We welcome suggestionsand comments. Current and archived copies of thispublication are available to view or to download in PDF formaton the Graduate Division web site.www.gdnet.ucla.eduPrinted on recycled paper with soy ink.FeatureS4 The Evolution of Diversityand EducationDoctoral Education students helpcampuses evaluate their campus climatefor diversity.10 Students Advocate for GraduateEducation in SacramentoGraduate Research Day delivers a strongmessage at the State Capitol about theimportance of supporting graduateeducation and research.11 A Nobel OpportunityErin Broderick and Tanya Petrossian ofUCLA attended a prestigious conferencethat brought together scientists fromphysics, chemistry, and physiology andmedicine.ON THE COVER: GraduateDivision Associate Dean and Professorof Psychology Carlos Grijalva hoods astudent at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.Photograph by Todd Cheney11 2016NEWS16 Chancellor HonorsGround-breakingPostdoctoral Researchpg 1018 2010 DoctoralHooding Ceremony20 Graduate StudentWelcome Reception21 Fellowship Recipientspg 2028 Graduate StudentAccomplishments2 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 3

StudentProfilesThe Evolution ofDiversity & Educationby Jacqueline TaschPhotos by Mary WatkinsFrom left to right: Education doctoral students Chelsea Guillermo-Wann, Cynthia Alvarez, Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, Marcela Cuellar, and LucyArellano. The following scholars also contributed to this project:Luz Colin, Dr. Kimberly Griffin, Dr. Nickie Johnson-Ahorlu, AuroraKamimura, Angelica Mendoza, Chiara Paz, and Paolo Velasco.Twenty years ago, Sylvia Hurtadoreceived her PhD in education fromUCLA, with a dissertation about theracial climate on American campuses and itsimpact on students’ educational outcomes. As agraduate student researcher at the Higher EducationResearch Institute (HERI), she had beenallowed to add some questions to the nationalFreshman Survey and follow-up surveys implementedby HERI’s Cooperative InstitutionalResearch Program (CIRP), and used that datain her research. Her adviser was Alexander W.Astin, then HERI director.Today, Dr. Hurtado holds that title. She iscompleting work on a Ford Foundation-sponsoredDiverse Learning Environments project inwhich she and her team developed a new surveyfor CIRP. Her key researchers in the project havebeen four women who, as she did two decades ago, received supportas graduate student researchers for HERI, and like her, found animportant expert and mentor in the center’s director.Lucy Arellano was first in, having come from Michigan to meetDr. Hurtado before she applied for graduate work, and Marcela Cuellarwas also there near the start. Both had chosen Dr. Hurtado asan adviser. By the time Cynthia Alvarez joined the team—recruitedafter Dr. Hurtado saw her give a presentation with her mentor, Dr.Patricia McDonough—the work was already under way. ChelseaGuillermo-Wann came in last. When she decided to continue herstudies past a master’s degree to doctoral work, Dr. Hurtado offeredher a research position.“They’re a wonderful group of people,” Chelsea says of her associates.“We have a good peer network.” As the women took turnsas group leader, Lucy adds, they found that “we all have differentleadership styles, and we all work differently. Seeing each other inaction has been a great learning experience all around.”What they’ve been learning about is how students at a sample ofuniversities and colleges across the country perceive the climate fordiversity on their campuses and what personal and institutional characteristicsaffect their perceptions, as well as retention and learningoutcomes. In many ways, the new research builds on or evolves fromDr. Hurtado’s dissertation research. Whereas she focused on race andethnicity, however, the new survey taps other kinds of differences aswell: gender, religion, socioeconomic status, and sexual preference,among them. One finding of the original research was that racialtension appeared to be lower at Catholic and private nonsectariancolleges and higher at large public universities, especially those whosereputation allowed them to be highly selective in admissions. “Wewanted to look at what we called broad-access institutions,” Cynthiasays, those that had a high acceptance rate and a good degree ofdemographic diversity, rather than elite schools. Most have raciallyand ethnically diverse populations.When Lucy arrived for doctoral studies, Dr. Hurtado “wasthinking about this new project,” Lucy says, “and she brought mein to brainstorm with her in the beginning phases.” The researcherscollected all sorts of climate surveys from U.S. campuses, identifyingthe kinds of questions that were being asked in the context ofdiversity. What they found was “a great need for a climate survey thatencompassed different kinds of diversity—not just race, but gender,religion, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation,” she says.Cynthia was just in time to help the team study the existingquestionnaires to come up with “the best possible survey examiningclimate and student success.” Each student researcher took anarea of inquiry—say, sense of belonging or validation or continuousschool transfer—and then the team assembled to review the results.Although some work was parceled out, overall the project has “a morecollaborative and communal feel to it,” Cynthia says.The survey that resulted from this effort was administered duringthe 2009-2010 academic year at 14 colleges and universities—threecommunity colleges, five private four-year schools, and six four-yearpublic colleges—that suited the research aim. Some of them werepart of the Ford Foundation-funded study, while others asked tobe included in the survey. In Fall 2009, as the survey was about toget under way, Dr. Nickie Johnson-Ahorlu, who holds a PhD fromUCLA, joined the team “to make sure the logistics of launch worked.”The Data Recognition Corporation provided online access to thesurvey for participating institutions and returned data to HERIWhile the survey was administered everywhere, site visits weremade only to the Ford Foundation-study schools. Interviews and focusgroups with both students and administrators provided qualitativedata. The goal of the site visits was “to get some in-depth data aboutcampus climate and practices and how those impacted students,”Dr. Johnson-Ahorlu says.Although that information is still being analyzed, the researchteam shared some observations. Dr. Hurtado’s dissertation researchsuggested that smaller institutions might enjoy less racial tensionbecause of their greater efforts to provide a student-centered environment,and the new data should provide a good test for that conclusion.For example, a community college in California was the most compositionallydiverse in race and ethnicity, and it has been so for mostof its history. Administrators described it as “a premier communitycollege that’s set up to help students of color in particular succeed,”Chelsea says. It has a flat leadership structure where administratorsand students both mentioned that they interact regularly, and “asthe school grew in size, its leaders tried hard to maintain a sense ofcommunity and accessibility for students.”Another element of Dr. Hurtado’s dissertation looked at theimpact of institutional efforts to foster diversity, and again, the newresearch will provide some useful data. For example, Marcela visiteda private research university in Colorado with an enrollment justunder 12,000. Although students are mostly upper middle classand white, the university has set out on a program that is built onthe American Association of Colleges & Universities’ principles of“inclusive excellence,” Marcela says. It seeks to expand its curriculum,diversify faculty and student populations, and offer opportunities forthe campus community “to engage across differences,” she explains.“Dr. Hurtado selected this site because she considers it a tippingpoint institution. The university has begun to implement theseinstitutional changes to transform the campus climate for diversityand is strategically preparing to take their efforts to the next level.”At an urban public university in the Midwest, a strategic plan,Through the Lens of Diversity, was compiled after surveys and meetingsthat attempted to tap ideas at all levels of the campus community. “Itwas the first time I’ve seen that,” Lucy says. The university also publisheda Diversity Portfolio, listing resources and services on campus.Institutional efforts at a public four-year college in NorthernCalifornia seemed not to be having the expected effect according toanecdotal information from the site visits. In its physical environment,the administration had taken care to provide building namesand other “signifiers that are supposed to say, ‘we welcome diversity,’”Cynthia says. The African American students, however, didnot receive that message. “They still feel they don’t really belong,”Cynthia says, in large part because “they don’t see people who look4 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 5

of the McNair Scholars Program,which helps first-generation collegestudents prepare for doctoralwork, Cynthia was assigned agraduate student mentor. TracyBuenavista encouraged her toapply to UCLA’s Graduate Schoolof Education and InformationStudies and connected her to PatMcDonough, who has becomeher adviser. Although Cynthiaapplied to other top researchuniversities, “nothing comparedto what I could get at UCLA,”she says.For her second-year researchproject, Cynthia conducted a pilotstudy that has become the basisfor her dissertation. She soughtout five Latinas, then high schoolseniors who were consideringcollege, and got their parents toparticipate as well. She wanted to know “what types of decisionsthey were making and why.”“The first thing that jumps out in the findings,” Cynthia says,is the miscommunication, particularly in the implicit, nonverbalunderstandings between young women and their parents. One girl,for example, “thought that her parents wanted her to stay close bybecause they didn’t have enough money.” On the other hand, theparents said, “We never told her that—we’ll support her whatevershe does.” For her dissertation, Cynthia is continuing on that trail,expanding her field to include men as well as women of Latinobackground.As she analyzed her data, Cynthia found “this is really coolstuff.” She was intrigued by “how many more questions arise fromone simple question at the beginning of the project. It’s almost likea hunt for me.”Marcela Cuellar“I wanted to conduct research in my home communityand bring things full circle.”When Marcela Cuellar was growing up in Oxnard,and even when she started her own undergraduatework at Stanford University, there were no localpublic four-year institutions in Ventura County. Just seven yearsold, CSU Channel Islands now serves the local community. Thecampus has only 3,500 students, its growth temporarily stymiedby state budget cuts. CSU Channel Islands fosters a “small schoolMarcela Cuellarfeeling,” Marcela says, “focused on placing students at the centerof the college experience.”With a student body that reflects the community’s Latino population,CSU Channel Islands meets the criterion of a Hispanic-servinginstitution (HSI): at least 25% of its enrollment is Latino. Althoughonly 8% of America’s universities are HSIs, they enroll more than halfof all Latino college students. Marcela ’s dissertation will contribute towhat is now a very small body of research on such institutions and theexperiences of Latino students there. Her research question is: Whatare HSIs doing to promote student success?Using data from the Higher Education Research Institute’s FreshmanSurvey and follow-up surveys when the same respondents wereseniors, Marcela hopes to compare the experiences of Latino studentsat HSIs with those at schools having proportionally smaller Latinoenrollments. Her goal is to see “what works in both environmentsin terms of promoting student success and what is unique to each.”Marcela was a counselor with the Upward Bound program in SanDiego when she decided two things: She wanted to pursue a careerin education, and she wanted to be closer to home. Starting with amaster’s degree in higher education leadership at the University ofSan Diego, she was encouraged by a faculty mentor to move alongto doctoral studies. After reading about the research under way atUCLA, “I knew that if I was going to pursue a PhD, it was goingto be here and nowhere else.”When Marcela left San Diego, she says, “I wanted to conduct researchin my home community and bring things full circle.” Being able to focuson institutions like CSU Channel Islands in her dissertation will fulfillthat goal. Marcela hopes to complete her degree in 2011. In this jobmarket, she’s open-minded about career choices. “As long as I’m workingwith students,” she says, “that’s the part I’m eager to get back to.”Lucy Arellano“Dealing with a new climate in both senses of the word –racial and the weather. We had to learn to walk on ice.”When she found herself in “my quarter-life crisis,” jugglingthree part-time jobs with no particular direction,Lucy Arellano looked back over her 25 years andthought that her undergraduate years at the University of Michiganwere probably the “most impactful event in my life.” To a youngwoman born and raised in East LA, the environment in Ann Arborwas “the biggest shocker,” she says, “dealing with a new climate inboth senses of the word—racial and the weather. We had to learnto walk on ice.”The question that came outof her quarter-life reflectionwas: How can I help othersin my community do thesame thing?Lucy managed quite well, fulfilling requirementsin three majors over the course offive years, but it was a challenge. “I was in theprime of my teen years, away from home forthe first time,” she says. “It was formative andeducational at the same time.” The questionthat came out of her quarter-life reflectionwas: How can I help others in my communitydo the same thing?Returning to Ann Arbor for a master’sdegree in education was her first step. Everyonethere “kept talking about Sylvia Hurtado,who was doing all this work on Latino students.”Having spent a decade in Ann Arbor,Dr. Hurtado had just left for UCLA and theHigher Education Research Institute. Lucywasn’t far behind, starting her doctoral workin 2006 with Dr. Hurtado as her adviser.Looking back on her years in Michigan,Lucy felt that the key support for hercontinued studies was her connections tostudent groups, especially those for studentsof Mexican heritage. She thought she mightmake a dissertation project out of how studentorganizations affect retention for other studentslike herself, but quantitative data werenot available. Instead, she is using data fromthe HERI Freshman Survey and longitudinalfollow-ups to examine the factors that predictdegree attainment for Latino students. Partof the study will also compare students of various national Latinobackgrounds.That done, Lucy hopes to find a tenure track position at a collegeor university. Landing a job at a research one university “at thebeginning of a career would be pretty awesome,” she acknowledges,but her main goal is to interact closely with students. In Fall 2009,she was a teaching assistant for a graduate level course, and as shewatched the professor work, she sat back and thought “I could totallysee myself doing that.”8 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 9

Neuroscience InterdepartmentalProgram student Marina Ziehn infront of a poster describing herresearch at Graduate Research Dayin SacramentoStudents Advocate for GraduateEducation in SacramentoGraduate students arecritical to a University of Californiaresearch enterprise thatproduces an average of four inventions everyday: Medical breakthroughs, new technologies,and thriving industries that boost theeconomy not only for the state of Californiabut also for the nation. That’s why theGraduate Deans of the 10 UC campusesconceived of a Graduate Research Day todeliver a strong message at the State Capitolabout the importance of supporting graduateeducation and research.The state’s ongoing disinvestment inpublic higher education greatly threatensthe health of graduate programs, which arethe foundation for UC research. If Californiais to remain a world leader in workforcedevelopment, new technologies, and healthand policy innovations, it must do its shareto support graduate education, the deans anda delegation of graduate students told statelegislators and their aides.For every $1 in research funding providedby the state of California, UC secures $5 morein federal and private dollars, investing about$4.9 billion annually in research. This year,UCLA alone surpassed $1.1 billion in competitivelyawarded research grants and contracts.The payoff is significant: UC develops morepatents than any other single university in thenation and currently holds over 3,600 activepatents, many of which have led to the creationof today’s leading industries.Graduate students are a key part of theresearch team, working closely with thefaculty in identifying sustainable sources ofenergy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions,fighting drought, protecting against naturaldisasters, advancing biomedical knowledge,and improving public health. UC alsoadvances the arts and humanities, turningout writers, poets, filmmakers, and leadersin the performing arts.On May 12, 2010, each UC campus senta Graduate Dean, two graduate students,and a representative of their respectiveState Government Relations offices to meetmembers of the State Senate and Assemblyto advocate for graduate education. In addition,graduate student representativespresented a poster session on their researchfor the legislators in the Governor’s CouncilRoom. UCLA Associate Dean Carlos Grijalva,was accompanied by Geneve Villacresfrom the UCLA State Government RelationsOffice and graduate students CarlosLazo from the Department of Neurobiologyand Marina Ziehn from the NeuroscienceInterdepartmental Program. The studentsare both members of STEM-PLEDGE, aGraduate Division-sponsored program torecruit more underrepresented minoritiesto doctoral studies. They have been activelyinvolved in outreach efforts and communityservice throughout their graduate careers.Carlos Lazo, who recently became aGraduate Ambassador for the Graduate Divisionin a new initiative to assist the universityand departments in promoting a more diversecampus, enjoyed the Sacramento trip. “It wasinteresting to talk to the politicians whomake the decisions and see how they reactto the information we give them.” With thestate’s expenses outstripping its income, Carlostold them “I understand you have a toughdecision,” he says, “but I want you to knowthat cutting the budget for the Universityof California is going to hurt the state morethan it’s going to help.”Cutbacks are especially painful for thosewho champion diversity. “There aren’t thatmany of us who talk different and look differentand think differently in science,” Marinasays. “When you cut funding, you’re damaginga pipeline that’s already really narrow.”The Sacramento visit was so successfulthat the graduate deans will probably repeatthe program next year, Associate DeanGrijalva said, and invites students to volunteeras representatives of UCLA’s research.“Without a doubt, legislators and theiraides spend a good part of their day talkingto lobbyists and special interest groups,”he added. “What really struck me was howinterested and attentive they were with ourgraduate students. Carlos and Marina toldstories about how they got to where theyare today and what graduate education willmean not only to their future, but also to theadvancement of science and to the future ofthe economy. They were absolutely impressiveand I was very proud to have them as apart of my team!”Finding Treatmentsfor Parkinson’sDiseaseCarlos Lazo spent theyear after completing his undergraduatedegree as a tutor for seaslugs in David Glanzman’s UCLA learningand memory laboratory. “In science, what youtry to do is answer complicated questions usingvery simple systems,” Carlos says. “A seaslug is great because it has fewer neurons.”Sea slugs breathe by extending a siphonthat pulls in water and extracts its oxygen.“Whenever they feel something brushingagainst it, they typically bring it back totheir body,” sensing danger, Carlos says.“We can train them not to react to touch”by using the same kind of touch repeatedlywith no ensuing danger, or to respond fasterby repeatedly following a touch with a prodof some kind. “In one case, they ignore itbecause it’s not very important, and nothingbad is going to happen,” he says, “or in theother, they pull the siphon in fast becausesomething else is coming soon.”Teaching sea slugs was a learningexperience for Carlos, who haddecided fairly late in his undergraduatecareer that he wanted to pursuedoctoral studies in neurobiology.One of his courses covered neurodegenerativediseases, and “whenI saw the type of work that wasbeing presented,” he says, “I talkedto Professor Nancy Wolf after classand found out that I could have acareer studying something that interesting.”Concerned that he mightneed more benchwork experience, hespent the following year with Dr.Glanzman, “learning what graduatelife is like.”He already knew what he wantedto study: Parkinson’s Disease. As anundergraduate, Carlos participatedin a research project that analyzedMRIs of Parkinson’s patients to seeif there was a common area whereelectrodes could be placed to alleviate thetremors associated with the disease. This isa treatment sometimes used when medicationsare no longer able to adequately replenishsignificant chemicals in the brain.This fall, Carlos hopes to complete hisdoctorate, with a dissertation looking at themechanisms underlying brain damage inParkinson’s Disease. Using transgenic mice--manipulated to remove a specific gene—heexposes the animal to the commonly usedherbicide, paraquat, and to a drug calledreserpine, which blocks dopamine release(dopamine decreases in human Parkinson’spatients). Earlier research has shown thatthe incidence of Parkinson’s is higher inagricultural areas where herbicides are used.Carlos’s work focuses on the gene DJ-1,which is absent or altered in some peoplewith a family history of Parkinson’s Disease.The UCLA Center for the Study of Parkinson’sDisease, headed by Carlos’s adviser,Marie-Francoise Chesselet, conducts primarybasic research with the goal of finding treatmentsthat could stop or reverse the course ofthe disease. “We know which cells are beinglost in the disease,” Carlos says, “but we don’tknow why.” Autopsies show that people withParkinson’s have far fewer dopaminergic cellsCarlos Lazo, UCLA Graduate Ambassador andNeurobiology student.in the brain’s substantia nigra, which leads tothe development of tremor. “Do they havefewer cells because something else in thebrain is clearing them away, or do they havefewer because the cells are dying off on theirown, and if that’s the case, what’s causingthem to die in some people and not in others?”These are the research questions Carlosis helping to address.One inspiration is his grandfather who isalmost 100 years old. “What does he have,”Carlos wonders, “that allowed him to live tothis age and not suffer from any neurodegenerativedisorders?” But mostly, his research isits own reward. “For me, my incentive wasjust the fascination—where we know whatarea of the brain has a problem, but we can’tfix it,” he says. “That intrigued me, and Iwanted to help.”Helping is also the goal of Carlos’s outreachefforts. Early in his career at UCLA, hebecame involved in STEM-PLEDGE, a GraduateDivision-sponsored program to recruitmore underrepresented minorities to doctoralstudies, particularly in science, engineering,and math. “When you’re in high school, andyou excel in science and math, you’re nottold that graduate school is a possibility. It’smore—medical school, that’s what you shoulddo,” Carlos says. “That’s what I experienced.”10 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 11

Using the Body’s Own Hormonesto Combat MSNeuroscience Interdepartmental Program student Marina Ziehn presents a poster session onher research.Marina Ziehn is the first scientistto show that multiple sclerosislikedisease in mice affects the part of thebrain called the hippocampus, producingspatial memory symptoms that are characteristicof the disease. In addition, she’s foundthat treatment with sex hormones, estrogensand androgens, is neuroprotective, lesseningthe degenerative effects of the disease.Coming to UCLA for doctoral studiesin 2005, Marina brought with her threeinterests: hormones in the brain, learningand memory, and disease. She chose UCLAbecause of the range of work under wayhere in the neurosciences. “I had a chanceto integrate myself into several differentneuroscience communities, so I could becomea well-rounded scientist,” she says,“and I could think differently about thesequestions that I had.”Marina started by using an experimentalmodel of multiple sclerosis in mice, inducingthe autoimmune disease and then studyingits impact. In the key finding, Marinashowed that the disease caused “shrinkingof a region of the hippocampus that is criti-cal to learning and memory.” For mice, thismeant difficulty in spatial learning. Forpeople, it could mean losing the mentalmaps that help us navigate in the dark,return to our car in a parking lot, or givesomeone directions.Based on the fact that women withmultiple sclerosis improve during the“hormonal surges” of pregnancy, as wellas other evidence, Marina decided to trytreating her sick mice with sex hormones—and it worked. “The nice thing about thisoutcome,” she says, “is that when you useendogenous hormones, it’s easier to applyresults to humans. You’re not using strangedrugs that would require years of testing.”And although Alzheimer’s disease hasa different mechanism—it’s caused by abuildup of proteins in the brain, rather thanautoimmune attacks on the myelin aroundneurons—it is also characterized by damageto the hippocampus. Hormone therapiesmay turn out to be successful treatmentsfor both diseases.Given her scientific achievements, it’sworth noting that Marina may be justas proud of her mentoring and teachingactivities. Two of the undergraduates shementored in her lab are pursuing graduatedegrees; one is pursuing an MD/PhD andthe other a PhD. “I feel like I’ve succeeded,”she says. “I’ve gotten more people to pursuehigher education in science.”Although Marina was born in Texas,she spent her early childhood in Mexico,where both of her parents had gotten collegedegrees before they emigrated. Theirexperiences taught her “how to work hardthrough hardship,” Marina says. Her motheris a particular role model. Having given updoctoral studies when she became pregnant,her mother nevertheless went on to becomehead of research and development for MissionFoods.Perhaps because she was a scientistherself, Marina’s mother was encouragingwhen her daughter started her own experiments.“When I was 5 or 6, I loved beingoutside,” she says, “and the coolest thingfor me was to collect bugs and plants inthe garden. I was always curious about howliving things worked, so I would open themup to find out.”Her childhood bug collection grewinto an interest in math and science, andshe started her undergraduate work at UCSanta Barbara as a pre-med biology major.“Somewhere along the way I took a coursein psychology and neuroscience,” she says,and she quickly decided that the brain “isway cooler than any other organ.” She graduatedas a biopsychology major in 2005 andstarted graduate work the same year.Two years later, she was married, andtwo years after that, well into her doctoralwork, she had a son. Her parents and herhusband provided the support system, andalong with her own determination, thatmade it possible to move forward withhardly an interruption. She was at work inthe lab the day before she went into labor.“It’s challenging, but I tend to work betterwhen I have a lot on my plate,” she says. “Iknow what I want out of a career, and I knowwhat I want out of a family. If you wantsomething, you make it happen.A Nobel OpportunityUCLA Students Attend Nobel Prize Conference“We must make sure that your generation of scientists will also have thefreedom to take advantage of scientific chances. We must also make surethat you have the opportunity to develop your findings in ways that improvehuman welfare. But, above all, you must enjoy doing what you do.For without that you will never be able to look back, as I can, at 60 yearsof enjoyable science.”- Oliver Smithies, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2007As June turned into Julythis summer, the tiny islandof Lindau in Germany playedhost to 59 Nobel laureates and 670 notableyoung scientists from around the world,among them Erin Broderick and TanyaPetrossian of UCLA. It was the 60th suchgathering and only the third that broughttogether scientists from physics, chemistry,and physiology or medicine.The goal is to provide a globally recognizedforum for the transfer of knowledgebetween generations of scientists. The highlightof the five-day conference is a series oflectures by the laureates, both to the wholegroup and to smaller audiences that offer amore intimate venue with more opportunityfor questions and discussions with students.To attend this prestigious event, studentspass through a series of screens thattestify to their expertise. Nominated by theDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistryat UCLA, Tanya was one of sixteen studentsacross the United States selected to representthe National Institute of Health. Erin wasamong the 21 students representing the U.S.Tanya Petrossian (second from left) was oneof 16 U.S. students representing the NationalInstitute of Health at the Nobel conference.Department of Energy. Both nominationswere also approved by the Lindau committee.Besides the lectures and seminars,lunches and dinners offer opportunities forstudents to interact with both their peersand eminent scientists. Tanya, for example,found herself seated for dinner next to Dr.Werner Arber, who won the 1978 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for his workon restriction enzymes.A panel discussion during the dinneraddressed the question of communicatingscience to the public. Turning to his youthfulcompanions, Dr. Arber described thedifficulties of communicating ideas basedon scientific notions. When his then-10-year-old daughter wanted to know whathis Nobel prize was for, he told her a storyin which the cell is a king and enzymes areservants. “The restriction enzyme is theservant with scissors who cuts up the foreignking/DNA who invades the cell,” he said.Both Tanya and Erin were impressed byOliver Smithies, who won the Nobel Prize in12 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 13

RIGHT: Tanya Petrossian at dinner with Dr.Werner Arber, who won the 1978 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for his workon restriction enzymes, and his wife.Medicine for his work using embryonic stemcells to create precise and permanent geneticchanges in mice. The so-called “knockoutmice” have become a standard feature ofresearch on what genes do, and Dr. Smithiesmay be even better known for developingthe gel electrophoresis technique, which isused to separate DNA, RNA, and proteinmolecules. At 85, Dr. Smithies “is stillworking in the lab,” Erin says, even on Saturdaymorning, which he considers “the besttime to work.” Showing the students pagesfrom lab notebooks he was using 50 yearsago, he walked them through how chanceand opportunity— as well as planning—hadcontributed to his prize-winning work.In another session, Erin said, Peter Agredescribed how he “just happened upon”a protein that solved the mystery of howa cell regulates the flow of water, earningthe Nobel prize for chemistry in 2003.Martin Chalfie, who won the Nobel prizein Chemistry in 2008, warned against overemphasizing“translational research”—workthat produces new treatments for medicalconditions. “Basic research into fundamentalproblems in biology is important for its ownsake,” he said, “and, not surprisingly, for thedevelopment of various applications.”Although the chemistry community atthis year’s meeting was “oriented towardbiological applications” and not the chemistrythat is her own work, Erin said, “stillit was fascinating to learn.” And the mostpowerful lesson she took away had to do withthe finders rather than their findings. All ofthe Nobel laureates “still really enjoy whatthey’re doing,” she says. “They’re still veryexcited about what they do, and they stillwant to talk science with us.”Information for this story was taken fromwww.lindau-nobel.org, www.nobelprize.org, andTanya’s blog at newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/lindau-blog.aspx.Tanya Petrossian“It’s important to start celebrating scientists.”As a nationally rankedswimmer at Mission Viejo HighSchool, Tanya Petrossian found herinterest in math and science turning to questionsof biology: Why did she feel different ifshe took too many breaths during a race? Howdid changing the angle of her elbow help moveher through the water more quickly?She was planning to attend UCLA ona swim scholarship when a devastating caraccident literally knocked her off her feet forthe better part of a year. She was 16. “Myentire life had been swimming,” she says.“I took all that energy and threw it at mysciences.” Her interest in UCLA turned fromathletic programs to the curriculum. UCLAwas a rare school that put biochemistry intothe physical sciences rather than the life sciences,altering the tools that would be usedto analyze problems. Tanya was sold.Over the course of her undergraduateyears, she decided to pursue a PhD, and inher first year of graduate work, she met Dr.Steven Clarke, who presented research as amultiple choice: Pick an organism, a protein,and a technique—as long as the researchinvolved methylation, a process in which aprotein attaches chemical groups to othermolecules. It’s a process with consequencesthat range from aging to cancer.Tanya began with yeast, trying to figureout how it produced Vitamin E. That par-ticular project was a dead end, but in theprocess, she began to identify all the proteinsin yeast that were methyltransferases. Usingcomputer science and mathematics as wellas chemistry, she compared a snapshot of theproteins already linked to methylation withproteins of unknown purpose.“Once I refined those techniques in yeast,”she says, it seemed logical to use the same strategyon human proteins. “I came up with allthe methyltransferases in humans and startedto explain what they do” based on similaritiesto known substances. This meant annotatingthe functions of hundreds of proteins tocome up with a “methyltransferasome”— theequivalent of a genome for methyltransferaseproteins— that will be the subject of her dissertation.This information could play a crucialrole in discovering the mechanisms underlyingdiseases and even normal aging.Tanya is looking ahead to a career in appliedscience— perhaps in pharmaceuticals/biotechnology— and she plans to make communicationpart of her work. She believesscientists must “take the time to zoom outand put their research in the context of anoverall goal”— to make science understandableby ordinary people. “The icons of theyounger generation are not the people Iwould want my future son or daughter tolook up to,” she says. “It’s important to startcelebrating scientists.”Atomic ObsessionErin BroderickEr i n B r o d e r i c k i sattracted to atoms and to difficultprojects. The first encounter wasin seventh or eighth grade, when she had tocreate a model of an atom for a science assignment.There are dozens of simpler atoms,but Erin passed them all by for rubidium.So reactive that it is never found outside ofa compound, rubidium has 37 protons, 37electrons, and 48 neutrons. That’s a whole lotof pompoms from the art store, which is whatErin used to compose her model. And in theprocess, she learned that atoms were “thepart of science that I really liked,” she says.Fast-forward a decade or two, and you’llfind her in the chemistry and biochemistrylabs at UCLA, where her doctoral studies havebrought her into a close relationship with othercomplicated atoms. For one, there’s cerium, arare earth element that’s also usually found inher compounds. Cerium has 58 protons, 58electrons, and 82 neutrons. A form of ceriumthat’s missing four electrons is the one thathas her totally intrigued, and it’s the mostunstable—and most challenging to workwith—of all.Since her first year at UCLA, Erin hasbeen looking for a way to bind cerium twiceto the same oxygen atom, something “that’snever been seen before,” she says. “It shouldwork, but it’s never been done.” Her adviser,Paula Diaconescu, occasionally reminds herthat she could try something easier, but “Ireally like cerium, so I keep trying,” Erinsays, acknowledging that “it’s been a longroad, and nothing might come out of it.”In the process, however, she synthesizeda cerium(IV) complex that is capable ofcatalyzing the formation of biodegradablepolymers. That accomplishment has madeher one of the first chemists to perform thisreaction with cerium(IV).Erin’s work is supported by a Departmentof Energy grant because of its potential “green”Chemistry and Biochemistry graduatestudent Erin Broderick in her lab (above) andin Lindau, Germany (below).applications. The agency is particularly interestedin Erin’s work with depleted uranium,which might show how to take the by-productof nuclear reactors “and make something usefulout of it,” she says. Using uranium to breakapart two parts of a compound and attach themto a third molecule leaves no waste—all of thematerials used end up in the resulting product.If she can make a cerium double-bonded tooxygen complex, it might have some interestinguses, too, Erin says. “I haven’t got there yet butalong the way, I’ve found some interesting things.”14 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 15

Doctoral CommencementHoodingCeremony-2010by Daniel Bennett, Assistant Dean, Graduate DivisionPhotography by Todd CheneyOn the cool spring evening of June 10,this year’s 752 recipients of the doctoral degree werehonored at the Doctoral Commencement HoodingCeremony in Royce Hall. Each year UCLA’s newdoctorates are welcomed into the academy at this colorful and traditionalceremony.Graduates, faculty and members of the official party came togetherto enjoy light refreshments on the terrace off the West Lobbyof Royce Hall, while families and friends took seats in the auditorium.A majestic trumpet fanfare by the UCLA Wind EnsembleBrass signaled the beginning of the formal procession of faculty andgraduates, faculty clad in the varied and colorful academic regalia oftheir individual doctoral alma maters, graduates in robes and tasseledcaps and bedecked with the occasional orchid lei or other personalornament. The magnificent organ of Royce Hall was played byUniversity Organist, Christoph Bull.Chancellor Gene Block gave the call to order and welcomed allattendees. The Chancellor asked for a moment of silence to honor thepassing of former UCLA Coach John Wooden in the previous week.He also acknowledged Dean Claudia Mitchell-Kernan’s “20 yearsof exemplary leadership” in light of her impending retirement fromthe Graduate Division. The Chancellor congratulated the graduatesand recognized the families who supported them during their yearsof graduate study. He singled out Afroditi Davos who received aPh.D. in Art History and was hooded by her father, Climis Davos,Professor Emeritus of Public Health, and Ilana Johnson, who receiveda Ph.D. in Anthropology and was hooded by her father, ProfessorAllen Johnson of Anthropology. Speaking of the heritage of doctoralhooding, Chancellor Block noted that “The academic regalia we weartonight follow traditions reaching back to the earliest universitiesin medieval times.” In concluding remarks, the Chancellor spokeof the future while honoring each person receiving a degree: “Asgraduates, you are an important part of our future. At UCLA, youhave embodied the mission of the University of California throughyour teaching, research and service. You built upon the discoveriesmade by previous scholars – pursuing research that will improve thequality of life and enrich our society.”Vice Chancellor and Graduate Dean Claudia Mitchell-Kernanacknowledged that this was her last hooding ceremony after 20years as Dean and the awarding of 14,000 doctoral degrees duringher administration. She sadly noted that violence, human suffering,racial strife, and economic instability continue to dominate theheadlines. In particular, Dr. Mitchell-Kernan deplored the “ongoingand nationwide disinvestment in public education,” resulting inexpectations that individuals “should be expected to pay an increasinglylarge part of the cost.” She noted that increasingly prisons arefunded more heavily than education by state governments. At thesame time for-profit institutions have made large gains at the cost ofthe taxpayer: “From 1987 to 2000, the industry got between $2 and$4 billion dollars in government funds annually,” benefiting wealthyinvestors “for a five-year average return on equity of 33.5%, twicethe S&P industry average.” The Vice Chancellor noted that studentsin these institutions take on heavy debt, have a high drop-out rate,and fair poorly in the employment market. Dean Mitchell-Kernanchallenged the graduates to take heed from Margaret Mead whovalued “the social role that education should serve in helping us tofully develop our human identity.” She asked them to look at thisdifficult situation as “one that you bear a responsibility for resolvingnot only in the values you uphold in your personal lives but in thestandards you apply to government and business in the years ahead.We must all demand better, and the best education for the broadestpossible number should be the root of that demand.”Each student was hooded by a dean from an official partyof deans from the Graduate Division and UCLA’s schools andcolleges, personally congratulated by Chancellor Block, andpresented with a diploma by Vice Chancellor Mitchell-Kernan.Each hooding was accompanied by applause, camera flashes, andexpressions of pride and joy from family and friends throughoutthe auditorium.Following a final salute from Joseph Rudnick, Dean of PhysicalSciences, graduates, faculty, and guests enjoyed a mid-eveningchampagne reception in Royce Quad. In addition to a capacity crowdof graduates and their families and friends, more than 100 facultyattended the ceremony and reception.18 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 19

StudentProfilesCongratulations2010-2011 Fellowship RecipientsGraduate Council Chair Steven Nelsonand American Indian Studies CenterDirector Angela Riley.Vice Chancellor and Dean ClaudiaMitchell-Kernan talks to studentsWelcomeReceptionOn September 22, 2010, thedoors of the Faculty Centeropened to welcome over 2,000incoming graduate students.Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies andDean of the Graduate Division ClaudiaMitchell-Kernan spoke to the students abouttheir incoming class: “ You range in age from18 to 57, you are almost evenly dividedbetween men and women, and 20% of youhave come here from countries around theworld to pursue your studies. Look aroundyou and you can see visual evidence of thiswonderful diversity; it will be one of the joysof your time at UCLA. That gives me hopein a world where difference so often begetsdivision which begets divisiveness and toooften violence. ”Photography by Reed HutchinsonLive music by 2010 UCLA Spring Sing “best band” winners thatwasthen.Recruitment Fellowships.Chancellor’s PrizeAbi, Ceren...................................................HistoryBartlett, Megan............Ecology & Evolutionary BioBurkhart, Nicholas.................................GeographyCai, Jiwen....................................Computer ScienceCampbell, Karen.....................................LinguisticsCary, Joshua......................UCLA ACCESS ProgramCella, Paul.............................Spanish & PortugueseChow, Angela....................................EpidemiologyConversano, Ryan.......Mechanical & Aerospace EngCreek, Michelle.....................................BiostatisticsDavies, Frederick................... Physics & AstronomyDe Carlo, Nickolas.................. Germanic LanguagesDutcher, Janine...................................... PsychologyDzialo, Maria................. Chemistry & BiochemistryFaulkner, Steven...................Indo-European StudiesFleming, Chelsey................................. ArchaeologyForsyth, Jennifer.................................... PsychologyFultz, Neal................................................StatisticsGadjev, Ivan.......................... Physics & AstronomyGevers, Jeroen........................................MusicologyGonzalez, Bianca.........................................NursingGreen, Benjamin.................................... PhilosophyGrinbaum, Alon................... Electrical EngineeringHarris, Robert John...................Biomedical PhysicsHeckman, Alma..........................................HistoryHormozdiari, Farhad....................Computer ScienceHsuan, Charleen..............................Health ServicesHwu, Sy-Chyuan.................. Electrical EngineeringKing, Meryl.............. Near Eastern Lang & CulturesKuo, Dennis........................................... EconomicsLacour, Michael...............................Political ScienceLangenbrunner, Baird... Atmospheric & Oceanic SciLee, Lewis.......................................BiomathematicsMachida, Nicholas................................ Art HistoryMakhluf, Adam............. Chemistry & BiochemistryMcKinley, Ian.............Mechanical & Aerospace EngMcNamara, Amelia...................................StatisticsMehlman, Gabriel........................................EnglishMoore, Lisa......................................... NeuroscienceMueller, Anne...........French & Francophone StudiesOliveira, Lucio................................Political SciencePirumova, Nataliya...Slavic Languages & LiteraturesPosner, Adrienne..................Comparative LiteratureRobinson, Larry............................EthnomusicologyRock, Patrick......................................... PsychologySaini, Darpan...............................Computer ScienceSchoenfield, Joshua................ Physics & AstronomySeale-Feldman, Aidan........................AnthropologySingh, Gitanjanli.......................... Women’s StudiesSmart, Rosanna....................................... EconomicsStremfel, Jacob.......Material Science & EngineeringStyduhar, Evan............... Chemistry & BiochemistrySu, Phi Hong............................................SociologySun, Yifan............................. Electrical EngineeringTimberlake, Nina.............UCLA ACCESS ProgramValle, Ariana Jeanette...............................SociologyVan Horn, Christine.........UCLA ACCESS ProgramVorhis, Justin..............................................ClassicsWalsh, Sarah................................................HistoryWilliams, Alessandra........... World Arts & CulturesZhang, Yunshuang...... Asian Languages & Cultures.Eugene Cota-RoblesAlexander, Daya.................................. NeuroscienceAlioto, Dominic....Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyAllen, Vincent....................................... PsychologyAlvarez, Morad...........Mechanical & Aerospace EngArias, Jorge..................................................HistoryArmijo, Amanda.......... Molecular & Medical PharmBiggs, Brian.............................................SociologyBoxx, Gayle......................UCLA ACCESS ProgramBuchli, Dorothy..................................... PsychologyBudhu, Jordan...................... Electrical EngineeringBunten, Devin........................................ EconomicsCamacho, Daisy..................................... PsychologyCarrillo, Mayra.................UCLA ACCESS ProgramCastaneda, Julie .................... Molecular ToxicologyCercillieux, Angelique .....UCLA ACCESS ProgramChan, Melissa........................................ PsychologyChavarria, Karina......................................SociologyChew, Kathryn.................................... ArchaeologyContreras, Jorge ...............UCLA ACCESS ProgramCzornyj, Elizabeth............UCLA ACCESS ProgramErickson, Jesse .........................Information StudiesFafowora, Oluwatoyin .......................EpidemiologyFourquet, Natasha ................................ PsychologyGarcia, Patricia.........................Information StudiesGarcia, Michael ..................................... PsychologyGiggey, Lindsay........................ Film and TelevisionGomez, Andrew...........................................HistoryHargan Calvopina, Joseph .. UCLA ACCESS ProgramHarris, Jessica .............................................HistoryHooker, Courtney.................................. PsychologyIniguez, Abril .......Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyJerome, Steven............... Chemistry & BiochemistryJohnson, Wendy.........................................NursingLang, Jaclyn.........................................MathematicsLannoy, Nicole...................................AnthropologyLazaro, Maria...................................... NeuroscienceMartinez, Yvette..........................................TheaterMcDonald, Whitney........................... NeuroscienceMendoza, Brishette... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesMerkurjev, Ekaterina...........................MathematicsMeux, Mirian............................................SociologyMicklos, Ashley........................ Applied LinguisticsMinasyan, Aspram.....................Biomedical PhysicsMolina, Dani...........................................EducationMorales, Jessica........................................EducationMoreno, Patricia.................................... PsychologyMorris, Jordan ..................................Social WelfareMunoz, Nicole.......Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyNg, May ..................... Asian Languages & CulturesNielsen, Hunter...........................................ClassicsOrellana, Juan........................Spanish & PortuguesePadilla-Frausto, Donna.................................................................Community Health SciencesParker, Delana....................................... PsychologyPatino, Marlene..........Mechanical & Aerospace EngPatterson, Tara....................................... PsychologyPerez, Wendy..........................................EducationPirumova, Nataliya...Slavic Languages & LiteraturesPoyer, David........................................... EconomicsQuinones, Patricia...................................EducationRanallo-Higgins, Frederick....... Asian Languages &CulturesRichards-Calathes, Whitney.....................SociologyRigueur, Diana.................UCLA ACCESS ProgramRobinson, Larry............................EthnomusicologyRodriguez Barrera, Vanessa.................... PsychologyRodriguez-Malave, Norma...UCLA ACCESS ProgramSacilotto, Daniel Sr..............Comparative LiteratureSalgado, Casandra.....................................SociologySerrano, Fernando Jr....................................HistoryShaw, Jessica......................... Electrical EngineeringSilva Ruelas, Nancy.......................................ItalianSingh, Gitanjanli K...................... Women’s StudiesSkrine Jeffers, Kia.......................................NursingSloan, Lisa....................................................TheaterSpitzmiller, Melissa...................... Civil EngineeringSu, Phi Hong............................................SociologyValenciaga, Yanisley...................Biomedical PhysicsValle, Ariana Jeanette...............................SociologyVezich, Irena S....................................... PsychologyVillasenor, Diego.........................Computer ScienceVillegas, Brendon......................Biomedical PhysicsWalsh, Sarah Marie......................................HistoryWilhelm, Lindsay........................................EnglishWilliams, Alessandra........... World Arts & Cultures.Graduate Opportunity FellowshipProgram (GOFP)Abdi, Farah Ali................................ African StudiesAbdi, Ridwa Ali.............................. African StudiesAina, Joseph.......................Asian American StudiesAlvarez-Mobarki, Cynthia...........................NursingAragon, Oralia............................................NursingAuguste, Melanie.................................ManagementBarajas, Agustin Jr....................... Civil EngineeringBeattie, Emily..................... World Arts & CulturesBenjamin, Tatiana................ Afro-American StudiesBousquet, Kenneth.....Mechanical & Aerospace EngBoyd, Kaitlin....................... Afro-American StudiesCajas, Andrew............................ East Asian StudiesCarrillo, Carla.............................................NursingCastillo, Leopoldo..................... Applied LinguisticsCastro, Alicia......................................Public PolicyCeballos, Lupe............................................NursingCham, Asiroh.....................Asian American StudiesDadabhoy, Friyana............... Afro-American StudiesDominguez, Jovita...Moving Image Archive StudiesDubois, Peter.....................American Indian StudiesDuff, Anthony.................................Health ServicesEbor, Megan......................................Social WelfareFlores, Gerardo...........................................NursingFranceschi, Alex..........Mechanical & Aerospace EngGarcha, Kiran...................... Afro-American StudiesGarcia, Crystal.........................................EducationGonzalez, Tyler....................................ManagementHamilton, William.........................Urban PlanningHicks, Rebecca............................Computer ScienceIbarra, Lupita..................................Urban Planning20 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 21

Keliiaa, Caitlin..................American Indian StudiesKhov, Sivkeav....................................Social WelfareKopcinski, Frank.............................................. LawLagesse, Nicholas........................................... MusicLemus, Elizabeth.................. Electrical EngineeringLemus, Felicia Luna.................................EducationLopez, David................................ Civil EngineeringMachuca, Jose.............................. Civil EngineeringMartinez, Jesus....................................ManagementMartinez, Jacqueline....................................TheaterMartinez-Cardoso, Aresha....Community Health SciMendez Palomo, Lys.......................Urban PlanningMonterrubio, Gerardo........................................ ArtMoreno, Raylene.........Mechanical & Aerospace EngNaranjo, Patrick................American Indian StudiesNavarro, Jason.........................................EducationNjoroge, George.............................. African StudiesNoguez Ibarra, Jose..................Design | Media ArtsOrellana, Alejandra...................Information StudiesOrona, Gabriella..................................Oral BiologyPerez, Brenda..................................Urban PlanningPorter, Leslie......................................Social WelfareRogers, Dehanza ...................... Film and TelevisionSaelua, Natasha Autasi........Asian American StudiesSanchez, Antonio............................Urban PlanningSaunders, Philicia .......................................TheaterShans, Brittaney ..........Community Health SciencesShuford, Immanuel ....................................... MusicSolis, Maya .............Moving Image Archive StudiesSuhardjo, Inez............................. East Asian StudiesTillakaratne, Mihiri............Asian American StudiesTopete, Luis....................................Urban PlanningUssef, Najib.......................................EpidemiologyVartanian, Ninel.........Mechanical & Aerospace EngVelasco, Susan.............................................NursingVivanco, Stephanie................Environmental HealthWilliams, Cornell..............................Social WelfareGraduate DivisionFellowshipsCota-Robles Graduate ResearchMentorshipAntoine, Katja...................................AnthropologyAvineri, Netta.......................... Applied LinguisticsBerry-Pusey, Brittany.................Biomedical PhysicsCarter, Andre............................Information StudiesChapman, Aaron.................... Molecular ToxicologyEscamilla, Jemima....... Molecular & Medical PharmFabella, Abraham........................................... MusicFlores, Natalia....................................... PsychologyFogle, Craig........................... Physics & AstronomyFratini, Dawn........................... Film and TelevisionFreeman, Aaron...........................................HistoryGarcia-Quinones, Olivia.................Political ScienceGarth, Hanna....................................AnthropologyGarza, Jeremiah...............................Health ServicesGuan, Shu-Sha Angie............................. PsychologyHudson, Renee............................................EnglishIyanaga, Michael...........................EthnomusicologyJones, Jenna.....................................Health ServicesKasimatis, Gabriela..... Molecular & Medical PharmLe, Tuyen Bich........................................GeographyMacgregor, Casey...............................Social WelfareMack, Kimberly..........................................EnglishMatthews, Jerrid..........................Computer ScienceMena, Jorge.................................Computer ScienceMoreno Campos, Raul....................Political ScienceNgo Nyeck, Sybille........................Political ScienceOrtiz-Loyola, Brenda.............Spanish & PortugueseOtiniano, Angie...........Community Health SciencesPatsaouras, Alexander............................ PhilosophyPena Lopez, Jorge.....Chemical & Biomolecular EngPendse, Liladhar.......................Information StudiesRaabe, Vanessa...................................... Art HistoryRodriguez, April............... Biomedical EngineeringSandoval, Mathew................ World Arts & CulturesSchettino, Jonathan................................ PsychologyScorza, D’artagnan...................................EducationSepah, Saviz........................................... PsychologySoltero Lopez, Ana...................................EducationSovero, Veronica..................................... EconomicsThomas, Jocelyn........................... Women’s StudiesTrujillo, Joy............Material Science & EngineeringWarren, Joyce..............................................EnglishWesterband, Yamissette................ Women’s StudiesWilliams, Nancy...............................Social WelfareWoldegaber, Rahel....................... Women’s StudiesYanes, Rolando.........Microbiology, Immunology, &Molecular GeneticsGraduate Research MentorshipProgramAbbott, Julia...............................................ClassicsAgakhanyan, Marietta..........Comparative LiteratureAldana, Ursula.........................................EducationAlvarez, Cynthia......................................EducationAmbrose, Brooks......................................SociologyAnderson, Samuel................ World Arts & CulturesBell, Jonathan.................................Urban PlanningBenson, Lisa........................................... PsychologyBernstein, Adam.................................... PsychologyBurakowski, Lauren............................... PsychologyButler, Sara.....................................Political ScienceCarlson, Julius.......................................MusicologyCassarino, Stacie..........................................EnglishChow, Kirby............................................EducationClinton, Eliva..............Community Health SciencesCrow, Brittany........................................GeographyCue, Erin.................................................EducationCuellar, Marcela.......................................EducationDelisi, Jessica .......................Indo-European StudiesDixson, Bonnie..................................AnthropologyEllis, Sarah...................................................TheaterFlood, Christopher....French & Francophone StudiesGalla, Brian.............................................EducationGee, Dylan............................................ PsychologyGerena, Alexandra.......................................HistoryGibson, Lela................................................HistoryGilbert, Duncan.................. World Arts & CulturesGildersleeve, Kelly................................ PsychologyGrant, Andrew.......................................GeographyGubner, Jennie.............................EthnomusicologyHarley, Jason.....................................Social WelfareHernandez, Alex..........................................EnglishHowell, Anthony....................................GeographyIwasaki, Clara.............. Asian Languages & CulturesJarvis, Benjamin.......................................SociologyJones, Audrey..................................Health ServicesJuliano, Linzi...............................................TheaterLarson, Hilary........................Spanish & PortugueseLehner, Joseph..................................... ArchaeologyLevin, Dov......................................Political ScienceLim, June....................Community Health SciencesLing, Deborah..................................Health ServicesLove-Tulloch, Joanna.............................MusicologyLyons, Evan............................................GeographyMackey, George..............................Urban PlanningMalek, Amy.......................................AnthropologyMandell, Alice.......... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesMann, Kristin..............................................ClassicsMassey, Philip..............Community Health SciencesMccullough, Patrick....................................HistoryMillora, Melissa.......................................EducationMoon, Whitney.........Architecture & Urban DesignMorton, Drew........................... Film and TelevisionPark, Heejung....................................... PsychologyPatel, Minal.....................................Health ServicesPeritz, Lauren ................................Political SciencePerman, Joseph............Community Health SciencesPetitfils, James.............................................HistoryPettit, Andrew..............................EthnomusicologyPonce, Albert..................................Political SciencePrickett, Pamela.......................................SociologyRedman, Elizabeth..................................EducationReed, Amber.....................................AnthropologyRodriguez, Javie.............................Political ScienceRosen, Gina.......................................Social WelfareRusnac, Natalia...........................................HistorySakamoto, Michael............... World Arts & CulturesSalwen, Stephanie................................ ArchaeologySandell, Ryan........................Indo-European StudiesSchnurr, Andrew............................................ MusicSears, Meredith...................................... PsychologySeay, Leslie...............................................EducationSmith, Sarah-Neel................................. Art HistorySoehl, Thomas..........................................SociologySottong, Heather...........................................ItalianStreja, Elani.......................................EpidemiologySwinn, Eric...............Slavic Languages & LiteraturesThai, Khanh-Phuong............................. PsychologyThein, Seinenu ...................................... PsychologyTopham, Ann............French & Francophone StudiesTrouille, David.........................................SociologyTsuruda, Sabine..................................... PhilosophyVaden, Erin.......................................... Art HistoryVillatoro, Alice................................Health ServicesVo, Anne Dao..........................................EducationWard, Nancy..........................................LinguisticsWartenbe, Michael...................Information StudiesWeinberg, Michael................Spanish & PortugueseWelborn, Benjamin............................... PsychologyWhite, James..........................................LinguisticsWolfe, Jared............. Near Eastern Lang & CulturesYoun, Elise.....................................Urban PlanningGraduate Summer ResearchMentorship ProgramAcker, Amelia ..........................Information StudiesAdams, Gail............................. Applied LinguisticsAgakhanyan, Marietta .........Comparative LiteratureAhn, Byron.............................................LinguisticsAldana, Ursula.........................................EducationAlvarado, Elizabeth.................................EducationAmbrose, Brooks......................................SociologyAnam, Nasia .......................Comparative LiteratureAnderson, Samuel....Culture & Performance StudiesAntill, Gregory...................................... PhilosophyAntoine, Katja...................................AnthropologyArbab, Safoora ....................Comparative LiteratureArnone, Kyle............................................SociologyAustin, Anne....................................... ArchaeologyAuyoung, Mona ..............................Health ServicesAvineri, Netta.......................... Applied LinguisticsAykazyan, Marine ....French & Francophone StudiesBacio, Guadalupe................................... PsychologyBaldanza, Michelle...................................EducationBar, Noa ............................Comparative LiteratureBarakat, Brandon................................... PsychologyBaranello, Adriana.........................................ItalianBarchas-Lichtenstein, Jena ................AnthropologyBarnhart, Joslyn..............................Political ScienceBautista, Mark.........................................EducationBayareddy, Kerri.................................... PsychologyBeach, Kimberly.................................... PsychologyBecerra, Tracy....................................EpidemiologyBennett, Jacqueline.................................EducationBenson, Kristina.............................. Islamic StudiesBenson, Lisa........................................... PsychologyBerenji, Shahin ..............................Political ScienceBergman, Lauren.................................. Art HistoryBordeaux, David.................................... PhilosophyBronson, Mary........................................ EconomicsBunnell, Caroline.........................................HistoryBurakowski, Lauren............................... PsychologyByrd, DeAnnah............Community Health SciencesCachola, Ellen-Rae....................Information StudiesCallander, Julia............................................EnglishCarey, Dwight...................................... Art HistoryCarlitz, Ruth..................................Political ScienceCarpinella, Colleen................................ PsychologyCarter, Caleb................ Asian Languages & CulturesCase, Sarah................French & Francophone StudiesCassarino, Stacie .........................................EnglishCaughey, John.............................................EnglishChae, Lee............................................... PhilosophyChambers, Katherine............................. PhilosophyChan, Johanna ...............................Political ScienceChen, Shuo “Dawn” .............................. PsychologyChen, Thomas......................Comparative LiteratureChirapuntu, Tanya ..................................EducationChow, Kirby............................................EducationChu, Vena ..............................................GeographyCinquegrana, Piero ........................Political ScienceClinton, Eliva..............Community Health SciencesCohen, Michael...................................... PsychologyCohen, Sara..........................Comparative LiteratureConner, Ronald.............................EthnomusicologyConway, Christopher.............................. PsychologyCouch, Daniel..............................................EnglishCrow, Brittany........................................GeographyCsapo, Marika.................................Political ScienceDaniell, Paul ........................................ PhilosophyDanielson, Aaron............................Political ScienceDavari, Arash .................................Political ScienceDean, Michelle............................ Special EducationDeLiema, David.......................................EducationDeLisi, Jessica.......................Indo-European StudiesDeWitt, Lindsey.......... Asian Languages & CulturesDixson, Bonnie..................................AnthropologyDupont, Alexandra................................ PsychologyDvorak, Anna.........................................GeographyEdwards, James.............................EthnomusicologyEllis, Helen ......................................... Art HistoryEllis, Sarah...............Theater & Performance StudiesEnriquez, Laura.........................................SociologyErlikhman, Gennady ............................. PsychologyEvans, Elizabeth.......... Asian Languages & CulturesFair, Alfretter (Freda).................... Women’s StudiesFalk, Avital............................................ PsychologyFeinsinger, Ashley.................................. PhilosophyFernandez, Vanessa..........Hispanic Languages & LitFord, Of The ..........................................GeographyFortson, Samarah.....................................EducationFriedman, Michael................................. PsychologyFulton, Kirstin............................................. FrenchGallagher, Mark...........................................EnglishGarcia, Antero.........................................EducationGarcia-Quinones, Olivia ................Political ScienceGee, Dylan............................................ PsychologyGeorge, Leigh-Michil..................................EnglishGillespie, Jonathan .................................EducationGlenn, Daniel........................................ PsychologyGoldstein, Jennifer.................................GeographyGonzalez, Elizabeth ................................EducationGottfried, Matthew.........................Political ScienceGoude, Nicole.........Culture & Performance StudiesGrady, Jonathan ......................................EducationGrant, Andrew.......................................GeographyGreen, Shulamite................................... PsychologyGreene, Stacey................................Political ScienceGuan, Shu-Sha....................................... PsychologyGubner, Jennie.............................EthnomusicologyGupta-Agarwal, Sonali ....................... ArchaeologyGyorody, Andrea................................... Art HistoryHaehn, Timothy..................Comparative LiteratureHarkness, Elisa............................................EnglishHarley, Jason.....................................Social WelfareHarris, Donal...............................................EnglishHart, Lianna.............................................SociologyHendlin, Yogi.................................Political ScienceHernandez, Alexandro..................EthnomusicologyHerrera, Felisha.......................................EducationHoff, Nicole......................................EpidemiologyHorvath, Jessica...........................................EnglishHoward, David..................................Social WelfareHudson, Renee............................................EnglishHuff, Alice.............................................GeographyHumphreys, Kathryn............................. PsychologyHutler, Brian......................................... PhilosophyHuynh, Linh............................................EducationHynson, Meghan..........................EthnomusicologyInagaki, Tristen..................................... PsychologyIwasaki, Clara.............. Asian Languages & CulturesIyanaga, Michael...........................EthnomusicologyJackson, Jeffrey...............................Political ScienceJackson, Matthew.................................. PsychologyJacobs, Molly............................................SociologyJalbrzikowski, Maria.............................. PsychologyJarvis, Benjamin.......................................SociologyJeffries, Robbin.........................................SociologyJennings, Justin..................................... PhilosophyJihanian, Lila.....................................Social WelfareJohnson, Laura....................................... PsychologyJohnson, Sarah.........................................EducationJohnston, Marc........................................EducationJones, Audrey..................................Health ServicesJones, Erica........................................... Art HistoryJones, Jenna.....................................Health ServicesJu, Angela .....................................Political ScienceJuliano, Linzi...........Theater & Performance StudiesKalin, Laura............................................LinguisticsKang, Inkoo .......................Comparative LiteratureKao, Kristen...................................Political ScienceKapp, Steven...........................................EducationKaufman, Brett.................................... ArchaeologyKeetin, Neshemah...................................EducationKietzer, Lisa..............................................SociologyKim, Stephanie .......................................EducationKishore, Saanjh...................................... PsychologyKnifsend, Casey..................................... PsychologyKofman, Yelizavetta .................................SociologyKone, Mzilikazi..............................Political ScienceKramon, Eric..................................Political ScienceKumar, Melissa........................................EducationKyger, Mariel........................................ PsychologyLang, Jacob..................................................EnglishLarson, Hilary..............................................SpanishLe, Emily.................................................EducationLe, Tuyen................................................GeographyLeBeau, Richard.................................... PsychologyLee, Clifford.............................................EducationLee, Michelle ......................Comparative LiteratureLehner, Joseph..................................... ArchaeologyLevin, Dov......................................Political ScienceLiao, Betty............................................. PsychologyLim, Daniel....................................Political ScienceLim, Hannah............... Asian Languages & CulturesLim, June....................Community Health SciencesLoeb, Laura...............................................SociologyLorch, Theresa.........................................EducationLords, Krystal........... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesLuckett, Matthew........................................HistoryLustig, Nicholas.....................................GeographyMahdavi, Paasha.............................Political ScienceMahjouri, Saara........................................EducationMandell, Alice.......... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesMarcella, Jennifer....................................EducationMarquez, Rigoberto ................................EducationMartinez, Antonio...................................EducationMartinez, Danny......................................EducationMartinez-Wenzl, Mary.............................EducationMcCombs, Jason.......... Asian Languages & CulturesMcCullough, Patrick...................................HistoryMcGovern, Elexia....................................EducationMcHugh, Julia..................................... Art HistoryMead, Aaron.......................................... PhilosophyMedrano, Maria de Lourdes..........................EnglishMelkonian, Doris.....................................EducationMendelman, Lisa.........................................EnglishMetcalf, Megan..................................... Art HistoryMiller, Carole......................................... PsychologyMiller, Jason................................................HistoryMillora, Melissa.......................................EducationMilsom, Alexandra......................................EnglishMoon, Whitney................................... ArchitectureMora, Amalia................................EthnomusicologyMorando, Sarah.........................................SociologyMorelli, Sylvia....................................... PsychologyMorphew, Jason...........................................EnglishMoyer, Holly...............................................EnglishMullen, Catherine.....French & Francophone StudiesNadir, Erika...................................................ItalianNakaoka, Susan...............................Urban PlanningNarins, Tom ..........................................GeographyNguyen, Hannah...............................Social WelfareNguyen, Tu-Lien.....................................EducationNicholson, Michael......................................EnglishNiles, Andrea........................................ PsychologyO’Brien, Melinda...................................MusicologyOdegaard, Brian.................................... PsychologyOrtiz, Selena....................................Health ServicesOsipova, Anna.........................................EducationO’Sullivan, Conor........................................EnglishPantoja, Jennifer....... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesPark, Heejung ...................................... PsychologyPaz, Chiara Chastina................................EducationPeer, Karisa .............................................EducationPeritz, Lauren.................................Political SciencePernsteiner, Alexis....French & Francophone StudiesPerrotey, Aline..........French & Francophone StudiesPlumb, Traci.......................................... PsychologyPoluha, Lauren..............................EthnomusicologyPowell, Eilene...............Hispanic Languages and LitPrickett, Pamela.......................................SociologyPulizzi, James..............................................EnglishQuan, Jenny................................ Special EducationQuinn, Brian............French & Francophone StudiesQuinn, Colleen........................................EducationRaabe, Vanessa...................................... Art HistoryRabin, Gabriel....................................... PhilosophyRaposa, Elizabeth.................................. PsychologyRavid, Taly .................................................EnglishRazor, Aliaksandra ............Slavic Languages and LitReed, Amber.....................................AnthropologyRegan, Jennifer...................................... PsychologyReilly, Brandon............................................HistoryReilly, Patrick...........................................SociologyRiggers, Tiffani.......................................EducationRitter, Zachary........................................EducationRizkallah, Amanda.........................Political ScienceRobbins, Christine................................. PsychologyRoberts, Ryan........... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesRodriguez, Javier............................Political ScienceRosen, Gina.......................................Social WelfareRoth, Cassia.................................................HistoryRothenberg, Janell.............................AnthropologyRuiz, Sylvia.............................................EducationSakamoto, Michael...Culture & Performance StudiesSaulnier, Eric...............................................HistorySchlosser, Kathryn....French & Francophone StudiesSears, Meredith...................................... PsychologySelove, Emily ........... Near Eastern Lang & Cultures22 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 23

Serrano Najera, Jose.....................................HistoryShayani, Sahba ......... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesShemmassian, Shirag.............................. PsychologySheppard, Samantha..................... Film & TelevisionSher, Benjamin............................ Film & TelevisionSimmons, Samantha............................... PsychologySimon Thomas, Elisabeth..........................SociologySlaughter, Michael.......................................HistorySmith, Matthew.......................................EducationSoehl, Thomas..........................................SociologySottong, Heather...........................................ItalianStanphill, Cindy............................................ItalianStarace, Nicole....................................... PsychologyStevens, Jeffrey............................................HistoryStranovsky, Sara ......Culture & Performance StudiesStrom, Jessica................................................ItalianSusak, Angela........... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesSuter, Hadley............French & Francophone StudiesTaylor, Liza ....................................Political ScienceTaylor, Ty-Juana...........................EthnomusicologyTehranian, Yalda.................................... PsychologyTesterman, Nicolas..............Comparative LiteratureThai, Khanh-Phuong ............................ PsychologyThomas, Jocelyn........................... Women’s StudiesThompson, Elizabeth............................. PsychologyThornton, Elizabeth..............Indo-European StudiesTomassetti, Julia.......................................SociologyTopham, Ann............French & Francophone StudiesTorres, Patricia................................Urban PlanningTrouille, David.........................................SociologyTsao, Catherine........................................EducationTseng, Michael.......................................LinguisticsTsuruda, Sabine..................................... PhilosophyTulbert, Eve.......................................AnthropologyTung, Shirley...............................................EnglishVaden, Erin.......................................... Art HistoryValdez-Dadia, Annalyn....................Health Servicesvan den Berk Clark, Carissa...............Social WelfareVan Dyne, Devon.........................................HistoryVillatoro, Alice................................Health ServicesWagshal, Dana...................................... PsychologyWallace, Michael.........................................HistoryWalle, Taylor...............................................EnglishWalton-Wetzel, Jennifer....................AnthropologyWann, Chelsea.........................................EducationWard, Kaeli............................................LinguisticsWard, Nancy..........................................LinguisticsWarden, Nolan.............................EthnomusicologyWarren, Joyce..............................................EnglishWeinberg, Michael......................................SpanishWelborn, Benjamin............................... PsychologyWells, Morgan..........................................SociologyWexler, Bethany..........Community Health SciencesWhite, James..........................................LinguisticsWieland, Natalie................................... PsychologyWilliams, Amy...................................... PsychologyWilliams, Nancy...............................Social WelfareWondra, Danielle.....................................SociologyWong, Amy.................................................EnglishWoolsey, Morgan.......................... Women’s StudiesWright, Julia............................... Film & TelevisionYan, Veronica ........................................ PsychologyYoon, Duncan......................Comparative LiteratureYoun, Elise.....................................Urban PlanningZevin, Alexander.........................................HistoryZhou, Amy...............................................SociologyZiegler, Claudia................................... ArchitectureZvinyatskovskiy, Aleksey....................... PsychologyPrivately EndowedFellowshipsKarekin Der Avedisian MemorialEndowment FundKarapetian, Shushan. Near Eastern Lang & CulturesYang, Xi .................. Near Eastern Lang & CulturesRose and Sam Gilbert FellowshipEsser, Jennifer.............................................NursingFeher, Emily................Community Health SciencesSbutega, Krsto............Mechanical & Aerospace EngWatkins, Rhonda.............................Health ServicesGold Shield Alumnae of UCLADoane, Jennifer...................Asian American StudiesHwang, Jen-You.................Asian American StudiesLee, Albert .........................Asian American StudiesLin, May ............................Asian American StudiesYokum, Edna.....................American Indian Studies.Gordon Hein MemorialCueva, Bert................................... Women’s StudiesRozo Villarraga, Sandra........................... EconomicsSpunt, Robert........................................ PsychologyStaiano-Daniels, Lucia..................................HistoryKasper & Siroon HovannisianBoyadjian, Tamar Marie.......Comparative LiteratureYang, Xi .................. Near Eastern Lang & CulturesYousefian, Sevan...........................................HistoryDr. Ursula Mandel ScholarshipBennett, David..................... Electrical EngineeringChen, Diana Yu-Hui.....Microbiology, Immunology,& Molecular GeneticsFischer, Heidi.......................................BiostatisticsLi, Xiaoxiao................. Molecular & Medical PharmMassey, Philip..............Community Health SciencesMoberg Parker, Jordan................ Molecular BiologyTsui, Jennifer...................................Health ServicesWang, Shu-Wen.................................... PsychologyZhang, Di..................................Biomedical Physics.Mangasar M. Mangasarian ScholarshipFundAbramyan, Hovannes......................Political ScienceBoyadjian, Tamar.................Comparative LiteratureDeeb, Hadi........................................AnthropologyPalanjian, Lara.................................................. 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Biomedical EngineeringFlores, Diana.........................Environmental HealthHowell, Anthony....................................GeographyKobylewski, Sarah................. Molecular ToxicologyLopez, Leslie...............................................NursingScott-Railton, John.........................Urban PlanningUzcategui, Jorge............................................ MusicZhang, Di..................................Biomedical Physics.UCLA Faculty Women’s ClubScholarshipsBest, Edna.........................American Indian StudiesGaines, Kennetha.......................................NursingSabean, Emma....................................... PhilosophySng, Judy...........................................EpidemiologySpitzmiller, Melissa....... 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Applied LinguisticsBai, Jingwei............Material Science & EngineeringBarnes, Andrew...............................Health ServicesBauch, Nicholas......................................GeographyBennett, David......... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesBernards, Brian............ Asian Languages & CulturesBini, Andrea..................................................ItalianBrakocevic, Miljan...............................MathematicsBraun, Whitney...................Comparative LiteratureBrite, Elizabeth..................................AnthropologyBroderick, Erin.............. Chemistry & BiochemistryBrumbaugh, Michael...................................ClassicsBulgrin, Katherine.....Mechanical & Aerospace EngCalderone, Shannon.................................EducationCandelario, Rosemary.......... World Arts & CulturesCarlson, Elizabeth...........................Political ScienceCharbiwala, Zainul............... 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PsychologyJanes, Lauren...............................................HistoryJones, Amy...............Microbiology, Immunology, &Molecular GeneticsKaplan, Rachel..................................Social WelfareKapnick, Sarah............. Atmospheric & Oceanic SciKeimer, Kyle............ Near Eastern Lang & CulturesKelly, Kimberly.......................................EducationKhanna, Neetu....................Comparative LiteratureKim, Jaeeun.............................................SociologyKim, Kevin................. Molecular & Medical PharmKitada, Tasuku........................... Molecular BiologyKobylewski, Sarah................. Molecular ToxicologyKoh, Seunghak............ Asian Languages & CulturesKryka, Jeffrey................................................ MusicLaganowsky, Arthur....... Chemistry & BiochemistryLam, Marcus......................................Social WelfareLandy, Jonathan..................... Physics & AstronomyLara, Argelia............................................EducationLasseron Eisenhart, Vanina.....Spanish & PortugueseLaw, Richard...................................Political ScienceLee, Christopher.............................Political ScienceLee, Chung-Hao.......................... Civil EngineeringLopez Gaviria, Jose................................. EconomicsLowenstein, Adam.......................................EnglishLoyd, Heather....................................AnthropologyMahoney, Charles............................Political ScienceMaiz, Miren Jaione............................ NeurobiologyMalsbary, Christine..................................EducationManekin, Devorah..........................Political ScienceMason, David.................................Urban PlanningMastronarde, Nicholas.......... Electrical EngineeringMathew, Sarah...................................AnthropologyMayernik, Matthew..................Information StudiesMccabe, Katelyn.......... Molecular & Medical PharmMeshkat, Nicolette..............................MathematicsMeyerson, William..............................MathematicsMokhtarian, Jason..... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesMorais, Bernardo.................................ManagementMorales, Paola..........................................EducationMun, Minyoung..........................Computer ScienceNarasimhan, Rangapriya......................ManagementNavarro-Ayala, Luis......French & Francophone StudNittrouer, Christie.......................................TheaterNowotny, Michael ..............................ManagementOlivella, Virginia.................................... EconomicsOrfitelli, Robyn......................................LinguisticsOsborne, Danny..................................... PsychologyOsinulu, Adedamola............ 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Applied LinguisticsVahdatpour, Alireza.....................Computer ScienceVenkateswaran, Vaidyanathan................. EconomicsViehman, Rachael.................................. PsychologyWalters, Brian.............................................ClassicsWard, Thomas....................................... PhilosophyWeise, Constanze.........................................HistoryWeldon, Peter..........................................EducationWilson, Brigid Maureen............................StatisticsWu, Fei ...........................................Social WelfareYarfitz, Miriam............................................HistoryYarris, Kristin....................................AnthropologyZhang, Xinyu...........Chemical & Biomolecular EngZhao, Minglei............................. Molecular BiologyZhao, Minxing............................. Civil EngineeringZhao, Yue............................. Electrical EngineeringZhou, Hui... 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Fletcher Jones Dissertation YearFellowshipPayne, Jennifer..................................Social WelfareRosenfield-Abrams Dissertation YearFellowshipGeorge, Benjamin...................................LinguisticsWalters, Brian.............................................ClassicsSloan Dissertation Year FellowshipSperling, Jacqueline............................... PsychologyWang, Shu-Wen.................................... Psychology.University of California Office of thePresident (UCOP) Dissertation YearFellowshipChacko, Sara......................................EpidemiologyFlennaugh, Terry.....................................EducationGuzman, Georgina......................................EnglishNava, Pedro.............................................EducationOcampo, Anthony....................................SociologyPickens, Lauren........Chemical & Biomolecular EngTom, Jennifer........................................BiostatisticsViarnes, Carrie..................... World Arts & CulturesZepeda, Nora.........................Spanish & PortugueseExtramural Fellowships.Boren Fellowship for InternationalStudy (Primary)Lyon, Avram..................................................................Slavic Languages & Literatures, RussiaBoren Fellowship for InternationalStudy (Alternate)Bordenkircher, Eric.......................... Islamic StudiesSamarjian, Natalie............................................ LawFord Foundation Predoctoral DiversityFellowshipMajdi Clark, Parissa........................Political ScienceForeign Language and Area StudiesTitle VIAsia InstituteCavicchi, Andrea......... Asian Languages & CulturesCheung, Roanna..........................................HistoryChiang, Mabel................. Political Science/JapaneseDewitt, Lindsey........... Asian Languages & CulturesGordanier, Amy...........................................HistoryGuy, Gloria..................................................HistoryHowell, Anthony....................................GeographyIwasaki, Clara.............. Asian Languages & CulturesKellog, Anita..................................Political ScienceKim, Stephanie........................................EducationLam, Susanna....................................... ArchaeologyLee, Oh Mee......................................... Art HistoryRoedder, Alexandra................................MusicologySchuckman, Hugh...................................EducationTesterman, Nicholas............Comparative LiteratureCenter for European and Eurasian StudiesBalz, Matthew..........................................SociologyGuzman, Morgan.........................................HistoryHedlin, Yogi...................................Political ScienceHoushell, Eric.............................................HistoryCenter for Southeast Asian StudiesEdwards, James ...........................EthnomusicologyGoldstein, Jennifer ................................GeographyHerr, Joshua ...............................................HistoryHynson, Meghan .........................EthnomusicologyKoch, Sara ............Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyLo, Jennifer .......................................Social WelfareNewon, Lisa ......................................AnthropologyReilly, Brandon ...........................................HistoryRodriguez, Steven .......................................HistorySantos, Stephanie ......................... Women’s Studies.Fulbright Institute of InternationalEducationDykstra, Maura.................................History, ChinaFeldman, Leah.. Comparative Literature, AzerbaijanGilbert, Claire...................................History, SpainHarren, Natilee......................Art History, GermanyNguyen, Lilly...........Information Sciences, VietnamShafir, Nir....................................... History, TurkeySteinhart, Daniel....................... Film and TelevisionThompson, Pamela.........................Biology, Mexico.Jacob K. Javits Fellowship ProgramGlenn, Laeh....................................................... ArtKing, Jonathan............................ Film & TelevisionKrogh, Lauren....................................... PsychologyMaskarinec, Maya........................................HistoryPripas, Sarah................................................HistoryTseng, Michael Shively...........................LinguisticsZuttermeister, David......................................... ArtDolores Zohrab Liebmann FellowshipBrumfield, Sara......... Near Eastern Lang & CulturesNational Science Foundation GraduateResearch Fellowship ProgramAragam, Nikhyl..................................MathematicsBell, Elizabeth................................... GeochemistryBird, Deborah..............................................BiologyBrunson, Katherine............................AnthropologyChiou, Grace............................................ChemistryDavis, Damek......................................MathematicsEngelhardt, Dalit......................................... PhysicsForsyth, Jennifer.................................... PsychologyGee, Dylan......................................... 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ArchaeologyLee, Catherine....................................AnthropologyLi, Yingkun.........................................MathematicsMatsumoto, Nicholas...............................ChemistryMcpherson, Laura...................................LinguisticsPeters, Megan........................................ PsychologyRock, Patrick......................................... PsychologySaphire-Bernstein, Shimon..................... PsychologySchweizer, Rena...........................................BiologySears, Meredith...................................... PsychologySevier, Stuart Austin.................................... PhysicsShaw, Jessica Leigh............... Electrical EngineeringShemmasian, Shirag............................... PsychologyStephenson, Scott....................................GeographySun, Yifan............................. 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NeuroscienceAlioto, Dominic....Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyAllen, Vincent ...................................... PsychologyCastaneda, Julie..................... Molecular ToxicologyFourquet, Natasha................................. PsychologyIniguez, Abril........Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyLazaro, Maria...................................... NeuroscienceMcDonald, Whitney........................... NeuroscienceMinasyan, Aspram.....................Biomedical PhysicsMunoz, Nicole.......Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyRodriguez Barrera, Vanessa.................... PsychologyValenciaga, Yanisley...................Biomedical Physics.ExtramuralDissertation Fellowships.Ford Foundation Dissertation DiversityFellowshipGutierrez, Veronica......................................HistoryGuzman, Georgina......................................EnglishNava, Pedro.............................................EducationFulbright-Hays Doctoral DissertationResearch Abroad (Primary)Appert, Catherine........... 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Culture and PerformanceStudies, South Korea.Fulbright-Hays Doctoral DissertationResearch Abroad (Alternate)Garrett, Victoria..Hispanic Languages & LiteraturesGleason, Tiffany...........................................HistorySharp, Ellen.......................................AnthropologyTamang, Angsumala.....................Ethnomusicology.Haynes Foundation DoctoralDissertation Fellowships.Alvarez, Anthony......................................SociologyCooke, Abigail........................................GeographyOcampo, Anthony....................................SociologyPfeiffer, Deirdre..............................Urban PlanningRosales, Rocio...........................................Sociology.University of California Institutefor Mexico & the United States (UCMEXUS) Dissertation Research GrantLara, Argelia............................................EducationRinetti-Vargas, Gina.......................... NeurobiologyTelzer, Eva............................................. PsychologyZamora, Sylvia..........................................SociologyAnthropologyAmy Malek: (Exhibition Curator) “Document:Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles,” FowlerMuseum at UCLA, June 6 through Aug. 22,2010. (http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/document-iranian-americans-in-157014.aspx)Janell Rothenberg: Doctoral DissertationImprovement Grant. National ScienceFoundation, September, 2010.Applied LinguisticsGail F. Adams: (Co-presenter) “Social Behaviorsand Strategies that Increase Language-LearningOpportunities in Infant and Adult Classrooms:An Integrated Perspective.” Presented atthe Eighth International Conference on NewDirections in the Humanities, Los Angeles,CA, June, 2010.Mayumi Ajioka: [1] “More interactions intoinstruction: From an Analysis of NativelikeSpeech of Japanese.” Poster presented at the2010 International Conference on JapaneseLanguage Education, Taipei, Taiwan, July,2010. [2] “Grammar, Pronunciation, orSomething Else? Native Japanese Speakers’Judgments of ‘Nativelike’ Speech.” Presentedat The UCLA 1st Annual Public Conference,Linguistic Diversity in American Classrooms:Graduate StudentAccomplishmentsFeatured AccomplishmentMolecular biologyAndrew S. Goldstein: (First author) “Identification of a Cell of Origin for Human ProstateCancer.” Published in Science, vol. 329, pp. 568-71, July, 2010.Abstract: Luminal cells are believed to be the cells of origin for human prostate cancer, becausethe disease is characterized by luminal cell expansion and the absence of basal cells. Yet functionalstudies addressing the origin of human prostate cancer have not previously been reported becauseof a lack of relevant in vivo human models. Here we show that basal cells from primary benignhuman prostate tissue can initiate prostate cancer in immunodeficient mice. The cooperative effectsof AKT, ERG, and androgen receptor in basal cells recapitulated the histological and molecularfeatures of human prostate cancer, with loss of basal cells and expansion of luminal cells expressingprostate-specific antigen and alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase. Our results demonstrate thathistological characterization of cancers does not necessarily correlate with the cellular origins ofthe disease.Perspectives on Grammar, Accent, and Fluency.Los Angeles, CA, August, 2010.La ura L. Amador: [1] “ManagingIncompetence through Stance Display:Laughter as Discursive Artifact in a ForeignLanguage Classroom.” Presented at theSymposium on Communicative Practices inthe Lifeworld (CPIL), Berkeley, CA, April,2010. [2] (Co-presenter) “Social Behaviorsand Strategies that Increase Language-LearningOpportunities in Infant and Adult Classrooms:An Integrated Perspective.” Presented atthe 8th International Conference on NewDirections in the Humanities, Los Angeles,CA, June, 2010.Obianuju C. Anya: [1] (Co-chair) “LinguisticDiversity in American Classrooms: Perspectiveson Accent, Grammar, and Fluency.” UCLAApplied Linguistics Department First AnnualPublic Conference, Los Angeles, CA, August,2010. [2] (Co-presenter) “Social Issues inApplied Linguistics: Critical Perspectiveson Language, Teaching, Research, and CivicEngagement.” Presented at the UCLA PublicConference on Linguistic Diversity in AmericanClassrooms: Perspectives on Accent, Grammar,and Fluency, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2010.Saeid Atoofi: [1] (First author) “Culture andLanguage Acquisition: Creating Culturally-Sensitive Content and Instruction forLanguage Classroom.” Presented at theUCLA - Hertiage language teacher workshop,Los Angeles, CA, July, 2010. [2] (Firstauthor) “When Display of Positive Affectby Language Teachers is Dissociated fromLanguage Learning Performance by Students.”Presented at the National Heritage LanguageResource Center, Los Angeles, CA, February,2010. [3] (First author) “Affect and LinguisticRepetition: A Linguistic Anthropology Studyin a Persian Heritage Classroom in Los Angeles.”Presented at the American Association ofApplied Linguists, Atlanta, GA, April, 2010.[4] (First author) “Cultural Themes or ThematicCulture?” Presented at the Startalk - ProgramDirectors Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April, 2010.[5] (First author) “Persian Heritage LanguageInstruction in the U.S.” Presented at theProfessional Development Workshop forPersians, Philadelphia, PA, July, 2010. [6] (Coauthor)“Enhancing Language Learning ThroughProgram Wide Film Festivals.” Presented atthe Startalk/NFLC - STARTALK 2010 FallConference, Atlanta, GA, October, 2010.Netta R. Avineri: [1] “The InteractiveOrganization of ‘Insight’: Clinical Interviewswith Frontotemporal Dementia Patients.”Chapter published in book A. Mates, L. Mikesell,and M. Smith (Eds.) Language, Interaction andFrontotemporal Dementia: Reverse Engineering theSocial Mind, May, 2010. [2] “Socializing YoungAdults into Prayer: Embodied Torah Chanting26 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 27

within a Community of Practice.” Presented atthe Communicative Practices in the Lifeworld,Berkeley, CA, April, 2010. [3] (Co-chair)UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics FirstAnnual Public Conference. Linguistic Diversityin American Classrooms: Perspectives on Accent,Grammar, and Fluency, Los Angeles, CA, August,2010. [4] (Panelist) “Social Issues in AppliedLinguistics: Critical Perspectives on Language,Teaching, Research, and Civic Engagement.”Presented at the Linguistic Diversity in AmericanClassrooms: Perspectives on Accent, Grammar,and Fluency, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2010. [5](Recipient) “Pre-Dissertation Award.” Mellon,September, 2010.Hye Ri Stephanie Kim: [1] “Brave NewDigital Classroom: Technology and ForeignLanguage Learning (Blake, 2008).” Bookreview in Issues in Applied Linguistics, vol. 17,pp. 63-65, 2009. [2] “A High Boundary Toneas a Resource for a Social Action: The KoreanSentence-Ender –Ta.” Published in Journal ofPragmatics, vol. 42, pp. 3055-3077, 2010. [3]“Ani-Prefacing: Indexing ‘Why I Said That.’”Presented at the International Conference onConversation Analysis (ICCA), Mannheim,Germany, July, 2010. [4] “Ani-prefacing toWH-type Interrogatives: One Linguistic andSpatial Resource for Doing Defense.” Presentedat the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference,Oxford, England, October, 2010.Lauren Mason Carris: [1] (Recipient)“Marianne Celce-Murcia Outstanding TeachingAward.” Department of Applied Linguistics(and formerly ESL), UCLA, June, 2010. [2](Co-author) “‘Short’ fried-rice-eating ChineseMCs and good-hair-havin Uncle Tom niggas’:Performing Race and Ethnicity in Freestyle RapBattles.” “Performing Disputes: Cooperationand Conflict in Argumentative Language.Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 20, pp.116-133, June, 2010. [3] (Co-chair) “1stAnnual Public Conference - Linguistic Diversityin American Classrooms: Perspectives onAccent, Grammar, and Fluency.” Departmentof Applied Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles,CA, August, 2010. [4] (Panelist) “Social Issuesin Applied Linguistics – Critical Perspectiveson Language, Teaching, Research, and CivicEngagement.” Presented at the First AnnualConference on Linguistic Diversity in AmericanClassrooms - Department of Applied Linguistics,UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2010. [5]“YESsica ‘don’t call me Latina’ Alba”, a.k.a.“OH MY GAWD, White”: Defining, Creating,and Contesting, Whiteness in Latina CulturalProduction through Media.” Presented atthe “On Camera Excreta: Mediated Abjectionand Racialized Recontextualizations” panel.American Anthropological Association AnnualMeeting, New Orleans, LA, November, 2010.Viviana Unda: (Co-presenter) “Interpretingfor the Dental Patient.” Poster presented atPipeline Profession and Practice. Community-Based Dental Education. Annual CaliforniaDental Pipeline Meeting, Monterey, CA,June, 2010.Valeria Valencia: [1] Vice Chair, UCLADepartment of Applied Linguistics 1st AnnualPublic Conference. “Linguistic Diversity inAmerican Classrooms: Perspectives on Accent,Grammar, and Fluency” [2] “Social Issues inApplied Linguistics? Critical perspectiveson language, teaching, research, and civicengagement.” Presented at the First AnnualConference on Linguistic Diversity in AmericanClassrooms, UCLA, August, 2010.ArchaeologySonali Gupta-Agarwal: [1] “The FinalCurtain Call: the Abandonment of Karanisand the Presence of Late Roman Amphora.”Presented at the Twelfth St. Shenouda-UCLAConference of Coptic Studies, Los Angeles,CA, July, 2010. [2] “Cultural Transmissionand the Impetus Behind Consumer Demand:A Case Study Using Ceramics from Karanis.”Published in American Research Center inEgypt (ARCE) Annual Conference, Oakland,CA, April, 2010. [3] “The Final CurtainCall: the Abandonment of Karanis and thePresence of Late Roman Amphora.” Twelfth St.Shenouda-UCLA Conference of Coptic Studies,Los Angeles, CA, July, 2010.Anke M. Hein: (Recipient) China TimesCultural Foundation Young Scholar Award year2010-2011. China Times Cultural Foundation,October, 2010.ArtTejpal S. Ajji: [1] (Co-author) “Tejpal S. Ajji,Jon Soske & Alissa Trotz in Conversation.”Published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Platformfor Criticism, April, 2010. [2] CuratorialWriting Award for “Short Essay under 2,000words” for the exhibition essay “South-South: Interruptions & Encounters.” OntarioAssociation of Art Galleries (OAAG),September, 2010.Johannes D. Kuzmich: [1] (Co-presenter)“Whitney Independent Study Program 2009-10 Studio Program Exhibition.” New York,NY, June, 2010. [2] (Co-presenter) “Riptide:An Evening of Performances and Screenings.”New York, NY, June, 2010.Art HistoryTenley C. Bick: [1] “Horror Histories:Apartheid and the Abject Body in the Workof Jane Alexander.” Published in African Arts(MIT Press), vol. 43, n. 4, December, 2010.[2] “Suspensions of Self-Perception.” Chapterpublished in the book The Visual Reader,edited by James Elkins (New York: Routledge,forthcoming 2012).” [3] “Joseph Beuys andArte Povera: The Value of ‘Poor’ Work.”Presented at the Los Angeles County Museumof Art, Los Angeles, CA, January, 2010.Megan Lorraine Debin: [1] (Recipient)“Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-DissertationFellowship.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,August, 2010. [2] (Panelist) “Electronic CivilDisobedience: Activist Art and Internet Law.”Co-sponsored by the Entertainment Law &Intellectual Property Section of the Los AngelesBar Association, Cypress LLP, and UCLA’sChicano Studies Research Center, Departmentsof Art History and Art, September, 2010.[3] “Agruparse o Morrir: Performance andConceptual Art Collectives in Mexico City(1968-1980).” Presented as a guest lecture atUCLA, July, 2010.Natilee Harren: “The Topological Object ofFluxus.” Presented at the Transformations: TheDissolution of Boundaries in the Arts, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany,October, 2010.Beth Rosenblum: [1] “Julio Valdez:New Water Paintings (exhibition review).”Published in Art Nexus Magazine, vol. 77, pp.119-120, June, 2010. [2] “Waltercio Caldas(exhibition review).” Published in Art NexusMagazine, vol. 77, pp. 118-119, June, 2010.Cassie J. Wu: “What Is This Place?Transformations of the Home in ZwelethuMthethwa’s Portrait Photographs.” Publishedin African Arts, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 68-77,June, 2010.Asian Languages &CulturesBrian C. Bernards: [1] (Panelist) “BeyondMulticulturalism and Diaspora: RecuperatingSinophone Malaysian Creolization.” Presentedat the American Comparative LiteratureAssociation Annual Conference, New Orleans,LA, April, 2010. [2] (Moderator) Panel: “UsingLanguage.” Presented at the Third AnnualUCLA China Undisciplined Graduate StudentConference, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2010.Irena Cronin: “A Comparison of theHeguanzi and the Huainanzi With Regardsto Government.” Presented at the AmericanOriental Society (AOS), Western Branch 2010Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, October, 2010.Hieyoon Kim: (Panelist) “An ImpenetrableFortress in Total War: Transcolonial Coproduction/CirculationAmong Japan,Manchuria, and Colonial Korea.” Presented atthe Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2010Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2010.Seunghak Koh: (First author) “Li Tongxuan’sUtilization of the Chinese Symbolism inthe Explication of the Avatamasaka-sutra.”Published in Asian Philosophy, vol. 20 (2), pp.141-158, July, 2010.Karen M. Muldoon-Hules: “Of Milk andMotherhood: The Kacangala Avadana Read ina Brahmanical Light.” Published in Religions ofSouth Asia, vol. 3.1, pp. 111-124, July, 2009.Biomedical EngineeringOmid Kohannim: (First author) “BoostingPower for Clinical Trials Using ClassifiersBased on Multiple Biomarkers.” Published inNeurobiology of Aging, vol. 31, pp. 1429-1442,June, 2010.BiostatisticsAnna Liza M. Antonio: (Co-author) “CancerQuality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology QualityIndicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, andValidity Testing.” Published in Cancer, vol.116, pp. 3267-3275, July, 2010.Soeun Kim: (First author) “MultipleImputation for Regression Models withInteraction.” Presented at the Joint StatisticalMeetings, Vancouver, Canada, August, 2010.Vivian Hung-Hsiu Shih: “Modeling theImpact of Neurocognitive Impairment onOccupational Functioning: An Applicationto Bipolar Disorder.” Presented at the JointStatistical Meeting 2010, Vancouver, Canada,August, 2010.Jennifer A. Tom: “A Nonparametric Wavelet-Based Approach to Modeling the GeneticDiversity of Influenza A Through Time.”Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting,Vancouver, Canada, August, 2010.Chemistry & BiochemistryJ o n a h J . C h a n g : [1] (Co-author)“Enantiospecific Formal Total Synthesis of(+)-Fawcettimine.” Published in OrganicLetters, vol. 12, pp. 2962-2965, June, 2010.[2] “Enantiospecific Formal Total Synthesis of(+)-Fawcettimine.” ACS Division of OrganicChemistry Graduate Research SymposiumAward, Boston, MA, July, 2010.William J. Glover: [1] (First author) “FirstPrinciples Multielectron Mixed Quantum/Classical Simulations in the Condensed Phase.I. An Efficient Fourier-Grid Method for Solvingthe Many-Electron Problem.” Publishedin Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 132, pp.144101, April, 2010. [2] (First author) “FirstPrinciples Multielectron Mixed Quantum/Classical Simulations in the Condensed Phase.II. The Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent States ofSodium Anions in Liquid Tetrahydrofuran.”Published in Journal of Chemical Physics, vol.132, pp. 144102, April, 2010.Scott A. Johnson: [1] (Recipient) “CCGResearch Excellence Award.” ChemicalComputing Group (CCG) and the AmericanChemical Society (ACS), Boston, MA, August,2010. [2] “Ranking Enzyme Designs withEDGE.” Poster presented at AmericanChemical Society National Meeting, Boston,MA, August, 2010.Yuewei Sheng: [1] (First author) “Investigationof the Highly Active Manganese SuperoxideDismutase from Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”Published in Journal of American ChemicalSociety, vol. 132, pp. 12525, June, 2010.[2] “Mitochondrial Manganese-MontainingSuperoxide Dismutase in SaccharomycesCerevisiae.” Poster presented at 239th ACSNational Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March,2010. [3] “The Mitochondrial Manganese-Containing Superoxide Dismutase inSaccharomyces Cerevisiae.” Poster presentedat Gordon Research Seminar, Ventura, CA,January, 2010. [4] “The MitochondrialManganese-Containing Superoxide Dismutase inSaccharomyces Cerevisiae.” Poster presented atGordon Research Seminar, Ventura, CA, January,2009. [5] (Co-author) “Synthesis and CrystalStructure of 1-bromo-3,5-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene-Cd(II) complexes with BrandBr••π and Br•••Br interactions.” Published inWuji Huaxue Xuebao, vol. 25, pp. 1182.Russeen P. Wali: (First author) “FourierTransform Mechanical Spectroscopy of Micro-Fabricated Electromechanical Resonators: ANovel, Information-Rich Pulse Method forSensor Applications.” Published in Sensors &Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 147, pp. 508-516,June, 2010.Civil EngineeringWichitra Singhirunnusorn: (First author)“A Critical Analysis Of Economic Factors ForDiverse Wastewater Treatment Processes: CaseStudies In Thailand.” Published in SustainableEnvironment Research (Formerly, J. Environ. Eng.Manage.), vol. 20, pp. 263-268, July, 2010.Tadeh Zirakian: [1] “Further Results on theApplication of the Extrapolation Techniques.”International Colloquium on Stability andDuctility of Steel Structures, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, September, 2010. [2] (First author)“Elastic Lateral-Distortional Buckling ofSingly Symmetric I-Beams: The 2005 AISCSpecification.” International Colloquium onStability and Ductility of Steel Structures, Riode Janeiro, Brazil, September, 2010.ClassicsMichael E. Brumbaugh: [1] “Horrorin Focus: Surreal Imagery and the Iliad.”Presented at the Duke-UNC Classics GraduateColloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March, 2010.[2] “La Utopia Responde: Peramas Sobre losLimites del Republicanismo.” Paper presented atthe Clasicos en los Andes conference, Bogota,Columbia, August, 2010.Community HealthSciencesMekeila C. Cook: UCLA Center for AIDSResearch- Behavioral Science Fellowship.UCLA AIDS Institute, July, 2010.Elizabeth Evans: [1] (First author)“Comparative effectiveness of California’sProposition 36 and drug court programsbefore and after propensity score matching.”Published in Crime & Delinquency. [2] (Firstauthor) “Promising practices for delivery ofcourt-supervised substance abuse treatment:Perspectives from six high-performingCalifornia counties operating Proposition 36.”Published in Evaluation and Program Planning.[3] (First author) “Using administrative datafor longitudinal substance abuse research.”Published in Journal of Behavioral HealthServices & Research, vol. 37, pp. 252-271,August, 2010. [4] (Moderator) “UCLACALDAR Summer Institute on LongitudinalResearch & Clinical Trials Network (CTN)Dissemination Conference.” UCLA IntegratedSubstance Abuse Programs, Marina del Rey,CA, August, 2010. [5] (First author) “Receiptof continuing care by parenting women.”Poster presented at the College on Problemsof Drug Dependence, Scottsdale, AZ, June,2010. [6] (Co-author) “Gender Differences inHIV Risk Behaviors and Other issues amongChinese Methadone Patients.” Poster presentedat the NIDA International Forum, Scottsdale,CA, June, 2010. [7] (Co-author) “ContingencyManagement for Chinese Methadone Patients.”Poster presented at the NIDA InternationalForum, Scottsdale, CA, June, 2010. [8] (Coauthor)“Hispanic parenting women in womenonlyversus mixed-gender drug treatment.”Poster presented at the College on Problems ofDrug Dependence, Scottsdale, CA, June, 2010.Maria Koleilat: (First author) “ConvenienceStores are Associated with Early ChildhoodObesity in Low-Income Households.” Poster28 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 29

presented at the Experimental BiologyConference 2010, Anaheim, CA, April, 2010.Suzanne E. Spear: (First author) “GenderDifferences Among Urban American Indiansin Substance Abuse Treatment.” Posterpresented at the College on Problems ofDrug Dependence (CPDD) Annual ScientificMeeting, Scottsdale, AZ, June, 2010.Gabriel N. Stover: [1] (First author) “ThisWoman’s Work: Scholarship, Activism, andResearch.” Presented at the The Corpus ofCorpus: A Symposium on AIDS, Arts and(Counter) Public Health, University CaliforniaRiverside Center for Ideas and Society, Riverside,CA, January, 2010. [2] (First author) “TestingSyndemic Theory as a Method of Helping toExplain Urban Adolescent High Risk Behavior.”Presented at the HIV Research: The NextGeneration- Virtual Conference, Los Angeles,CA, May, 2010.Design | Media ArtsPete Hawkes: Binary Glove – Final JurySelection. Exhibit of FILE Prix Lux –International Electronic Languages Festival,Sao Paulo, Brazil, July, 2010.Earth & Space SciencesPaul O. Hayne: [1] (First author) “DivinerLunar Radiometer Observations of the LCROSSImpact.” Published in Science, vol. 330,October, 2010. [2] First Place, Student PosterCompetition. NASA Lunar Science Forum,Mountain View, CA, July, 2010.Jennifer E. Kissinger: (First author) “AnInvestigation of the Association Between SteadyMagnetospheric Convection and CIR StreamInterfaces.” Published in Geophysical ResearchLetters, vol. 37, pp. L04105, February, 2010.Rachel L. Smith: [1] Gordon A. McKayAward (Best Student Oral Presentation): “New12CO/13CO observations in young stellarobjects and molecular clouds: implications for12C/13C in the early solar nebula.” Awardedat the 73rd annual meeting of the MeteoriticalSociety, New York City, NY, July, 2010. [2]“New insights on the origin of the solar system12C/13C ratio using protostellar observationsand radiative transfer modeling.” Presented atthe Disks, Meteorites, Planetesimals Workshopat the American Museum of Natural History,New York City, NY, July, 2010.East Asian StudiesWendy Zheng: Thomas R. Pickering ForeignAffairs Fellowship. Woodrow Wilson NationalFellowship Foundation, June, 2010.Ecology & EvolutionaryBiologyTina W. Wey: (Co-author) “Towards anIntegrative Understanding of Social Behavior:New Models and New Opportunities.”Published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,vol. 4, pp. 34, June, 2010.EconomicsDevin M. Bunten: “Entrepreneurship,Information, and Economic Growth.”Presented at the North American Meetings ofthe Regional Science Association International,Denver, CO, November, 2010.Vadim Khramov: (First author) “Estimationof DSGE Models with Indeterminacy, CapitalAccumulation and Different Taylor Rules.”Presented at the Guanajuato Workshop forYoung Economists, Guanajuato, Mexico,August, 2010.Jose I. Lopez: (Co-presenter) SED Meetings.Society For Economic Dynamics, Montreal,Canada, July, 2010.Virginia M. Olivella: (Co-author) “Reexaminingthe Role of Financial Constraints inBusiness Cycles: Is Something Wrong with theCredit Multiplier?” Presented at the Societyfor Economic Dynamics Meeting, Montreal,Canada, June, 2010.Jessica Roldan: [1] (Co-author) “Reexaminingthe Role of Financial Constraintsin Business Cycles: Is Something Wrongwith the Credit Multiplier?” Presented atthe 2010 European Economic AssociationAnnual Congress, Glasgow, UK, August,2010. [2] (Co-author) “Re-examining theRole of Financial Constraints in BusinessCycles: Is Something Wrong with the CreditMultiplier?” Presented at the 2010 Societyfor Economic Dynamics Meeting, Montreal,Canada, July, 2010.Andrew L. Zaeske: “Excess Liquidity? AMacroeconomic Look At Water Use in theU.S.” Presented at the World Conference onNatural Resource Modeling, Helsinki, Finland,June, 2010.Jorge A. Zambrano Riveros: “EndogenousEmployment and Incomplete Markets: Effort asa Strategy to Smooth Consumption.” Presentedat the Guanjajuato Workshop for YoungEconomists, Guanajuato, Mexico, July, 2010.EducationJose M. Aguilar-Hernandez: [1] (Panelist)“Jotos Matter: Situating our Knowledges in theArchives.” Presented at the 3rd NACCS JoteriaConference, Eugene, OR, October, 2010. [2](Panelist) “Framing and Applying a CriticalRace Educational History.” Presented at theCritical Race Studies in Education AssociationConference, Salt Lake City, UT, May, 2010.[3] (Panelist) “Framing and Applying aCritical Race Educational History.” Presentedat the National Association for Chicana andChicano Studies 2010 Conference, Seattle,WA, April, 2010. [4] (Panelist) “Reclaimingthe Queerness in Chicana/o Culture, Families,and Communities.” Presented at the NationalAssociation for Chicana and Chicano Studies2010 Conference, Seattle, WA, April, 2010.[5] (Chair) “Toxicity within the Body ofChicana/o Studies? Exploring our QueerBodies.” Presented at the National Associationfor Chicana and Chicano Studies 2010Conference, Seattle, WA, April, 2010.Douglas Barrera: (First author) “AdvancingDemocratic Practice: A Self-Assessment Guidefor Higher Education.” Council of EuropePublishing, November, 2009.Stanley L. Johnson Jr.: [1] (Recipient)“Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award.”UCLA Graduate School of Education &Information Studies, September, 2010. [2](Co-presenter) “Promising Practices forUnderserved Students: Practical Implicationsfor Closing the Literacy Gap for AfricanAmerican Males Throughout the K-12Educational Pipeline.” Presented at the LosAngeles County Office of Education. “TheDropout Crisis: A Leadership Summit,”Pasadena, CA, September, 2010. [3] NationalScience Foundation Sponsored Colloquy onMinority Males in STEM. August, 2011.Marc P. Johnston: [1] (First author)“Multiracial Microaggressions: ExposingMonoracism in Everyday Life and ClinicalPractice.” Chapter published in bookMicroaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation,Dynamics and Impact, July, 2010. [2] “Identityin Progress: A Mixed Perspective.” Chapterpublished in book Filipino American Psychology:A Collection of Personal Narratives, July, 2010.Steven K. Kapp: [1] “Transitioning toand Succeeding in College on the AutismSpectrum.” Presented at the CaliforniaAssociation on Postsecondary Educationand Disability Conference, San Jose, CA,October, 2010. [2] “Transition to Adulthoodon the Autism Spectrum.” Presented at the4th Annual Pasadena Autism/Asperger’sConference, Pasadena, CA, August, 2010.[3] “Classification of Autism Spectrum“Disorder(s)”: History and Implications forResearch and Advocacy.” Presented at theSummer Autism Conference, San Diego, CA,June, 2010.Miguel Lopez: CHCI/Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation Inaugural Higher EducationFellowship. Washington, DC, June, 2010.Danny C. Martinez: [1] (Recipient)“Cultivating New Voices Among Scholarsof Color Fellowship.” National Councilof Teachers of English (NCTE). [2] (Coauthor)“Building on Cultural Strengths as anAlternative to Remedial Reading Approaches.”Chapter published in Handbook of ReadingDisabilities Research, July, 2010.Lisa Millora: [1] Philip Clark Award andScholarship, July, 2010. [2] (Co-author)“Psychological Well-Being for White, Black,Latino/a, and Asian American Students:Considering Spirituality and Religion.”Published in the Journal of Student AffairsResearch and Practice, vol. 47, pp. 4, December,2010. [3] “How College Students UnderstandRace and National Identity After Participatingin International Education Programs.”Presented at the Association for the Study ofHigher Education Conference, Indianapolis,IN, November, 2010.William C. Purdy: [1] (Co-author) “FinancingHigher Education: Lessons from the UnitedStates and Implications for Europe.” Presentedat the Consortium for Higher EducationResearch, Oslo, Norway, June, 2010.Electrical EngineeringMartin S. Andersen: [1] (First author)“Implementation of Nonsymmetric Interior-Point Methods for Linear OptimizationOver Sparse Matrix Cones.” Publishedin Mathematical Programming Computation,August, 2010. [2] (First author) “LinearMatrix Inequalities with Chordal SparsityPatterns and Applications to Robust QuadraticOptimization.” International Symposiumon Computer Aided Control System Design,Yokohama, Japan, September, 2010.Onur Mudanyali: [1] (First author) “LensfreeHolographic Imaging of Antibody Microarraysfor High-Throughput Detection of LeukocyteNumbers and Function.” Published inAnalytical Chemistry, vol. 82(9), pp. 3736–3744,April, 2010. [2] (First author) “Compact,Light-weight and Cost-effective Microscopebased on Lensless Incoherent Holography forTelemedicine Applications.” Published inLab on a Chip, vol. 10, pp. 1417-1428, April,2010. [3] (First author) “Lensfree Microscopyon a Cell-phone.” Published in Lab on a Chip,vol. 10, pp. 1787-1792, April, 2010. [4] (Firstauthor) “Detection of Waterborne Parasitesusing Field-portable and Cost-effective LensfreeMicroscopy.” Published in Lab on a Chip, vol.10, pp. 2419-2423, August, 2010.Engineering - Ms OnlineTimothy T. Hsieh: (First author) “Land ofOrigin.” Second Prize Winner - For ShortStory. Published in 2010 Playboy College FictionContest, October, 2010.EnglishSara F. Burdorff: “Discourses of Torment:Examining the ‘Sentimental’ Violence inEighteenth Century Antislavery Writing.”Presented at the International Society forReligion, Literature, and Culture 15th BiennialConference, University of Oxford, UnitedKingdom, September, 2010.Deborah M. Donig: “Mut(e)ilations: TheLoss of Voice and the Voice of Loss: Memory,Reconstruction and Reconciliation in SouthAfrican Literature.” Chapter published inTrauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post-1994South African Writing (ed. Rajendra Chetty andJaspal Singh, Peter Lang), September, 2010.Dustin Friedman: “Unsettling theNormative: Articulations of Masculinity inVictorian Literature and Culture,” LiteratureCompass (2010).Eric Gudas: Best Western and Other Poems.Eugene, Ore: Silverfish Review Press, 2010.Alex E. Hernandez: [1] “Tragedy and theEconomics of Providence in Richardson’sCLARISSA.” Published in Eighteenth-CenturyFiction, vol. 22, pp. 599-630, August, 2010. [2](Recipient) Dissertation Proposal DevelopmentFellowship for “After Secularization: NewApproaches to Religion and Modernity.” SocialScience Research Council, 2010.Adam Seth Lowenstein: Review of FranticPanoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture1870-1920, by Nancy Bentley. Modern FictionStudies 56, 2 (Summer 2010): 420-423.Lisa Mendelman: “Resonant Silence: Love,Desire, and Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’Venus.” GRAMMA 17 (2010).James Pulizzi: (Co-Author) “NarratingConsciousness: Language, Media, andEmbodiment.” History of the Human Sciences, 23:3(2010): pp. 131-148.Erin Suzuki: “Haunted Homelands:Negotiating Locality in Father of the FourPassages.” Modern Fiction Studies 54:1 (Spring2010), 160-182.EpidemiologyJudy Sng: “Current Surveillance Effortfor Nanomaterials Workers.” Presentedat the Nanomaterials and Worker Health:Medical Surveillance, Exposure Registries,and Epidemiologic Research, Keystone, CO,July, 2010.EthnomusicologyMeghan E. Hynson: (Panelist) “Music inTranslation: Balinese Worldview and theTeaching of Balinese Music in America.”Presented at the International Art in TranslationConference, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 2010.Katharine Stuffelbeam: [1] “Women& Activism in the Field: Research,Responsibility and Relationships in aWest African Community.” Presented atDoing Ethnomusicology: Implications andApplications, London, United Kingdom,September, 2010. [2] “Activism in the Field:Research, Responsibility and Relationshipsin a West African Community.” Presented atthe Society for Ethnomusicology 55th AnnualMeeting, Sound Ecologies, Los Angeles, CA,November, 2010.Jessie M. Vallejo: [1] (Recipient) “SummerLanguage Intensive in Quichua.” ForeignLanguage Area Studies Award (FLAS), Otavalo,Ecuador, July, 2010. [2] (Co-performer)Performance at Royce Hall opening forMariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano andGuests. Performance of Mariachi de Uclatlan,Los Angeles, CA, October, 2010. [3] PresentedM.A. paper, “Teach Them How to Speak Back!:Music, Identity, and Language Acquisitionon the Ahkwesahsne Reservation,” in SUNYPotsdam’s 2010 Triannual Campus Festival &Conference, “Footprints in the North Country”,Potsdam, NY, April, 2010.Nolan M. Warden: [1] (Recipient) ArnoldRubin Award. UCLA Fowler Museum,May, 2010. [2] (Recipient) African MusicSection Student Paper Prize. Society forEthnomusicology Annual Conference (Nov.2009), Mexico City, Mexico, July, 2010.Film, TV, & Digital MediaJennifer L. Fong: [1] “‘I Came to Galacticato Tell a Story’: Battlestar Galactica andTransmedia Interactivity.” Southwest TexasPopular Culture and American Culture30 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 31

Association’s 2010 Conference, Albuqurque,NM, February, 2010. [2] “Stuck in theBlender: Genre and Racial Hybridity in JossWhedon’s Firefly.” Midwest Popular Cultureand American Culture Association’s 2010Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October, 2010.Nicole H. Gordon: [1] Producers’ CaucusSummer Intern. The Caucus for Producers,Writers, & Directors, June, 2010. [2] NewLinkages Intern - Progressive Jewish Alliance.Jewish Vocational Services, August, 2010.[3] “Mary Dorr-Gordon Scholarship in Media.P.E.O. Chapter KV, Palm Springs, California,May, 2010.Drew A. Morton: [1] (First author) BookReview: May Contain Graphic Material: ComicBooks, Graphic Novels, and Film by M. KeithBooker. Studies in Comics, vol. 1, Issue 2.[2] Book Review: Superman vs. Hollywood:How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, andWarring Writers Grounded an American Icon byJake Rossen. Studies in Comics, vol. 1, Issue2. [3] “Sketching Under the Influence?Winsor McCay and the Question of AestheticConvergence Between Comic Strips and Film.”Published in Animation: An InterdisciplinaryJournal, vol. 5, Issue 3, November, 2010.Germanic LanguagesKimberly J. La Palm: Swedish Women’sEducational Association San FranciscoScholarship 2010, May, 2010.Health ServicesJenna M. Jones: “Financial and NonfinancialBarriers to HPV Vaccine Utilization in YoungFemale California Residents.” Presented at theAmerican Public Health Association AnnualMeeting, Denver, CO, November, 2010.HistoryLino Camprubi: [1] “Melvin Kranzberg.”Society for the History of Technology, October,2010. [2] “One Grain, One Nation: RiceGenetics and the Corporate State in EarlyFrancoist Spain (1939–1932).” Published inHistorical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol. 40(4), pp. 499–531, November, 2010.Winifred Chang: [1] “Doka: ParadoxicalApproaches to Difference in Early JapaneseColonialism in Taiwan.” Presented at theEducation and Empire: The Sixth GalwayConference on Colonialism, Galway, Ireland,June, 2010. [2] “Doka: Paradoxical Approachesto Difference in Early Japanese Colonialismin Taiwan.” Presented at the Asian StudiesConference Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June, 2010.Linda A. Civitello: [1] “The MediterraneanDiet: Ancient and Modern.” Presented atthe Pacific Palisades Public Library, PacificPalisades, CA, May, 2010. [2] “Let Them EatMadeleines: Food and the French Revolution.”Presented at the Surfas Chef’s Paradise, CulverCity, CA, July, 2010. [3] “Art Tasting AudioTour — Food and Art.” Presented at theGetty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2010.[4] “The Art of Food: Living the ExaminedLife.” Presented at the Getty Museum, LosAngeles, CA, August, 2010. [5] “America’sFemale Food Stars.” Presented at the St. Paul’sChurch Seniors Organization, Los Angeles, CA,September, 2010.Matthew E. Crow: “Records, Rhetoric, andBritish Legal Memory in Colonial Virginia.”Presented at the Seminar on the InternationalHistory of the Atlantic World, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA, August, 2010.Jean-Paul R. deGuzman: [1] ResearchGrant. UC Center for New Racial Studies,April, 2010. [2] Sarah Jackson Award.Western History Association, August, 2010.[3]Research Grant. UCLA Institute ofAmerican Cultures/Ralph J. Bunche Centerfor African American Studies, June, 2010. [4]Book Review: Chinese Americans and the Politicsof Race and Culture.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 36,pp. 1, June, 2010. [5] “Neo-Noir in the Cityof Angels.” Association for Asian AmericanStudies Annual Conference, Austin, TX, April,2010. [6] “At the Car Wash! Culture and Laborin the City of Angels.” California AmericanStudies Association Annual Conference, LongBeach, CA, April, 2010. [7] “At the Car Wash!Culture and Labor in the City of Angels.”Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara &Southern California, Santa Barbara, CA, April,2010. [8] “Beyond ‘Living La Vida Boba’:Youth and Transnational Asian America.”Asia in LA: Creating and Consuming AsianCuisines, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2010. [9]“Beyond Donna and Ritchie: Dating AcrossColor Lines in an Iconic American Space.”Pacific Coast Branch-American HistoricalAssociation, Santa Clara, CA, August, 2010.Linda C. Frank: (Co-presenter) “In-Laws andOutliers: The Stanton, Brewster and AveryFamilies and the Development of AntebellumReform in Western New York, 1826-1848.”Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic, Rochester, NY, July, 2010.Zevi Gutfreund: [1] “Standing Up toSugar Cubes: The Contest over EthnicIdentity in California’s Fourth-Grade MissionCurriculum.” Published in the SouthernCalifornia Quarterly, vol. 92, pp. 161–197, July,2010. [2] (Co-author) “Home Lands: HowWomen Made the West, A Teaching Unit.”The Autry in Griffith Park, April - August,2010. [3] “Before Bilingual Education: ThreeViews of Language Learning in Progressive-EraLos Angeles, 1900-1930.” Graduate StudentWorkshop, Huntington-USC Institute onCalifornia and the West, San Marino, CA,May, 2010.Melis Hafez: (Panelist) “Question of the‘Laziness of the Ottoman Nation’: The Discourseand Practice of Work and Nation-formationin Late Ottoman Society.” Presented at theWorld Congress for Middle Eastern Studies(WOCMES), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010.Matthew S. Luckett: “Expecting Thieves,Not Zebras: Ranching, Anxiety, and HorseStealing on the Nebraska Frontier.” Presentedat the Northern Illinois University HistoryGraduate Student Conference, De Kalb, IL,October, 2010.Courtney Spikes: (Panelist) “Truth in Images:Crime and Canards in Restoration France.”Presented at the Society for French HistoricalStudies, Tempe, AZ, April, 2010.Edward (Ned) Schoolman and MayaMaskarinec: National Endowment for theHumanities Summer Scholars. Participatedin a seminar entitled “The Falls of Rome:Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity,”July 2010.Indo-European StudiesChiara Bozzone: “The PIE Subjunctive:Function and Development.” Presented atthe Arbeitstagung on the Indo-European Verbconference, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2010.Mattyas Huggard: “Internal Structure of theHittite preposed Relative Clause.” Presentedat the 22nd UCLA Indo-European Conference,Los Angeles, CA, November, 2010.Anna Page: “Heroes and Heroic Families: TheKinship Relations in Math uab Mathonwy.”Presented at the Mythic Heroes of the MiddleAges conference, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2010.Ryan P. Sandell: “The Morphophonologyof Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and Indo-European.” Presented at the 22nd AnnualUCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles,CA, November, 2010.Christina M. Skelton: [1] “Dialect Evolutionin Mycenaean Greece? Not so Fast.” Presentedat the American Philological AssociationAnnual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January, 2010.[2] “Reexamining the Pylos Megaron Tablets.”Presented at the Archaeological Institute ofAmerica Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA,January, 2010.Information StudiesDiane Mizrachi: [1] “Undergraduates’Academic Information and Library Behaviors:Preliminary Results.” Published in ReferenceServices Review, vol. 38 issue 4, October, 2010.[2] “Undergraduates’ Academic InformationManagement Behaviors.” Presented at theLOEX of the West, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,June, 2010.Lilly Nguyen: Dissertation ResearchImprovement Grant. National ScienceFoundation - Science Technology and SocietyProgram, June, 2010.Ashley Sands: [1] (Co-author) “Visualizingthe Native American Cultural Landscape:A Significant New Research and ImagingMethod.” Published in American Indian RockArt (Publication of the American Rock ArtResearch Association), vol. 36, pp. 53-58, April,2010. [2] (First author) “The Next Generation:Mobilizing Social Networks for Heritage-basedInternational Cooperation.” Presented at the 7thInternational Congress on the Archaeology of theAncient Near East (ICAANE), London, UnitedKingdom, April, 2010.Islamic StudiesEric Bordenkircher: “Elections WithoutLosers? The Lebanese Political System Afterthe Syrian Military Withdrawal.” Associationof American Geographers (AAG) AnnualConference, Washington, DC, April, 2010.LinguisticsIsabelle Charnavel: “On the SentenceinternalReading of French le même (the same).”Poster presented at Semantics and LinguisticTheory conference (SALT20), Vancouver,Canada, April, 2010.Craig Sailor: [1] “VP Ellipsis in Tag Questions:A Typological Approach.” Presented at theChicago Linguistic Society 46, Chicago,IL, April, 2010. [2] (Co-presenter) “TheEmerging Middle Class.” Presented at theChicago Linguistic Society 46, Chicago, IL,April, 2010. [3] (Co-presenter) “TaiwaneseVP Ellipsis and the Progressive Prohibition.”Presented at the International Association ofChinese Linguistics 18 (IACL-18) / NorthAmerican Conference on Chinese Linguistics 22(NACCL-22), Cambridge, MA, May, 2010. [4](Co-presenter) “The Voices in Our Heads: TheVoice in English.” Presented at the Workshopon Morphological Voice and its GrammaticalInterfaces, Vienna, Austria, June, 2010. [5](Co-author) “Modeling Taiwanese Speakers’Knowledge of Tone Sandhi in Reduplication.”Published in Lingua, July, 2010.MathematicsAlexey Stomakhin: Horn-Moez Prize forExcellence in First-Year Graduate Studies.UCLA, Mathematics Department, May, 2010.Jed Yang: [1] Graduate Research Fellow.National Science Foundation, April, 2010. [2]“Vertex-Pancyclicity of Hypertournaments.”Published in the Journal of Graph Theory, vol.63, pp. 338--348, April, 2010.Microbiology,Immunology, & MolecularGeneticsAria Eshraghi: [1] (Co-author) “CytolethalDistending Toxin Family Members AreDifferentially Affected by Alterations inHost Glycans and Membrane Cholesterol.”Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry,vol. 285, pp. 18199-18207, June, 2010. [2]“Cytolethal Distending Toxin Family MembersAre Differentially Affected by Alterations inHost Glycans and Membrane Cholesterol.”Poster presented at the American Society forMicrobiology, San Diego, CA, May, 2010.Molecular, Cellular, &Integrative PhysiologyJun Deng: [1] Jennifer S. Buchwald GraduateFellowship in Physiology. September, 2010. [2](Moderator) 16th Jules Stein Lake Arrowheadretreat. Los Angeles, CA, October, 2010.Roshni V. Madhvani: AHA Western StatesAffiliate Pre-doctoral Fellowship. AmericanHeart Association, May, 2010.DeAnna L. Steiger: Ruth L. KirschsteinNational Research Service Award. NationalInstitute of Health, September, 2010.Molecular BiologyAndrew S. Goldstein: (First author)“Identification of a Cell of Origin for HumanProstate Cancer.” Published in Science, vol. 329,pp. 568-71, July, 2010.Alejandro D. Meruelo: [1] “Kink Predictionin Membrane Proteins.” Presented at theAnnual MBI Lake Arrowhead ResearchConference, Lake Arrowhead, CA, October,2010. [2] “A Computational and ExperimentalHunt for New SAM Polymers.” Poster presentedat ICSB 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, October,2010. [3] “A Computational and ExperimentalHunt for New SAM Polymers.” Posterpresented at Annual MBI Lake ArrowheadResearch Conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA,October, 2010.Help Your Department!Submit an Accomplishmentto the Graduate QuarterlyHave you made a presentation, publishedan article or premiered your originalwork recently? Help your departmentadvertise its achievements to the universityand beyond.Submit your accomplishments online at:www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/accomplishmentsJordan Moberg Parker: Graduate TeachingFellow in K-12 Education. UCLA Scienceand Engineering of the Environment of LosAngeles (SEE-LA) Program, Supported by theNSF. July, 2010.Zhe Yang: (First author) “PilA LocalizationAffects Extracellular Polysaccharide Productionand Fruiting Body Formation in MyxococcusXanthus.” Published in Molecular Microbiology,vol. 76(6), pp. 1500-1513, June, 2010.MusicKevork K. Andonian: (Composer) “ALonging For Joy” for flute and marimba, onthe CD “Music for Flute and Percussion, Vol2,” Naxos record label, July, 2010.MusicologyAlexandra M. Apolloni: “There’s No OtherSuperstar: On Lady Gaga, Disability, andthe Technologies of Stardom.” Presented atthe The Experience Music Project 2010 PopConference, Seattle, WA, April, 2010.María Natalia Bieletto-Bueno: [1]“Acá los chompiras rifan: Performance dela sinceridad en la Chilanga Banda de CaféTacuba.” International Association for theStudy of Popular Music, Latin American Branch- (IASPM-AL), Caracas, Venezuela, June,2010. [2] Grant for Completion of GraduateStudies Abroad by the Mexican National Fundsfor Arts and Culture- (FONCA). Mexico,August, 2010. [3] “Talk: La música de losespectáculos teatrales de carpas como un factorde elaboración de la clase popular en la ciudadde México, 1920-1950.” Presented at theUniversidad del Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina,September, 2010.32 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 33

Alexandra C. Roedder: [1] “Hello,WALL•E! Music as a Signifier of the Human.”Film & History, Milwaukee, WI, November,2010. [2] Friends of Musicology: Best SeminarPaper, Award, Honorable Mention. June, 2010.Near Eastern Languages& CulturesSara Brumfield: Dolores Zohrab LiebmannFund Fellowship. September, 2010.Krystal V. Lords: [1] (Co-author) “Egyptiansin Jaffa: A Portrait of Egyptian Presence in Jaffaduring the Late Bronze Age.” Published inNear Eastern Archaeology, vol. 73:1, pp. 2-30,May, 2010. [2] “The New Kingdom EgyptianPresence in Levantine Jaffa: An Analysis ofTexts, Artifacts, and Architecture.” Presentedat the ARCE, Oakland, CA, April, 2010.Eric Wells: [1] (Recipient) “The Iconographyand Material Culture of Personal Piety.”American Research Center in Egypt, Oakland,CA, April, 2010. [2] Best Student Paper for“The Iconography and Material Culture ofPersonal Piety.” American Research Center inEgypt, Oakland, CA, April, 2010.NeuroscienceDerek R. Verley: [1] (Co-author) “FunctionalDefinition of Seizure Provides New Insight intoPost-traumatic Epileptogenesis.” Publishedin Brain, vol. 132, pp. 2805-21, October,2009. [2] (Co-author) “Enhancement ofMuscle Contraction in the Stomach of theCrab Cancer Borealis: A Possible HormonalRole for GABA.” Published in BiologicalBulletin, vol. 219, pp. 293-302, June, 2010.[3] (Co-author) “ECoG Studies of Valproate,Carbamazepine and Halothane in FrontallobeEpilepsy Induced by Head Injury in theRat.” Published in Experimental Neurology,vol. 224, pp. 369-88, August, 2010. [4] (Coauthor)“Chronic Dysfunction of AstrocyticInwardy Rectifying K+ Channels Specific tothe Neocortical Epileptic Focus After FluidPercussion Injury in the Rat.” Published inJournal of Neurophysiology, September, 2010.NursingJulia C. Lassegard: 2010-2011 Migraine andWomen’s Health Junior Investigators ResearchAward. AHS/Merck, September, 2010.Carolyn E. Ziminski: John A. HartfordFoundation Building Academic GeriatricNursing Capacity Scholar. Building AcademicGeriatric Nursing Capacity Program, July, 2010.Oral BiologyOluwadayo Oluwadara: [1] (First Author)“Survivin and PI-3K in the MolecularBiomarker Profiling of Oral Lichen Planusand Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.”Bioinformation, 2009 4:249-57. [2] (FirstAuthor) “Relationship between human orallichen planus and oral squamous cell carcinomaat a genomic level: a data-mining study”.Bioinformation 2009 4:258-62. [3] (Co-Author)“Evidence-Based Based Decision Making- Implications for Dental Care.” Chapterin the book “In Dental Care: Diagnostic,Preventive, and Restorative Services,” J.C.Taggart, Ed. NovaScience Publisher, Inc.2009. [4] (Co-Author) “Introduction: ResearchSynthesis in Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making.” Chapter in “Understanding Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Optimizing ClinicalOutcomes.” Springer–Verlag, Heidelberg 2010.[5] (Co-editor) “Understanding Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Optimizing ClinicalOutcomes.” Springer–Verlag, Heidelberg 2010.[6] (Co-Chair and Presenter) “T-cell signalingbiomarker profiling: Evaluation of LCK,PI-3K and Survivin.” AADR, 39th AnnualMeeting, Washington DC, 3-6 March, 2010.(First Author) “Toward a Proteomic Signatureof Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.” InternationalAssociation for Dental Research (IADR), 88thGeneral Session, Barcelona, Spain. July, 2010.Manisha H. Ramchandani: [1] (Co-author)“Introduction: Research Synthesis in Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making.” In ChiappelliF. Brant XMC, Oluwadara OO, Neagos N,Ramchandani MH. (Eds.) “UnderstandingEvidence-Based Practice: Toward OptimizingClinical Outcomes.” Springer–Verlag,Heidelberg 2010, Chap 1. [2] (Co-author)“Global Warming in the 21st Century:Propositions from Traditional Health CareSystems.” In J.M. Cossia, Ed. Global Warmingin the 21st Century. NovaScience Publisher,Inc. 2010. [3] (Co-editor) “UnderstandingEvidence-Based Practice: Toward OptimizingClinical Outcomes.” Springer–Verlag,Heidelberg 2010.PhilosophyAaron M. Mead: [1] “Hegel and Externalismabout Intentions.” Published in The Owlof Minerva, vol. 41:1-2, pp. 107-142, June,2010. [2] “Some Doubts that Love is aValue-Response.” Published in The ChristianPersonalism of Dietrich von Hildebrand: Exploringhis Philosophy of Love, Rome, Italy, May, 2010.PsychologyDylan G. Gee: [1] (First author) “LowFrequency Fluctuations Reveal Integrated andSegregated Processing Among the CerebralHemispheres.” Published in NeuroImage, June,2010. [2] (First author) “Neural Substrates ofEmotion Processing in the Psychosis Prodrome.”Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, SanDiego, CA, November, 2010.Shulamite Green: (First author) “AnxietyDisorders and Sensory Over-responsivity inChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorders:Is there a Causal Relationship?” Published inthe Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders,April, 2010.Virginia Huynh: [1] (Co-author) “Ethnicityand Gender in Late Childhood and EarlyAdolescence: Group Identity and Awarenessof Bias.” Published in Developmental Psychology.[2] (Co-author) “Religious Identity andParticipation Among Adolescents from LatinAmerican, Asian and European Backgrounds.”Published in Child Development.Justin A. Lavner: (First author) “‘His’and ‘Her’ Marriage: Within-CoupleDifferences in Newlyweds’ Four-Year MaritalSatisfaction Trajectories.” Poster presentedat the Association for Psychological Scienceconference, Boston, MA, May, 2010.Mariana A. Preciado: (First author) “Selfperceptionof Same-sex Sexuality AmongHeterosexual Women: Association withPersonal Need for Structure.” Published inSelf & Identity.Yalda T. Uhls: [1] (First author) Book review:Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out.Journal of Children and Media, October, 2010. [2](Co-author) “Kids and Multitasking.” Publishedin Common Sense Media, January, 2010.Haley A. Vlach: [1] (First author)“Developmental Differences in Children’sContext-Dependent Word Learning.” Publishedin the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.[2] (First author) “Desirable Difficulties inCross-Situational Word Learning.” Publishedin Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of theCognitive Science Society, vol. 1, pp. 2470-2476,August, 2010. [3] Robert J. Glushko andPamela Samuelson Award. Cognitive ScienceSociety, August, 2010.Katherine J. Williams: [1] Randy GersonMemorial Grant. American PsychologicalFoundation. [2] (Chair) “Extending Researchon Associations between Individual andRelational Distress in Couples.” Presented atthe Association for Behavioral and CognitiveTherapies Annual Convention, San Francisco,CA, November, 2010.Public HealthAnne Soon Choi: (Co-authored with FernandoTorres-Gil) “The Politics of Aging: Implicationsfor China’s New Elders.” Chapter published inbook Aging in Perspective and the Case of China(Nova Publishers: New York: 2010).Alanna E. Hirz: Bixby Journal Club: FeministTheory in Public Health. April, 2010.Jessica A. Insisoulath: Regent’s ScholarshipAward. American College of Health CareExecutives, Health Care Executives of SouthernCalifornia, September, 2010.Public PolicyElissa B. Barratt: (Co-presenter) “BeyondThe Pink: Young Jewish LGBTQ Women.”Presented at the World Conference of GLBTJews, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2010.Slavic Languages &LiteraturesBoris Dralyuk: “A ‘Leperous Distilment’:Retranslating Polina Barskova’s ShakespeareanAllusions.” The Translator’s Visibility: Inter-UCGraduate Student Conference (UCSB), SantaBarbara, CA, April, 2010.Social WelfareRachel L. Kaplan: [1] “Caregiving Mothersof Children with Impairments: Coping andSupport in Russia.” Published in Disability andSociety, vol. 25, pp. 715-729, 2010. [2] (Cochair)“Update from the Middle East and NorthAfrica: Women and HIV.” XVIII InternationalAIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria, July, 2010.Lesley B. Maradik: [1] Graduate StudentFieldwork Fellowship for International Studies,May, 2010. [2] “‘Breakable Like Glass’ SkippedGeneration Caregivers Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Focus on Vietnam.” Presented at theCHIPTS HIV Research: The Next Generation,Electronic Conference 2010, Los Angeles,CA, May, 2010. [3] “Building Capacity ofGrandparent Caregivers of Orphaned andVulnerable Children in Hai Phong.” Save theChildren & Project Nam, Hai Phong, Vietnam,September, 2010.Cindy C. Sangalang: SAMHSA MinorityFellowship Program. Council on Social WorkEducation, August, 2010.Diane J. Terry: (First author) “GenderDifferences in the Perceived Needs and Barriersof Youth Offenders Preparing for CommunityReentry.” Published in Child and Youth CareForum, vol. 39, pp. 253-269, April, 2010.SociologyChristina B. Chin: Travel Award. UCLACenter for the Study of Women, April, 2010.Kathryn M. Coursolle: (First author)“The Association Between Retirement andEmotional Well-Being: Does Prior Work-Family Conflict Matter?.” Published in theJournal of Gerontology Social Sciences, vol. 65B,pp. 609-620, September, 2010.Sarah J. Morando: [1] “Law in Action:How Immigration Attorneys Manage LegalUncertainty.” Presented at the Law and SocietyAssociation Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May,2010. [2] “The Emerging Second Generationin a New Destination in the U.S. South.”American Sociological Association AnnualMeeting, Atlanta, GA, August, 2010.Chinyere Osuji: [1] Poster Session Award.”Population Association of America, Dallas,TX, April, 2010. [2] “Lack of Social Closure?:Experiences of Black-White Unions in Rio DeJaneiro and Los Angeles.” Poster presentedat the Population Association of Americaconference, Dallas, TX, April, 2010. [3]“Comparing the Experiences of Black-WhiteCouples in LA and Rio de Janeiro.” Presentedat the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago,IL, March, 2010. [4] “Building Power for‘Non-Citizen Citizenship’: A Case Study of theMulti-ethnic Immigrant Workers OrganizingNetwork (MIWON).” Chapter publishedin the book Low-wage Worker Organizing andAdvocacy: The L.A. Model, 2010.Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer: “Same Sex,Different Nation: French and American ExpatriateAccounts of Sexual Identity.” Presented at theAmerican Sociological Association conference,Atlanta, GA, August, 2010.Spanish & PortugueseVictoria L. Garrett: [1] “Dispelling PurityMyths and Debunking Hygienic Discourse inRoberto Arlt’s ‘El jorobadito’.” Published inHispania, vol. 93, pp. 2, June, 2010. [2] (Coauthor)“A Conversation with Andrew Brown:Mashing Up Latin American Literature, Science,Technology, and the Post-human.” Publishedin Mester, vol. 39, pp. 149-160, September,2010. [3] “Hijas olvidadas: Two ContemporaryPlays by Hispanic Women Writers —paula.doc by Nora Adriana Rodríguez and Unaestrella by Paloma Pedrero.” Book reviewof Hispania, vol. 93, pp. 504-5, September,2010. [4] “Prostitution and Social Critique inArmando Discépolo’s El organito and El relojero.”Presented at the AATSP Annual Conference,Guadalajara, Mexico, July, 2010.Covadonga Lamar Prieto: [1] Mester2011 Editor-in-Chief. Del Amo FoundationGrant, September, 2010. [2] “El discurso dePío Pico y el español de California en 1847.”Transnationality in the Luso-Hispanic World,VII Graduate Conference of the Departmentof Spanish and Portuguese, April, 2010. [3]“Pio Pío y cómo California comienza a hablar,oficialmente, inglés.” X Congreso de laAsociación española de Historia Contemporánea,Santander, Spain, September, 2010.Rachel A. VanWieren: [1] “Crisis in theSearch for Gold in Depression Era ChileanRewritings of the Legend of the City of theCaesars.” Published in Revista de EstudiosHispánicos, vol. 44, pp. 127-46, March, 2010.[2] (Panelist) “Sheepish Chilote Migrants inLa Patagonia rebelde.” UC Riverside LatinAmerican Studies Conference, Riverside, CA,April, 2010.StatisticsLinda A. Gharibans: “Networks for Analysisof Distributed Data.” Poster presented atSAMSI Complex Networks Program, ResearchTriangle Park, NC, August, 2010.Urban PlanningJonathan S. Bell: [1] (First author)“Comparing the Old and New: TraditionalBuilding Materials and the Uch MonumentComplex, Pakistan.” Published in Conservationand Management of Architectural Sites (CMAS),vol. 12, pp. 107-123, May, 2010. [2] (Coauthor)“Sustainable Visitation at the MogaoGrottoes: A Methodology for Visitor CarryingCapacity.” Conservation of Ancient Sites on theSilk Road: The Second International Conferenceon the Conservation of Grottoes Sites MogaoGrotooes, Dunhuang, People’s Republic ofChina, 2010.World Arts And CulturesCedarBough T. Saeji: [1] FieldworkFellowship. Asian Cultural Council, July,2010. [3] (Recipient) “Fieldwork Fellowship.”UCLA International Institute, May, 2010.Sarah M. Wilbur: (Co-presenter) “AgainstUnison: Choreography as Representationand Being-in-the-World.” Presented at theCongress On Research in Dance/AmericanSociety for Theater Research 2010 JointConference, Seattle, WA, November, 2010.34 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010 Fall 2010 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 35

Graduate QuarterlyUCLA Graduate Division405 Hilgard Ave.1237 Murphy HallBox 951419Los Angeles, California 90095-1419GD32Non-Profit OrganizationU.S. Postage PaidUCLACenter for the Study of Women presentsTHINKING GENDER21st Annual Graduate Student Research ConferenceFebruary 11, 20118:00 am to 6:00 pmUCLA Faculty CenterFree and open to the publicwww.csw.ucla.eduThinking Gender is an annual public conference thatfeatures the best of current graduate student researchon women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplinesand historical periods. Moderated by faculty or professionalscholars, the panels feature lively interchange and thoughtfuldiscussion sessions. Thinking Gender features many studentpresenters from UCLA and the UC system as well as fromaround the country and the world. All the participants havethe opportunity to interact and network with scholarsfrom different institutions and these exchanges often leadto mentoring or continued collaboration.36 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Fall 2010This year’s conference will focus on such diverse topics asinnovative research methodologies, epistemologies, humansubjects, and power relations in academia; sustainability,food justice, food marketing, and disordered eating; andinvented pathologies and the medicalization of sex. Theplenary session will highlight current research on womenand business.