2020 Poster Awards
Scholars receive Top Honors and Honorable Mentions for their poster presentations at the 2020 UC LEADS Symposium at UC Irvine
2020 Top Honors Winners
Biological Sciences
- Alexander Del Toro, UC Merced
- Shaneen Britton Acevedo, UC Santa Cruz
- Diego Martinez Mori, UC Santa Cruz
Engineering & Computer Sciences
- Ariell Smith, UC Merced
- Lay Heng Teng, UC Davis
- Jose Guerrero, UC Los Angeles
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
- Janice Nguyen, UC Los Angeles
- Mayia Vranas, UC Berkeley
- Jenna Cailin Molas, UC Los Angeles
- Charusheela Garapaty, UC Santa Barbara
2020 Honorable Mentions
Biological Sciences
- Andy Nguyen, UC Los Angeles
- Karen Cornejo, UC Davis
- Jorge Mendoza, UC Irvine
- Alma Hernandez, UC Riverside
Engineering & Computer Sciences
- Kha Nguyen, UC San Diego
- Jasmine Liu, UC Santa Cruz
- Robert Bloom, UC Irvine
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
- Briana Prado, UC Santa Cruz
- Miguel Flores Martinez, UC Merced
- Griselda Ruiz, UC San Diego
Graduate Deans’ Leadership Award
The inaugural Graduate Deans’ Leadership Award was given to three scholars who exhibited extraordinary leadership during their tenure as UC LEADS scholars. This award was selected by the UC LEADS Executive Steering Committee, lead by Chair Dr. Carol Genetti, and funded by the deans of all 10 UC Graduate Divisions. Graduate Deans’ Leadership Awards went to:
- Danny Attiyah, UC Irvine
- David Ifediba, UC Riverside
- Mayia Vranas, UC Berkeley
Honorable mentions, and recipients of the Campus Leadership Awards were:
- Alexis Andre Palacios Duran (UCB)
- Gloria Navarro (UCD)
- Luis Ramirez (UCI)
- Jenna Molas (UCLA)
- Janice Nguyen (UCLA)
- Anthony Garcia (UCM)
- Ariell Smith (UCM)
- Partho Paul (UCR)
- Griselda Ruiz (UCSD)
- Jeffrey Rong (UCSB)
- Jasmine Liu (UCSC)