| Fangyuan Ding | Biomedical Engineering | Systematic Characterization of Protein-Nucleic Acid Binding Kinetics in a Universally Applicable Manner | 2024 |
| Abigail Lapin Dardashti | Art History | Itinerant Modernism: Politics and the Rise of Afro-Brazilian Art | 2024 |
| Pablo Lara-Gonzalez | Developmental & Cell Biology | Elucidating the Importance of Mitotic Duration Control in Embryogenesis and in Cancer | 2024 |
| Katherine Trieste Rhodes | School of Education | African American Children’s RICH Mathematical Word Problems | 2024 |
| Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Principles of Multispecies Interactions for Evolution and Function of Microbial Communities | 2024 |
| Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi | Physics & Astronomy | Quantum Electronics With Injection-Molded Two-Dimensional Crystals | 2024 |
| Xian Shi | Mechanical & Aerospace Engr | Synthesis and Assembly of Carbon Battery Electrodes Using Natural Gas | 2024 |
| Ji Seon Song | School of Law | Crisis Policing | 2024 |
| Irene Vega | Sociology | Racialized Social Ladders: Navigating Mobility Alongside Persistent Inequality | 2024 |
| Travis Wiles | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Life, Death and Symbiosis: Igniting Viral Outbreaks in the Gut Microbiome to Promote Health | 2024 |
| Herdeline Ardoña | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Wiring-Up Muscle Tissues for Advancing the Manufacturing of Cultured Meats | 2023 |
| Stacy Copp | Materials Science and Engineering | Near Infrared Emitters for Biomedical Imaging in the Tissue Transparency Windows | 2023 |
| Nicole Iturriaga | Criminology, Law, and Society | Technology, Surveillance, and the Changing Legal Landscapes of Post-Roe America | 2023 |
| Christopher Miles | Mathematics | Mathematics of Mitosis: Modeling & Data Science for Mechanistic Insight | 2023 |
| Diu-Huong Nguyen | History | Eve of Destruction: A Social History of Viet Nam’s Royal City, 1957-1967 | 2023 |
| Cyrian Reed | Dance | The Essence of Raw Freestyle | 2023 |
| Alexandra Voloshina | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Constraint Induced Movement Therapy for Gait Rehabilitation Post Stroke | 2023 |
| Salvador Zarate | Anthropology | Fire Break: Latinx Migrant Workers and Wildfire Prevention in Climate-Changed Southern California | 2023 |
| Samar Al-Bulushi | Anthropology | War-Making as Worldmaking | 2022 |
| Nadia Chernyak | Cognitive Sciences | The Development and Early Socialization of Wealth Concepts in Early Childhood | 2022 |
| Benis Egoh | Earth System Science | Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystems Services | 2022 |
| Ariyan Johnson | Dance | Looking for Revelations | 2022 |
| Yanning Shen | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning over Networks | 2022 |
| Xiaoyu Shi | Developmental and Cell Biology | Uncover Cellular Mechanisms of Aging Using Super-Resolution Microscopy | 2022 |
| Katherine Thompson-Peer | Developmental and Cell Biology | Identifying Genes Driving Neuron Regeneration After Injury Using Single Cell RNA-seq | 2022 |
| Adeyemi Adeleye | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Remediation of Metal-Contaminated Agricultural Soils Using Nanotechnology and Machine Learning | 2021 |
| Swethaa Ballakrishnen | Law | Rethinking Inclusion: Diversity Performance(s) in Legal Institutions and Pipelines | 2021 |
| Vibhuti Ramachandran | Global and International Studies | Producing the Trafficked Victim: Law, Prostitution, and NGO Intervention in India | 2021 |
| Judit Romhanyi | Physics and Astronomy | Z2 or not Z2? Topological Protection in Quantum Magnets | 2021 |
| Christopher Seeds | Criminology, Law and Society | Care in the End: Understanding Incarcerated People’s Decisions about End of Life and Best Practices for Prison Hospice | 2021 |
| Celia Symons | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Resilience to heatwaves: The Consequences of Multiple and Interacting Forms of Thermal Variability | 2021 |
| Adrianna Villavicenio | Education | Disrupting Racism in Schools: Studying the Outcomes of a Racial Justice Program | 2021 |
| Elizabeth Bess | Chemistry | Using Dietary Fiber to Harvest Novel Probiotics from the Human Gut Microbiome | 2020 |
| Lindsay Gilmour | Dance | Tibetan Ritual Dance in Monasteries and Nunneries: Preservation, Adaptation, and Innovation | 2020 |
| Zoe Klemfuss | Psychological Science | Facilitating Children's Disclosures of Maltreatment | 2020 |
| Jenna Riis | Psychological Science | Oral Health and Salivary Biomarkers | 2020 |
| Sameer Singh | Computer Science | Explaining Decisions of Machine Learning Algorithms | 2020 |
| Mohammad Abdolhosseini Qomi | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Resolving CO2-Rock-Brine Interfacial Reactions to Reduce Uncertainty in Geological Carbon Sequestration Models | 2019 |
| Maura Allaire | Urban Planning and Public Policy | Reducing Disparity in Disaster Recovery by Modeling Social Vulnerabilities | 2019 |
| Scott Atwood | Developmental and Cell Biology | Immune System Suppression of Tumor Growth | 2019 |
| Jade Jenkins | Education | The Impacts of State Early Childhood Policies on Children with Disabilities | 2019 |
| Samantha Vortherms | Political Science | Economic Development Strategies and Local Citizenship in China | 2019 |
| Constance Iloh | Education | The Trajectories and Challenges of 'Some College Experience, No Degree' Returning Adult Students | 2018 |
| Jaeho Lee | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Bio-Inspired Emitters for Dynamic Surface Cooling and All-Day Clean Water Generation | 2018 |
| Stephen Mahler | Neurobiology and Behavior | Long-Lasting Reward Circuit Changes Caused by Adolescent Exposure to Cannabinoid Drugs | 2018 |
| Nicholas Marantz | Urban Planning and Public Policy | The Political Economy of Apartment Housing Coastal California | 2018 |
| Ana Muñiz | Criminology, Law and Society | Digital Border-Building through Gang Classification | 2018 |
| Tingting Nian | Paul Merage School of Business | Gender Bias in the Online Tech World | 2018 |
| Catherine Sameh | Gender and Sexuality Studies | Transnational feminist responses to Islamophobia | 2018 |
| Michelle Digman | Biomedical Engineering | Non-invasive imaging methods for predicting embryos with the best developmental potential | 2017 |
| Hosun Kang | Education | Promoting complex thinking for under-represented youths in science classrooms by improving a local STEM instruction system | 2017 |
| Mo Li | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Geopolymers with Repeatable Self-Healing Functionality for Stustainable and Resilient Infrastructure | 2017 |
| Sabrina Strings | Sociology | Thin, White, and Saved: Fat Stigma and the Fear of the Big Black Body | 2017 |
| Emily Thuma | Gender and Sexuality Studies | "No More Cages": Gendered Violence, Feminist Mobilization, and the U.S. Carceral State" | 2017 |
| Zeba Wunderlich | Developmental and Cell Biology | Translating noisy signals into predictable developmental patterning | 2017 |
| Jacob Avery | Sociology | American Reservation : An Ethnographic Study of Survival Strategies used among residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation | 2016 |
| Marco Levorato | Computer Science | The Path Towards Smart Interconnected Communities | 2016 |
| Elizabeth Martin Bailey | Psychology and Social Behavior | Response Coherence in Anhedonia | 2016 |
| Davin Phoenix | Political Science | Anger Issues: The Impact of Race on Emotional Responses to Politics, and Implications for Action | 2016 |
| Sergey Pronin | Chemistry | Synthesis of Systemic Ectoparasiticides for Malaria and Zika Fever Control | 2016 |
| Sha Sun | Developmental and Cell Biology | Epigenetic Inheritance Mediated by Long Noncoding RNA | 2016 |
| Mohammad Al Faruque | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Towards Secured Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Transportation System. | 2015 |
| Emily Baum | History | Spit, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican China, 1911-1937. | 2015 |
| Yilin Hu | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | Engineering chimeric proteins for biofuel production. | 2015 |
| Litia Perta | Art | Tidal Kinships | 2015 |
| Seth Pipkin | Planning, Policy and Design | Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Cities under Siege: Transnational Migration and Citizen Journalism on the US-Mexico Border. | 2015 |
| Jenny Yang | Chemistry | Integration of Electrocatalysts to Photovoltaics for Solar Fuel Generating Photoelectronchemical Cells. | 2015 |
| Alex Borucki | History | Slaves, Sliver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1660-1810. | 2014 |
| Glenda Flores | Chicano/Latino Studies | Gendered Pathways into Medicine: Latina/o Physicians in California | 2014 |
| Jesse Colin Jackson | Studio Art | Marching Cubes Made Physical | 2014 |
| Jae Hong Kim | Planning, Policy and Design | Crossing-over between Land Cover and Land Use | 2014 |
| Anne Lemnitzer | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Smart sections in piles-Towards reducing the over-design of deep foundations. | 2014 |
| Simona Murgia | Physics and Astronomy | Searching for Dark Matter in the Inner Regions of the Milky Way with Gamma Rays. | 2014 |
| Renee Raphael | History | Metals in Motion: Mining Technology between Europe and the Americas, 1400-1800 | 2014 |
| Keramet Reiter | Criminology, Law and Society | A Prison within a Prison: A Scholar's Journey into the Hidden Hell of the American Supermax | 2014 |
| Maria Rendon | Planning, Policy and Design | Latino Young Men and Their Immigrant Parents in Post-Recession Los Angeles | 2014 |
| Timothy Rupert | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Enabling Generation IV Nuclear Reactors with Interface-Dominated Materials | 2014 |
| Amir Aghakouchak | Civil and Environmental Engineering | California Integrated Drought Information System | 2013 |
| Rebecca Davis | English | Signs Without Deeds: Making Literary Matter in Middle English | 2013 |
| Aaron Esser-Kahn | Chemistry | A Synthetic Approach to Immune Stimulation: Understanding What Makes an Effective Vaccine by Molecular Design | 2013 |
| Sarah Goodman | Political Science | Becoming American: Effects of Civic Education on American Identity | 2013 |
| Claudia Green | Earth System Science | Quantifying the Sources of Arctic CH4 and CO2 Emissions to the Atmosphere | 2013 |
| Kim Green | Neurobiology and Behavior | What is the Role of Microglia in Neuronal Gene Expression in the Healthy Adult Brain? | 2013 |
| Sora Han | Criminology, Law and Society | The Racial Politics of American Federalism: States' Rights and the Return of the Fourteenth Amendment | 2013 |
| Jered Haun | Biomedical Engineering | Microfluidic Biopsy Chip for Automated Tumor Tissue Dissociation and Molecular Analysis | 2013 |
| Erica Hayasaki | English | The Corn Drownings | 2013 |
| Joshua Lawrence | Education | Using the Content Area Literacy Survey (CALS) to Meet the Demands of the Common Core Standards | 2013 |
| Melissa Lodoen | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | Breaching the Barrier: Understanding Pathogen Entry into the Brain | 2013 |
| Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez | Education | Teaching and Language Facilitation Techniques Associated with Preschooler's Vocabulary Growth | 2013 |
| Jane Page | Drama | To direct a play, "Other Desert Cities" for the Vienna's English Theatre | 2013 |
| Allison Perlman | Film and Media Studies | The Strange Career of Public Broadcasting: Race, Citizenship, and the Development of Noncommercial Television in the U.S. | 2013 |
| Jennifer Prescher | Chemistry | Expanding the Bioluminescent Toolbox for Visualizing Cancer Metastases | 2013 |
| Jeanne Scheper | Women's Studies | Moving Performances: Staging Race and Gender across Trans-Atlantic Modernism | 2013 |
| Tesha Sengupta-Irving | Education | Equity in Opportunity: A Study of Student Learning and Interest in Engineering Design | 2013 |
| Weian Zhao | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Simple Diagnostics for Screening Alzheimer's Disease at Early Stages | 2013 |