Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research.
In 2023, eight faculty received awards. It is with great pride that we announce this year’s recipients.
Faculty Name
Department
Neural Stimulation and Attentional Control
Megan Boudewyn
Psychology
Neural Stimulation and Attentional Control
Valerie Cortez
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Probing host-virus interactions at the gut mucosal barrier
Kathleen Gutierrez
History
Two Projects: 1) Sovereign Vernaculars in the Philippines at the Dawn of New Imperial Botany 2) Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley.
Josephine Pham
Education
The Intellectual Work of K-12 Ethnic Studies Pedagogies in Local Public Schools
Alicia Riley
Sociology
Consequences of the Mexican Repatriation Program for Child Mortality in the U.S.
Kate Ringland
Computational Media
Computationally Supported Care in Marginalized Online Communities
Pamela Rodriguez-Montero
Performance, Play & Design
Los Diablitos: The Devil’s Imaginary in Traditional Latin American Festivities
Yuyin Zhou
Computer Science & Engineering
Los Diablitos: The Devil’s Imaginary in Traditional Latin American FestivitiesDistributed Machine Learning with Imperfect Supervision and an Application to Large-Scale Medical Imaging
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