The HBS Way

Students in the Human Biology and Society major at UCLA complete an original research project at the intersection of biology and society. This website highlights the work of over 200 of these students. In 2020 and 2021, students have completed these projects alongside the challenges of COVID19, remote schooling, protests against racial justice, challenges to democracy, and much more.

  • About the HBS Way
  • SocGen 108 Winter 2023
  • SocGen 108 Spring 2022
  • SocGen 108 Winter 2022
  • SocGen 108 Spring 2021
  • SocGen 108 Winter 2021
  • SocGen 108 Fall 2020
  • SocGen 108 Spring 2020
  • SocGen 108 Winter 2020
  • 2020 Senior Projects
  • 2021 Senior Projects
  • Topics
  • Award Winners

©2020-21 Students of Human Biology and Society Major, UCLA

The HBS Way

Lisa Bang, Tara Shooshani, Sarah Tan, and Connie Tran



Aaurshi Kapoor, Brianna Parrington, Raksha Narasimhan



Abigail Ellstrom, Atreyi Mitra, Bianca Nguyen, Kara Justeson



Adam Eliav, Ashley Fallon, and Luis Lopez



Adele Huang



Adele Huang, Clara Nguyen, Jared Ortaliza, and Minh Pham Tran



Adrienne Long, Lilia Diaz, Luis Cortes, Sydney Barnett



Adrija Chakrabarty, Madison Thantu, Nimah Rashid, Sandhya Murgan, Sohini Halder



Ainsley McKinley, Jane Ni, Julia Sloan, Nicolo Villasis, Andrew Winer



Alex Nechaev, Lulu Fan, Roselyn Mai, Valeria Rojas



Alexander Vervaet, Ashley Kao, Caitlyn Tran, Jose Camarena, Josh Mendoza



Alexis Castro, Gabriela Gutierrez, Shannee Mak, and Victoria Solkovits



Alfred Barrion, Grace Choe, Karina Garcia, Karyn How, Kaleb Jimenez



Alice Lu, Vincent Grospe, Nawaphan Watanasirisuk



Alison Ly, Bami Aleshe, Dennis Vu



Alysa Rallistan, Anna Jovin, Brandon Abdi, Gabrielle Cua, Taylor Webb



Alyssa Besser, Sarah Holloway, & Olivia Schulist



Alyssa Moreno, Fiona Griffin, Joussie Camacho, Leah Thomas, and Lindsey Snetsinger



Alyssa Pelak, Jisel Miranda, Kaila Daniels



Amy Kumar, Jamie Hsu, Julia Cheng, Tiffany Jackson, Yuqing Huang



Ananya Eeraveni, Brian Cook, Gevorg Manoukian, Maha Ulhaq, Shanaya Sidhu



Anna Yu, Aysia Bondurant, Haley Cowles, Sydni Stewart, Taiye Ojeikere



Annabelle Leka, Zoe Liau, Lauren Mungo, Weenta Yacob, Lisa Zhou



Anne Iwata, Genesis Seo, Janice Xiao, Mario Martinez



Annie Hau, Madeline Hlobik, Iqra Irfan, Anna O'Brien, and Megan Wong



Annika Gillam, Ana Zepeda-Gutierrez, Katie Mann



Ariella Sarkissian, Gwyneth Huynh, Katherine Zhuo, Kendall Sui, and Steven Gutierrez



Artin Allahverdian, Erin Kim, Kate Manganaro, Meredith Steinberg



Aseniq Shahid-Williams, Grace Randall, Tony Ong



Ashley Almejo, Aletta Deranteriassian, Shreya Ramineni, Jana Sun



Ashley Kenney, Celina Lee, Cole Peloquin, Katie Duong, Nico Carpo



Ashley Ramirez, Jana Lang, Jessenya Reyes, & Shanti Shrestha



Aya Shokair, Lindsay Pistorius, Sai Sreenivasan, Shemms Najjar, Shivali Raja



Becky Marin-Arellano, Heidi Choi, Manali Ghadiali, Rithik Kumar, Sara Jorde



Belen Bravo, Estrella Urena Cuevas, Alexa Greco, Lily Rosales, Sarah Rutzick



Bridget Jolaoso, Caliope Marin, Alodia Faytaren



Brittney Le, Catie Tanji, Gabriela Aguilar, Isabella Masserman, Salma Quintanilla



Bryan Arreola, Olivia Bielskis, Megan Borda, Anisha Chandra, Alyssa Heston



Caitlin Ciardelli, Salma Fawzi, Angie Ho, Theresa Denise Llera, and Emari Oyola



Callie Howard, Maia Rodriguez-Choi, Riya Shah, Sapna Ramappa



Chapal Barua, Steven Bieneman, and Olivia Brand



Charina Molina, Michelle Nwufo, Brooklyn Robertson, Jocelyn Silva, Ally Zweigle



Chloe Peyromaure De Bord, Sylvia Roberts, Jennifer Tuell, Samantha Underwood



Christian Parks, Ella Berry, Kelechi Udeze, Shanzey Syed



Christina Frater and Anne Deffebach



Christoper Jamali, Gabby Le, Ramya Natarajan, Swetha Sundaram, and Harrison Wang



Claire Woolson, Elizabeth Tsuang, Hanna Maillard, Leticia Camacho, Raymond Astorga



Daisy Yan, Jumana Roufail, Nell Mitchell, Talisa Rodarte



Daniela Alvarado, Ella Bouris, Emily Kohl, Leah Savage



Dayanna Ramirez



Derek Sportsman, Jesus Garcia Blanco, and Kimberly Graybeal



Derek Taylor, Kiana Charles, and Rachael Hua



Desiree Eshraghi, Christine King, Chelsea Tran



Destiny Ryales



Eleanor Jaffe-Pachuilo, Osvaldo Sanchez Fernandez, Rachelle Bishay, Samantha Solis



Emma Hodge



Emma Miltenberger, Jennifer Narvaez, Gabriela Ramirez-Vides, Giselle Villanueva



Ethan Manafi, Keeryth Sandhu, Sakeena Siddiq, Mylani Sonico, Erin Tabornal



Evelyn Hinojosa, Franchesca Johnson, Emily Mei, Magdalena Palavecino, Ambika Verma



Fatima Benitez, Lily Emerson, Annie Moskofian, Kayleigh Ruller



Grace Danon, Kennedy Meyer, Hussain Naib, Rachel Smith, and Mary Tran



Grace Yang, Harmonie Ahuna, Neha Joshi, Yoshiko Kohlwes



Hala Baradi, Maya Barajas-Tavera, Kristie-Valerie Hoang, Emma Janibekyan, Cynthia Tsang



Hamza Ali, Emma Paine, Erin Spillane, Mishta Stanislaus, Taylor Moseley



Hannah El-Sabrout, Tasnia Haider, Chantel Thomas-Nguyen, Mili Patel



Heidi Ibarra-Castillo, Wai Yan Aldi Chan, Annalyn Diaz, Alexis Duke, Chidinma Ikonte, Nathan Mariano



Hennah Shamel, Ramya Madhavpeddi, Bethlehem Wolkeba, Alondra Gavilan-Mendez



Jasmin Argueta, Fiza Baloch, Juliet Ottenberg



Jason Sanchez, Kendall Chaffin, Lauren Trent, Ruby Lake, Wes Hardin



Jessica Castro, Emily Davidson, Sarah Isen



Jessica Samuels, Remi Lathrop, Siri Potluri



Jhoana Infante, Miski Abdi, Stuart Key & Melissa Chimwaza



Joanne Haddad, Devika Shenoy, Seth So, Ella Williams



Jonathan Chang, Alexa Henrie, Emma Nguyen, Kate Reiss



Jordan Lo, Mominah Subhan, Minh-Tram Tran, Elizabeth Trueman, Jedrick Zablan



Judy Chon, Ashley Hong, Josh Moy, Tyler Vu, Ruizhi Wang



Karla Arevalo, Ayushi Shroff, Samira Torna, Michelle Tran



Karylle Davalos, Natalie Heredia, Naomi Hernandez-Ramirez, Aviana Joiner, Alastair Sterns



Lauren Beckett, Niyanta Joshi, Miranda Le, Kevin Sun



Leah Savage



Lexie Baughman, Sareen Manuel, Eunice Nguyen, Krishna Shah, and Ethan Yi



Liam Izaddoust



Luis Torres



Madeleine Babb, Pallavi Chandrasekhar, Cora Miller, Jonas Talandis



Madelyn Gehrich, Alizée Natsoulis, Taylor Ann Yamane, and Maria Zarifis



Manvir Dhaliwal, Joselyn Figueroa, Alex Laforteza, and Joseph Ngyuen



Maria Pablo, Nina Gautam, Rosalinda Moreno



Maxwell Grollman, Iris Kang, Dayna Pham, Natalie Rodgers, Katelin Tanjuaquio, Sara Taubman



Meg Mahoney, Caitlin Mispagel, Jared Pagal, Nicole Rios



Michelle Bui, Grace Huynh, Catherine Pham, Kelly Salinas



Millie Kirchberg, Michelle Hao, and Audrey Smith



Misaki Kobayashi, Chiamaka Nwadike, Alex Shambayate, and Grace Yang



Monica Soliman, Nathan Tran, Medha Vallurupalli



Natalie Hardiman, Kurt Panganiban, Nathan Rivas, Arshee Shaikh, Alissa Stanley



Oscar De La Rosa, Ma’ayan Epstein, Hannah Huhn, Anushka Jain, Krupa Prajapati



Paige Crane, Eman Burney, Noor Burney, and Manuel Sandoval



Pauline Tze, Katherine Reckamp, Jessica Rauch, and Max Estabrook



Rob Carter, Angelica Means, and Justin Nguyen



Ryan Moon, Brandon Moore, Freida Raj, Camryn Thomson, Chloe Thorpe



Samantha Marmet



Sarah Brecher, Ericko Anderson Halim, Daniel Javier-Martinez, Niaz Sassounian



Sarah Maraach



Seda Shirinian, Michelle Lajoe, and Joey Narez



Shanmitha Arun, Tiarni Chu, Elizabeth Tanner, Eryn Wilkinson



Shivesh Shouria



Society and Genetics Undergraduate Organization, Racksha Narasimhan, Editor in Chief



Tara Aiache Reynaud, Sara Aoki, Nare Arakelian, Ryle Eskander, Brittney Hun



The Students of SocGen180-Materia Medica



Tiffany Chen, Eghosa Ogbeide, Clara Song, Ruby Tang, Jaqueline Villa-Casarrubias



Uday Birdi, Rachel Chau, Michelle Le, Luc Lorain, Victoria Luu



Vanessa De La Torre, Michelle Dickey, Huongly Do, Ellie Kim, Jazmine Salazar



Vardaan Bal, Esperanza Ceja, Shreya Jaipuriyar, Lindsay Masukawa, Estelle Yao



Yasmeen Talaat, Jenna Reppas, Avril Rincon, Emily St. Denis, Sophia Yu



Yitz Jacobson, Sarah Snyder, Michael Xu



Yuumna Akhundzadah, Shannon Howell, Jimmy Lira, Alyssa Lizarraga, Tiffany Teguh