CMC gives yearly awards for the best theses. Search on the award title in quotes will result in a list of the award winning theses:
- Best Senior Thesis in Biological Sciences
- Best Senior Thesis in Environment, Economics, and Politics
- Best Senior Thesis in Gender Studies
- Best Senior Thesis in Government
- Best Senior Thesis in History
- Best Senior Thesis in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Best Senior Thesis in International Relations
- Best Senior Thesis in Literature
- Best Senior Thesis in Mathematical Sciences
- Best Senior Thesis in Military Science
- Best Senior Thesis in Modern Languages and Literatures
- Best Senior Thesis in Neuroscience
- Best Senior Thesis in Philosophy
- Best Senior Thesis in Psychology
- Best Senior Thesis in Psychological Sciences
- Best Senior Thesis in Public Policy
- Best Senior Thesis in Religious Studies
- Best Senior Thesis in Science Management
- Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Economics and Finance
- Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Economics (Accounting) and Finance
- Fulbright Fellowship
Please NOTE the theses in this collection are Undergraduate Senior Theses completed by Senior Undergraduate students who have received a bachelor's degree. Many are made Openly Accessible at the request of the Author. Some authors have chosen to keep their These closed to the current faculty, students, and staff of the Claremont Colleges. If you are not a current member and cannot download, note that we cannot provide you access to the Theses.
Senior Theses from 2022
The Threat of Activist Intervention: A Determinant of 8-K Disclosure for Industrial Companies, Audrey Guilloteau
Topological Descriptions of Protein Folding: An extension of Flapan et al.’s Protein Folding Model, Aryaman Gulati
Devil in a New Dress Shirt, David Gushue
A Green Approach to Bromination in Pincer Complex Synthesis, Olga Gutierrez Cazarez
"Ethnic" some days, white the rest: Whittier, CA as a case study in Mexican-American racialization and assimilation in Los Angeles County, Maria Gutierrez-Vera
Residential Land Use Restriction and Other Determinants of Home Values, Jayden Ha
Residential Land Use Restriction and Other Determinants of Home Values, Jayden Ha
Virus Effects vs. Vaccines and Policy Responses: Relative Market Performance Across 80 Countries during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Harrison
Building a Shi’a Empire And Extending The Axis: Iran’s Campaign for Regional Hegemony in the Middle East, Daniel Hayon
A Critical Analysis of American Foreign Policy in the Syrian Civil War, Sydney Heath
The Legalization of Rhino Horn: Assessing Differing Opinions and Providing Potential Solutions of a Legal Trade, Mason Hernandez
Is there Value in the Valuation of Environmental Regulations?, Gage B. Hornung
An analysis of impacts of COVID-19 on salary cap allocation and performance in the National Football League, Abai Houser
The Secret to a More Meaningful Life: Embracing Our Awareness of Death, Greer Hoyem
Religious Morality and Children, Humphrey Hui
What Makes a Collection Blue Chip: Identifying Price Determinants of Non-Fungible Tokens, Kwan Hei Hui
Advancing Luciferase for Improved In Vivo Multicomponent Bioluminescent Imaging, Tiffany Hu
Deficit or Excess? Examining Associative Memory in Older Adults, Joanna Hwang
Examining Responsible Leadership Through the Lens of Corporate Social Responsibility, Teslin Ishee
Environmental Degradation Caused by Turkish Incursions and Practices in Kurdish Areas, Yara Ismael
Predicting Outcomes of El Clásico Using Random Forests and Extreme Gradient Boosting, Emanuel Jarquin
The Rising Power of the Individual Investor: How Social Media Sentiments and User Activity Impact Stock Price Volatility and Trading Volume, Nandini Jayaram
Over-Wintering Grounds Social Behavior of White-Crowned Sparrows, Lauryn Jeans
Leadership Analysis of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: the Economic Ramifications of Authoritarian Rule, Freya Jennison
Media Merger Madness: An Event Study Analyzing Acquiror Returns in Media & Entertainment, Samuel Johnson
The Relations Between Parental Masculinity Ideology and Children’s Empathy, Jackie Jones
Transport Speed of Circular DNA in Active and Nonactive Reconstituted Cytoskeletons, Joan Jones
HIGHER EDUCATION in BRAZIL and MEXICO: CHANGES, CHALLENGES, and COMPARISONS, Edwin Juarez
Promoting Student Success in General Chemistry with a Novel Preparatory Chemistry Course, Jazmyn Juarez
Holocaust History in the Public Realm: Memory Politics at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the POLIN Museum, Lucie Kapner
Retail Investor Attention and Returns of Biotech Stocks, Tanya Kapoor
The Predictive Power of Insider Trading Post IPO Lockup Expiration, Alexander Karasinski
The Impact of Different ADHD Subtypes on Successful Leadership, Jack Katzman
The Sole of the Economy: An Analysis of the Secondary Sneaker Market, Evan Kelly
Planning Patient Safety: Philosophical, Political, and Economic Changes Required for Preventable Death Abolition, Catherine Kiani
An Analysis of Market Reactions to Green Bond Announcements, William Kimball
Redundant Reliance and The Supreme Court's Application of Stare Decisis, Daniel Kim
High Frequency Gentrification Prediction Using Airbnb Data, Leo Kitchell
In Search of Unicorns: An Analysis of Japan's Startup Ecosystem, Kaito Komoriya
Assessing the Effectiveness of the Summer Treatment Program as a Behavioral Intervention Therapy for Children with Autism and ADHD, Ananya Koneti
The Effect of CEO Compensation Practices on the Performance of Korean Conglomerates, Kyung Koo
The Identity of Properties: How Qualia Solve the Regress Problem in Dispositional Monism, Emma Kresch
To Save One More Life: Mortality Rates and Economic Loss Resulting from the COVID-19 Virus Across U.S. States in 2020, Lauren Kula
Too Big for the Party's Comfort, Jimena Landa Catan
Climate Change as a Case of Unjust Enrichment & an Examination of Emissions Trading Schemes as a Solution, Natalie Larsen
Alcohol and Rape Myth Acceptance as Factors in Sexual Assault, Sydney Lee
Constitutional Votes of Courage, Andrea Leibenhaut
Leaving California: Measuring the impact of Environmental, Cultural, and Economic Changes on Outward Migration, Luke Lenhart
Spinoza and Buddhism: The Metaphysics of Non-self, Shiyi Liao
Maturation: A Collection of Vignettes, Walter Limm
Misvaluing Effective Investors in Intangible Capital, Dustin Lind
Before Witnessing a Crime, Eyewitnesses Possess a Negative Confidence-Accuracy Correlation, Trent Lindsey
Microscopy in the Life Sciences and its Potential for Imaging Non-Living Specimens, Marilyn Liriano
NFT-Related Companies: Token Sale Returns, Robert Liu
The Latinx Student Achievement Gap: How Two-way Dual Language Immersion Can Help, Lynette Lucero
Sikhs and Colonialism: A Study of Religious Identity Across Time from Guru Nanak to the British Raj, Samrath S. Machra
The Decline of Contemporary Protest Music: A Textual Analysis of Political Protest Music During the Bush, Obama, and Trump Presidencies, Anthony Madubuonwu
Risks Faced by Foreign Luxury Brands in the Chinese Market, Lyn Mahe
Impact of College Extracurricular Involvement on Entrepreneurial Outcomes, Emily Malech
Investigating and Expanding the N-myristoyltransferase Consensus Motif in Src and BID Family Proteins, Andrew Maltz
Sex, Money, and Free Speech: The Many Harms of FOSTA/SESTA, Desmond Mantle
Communication through Rhythms in the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex, bryan marin
La crítica de México por las películas de Luis Estrada, Luis Martinez
Speaking Silently: Nagarjuna and the Paradox of Ultimate Reality, Paris Masiel
A Proposed Study to Investigate the Relationship Between Telomere Length and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Mackenzie R. Matckie
Optimizing Random Searches in High Density Environments, Jacob Mays
Identifying Where Bitcoin and Ethereum fit in an Investment Portfolio, and the Differences Between the Two, Spencer McCann
A "Reasonable" Evaluation of Title IX: How America’s Legal System is Shaped by Patriarchy and why it Fails Victims of Gendered Violence, Caroline McGinnis
The Effects of Dsk1 and Kic1 Kinase on Phosphatase Clp1 in Mitotic Regulation, Gabriela Mejia
A Hot Conflict Growing Ever Hotter: How Climate Change Provokes Instances of Violence in South Sudan, Madison Menard
Migration and the Quality of American Cities, Chase Mendell
The impact of state overreach in US federal immigration law on human rights violations, Marisa Mestichella
The Supplier Shield: COVID-19 Effects on Suppliers of Highly Affected Industries, Maisy Mills
To Integrate or to Assimilate: An Epistemic Analysis of Racial Segregation in Education, Nandini Mittal
We’ve Been Here: A History of Mexican and Latinx Communities in Anaheim Schools, Marycarmen Montanez
Economic Propaganda in the United States, Brooklyn Montgomery
Mano Dura and Beyond: An Analysis of Police Reform in Latin America, Ari Moore
War Tourism: A New Brand of Foreign Fighter, Scott Mowat
How COVID-19 Impacted Tertiary Education: Predicting the Educational Infrastructure of the Future, Alexander Muehleisen
Representational Roles Considering Transformative Experience, Kallen Mueller
The Role of Resilience in Entrepreneurial Success: The Importance of Building Resilience in Young Entrepreneurs, Chase J. Munroe
Securing the Overnight Rates: A Study of Alternative Reference Rates in Illiquid Overnight Tri-Party Repo Markets, Michael Murphy
Comparing Forecast Accuracy of ARIMA Modelling on VIX Returns Before and After the Introduction of VIX Derivatives, Joseph Muscat
Drought Tolerant Landscaping Trends in Claremont, California, Serena Myjer
Zero-Point Renormalization and Zone-Boundary Transitions in 2-D Materials., Ahmad Nabi
Fantasy Premier League: Forecasting Future Points and Creating Optimal Weekly Teams to Outperform The Scout, Dhruv Narula
Spatial Geochemical Changes in Central and East Texas Soils over Time Resulting from Human Decomposition, Isabela Marisol Overturf
Parallels of Quantum Mechanics and Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy: An Argument for Relational Quantum Mechanics, Axel I. Palapa
Cross-Cultural Examination of Vacation Policy on Employee Satisfaction and Happiness, Ketan D. Parekh
