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.

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Senior Theses from 2923

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IndiGo’s Operating Model and its Impact on the Socio-Economic Fabric of India, Madhav Bhatia

Senior Theses from 2024

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Driven by Change: The Impact of Macroeconomic Shifts and COVID-19 on New Vehicle Sales, Jackson Aldrich

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Modeling State-Level Heterogeneity in Coronavirus Pandemic Outcomes, Jacob Allmon

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Game of Conflicts: Investigating Political Dynamics from Capitol Shenanigans to Global Gambits, Mahmood Almadeh

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Evaluating Clathromorphum Compactum, a Crustose Coralline Algae, as a Climate Proxy in the Great Caribou Island, Jaimie Almaraz

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Comparative Analysis of Yields in Cryptocurrency and Traditional Finance, Tariq Amin

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Market Mayhem: Unraveling the Intricacies of the M&A Cycle Amid Economic Turmoil, Defne Arpacioglu

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Nazism and Eric Voegelin’s Politische Religionen: An Approach to Exploring Nazism’s Roots in Modern Thought, Cody R. Babcock

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Team-Based Scavenger Hunt Mobile Application With Real-Time Updates and Image Recognition Capabilities, Miles Baffour

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Inflationary Pressures: Analyzing the Varied Effects of Inflation on Acquisitive Crime across 17 U.S Cities, Timi Balogun

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AI-Based Language Learning Tools: A Review, Jonathan Becker

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Shakespeare in Bollywood, Meher Bedi

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Modern Media Strategy: Analyzing the Success of Propaganda During the Nazi Regime, Kelli Bhatt

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A Lockean Approach to Intellectual Property and its Expiration, Liann Chen Bielicki

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Sex Differences in the Effects of Cortisol on Muscle Characteristics: A Meta-Analysis, Natalie Bitetti

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The Impact of International Baseball Players on MLB Organizations: An Analysis of Performance, Attendance, Revenue, and Valuation, 2012-2022, Aidan Booth

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The Evolution of Tokenomics: Structuring Sustainable Token Economies, Alexander Yeoh Broegger

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Defending Hegel’s Becoming from Nishida’s Account of Nothing, Nicolas Burtson

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Capturing Value in Emerging Markets: A Real Options Perspective on Resilience and Risk, Alexander Castillo

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Additional Cases to Consider for the Account of Slurs, John Cho

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Reclaiming Democracy: Examining Disenfranchisement Laws and Policy Recommendations to Restore Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated People, Maeve Conte

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Alleviating Healthcare Disparities Between the Treatment of Black/Latinx and white Alzheimer’s Patients Through a Patient and Family Advisory Council, Cristi Cruz

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Recognition and Domination: A Hegelian Approach to Evolving Gender and Technology Paradigms, Zachary Davis

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Is Green the new Gold? ESG’s Influence on the Financial Performance of the Energy and Mining Industries, Alexa de Vegvar

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Mapping the Older User’s Journey: Building UX with Theories of Cognitive Aging, Aichatou Diaw

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How Weak State Capacity Explains the Formation of Illicit Economies: Comparing Latin American Cocaine Trade and Central Asian Opium Trade, Alessandra Diaz

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How Does Anti-Immigration Sentiment Affect Tax Morale?, Adrien Drucker

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EGFR Signaling Regulates Tuft Cell Generation in the Adult Mouse Small Intestine, Annabelle Duflock

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Market Reaction Test on Banks & Brokers Based on Bitcoin Price History. A Look at National Commercial Banks and Security Broker, Exchanges, and Service Stocks following the most volatile swings in Bitcoin’s Price., Payton Earl

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Gut Dysbiosis Correlates with COVID-19 Severity, Ednita Escobar

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The Influence of Professional Sports Seasons on Work-From-Home Trends: An Urban Socio-Economic Analysis, Moises Flores

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC): Taiwan’s Silicon Shield – A Study into TSMC’s Rise and Future, Dylen Fujimoto

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Game On: Leveraging Operant Conditioning and Gamification against Binge Drinking, William Galbreath

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Examining California’s Push Towards School Funding Equity with the Local Control Funding Formula, Jessica Gallegos

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American-European Alignment: An Assessment of Economic and Security Factors Impacting the Relationship Between the United States and Europe Since WWII, Peter Nicholas Gianaris

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The Impacts of Hype and Competition on the Valuations of Privately-Held U.S. Software Startups, Karan Sudhir Goel

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La emergencia de la inteligencia artificial en el aprendizaje del español: ¿una suplementación o sustitución?, Sam Goldfein

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Mexican and Chinese American Remittance Spending: Social and Cultural Linkages vs. Economic Behaviors, Jackson Gonzales

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Analyzing the Mental Health Realities Among DACA Recipients Within the Mexican Community, Oscar Javier Gonzalez

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Digitalization of Indian Economy: Evaluating UPI's Rise as a Post-Pandemic Substitute for Traditional Transaction Methods, Bhaavika Guptha

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Analysis of Government Stimulus during COVID-19 and the Bank Distress of 2023, Kara Hagler

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Sports Diplomacy: A Valuable Form of Soft Power, Nicole Hayase

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C. compactum acts as a comprehensive climate archive and ecological foundation in the Labrador Sea, Sadie Heckman

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Il Cibo Italiano: Perché è così amato nel mondo, Natalie Ionescu

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House of Cards: Examining the Justifications Behind Putin’s Failed Gambit in Ukraine, Jonathan Ip

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Agency & Representation: A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of the Image of Black Queerness in Mainstream Media, Tiana Jackson

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The exploration of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and the Prospective Integration of Neuronal imaging in Early Detection Mechanisms, Jade Johnson

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For Richer or Poorer: The Warren Court's Relationship to Socioeconomic Class, Nicole Jonassen

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Applying Transformational Leadership to Dentistry: Finding a Leader In a Dentist, Irene Jun

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The Impact of Armed Drones on Human Security Goals, Sarath Kakani

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Effect of Dopamine-2-Receptor Manipulation on Social Interaction and Social Decision-Making in Juvenile Fish, Kiren Kanazawa

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Bio-Bust: Investigating Biotech Stock Factors Contributing to Abnormal Returns in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank's Failure, Spencer Kent

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The Evolving Landscape of Modern Conflict: Information Warfare in the Age of the Digital Domain, Caroline Kim

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Towards Algorithmic Justice: Human Centered Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Design to Support Fairness and Mitigate Bias in the Financial Services Sector, Jihyun Kim

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Laughing at Work: Understanding the Benefits of Workplace Humor and How to Cultivate More of It, Carly Kirsch

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Exploring the Role of Attachment Theory and Emotion Contagion in Equine-Assisted Therapy, Lucy Konsmo

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AI-nvesting: An Empirical Analysis with Sector Categorization and Prompt Complexity Considerations Assessing the Predictive Power of ChatGPT in Stock Market Forecasting, Ian J. Larson

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The Role of IL-7 in the Induction of Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC3) in the Female Reproductive Tract as A Potential HIV Preventative, BaoChau Le

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Existence of Well-Defined Pointer Observable Selects Tensor Product Factorizations of Quantum Systems, Brian Lee

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Stringency or Political Affiliation? Impacts on Non-Essential Expenditure during COVID-19, David (Hyun Wuk) Lee

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Analysis of Research on the Effects of Auditory Stimulation on Anxiety and Stress in Clinical and General Populations, Rebecca Lee

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Understanding Empathy: Exploring Power Relations, Group Dynamics, and Counter-dominance in Shaping Outgroup Attitudes, Rachel Leonardi and Shana Levin

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Designing a Personalization Intervention To Reduce Churn in Exercise Mobile Apps: A Research Proposal, Chris Li

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Unveiling the Unseen: A Feminist Exploration of Consciousness and Empowerment Among Homeless Women through Consciousness-Raising, Scarlett Liu

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City Seeds: Demographic and Economic Threads in Venture Capital Allocations, Homer Livingston

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Effects of The Gut Microbiome on Cardiovascular Health, Mary Markaryan

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The Impact of the Use of Mercury in Mining in Colombia, Johan Martinez

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An examination of tools and strategies that have increased a hegemon’s sphere of influence and the subsequent effect on developing countries., Liam McLoughlin

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The Lives I’ve Yet to Live, Emma Merk

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COVID-19's Impact on the Relationship between Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Indices, Lucas Mirizzi

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The Effect of Ammonia Prices on Corn Prices in the United States, Emma Munoz-Paisano

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The Trilateral Challenge: The Impact of Russian and Chinese Nuclear Threats on U.S. Strategy, Catherine Murphy

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Unions’ Impact on Firms’ Financial Decision Making: A Look at Right-to-Work Laws and their Impact on Firms’ Leverage Decisions, Rachana Muvvala

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Neuropeptide CGRP Suppresses Th17 Cytokine IL-17A Production, Matthew Na

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Beyond The Hype: The Role of NFTs in The Luxury Fashion Market, Emma Ng Pack

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Predicting Financial Failure for Retail and Hospitality Companies in the United States, Carolina Nobili

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Examining the abnormal dynamics of a selfish B chromosome in a hybrid species background, Elizabeth Novogradac

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More Than a Feeling: Exploring the Drivers of Music Catalog Values, Emily Nutting

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Market Dynamics and Interactions: A Study of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Virtual Market Through Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks, Peyton Ogasawara

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The Korean Hanok as a Model for Sustainable Architecture in South Korea, Jordan Oh

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Tribal Democracies: A Case Study on the United Kingdom and Nigeria’s Democratic Accommodation of Tribes, Precious Oluwadamilola Olajobi

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School-to-Deportation-Nexus: The Case for Juvenile Deportations Focus, Emily Ortiz

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Advantage From Adversity: The Epistemic Power of Oppression, Kenneth Owusu

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Improving Mental Health Service Engagement among Latinos in the United States Through Culturally Adapted Interventions, Romel Pacheco

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Neurodiversity Support and Inclusion in Higher Education, Madison Packbier

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The Intersection of Food, Cultural Identity, and Memories, Kristina Park

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Which to Prioritize: Philanthropy, Environmental, or Diversity activities? Exploring the Financial Impacts of Different Types of Corporate Social Responsibility, Julissa Ponce

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Impact of Highway Proximity on Air Quality: An Analysis of Los Angeles County & Harris County, Claudia Quintero

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Examining the Role of dLipin in the Developing Fly Brain, Ajinkya Rane

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Strategic Narrative and Global Public Opinion on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Jason Rhett

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Proposed Creation of an Artificial Intelligence-Driven Diagnostic Tool for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Lauren Rhodes

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Development of a Dispersion Back-Tester and Application of the Fama-French 5-Factor Model for Equity Derivative Portfolios, Jasper Rosenberg

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Long-Term Performance of PE-Backed IPOs, gavin rosser

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The Emergence of Aedes Aegypti in California: Implications for Ecosystems and Public Health, Jose Ruiz

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The Psychology of Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons for Organizations in the Today’s World, Spencer Sampliner

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Your Anonymous Words Matter: The Harms of Internet Anonymity and Its Inhibiting Effects on Producing Knowledge, Sena Selby

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An Analysis of the Impacts of Pitch Clock Experience on Major League Baseball, Tyler Shaw

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An Analysis of How the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs Impacts Player Performance in Major League Baseball, Kieran Sidebotham

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“Para Ser Cambiado, Ser El Cambio”, Diana Simonds

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Copyrights and Wrongs: Evaluating Copyright Law's Adaptability to Generative AI, Benjamin Smith