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 French
- 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
- Best Senior Thesis in Spanish
- 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
- Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in 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 2024
C. compactum acts as a comprehensive climate archive and ecological foundation in the Labrador Sea, Sadie Heckman
Entremezclando Sueños: Reimagining Education Through Community-Centered Program Evaluations, Cassandra Hernandez
Adolescent Bereavement and Resilient Outcomes: A Comprehensive Analysis, Jenna Holmes
The Standing of Anger: Insights from the Debate(s) on Constructed Emotion, Andrew Holzer
Altman Z Score: Predictive Ability in China’s Real Estate Market, Matthew Ho
Reconceiving Tort Law and the Role of Insurance: Achieving Mutual Accountability, Grace Hong
Cost Stickiness in Software Firms: An Analysis of Budget Reactions Associated with External Factors, John Horan
Reducing Generalization Error in Multiclass Classification through Factorized Cross Entropy Loss, Oleksandr Horban
Effects of Priming Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals on Personal and Collective Future Thought, Claire Hou
Creating an NBA Web APP Using the NBA API, Sophia Huang
Alternative Ontology for Ante Rem Structuralism Based on Huayan Buddhist Metaphysics, Chul Soon Hwang
Turning Motion into Mileage: Automotive Applications of Mechanical Vibration Energy Harvesting, Christopher Ibarra
Il Cibo Italiano: Perché è così amato nel mondo, Natalie Ionescu
House of Cards: Examining the Justifications Behind Putin’s Failed Gambit in Ukraine, Jonathan Ip
NFL Positional Value In Terms of Salary Cap Spending: Why Are Running Backs Undervalued?, Charlton Jackson
Agency & Representation: A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of the Image of Black Queerness in Mainstream Media, Tiana Jackson
Determining the 2022-2023 Mass Balance of the Palisade Glacier in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California with Remote Sensing, Density Modeling, and Temperature-Index Techniques, Vijay Jain, Eric Grosfils, and Sarah Kavassalis
For Richer or Poorer: The Warren Court's Relationship to Socioeconomic Class, Nicole Jonassen
Applying Transformational Leadership to Dentistry: Finding a Leader In a Dentist, Irene Jun
The Impact of Armed Drones on Human Security Goals, Sarath Kakani
Effect of Dopamine-2-Receptor Manipulation on Social Interaction and Social Decision-Making in Juvenile Fish, Kiren Kanazawa
Electric Vehicles: Exploring the Granularity in California Zip Codes, Hans Melvern Kasim
Dark as Day, Rachel Keady
How Does Foreign Born Population Affect Tax Morale and Perceived Immigrant Strain on the Welfare System?, Chase Keir
Bio-Bust: Investigating Biotech Stock Factors Contributing to Abnormal Returns in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank's Failure, Spencer Kent
Speaking to Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Lessons for Candidates Looking to Earn the Watermen Vote, Maryum Khwaja
The Evolving Landscape of Modern Conflict: Information Warfare in the Age of the Digital Domain, Caroline Kim
The Deployment of Prophecy: Power and Politics of the Catholic Church, Emmett King
Laughing at Work: Understanding the Benefits of Workplace Humor and How to Cultivate More of It, Carly Kirsch
Investigating the Novel Effects of First-Time Wim Hof Breathing: An Experimental Study, Yuhan Kong
Exploring the Role of Attachment Theory and Emotion Contagion in Equine-Assisted Therapy, Lucy Konsmo
Mental Imagery Contributes to Loss Aversion by Amplifying Negative Emotions, Daniel Kroshchuk
Rethinking Silos, Science, and Security: Opportunities for U.S. Federal Funding of Transdisciplinary Research, Maya Kurkhill
Is Golf a Sustainable Sport? Deconstructing Golf's Social and Environmental Impact in the U.S., Joshua Kwon
A Call for Social Media Addiction to be Recognized Within the Body of Addiction, Christopher LaRovere
Breadwinners or Breadmakers – How Excessive Devotion Rationalizes Exploitation of Women, Marta Lazowska
Penelope: Our Cunning Hero, Rossana Leal
What Are We Most Curious About? Understanding the Relationship Between Curiosity and Marginal Knowledge, Alexis Lee
Stringency or Political Affiliation? Impacts on Non-Essential Expenditure during COVID-19, David (Hyun Wuk) Lee
Analysis of Research on the Effects of Auditory Stimulation on Anxiety and Stress in Clinical and General Populations, Rebecca Lee
Understanding Empathy: Exploring Power Relations, Group Dynamics, and Counter-dominance in Shaping Outgroup Attitudes, Rachel Leonardi and Shana Levin
Analyzing Musical Artist Characteristics Effect on Catalog Sale Price, Janeiro Lettries
Dynamic Connectedness Between Crypto Mining Operations and ERCOT Power Prices, Dallas Lind
Norm Dynamics in the Digital Age: Exploring How Online Environments Influence Norms, Chloe Liu
The Cyber Policies Behind Critical Infrastructure: A Look at the Preparedness of the Top Nuclear Energy-Producing Nations, Jocelyn Livier
City Seeds: Demographic and Economic Threads in Venture Capital Allocations, Homer Livingston
Auden: Body/Mind, Basil Lloyd-Moffett
All the Rage: A Philosophical Exploration of Anger, Victoria Lopez
Riqueza Por Decreto: The Role of Politics in Shaping the Banking Industry of Pre-Revolutionary Mexico, Daniel Lorenzen
Semaglutide Effect on Working Memory, Tommy Lu
Effects of The Gut Microbiome on Cardiovascular Health, Mary Markaryan
Latinidad?, Johan Martinez
The Impact of the Use of Mercury in Mining in Colombia, Johan Martinez
Development of a Universal Electron Force Field, Austyn Masuno
The Effects of Measure ULA on the Commercial Real Estate Market in the City of Los Angeles, Rollie McCalla
The Politics of Criminalization: Examining the Complex Legacy of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Genevieve McCloy
Drone-Based Topographic Monitoring of the Doheny Beach Replenishment Project as an Alternative to Land-Based Monitoring, Miller McCraw
A Dollar a Day Keeps Inflationary Crisis Away: An Evaluation of Proposed Dollarization in Argentina, Dante McDermott
‘Poetry is Not a Luxury’, Rage Should Not be a Privilege: The Potential Power of the ‘Racial Imaginary’, Georgia McGovern
Harnessing Antagonistic Pleiotropy: TolC-Dependent Coliphages Can Drive Reduced Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli, Cooper McKenna
Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement, Asia McLemore
An examination of tools and strategies that have increased a hegemon’s sphere of influence and the subsequent effect on developing countries., Liam McLoughlin
The Efficacy of Insider Trading Regulation: An Analysis of the 1942 Introduction of SEC Rule 10b-5, Kamila Melikova and Eric Hughson
The Lives I’ve Yet to Live, Emma Merk
Between Self and Others: The Pursuit of Legitimate Interests for Service-Based Identities, Joelle Min
COVID-19's Impact on the Relationship between Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Indices, Lucas Mirizzi
Techne and the Problem of Happiness, Jameson Mitrovich
The Effect of Ammonia Prices on Corn Prices in the United States, Emma Munoz-Paisano
The Trilateral Challenge: The Impact of Russian and Chinese Nuclear Threats on U.S. Strategy, Catherine Murphy
Unions’ Impact on Firms’ Financial Decision Making: A Look at Right-to-Work Laws and their Impact on Firms’ Leverage Decisions, Rachana Muvvala
Neuropeptide CGRP Suppresses Th17 Cytokine IL-17A Production, Matthew Na
Beyond The Hype: The Role of NFTs in The Luxury Fashion Market, Emma Ng Pack
Nramp Metal Transporter Gene Contributes to Copper Resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis, Emily Nguyen
Predicting Financial Failure for Retail and Hospitality Companies in the United States, Carolina Nobili
Examining the abnormal dynamics of a selfish B chromosome in a hybrid species background, Elizabeth Novogradac
Doña Rosa’s Story: How Defiant Women are Made, Kenya Nunez
More Than a Feeling: Exploring the Drivers of Music Catalog Values, Emily Nutting
Physical Art as an Alternative Asset: Understanding Curator Risk and Appreciation Value through Art Proxied Synthetic Equity Funds, Jacob O'Connell
Market Dynamics and Interactions: A Study of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Virtual Market Through Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks, Peyton Ogasawara
The Korean Hanok as a Model for Sustainable Architecture in South Korea, Jordan Oh
Tribal Democracies: A Case Study on the United Kingdom and Nigeria’s Democratic Accommodation of Tribes, Precious Oluwadamilola Olajobi
School-to-Deportation-Nexus: The Case for Juvenile Deportations Focus, Emily Ortiz
Advantage From Adversity: The Epistemic Power of Oppression, Kenneth Owusu
Raving to Live, A Chicano’s Testimonio: Healing Through Nightlife, Jotería, and Rave, Osbaldo Ozuna
Improving Mental Health Service Engagement among Latinos in the United States Through Culturally Adapted Interventions, Romel Pacheco
Neurodiversity Support and Inclusion in Higher Education, Madison Packbier
Timing the Game: Analyzing the Impact of the Pitch Clock on Play Dynamics and Financial Aspects on Major League Baseball, Cristian Pang
Fourier Optics and Dark Field Microscopy, James Papas
