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 2018
Going Undrafted: Survival of Undrafted Free Agents and Seventh Round Draft Picks in the NFL, Trey Smith
The Convergence Pattern in the Latter Economic Development: Evidence from 1959-2016 U.S. Counties, Yiliu Song
The Visible Helping Hand: IPO Success as a Product of Friendly Markets, Shelbi Stein
Balancing Act: A Novel, Teagan Stewart
"Pig-Sawce" and Politics: The History of Barbecue as a Political Institution in the United States, Campbell Streator
The Digital Puppetmaster, Ryan Sung
Decoding Book Barcode Images, Yizhou Tao
Risk and Returns: The Impact of Political Risk on Financial Returns in Emerging and Developed Markets, Aarushi Tibrewala
Benchmarking Public and Private Blockchains and Understanding the Development of Private Blockchain Networks, Peter Tilton
Determinants of Flows Between Active and Passive Equity Investments, Shruti Topudurti
The Hookup Culture: Effects on Dating, Relationships, and Love Among College Students in The United States, Rachelle Trimarchi
A Comparative Philosophical-Psychoanalytic Study of Buddhism in China and Japan, Anthony Tung
Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: A Look at Cryptocurrencies, Daniel Walker
CCL11 as a Biomarker for the In Vivo Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Robert Weissenfels
Model Specification for Bank Failure: A Retrospective Look at Banks in Missouri during the Great Depression, Peter Welch
Do High School Football Recruit Ratings Accurately Predict NFL Success?, Nicholas Wheeler
Nonperforming Loans: Asset Pricing and Determinants of Profitability, Tyler Wheetley Amaya
Owning Our Implicit Attitudes: Responsibility, Resentment, and the Whole Self, Wesley Whitaker
Labor Movement and State Fragility: The Case of the Yemen Arab Republic from Oil Boom to Gulf War, David White
Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden, Sarah Whitney
Empathy: A tool to unite?, patrick wildman
Cryptocurrencies and Cybercrime: The Effects of Ransom Events on the Evolution of Bitcoin, Jacob Wilson
Art of the Weimar Republic and the Premonitions of Fascism, Leshan Xiao
Examining the Cross-Cultural Differences in Affect Valuation: Whites, East Asians, and Third Culture Kids, Joey Yamada
In the Mind of the Machine, Marcia Yang
Reaching the Unreached: The Role of Information Communication Technologies on Agency of Women in India, Suvena Yerneni
Success Factors of First Time Fund in Venture Capital, Zihan Ye
Measuring the Impossible Trinity: Lessons for Developing Countries, Zheng Ying
Democracy At Stake in the Digital Age: Engaging in the Net Neutrality Debate for the Preservation of Free Speech and the Redemption of Public Interest, Christina (Sung Min) Yoh
A Founding Mother of Mathematics: Emmy Noether, Won Sang Yoo
Change in Transient Institutional Ownership and its Effect on Return on Net Operating Assets, Bracebridge Young III
Empowered or Impaired? The California Parent Empowerment Act vs. Palm Lane Elementary, Camille J. Zelinger
Inspiring Change in Intangible Asset Valuation and Identification, Jackson Zepf
Blockchain Scalability: Prospective Solutions for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other Blockchain Networks, Ray Zhang
The Boundedness of the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Function and the Strong Maximal Function on the Space BMO, Wenhao Zhang
A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena, Yijing Zhang
Twisted Virtual Bikeigebras and Twisted Virtual Handlebody-Knots, Yuqi Zhao
An Econometrics Analysis of Mark Rothko's Auction Results, Jiahong Zheng
Winning off the Court, Rebecca Zimmerman
Senior Theses from 2017
Is Silence The Answer?, Gator Adams
An Evolution of the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Beyond a State-Centric Perspective, Jack Adolfson
Short-Termism and Corporate Myopia: The Values Assigned by the Market to Short-Term and Long-Term Firms, Justin Alexander
Ask Your Doctor if Psychedelics are Right for You: A Closer Look at the Clinical Uses of Psychedelics, Haya Al-Hejailan
Optimizing Urbanization in South Asia, Aleena Ali
Welfare Economics and Public Policy in Early 20th Century Great Britain, Mohammad Alsabah
Bay Area Real Estate Boom or Bust, Erik Michael Anderson
Holding Back: An Analysis of the History, Utility, and Effects of Academic Redshirting, Athena Andrew-Sfeir
The 2016 "White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr": An Analysis of its Positioning, Reception, and Conditions of Implementation, Hunter Lee Ashburn
Determinants of Professional Soccer Team Values: Analyzing the International Effects on the Value of Professional Soccer Teams, Muhammad Fadri Attamimi
Platform Companies: Explaining the Emergence of High-Value Technology Firms, Muhammad Farhan Attamimi
Daily Traffic Flow Pattern Recognition by Spectral Clustering, Matthew Aven
Aristotle on the Family: An Analysis of Books I-III of Aristotle’s Politics in reference to Plato’s Republic, Leili F. Azarbarzin
Negotiating Intersectionality: Women in the Civil Rights Movement and the Zapatista National Liberation Front, Jessica Azerad
La Oscuridad Detrás de los Ojos Azules, Anoush Baghdassarian
Financial Intermediation and Economic Development in 12 Central and Eastern European Economies, Eric S. Bakar
Diagnosing and Correcting Problems with Project Selection at the World Bank, Nico Banks
Competition, Compromises, and Complicity: An Analysis of the Humanitarian Aid Sector, Fiona Bare
The Potential and Limits of Extended Producer Responsibility: A Comparative Analysis Study, Jessica Bass
Management in Major League Baseball: How General Managers Succeed and Fail Using Statistics to Build Winning Franchises, Sam Baughman
Xenophobia, Populism, and the Rise of the Far-Right in France and Germany, Veda Elizabeth Beltran
The Role of Individualism and Masculinity in the Formation of a Global F&B Brand’s Extended Identity, Aviva Bhansali
Financial Performance of Football Teams: Effects of Win Maximization, Performance and Transfer Spending on Stock Prices, Tanvi Bhargava
Analysis and Empirical Testing of Income Smoothing Using Discretionary Accounting Changes, Jacques Bialostozky
The Efficacy of Biofeedback and Its Use Towards ADHD, Darius Witold Bieganski
Measuring Health Inequalities: What Do We Want to Know?, Alice Bishop
The Effects of a Text Message Intervention on Conversational Speech between Dyads of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Julia Blanco
Render Unto Caesar: How Misunderstanding a Century of Free Exercise Jurisprudence Forged and Then Fractured the RFRA Coalition, John S. Blattner
On the Purpose & Ethics of Elite Higher Education, Nicolas C. Blumm
Reader's Guide: A Foray into Violence, Trauma and Masculinity in In Our Time, Sara-Rose Beatriz Bockian
Four Years with Russell, Gödel, and Erdős: An Undergraduate's Reflection on His Mathematical Education, Michael H. Boggess
El “Gran Experimento” del Socialismo Cubano: Los Retos Durante la Transición Económica, Hannah Bottum
Gender Division in Sport: Through the Eyes of Female Student-Athletes at CMS, Kris Brackmann
"The Best Bad Things": An Analytical History of the Madams of Gold Rush San Francisco, Sophie Breider
A Brighter Future: An Integrated Strategy for Increasing Renewable Distributed Generation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Maximilian Breitbarth
Islamic State Online Recruitment: Narratives and Counter-Narratives, Makella Brems
Virtual Reality: The Game Changer for Residential Real Estate Staging through Increased Presence, Alexander Julian Brenner
Salary Inequality in the NBA: Changing Returns to Skill or Wider Skill Distributions?, Jonah F. Breslow
Sing to Me: the Effects of Sung Vocals and Melody on Memory, Jack M. Brown III
Can Business News Provide Insight into a Stock’s Future Price Performance?, Andrew Burgard
Grave Breaches: American Military Intervention in the Late Twentieth- Century and the Consequences for International Law, Calla Cameron
Mission Barrio Adentro: Venezuela's Virus, Cara Cancelmo
A Deep Dive into Technological Unemployment: A State-Level Analysis on the Employment Effect of Technological Innovations, Yuqing "Jenny" Cang
Taking Good Works to the Next Level: Increasing Investment in and Support for Higher-Risk Innovation, Jessie Capper
The Corporate Exploitation of Fundamental Rights: A Nation of Arbitration, Melanie A. Carlson
Estimating the Relative Value of Individual Strokes Gained on the PGA Tour, Alex Censullo
Healing from Racism with Compassion Meditation: Effects of Coping on Mental Health, Courtney Chan
Innovating for a Sleeker, Greener, Friendlier Ride, Andrew Chandler
Phoenix Reborn: The Revival of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party from 2008-2016, Melody Chang
A Study of the Tradition of Extreme Literature, Matthew Chi Hei Chan
The Internet of Things: An Analysis of Barriers to the Adoption of Smart Cities and Smart Homes, Shek Hin Justin Chan
Environmental Justice Litigation in California: How Effective is Litigation in Addressing Slow Violence?, Deedee Chao
Using Machine Learning to Detect Malicious URLs, Aidan Cheng
