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 2023
Losing Faith in Religious Exemptions: Examining the Bounds of the Free Exercise Clause, Jessie Miller
Air Pollution from Crop Production: Fertilizer and the Methane Crisis, Elizabeth Mitchell
Heterogeneity in the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Labor Market Effects, Carlos Montelongo
Predicting Flight Prices with Machine Learning: A Multicollinearity-Based Feature Selection Approach, Daniel Monzon
Beyond Sustenance: Exploring the Socio-Cultural Significance, Benefits, Barriers and Financials of Fruit-Bearing Trees in Creating Sustainable Communities, Marco Morfin and Marco Antonio Morfin
Global Trade Implications of a Russia and Ukraine-like Conflict Between China and Taiwan, Jay Morris
Blurring the Line Between Kierkegaard’s “Either/Or”: Proposing a Solution to the Phenomenon of the Double Movement, Salina Munoz
The Effects of Gender and COVID-19 on Labor Force participation in the United Kingdom between 2015 and 2021, Sahana Narayan
Appraising the DeVos TIX Rule: Due Process in Campus Adjudication Processes, Athulya Nath
Reframing Modesty: Emergence of Muslims in Media and Fashion, Zoya Nawaz
The Relationship Between Maternal Emotion Socialization and Child Executive Functioning and Behavior: Exploring the Moderating Role of Cortisol, Mayela Norwood
Water Usage On Illegal Marijuana Farms In California, Case Ostrom
Understanding the Journey of Human Prenatal CD4+ PLZF+ T Cells to the Small Intestine, Tomi Oyedeji Olaniyan
Gamblers and the Game of Life: A Literary Examination of the Professional and the Addict, Annika Ozizmir
Moral Self-Deception and Psychological Egoism, William Parker
Ownership Investments into Sports Franchises: A New Asset Class, Ben Pelz
The Multi-Dimensional Relationship Between Immigration Policies and Mexican Migrant Women: A Cycle of Violence, Vulnerabilities, and Sobreviviencia, Jasmine Perales and Jasmine Perales
The Impact of Ultra-processed Foods on Mental Health via the Gut-Brain Axis in Female Germ-Free Mice, Lateshia Peters
Major Problems with the Major Questions Doctrine: The Impact of West Virginia v. EPA on Environmental Regulations and Judicial Review, Holman Pettibone
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Depressive Symptoms: Considering the Role of Cultural Orientation and Fit, Akriti Poudel
Closing the Achievement Gap?: Examining the Equity of California's School Finance System Using Student Test Scores, Michelle Ramirez
ATHLETE-DRIVEN MEDIA: HOW NBA PLAYERS ARE RECLAIMING THEIR STORIES AND NARRATIVES IN THE ERA OF HOT TAKES AND DEBATES, Adrian Ramos
SentiWordNet and VADER: Comparative Analysis of the Efficacy of Hybrid Sentiment Analysis Models, Olivia Renfro
Modeling Cryptocurrency Price Using 1-D Stochastic Differential Equations, Isaac Reyes
Evaluating Electric Bicycle Access in US National Parks: Advantages and Controversy, Ben Rodman
Assessing Social Capital in Two Innovative Education Models: A Comparative Study of Escuela Nueva Activa and Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America, Yesenia Rodriguez-Pizarro
'City-Engineered Holocaust': Race, Tribal Sovereignty, and Urban Renewal in Palm Springs' Section 14 Neighborhood, Ednilson Rodriguez Sorto
Stressors and Hormone Levels: Predictors of COVID-19 Health Outcomes in Latine Adults, Wendy Rodriguez
Indigenous Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon: The Effects of Weak Governance and its Reliance on an Extraction-based Economy, Jocelyn Ruelas
Breaking the Biotech Code: A Closer Look at Therapeutic Focus, Treatment Type, and Clinical Development Stage in Post-IPO Performance of Biotech Companies, Maria Izabella Sakoda
An Analysis of Cartesian Dualism and the Nature of the Mind and Body, Colin Ansumana Sam
The Influence of Local Macroeconomic Factors on the Valuations of American Professional Sports Teams, Matthew San Luis
Central Valley Farmworkers from the Bracero Program to the end of the 20th Century: Work and Life, Mayeli Santos
Blockchain Games: What On and Off-chain factors affect the volatility, returns, and liquidity of Gaming Crypto Tokens, Sumer Sareen
Positional Advantage: Factors Behind the Uneven Geographic Distribution of Top Chess Players, Julia C. Schulman
The Relationship Between Healthcare Expenditures and COVID-19 Mortality Rates, Alexander Seow
The Influence of Aging and Cognitive Load on Neural Oscillations: An Analysis of Resting-State and Task-Related Alpha Waves, Heather Shipley
Kantian Self-Government and the Role of Deliberation: Taking Seriously Our Mastery of Ourselves, Sarah Grace Simionas
Aesthetics in the digital age: A comparative analysis of text-to-image AI art and human-made art, Brooke Simon
The Influence of Early Childhood Parental Feeding Behaviors on Self-Regulation & Food Decision-Making in Young Adults, Natasha Singareddy
The Boko Haram Phenomenon: Historical and Socio-Political Underpinnings, Elsie Slowe
Recommendations for the Operationalization of a Loss and Damage Fund, Caelyn Smith
Analyzing the Student Loan Debt to Household Income Ratio: The Disparate Impacts of Age, Biological Sex, and Race, Sydney Smith
Reimagining Identity through Photography: The Experience of Intersectionality for Asian-American Women, Noelle Song
The 2022 Philippines’ General Election: An Exploration on the Impacts of Disinformation, India Soranson Way
A Defense of Empathy, Paige Sorgen
The information about the environment acquired by evolution, Jonathan Gumecindo Soriano De Jesus and Sarah Marzen
The Data Chain: Exploring a New Dynamic for Consumer Data Control and Economic Value, William Spangler
Investigating the Physiological Use of an Organ-on-a-Chip Device through the Design and Fabrication of a micro-Electrical Blood-Brain Barrier (μE-BBB) System, Amrita Srinivasan, Kiana Aran, Jonalyn Herce, Noor Chaudhry, and Allexa Ortiz
George Berkeley’s Explanatory Arguments, Jack Stern
The Effect of Free Trade Agreements on Innovation: Evidence from US Bilateral Free Trade Agreements with Australia, Chile, Singapore, and South Korea, Cameron Stevens
United States Policy to Undermine Iran’s Regional and Global Strategy, William Stewart
Vaccine Hesitancy as a Piece of Politics, Madeline Stickley
Playing to Win: The Effects of Implementing Gamification Strategies in Product Marketing, Sabrina Stone
A Comparative Analysis of 14 Central Banks’ Monetary Responses before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to Central Bank Independence, Emelle Stottele
Accelerating California's Transition toward an Electric Transportation Sector, Stella Streufert
A Ubiquitous Host: Probing the Ubiquitin Cavitand Binding Pocket via 1H-15N HSQC, Maren Summers
Assessing the Health Effects of Burn Ban Policy Implementation: Evidence from Texas Counties, Jatin Suri
Prosecuting Rape as Genocide: An Analysis of the Legal Framework and Challenges in International Law, Anya Syed
Crafting a Comprehensive Framework for International Development: The Capabilities Plus Approach, Marissa Talcott
Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift in Indonesia, Joseph Tanuri
Dress, Dogma, and Defiance: Navigating Religio-Colonialist Saviorism in the Realm of Sartorial Liberation, Maureen Ursul Tchatchoua
Examining the Impact of Aging on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth and Infrastructure Investment in India: A District-Level Study, Sahil Tekchandani
Poetic Assemblages: Filipinx Method on the Transpacific, Jon Joey D. Telebrico
Political Risk Factors And Sovereign Credit Ratings, Hunter Thompson
Geographic Dynamics of Multifamily Capitalization Rates: A Comprehensive Study of Variation and Determinants, Zachary Torrey
Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Use and the Implications of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, Gillian Torza
The Effects of Urban Design Elements on Population Density and Growth Over Time, Hnin Lei Lei Tun
Examining the Requirement of Coactivators in Enhancer Regulation, Abrahan Vasquez
Transfer Valuation Model for European Football Players, Alex Wahba
The Anti-ESG Equity Premium, John Wallace
Counting Spanning Trees on Triangular Lattices, Angie Wang
ESG vs. Non-ESG: Why the Difference?, Kexin Wang
Contagion: China Evergrande Group’s Collapse and its impact on Belt and Road Stock Indices, William Han Wang
Exploring the Effects of Domestic Migration Flows on U.S. Housing Prices, Zixu Wang
Pakistan's Contribution to the Global Rise in Conventional Pollution, Emily Warner
An Analysis of Chess Performance throughout Time using Engine Comparison, Cristy Wei
Investigation into the Potential for Acquired Cross Tolerances of Amphetamines, Benjamin Weldon
Studying the Effects of Ligandrol and Ostarine on Organ Hypertrophy, Noah Weldon
Do Businesses Account for the Threat of War? An Analysis of the Ongoing Conflict between China and Taiwan, Christopher Wicke
The Pursuit of a Meaningful Life Through Taoism and the Golden Ratio, Robert Q. Williams II
Using Sentiment Analysis to Determine if the Twitter Bitcoin Community Can Actively Influence the Price of Bitcoin, Nick Wilson
The Legacies of Exclusion: Asian Americans and the California Voting Rights Act, Melinda Ximen
Shattering the Illusion of Honor: Unraveling the Psychological, Cultural, and Societal Ramifications of Honor and Honor Cultures, Mohamed Yassin
An Analysis of the Justifications Behind the Japanese Internment Camps and Its Impact on Japanese American Identity, Elizabeth Yoshitake
