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 2022
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
The Black Love Fantasy: An Analysis of the Oppressive White Imagination and Its Effects on Black Women’s Portrayals within Romance Films, Danielle Payne
The Faces of War: Reintroducing Women's Narratives in War, Robin Makena Peterson
Mixing Sports and Politics: How Totalitarian Regimes Used Sports to Achieve the Goals of the State, Caroline Phillips
Building Our Own Houses: AAPIs in Congress, Daenerys Pineda
Outside the Box: Using a Sibling Training Protocol to Increase Imaginative Play Among Autistic Children, Rachel Podl
Liquidity Outbreak: A 49 Country Analysis of the Money Supply’s Effect on Stock Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dylan Porter
Effects of Drought on Habitat Quality for Native Bees in Residential Gardens of Claremont, CA, Max Proctor
How weather and price affect residential electricity consumption in U.S. military installations, Hanzhi Qiu
The State Collapse of Afghanistan in 2021, Samay J. Rahim
Seeing Forced Isolation Through New Eyes: COVID-19, Anne Frank, and the Violence of the Nation-State, Anna Raines
Cash Flows Metrics as Predictors for Stock Returns in Different Volatility Environments, Vasu Rai
Do ESG Scores add incremental explanatory power for asset pricing relative to other factors?, Trishul Raja
Entre Piedra y Pared: A Multi-Level Analysis of Housing and Immigration Policies’ Effect on Undocumented Immigrants in Mexico City, Sophia Ramirez-Brown
The Relationship Between Rent Control and Educational Attainment in California, Karina Ramirez
Putative Mechanisms Underlying the Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine: A Review and Study Proposal, Tristan Reece
Rejecting the Digital Utopia: An Analysis of How Technological Structures Allow Racial Harms to Persist Online, Courtney Reed
Analysis of the Determinants of the “Korea Discount”, Samantha Ree
Connection and Competition: Navigating the U.S.-China Race to 5G, Hannah Reilly
Cataluña y Cuba contemporáneas: El uso de las redes sociales como plataformas de solidaridad y nacionalismo virtual, Alicia Reynaga
Analyzing the genetic mechanisms for the sex-biased penetrance of autism spectrum disorder, Lauren Richards
A Retrospective On NAFTA: The Effects of Trade with Mexico on U.S. Manufacturing Employment, Joaquin Riojas
Cultural Resistance in the African Diaspora: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Land-Based Community Care, Toluwani Roberts
Is Versatility a Blessing or a Curse in the National Football League?, Benjamin Rosen
A Serological Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Obstetric Population, Sophia Rose
How to Vote Well: Rebuilding Barriers to Demagoguery and Incentivizing Responsible Leadership in the American Republic, Harper Rubin
How Personality and Internet Use can be Protective Factors Against Loneliness During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Stephany Ruelas
