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
Does H1-B Visa Restriction Hinder American Innovation?, Dharkann Sainani
Containing Compounding Container Congestion, Curtis Salinger
Moral Hazard in Monetary Policy: Assessing the Impact of the Federal Reserve Actions on Asset Returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Guillermo J. Santos
An Exploration of Moral Personhood Through the Eyes of All, Noa Schachtel
Exploring the Generational Evolution of Black-White Wage Inequality across Geographic Regions of the United States, Rachel Scharff-Hansen
How Do Firm Characteristics Affect Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19 Fiscal Stimulus?, Alexa Schulten
Sports Scandals Impact on Consumer Opinion, Lucas Schwallie
Critical Race Theory and the Civic Education Debate: Why Race Should be a Part of the Curriculum, Reilly Scott
Integrating Carbon Pricing Approaches, Amay Shah
COVID Long-Haulers: An Unprecedented Change in the History of Chronic Illness, Maya Shah
Designing and Evaluating an Intervention to Foster Authenticity on Teams: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Shania Sharma
The Impacts of Internal Migration on Rural Chinese Children: An Overview of Left-Behind Children, Yuming Sheng
Repairing the Rung: An Analysis of the Influence of the Female Identity in Peer-Ratings, Saskia Shirley
Impact of School Closures on Female Labor Force Participation in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Shreya Shome
Algorithms in Law and Healthcare: How Machine Learning Is Being Utilized, Joe Anthony Silva
Homogeneity and Trust: The Swedish Model as Support for American Policy Change, Alec Sinek
The Impact of Merger and Acquisition Events on the United States Video Game Industry, William Smith
Tumor Spheroid Growth Modeling Using a Harvested Bertalanffy Formula, Garegin Soghomonyan
Sòng Pèi Xīng, Jocelyn Song
Analyzing Marriage Statistics as Recorded in the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1889 to 2012, Annalee Soohoo
Disembedded Liberalism: The Global Pressure on Democracy, Hallie Spear
The Impact of Statewide Legalization of Marijuana on Opioid Overdoses, Emily Spielmann
Synthesizing the Silver Screen: Electronic Music and the Motion Picture Score, Ryan Stackpole
Seeing Empty Spaces, Pippa Straus
Case Study on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Remote Work and Compensation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Carson Stubstad
A Critique on Ideology Critique, Jiaying Tang
The End of Silicon Valley as We Know it? An Event Study on the Financial Implications of Relocation and Remote Work Decisions, Josiah Tarrant
The Impact of EV Tax Credits on Automaker Stock Returns, Zach Taylor
Legal Origins as a Contributing Factor to Civil Wars, Grant Thieroff
Altruism in the Good Life: An Archetype of Virtuous Friendship, Elliott Thornburg
The Experience of High-Skilled Immigrants in the US STEM Job Market, Eda Topuz
Queens of the Hill: How Title IX Fares in the Hilltop Neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, Georgia Tuckerman
The Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Shifts on US Housing Market Pricing Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ethan Tyng
Dynamic Nonlinear Gaussian Model for Inferring a Graph Structure on Time Series, Abhinuv Uppal
Wreaking Havoc and Building Power: An Analysis of Saul Alinsky’s Methods in the 21st Century, Sobechukwu Tanitoluwa MinnaMasala Oreoluwa Uwajeh
Designing Virtual Reality Headsets to Prevent Myopia, Kyril van Schendel
Turkey’s Soft Power in the South Caucasus: An Assessment of Neo-Ottomanism Influence on Regional and Global Geopolitics, David Vardanian
The Morality of Euthansia: Determining Precedence of Contradictory Prima Facie Principles for Moral Justification, Rohaan Vaswani
Out of Bounds: How Race and Gender Have Shaped Women's Basketball, Laura Vences
An Agent-Centered Approach to COVID-19 Vaccinations, Nila Venkat
Dead Money: Measuring the Influence of Representatives on Government Spending, Adhitya Venkatraman
A Unified Theory of Musical Meaning, Luis Verdin
Ousted: An Analysis of the Dismissal Gap Between Male and Female CEOs, Theresa Versen
The Silence of Nazi Looted Art in South America, Maria Emilia Vieira da Motta Piacsek
The Effect of Announcements about Electric Vehicle Developments on Traditional Automakers' Stock Prices, Viraaj Vig
A Marxist Re-Imagining of Capitalism, Alejandro Villegas
Using Short Bursts to Optimize Redistricting in Georgia, Vedika Vishweshwar
Herschel Walker, Black Voters, and the 2022 U.S Senate Race in Georgia, Janise Waites
The Effects of CFO Gender on Earnings Quality and Financial Risk, Ashley Wang
The Female Perspective on Self-Worth, Zixuan Wang
Forest Offsets in the California Carbon Market: Challenges of a Market Based Climate Solution, Eric Warmoth
Greenpeace in Germany and the U.S.: A Case Study in Non-Profit Web Design, Maximilian J. Weirauch
Analyzing Potential Career Paths for Collegiate Basketball Athletes, Garrett White
Nusantara: The Social, Economic, Political, and Environmental Implications of Moving the Heart of Indonesia’s Government, Chloe Fiorine Wibawa
Mary Eleanor Spear's Importance to the History of Statistical Visualization, Melanie Williams
After All That, Phillip Williams
A Paradoxical Relationship: US Government Authority and the American People, John B. Wills
Private Equity – the Rescue or Destruction of Financially Distressed Investments, Alex Wilson
The Impacts of Competition in the Audit Market on Audit Fees and Audit Quality, Andrew Winssinger
An Intersectional Analysis of Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States, Devon Wolfe
The Influence of Political Party Affiliation and Park Accessibility on COVID-19 case incidence, Sascha Wolf-Sorokin
Solving the Cortisol Puzzle, Benjamin Wolters
Balance Sheet Strength: A Retrospective Analysis of Corporate Liquidity and Solvency and Firm Stock Returns, Andrew Wraith
The Games We Play: Challenging U.S.-China Interdependence with the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, Jayson Yasukochi
Does Medical and Recreational Marijuana Legalization Decrease Alcohol Consumption in the United States?, Alexander Yun
Round after round: Understanding dry powder as a determinant of spread in leveraged loans, Raizel Yu
The Past and Future of Migration, Poverty, and Small-Scale Agriculture in Mexico, Kimberly Zamora Delgado
Zooming in: The Impact of Remote Work on Quit Rates During the Great Resignation, Hannah Zhang
Zooming in: The Impact of Remote Work on Quit Rates During the Great Resignation, Hannah Zhang
A Review of Scientific Evidence For and Against Various Theories of Aging, Eliezer M. Zucker
Senior Theses from 2021
Perpetuating Happiness in Social Spaces, Sarah Abel
Stakeholder-friendly or Shareholder-friendly? A Study of Firm Polices During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hannah Abouchar
On the Total Communicative Efficacy of Music and Its Synthesis to Written Word through Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar, Skyler Addison
Public Spaces in Pursuit of Democracy, Katherine Adelman
“Can’t Get That Song Out of My Head”: Neural Correlates of Involuntary Musical Imagery for Pop Music, Anisha Advani
Right to Move, Right to Life: Climate Migration and Reparations For Colonial Exploitation, Christopher G. Agard
A Proposal to Develop and Pilot-Test the Effects of a Culturally Adapted Stigma Intervention for Latinos, Sandy Ahumada
Neural Basis of Kinship Recognition in Rats, Mert Akan
Political Economy and Issue Salience, Mert Akan
Investigating the Power of Analyst Price Targets in Generating Abnormal Returns, Alexander Alsop
Childhood and Adolescence Development in Latino Children of Alcoholic Fathers, Jacqueline Alvarado-Perez
The Effects of Isolation on Anxiety: A Review of the Evidence, Myles Anderson
Armed Conflict, Trauma and the Fight for Quality Refugee Education, Simran Arora
A Further Analysis of the Economic Effects of Rising Central Debt: Initial Implications for Coronavirus Stimuli, Emily Attiyeh
The Effects of Working Memory and Language Learning on Auditory Brainstem Responses, Amelia Ayala
COVID-19 Outcomes & Pandemic Law: Understanding the relationship between legal origins & the effectiveness of pandemic policy, Maxine Baghdadi
Vaccine Hesitancy: Another COVID-19 Challenge, Arely Balderas
COVID-19 Pandemic: The Efficacy of California’s State-wide Lockdown, Barron Banta
The Impact of Credit Rating Adjustment Methodologies on Market Perceptions of Default Risk, Alexander Barker
