Senior Theses from 2023
Radioactive, Internal Colonialism: The Uranium Industry’s Historic and Current Impact on the Navajo Nation, Sophie Arens
Sports Injury Rehabilitation: Mental vs. Physical, Patria Aziz
From Building to Dwelling: Unfolding Infinity through Bioregional Fulfillment, Sanjana Bhatnagar
Can the XY+Z Heisenberg Model Be Compressed Using the Yang-Baxter Equation? An Exploration of the Compression of Quantum Time Dynamic Circuits Describing Heisenberg Spin Chains, Miriam Caron, Bo Peng Dr., Scott Gould Dr., Kevin Setter Dr., and Niranjan Govind Dr.
Grieving Climate Change: A Psychological and Personal Exploration of Emotionally Processing the Climate Crisis, Hava Chishti
21st Century Exhibition Rhetorics, Sabina Eastman
The Ways I'm a Fraud: Essays on Imposter Syndrome in Identity, Jack Friedman
“If It Ain’t One Thing, It’s Another”: Black LGBTQ students and their experiences with school discipline and punishment, Quentin Jenkins
Addressing the History and Proposing a Solution for Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria, Riley Kinlaw
Effect of poor menstrual health on UTI diagnosis, Michelle Muturi
Evidence for the Integration of Movement Based Alternative Therapy in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, Kareena Parmar
Surfactant-Loaded Xanthohumol: A Potentially Improved Hops-Based Antimicrobial, Ty Rocker
My Backyard Garden, Hezekiah Smithstein
Investigating Neuroanatomical Evolution through Proliferative Cells in the Astyanax Mexicanus, Sophie Staeger
Effects of Indonesian Cuisine on the Dutch Kitchen and Culture Post World War II, Anton Syril van Schaik
Miniscule and Might Predators: A Cautionary Tale of the Power of Mosquitoes in California and the Greater United States, Benjamin Willett
Growing Culturally Relevant Food at the Urban Farm: An Examination of Sovereign Foodways, Place-Making Practices, and Autonomous Identity-Shaping, Dahlia Bess Zail
Senior Theses from 2022
Not Coming Home: The Flaws in Skilled Nursing Facilities and their Contribution to Cyclical Hospitalizations of Post-Acute Patients, Kate Eisenbraun
Shriveling Bodies and a Shrinking World: A Journey from Woolf’s Feminism to Contemporary Notions of Aging, Beauty and Visibility, Esme Fairbairn
PARENT-PROMPTED DYSREGULATION: DO PARENTS SERVE AS CUES FOR DYSREGULATION IN SOME CHILDREN?, Daniel Lee
The Heirloom as Evidence: Investigating the Colonial Trace Preserved within my Family’s Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan
Beyond The Technical Dimensions of Water: Community-Based Efforts for Water Justice in the High Desert, Ella Meyer
Model Minority Perceptions: The Lived Experiences of Asian American Women in Collegiate Sports, Anna Ponzio
Investigation of Tryptophan Synthase Mutation Effects on Substrate and Coenzyme Binding, William Ragen
Queer Survival Amidst HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and Homelessness, Julia Young
Senior Theses from 2021
Diversifying Participation: The Rarity of Reporting Racial Demographics in Neuroimaging Research, Madeline Goldfarb
Critical Consciousness-Raising: High School Teachers' Collective Strategies to Engage Students' Inspiragination, Kiera Havill
Reclaiming Indigeneity and Sovereignty: Anticolonial Resistance among Indigenous Peoples in Northeastern Turtle Island, Leah W. Kelly
The Impact of Tidal Elevation and Climate Change on the Growth and Performance of Balanus glandula, Sam Martin
Theory and Praxis of the Barbara Drake Memorial Library at the Robert Redford Conservancy in Claremont, California, Sandra Sublette
The Implications of Tear Gas Use on Endocrine Function, Sylvie Wilson
Heat Stress During Larval Stages on Coral Survivorship for M. Capitata, Sarah Woo
Neither “Post-War” Nor Post-Pregnancy Paranoia: How America’s War on Drugs Continues to Perpetuate Disparate Incarceration Outcomes For Pregnant, Substance-Involved Offenders, Becca S. Zimmerman
Senior Theses from 2020
Plastics Derived From Derelict Fishing Gear in the Arctic: Looking at Sustainable Fisheries for a Strategy of Mitigation, Remediation and Prevention in Iceland and Alaska, Natalie S. Armstrong
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary: An Exploration of Changing the Discourse on Conservation, Arielle Ben-Hur
Transgressing Boundaries: Challenging Gender Within the Athletic Industrial Complex, Isa Berardo
Development of Discourse and Criteria in Green Building, Ben Bronstein
Elevating Equity: Strategies from State-Level Clean Energy Standards in the United States, Spencer Burget
Urban Renewal or Urban Legend? Re-Historicizing Human-River Relationships Disrupted by Displacement Before and Now in Los Angeles, Jamie Sophia Helberg
Towards a Resilient Future: Federal Policies for Adapting the U.S. Coasts to Climate Change, Samuel Horowitz
Challenging Moral and Policy Rationales for Charging Youth as Adults, Molly Lockwood
Climate Translators: The Impacts of Broadcast News on the Political Divide Over Climate Change in the United States, Dylan V. Macy
Rights, Water, and Guardians: How Rights of Nature Movements are Reshaping our Current Environmental Ethics and What These Policies Need to be Successful, Megan Schmiesing
The Women of the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop: Anni Albers' and Gunta Stölzl's Impact, Sophia Silane
The Weaponization of Poverty: An Investigation Into United States Military Recruitment Practices In High Schools Of Low-Income Communities In The Inland Empire, Michael Springer-Gould
ENVIRONMENT IN CRISIS: SEEKING AN AFROFUTURIST PERSPECTIVE, Simone Wolynski
Senior Theses from 2019
Campaigning on an Environmental Justice Platform: Irmalinda Osuna for Upland City Council, District 3, Jenny Bekenstein
Women in the Wage Economy: A New Gendered Division of Labor Amongst the Inuit, Hannah Buehler
The Sea Turtle as a Marketing Symbol for the Anti-Plastics Movement, Hannah Chiu
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on College Students’ Experiences, Shaafi A. Farooqi
A Ghetto Presidency: Bobi Wine & the Role of Digital and Urban Spaces in Ugandan Power Relations, Kalanzi Kajubi
Un-containing and Institutional Erasure of Memory: A Platform Proposal for the Claremont Colleges, Sophia Rizzolo
Mapping Land Use Around the San Francisco Bay: A Look at Environmental Justice through S. F. Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Permitting History, Aviva R. Wolf-Jacobs
Senior Theses from 2018
The Educational Opportunity Structure and Stratification of College Counseling at Southern California Public High Schools, Adriana Ceron
Indigenous-led Resistance to Environmental Destruction: Methods of Anishinaabe Land Defense against Enbridge's Line 3, Charlotte Degener Hughes
WHY DO UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES LEAVE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING?, Cindy Onyekwelu
Photographic Representation and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Case Study at the Claremont Colleges, Emma Tasini
Sustainability-Efficiency Paradox: The Efficacy of State Energy Plans in Building a More Sustainable Energy Future, Austin Zimmerman
Senior Theses from 2017
Democracy in the Dark: An Energy Democracy Model Centering Property and People, Feby Boediarto
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please: Transit Equity, Social Exclusion, and the New York City Subway, Taylor Novick-Finder
The District's Stepchild: The Total Erasure of Low-Income Latinx Students' Needs at Continuation High Schools, Gabriela R. Ornelas
The Experiences of Teachers at Southern California Continuation High Schools: Exposing the Barriers within Alternative Education, Gabriela R. Ornelas
Drowning in Rising Seas: Navigating Multiple Knowledge Systems and Responding to Climate Change in the Maldives, Rachel Hannah Spiegel
Treble in the Environment: Incorporating Music into Environmental Education, Shinara Sunderlal
The Media, the War on Terror, and the Public Sphere, Amanda Tapp
Senior Theses from 2016
Dualism, Physicalism, and Professional or Alternative Health Seeking: A Gendered Perspective, Taylor M. Caldwell
What a Waste: Segregation and Sanitation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWII Era, Amanda T. Chang
Exploration of Curvature Through Physical Materials, Lucinda-Joi Chu-Ketterer
Locating Gendered Resistance: Interethnic Conflict, Environmental Disaster, and Feminist Leadership in Sri Lanka, Allison A. Donine
When Society Becomes the Criminal: An Exploration of Society’s Responsibilities to the Wrongfully Convicted, Amelia A. Haselkorn
The Price is Right: Investigating Net Metering Policies for Rooftop Solar in California, Jesse Honig
Parting the Green Curtain: Tracing Environmental Inequality in Portland, Oregon, Lindsay E. McCord
“Becoming Ioway: Using Auto-Ethnography to Understand the Fourteen Ioways’ Journey of Colonization, Spirituality and Traditions Through Tribal Dance Exhibitions, Sarita R. Mc Gowan
Off the Road: Exploring Postcolonial Themes in the American Road Movie, Andy Wright
Off The Road: Imperialism And Exploration in the American Road Movie, Andy Wright
Faith in a Changing Planet: The Role of Religious Leaders in the Fight for a Livable Climate, Morissa Zuckerman
Senior Theses from 2015
Soft Power Played on the Hardwood: United States Diplomacy through Basketball, Joseph Bertka Eyen
Roots Versus Wells: Grassroots Activism Against Fracking in New York and California, Shannon J. Leap
The State of Sachets: Ghana’s Private Sector Solution to a Public Infrastructure Problem, Robert J. Little
“A Give and A Take”: Lived Experiences in a Real Sharing Economy, Lauren F. Phipps
Senior Theses from 2014
Characterizing a Novel Monoclonal AMPA Receptor 1/2/3 Antibody in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex of Rat, Monkey, and Human, Sebastian Aguiar
“It’s Like We Are Free”: An Analysis of Soccer-Based Programming in a California Prison, Lillian S. Barrett-O'Keefe
Cultivating Human-Nature Relationships: The Role of Parents and Primary Caregivers in Development of Environmental Identity, Anne E. Bremer
Missing Voices, Hidden Fields: The Gendered Struggles of Female Farmworkers, Keiko A. Budech
A Mother's Paradox: Choosing a Birthing Method in the 21st Century, Jenae Franklin