Senior Theses from 2021
Exploring the Impacts of No-Till Agriculture and “Three Sisters” Intercropping on Carbon Sequestration and Soil Health, Chloe Wanaselja
Senior Theses from 2020
Visible Hands: The Earl of Lauderdale's Political Economy in the History of Economic Thought, Michael Alvis
Jibaritos Y Más: The Impacts of Migration, Gentrification, and Cultural Maintenance on Chicago-Puerto Rican Cuisine, Emilio Araujo
Surveying the Warscape: Agriculture, Measurement, and Power on the English Home Front, 1933-1952, Alexandra Barber
Empire and Ruins in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Adin Becker
Multidimensional Zonation in the Renal Vasculature, Hannah Black
A Different Look at California’s Commission of Immigration and Housing in the Early Twentieth Century, Alfonso Casares
Habeas Corpus and the Politics of History, Isaac Cui
Crying in the Novel, Noor Dhingra
La Terreur insidieuse : Une Relecture de la logique de l'esclavage dans Ourika, Joslyn Gardner
The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning, Jordan Grimaldi
Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Reconsidering Our Paradigm of Water Pollution, Jonathan Gunasti
Stability of Screen-Printed Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells, Hyunjin Hong
A Dirty Renewable: How Trash Incineration Became Classified as Renewable Energy, Emma Hsu
Enlivening Spaces for the Dead: The Relevance of Cemeteries in the 21st Century, Caroline Koh Smith
Characterizing Solar Cells, Katheryn R. Kornegay
Don't Let the Bugs Bite: The Interspecies Worlds of U.S. Military Malaria Eradication in World War 2 Oceania, Joaquin Labio
Finding and Fighting for a Future of Bicycles in Boise, Idaho, Kyle Lenhart-Wees
Resistance Among Jewish Refugees in China: 1938 – 1948, Yuang Liu
Gopniki: Peripheral Masculinity in Post-Soviet Russia, Eli Loeb
Electrodynamics Modeling of Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid Waveguides, Marcus Michel
The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: Mobilize the Base or Persuade Swing Voters?, Jonathan Miller
Film + The Mau Mau, Amanda Mutai
Discourse Analysis of NYT’s Headlines on Terrorism and Climate Change: How Media Reflects Our Conceptualization of Security, Helena Gabrielle Ong
Tracking The Iron Snake: Rethinking Empire Through The Ruins of The Uganda Railway, Valery Otieno
Shrimp Farming in Thailand: A pathway to Sustainability, Warinyupa Phornprapha
Computer Vision Software Development for an Explosive Seed Pod Trap Camera, Derek James Pickell
"And All Were Welcome": An Analysis of the Transgender Child in Contemporary Picture Books, Isaac Prestwich
Mapping Protocluster Enrichment at Cosmic Noon, Sunny Rhoades
Rethinking Livability in Megacities: Applications of Jane Jacobs’ Theories on Tokyo and Los Angeles, Kirara Tsutsui
"May We Be Buried Alive Together": Towards an Intersectional Feminist True Crime Praxis, Alexandra White
Situating Asian American Environmental (In)Justices through Radical History Walking Tours, Yuxin Zhou
Senior Theses from 2019
The Legalization of Street Vending in Los Angeles: Exploring the Impact on Vendors and their Livelihoods, Karen Alpuche Caceres
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Reforming Organized Dentistry to Address Persistent Oral Health Disparities in the U.S., Aparna Chintapalli
"Woven Into the Deeps of Life": Death, Redemption, and Memory in Bob Kaufman's Poetry, Peter Davis
Towards a Critical Understanding of Deepfakes: Developing a Teaching Module and More, Wentao Guo
The Mark of the Japanese Murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume): A study of song and stewardship in Japan’s Inland Sea, Charlotte Hyde
Island Invasion: The Silent Crisis in Hawaii, Sophia Janssen
Exploring Transit-Based Environmental Injustices in San Gabriel Valley and Greater Los Angeles, Bailey Lai
Fragile Oceans, Synthetic Flotsam and Microbial Collaboration – Explorations in the Visual Communication of the Plastic Crisis, Ivan Langesfeld
Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating the Transition to Electric Vehicles, Nicole Larson
Landlocked Landfills and the Invasion of Waste: Environmental Injustice as seen in Solid Waste Management in Rural Alaskan Villages, Kate McWilliams
The Stability Paradox of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Backlogs: Unstable Policy Implementation for a Stability-Aimed Visa, Lanna Seline Sanchez
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design, Teague Scanlon
Let's Get Sorted: The Path to Zero Waste at Pomona College, Sara Sherburne
Belonging While Black at Lake Merritt: The Black Spatial Imaginary and Place-Making in Oakland, CA, Betel Solomon Tesfamariam
In the Eye of the Storm: Houston after Hurricane Harvey, Brandon Tolentino-Serrano
Restoring Reciprocity: Indigenous Knowledges and Environmental Education, Mireya Valencia
Farm to Label: A Critique of Consumer Activism in the Sustainable Food Movement, Olivia Whitener
On the Brink of Extinction: The Fate of the Pacific Northwest's Southern Resident Killer Whales, Sabrina Wilk
Can Uber and Lyft Save Public Transit?, Emily Zheng
Senior Theses from 2018
An Assessment of the Sharing Economy and Its Policy Solutions Through the Lens of Sustainability, Chloe An
Unity in Difference: an Exploration of Spatial Justice and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles, Minah Choi
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Ōkahu Bay: Investigation of a Community Driven Restoration Process, Emily Freilich
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Okahu Bay: Investigation of the Cultural, Social, and Environmental Restoration, Emily Freilich
Seeking Justice: Mobilizing the South Asian Community in the Face of Sexual Assault, Sagarika Gami
Log Kya Kahenge: Psychological well-being and perceived stigma in the South Asian American Community, Khushboo Jain
Under Pressure: Explaining Backlash Against Civil Society in the Andean Community, Noah Anders Levine
Potential for Climate Induced Methane Hydrate Dissociation, Graham MacWilliams
Closing the Loop: Exploring IKEA’s Transition to the Circular Economy, Alexandra Seidel
Prisons, Policing, and Pollution: Toward an Abolitionist Framework within Environmental Justice, Ki'Amber Thompson
Terrorist Celebrity: Online Personal Branding and Jihadist Recruitment and Planning, Ari Weil
Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden, Sarah Whitney
A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena, Yijing Zhang
Senior Theses from 2017
From Yosemite to a Global Market: How Patagonia, Inc. has Created an Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Equitable Model of Supply-Chain Management, Mary-Clare Bosco
Coping with Acculturative Stress: MDMA Usage among Asian American Young Adults in the Electronic Dance Music Scene, Michelle Stephanie Chan
Focusing Events in Environmental Policy: Exide Technologies, Aliso Canyon, and Industrial Health Crises in Southern California, Emily Chittick
Lost Opportunities: Ecuador's Yasuní ITT Initiative, Julianna Hitchins
More Than Just a Glass Face: What Makes a "Green" or "Sustainable" Building, Exactly?, Kelli Kokame
Climate Change Adaptation for Southern California Groundwater Managers: A Case Study of the Six Basins Aquifer, Frank Lyles
Social Sustainability: The Role of Ecotourism in Regenerating Cultural and Environmental Histories in Rio de Janeiro, Nia McAllister
The Smaller Things in Life: A Utilitarian Analysis of Response to Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms as a Sustainability Dilemma, Marcus McVane
Engineering an Alkane-Hydroxylating Bacterial Monooxygenase: A Tale of Two Chemistries, Arjun Nanda
Lived Legal Expertise: Mobilizing the Political Agency of Incarcerated Youth, Ian S. Schiffer
Making Policy on the Front Page: How the National Media Shape Indian Foreign Policy Toward Pakistan, Sehr Taneja
What If They're All Terrorists?: The Securitization of Muslims in Post-9/11 Immigration Policy, Kian Vesteinsson
Using Geospatial Analysis for High School Environmental Science Education: A Case Study of the Jane Goodall Institute's Community-Centered Conservation Approach, Madison G. Vorva
The Wash: Uncovering Pomona College's Hidden Landscape, Madison G. Vorva, Nia P. McAllister, and Maria R. Pettis
Sustaining Uber: Opportunities for Electric Vehicle Integration, David Wagner
Roots of a Movement: Community Action and the Impact of Urban Agriculture in Chicago, Maia Welbel
Senior Theses from 2016
Environmental Racism and the Movement for Black Lives: Grassroots Power in the 21st Century, Rickie Cleere
E-Waste Recycling: The Dirty Trade Between the United States and China, Laura Edwards
Monte Carlo Approx. Methods for Stochastic Optimization, John Fowler
Armed Drones: An Age Old Problem Exacerbated by New Technology, Grant H. Frazier
The Choreopolitics of Liberation and Decolonization, Harrison M. Goodall III
The Effect of Inversion and Motor Expertise on Body Compatibility, Harrison M. Goodall III
Food Rebellion: Contemporary Food Movements as a Reflection of Our Agrarian Past, James Gordon
Banned from the Only Democracy in the Middle East: Targeted Exclusion at Israel’s External Border Crossings, Alexandra Goss
Christianity and the Development of Eco-Justice, Emily C. Hill
