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Senior Theses from 2025

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A Click Chemistry-Based Approach to Assessing sAPP⍺ Derived-Peptides as an Alzheimer’s Therapeutic: Evaluation of Blood Brain Barrier Permeability and Identification of its Molecular Targets, Zheous Abalos and Daniel J. O'Leary PhD

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Title Delayed, Zosia Amberger and Rebecca DiPucchio

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The San Francisco Bay Area’s Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise: Integrating Community Engagement and Equity into Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning, Isabella Marie Carreon

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Huchum: The Legacy of Fire Suppression, Indigenous Land Management, and Media Representation, Carolyn Coyne

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Swimming in Sh*t: Quantifying Lagoon Flushing Impacts on Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Surf Zones of Three Beaches on the East End of Long Island, NY, Brody C. Eggert

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Demystifying Misconceptions in Introductory Undergraduate Chemistry Education with 3D Printed Molecular Orbitals, Hiwot Endeshaw and Daniel J. O'Leary

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Title Delayed, Ella M. Enrique Shakespeare and Rebecca C. DiPucchio

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Expression in Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Attributes, Emilio Esquivel Marquez

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Indigenous vs Western Land Management Strategies in the Pacific Islands, Catherine Farley

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The New Urbanism in New York City: A Case Study Comparing Battery Park City and Alphabet City, Lena Farley

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In Harmony: The Environmental Lives of Marianne North, Beatrix Farrand, and Mary Hunter Austin, Willa Frank

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The Leaf That Tapped: Literary Still Life in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Willa Frank

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The Grammar of Approximating Number Pairs (ANPs) in Mandarin Chinese, Xuehuai He

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From Feedlot to Floor Vote: ​​How Animal Agribusiness Wields Power to Capture the American State, Hannah Hughes

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Title Delayed, Mustafa K. Husain and Rebecca DiPucchio

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Plantation Matters: The Black Production of Space in Southeastern Louisiana, 1830 to 1912, Noura Jabir

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Humans Among Giants: Urban Vitality and Implications of Vertical Development in Hong Kong, Laura Jaramillo

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Optimizing the Electron Transport Layer in Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Adele Jordan and Hal Van Ryswyk

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“Regression to the Mean”: The Confluence of Eugenics and Statistics in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Emrys G. King

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Optimizing and Scaling Up TCFH–NMI Pyrrole Acylation for Organic Syntheses, Grant H. Miller

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The Chthulucene Is Colonial Ecology: Ontology and Ethics in Anti-Colonial Environmental Theory, Aaron Morgan

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“Nice to See You”: Addressing Plant Awareness Disparity with Locally Specific Ecological and Cultural Plant Education, Cecilia Muecke

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Synthesis and Characterization of Hyaluronic Acid-Modified ꞵ-Cyclodextrin Polymeric Nanocarriers for Dual Delivery of Doxorubicin and Quercetin in Multidrug-Resistant Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Nadiya Muhammad

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NMR Measurements of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in 1,3-Disiloxanediols and 1,6-Diols, Thaer M. Nasr and Daniel J. O'Leary

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Narrative (In)completion in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Woolf’s The Waves, Ananya Ramkumar

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Title Delayed, Jasmine V. Randall and Rebecca DiPucchio

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Plant-based Versus Animal-based Diets: Which is Better?, Olivia Reichle

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Investigating Mannitol Transport Regulation in Vibrio Cholerae: a Chemical Biology Approach, Giuliano Richetta and Jane M. Liu

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Modified N-heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts for Polyurethane Synthesis, Charise D. Young

Senior Theses from 2024

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Generative Adversarial Networks for Music Generation, Harry Berman

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The Unseen River and Infrastructural Silences: The Santa Ana River and the Ontology of Floods, Cooper Lennon Crane

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On the Design of An Extracorporeal Life Support Circuit Specialized for Carbon Dioxide Removal, Mai Dang

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Quantifying Enrichment of Metals and Inorganic Ions in Sea Spray Aerosols, David C. Gorman and Charles J. Taylor

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Mechanisms of Dendritic Shorting in Lithium Metal Batteries with Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes, Lukas Karapin-Springorum

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Lingering Presence: (T)racing Chinese Community in the Borderlands, Reia Li

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Exploring the Potential of Sulfamoyl Fluorides as Probes in Chemical Biology, Pedro Martinez Velez and Nicholas Ball

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Justice as Fairness or as Inclusion: Putting Rawls in Conversation with the Bans on Transgender Athletes, Nicole Player

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Reducing Short-Chain PFAS Levels in California Water Supplies, Manu Prabandham

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Developing Sulfur (IV) Fluoride Compounds Using Bench-Stable Fluorosulfinylation Reagent MISF, Richard Romero and Nicholas Ball

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Characterizing Niosome Nanodelivery of PCSK9-siRNA Therapy for Atherosclerosis, Ryan Ruaysungnoen

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The Synthetic Efforts Towards Probing OH/OH Hydrogen Bonds in 1,6-Diols with Titratable 1H NMR Isotope Shifts, Fernando Sanchez Cano and Daniel J. O'Leary

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A Proposal for Attenuating the Toxicity of Phosphorus(V)- Fluorides by Stereoselective Synthesis, Natalie Schur and Nicholas Ball

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Development of a Decarboxylative SuFEx Reaction for the Synthesis of Sulfones, Matt Teeter and Nicholas Ball

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Mobile Food Displacement and Formalization: A Case Study of Portland’s Block 216, Marcello Ursic

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Lewis Acid Catalyzed Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange: A Novel Click Reaction, Theo Yassa and Nicholas Ball

Senior Theses from 2023

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Militarized Foodways: The Connection Between the Militarization of American Sāmoa and Chronic Health Conditions Experienced by Sāmoans in the U.S., Marina Aina

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Clusters, Curves, and Centroids: Stellar Flare Morphology in the Ultraviolet, Vera Berger

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Ecodrama and Sustainable Theatre: A Handbook for Creating Remarkable Change, GiGi Buddie

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¡Hay comida en la casa! - There Is Food at Home!, Gabriela Camacho

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Contemplative Nearby Nature: A Design Proposal for Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Russell Corbin

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The Man in the Fiber Optic Cable: A Short Film, Lucas Cunningham

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Timber Island: A Screenplay, Lucas Cunningham

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For Everyone's Eyes Only: Digital Art as Public Art (Agency, Accessibility, and Aura), Linda Dai

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Warehouses in the Inland Empire: Displacing Land and Life, Katherine Gelsey

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Weaving Testimonio and Territory in La Comuna Ancestral Las Tunas, María J Durán González

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Using Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules to Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Sean Jackson

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Pasolini’s Ashes: Absence and Excess in Teorema and Salò, Alan Ke

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Prejudice against Asian Americans in gender norm evaluations: A sociocognitive investigation, Kirby Lam

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Impossible Thoughts, Alternative Spaces, Julien Luebbers

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Breakwater: Anti-Blackness in Geoscience Lessons from Long Beach, CA, Christina Marsh

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Redefining Community in the Age of the Internet: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) generate sustainable and equitable community development?, Carson Martinez

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Bicycling for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Comparing Urban Transformations in Paris and Bogotá, Luba Masliy

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An Analysis of Water Quality at Orange County, California Beaches, Naomi Meurice

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Gender, Abolition, Gender Abolition: An Exploration of Social Media, Identity Formation, and Queer Community, Sammy Shrestha

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Hope is a discipline: Feminism, Dichotomy, and the Ethics of Transformative Justice, Mariama Sidime

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The Wh-eye of the Storm: How Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, and Arif Anwar Fictionalize Extreme Weather in Their Works, Elena Vedovello

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Moving in the Underground: The Politics of Black Joy in Roller-Skating and Funk Music in Chicago, John West

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Tools for Collective Thought: Augmenting Collaborative Sensemaking, Jacob Zimmerman

Senior Theses from 2022

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Soil and Soul: Fostering Cultural Healing Through Reconnection to the Land, Makeda Bullock Floyd

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THE DREAM CATALYST IN THREE STATES, Layla Elqutami

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Localizing Food Waste Management: A Social Benefit-Cost Analysis of Aerobic Composters, Aurora Massari

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The Intersection of Decentralized Security and Decentralized Governance: The Offloading of State Responsibility in Northern Mali, Max Ober

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Climate Trailblazer or Corporate Giveaway: An Economic and Political Evaluation of Cap-and-trade in California, Benjamin Reicher

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Mieczysław Weinberg: Music Transcending Tragedy, Ilana Shapiro

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Home/land Security: Asian Settlers, Native Hawaiians, and Claims to Belonging in "Hawaiian" Fiction, Alice Shinn

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LOCALS ONLY: The Postcolonial Exotic and Representations of Asian Settlers and Native Hawaiians in “Hawaiian” Literature, Alice Shinn

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The Politics of Belonging: How Migration Affects Social Democratic Welfare States, Katherine Grace Siegenthaler

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Tradition, Pedagogy, and Internet Open-Access Music Libraries, Erin Tallman

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Concentrated Exploration: Reconstructing the Professional Life of Lucille Paris, Noor Tamari

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Disaster Art, Kali Tindell-Griffin

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(Middle) Eastern Standard Time: A Novel, Kyla Walker

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Post(al) Apocalypse: A Letter About Virginia Woolf's Fictional Letters, Ethan Widlansky

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Tales of Urban Livability- Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles As Told by Tree Canopy Cover, Hoi Cheng Wong

Senior Theses from 2021

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When Disparities Become Deadly: Spatial Differences in PM2.5 Levels Within the City of Pomona, California, Pauline Bekkers

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Asia Reimagined: Inter-Imperial Encounters and Exchanges in the Early Modern World, Jacinta Chen

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Modern Meals and Mythology: The Los Angeles Culinary Field, Lindsay Megumi Chu

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Navigating Obstacles to Environmental Conservation: How NGOs Emerge as Effective Environmental Stewards, Chris Clark

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What Produced Four Lynchings in Duluth, Minnesota in 1918 and 1920?, Gabriel Das

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Connecting Youth to Nature: Environmental Education’s Role in the Future of Wellbeing and Stewardship, Claire Generous

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Caratacus, The Remembered Warrior: The Legacies of Caratcaus in Roman Histories and the British Victorian Era, Isabella Kearney

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Filtering Out the Effects of Zebra Mussels: Climate, Land Use, and Water Clarity in Minnesota Lakes, Kristina Linder

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The Past as "Ahead": A Circular History of Modern Chamorro Activism, Gabby Lupola

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Evangels of Emancipation: Missionary Activity in Postemancipation Sierra Leone, Jamaica, and the United States, Rowan McGarry-Williams

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Come Closer: Geographies of Care, Anam Mehta

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The Making of a New Generation: Ordinary School Education in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, Hyun Wook (Jacob) Noh

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Exploring the COVID-19 Experience of Young Adult Latinos in Rural California: Insights into Mental Health & The Immigrant Health Paradox, Vivianna Plancarte

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Molecular Spectroscopy for Innovative Physics: AlCl & BaF, Alex Preston

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Regulating Cultural Expressions: A Comparative Case Study on Hair and Race in New York and South Africa, Michaela Shelton

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Optical Hygiene and Modernity: A Site Analysis of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Using Lefebvre’s Triad, William R. Stone

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Exploring the Impacts of No-Till Agriculture and “Three Sisters” Intercropping on Carbon Sequestration and Soil Health, Chloe Wanaselja