Senior Theses from 2025
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
Title Delayed, Zosia Amberger and Rebecca DiPucchio
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
Huchum: The Legacy of Fire Suppression, Indigenous Land Management, and Media Representation, Carolyn Coyne
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
Demystifying Misconceptions in Introductory Undergraduate Chemistry Education with 3D Printed Molecular Orbitals, Hiwot Endeshaw and Daniel J. O'Leary
Title Delayed, Ella M. Enrique Shakespeare and Rebecca C. DiPucchio
Expression in Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Attributes, Emilio Esquivel Marquez
Indigenous vs Western Land Management Strategies in the Pacific Islands, Catherine Farley
The New Urbanism in New York City: A Case Study Comparing Battery Park City and Alphabet City, Lena Farley
In Harmony: The Environmental Lives of Marianne North, Beatrix Farrand, and Mary Hunter Austin, Willa Frank
The Leaf That Tapped: Literary Still Life in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Willa Frank
The Grammar of Approximating Number Pairs (ANPs) in Mandarin Chinese, Xuehuai He
From Feedlot to Floor Vote: How Animal Agribusiness Wields Power to Capture the American State, Hannah Hughes
Title Delayed, Mustafa K. Husain and Rebecca DiPucchio
Plantation Matters: The Black Production of Space in Southeastern Louisiana, 1830 to 1912, Noura Jabir
Humans Among Giants: Urban Vitality and Implications of Vertical Development in Hong Kong, Laura Jaramillo
Optimizing the Electron Transport Layer in Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Adele Jordan and Hal Van Ryswyk
“Regression to the Mean”: The Confluence of Eugenics and Statistics in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Emrys G. King
Optimizing and Scaling Up TCFH–NMI Pyrrole Acylation for Organic Syntheses, Grant H. Miller
The Chthulucene Is Colonial Ecology: Ontology and Ethics in Anti-Colonial Environmental Theory, Aaron Morgan
“Nice to See You”: Addressing Plant Awareness Disparity with Locally Specific Ecological and Cultural Plant Education, Cecilia Muecke
NMR Measurements of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in 1,3-Disiloxanediols and 1,6-Diols, Thaer M. Nasr and Daniel J. O'Leary
Narrative (In)completion in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Woolf’s The Waves, Ananya Ramkumar
Title Delayed, Jasmine V. Randall and Rebecca DiPucchio
Plant-based Versus Animal-based Diets: Which is Better?, Olivia Reichle
Investigating Mannitol Transport Regulation in Vibrio Cholerae: a Chemical Biology Approach, Giuliano Richetta and Jane M. Liu
Modified N-heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts for Polyurethane Synthesis, Charise D. Young
Senior Theses from 2024
Generative Adversarial Networks for Music Generation, Harry Berman
The Unseen River and Infrastructural Silences: The Santa Ana River and the Ontology of Floods, Cooper Lennon Crane
On the Design of An Extracorporeal Life Support Circuit Specialized for Carbon Dioxide Removal, Mai Dang
Quantifying Enrichment of Metals and Inorganic Ions in Sea Spray Aerosols, David C. Gorman and Charles J. Taylor
Mechanisms of Dendritic Shorting in Lithium Metal Batteries with Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes, Lukas Karapin-Springorum
Lingering Presence: (T)racing Chinese Community in the Borderlands, Reia Li
Exploring the Potential of Sulfamoyl Fluorides as Probes in Chemical Biology, Pedro Martinez Velez and Nicholas Ball
Justice as Fairness or as Inclusion: Putting Rawls in Conversation with the Bans on Transgender Athletes, Nicole Player
Reducing Short-Chain PFAS Levels in California Water Supplies, Manu Prabandham
Developing Sulfur (IV) Fluoride Compounds Using Bench-Stable Fluorosulfinylation Reagent MISF, Richard Romero and Nicholas Ball
Characterizing Niosome Nanodelivery of PCSK9-siRNA Therapy for Atherosclerosis, Ryan Ruaysungnoen
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
A Proposal for Attenuating the Toxicity of Phosphorus(V)- Fluorides by Stereoselective Synthesis, Natalie Schur and Nicholas Ball
Development of a Decarboxylative SuFEx Reaction for the Synthesis of Sulfones, Matt Teeter and Nicholas Ball
Mobile Food Displacement and Formalization: A Case Study of Portland’s Block 216, Marcello Ursic
Lewis Acid Catalyzed Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange: A Novel Click Reaction, Theo Yassa and Nicholas Ball
Senior Theses from 2023
Clusters, Curves, and Centroids: Stellar Flare Morphology in the Ultraviolet, Vera Berger
Ecodrama and Sustainable Theatre: A Handbook for Creating Remarkable Change, GiGi Buddie
¡Hay comida en la casa! - There Is Food at Home!, Gabriela Camacho
Contemplative Nearby Nature: A Design Proposal for Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Russell Corbin
The Man in the Fiber Optic Cable: A Short Film, Lucas Cunningham
Timber Island: A Screenplay, Lucas Cunningham
For Everyone's Eyes Only: Digital Art as Public Art (Agency, Accessibility, and Aura), Linda Dai
Warehouses in the Inland Empire: Displacing Land and Life, Katherine Gelsey
Weaving Testimonio and Territory in La Comuna Ancestral Las Tunas, María J Durán González
Using Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules to Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Sean Jackson
Pasolini’s Ashes: Absence and Excess in Teorema and Salò, Alan Ke
Prejudice against Asian Americans in gender norm evaluations: A sociocognitive investigation, Kirby Lam
Impossible Thoughts, Alternative Spaces, Julien Luebbers
Breakwater: Anti-Blackness in Geoscience Lessons from Long Beach, CA, Christina Marsh
Redefining Community in the Age of the Internet: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) generate sustainable and equitable community development?, Carson Martinez
Bicycling for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Comparing Urban Transformations in Paris and Bogotá, Luba Masliy
An Analysis of Water Quality at Orange County, California Beaches, Naomi Meurice
Gender, Abolition, Gender Abolition: An Exploration of Social Media, Identity Formation, and Queer Community, Sammy Shrestha
Hope is a discipline: Feminism, Dichotomy, and the Ethics of Transformative Justice, Mariama Sidime
The Wh-eye of the Storm: How Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, and Arif Anwar Fictionalize Extreme Weather in Their Works, Elena Vedovello
Moving in the Underground: The Politics of Black Joy in Roller-Skating and Funk Music in Chicago, John West
Tools for Collective Thought: Augmenting Collaborative Sensemaking, Jacob Zimmerman
Senior Theses from 2022
Soil and Soul: Fostering Cultural Healing Through Reconnection to the Land, Makeda Bullock Floyd
THE DREAM CATALYST IN THREE STATES, Layla Elqutami
Localizing Food Waste Management: A Social Benefit-Cost Analysis of Aerobic Composters, Aurora Massari
Climate Trailblazer or Corporate Giveaway: An Economic and Political Evaluation of Cap-and-trade in California, Benjamin Reicher
Mieczysław Weinberg: Music Transcending Tragedy, Ilana Shapiro
Home/land Security: Asian Settlers, Native Hawaiians, and Claims to Belonging in "Hawaiian" Fiction, Alice Shinn
The Politics of Belonging: How Migration Affects Social Democratic Welfare States, Katherine Grace Siegenthaler
Tradition, Pedagogy, and Internet Open-Access Music Libraries, Erin Tallman
Concentrated Exploration: Reconstructing the Professional Life of Lucille Paris, Noor Tamari
Disaster Art, Kali Tindell-Griffin
(Middle) Eastern Standard Time: A Novel, Kyla Walker
Post(al) Apocalypse: A Letter About Virginia Woolf's Fictional Letters, Ethan Widlansky
Tales of Urban Livability－ Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles As Told by Tree Canopy Cover, Hoi Cheng Wong
Senior Theses from 2021
When Disparities Become Deadly: Spatial Differences in PM2.5 Levels Within the City of Pomona, California, Pauline Bekkers
Asia Reimagined: Inter-Imperial Encounters and Exchanges in the Early Modern World, Jacinta Chen
Modern Meals and Mythology: The Los Angeles Culinary Field, Lindsay Megumi Chu
Navigating Obstacles to Environmental Conservation: How NGOs Emerge as Effective Environmental Stewards, Chris Clark
What Produced Four Lynchings in Duluth, Minnesota in 1918 and 1920?, Gabriel Das
Connecting Youth to Nature: Environmental Education’s Role in the Future of Wellbeing and Stewardship, Claire Generous
Caratacus, The Remembered Warrior: The Legacies of Caratcaus in Roman Histories and the British Victorian Era, Isabella Kearney
Filtering Out the Effects of Zebra Mussels: Climate, Land Use, and Water Clarity in Minnesota Lakes, Kristina Linder
The Past as "Ahead": A Circular History of Modern Chamorro Activism, Gabby Lupola
Evangels of Emancipation: Missionary Activity in Postemancipation Sierra Leone, Jamaica, and the United States, Rowan McGarry-Williams
Come Closer: Geographies of Care, Anam Mehta
The Making of a New Generation: Ordinary School Education in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, Hyun Wook (Jacob) Noh
Exploring the COVID-19 Experience of Young Adult Latinos in Rural California: Insights into Mental Health & The Immigrant Health Paradox, Vivianna Plancarte
Molecular Spectroscopy for Innovative Physics: AlCl & BaF, Alex Preston
Regulating Cultural Expressions: A Comparative Case Study on Hair and Race in New York and South Africa, Michaela Shelton
Optical Hygiene and Modernity: A Site Analysis of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Using Lefebvre’s Triad, William R. Stone
Exploring the Impacts of No-Till Agriculture and “Three Sisters” Intercropping on Carbon Sequestration and Soil Health, Chloe Wanaselja
