Senior Theses from 2025
THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL STRESSORS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FETAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, Natalie Y. Ahn
Beyond a Promise: An exploration of Identity and Cultural Resistance, Leslie Ahuatzi
The Association Between Obstetric Violence and Postpartum Depression among Latina Women in the United States: An Integrative Review, Natalia Alameda
Love is Dead in the Restless West: Hippies, Manson, and California Culture, 1966-1970, Rebecca Allen
Effects of Early-Life Social Status on Vasopressin Signaling in A. burtoni, Else Anderson
Platicas, Poetry, & Perteneciendo: First-generation Chicanas’ guidebook navigating PWI’s, Jocelyn Andrade
Reckoning with the Cowboy: Justice, Trauma, and the Myth of Freedom in Be the Cowboy, Abbie Oh Arroyo
THE POLITICS OF FEAR: Exploring Diversity and Representation in the Modern Horror Genre, Abbie Oh Arroyo
The Adelante Academy: A Pathway to Success for FGLI Latine High School Students in Santa Ana, CA, Seleny Arroyo Ms.
"Realer Than Real:" Postmodern Tourism and Global Heritage Simulacra, Maren Arther
AI's Environmental Equation: Balancing Innovation With Sustainability, Taylor Backer
Bodies in Work, Bodies of Work: Intersections of Alternative Photography and Complicated Embodiment, Ella Gillespie Bailey
Zombie Tales, Taylor Baird
Cities in Transition: Insights from Three Latin American Cities on Urban Growth, Governance, and Sustainable Development, Abby Barahona
¡Despertemos, humanidad! Leyendo, escuchando y mirando la resistencia ambiental indígena en Honduras, Abby Barahona
Ornaments for Living, Giulia Bellon
FINDING FUTURES: REFUSING CANVA AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF THE D.I.Y. POLITICAL POST(ER), Cassidy Bensko
WHAT MAKES A MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING COMPANY SUSTAINABLE? AN ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVIZATION IMPACTS O, Lydia Benton
THE CSI EFFECT: MEDIA INFLUENCE ON JUROR PERCEPTIONS OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE, Toni Besselaar
Hippocampal Subregion Volume and Memory in Older Adults, Molly Booth
I miss my teeth; I feel your teeth, Emma A. Brauser
Thriving Amid Adversity: Black Student Unions As Protective Agents Against Campus Discrimination, Lovie Brown
Severance as Metaserial Dystopia: Penal Spectatorship and Critical Reintegration, Sofia Buntz
Sounding like a Normal Gay: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Homonormativity and Identity Performance on the LGBTQ Right, Maralina Caldas
A Deconstruction of the Basilica of Arantzazu: Culture, Architecture, and Spirituality in a Sacred Place of Worship, Sophia Carrillo
The Influence of Defendant Race/Ethnicity and Immigration Status on Mock Juror Decision Making in a Criminal Trial Context, Sophia Carrillo
Characterization of Dietary and Hormonal Influences on Renal Sodium Transporters and Channels in Rodent Models, Evelyn Chan
Shaping National Subjects: Recognition, Subjectivity, and Governmental Philosophies in Finnish and Singaporean Education, Katherine S. Cherney
The Aesthetic Assembly Line: Beauty, Labor, and the Commodification of Women’s Bodies, Shing Ru Chew
Doubly Protected anti-CTLA-4-6325: A Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate, Larissa R. Chung
The Effects of Zoning Regulatory Restrictions on Air Quality Across United States Counties, Alondra Cobian
Assessing Conservation Risks In Photographic Media: A Study Of Gelatin Silver And Inkjet Prints, Isabella Conti
The Impact of Social Security on Saving Behavior and the Fiscal Multiplier Across California Counties, Elena N. Creason
The Story Of Us (Jukebox Musical), Catherine M. Cryan
Preservation at a Price: Nuanced Environmental Policy and the Loss of Working Landscapes in Point Reyes National Seashore, Carlyn R. Cunningham
Psychological Time, Deep Time, and Timekeeping in Virginia Woolf’s Oeuvre, Skye Curren
Assessing Properties of Firefly Luciferase Mutants and Homologs, Gabrielle Daniel
Behavioral Observations and Analysis of Twix: The Cape Porcupine at the Lake Superior Zoo, Erin Davidson
Allele-Specific Zinc Fingers for Rhodopsin Regulation to Address Retinitis Pigmentosa, Ysabel David
Find My Friends: Location-Sharing Ideologies and Peer Surveillance Practices, Nayla Dayal
"Girl, so confusing": TikTok Tweens, Technology, and the Authentic Self, Emily R. Dietrick
Memory and Myth: Archetypal Remembrance of The Holocaust, Sophie Dinerman
Exploring the Potential for Nematodes to Positively Impact Plant Growth in Agricultural Systems, Aiko Dougherty
Investigating NASPSim3’s Role in Drive-Associated Reproductive Costs in Mimulus guttatus, Amelia S. Douglass Ms
THE WOMAN QUESTION AND STATE FEMINISM: GENDER, POWER, AND MODERNITY IN PAHLAVI IRAN, Maire Claire DuBard
Feeding Frenzy: Tastemakers and Food Influencers in the Age of Social Media, Iris Ducker
Tackling Media Convergence: An Examination of Video Game Influence in La Liga Live Streams, Melina Durre
Disabled Archives: Survival and Resistance, Aliya Earley
Social Rejection, Isolation, and Substance Use Disorders: A Neurobiological Defense of Social Network Intervention in Single-Site Housing First, Victoria Eichel
Investigating the Role of HAT2 and EAF6 proteins in initiating transcription of insect stage proteins in African Trypanosomes, Brecken Enright
A Proof of NP-Completeness for the K-Means Clustering Algorithm, Brooke C. Feinberg
Empirical Analysis of Political Districting Splitability via Uniform Spanning Trees in Polynomial Time, Brooke C. Feinberg
FROM ARABIZATION TO ANGLICIZATION : UNMASKING LANGUAGE POLICY SHIFTS IN ALGERIA, Sophie Feldman
Summer Girl, Mia Fenyak
Trouvailles, Funnels, and Chance Occurrences in A Chance of Worms, Isabel Ferrell
Of Monsters and Men: Fantasy, Aesthetics, and the Nation in Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), Ally Fleming
Three Case Studies for Urban Renewal in the Post War American University: Situating Claremont in Urban Renewal Histories, Elizabeth Flores
In It for the Long Haul: Long-Haul Trucking and the American Myth, Ava Flum
Fair Play or Financial Power? Examining the Competitive Impact of Foreign Investment in European Football, Emma M. Fogg
Built to Last: Intergenerational Transfers and the Architecture of Inequality, Samantha Ford
Drowned in Promises: Flooded Histories and the Struggle for Justice in the Pajaro Valley, Maya Forgus
Random Graph Models for Dual Graphs, Anne Friedman
Questioning El Fu-Toro: The Misrepresentation and Potential of the Bull as Spain’s National Symbol, Olivia Gaetz
Audiovisual Decadence: Materiality, Collaborative Practice and Aesthetic Subversion in Early Video Art, Elizabeth Gamble
STICKING OUT AND FITTING IN: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AND ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER DESI AMERICAN STUDENTS AT SCRIPPS COLLEGE, Grace Njoki Gitau
Before You Came Into My Life I Missed You So Bad, Golda Gene Grais
The Fight for Education: The Rise of Indigenous Oaxacan Teachers and Their Role in the 1980s Mexican Teacher’s Movement, Chiara Gutierrez
The Potential Role of Periodontal Pathogen, Fusobacterium nucleatum, in the Progression of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Vanessa Gutierrez
RADIAL: The Ceramic Reimagining of Micro-Marine Organisms, Jamie J. Haith
Hoarding Culture and Extracting Knowledge: Imperial Legacies at Scripps College, Mara Halpern
Breaking From The Herd: Cost-Benefit And Cultural Analysis Of Intensive, Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing On Six Shooter Ranch, Sydney Hamel
Nature Versus Nurture Influences on Juror-Decision Making in a Capital Punishment Case, Alexandra Hamilton
A Women's College Advantage? The Impacts on Leadership Stereotypes, Riya Hariharan
The Impact of Lease Reporting Accounting Standard Changes on Balance Sheet Structure and Equity Market Risk Assessment, Sylvie Hasson
Live in Concert: The Social and Societal Impacts of Live Music, Lauren E. Heaney
A comparison of stress indicators in Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow and California Towhee populations in natural and suburban habitats, Annika Heaton-Brandt
Une comparaison des indicateurs de stress dans les populations de Bruants à couronne blanche de Gambel et de Tohis de Californie au sein d’habitats naturels et suburbains, Annika Heaton-Brandt
Ac(e)ing It: How Asexual Theory Complicates Queer Theory, Zola B. Hefta-Gaub
Plot Sold Separately: Ad or Art?, Jacqueline Hsu
Product Placement: a Worthy Investment?, Jacqueline Hsu
Phylogenetic and Geographic Analyses of Puumala Hantavirus Reveal Evidence for Isolation by Distance and Time-Structured Genetic Divergence, Natalia Huizar
Reading Between the Lines: An Exercise in Translation, Jiwoo Hyun
Weathering and Beyond: Leveraging Mathematical Modeling to Simulate Erosion in Digital Media, Fiona Irving-Beck
Bright-Lines in Sentencing: A Legal and Moral Case Against Juvenile Life-Without-Parole, McKenzie Reily Isaac
The Dirt Underneath My Fingernails: The American Pastoral and 21st-Century Food System Reform, Annabella Isaacson
Pleasure as Pedagogy: Rethinking Risk-Based Narratives in Contemporary Sex Education, Hadley M. Iselin
Decolonizing Ocean Governance: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Marine Policy, Asha Jain
Sacred Waters Clinic: Outreach and Tribal History in the Santa Ana Watershed, Callie Johnson
ARENAS OF RESISTANCE: How Oklahoma's Black Rodeos Preserved Environmental Wisdom and Community Power, Rorie Johnson
A Spade, A Spade, Adi Jolish
The Body and Violence in Guatemala: Impacts of Colonial Violence on Mayan Women and Their Access to Maternal Care, Danielle E. Jordan
