Senior Theses from 2019
Best Practices to Encourage Landfill Diversion in Waste Management Programs, Sondra Abruzzo
The Role of Serum Histones in Canine Heat Stroke, Jenna Acutt
Sentencing Length Disparities: Assessing Why Race and Gender Influence Judges’ Decisions, Janna Akers
Why CSAs Matter: (re)localizing for people-based food networks, Gretchen Alexander
Examining The Role Of Intra-Household Bargaining In The Adoption Of Green Technology, Antara Anand
Archiving the Archive: A Tribute to the Machines that Held our Memories, Molly A. Antell
Linking Petal Cell Shape to Pollinator Mode in Mimulus, Emma Bekele
Space, Power, Policy, and the Creation of the “Illegal” Migrant at the United States Boundary with Mexico, Catalina J. Biesman-Simons
Micro-Enterprise Development for Dalit Women in Rural India: An Analysis of the Implications of “Women's Empowerment”, Jessica Bird
An Intervention to Reduce Social Class Bias on an Elite College Campus, Michelle Blanken
Design and Testing of Composite Mirror Adaptive Optics, Aria Chaderjian
What Drives Merger Waves? A Study of the Seven Historical Merger Waves in the U.S., Katherine Ching
Using Pharmacogenetics to Find Treatment for Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients with Both apoB and PCSK9 Mutations, Elizabeth Cho
On the Edge of the Border: Prejudice Reduction Through Parasocial and Face-to-Face Intergroup Contact, Lauren Colella
The Impact of Four-Day School Weeks and Fifth-Day Programs on Delinquency and Problem Behaviors in Adolescents, Emily Collins
“Margaret the First”: Rebelling Against Gendered Modes of Utopian Writing, Emma Cornwell
Measuring the Economic Costs of Workplace Sexual Harassment on Women, Maureen R. Cowhey
"Sweet Beginning but Unsavoury End": The Change in Popularity of Shakespeare's Poetry, Maureen R. Cowhey
A Pansychistic, Photographic View on Nature and the Body, Rowen Cox-Rubien
Beyond the Lens, Izzy Crouch
Doggone Smart: A Canine-Assisted Reading Program and the Effect on Self-Efficacy and Standardized Test Scores, Valerie Daifotis
'If I Don't Have That, No Learning": Significance of Student-Centered Affective Labor Among Public High School Teachers in Tacoma, WA, Delaney Dawson
Our Government is Perpetuating the Tobacco Crisis: An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Tobacco Industry and the Government, Jesse Edwards
Damn Spot: Navigating Emotional Trauma in the Body, Emma M. Elliott
Instituting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Divided Society, Emma Etnier
The Ostrich Effect: A Survey Analysis of Burying One's Head in the Sand, Kira Knowles Gabriel
Detracking: Facilitating the Achievement of First-Generation Students of Color, Elizabeth Galvan
I Feel Like I Can Get Home From Here: An Archive of Butch Lesbian Life and Persistence, Gabrielle S. Garcia
The Body Salvages: A Collection of New Poems, Mel Gilcrest
Coping-The Art of Depression, Catherine Glah
Online Dating Profiles of Rejection Sensitive and Introverted Individuals: Comparison Based on Rejection Explicitness, Georgia Godlee-Campbell
Examining the Narrative Experience of Trauma for Holocaust Survivors and Their Offspring: A Qualitative Multi-Generational Study, Hallie R. Goldstein
Shizen Nōhō: Restoring the Relationship Between Food, Nature, and People in Japan, Katharine Graham
Are Social Media Influencers the New Celebrity? Youtubers and Their Impact on Adolescent Risk Perception, Meghna Gupta
Sanitation, Ek Prem Katha: The Impact of Sanitation on Education in Indian Government Schools, Romanshi Gupta
Legal and Political Barriers to Implementation of California Drought Management Policy, Casey Harris
An Analysis and Critique of Mental Health Treatment in American State Prisons and Proposal for Improved Care, Shelby Hayne
Pension Effect on Out-of-State Teacher Turnover in North Carolina, Daniella Henry
The Role of Race in College Major Decisions Across Time, Jennifer Hillier
Negotiating the Credibility of Chronic Lyme Disease: Patient Participation in Biomedical Knowledge-Creation, Jodie Horowitz
To What Extent Do Religious Institutions Provide a Societal Value? Is the Tax-Exempt Status Justified?, Annabel Hou
The Impact of Negative Affect on Stereotypic Thinking in Hiring Decisions, Chelsea Huang
Implementing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Improve the Sexual Well-Being of Female Survivors of Sexual Violence, Katherine S. Hughes
Depoliticizing The Identities of Refugee Women, Yasmin Istanbouli
Progressive and Conservative Efforts in Climate Change Flood Adaptation: A Study of Four Coastal States, Caroline jaeger
The Future of Mosquito Control: Wolbachia and Genome Editing, Soncy Kaahui
Unbuttoned: Exploring Queer Spectatorship in Visual Texts, Caitlin Kim
The Trump Administration's Zero-Tolerance Policy: Separating Families as Immigration Deterrence, Evelyn Larsen
The Outdoor Apparel Industry:Measuring the Premium for Sustainability with a Hedonic Pricing Model, Elyse Lindahl
The EGS Collab Hydrofracture Experiment: Seismic Velocity and Elastic Moduli Characterization, Dorothy Linneman
The Attention Crisis of Digital Interfaces and How to Consume Media More Mindfully, Kristen M. Liu
The Effect of Welfare Work Requirements on TANF Recipients: Individual Employment and Economic Mobility, Destiny Lockhart
The Ethical and Emotional Benefits of Reducing Self-Focus Through Mindfulness, Emma Loftus
Uncovering Alice Bag: An Alternative Punk History, Emily Macune
Radioactive Contamination, Superfund Remediation, and Green Gentrification in San Francisco’s Hunters Point, Lawrie Mankoff
Missanthrobot: Machines of Automated Sociality, Natalie Marsh
BigPharmaSlut Using Social Media to Encourage Vulnerability & Positive Behavioral Health Changes in Society, Alissa Merz
Gender Inequality in Hollywood: The Magnitude, Determinants, and Influence of the Gender Wage Gap in the Film Industry, Taylor Milana
Racial Disparities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes in Black American Youth, Kierra Mitchell
Classically Formal, Biotic Subjectivity: Moderating Plastic's Relation to the Viewer, Tirza Jo Ochrach-Konradi
"Other Ways of Othering": The Subversion of Racist Motives in Excluding the Other in Othello and the Jew of Malta, Brittanee Okamura
Impacts of Neopatrimonialism on Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis Between Nigeria and Ghana’s Fourth Republics, Sofia Lisette Padilla
"The Double Sorwe of Troilus": Experimentation of the Chivalric and Tragic Genres in Chaucer and Shakespeare, Rena Patel
The Influence of the "Emotionally Disturbed" Classroom Label on General Education Teachers' Sense of Efficacy, Giovanna Perricone
New Technology, Old Ways? The Gender Price Discount in Online Contemporary Art Auctions, Madeleine Peterson
The Chronicle of William Pelhisson: A Microcosm of Early Thirteenth Century Papal Inquisition, Emily Petillon
The Effects of Planned Parenthood Clinics on Women's Health and Economic Development, Olivia Pritchard
Star Wars and Franchising: Emotional Ownership and Tensions in the Digital Age, Claire A. Pukszta
From Cars to Complete Streets: Integrating Bicycles Into Seattle's Transportation Network, Natalie Quek
Desde el barrio hasta afuera, From the Neighborhood Out: Building Sustainable Cities and Empowering Latinx Communities in Southern California through Asset-Based Community Development, Vannesa Reyes Salazar
Towards a More Equitable Future: A Single-Dose HPV Vaccine to Reduce the Global Burden of Cervical Cancer, Annabella Ribeiro de Oliveira
#MeToo: The Harm and Limitations of Social Media in Modern Activism, Yasmin Roberts
Emerging Dark Matter: LA’s Underground Women Musicians in the Digital Age, Linnea Rosenberg
Comandantas and Caracoles: The Role of Women in the Life and Legacy of the Zapatista Movement, Roxanne Rozo-Marsh
The Quechua Hybrid Economy: Dual Market Access as Indigenous Resistance and Alternative Economic Development in Peru, Yadira Schrom
Reflections: the Positive Effect of Cooperative Roleplaying Games on Anxiety Disorders, Sasha Scudder
Cultural Influences on Emotional Expression in Virtual Communication, Ziyuan Shang
The Effect of Attending A Maternity Group on Low-Income Mothers' Perceptions of Social Support and Overall Well-Being, Lauren Shoemaker
The Impact of Educational Policy on Racial Demographics of Tertiary Education in Brazil, Marcela Silva
Using Interpersonal Theory of Suicide to Improve Well-Being of Latina College Students, Cienna Sorensen
Circadian Variations and Risky Decision Making, Sana Sra
The Effect of Corporate Positions on Social and Political Justice on Consumer Behavior and Financial Performance, Esha Srinivasan
The Impact of Transportation Network Companies on Public Transit: A Case Study at the San Francisco International Airport, Lianne Renee Sturgeon
Effects of Animals, Language Constraint and Sense of Belonging on Acculturative Stress, Qiuhua Tang
Analysis of Sex Myoblast Migration in mir-44/45 C. elegans Mutants, Julia Theiss
How People Use Instagram to Cultivate or Break Their Social Network, Ellen Thompson
The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility Across U.S. Commuting Zones, Caroline Walsh
"Tinkering" with Student Rights: School Walkouts and the Implications of Discipline Practice and Policy on Students' Right to Protest, Hannah Weissler
Investigating Neurogenesis as a Veritable Epigenetic Endophenotype for Alzheimer's Disease, Layne Wells
Love Languages and Other Stories, Sullivan Jane Whitely
Dis/entwining Bodies: Magical Realism, Corporeality, and Reconciliation in Achmat Dangor’s Short Fiction, Corey Carter Wilson
Unfolding the Spectrum of Emotions, Zishuo Xing
Wage Implications of Korean Immigration in the United States, Irene Yi
Comparing the Emotional Impact of a Vadd11 Chord versus a V Chord, Perrin York
Excavation Sites: Art-ifacts of the Millenial Girl Web Development and Blogging Community of the 2000's to the Early 2010's, Alice Jin Zhang
Evolution of the Final Girl: Exploring Feminism and Femininity in Halloween (1978-2018), Maya Zhou and Maya Zhou