Senior Theses from 2020
Characterizing Changes in the Colonic Epithelium of Lrig3 Null Mice, Natalie Pedicino
How Obama Legitimized Trump's Violence: An Analysis of Liberal Immigration Rhetoric and the Expansion of the Border-Industrial Complex, Sophie Peters
A Revision of a Revision: Reading The Heroic Slave as a Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Isabelle Phan
Tracing Biometric Assemblages in India’s Surveillance State: Reproducing Colonial Logics, Reifying Caste Purity, and Quelling Dissent Through Aadhaar, Priya Prabhakar
Fat Women on TV: Shame, Self-Discipline, and the Cosmetic Panopticon of Popular Feminism, Lulu Priddy
Vamos a Sanar: Communal Methods of Healing as Psychotherapy for Mexican-American College Students, Michelle Ramirez
Designing Sustainable Play: An Examination of Plastic Use With Children's Toys as a Case Study, Megan C. Robalewski
The Effect of Concealed Carry Policies on Incidence of Homicide and Crime, Courtney Alexandra Roddy
The Effect of Mean Standardized Testing Growth on the Racial Achievement Gap in California Public High Schools, Syrah Russell
Wading through the Water: The Impact of Natural Disasters on City Council Composition, Vera Samuels
Reimagining Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Examiniation of Prevailing Nationalist Theories, Sarah Sanchez
quintet in gloom light, Rhiannon Schaub
Career Funneling, Perceptions of Success, and Their Impact on College Students at Scripps, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna Colleges, Carina A. Schick
Growing Through the Scripps Garden: A Field Study, Eleanor Schiffler
Encouraging Sustainable Consumer Behavior Through the Use of Persuasion Tactics, Leila Schneider
Kibble Me This: The Scientific and Cultural Debate Over Boutique, Exotic, and Grain-Free Canine Nutrition, Anne Shalamoff
Analysis of the Lifespan of a Pointe Shoe as Related to Pressure, Taylor Sloop
Rural Prison Politics: The Impact of Correctional Facilities on Community Voting Behavior in California, Corey Smith
Complex Ciliary Flows around Stentor Polymorphus in Solutions of 2% Buttermilk and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Eliana B. Smithstein
Everybody, Every Body: Working Towards an Inclusive Reality, Victoria Smith
The Effects of Exposure to Thin Ideal versus Body Positive Ad Campaigns, Victoria Smith
Discovering and Displaying Drops in Internet Performance, Amy Sorto
Benevolent Feminism and the Gendering of Criminality: Historical and Ideological Constructions of US Women's Prisons, Emma Stammen
La Parisienne : Le Standard de la Beauté, la Mode et la Féminité à Paris, Emme Stanec
L'Image du Corps et La Parisienne, Emme Stanec
Evaluating Parental Choice: Guidance and Intervention Frameworks for Medical Decision Making on Behalf of Young Children, Kaeley R. Stout
Subjective Well-Being Interventions for Homeless Youth in Family Shelters, Kristen Takebayashi
A Feminist-centered, Self-efficacy, Psychoeducational Intervention for Low-income Rural Abused Women, Catherine Thomas
Attending to Positivity Verus Negativity in Art Therapy: Stress and Self-Efficacy Outcomes, Lauren Thompson
Softcore Surrealism: Inserting Hans Bellmer's The Doll into the History of Pornography, Alexandra M. Varga
Sensitivity of Human Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7) to Ionic Strength and pH, Annabel Vernon
Cruzando La Frontera: Choreographing the Mexican-American Identity, Chloe Vich
Creating ‘Kartography’: The Result of Fusing Colonial Cartography with Karachi-Specific Storytelling in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography, Shringi Diva Vikram
Ungendering the Tragedy of Macbeth: Accessing the Full Potential of Humanhood and the Character of Lady Macbeth in a Gender-Bent Macbeth, Shringi Diva Vikram
The Trauma of Dishonor: Exploring the Ramifications of Dishonor in Classical and Modern Society, Tamara Wachsman
Jawbone, Isabella Waldron
The Effect Artificial Intelligence has on the Labor Force in the United States, Amanda Caitlin Walker
The Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT) on Kindergarten Student's Classroom Behavior and Student-Teacher Relationships, Madison G. Walker
Climate Policies From California and New York, Catherine Ward
The Failures of Transitional Justice in Fostering Reconciliation in Rwanda, Madeline Warman
Elastic properties of muscle following eccentric training, Ariana Weiss
Improving Well-Being in Preschool: The Role of Autonomy in Transitions, Catherine Weiss
An Examination of the Wrongful Exploitation of Mexican Farmworkers in the United States, Eva N. Wertimer
Tasting Memory, India Whatley
Creation and Applicability of Framework-Agnostic Components, Sage White
Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in Autism Spectrum: Combining Narrative Experience with Clinical Research to Explore Stress-Induced, Transitory Retrograde Amnesia, Elizabeth Willsmore-Finkle
Vaccine Hesitancy: California Senate Bill 276, Sarah Wilson
Woven by the Grandmothers: The Development of the National Museum of the American Indian Throughout the 1990s, Lucy Winokur
Reframing How We Think About Crime and Punishment: The Importance of Investing in Education, Megan Witman
Like Mother, Like Child: Affects of Discrimination in American Health Care Among Black Women and Children, Quwahia Wong-Lee
Beyond Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice: Reproductive Rights for Women of Color and Low-income Women, Sabrina Wu
The Potential Benefits of Japanese MMORPGs for Japanese Learning Motivation, Shuting Xu
Exploration Into the World of Silent Discos: A Past, Present, and Future Observation of Technology in Ethnomusicology, Aleesha Yan
Behind the Silence: Barriers for Female Victims to Report Rape in Japan, Angela Yang
Photographing Disillusionment in the Vanishing City: Beijing East Village Through the Eyes of Rong Rong, Joanna Ying
Paraisong Nawala: Exploring Sustainable Ecotourism in the Philippines, Samantha Barrios Yu
“This is Exciting!”: The Effects of Faking Enthusiasm on Teachers’ Intrinsic Motivation and Memory, Kaitlyn Zeichick
Anti-Colonial Foodways: Food Sovereignty in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Clara Zervigon
(Re)Reading Fanon: Tracing Revolutionary Negotiations within the Algerian Colonial Dialectic, Nina Zietlow
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
Credit Instruments in the Late Roman Republic: Nomina in Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Hannah Elizabeth Alalou
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
Evolutionary Patterns of small RNA Pathway Genes in Hymenopteran Insects, Lauren Au
Higher-Order Thought and Borderline Cases of Consciousness: An Objection to HOT, Francesca Karin Beach
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
A Composite Review of the Proposed Molecular Mechanisms and Genetic Components Underlying Parkinson’s Disease, Paige Brodrick
A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry, Karina Bucciarelli
Jane Avril, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Sescau: Advertising a Fin-de-Siècle Danseuse, Alexandra J. Bush
Waste Not, Want Not: A Smartphone Application Designed to Form Sustainable Habits, Amy Rose Buswell
The Icon Formation of Ruby Bridges Within Hegemonic Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Katherine Cashion
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
Developing a Recombinant Plant Virus Nanoparticle Vaccine for Rift Valley Fever Virus, Elizabeth M. Chun
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
“Alexa, Are You Conscious?”: Exploring the Possibility of Machine Consciousness, Emma Cornwell
“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