Senior Theses from 2026
Roots to recovery: How therapeutic horticulture can heal sexual trauma, Fiona E. Larsen-Teskey
Assessing the Impact of Wildfire Recurrence Intervals on Saxicolous Lichens in Southern California Chaparral, Willow Lehrich
American Spirits: The Impact of Social Setting on Voter Turnout, Annika Lindberg
The Impacts of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Social Emotional Learning, Minna Lopez
Maternal Melodies: Looking at the Effects of Music on Latina Reproductive Health, Elsa Macias
Reimagining the Coffee Shop: Designing a Relational, Inclusive, and Sustainable Third Place, Juliya Makhanov
PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE INFLUENCER AGE: THE ROLE OF STRESS, SELF-ESTEEM, AND EMOTION REGULATION IN YOUNG ADULTS, Clara A. Marshall
Measuring the Economic Costs of Farmland Expansion on Groundwater Depletion Rates, Sofia Mayes
REDLING AND SOIL CONTAMINATION IN LOS ANGLES COUNTY: MAPPING THE INFLUENCE OF POLUTANTS AND REGULATORY LANDSCAPES ON ENVIROMENTAL JUSTICE OUTCOMES, Gillian G. Maynard
Bilingual Beginnings: Expressive Language and Socio-Emotional Development in Early Childhood, Molly C. McCormick
“ANGRY BLACK WOMEN” VS. ANGERED BLACK WOMEN: EXPLORING IDENTITIES’ EFFECT ON STEREOTYPIC JUDGMENTS, Hannah A. McKie
Put Yourself in Their Handcuffs: Juror-Defendant Similarity and Perceptions of Deserved Punishment, London M. Metcalf
The Impact of Dedicated Primary Care Utilization on 90-day Stroke Outcomes Among Unhoused Ischemic Stroke Survivors, Zoë S. Molenkamp
Appalachia in Presidential Campaign Rhetoric Since 1964, Meredith Morello
Broadening the Fetal Alcohol Paradigm: BDNF Methylation as a Link Between Paternal Alcohol Use and Offspring Neurodevelopmental Deficits, Caitlin E. Muñoz
Assessing Environmental Factors and Breeding Habitat Suitability for California Newts in the San Gabriel Mountains, Ainsley K. Murphy
Assessing the seasonal effect of local density on stress and rate of parasitic infection in California Towhees, Fiona A. Murphy
Modulation of Titin-Mediated Muscle Mechanics Across Reproductive Conditions in Female Mice, Eliana Nagel
COLOR CODED: ANTI-AI HUMOR’S EFFECTS ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PARALLELED MARGINALIZED GROUPS, Lucila G. Nimmo
Let's Go Camping: Employing Humor and Queer Joy as a Tool of Resistance, Lucila G. Nimmo
Before the Whistle Blows: The Influence of Pre-Performance Rituals on Self-Efficacy and State Anxiety in Collegiate Athletes, Sadie Noonan
Remembering Choices: Feedback, Memory Accuracy, and Context-Dependent Preference Shifts, Cameryn K A Okamura
Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Pediatric Medical PTSD: Adaptations For Adherence, Eavan L. O'Neill
The Acquisition of the Present Progressive and Present Perfect: A Developmental Minimalist Syntax Perspective, Sydney Pearson
Glutamatergic Activation in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus during Pain Chronification with Alcohol Use, Malu Ramirez
Facebooking Under Crisis: A Comparative Study of Online French and American Mutual Aid Organizing During The COVID-19 Pandemic, Clare Reimers-Hejnal
Nest Occupancy of Solitary Bees: Can Bee Boxes Enhance Habitat in Urbanized Landscapes?, Olivia Rose
Shell Hash Mitigation Procedures to Moderate Intertidal Sediment Acidification in the Mytilus Genus in Congruence with Ceramic Interventions, Alessandra L. Samson
Theories of Forgetting: Memorialization and Mythmaking in Austrian Collective Memory of the 1934 Civil War, Eleanor Sandeen
California Proposition 8: Religious Activism and the Framing of Grievance Through Traditional and Non-Traditional Campaign Strategies, Sophia V. Saunders
Bounds of Expression, Kaya Savelson
Development of a Bidirectional TMV-Based Plant Expression Vector for Dual Gene Co-Expression, Matisse Schutten-Burgess
Defining the Role of POU2AF2 in Transcriptional Control in Colorectal Cancer Cells, Simran Sethi
An Introduction to Modern Conversations on Knot Invariants, Stella Shah
Interconnected: Hibiscus Universe, Evelyn D. Sharma
The Judicial Containment of Adivasi Rights Across India's Mineral Belt, Sajni S. Sheth-Voss
An Analysis of Eating Disorders as a Comorbidity of Autoimmune Diseases, Madeleine Shore
Recipes and Resources: Food as a Decolonial Tool for the 1.5 Generation, Reyna Guadalupe Silva Carrillo
Stitched in Precarity: Labor Exploitation, Immigration Policy, and Resistance in the L.A Garment Industry, Reyna Guadalupe Silva Carrillo
The Functional Equation of The Riemann Zeta Function, Zuriel Silva
These Roots Run Deep: The Exploitative and Progressive Legacy of California's Citrus Industry, Pia N. Snellman
Between Trends and Truths: TikTok Therapy-Speak and Mental Health, Zoe Stephens
Emptiness is Enlightenment: Two Interpretations of Nāgārjuna's Middle Way as Buddhist Soteriology, Isabella R. Sullivan
Shrines on Asphalt Shoulders: Documenting Roadside Memorials in Western U.S. Roadscapes, Isabella R. Sullivan
FRAGMENTED REVOLUTION: GENDER, CLASS, AND POLITICAL COMPROMISE IN THE 1871 PARIS COMMUNE, Katisyn M. Sweeney
ASSESSING DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING FOR CO-OCCURRING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) AND EATING DISORDERS (ED), Eden Sweet
Boredom and Creativity: The Effects of Unstructured Play Versus Screen Time on Creative Performance, Vivienne J. Swenson
Terremoto y Testimonio: Las Secuelas del Terremoto en Haití en 2010 y la Respuesta Internacional, Grace M. Valashinas
Driving Discourse from Denver to Los Angeles: Language and Meaning in the Fates of Two Freeway Projects, Naïma van Tyn
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: OPERATION BLUE STAR & US-INDIA’S DEADLY EXCHANGE, Jannat Verma
Farmers' Markets for Political Transformation: A Regional Comparison of U.S. Local Food Systems, Julia A. Victor
Lights, Camera, Aggression!: Exploring the Relationship Between the Horror Genre and Criminality, Taylor M. Wanke
THE POLITICS OF THE CREDENTIALED DIVIDE: How Credentialism Has Reshaped Class, Identity, and Democratic Conflict, Ansley M. Washburn
Growth of Janthinobacterium lividum Under Combined Temperature, pH, and Salinity Conditions, Alyssa E. Welch
Opportunity Over Infrastructure: A New Policy Framework to Address Spatial Segregation in Paris’s Banlieues, Blake Weld
Investigating the Function of GPR65 in CD4+ T Cells Using CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing, Helena Wollam
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Gender Pay Gap in Professional Sports, Michaela E. Yeung
Assessing the Effect of Wildfire-Specific Air Pollutants on COPD Hospitalizations in Los Angeles County, Kimberly Young
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
The Politics and Ethicality of Documentarians and How They Frame Their Subjects, Carter A. Amaden
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
DOING WHAT'S “NATURAL”: TRADWIFE INFLUENCERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FANTASY, Sophia Bauman
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
Impact of the COVID-19 Transition to Remote Learning on Academic Development for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Natasha Busansky
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
What They Share: Perspectives on the Crisis of Masculinity, Nina F. Cauntay
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
