Senior Theses from 2023
A computational study of the binding of Humic and Fulvic acid with Hsp60 encoded by Soil Fungi, Ishi Gupta
INCORPORATING POSITIVE ART THERAPY IN TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA:A CREATIVE PATH TO INCREASED WELL-BEING, Marissa Habashy
Transformative & Restorative Justice: Lessons by & for leftist organizers, Sonya Hadley
Concrete Everywhere: A Project-Based Analysis of the Unequal Distribution of Warehouses in Fontana, Chanah Haigh
Beyond the Binary: A Biological Review of Gender and Sexuality, Zoe Hancock
Biogeography of Special Metabolites Produced by Ant-Associated Bacteria, Katherine Hansen
What Lies Beneath, Eleanor Harrison
CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE, Caroline Herdman
Queer Bedtime Stories, Isadora Hoffman
Reality Tv’s Place In The Entertainment Landscape: A Look Into The State Of Contemporary Media Costs, Lila Rose Beckford Hoge
EFFECT OF RUGOSITY AND PATCH LENGTH ON NEAR-BED FLOW PATTERNS IN COLD-WATER CORALS, HuxleyAnn Huefner
Trial By Firestorm: The Depp v. Heard Defamation Trial and The Generation of Affect, Genevieve J. Hume
Doris Stevens: A "Fascist" Feminist? Stevens, the Inter-American Commission of Women, and the Unión Argentina de Mujeres, 1936-1939, Jeannette Hunker
Emojis, Identity, and Advertising: Exploring the Effects of Emoji Usage in Branded Tweets, Sara Ikonen
Touch as a Transformative Practice, Kesi Jackson
Of Monsters and Men: Deconstructing Patriarchal Relationships While Redefining "Family" in Seville, Annika Johnson
Picture Me Like This: A Short Story Collection, Anna Jones
The Impact of COVID-19 on S&P 500 Sector Returns: An Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model, Kathrine S. Kaidantzis
Crime, Illness, & Abolition: an exploration through the connective tissue within the PIC/MIC Matrix, Laila Kent
Facing faces মুখোমুখি (mukhōmukhi): A cross-cultural comparison of emotion perception, Amani Khan
The Role of Tradition in Modern Sufi Tariqas: A Personal Case Study, Maryam Khan
Migration and Modelling - A Mathematical Approach to Game Theory and the 1947 Partition, Perbhaat Khowaja
Social Isolation and the Development of Dementia, Samantha Kinder
A NOVEL ADDICTION TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM: USING A STRENGTH BASED MODEL OF NEURODIVERSITY, Lilah King-Hails
Becoming “The Girl Who Gets Whatever She Wants”: Self-Care Discourse on TikTok and the Selling of Capitalist Femininity, Miriam Klahr
Hearth and Homefluencers: Aesthetics of Digital and Domestic Labor in #SlowLiving Content, Lena Kohls
Age and Sex Ratios Observed in Gambel’s White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucrophrys gambelii) at the Robert J. Bernard Field Station, Eliza Kornfeld
Berthe Morisot et la domesticité revisitée, Hannah Lebow
How to Rebuild Home: Lessons from Loss, Amelie Lee
Wine, Culture, and Economics: The Barolo Model for Small Historical Wine Regions, Ravenna June Lee
The Collection Chronicles: Collecting Physical Media in the Digital Age, Alyssa Leong
The Russia-Ukraine War: The Second Cold War?, Madeline Levine
Winter flocking behavior in white-crowned sparrows (Z. l. gambelii) across four seasons, Emily Little
The Effects of Bold Text on Fluency and Memory, Kamya Lohia
“¡Ni Una Menos!” Rage and Resistance in Feminist Street Art and Interventions in Guadalajara, Jeanette Lomeli
Contra los feminicidios en México: Un estudio de las producciones culturales mexicanas que luchan contra la violencia de género, Guadalupe De Jesus Lopez
Baba Yaga: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Witch of the Woods, Maya Lozinsky
Identification of Limitations of Modern Contraception & Examination of Ancient Egyptian Contraceptive Practices, Dellencia Lumpkin and Dellecian Lumpkin
The Unwatched Pot, Grace Lyde
Data-Organizing for Labor Action, Megan Maley
Who Votes and Why: Economic and Psychological Predictors of Political Participation, Rhea Malhotra
Using the Pupil to Measure Insight-Based Learning, Aalia Malik
HOW DO FIRST AND SECOND-GENERATION ETHIOPIANS CREATE COMMUNITY?, Tsion Mamo
'Birthday Party 4: A Tea Party' The Role of Media, Camera, & Screens in the Formation of Self Identity, Sophie Mannes
The Economics of Alcohol Abuse As It Relates to Health, Success, and Happiness, Athena Manthouli
Geographic and Environmental Patterns in Infection by Oyster Macroparasites Along the Georgia Coast, Sofia Markiewicz
Improving Critical Thinking in Written Assignments: Human vs. ChatGPT Tutor in Socratic Questioning Intervention, Katia Martha
“My Purpose is to Assist”: How ChatGPT Can Push Liberal Arts Institutions to Think Critically About Themselves, Clare B. Martin
The Impact of Dog Therapy on Anxiety and Happiness in Hospitalized Children, Alejandra Mateos
Making Place, Taking Space: (Counter)Narrative Constructions of Land, Labor, and Liberation in Long Beach Cultural Memory, Elizabeth M. Matos
BOOM AND BUST: JOB CHURN IN THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA, Aliza Mayer
Diet-Dependent Epigenetic Silencing of Transposable Elements, Jennifer McIntyre
Artificial neural networks trained to classify MNIST digits are poised at criticality, Carson McVay
Reaching Gleaners and Raising Awareness: A Toolkit for Uncommon Good's Community Gleaning Program, Gabriella Meerwarth
Within/Between: Intersections of Queerness and Biology in Art, Charlotte Meigs
Sexual Heeling: Embodying Recreational Heels Dance, Isabella Melsheimer
GLEAN MACHINES: Creating a Gleaning Toolkit for Uncommon Good, Elizabeth Messinger
A Danger Within: How Christian Nationalism Undermines the American Experiment, Elena Monroe
WHIMSY AND WONDER: VISUALLY DEVELOPING THE BLAZING WORLD, Vivian Monteiro
Exploring Algebraic Structures of the Group 𝐶3: From Groups and Fields to Hopf Algebras, Elza Moore
Translating "La Parola Ebreo": Rosetta Loy and A Child's-Eye View of Italian Fascism, Amelia Muniz
"Let the Libs Buy That Crap if They Want": The Online Right-Wing Objection to Lab-Grown Meat, Kyle Murphy
Engaging with Others: Understanding, Responding to, and Preventing Dehumanization Among the Unhoused, Ishta S. Nabakka
Potential Mechanism of 5-ALA treatment against Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus Infection by Downstream Metabolite PPIX, Carissa V. Napier
Hermeneutical Injustice and Dynamic Nominalism, Chigozie Obiegbu
The Culture of Resistance featuring Pleasure, Leisure, and Joy, Gabriella Osifo
INCREASING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL AND GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Annelise Palacio
Picturing India: Artistic and Knowledge Production of the Impey Album, Maya Pal
Mystical Consciousness, Sofia Paramonov
THE UNITED STATES’ STRINGENT SOVEREIGNTY: HOW FOREIGN POLICY FRAMING PRIORITIZES SECURITY OVER HUMAN RIGHTS, Kathryn Parker
(in)visibility, Bansi Patel
Mental Health Stigma in South Asians with Crohn’s Disease, Bansi Patel
True Love Waits: A Barthesian Reading of Desire and Delay in Flaubert and James, Yasmin Patel
Interpersonal Emotions as Emergent Phenomena: Social Neuroscience Beyond Western Cultural Constructions, Kaitlyn Penchina
WE CAN DO THIS / JUNTOS SÍ PODEMOS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED COVID-19 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (PSAS) IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, Katalina R. Peterson
Partners in Crime? HSF1 and c-Myc in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer, Tiffany Pham
HOW THE METAVERSE WILL IMPACT HUMAN EMPATHY, Maya Prabhu
Developmental Consequences of Hatching Asynchrony in Boat-Tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major), Emily Radner
Reframing Type One Diabetes Care: Everyday Rituals at Bearskin Meadow Camp, Emily Radner
The Role of Gleaning in Cultivating Community Food Security, Katja Reich
Variation in soil-mediated drought response traits between sympatric species of Mimulus, Anna Reitman
(e)S(s): an Exploration of Sound and Self, Natalie Antonia Rezek
Desalination and Development: Locating the Missing Masses in Dakar’s Water Network, Marina Riad
Grain-Washing: The Issue with Corn Ethanol as a Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Emily J. Rinn
La Floresta; an appreciation and reimagination of my barrio, Ana Rodríguez
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RADICAL FLANK EFFECT IN THE CASE OF EL ESTALLIDO SOCIAL IN CHILE, Ana Roig
CHINESE QUEERNESS* (QUEERNESS): THROUGH THE LENSE OF THE UNTAMED, Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo