Senior Theses from 2022
The Tree of Life: Observations From the Olive Grove, Kendall Lowery
Ending Sexual Violence Through Prison Industrial Complex Abolition, Isabella Lucas
Getting Police Out of Schools, Maya Lynch
IS NIRVANA NEUROPSYCHOLOGICALLY POSSIBLE? EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF MINDFULNESS ON PAIN PERCEPTION USING FMRI AND FACS, Margot Mafra Spencer
Visualizing an Anti-Capitalist Future Amidst a Commodified Landscape: Learning from the African Savanna Elephant, Eloise Magoncelli
Thermal Effects Influencing Balanus glandula Growth Rate Within Intertidal Elevations, Sonia Malik
Interpolating the Riemann Zeta Function in the p-adics, Rebecca Mamlet
Below You: Essays on Cultural Hierarchy, Breelyn Mangold
Performing Consciousness in Dance: A Phenomenological Approach and Existentialist Performance Project, Sasha Marlan-Librett
Hungies? Me too: Food Insecurity on College Campuses as it pertains to BIPOC, Low-Income and/or First-Generation Students, Zury Marroquin
RESEGREGATION IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: THE SYNERGETIC EFFECTS OF PROPOSITION 13, EDUCATION REFORM, AND FISCALIZATION OF LAND, Haley P. Martinez
"Adapt or Die": How Young Millennials are Surviving the Threat of Ontological Insecurity, Nathalie Marx
What We Are Owed: The Possibilities of a Civil Law Response to Sexual Injuries, Nathalie Marx
Of all the fish in the sea, who is different than me? Status-driven variation in social behavior, hormones, and neural gene expression across development, Jessica Maurice
LEARNING TOWARDS LIBERATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GRASSROOTS AND NON-PROFIT EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK LIBERATION ERAS, Catherine Mayer
Breaking the Cycle: The Therapeutic Potential of Psilocybin as a Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder, Lela Mazdyasnian
Out of This World: Imagination(s) Under Capitalism, Julia H. McCartan
The Impact of No-Excuse Absentee Voting on Turnout: A Regression Discontinuity Design, Emily McElroy
Domestic Arts, Dates, Drugs, and Dress Codes: Scripps College's Early Attitudes Towards Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Education, Kathleen McHale
Computational studies of competitive C-C reductive elimination from two isomeric Pt(IV) cationic complexes, Sarah Meadows
STUCK ON U: HOW AND WHY CAPITALISM USES OBSESSION WITH ONLINE IDENTITIES IN MASS MEDIA TO FUEL SELF-DISDAIN, Camila Mejia
History, Memory, and National Identity; The Formation of the Russian Nation After the Katyn Massacre, Juliana Messina
An Examination of Legionnaires' Disease Through the Lens of ODE Modeling, Kimi Miramontes
Curarse en Salud: Mexican Curanderos in Mental Health, Angela Molina
POG: The Politics of Gaming, Madeline Moore
Experimental Writing: How Reflexivity and Autoethnography Disrupt Genre and Colonial Conventions in Ethnography, Camila Morales-Jimenez
Temporality of (Real) Memory: Live Photos and the Alteration of Ordinary Images, Mara Morioka
Determining the Significance of Criticality in Neural Data, Callie Morken
The Higher Education Act: Promising Access, Delivering Debt, Lily Mundell
Virginia Woolf and the Consolations of Abstraction, Ella Murdock Gardner
COVID, Care, and the Carceral State: American Disposability Politics and the Selective Weaponization of Public Health Guidelines During COVID-19, Uma Nagarajan-Swenson
Correlation Does Not Imply Correlation: A Thesis on Causal Influence and Simpson’s Paradox, Emily Naitoh
天壤之别: BIDEN’S 2020 CAMPAIGN APPEAL TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS VIA HIS CHINA FOREIGN POLICY RHETORIC, Angelica Navarro
HYMN OF THE GREEN HOUR: HONORS THESIS ADDENDUM, Sophia Navratil
KUDZU KINGDOM: THE FACT AND FANTASY OF AN INVASIVE VINE IN MARYLAND, Sophia Navratil
Cryptography and Digital Signatures, Maya Nichols
My Condolences; Mourning, Decay and Intimacy in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Sarah nunez-lafontaine
HOW PERSONALITY TRAITS INFLUENCE PURCHASE INTENTIONS WHILE SHOPPING ONLINE: THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF MODELS IN PRODUCT PHOTOS, Kellie Okamura
Mathematically Modeling Arrest Distributions in the Los Angeles Area, Fatuma Omer
Evaluating Wilderness Therapy Program Efficacy Using Resilience, Therapeutic Alliance, and Depression, Charlotte T. Ostrow
Infinity and the Egosphere: Reflections on Immersive Art, Amanda Owens
Cloudy with a Chance of Change: A Geospatial Analysis of Climate Change and Solar Radiation, Shreya Padmanabhan
Coinfection and Body Condition in Agile Kangaroo Rats, Binita Pandya
Instagram and Indigenous Women in the Amazon, Isabella Pardi
Analyzing College On-Campus Residency Agglomeration Benefits and Their Impact on Student Outcomes, Emily Pedace
Indian Women and Higher Education: The Complexities of Empowerment, Diya Pereira
County Walkability and Small Business Receipts, Talia Perluss
E-Girl, Interrupted: Myspace, Hot Topic, and What It Means to Be Emo in the 21st Century, Brooke Platt
The Impact of Prescribed Burns and Smoke Exposure on Marginalized Communities in California, Annika Ragnartz
Effect of Air Pollution on Neurodegenerative Diseases Within the United States, Alexandra Richtsmeier
The Economic and Social Decline of Women's Colleges Across the United States, Alexandra Isabelle Rivasplata
Addressing Barriers to Healthy Eating for Hospital-Based Nurses: Testing the Effects Occupational Health Nurses Have on Nurses’ Diets, Katja Roberts
Developing a Microbial Killing Assay to Study Immune Variation in P. maniculatus, Elsa Runquist
Birth, Controlled: How California's Prison Industrial Complex Acts As A Site for Reproductive Oppression, Alden Rose Sabah
Empire of Peace: Constructing Benevolence and Violence in the Peace Corps in Latin America, Sarah Safford
An Insight Into Mental Health in Detention Centers: Prison Programs and Their Effects on Depression, Jessica Salaz
An Insight Into Mental Health in Detention Centers: Prison Programs and Their Effects on Depression, Jessica Salaz
THE SUBTLE DISTINCTIONS OF MEMOIR: RECLASSIFYING JEANNETTE WALL’S THE GLASS CASTLE, ANNA CORNELIA SALVATI
Making Faces, Keaton Schiller
Pensarse en la cocina: un análisis gastronómico de la "europeidad" en la literatura española e italiana de los migrantes, Petie Schill
Processing Toxicity: Investigating Unhealthy Relationships Through Narrative Film, Ellen Schoenfeld
In the Margins: Natalia Goncharova and the Book Arts, Sophia Schwartsman
Between the Borderlands of Sainthood: Embracing Queer Gendered Liminality in the Vitae of Early Female Christian Saints, Sarah Seaver
The Hurricane, Kate Sensenig
States of (Un)Protection: An Anarcha-Feminist Examination of the Modern State's Reliance on Gender for Legitimacy, Claire Shaw
A STUDY OF TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT THROUGH POLITICAL CARTOONS AND ADS IN MAGAZINES FROM 1900-1920, Jiarui Song
Radio Rebel, Elizabeth Sperring
Neurological Complications of COVID-19: Biological Mechanisms and Implications for Public Policy, Anaga Srinivas
Genome-wide CRISPRi screen identifies novel regulators of Mitofusin-2 levels, Aanya Subramaniam
#MentalHealthMatters: Mental Health Awareness Campaigns in Media and its Effectiveness on Stigma Reduction in Third Culture Kids, Airi Sugihara
Understanding the Environmental Implications of the Microbiome of Canals in Bangkok, Thailand, Emma Tao
LEADING INDICATORS AND MACROECONOMIC FORECASTS: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF LEADING ECONOMIC INDICES, Margareta Taraska
Monstrous Guardians: Parenthood and the Gothic in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Kerry Taylor
Understanding how a selfish B-chromosome evades self-elimination through its heterochromatic makeup, Salina Teklay
The Implementation of Disordered Eating Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education, Hannah Thalberg
Reconsidering the Pill: A Historical Analysis of Oral Contraception and the Complexity of Liberation, Emma Claire Thomas
Who Do You Serve? How Philanthropic Power and Transnational Solidarity Shape the Institutional Battle Over American Jewish Identity, Katy Thomason
The Role of Sex Steroid Hormones During Reproductive Maturation in a Highly Social Fish Species, Emma Thompson
Alice Won’t Die: Exploring a Dark Comedy Narrative Through Theater and Art, Grace Tomblin Marca
Doxycycline as a Reliable Alternative to Penicillin G Benzathine forthe Treatment of Early Syphilis in Pregnant People, Bianca Torres-Hamlin
Social Support, Self-Esteem, and Levels of Stress, Depression, and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Candace Ying Tsai
Invisible Things: An Inquiry into the Laws of Nature, Abigail Tulenko
Theoretical Pathways to Genetic Parenthood for Queer Couples with Same-Sex Gametes, Raven Twilling
Evaluating Energetic Cost Estimates With In Situ Growth for Balanus glandula In Pacific Northwest Intertidal Zones, Elizabeth P. Ueland
Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Impacts of Racism, Financial Status, and Social Support, Sofia Van Sickle
Open Glorious: Poems, Natasha Vhugen
Toward Different Beginnings, Kela Villalobos
The Circulation of Fancams and the Fan’s Identity Formation, My Huyen (Natalie) Vu
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING: STANDARD VERSUS PAIN-FOCUSED TREATMENT PROTOCOLS, Joni Walsh
Unbecoming, Karen Wang
DYNAMISM, DOMINATION, & ILLUSION: HOW THE LOS ANGELES GARMENT INDUSTRY (AB)USES ITS POWER IN A GLOBALIZED MARKET, Katherine Ward
The Effects of Disrupted Circadian Rhythms on Carcinogenesis, Fertility and Decision-Making A Literature Review, Tila Warner-Rosen
OXIDATIVE DYSREGULATION IN NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER: MEASURING 8-OH-DG BIOMARKER IN GRANDIOSE AND VULNERABLE NPD, Sophie Wilks
The Impacts of Post 9/11 Nostalgic Neo-Nationalist Narratives on Migration and Welfare Policy in the USA and Denmark, Josephine Winslow
Making the Invisible Visible: Mapping Chronic Pain Through Art, Caroline Young
Senior Theses from 2021
The Effects of State Sponsored Surveillance on Muslim American Political Expression, Sofia Ahmed
