Honors Theses from 2024
Parodic Attunement: Contesting Gender Categories through Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith and Butler’s Allegorical Usage of Drag, Abraham James A. Mata
Investigating the Modulation of Metastasis by DAX-1 in Adrenal Carcinoma Cells, Aarya Mishra
Honors Theses from 2023
Investigating the role of TGF-Beta signaling in acoel regeneration & fission, Franchesca A. Aziz
The Issue of Enforcement in International Law: A Case Study of the War in Ukraine, Luana M. Denegre
Investigation of the Role of DAX-1 in the HPA Axis in Human Adrenal Cells, Katerina N. Fargas
Inside Refugee Resettlement: Refugees as Empowered and Capable Actors in their own Resettlement Process, Jackson Haney
Implications of Toll-Like Receptor 10 Mutants in Cell Signaling, Sonali Joshi
The Intersection of Foreign Influence and Democratization: A Case Study of Eurasian Powers Influence on Belarus’ Democratic Movement Since 2020, Dalton Xavier Maggs
Keeping and Challenging Familial Attachments: The Bakla within Contemporary Mainstream Filipino Film, Abraham James A. Mata
Beyond the Plate: Leisure Studies as a Recipe for Food Justice, Julia M. Montano
We Have Arabic at This School?: The Impact of Neoliberalism and Orientalism on Arabic Education in the United States, Ella V. Pastore
Resitance Art and Urban Space: A Strategic Comparison of Artistic Urban Space Usage in Buenos Aires and San Francisco, Adeline Rose Schmitz
Honors Theses from 2022
Common Law with Uncommon Regulations: the influence of legal tradition on campaign finance regimes, Sky Berry-Weiss
Southeast Asia & The Hidden Green Revolution: A Study on Foreign Direct Investment in Eco-investments in ASEAN, Ravi Chailertborisuth
Violent or Non-Violent? What Difference Does it Make in 1960’s Civil Rights Activism and the State?, Jada A. Commodore
Climate-related declines in reproductive output in a high-elevation population of ground squirrels, Kayleigh Little
The Future of Universal Basic Income: The Impact of Organizational Strategies on Alleviating Poverty and Maximizing Outcomes, Anna Mathews
Raj Karega Khalsa! - The Evolution of the Sikh Identity, Vineet Mehmi
Press Freedom under Threat in Europe: A Case Study Analysis of the increasing threat to Press Freedom in Greece, Italy, and Hungary, Maya O'Leary-Cyr
THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY: BLACK LIVES MATTER, SUCCESS, & SOCIAL MEDIA, Metyia K. Phillips
Latkes or Placki Ziemniaczane?: the Culinary Conception of Jewishness in Poland’s National Imagination, Elias Andrejs Siddall
Honors Theses from 2021
Ley Olimpia: Examining Policymaking Around Digital Violence, Andrea Alejandra Capella-Castro
Construction of Dichotomous Taxonomic Keys for San Francisco Bay Planktonic Diatoms, Ria Angelica Laxa
Freeing the “Whore”: Competing Feminist Theories and the Liberatory Potential of Sex Work Policy, Flannery Mullin
The Impact of Gentrification on Racial Demographics: A Case Study on Fremont, California, Melissa Marie Talbot
Honors Theses from 2020
Can Food Sovereignty Practice Intersect with Bolivia’s Process of Decolonizing its Plurinational State? The Politics of Decolonizing Food Systems, Karen Crespo Triveño
Crisis Within A Crisis: A Comparative Analysis Of Covid-19’s Implications On Greece And Spain’s Migrant And Refugee Processing Policies, Injy Elhabrouk
Unprecedented Immigration: The Ramifications on Japan’s Party Politics, Keiko Hirano-Lee
Honors Theses from 2019
Attitudes and Perspectives Towards Undocumented Immigration in the United States, Nicole Morgan
The Caged Bird Still Sings: The Poetics of Peace, Sofia Diane Skavdahl
Honors Theses from 2018
Geopolitics And The Balkan Other: The Uses Of “Balkanism” In NATO Expansion, Maddelyn Bryan
Are Indigenous Peoples Better Off Under Evo Morales? Towards Understanding the Effects of Decolonization Policy on Social Inclusion in Bolivia, Cailin Campbell
Disproportionate Realities: The Climate Justice Implications of Mitigation Policies Across Scales, Tinuviel Carlson
Intersectional Invisibilization: Black Female Movement Leaders in Mexico and their Private Sphere Resistance, Lindsay Fasser
Social Play Predicts Docility in Juvenile Ground Squirrels, James Hurst-Hopf and Scott L. Nunes
Cartographies of Power: Unequal Urban Development and the Racialization of Space in São Paulo, Jessica Hyman
Planktonic Diatom Species Succession in San Francisco Bay (September 2015 - December 2017), Theresa Keith
Deinstitutionalization of Bulgarian Orphanages: Examining Caregiver Discourses on the Changing Reforms, Sophia Page
The Economy of Divorce: Pensions in Latin America, The Effects on Women, and The Decision to Divorce, Mary Walsh
Separated from Saints and Sacred Spaces: Religion, Identity and Belonging for Peruvian Andean Migrants in the US, Alison Wuensch
Making Japan Great Again: Japan's Liberal Democratic Party as a Far Right Movement, Wesley Yee
Corruption and Soccer in Africa: Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Association Soccer Success in the Continent, Mustafa Zahid
Honors Theses from 2016
From Empty Lot to Garden Plot: Urban Agriculture in Chula Vista, Jennifer E. Gutierrez
De-Westernizing The Far East, Jericho K. Kakaio-Edwards
Colonization to Construction: Bridging the Gap Between Ancient Chamorro, Spanish Colonial & Modern Architecture on Guam, Dominic J. Lizama
Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Cytomegalovirus pUS27 and pUS28: Ascertaining an Independent or Linked Evolutionary History, Jessica A. Scarborough
Postembryonic Polarity Modification in the Acoel Convolutriloba longifissura, Eric Young and James M. Sikes Ph.D.
Honors Theses from 2015
Effect of cmvIL-10 on Exosome Production by Human Breast Cancer Cells, Susanna N. Basappa
Expanding Hope in Payatas, Rhea Cristine S. Bautista
Mechanisms of axial polarity modification during postembryonic development of the basal bilaterian Convolutriloba macropyga, Laura N. Crowther and James M. Sikes Ph.D.
Honors Theses from 2014
Regulation of Dkk1, an Inhibitor of the Wnt Signaling Pathway, by DAX-1 in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, Victor D. Gavallos
Honors Theses from 2004
Characterization of the distribution of dipeptidal peptidase IV in Drosophila melanogaster / Kristy Faye Hinchman, Kristy Faye Hinchman
Honors Theses from 2002
Partial purification and characterization of the proline-specific dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP) IV enzyme from Drosophila melanogaster, Kristina Michele Fetalvero
Honors Theses from 1997
A characterization of the gene omega : a modifier of a cuticle protein in Drosophila melanogaster, Mario Javier Pineda
Honors Theses from 1985
The dual role of cadmium on leucine transport in human erythrocytes, Quan H. Nguyen
