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View the Senior thesis Art exhibition in Williamson Gallery until 5pm
Humanities Courtyard: Speaker and TA check-in; morning treats, coffee, tea; afternoon snacks
A Sessions - 9:45-10:45
A1: Biology & Neuroscience
Humanities 119
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Moderator: Mary Hatcher-Skeers
Capstone TA: Zola Hefta-Gaub
Divya Ahuja- The Neurology of Pair bonding in Zebra Finches
Kirsten Engber- Once Upon a Zygote: Deconstructing the Gendered Fairytale Of Human Fertilization
Ella Thunen- The Neural Basis of Pair Bond Formation and Maintenance in Zebra Finches
Mia Zonies- Effect of Solvent Aromaticity on Carboxamides
A2: Environmental Analysis & Geology
Humanities 121
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Moderator: Chloe Vettier
Capstone TA: Kia Kellenberger
Serena David- Fashioning Sustainability at Scripps: An analysis of Scripps College Students’ Clothing Acquisition and Disposal Habits in the Era of the Free Closet
Julianna Deibel- Migration-Associated Variation in Blood Parasitism, Body Condition, and Stress in Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrows
Lucy Smith- A Geochemical and Petrological Study of the Rangataua Lava Flow, Mount Ruapehu, Aotearoa New Zealand
A3: Media Studies & Asian American Studies
Humanities 201
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Moderator: Nancy Macko
Capstone TA: Carah Allen
Sarah Bagley- A Glimpse into the Technocene
Emma Fukunaga- The Origins and Politically Productive Future of the Hypersexualization of Asian American Women: Media Influences and Everyday Impacts
Ellen Hu- Exploring Networks of E-Waste Through Photography
A4: Politics & Human Biology
Humanities 202
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Moderator: Thomas Kim
Capstone TA: Hannah Cohen
Catherine Protiva- Nitrate Contamination in Two California Groundwater Basins: What Creates Disparities?
Lily Dunkin- Racial Capitalism, The Precariat, Us Immigration: Past and Present
Avalon Brice- The Bling Ban Controversy: How Black Joy Overthrew the NBA
Blessing Roland-Magaji- ‘The New Eugenics in A Nation of Inmates’: An Analysis On How Long-Term Incarceration Affects The Reproductive Capacity And Fertility Rates Of HyperIncarcerated Populations.
A5: Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures & Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Humanities 204
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Moderator: Marina Perez de Mendiola
Capstone TA: Yuto Sugiyama
Maria Amador-Lacson- Women and Water in Ayllus: Communal Living in Peruvian Indigenous Communities
Meadow Jones- Typification, Stereotyping, and Intersectionality in Fictional Representations of the Trujillato
Katherine Remaklus- El tabú de ser mujer: Central and Latin American Feminist Literature in the Horror Genre
Louise Schiele- Subjectivity as a Predictor of Adjective Ordering Preferences for Heritage Spanish Speakers
B Sessions – 11:00-12:00
B1: Dance & Chicanx Latinx Studies
Humanities 119
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Moderator: Kevin Williamson
Capstone TA: Emma Cahill
Divya Ahuja- A Choreographic Investigation of Originality Through the Abstract, The Absurd and Aesthetics
Loren Mello- She’s More Than Just a Pretty Face: Redefining, Reimagining, & Retelling the Femme Fatale’s Story
Tierney O'Keefe- Infatuated with the Groove: The Funk as a Vehicle for Portraying Queer Narratives in Dance
Destiny Rivera-Gomez- The People are the Practice: Grassroot Immigrant and Youth Organizing in the City of Pomona
Dawn Stitt- Dancing Community
B2: Humanities & Art History
Humanities 121
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Moderator: Marina Perez de Mendiola
Capstone TA: Ahlam Negash
Margot Bancroft- Queer Formations of the Self in Woolf and Forster
Rebekah Bodner- Welcome to the Anatomy Theater
Sydney Roya Ghobadian- Redefined Influence: An Exploration of Social Media and User Agency
Tali Maximon- Museum, Vitrine, Diorama; Seizing the Means of Representation
Claire Campbell- Informing a Care Plan for Hepatitis C Treatment on the Street
B3: Math & Physics
Humanities 201
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Moderator: Christina Edholm
Capstone TA: Marissa Woodworth
Daisy Achiriloaie- Chaos on Elliptic Curves: The Lattes Map
Nadia Schwartz Bolef- Decreasing Cross-Coupling in the Tianlai Radio Antenna Array
Natalie Burton- Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Brightening from Offshore Oil and Gas Platform Emissions in the Southern Gulf of Mexico
Rina Nagashima- Quantifying the Effect of School Attendance Boundaries on Racial Segregation: A Model for Measuring Educational Gerrymandering
Ella Young- An Exploration of the Erdos Distance Problem
B4: Philosophy
Humanities 202
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Moderator: Rivka Weinberg
Capstone TA: John Wen
Rachel Corbett- Oh, Oh, Oh, Ozempic: How Harm Informs the Permissibility of Prescription Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Eleanor Henderson- Comedy Is Manipulative and I Can Prove It: Laugh, Now!
B5: Politics & Organizational Studies
Humanities 204
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Moderator: Owen Brown
Capstone TA: Carah Allen
Isabella Kan- The Criminalization of Homelessness in LA County
Eileen Linchangco- Between Policy and Perception: Understanding the Plight of Undocumented Filipino TNTs Amidst Restrictive US Immigration Laws from 1986 to the Present
Sadie Matz- What's Up with White Women? Anti-Feminist Resistance to Second-Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Conservative Woman
Aviva Maxon- Diversifying the Workforce: Women In Plumbing
B6: Art
Williamson Gallery
Moderator: Kasper Kovitz
Ella Lehavi- FR1: Cyborgs, Comics, and Identities In Between
Izzy Kramer- Costuming the Californian Apocalypse: Sartorial Speculations of Los Angeles’s Future
Dahlia Wang- Paper Trails: Memory, Mundanity, and Documentation in Asian American Art
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Malott Commons – Lunch includes chocolate bread pudding!
C1: Ancient Studies/Classics
Humanities 119
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Moderator: David Roselli
Capstone TA: John Wen
C Sessions – 1:30-2:30
Clementine Farnum- Reimagining the Costume: The Role of Fashion in Adadaptations of Euripides' Bacchae
Corinne Stevens- Pottery and Processional Performance: A Contemporary Application of Ancient Athenian Ritual at Scripps College
C2: Anthropology
Humanities 121
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Moderators: Gabriela Morales
Capstone TA: Kia Kellenberger
Anais Martinez Castaneda- Anthropology and Chicanx Latinx Studies
Cate Hasler- The Impact of Museum Curation on Community and Identity: Japanese Culture at the Japanese American National Museum and the Huntington Library’s Japanese Gardens
Sophia Lewis- Good Enough to Eat: How College Students Are (Re)forming Their Relationships to Food
Scarlette McCullough- Staying on Track (and Field): Gender, Aging, and Community for Female Masters Athletes
Sulekha Ram-Junnarkar- What Can I Blame? Understanding Cancer Etiology in a Stressed and Toxic World
C3: Economics
Humanities 201
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Moderator: Patrick Van Horn
Capstone TA: Emma Cahill
Caitlyn Andrade-Tomimoto- Examining the National Basketball Association as a Firm: An Analysis of the Economic Incentives Influencing Referee Decision-Making
Larkin Barnard-Bahn- Decoding Job Market Trends: ChatGPT’s Influence on Soft and Hard Skill Demands
Lauren Chen- Consolidation Post Obamacare A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Hospital Mergers and Their Impact on Cost, Access, and Quality of Healthcare
Sierra Scott- How Would the Soviet Union had Build their Wheat Industry Without Collectivization
C4: English
Humanities 202
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Moderator: Thomas Koenigs
Capstone TA: Marissa Woodworth
Cecelia Blum- Feminine Fainting in Victorian Literature
Mena Bova- "Her Best Teacher, Comforter, And Friend": The Gendered Politics Of Labor In Louisa May Alcott's "Work: A Story Of Experience"
Hannah Elliot- A Love Supreme: The Roots of Black Oral Tradition in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Lauren Marler- Subverting Gendered Destiny: Willa Cather’s Revision of The Bildungsroman in The Great Plains Trilogy
Erika Schwerdfeger- A Land East of Eden: Non-Teleological Thinking and Steinbeck’s Last Theory of Man
D Sessions – 2:45-3:45
D1: Anthropology & American Studies
Humanities 119
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Moderator: Lara Deeb
Capstone TA: Emma Cahill
Anna Babboni- Fugitive and Sumud Encounters: Geographies of Black-Palestinian Transnational Refusal
Melia Oliver- Rainbow-Washing the Occupation: A Critical Examination of Israeli Claims to Feminist and Gay-Friendly Modernity
Loy Prussack- Queer Sex Thesis
Jessica Shen-Wachter- I don't want you like a best friend: Whitney Houston, Taylor Swift and Lesbian Possibility
Chloe Weir- “The Heart of Town”: Chosen Family and Social Change in the Shakedown Subculture
D2: Biology & Organismal Biology
Humanities 121
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Moderator: Anna Wenzel
Capstone TA: Zola Hefta-Gaub
Julia Amaroso- The Effect of Light Intensity on Wolf Spider Foraging
Jennifer Hu- The Effects of Lunar Cycle on H. Rosenbergi Advertisement Call Patterns
Caroline Sundal- Combating Antibiotic Resistance Using Traditional Therapies
D3: English (Creative Writing) & Theater
Humanities 201
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Moderator: Thomas Koenigs
Capstone TA: Marissa Woodworth
Amelia Gross- Reddening
Mirabella Miller- Faultlines: A Short Story Collection
Aidan Trulove- What Makes a Monster
Taylor Tsiamas-"Stage Clutter": Creating a Theatrical Performance from Scratch
D4: Psychology
Humanities 202
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Moderator: Jennifer Ma
Capstone TA: Ahlam Negash
Sam Clark- Culturally Aware Music Therapy for PTSD in Indigenous Communities in the U.S.
Kate McArthur- Factors that Influence Faculty Support of Queer Students at International Schools
Janey Matejka- Fetishized and Blamed: Attitudes Toward Asian American Women as Victims/Survivors of Sexual Assault
Katie Nguyen- Cortisol Dysregulation Moderates the Relationship Between Parent-Child Communication and Anxiety in Emerging Adults
Erin Pinkelman- A Bayesian Network Analysis to Predict Dog-Owner Relationship Strength
Adeline Rogers- Autism-Related Support Services on Mental Health and University Connectedness
D5: Writing and Rhetoric & Foreign Languages
Humanities 204
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Moderator: Kimberly Drake Capstone TA: Hannah Cohen
Nikki Godinez- Serving C*nt: an Intersectional Historical Look at the Reclamation of a Taboo Word
Sophie Shepherd- From Activist to Journalist: Radical Journalism against Militarism and the Climate Crisis
Juliet Welk- Understanding Dictators' Violent Repression and How It's Remembered