2024 Capstone Day Program

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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

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