The Honors Thesis is the culmination of a University Honors Program student’s time at LMU and the Honors Program. This collection gathers these works for posterity.

Guidelines for Honors Seniors

For uniformity of presentation, your thesis submission should include a thesis cover sheet. A template for this sheet is available as a public Google Doc:

Access the template with a web browser, choose File > Make a Copy… to create your own editable copy of the file, then enter the information that is specific to your thesis. Append this to your uploaded submission.

When submitting your Honors thesis information:

  • Submission will require that you have an LMU Digital Commons account (which is distinct from your overall LMU credentials)—you will see an option to sign up when you click on the button. Treat your profile seriously and professionally: it is your permanent presence in the LMU Digital Commons.
  • Include your thesis advisor as a co-author on the work. You may include additional co-authors if you have more than one mentor.
  • The “Date of Completion” field is, in general, the end of the semester in which you finish your work and get it graded.
  • The “Degree Type” field is where you can specify whether your work must be accessed from within campus. “Honors Thesis” makes your work part of the library’s public collection; “Honors Thesis—Campus Access” will only allow your thesis to be downloaded from a computer within the LMU network.
  • When your thesis work is complete, please click on the submission button below to begin the process of adding your work to this collection. Your Honors Thesis requirement is not considered fulfilled until the final version of your thesis has been uploaded to this site.
  • If your final thesis work is not in a form that can be uploaded to this site, please contact Dr. Hawley Almstedt, Research Advisor of the University Honors Program, to determine an alternative mechanism for accessing your work.
  • The information you enter can be revised after submission. Please contact Dr. Almstedt as well to request changes.

Signed Permission Letter

The signed permission letter allows the Hannon Library to distribute your work to the web at large, as opposed to just making it available within the campus network. This permission letter is specifies the level of sharing that you permit, ranging from Internet-wide distribution to archival only (i.e., no distribution).

The permission letter is available as this Adobe Sign PDF. Fill out and sign the form, and it will then go to your thesis advisor. After your advisor fills out their portion, a link to the final version will be emailed to you. Please upload that final version to your HNRS 4000 Brightspace page.

Submit Your Honors Thesis Information

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Submissions from 2023

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Procedural Level Generation For A Top-Down Roguelike Game, Kieran Ahn and Tyler Edmiston

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Too Queer To Handle: Queer Identities and Sexuality in Reality Television, Cobe Alvarez

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High Self-Esteem and Growth Belief Contribute to Resilience Following Positive and Negative Relationship Events, Maxine Boyd and Maire Ford

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The role of Sinorhizobium meliloti Type IVb pili protein on legume nodule morphology and infection, Alexis Chun

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Artist Branding Toolkit: Exploring the Creation of Eras in Artist Marketing, Annabella Bird Cooley and Anastasia Petukhova

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Why Didn't We Ask?, Mason Cooney and David Offenberg

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Comparing Hierarchical Data Structures and Hierarchical Data Analysis, Halley Jeanne Dante and Robert Rovetti

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Examining the Effects of Religion-Based Meditation on Stress Levels in Palestinian Muslims, Dana Elqaq

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Representations of Time in Time-Based Media: An Exploration of the Human Experience of Temporality in Film and TV, Nelea Fong

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Song’s Site at Los Angeles Eco-Village Redevelopment, Kendall Gilbert, Marina Rios, Kristin Hernandez, and Gianna Morelli

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Off The Beaten Path - A Podcast Interview Series, Shaun Holmes and Jason D'Mello

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Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in California and the United States, Giana Hubbard and Inas R. Kelly PhD

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Coming of Age in the Multiverse What Japanese anime say about growing up amidst the chaos and the illogical, Yukana Inoue and Kenneth Provencher

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Solar Water Desalination System, Heidi Johnson, Lauren Tully, Mahsa Ebrahim, Patricio Osegueda, and Felipe Rivera-Uribe

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Understanding Happiness: The Threshold and Mindset, Laura Kato and Jeffrey Wilson

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2U CubeSat with Experimental MHD Pump Payload, Joseph Lazo, Joshua Simkin, Mason Warren, and Ciara Brown

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Destruction or Disruption: Political Violence Inconsistencies in Liberation Movements, Julia Lemmon

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Examining and Developing Environmental Stewardship Funding Networks in Los Angeles: A Research Proposal, Lily Maddox and Michele Romolini

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The Implications of Adultification on Black Male Sexual Activity, McKenzie Martin

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Examining Asian Americans' Perceived Barriers to Healthcare Access, Kathleen Nguyen and Jennifer Ramos

An Observational and Experimental Analysis of Embryonic Development and Cardiac Neural Crest Migration in the Turtle, Christina Noravian

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LAPD suffers hiring shortage following a shift in how Angelinos view police, Nicole Norman

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Affordable Housing Policies in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, Olivia Personeni

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READ Like a Dyslexic Sort of..., Margaret Prost

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Townhouse Development Project, Alex Rabushka, Orion Kamphefner, Andrea Sanchez, and Joseph Reichenberger P.E.

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A Character and Performance Study on the Role of Juliette in Exit the King by Eugene Ionseco, Camila Robles Ruiz

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The Collector Psyche: Eli and Edythe Broad as Agents of the Western European Art Market, Alexis SooHoo and Damon Willick

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Ekko: Harnessing the Power of Javascript for Rapid and Accessible Compiler Development, Kira Toal

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Isolating the electronic effects of systematic twist in highly substituted aromatic hydrocarbons using density functional theory, Grace Tully and Emily A. Jarvis

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Characterization of Extended Uncertainty Principle Black Holes, Juan Uribe and Jonas Mureika

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Antisemitic Rhetoric from Influential Individuals on Social Media during the Recent Rise of Jewish Hate in the United States of America, Jimmy Warshawsky and Jason Jarvis Ph.D.

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Directing Masquerade for New Works 2023, Robyn Wilkinson and Nenad Pervan

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A Beautiful Thing, Alexander Zapata

Submissions from 2022

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"Love in the Third Dimension", Erica Alston

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Finite N-Quandles of Twisted Double Handcuff and Complete Graph, Veronica Backer-Peral

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The Price of Life, Alyssa Bobich

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Identification of Wine Aromas Using an Electronic-Nose System, Gordon Duddy

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Marine Infrared Communication Repeater through Optical Propagation, Ian Green and Hossein Asghari

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Dark Comedy in Queer Television: Negotiating Queer Aesthetics, Commodification, and the Death of Camp, Harrison Hamm

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Examining Barriers that Influence Refugee Healthcare Accessibility in the United States, Annie Heckman and Rachel Washburn

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Black Homelessness in Los Angeles, Dezmin Hemmans and Rosemary Kim

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Briefcase, Zach Irving and Andrew Forney

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Imperialism in the Caribbean: US Policies Towards Cuba and Haiti from the 1950s to the 1970s, Glory Jones, Constance Chen, and Sean Dempsey

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Lynn Jeter: An Interview with a Public Relations Trailblazer, Bailey Katler and Julian Saint Clair

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Determining the frequency of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) conferring lactase persistence in humans in the heterogenous United States population, Claire Kosewic and Kam D. Dahlquist

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Jeremy Lee in a Student Composers Recital, Jeremy Lee

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Testing Efficiency in NHL Betting Markets, Charles Luxton, Joshua Spizman, and David Moore

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Fractured Sky: A Procedurally-Generated Tactical Role-Playing Game, Booker Martin

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Generating a Dataset for Comparing Linear vs. Non-Linear Prediction Methods in Education Research, Jack Mauro, Elena Martinez, and Anna Bargagliotti

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“Willfully Defiant: Understanding the Role of Authority and Racialized Punitive Burdens”, Riley McCoy

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Ex Astris - 30 minute sketch comedy concept, Grayson McKim

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Fact and Fiction Collide: Ethics and Accountability in Documentaries and Hybrid Films, AnaMichele Morejon and Charles Howard

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Phil Gunderson Teaches Screenwriting, Nishanth Ramasubramanian and Mikael Kreuzriegler

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Schedulion, Andrew Seaman

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Modern Monetary Theory: Merits, Critiques, and Contemporary Implications, Rebecca Singleton and Thomas Herndon

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Strong Linguistic Relativity: A Continental Sense of Language and Being, Ava Totah and Brian Treanor

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Best Practices of Vaccine Communications, Aditi Vora

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Determining the frequency of the -13910 C>T SNP in an LMU population using Chelex DNA extraction from hair followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, Erykah I. Walton

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Racial Justice Allyship in White Non-Adopted Individuals with Adopted Siblings of Color, Lydia Zicker and Adam W. Fingerhut

Submissions from 2021

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Using Bacterial and Fungal Inoculation Strategies to aid in the Wetland Restoration of Native Plants in Southern California, Amy Alverson and Karina K. Johnston

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Water Supply Dam and Pipeline, Morgan Anderson, Nimai Alicer, and Carlos Yvellez

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Black Lives Matter. The NBA Strike and Its Effect, Chiara Armstrong and Julian Saint Clair

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Institutionalizing Identity: Examining the Louvre in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, Emma Balda and Amy Woodson-Boulton

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A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Bone Mineral Density in Collegiate Distance Runners, Olivia E. Brimacomb, William P. McCormack, and Hawley C. Almstedt

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Riddle Passageways, Jessie Brown

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Self Hood and Self Realization in Contemporary Korean Dramas, Kevin Chang and Yanjie Wang

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Does Public Health Policy Matter?: Explaining Variation in COVID-19 Outcomes Across the 50 States, Charlotte Cheng and Richard L. Fox

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A New Perspective on School Security: Metal Detectors as Disciplinary Tools and the Product of Anti-Democratic Decision-Making Processes, Siobhan Collins and Andrew Dilts

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Investigating the Effects of Urban Coyotes on Free-Range Cats in Culver City, California Using Occupancy Analyses of Camera Trap Data, Rebecca Davenport, Melinda Weaver, and Dr. E. Strauss

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The potential influence of abiotic conditions on mussel species abundance in San Francisco Bay, Alexandra G. Farrell and M. Christina Vasquez Dr.

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Markov Model Composition of Balinese Reyong Norot Improvisations, Taylor Flanagan and Robert Rovetti

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Exploring the Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules at Angstrom Scale, Calvin Foss

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Exploring Universities' Policies to COVID-19 - Student Perceptions & Student Mental Health, Ivonne Franco

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Pandemic Privilege: Business Policies and Labor Value During COVID-19, Kyle Friedler

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Giving in Dictator Games: Factors of Generosity, Margaret Gallagher and Prachi Jain

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Die Neue Propaganda, Kai Henthorn-Iwane

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Religious Beliefs as They Relate to Beliefs about Free Will, Including Determinism, Libertarianism, and Compatibilism, Leigh Lewis

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Transforming the Chinese Pole Circus Apparatus into an Interactive Musical Instrument, Fosse Lin-Bianco, Hossein Asghari, and Evan Mitchell

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Settlers of K'tah, Madelyn Louis, Li Ying Tan, Haley Mech, and Kaitlyn Behrens

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Sampling Compactness Scores to Detect Gerrymandering in Squaretopia, Joshua Mariz

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Collapsible Prosthetic Shower Leg, Amanuel Matias and Mahsa Ebrahim

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History in Crisis: Museum Programming during the COVID-19 Outbreak, Lindsay McConnell

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Settlers of K'tah, Haley Mech, Li Ying Tan, Madelyn Louis, Owen Mech, and Ashley Brooks

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International Opportunities and Innovation between Australia and the United States in a Post Pandemic Economy, Amanda Meegan and Scott Delanty

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Transforming the Chinese Pole Circus Apparatus into an Interactive Musical Instrument, Evan Mitchell and Fosse Lin-Bianco

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The Impact of Culture on Member State Migration Policy in the European Union, Sophia Notter and Jennifer Ramos

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The Wolves Performance, Madeleine Quinn and Diane Benedict

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Review: The Bidirectional Relationship Between Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Inhibition and Import Machinery Malfunction in Parkinson’s Disease, Grace Riggs and Deepa Dabir

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The Specifics of Editing Comedy, Genevieve Roeder-Hensley and Luis Proenca

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Laplace's Equation in Fractional-Dimension Spaces, Kyle Schoener and Gabriele Varieschi

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Settlers of K'tah, Li Ying Tan, Madelyn Louis, Kaitlyn Behrens, and Haley Mech

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Human Powered Vehicle Capstone, Maya L. Washington, Ryan Apolonio, Marc Sunga, John Rettenmier, and Dr. Allen Wilson

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Smart E-Bike Conversion Kit and Helmet, Megan West, Marena Trujillo, and Hossein Asghari

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Performing Lysistrata Over Zoom, Charles Workmaster and Diane Benedict

Submissions from 2020

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ADAPTIVE UTILITY: OBSERVING THE RATE OF ADAPTATION IN HAPPINESS AS SHORT RUN SHIFTS REVERT TO LONG RUN AVERAGES, Cameron Bellamoroso

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Biomechanical Comparison of the Validity of Two Configurations of Simulators for Body-Powered Hand Prostheses, Camille Bennett, Amanuel Matias, Brendan Smith, Jenevieve Roper, and Stephen Estelle

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Charles Berg Senior Piano Recital, Charles Berg and Wojciech Kocyan Dr.

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The Television Showrunner: A Case Study Analysis of Insecure and Fleabag, Haley Bulen and Charles Howard

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Designing Theatre Lighting for New Works Festival 2020, Bridger P. Caicedo

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White Environmentalism, Neoliberalism, and Mainstream Fossil Fuel Divestment: Critical Reflections for Campus-Based Divestment and Reinvestment Campaigns, Kenneth J. Cavanaugh and Sina Kramer