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 InformationHonors Theses 2024
The Catholic Runway: Examining the Representation of the Chasuble in Modern Couture, Brendan Baehr
Demystifying Post Production Career Potential Post Grad, Anjali Bose
Zach and Zoey vs. The World, Amy Carlyle
Bothsideism in Journalism and Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care, Ryan Cochran
Moving Away From ‘Bothsideism’ in Journalism, Ryan Cochran
Ethnic Identity Development and South Asian Stereotypes in 'Never Have I Ever', Priya Dutta and Allison Noyes
Identification of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria for Ballona Wetlands Restoration, Caroline Ehren and Michelle Lum
Whether and To Where?: Push and Pull Factors Affecting Ukrainian Migration Decisions, Evan Fekete and Kerstin Fisk
Anarchy, Topology, Releasement, Lucas Fishman
Awareness in the Brain: A Mechanistic and Descriptive Account, Jacob Fried and Roy Pereira
Is This The Dream? A Creative Exhibition, Nicole Han
Recording Arts Portfolio, Rocky Jacobs
Sacred Heart, Ashley Knight
An Alternate Proof for the Top-Heavy Conjecture on Partition Lattices Using Shellability, Brian Macdonald and Josh Hallam
A Financial Valuation of Comcast (CMCSA), Lucas Marcinkowski
The Cycle of Representation in the Film Industry, Chloe Markie
From Bible to Ballot Box: Church Attendance and Political Participation 2008-2020, Zoe McGough
Synthergy, Abraham Moore Odell, Andrew Forney Ph.D., Aidan Srouji, Alex Armknecht, and Arusha Ramanathan
Microplastics in Bottled Water: The Influence of UV Radiation on Shedding, Joshua Petteruti
Minnie Goes Big, Margaret Quigg and Brian May
The Humanities and Interdisciplinarity: Borderless Sympathy and Global Citizenship, Lianne Gabrielle Sauvage
Food and Mood: The Correlation Between Vitamin B12 and Folate Intake and Depression, Jana Soucar and Hawley Almstedt
The Oncology ETF: How Retail Traders Can Utilize Custom Growth ETF’s, Samuel Sprute
On Exposure Index, Tate Stussy
Analysis of Bayesian Transfer Function Fitting Method - A Potential Tool for Estimating Interferometer Uncertainty, Caden Swain
Exploring energy availability, eating behaviors, and bone health in female collegiate athletes and non-athletes, Janie Thomson and Hawley Almstedt
“Home Court Advantage: Comparing International Criminal Tribunals to Domestically-Grown Reconciliation”, Elise Treon
Diasporican: The Latest Identity Formation of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Bianca Valentin
Crazy Cravings: A Television Pilot, Jennifer Valentine
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through New CMO Selection, Zoë Walschots
Spectrophotometric Device for Early Malaria Detection, Adrian Wasylewski, Christopher Faber, and Victor Lin
Honors Theses 2023
Run for Your Life, Tyler Afana and Vanessa Newell
Procedural Level Generation For A Top-Down Roguelike Game, Kieran Ahn and Tyler Edmiston
Too Queer To Handle: Queer Identities and Sexuality in Reality Television, Cobe Alvarez
High Self-Esteem and Growth Belief Contribute to Resilience Following Positive and Negative Relationship Events, Maxine Boyd and Maire Ford
Living Past 55: Stress Management as an Assistant Director, Jules Brown and Matthew Thompson
Call Me When You Get There: A Short Film, Adelaide Burrows and Vanessa Newell
Growing up in Ana’s Shadow, Michaela Cahill and Gail Wronsky
The Dream Machine, Matthew Cheung
The role of Sinorhizobium meliloti Type IVb pili protein on legume nodule morphology and infection, Alexis Chun
Artist Branding Toolkit: Exploring the Creation of Eras in Artist Marketing, Annabella Bird Cooley and Anastasia Petukhova
Why Didn't We Ask?, Mason Cooney and David Offenberg
Comparing Hierarchical Data Structures and Hierarchical Data Analysis, Halley Jeanne Dante and Robert Rovetti
Examining the Effects of Religion-Based Meditation on Stress Levels in Palestinian Muslims, Dana Elqaq
Effects of Sex Differences and the COVID-19 Pandemic on First-Year College Student Drinking and Mental Health, Alexander J. Elrod
ART THIEF, Bettina Ernst
Song’s Site at Los Angeles Eco-Village Redevelopment, Kendall Gilbert, Marina Rios, Kristin Hernandez, and Gianna Morelli
Off The Beaten Path - A Podcast Interview Series, Shaun Holmes and Jason D'Mello
Off The Beaten Path - A Podcast Interview Series, Shaun Holmes and Jason D'Mello
Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in California and the United States, Giana Hubbard and Inas R. Kelly PhD
Coming of Age in the Multiverse What Japanese anime say about growing up amidst the chaos and the illogical, Yukana Inoue and Kenneth Provencher
Solar Water Desalination System, Heidi Johnson, Lauren Tully, Mahsa Ebrahim, Patricio Osegueda, and Felipe Rivera-Uribe
Understanding Happiness: The Threshold and Mindset, Laura Kato and Jeffrey Wilson
Beyond Film School: A Producer's Guide to Navigating the Film Industry, Emily Kelly
2U CubeSat with Experimental MHD Pump Payload, Joseph Lazo, Joshua Simkin, Mason Warren, and Ciara Brown
Destruction or Disruption: Political Violence Inconsistencies in Liberation Movements, Julia Lemmon
An Exploration of Entertainment Photography and Artificial Intelligence, Janelle Little and Charles Howard
Examining and Developing Environmental Stewardship Funding Networks in Los Angeles: A Research Proposal, Lily Maddox and Michele Romolini
GUILT., Dennis Marciuska
Ascot App, Milla Penelope Markovic
The Implications of Adultification on Black Male Sexual Activity, McKenzie Martin
Drawn into Darkness, Ryan McCue and Jessica Livingstone
Math and Magic: A de Bruijn Card Trick, Rachel Meilak
Entity Individuation & Independence in Heidegger's "The argument against need", Chester Mlcek
Traumatic Consequences in Native Hawaiians After Colonization, Andrea Morland-Tellez and Elizabeth Drummond
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
LAPD suffers hiring shortage following a shift in how Angelinos view police, Nicole Norman
Affordable Housing Policies in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, Olivia Personeni
READ Like a Dyslexic Sort of..., Margaret Prost
Townhouse Development Project, Alex Rabushka, Orion Kamphefner, Andrea Sanchez, and Joseph Reichenberger P.E.
A Character and Performance Study on the Role of Juliette in Exit the King by Eugene Ionseco, Camila Robles Ruiz
The Collector Psyche: Eli and Edythe Broad as Agents of the Western European Art Market, Alexis SooHoo and Damon Willick
Equity Research: VF Corporation, Mya Thuraisingam, Hai Tran, and Joshua Spizman
Ekko: Harnessing the Power of Javascript for Rapid and Accessible Compiler Development, Kira Toal
Isolating the electronic effects of systematic twist in highly substituted aromatic hydrocarbons using density functional theory, Grace Tully and Emily A. Jarvis
Characterization of Extended Uncertainty Principle Black Holes, Juan Uribe and Jonas Mureika
Video Art in the Gallery Space, Juliet Wang and Matthew Thompson
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.
Directing Masquerade for New Works 2023, Robyn Wilkinson and Nenad Pervan
Cowtown: Pilot, Conner Wilson
Examination of the role of lipopolysaccharide in antibiotic stress tolerance and nodulation of Paraburkholderia tuberum, Kyla Yein and Michelle Lum
A Beautiful Thing, Alexander Zapata
Honors Theses 2022
"Love in the Third Dimension", Erica Alston
Finite N-Quandles of Twisted Double Handcuff and Complete Graph, Veronica Backer-Peral
The Price of Life, Alyssa Bobich
Examining the relationships between emotion regulation, emotion differentiation, and mental health symptomatology: Does acting experience matter?, Michelle Chernikova and Diana Santacrose
Identification of Wine Aromas Using an Electronic-Nose System, Gordon Duddy
Marine Infrared Communication Repeater through Optical Propagation, Ian Green and Hossein Asghari
Dark Comedy in Queer Television: Negotiating Queer Aesthetics, Commodification, and the Death of Camp, Harrison Hamm
Examining Barriers that Influence Refugee Healthcare Accessibility in the United States, Annie Heckman and Rachel Washburn
Black Homelessness in Los Angeles, Dezmin Hemmans and Rosemary Kim
Briefcase, Zach Irving and Andrew Forney
How to Simplify the Next Generation of the Entertainment Business, Christian Jackson
Imperialism in the Caribbean: US Policies Towards Cuba and Haiti from the 1950s to the 1970s, Glory Jones, Constance Chen, and Sean Dempsey
Lynn Jeter: An Interview with a Public Relations Trailblazer, Bailey Katler and Julian Saint Clair
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
Jeremy Lee in a Student Composers Recital, Jeremy Lee
Testing Efficiency in NHL Betting Markets, Charles Luxton, Joshua Spizman, and David Moore
