Final Exams
May 18 - 24, 2024

Commencement Ceremony
May 24, 2024

Summer Classes Begin
June 10, 2024

Honors Project

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on our campus, the Honors Project Student Showcase has gone virtual. Thus, for your intellectual online surfing pleasure (and at your leisure and convenience), we invite you to explore these compelling and provocative Honors Project student final presentations.

Humanities Honors Projects

Student Name	Presentation Title	Format
Isabelle Antaran	An Analysis of Low Voter Turnout in the United States	Slides
Kayla Bierman	A Land of Opportunity: The Myth of the American Dream	Slides
Ikjot Dhillon	America In Retrograde: The Fallacy of the American Dream in African American Literature	Slides
Malak Eissa	Students Expect The Unexpected: The Impacts of COVID-19 on College Students	Slides
Ingold Faleofa	Ancient Oceania: Mythology of Old in Contemporary Works	Slides
Nicole Hong	LUPUS: Living in Uncertainty, Every Day	Slides
Amin Jadallah	Privatization and Public Education	Slides
Michael Kao	New Yellow Peril: The Irony Behind the Model Minority	Slides
Kailey Latin	Digital Natives or Digitally Naive? How Gen Z Must Approach Media Literacy	Slides
Josephine Lock	The Expression of the Internet: Emoji Function and Controversy in the Digital Space	Slides
Felmon Madronio	The Birth of the Black Lives Matter Movement	Slides
Erica Mendiola	The NCAA’s Exploitation of Young Talent: Every Student-Athlete’s Dream	Slides
Milena Ortega	Injustices Through the Lens of Latina Filmmakers	Slides
Andrianna Pellini	Colorism & the Perils of Beauty	Slides
Laura Saliba	Tarantino Loves Happy Endings: A Revisionist of History in Hollywood	Slides
Yasmine Scott	Homelessness as a Byproduct of the American System	Slides
Eunish Shrestha	Hikikomori: “Parasites” Created by Lack of Empathy	Slides
Kwok Tim (Thomas) So	What is Hong Kong’s national security law and how will it affect Hong Kong in the future?	Slides
Katlyn Tran	“Bodies in Beds”: Publicizing the Financial Incentives of Private Prisons	Slides
Micheal Walsh	The Black-White Wealth Gap: A Root of Inequality in the United States	Slides
Brook Wang	Gender issues and feminist movement in Asia	Slides
Zhaoyu Xue (Ashley)	Chinese Americans in the U.S.: Victims in History, Outsiders in Society	Slides
Matt Zell	Individualism: the Quintessential American Theme	Slides
Alice Zhang	Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Inevitable? An analysis of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Financial Market.	Slides

STEM Honors Projects

Student Name	Presentation Title	Format
Zaina Abdelrahman	Fluorides Found in Toothpaste	Video
Joseph David	Effects of Government Intervention on Economic Surplus	Video
Anna Diaz	Exploring Behavioral Genetics and Subjective Well-Being	Slides
Erik Ferroggiaro	Different effects of Histamine-1 and Histamine-2	Slides
Kyle Guanzon	Data and The Elections: Through the Lens of Cambridge Analytica	Video
Zahra Haider	COVID-19 and Calculus	Slides
Isabel Lainez	The Grand Canyon and the Threat of Uranium Mining	Slides
Mira Limtengco	COVID-19 and the Widening of Economic Inequities	Slides
Drew Marquiss	Live Partitioning of Micro-Mobility Users with Cheap Sensors while Maintaining Privacy	Video
Hajer Mkawer	Ajwa Dates to Inhibit Human Breast Cancers	Video
Aktota Nugmanova	The Correlation Between Consumption of Fermented Vegetables and COVID-19 Mortality Rates	Video
Guadalupe (Michelle) Pena Garcia	The Periodic Table: Is the Current Model the Best?	Video
Makayla Shaw	Nicotine Effects on the Body	Slides
Chun Wai (Mark) Wong	The Possibility of K, Y, W, L Economic Model During the Post-Pandemic Period	Slides