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December 9-15, 2025

Honors Project

Due to the impact of COVID-19 , 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.

Student Name	Presentation Title	Format
Isabelle Antaran	An Analysis on the Influence of Occupational Groups on Workplace Suicide in the United States	Slides
Kayla Bierman	Shades of Science: The Intersection of Ethnic Studies and Science & Technology Studies	Slides
Yifen Chen	How to Verify that Black Holes Exist	Video
Yun Chen	Power on Art: Louis XIV and his glorified art and architecture	Slides
Nicole Condez	Call Me By Your Name & Normal People: The Exploratory Art of Immersive Storytelling	Slides
Olivia Dinpoli	Lesbian Feminists and the World of AIDS Activism	Slides
Malak Eissa	Instagram influencers: the power of influencers and their effects on their audiences	Slides
Ingold Faleofa	Blackbirding: Pacific Profit in the 19th Century	Slides
Tania L. Farjat	“This land is your land, this land is my land”: The Importance of Ethnic Studies courses in academic institutions	Slides
Marina Gasparini	Low Light Tolerance in Radish Plants	Slides
Kyle Guanzon	To Become a QAnon Follower: An Analysis of the Cult’s Indoctrination	Slides
Zahra Haider	The Epidemic of Mass Incarceration	Slides
Nicole Hong	A Tough Pill to Swallow: A History of Birth Control in America	Slides
Amin Jadallah	Discourse and Disinformation: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Anti-Racist Pedagogy	Slides
Robin Kirschner	Sickle-Cell Anemia	Slides
Theo Krakower	Filmmaking Under Martial Law: How Filipino Filmmakers Defined the Marcos Era	Slides
Mira Limtengco	Lunar Cycles and Human Behavior	Slides
Cecilia Lin	Asian Americans & Whiteness: the Case for a Unified Resistance against White Supremacy	Slides
Molly Liu	Nature is Art: Moby-Dick's impact on Science Fiction	Slides
Josephine Lock	Art, Imitation, and Originality: How Repetition Throughout Art History Fosters Ingenuity	Slides
Drew Marquiss	Networks and Hardware to Support Edge-LiDAR for Micro-Mobility	Slides
Erica Mendiola	An Analysis of the Linkage between Depression and Heart Disease	Slides
Michelle Pena	College Students Losing Their Minds: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Mental Health of College Students?	Slides
Ted Sandico	Public Opinion For Hire: The Consequences of Paying to Shape Reality	Slides
Leila Tamale	Vastness in Our Vā: A Decolonial Exploration of Transnational Oceania and Our Ability to Tauhi Vā	Slides
Katlyn Tran	“Money Never Sleeps”: The Dissemination of Greed in the Accounting Sector	Slides
Katlyn Tran	The Art of Math	Slides
Micheal Walsh	The Perils of Private Prisons in the United States	Slides
Zhaoyu (Ashley) Xue	Feud in Transcaucasia: An Overview of the Obstructive Factors in Normalizing Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan	Slides