Outstanding Thesis Award Winners

Anna von Haumeder, Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling - Thesis: Resilience Among Syrian Refugees in Germany: The Relationships Between Demographic, Trauma Coping Self-Efficacy, and Environmental and Cultural Factors in Association with PTSD and Resilience in a Community-Based Sample

Alaina Coffey, Family and Consumer Sciences- Thesis: Implementation of a Nutrition Education Curriculum to Optimize Carbohydrate and Energy Intake Among Male and Female Adolescent Distance Runners

Angelica Prince, Social Work- Thesis: Supporting Transgender Students Curriculum for Middle School and High School Personnel

Maria Tobar, School of Criminolgy, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management- Project: Central California Health Care Coalition
Subcommittee Development Project: A Disaster Preparedness Partnership Between Fresno, Kings, Madera And Tulare Counties

Darielle Watkins, Kinesiology- Thesis: Examining the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Quality of Life in Ocean Lifeguards

Nicole Buehlmaier, History- Thesis: Vanguards and Violence: “Representations of Female Armed Resistance and the Search for Radical Legitimacy, 1968-1975”

Zara Raheem, English- Thesis: The Intersection

Siobanth Cruz, Biochemistry- Thesis: Oxidative Stress and Apolipoprotein E in Brain Endothelial Cells

Kirsten E. Faulkner, Geology- Thesis: A Recharge Analysis of the Indian Wells Basin, California Using Geochemical Analysis of Tritium and Radiocarbon

Raphael Reynolds Monroy, Physics- Thesis: Non-Radial Oscillation Modes of Superfluid Neutron Stars

Kelly Allison Porter, Science Education- Thesis: Developing Ecological Identities in High School Students Through a Place-Based Science Elective

Hannah Patricia Walker, Biology- Thesis: Ecological causes of intraspecific variation in the aposematic patterning of the striped skunk Mephitis mephitis

Crystal Ferrer, Art- Thesis: Deaccessioning: Analyzing the Limits of Ethical and Legal Guidelines

Macey W. Lachman, Educational Leadership- Thesis: A Problematic Yet Necessary Effort: White Women in Student Affairs and Anti-Racist Allyship

Camille Bulaclac, Social Work- Project: An Adolescent Dating Abuse Prevention Program: A Grant Proposal

Allison M. Quigley, School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management- Thesis: Establishing Police Legitimacy: The Influence of Procedural Justice in a Local Jurisdiction

Mark Riddlebarger, School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management- Project: A Flexible, Scalable Incident Action Planning Tool for Orange Coast District—CA State Parks

Makenzie M. Stade, Kinesiology- Thesis: The Physiological Effects of Wearing a Compression Garment During Resistance Exercise

Saleem Mohammed Alfaife, Linguistics- Thesis: A Grammar of Faifi

Rebecca L. Jacobs, Geography- Thesis: Determinants of Fire Intensity in a Mesic West Africa Savanna: A Statistical Analysis of Fire Characteristics

Brendan K. Chan, Physics- Thesis: Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems

Skylar Chuang, Biochemistry- Thesis: Apolipoprotein E3 Mediated Targeted Brain Delivery of Reconstituted High Density Lipoprotein Bearing 3, 10, and 17 nm Hydrophobic Core Gold Nanoparticles

Leslie G. Hellman, Science Education- Thesis: Lab Aliens, Legendary Fossils, and Deadly Science Potions: Views of Science and Scientists From Fifth Graders in a Free-Choice Creative Writing Program

Ryan M. Weller, Geology- Thesis: Compositional and Diagenetic Controls of Hardness in Siliceous Mudstones of the Monterey Formation, Belridge Oil Field, CA: Implications for Fracture Development

Ashley Wong, Biology- Thesis: Complement C1q and Macrophage Programmed Responses in Atherosclerosis

Marielos C. Kluck, School of Art- Thesis: You Are What You Read: Participation and Emancipation Problematized in Habacuc's Exposición #1

Melissa Mahoney, Educational Leadership- Thesis: Moving Toward an Anti-Deficit Perspective: African American Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)

Dewi Ariani, Health Care Administration- Project: Amerindo International Nurse Recruitment Agency

Noelle Bringmann, Family and Consumer Sciences- Project: Transportation Program for Members of the Long Beach Village

Jennifer Campbell, Health Science- Thesis: Evaluation of the Pathway Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Type 2 Diabetes in Adulthood

Donna De Loera, Social Work- Thesis: Experiences of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors: A Qualitative Study of Their Written Journals

Brittany Goodwin, Speech-Language Pathology- Thesis: Parent’s Experiences Accessing Speech-Language Services Across Socioeconomic Levels Within Private Practice Settings

Michael Haswell, Kinesiology- Project: East Los Angeles Soccer Club: Elite Playing Opportunities for Underserved Student-Athletes with a Focus on Academic and Leadership Growth

Jesus Limon, Social Work- Project: Impact of Parental Incarceration on Family Reunification: California Welfare and Institution Code 361.5: A Policy Analysis

Stephan Moore, Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management- Project: Fundamentals of Emergency Management for Law Enforcement: A California P.O.S.T. Course for Rural Officers

Sarah Ottone, Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management- Thesis: A Qualitative Examination of Pretrial Decision-Making in Two California Counties

John Sassone, Family and Consumer Sciences- Thesis: Prevalence and Predictors of High Risk Supplement Use Among Collegiate Athletes  

Chelsea Soued and Michelle Wynne, Physical Therapy- Project: Functional Dorsiflexion Range of Motion Measurements in Individuals after CVA: A Pilot Study

Christina Tolentino-Baldridge, Nursing- Thesis: HIV Stigma: Beliefs and Attitudes of Nursing Students

Heather C. Barone, Communication Studies- Thesis: Bad Boss, What Are You Going to Do? An Investigation of Supervisor Misbehaviors

Marissa A. Jenrich, History- Thesis: “To Treat Her as a Woman”: African American Woman and Respectability in New York, 1860-1890

Manuel Romero, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures- Thesis: Chronicling the Encounter: Wilderness and “Civilized” Spaces in Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s Essay on American History

Gilbert Arias, Physics- Thesis: Fabrication of Josephson Junctions by Nanosphere Lithography

Cristal J. Burkhart, Science Education- Thesis: How High School Students Define and Classify Marine Animals

Rachel Ellena, Chemistry- Antimicrobia and Lipid Binding Properties of the C-Terminal Domain of Apolipoprotein A-I Determined Using a Novel Apolipophorin III/Apolipoprtein A-I (179-243) Chimera

Andrew C. Farris, Geology- Thesis: Quantifying Late Quaternary Deformation in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California

David Michael Lizárraga, Biology- Thesis:  Effects of Large Inedible Particles on the Feeding Performance of Echinoderm Larvae

Jared Roger Sutton, Mathematics- Thesis: An Explicit Construction of the Character Table for Aut(S6) Representations of Aut(S6)

Sinead Finnerty, Art History- Thesis: Outward and Boundless: Painting in the Age of Expansion