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Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Theses prior to 2023 are currently being migrated to this site. In the interim, they can be accessed via TriCollege Libraries Institutional Scholarship.

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Theses from 2024 2024

Bhalo Lagena! What Well-being Means to Young Immigrant South Asian Women, Fatima Jahra , '24

Multifunctional Nanomaterial Analysis Using Inexpensive Techniques, Casey Jordan , '24

Personalized Quiz Maker: Novel feature for Alby learning management system, Lys Kang , '24

The Cuban Daycare System and the Gendered Division of Labor, Dani Kaufman-Sedano , '24

Beyond Passion: Class, Culture, and Career Orientations, Annette J. Kim , '24

Biophysical characterization of non-canonical DNA structures with small-molecule ligands, Harrison Kim , '24

Electronics Enclosure for Strawberry Harvesting Robot, Eva Krueger , '24 and Jett Shue , '24

Hand Tremor Sensing and Characterisation Device, Jackie Le , '24

Flushed with Challenges: A Case Study into Sanitation Service Delivery in a Cape Town Informal Settlement, Emmy Li , '25

Philadelphia’s Urban Community Gardens: Decolonization, Green Space, and Food Security, Freddie Lin , '24

Giddy Guidance: Low-cost 3D aircraft with integrated autopilot and stabilization, Mark Lohatepanont , '24

Imaginer la vie de la fin de l'Anthropocène dans La Mort de la Terre, Caroline Lucas , '24

Remaking the Gayborhood: The Here and Now of Neoliberal Queerness, Luca Marcelli , '24

The Perception of Sexual Violence on Swarthmore College Campus, Fatima Mar , '24

From Crisis to Care: Non-Profit Approaches to Homelessness and Mental Health in Philadelphia Throughout COVID-19, Yomaris Melecio , '24

Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Love: Dialectics of Beauty and Affliction in the Secular Age, Deniz Z. Morova , '24

La chanson française d’après-guerre: la mythologie d’une culture populaire et la masculinisation d’une tradition, Mariam Muhammad , '24

Large Sample Statistical Study of Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection at the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment, Solomon Murdock , '24

Design of a Square Deployable Truss Mast, Kevin Murillo , '24

Beyond the Classroom: Examining the Impact of an After-School Program on LatineImmigrant Youth in Philadelphia, Lucia Navarro , '24

Redesigning and Reimagining Math Tests in 7-12 Math Classrooms, Michael Newton , '24

Tokyo-bot: Emulating Industrial Automation, Erebus Oh , '24; Aaron Omadutt , '24; and Dzineon Gyaltsen , '24

Une Musique simple et noble, un pays unifié et désunifié : la pensée des Lumières dans la musique régionale et l’unification nationale pendant la Troisième République en France, Lauren H. Park , '24

Long Distance Relationships: Investigating the Quaternary Structure of Influenza A M2 Protein, Caleb Porter , '24

Cost-effective PV Panel Back Mount for Temperature Control and Heat Utilization, Jiuning Ren , '24

A Step into Khmer’s Double Negation Mystery: Clause-final Marker ទេ[te:] as Negative Polarity Focus, Panhavoan Reth , '25

L’intersection entre l’ivresse et le queer dans la littérature de la décadence française, Ryan Rodriguez , '25

It's, Like, Just Science: Exploring the Use of the Discourse Marker Like in Casual Scientific Communication, Kyra Roepke , '24

Thinking Outside the Membrane: Investigating the Structure of the Influenza A M2 Ectodomain, Kyra Roepke , '24

Taking on the Challenge: Teaching Banned and Challenged Books as a Citizenship Tool, Ell C. Rose , '24

La négociation de l’altérité aux marges : l’agentivité des aventuriers dans Les Sauteurs et The Land Between, Destiny Rosulme , '24

Staying Within the Ts: Racialized Boundary and Language Production Processes among Temple University Students and the White Supremacist Geographies of Urban University Place-Making, Jared S. Saef , '25

Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Students With Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE), Jose Sandoval , '24

Popular Education Curriculum: An Abolitionist Pedagogy, Savannah Shepherd , '24

Predictive Analysis of Major League Baseball Statistics using Machine Learning Methods, Dane Skufca , '24

Run-of-River Device for Hydropower from the Crum Creek, Paula Suder , '24

From Social Justice to Social Conflict: Reframing Abortion Access in the United States, Nora Sweeney , '24

Black Women and Communism: Exploring race, gender, and class-consciousness through the lives of Ella Baker, Lorraine Hansberry, and Claudia Jones, Jamison Terry , '24

Naviguer l'altérité et l'appartenance au milieu de la modernisation : les Pygmées du Cameroun à travers le cinéma, Blaine Thomas , '24

Making Japanese: Cultural Integration Programs for Immigrant Youth in Kawasaki City, Larissa M.A. Tolentino , '24

Optical Fiber Magnetic Field Detector, Aiden Tomov , '24 and Paige Poteet , '24

Height Adjustable Kitchen Work and Dining Surface, Jay Van Voorhis , '24

Web Application: Object Detection and Tracking, Hoang (Tommy) Vu , '24

Between Here and There: Vietnamese Identity Formation in the United States, Nancy Vu , '24

Soul Craft as the Work of Sorrow and Hope: an analysis of “the inner life” in the practice of true religion, Bethany Winters , '24

Yilin Ye Senior Research Project Video, Yilin Ye , '24

Theses from 2023 2023

Navigating the Personal Statement in an Upper-Middle-Class Community, Natalia Abbate , '23

Object Tracking with an Event Camera, Nader Ahmed , '23 and Rezhwan A. Kamal , '23

Cov and Underspecified Nouns: A Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Hmong Classifiers, William L. Ball , '23

Structure Determines Function: Characterizing the Undergraduate Biology Research Experience, Gia L.B. Bautista , '23

“De Manhattan Pa El Bronx:” Dembow as the Sound of dominicanidad Ausente, Patricia Bautista Tiburcio , '23

From Coffee Houses to Internet Speech: Civility and Moderation within The Contemporary Public Sphere, Leslie Brown , '23

Le Féminisme chez Céline Sciamma : Le corps queer à l’écran, Richard A. Cardrino , '23

Synthesis and Kinetic Investigation of Oxidation in A Palladium-Methyl System, Richard A. Cardrino , '23

Navigating creative careers on social media: self-employment and neoliberalism, Katherine Carlson , '23

Beyond the Binary: L1 Strategies for Spoken Non-Binary French, Kate Carlyle , '24

Method Design for Separation of Non-Canonical DNA Structures via Capillary Electrophoresis, Erin V. Chen , '23

Camera-Radar Sensor Fusion for Depth Estimation, Lonnie D. Chien , '23

Using Capillary Electrophoresis to Quantify Competitive Binding of Adsorbates to Silver Nanoparticles, Christopher D. Chung , '23

Get Out to Got Out: Residential Mobility and the Language of Opportunity in a Black Southern Louisiana Family, Gabrielle Cosey , '23

La littérature postcoloniale franco-algérienne: Comment parler dans la lacune mémorielle?, Catherine H. Crochunis-Brown , '23

“Vulnerable” and “At Risk”?: Confronting LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health Through a Digital Ethnography of QueerTok, Nicole Daly , '23

Requirement of Variable-Introducing Elements on Event Quantification in Chinese: A case study of 每 měi–vp sentences, Guilherme Zeus Dantas e Moura , '24

Analysis of Material Properties for Wooden Octet Trusses, Julio A. Del Cid , '23 and David Mendoza , '23

“I Don’t Want to Produce Academic Results”: Mapping the Daily and Costly Persistence of First-Generation and Low-Income College Students of Color, Aleina Dume , '23

At the Foothills of the Highest Hill in the Swamp: A Policy Brief for East Little York, Major Eason , '23

Analysis of Glycan-Mediated Interactions between the DH270 UCA1 and DH272.2 Antibody Fragments and the HIV-1 Spike Protein, Molly C. Erdman , '23

Using Caulobacter crescentus as a Model to Probe the Environmental Reactivity of Silver Nanoparticles, Madeline M. Farber , '23

Self-Censoring on Social Media Sites, Talia A. Feshbach , '23

Exploring Media Representations of Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in South Africa, Elizabeth Gallagher , '23

Swimming Robots Using Memory Metal, Joshua R. Heckman , '23

Mariposas Mexas: Embodiment as Resistance at Swarthmore College, Ramiro A. Hernandez , '23

Active Noise Cancellation: Analog Circuit, Uladzislau Hes , '23

The Potential for Mycofiltration of E. coli Pollution in the Crum Creek using T. versicolor and P. ostreatus, Kennedy M. Hill , '23

Identification and characterization of key residues involved in MEK-ERK docking site interactions, Quynn C. Hotan , '23

Sénégal: Le changement politique dans l’ère numérique, Zane Irwin , '23

Synthesis of High-Temperature YBCO Superconductors, Simon Ji , '23

Can Joy be Racialized?: Conceptualizing Joy through Ghanaian and Black American University Students, Zakiyyah Jones , '23

Vulnerability during the Pandemic and the Disruption of the Medical Gaze, Yeh Seo Jung , '23

Testing current theories of Auxiliary selection in German verbs of motion on a 19th century corpus, Anna G. Karpowicz , '23

Quaker Interpretation: The Role of Communication and Identity in the Production of Quaker Values, Katalina I. Kastrong , '23

Radio Telescope Receiver, Rebecca O. Keating , '23

Model for movement classification of the bicep, Youssef Kharrat , '23

Restructuring pedagogical norms in STEM: Towards a socially and ethically conscious approach to Computer Science higher education, Alison Kim , '23

Centering Diné Literacy in ELA Classrooms: Developing Co-Conspiratorship for Indigenous Sovereignty, Shaadiin King , '23

“It makes me feel like I'm the typical Asian they think of me...”: Beyond Homogeneous Characterizations of Chinese International Students, Moe Htet Kyaw , '23

Capabilities of Conductive Thread Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators as Sarcomeres, Bryan T. Le , '23

Investigating the MEK and ERK Binding Interface to Find Allosteric Binding Sites, Sabrina Lin , '23

It’s What Our Grandmas Did: Decoding Black Wellness, Joy, and Liberation in Contemporary Digital Hoodoo Practice Through a Cooperative Healing Literacies Framework, Patrick Li , '23

Translanguaging or Code-switching?: A Case Study of Multilingual Activities in college-level Mandarin and Japanese Classrooms, Huayu Liu , '23

Maximizing Evaporation Using a Photo-Thermal Umbrella, Austin M. Lord , '23

The Sound of Dzongkha: Recent Changes to its Tonal Paradigm, Qiyou (Ark) Lu , '24

Social and Linguistic Marginalization, and the Question of ‘Standard’: An Analysis and Translation of Giulio Cesare Cortese’s La vaiasseide, Lina R. Marsella , '23

Clémence Royer : Un féminisme évolutionniste, Chloe K. Mayhue , '23

“Bhat khaiso?”: the role of food in a Bangladeshi community in the U.S., Jinia Meherin , '23

Hitting the Jackpot?: Lottery Admissions for Philadelphia Magnet Schools, Eliza V. Murphy , '23

Mapping and Navigation with the Fetch Robot, Dorothy Najjuma Kamya , '23

The Colors of Nostalgia: Paris By Night as a Memory Project for the Vietnamese-American Diaspora, Kathleen T. Nguyen , '23

Path planning in Rust: Learning Rust and implementing the RRT algorithm, Minh D. Nguyen , '23

Heat Load for the ABC House, Jonathan Odim , '23