2020-2021
We are proud to announce our 2020-2021 Outstanding Thesis/Project Award recipients:
- Randy Lucio, M.A. in English Composition, for his thesis, Critical Period Controversies for Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Language Teaching.
- Jolon Koppmann, M.S. in Information Systems and Technology, for her project, Overcoming the Challenges of Big Data Analytics Adoption for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Manufacturing Industry.
Graduate Studies extends its hardy congratulations to our most recent winners!
Read more about Randy and Jolon, as well as our previous winners, by clicking on their names.
Graduate theses, projects, and dissertations are available online at CSUSB ScholarWorks.
2019-2020
Master of Arts in Mathematics
Minimal Surfaces and The Weierstrass-Enneper Representation
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art
Stories I'm Telling Myself
2018-2019
Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ages of Prehistoric Earthquakes on the Banning Strand of the San Andreas Fault, Near North Palm Springs, California
Master of Arts in Psychological Science
Neurological Correlates of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
2017-2018
Master of Science in Biology
Redescription and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Materials Assigned to the Taxon “Captorhinikos” chozaensis
Master of Arts in Psychology
Losing Control: The Consequences of Individual- and Group- Based Social Exclusion on Latina Women’s Self-Regulation of Unhealthy Eating
2016-2017
Master of Arts in English Composition
Revising Rhetorical Theory in My Bondage and My Freedom: Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
Master of Science in Biology
Effects of Eggshell Removal on Embryonic Skeletal Development in the American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis)
2015-2016
Master of Science in Biology
Characterization of Influenza Nucleoprotein Body Domain as Antiviral Target
Master of Arts in Education: Holistic and Integrative Education
The Creative Warrior, A Holistic Approach to Health and Longevity
2014-2015
Master of Science in Biology
Microsatellite Analysis of Population Structure in the Santa Ana Speckled Dace
Master of Social Work
Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization among Justice Involved Youth
2013-2014
Master of Science in Biology
Gliobastoma Multiforme Utilizes System Xc¯ for Survival under Oxidative Stress and Promotes Chemoresistance
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Drone Effects: Structural Change in Al Qa’ida Communications
2012-2013
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
International Cocaine and Heroin Drug Trafficking: A Social Network Approach
Master of Arts in General Experimental Psychology
Backward and Forward Continuity as a Predictor of Wellbeing
among Mexican American Respondents: Scale Development
2011-2012
Laughing Bear Torrez Dulgeroff
Master of Science in Biology
Elucidating the Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins and B-Lymphocyte Maturation
Protein 1 During Primordial Germ Cell Specification
Matthew Tracy
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Identity Theft; A Problem of Complex Systems or Moral Panic?
2010-2011
Bronson Lim
Master of Arts in Mathematics
Symmetric Generation of M22
2009-2010
Heather Fickas
Master of Social Work
Outcome Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Outreach Project at Malmesbury
Prison in South Africa
2008-2009
Ken Noriega
Master of Science in Biology
Digital Reconstruction of a Ceratopsid PES
2007-2008
Adam Huttenlocker
Master of Science in Biology
Comparative Osteohistology of Hyperelongate Neural Spines in Basal Synapsids
(Vertebrata, Amniota): Growth and Mechanical Considerations
2006-2007
Keri Maher
Master of Science in Biology
A Geographically Constrained Molecular Phylogeny of Panamanian Aechmea Species (Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae)
2005-2006
Michael Davidson
Master of Public Administration
Institutional Structures for Equitable and Sustainable
Water Resource Management in the Middle East
2004-2005
Lucy Jun
Master of Science in Biology
Thyroid Hormone-Regulated Skeletal Muscle GLUT4 Glucose Transporter Trafficking
During Fasting in Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance
2003-2004
Frank Marfai's
Master of Arts in Mathematics
Hyperbolic Transformations on Cubics in H2
2002-2003
Kimberly Belvedere
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Why do They Resist?:
Exploring Dynamics of Police-Citizen Violence During Arrest Encounters
2001-2002
Dwayne Clarke
Master of Arts in Mathematics
The Cyclic Cutwidth of Mesh Cubes
2000-2001
Anshumala Ram
Master of Social Work
Effects of Head Start Participation on Cognitive and Social Functioning
of Children in the United States