Senior Award
Chloe Bazlen, Scripps
Project title: “Making Artemisia:
The Creation of Reputation in Baroque Florence”
Faculty sponsor: George Gorse
Lena-Phuong Tran, Pitzer
Project title: “Embodying the Other:
Effects of Experiencing the Rubber Hand Illusion in Virtual Reality on Implicit Racial Biases”
Faculty sponsor: Laura Johnson
Junior Award
Aleo Pugh, Pitzer
Project title: “An Insidious Exchange:
Racial Balance for Black Inferiority”
Faculty sponsor: Maryan Soliman
Sophomore Award
Jordan Grimaldi, Pomona
Project title: “Models of Growth and Colonial Implications in the Renewable Energy Sector in Africa”
Faculty sponsor: Teresa Sabol Spezio
First-Year Award
Carmen Sherlock, Scripps
Project title: “Subverting the Systems:
Strength in Victimhood through Malcolm X’s Anti-Jeremiad”
Faculty sponsor: Kimberly Drake
Group Award
Gao Yijia, Hu Pengbo, Jacob Waldor, and Wang Zelin, Pomona
Project title: “Cultural Fever:
Utopianism and Pragmatism in Chinese Intellectuals’ Search for Modernization”
Faculty sponsor: Allan Barr
Data Visualization Award
Dray Denson, Pomona
Project title: “The Black Studies Project:
Uncovering the History of the Black Studies Center at the Claremont Colleges”
Faculty sponsor: Maryan Soliman
Music Award (funded from the library’s Seymour Music Endowment)
Lina Purscher, Scripps
Project title: “An American Myth in the (Re)Making:
The Timeless Fantasy Appeal of ‘The King and I’”
Faculty sponsor: Michelle Decker