Honors Institute

Bay Honors Research Symposium

The Honors Research Symposium gives students the opportunity to participate in scholarly research in a variety of disciplines, with the goal of presenting their findings in a variety of formats.

This year the symposium will be held in April, 26th at UC Berkeley. FIve proposals from Foothill College were selected in 2025, out of 16 applications. Congratulations to the presenting groups. We will be preparing presentations in April.

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Foothill 2025 Presentations

FireFlight: ML-Driven Aerial Sensing for Wildfire Prediction and Smart Evacuation in Los Altos Hills
Presented by: Luise Haller

Law, Language, and Legitimacy: An analysis of judicial activism and linguistic complexity on the United States Supreme Court
Presented by: Tristan Hui

Aspirin’s Gut Reaction: A Study into Aspirin’s Effect on the Human Gut Microbiome
Presented by: Jocelyn Ma

Looking Through Pottery: A Historical Glance at Classical Grecian Women
Presented by: Aditi Nanda

We Are Not the Same: The Concept of Humanity in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” and the Occupy Wall Street movement
Presented by: Lan Nguyen

Past Foothill Presentations

2023 Symposium

Adaptive 3D Model Generator Using Object Photos Presented by: Nimita Mishra
Mentor: Konstantin Kalaitzidis

Honest Studying Solutions with ChatGPT and Augmented Reality Technologies
Presented by: Dennis Ren and Kevin Shiah
Mentor: Abeer Alameer

TikTok Memory Challenge: Exploring the Impact of TikTok on Memory Retention
Presented by: Yash Shahani
Mentor: Eta Lin

Confronting Anthropology’s Dark Past: Native American Osteo-Reparation in Bay Area Higher Education Institutions
Presented by: Alekos Kapur and Saintra Thai
Mentor: Samuel Connell

2019 Symposium

A Rose By Any Other Name: Neo-Colonial Flower Plantations in the Shadow of the Spanish Hacienda
Presented by: Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
Mentor: Samuel Connell & Zev Cossin

Anti-immigration Sentimnts: To what extent does social environment form an ideal environment for groupthink toward immigrants?
Presented by: Jingtong Huang, Wesley Cheung, and Jessica Chang
Mentor: Shani Robins

ASMR Videos: A YouTube Fad? Exploring the Relationship between ASMR, relaxation, and brain behavior
Presented by: Stephanie Lim, Leticia Matsubara de Morais, Maria Reyes Fabregat, and Joyce Hu
Mentor: Gillian Schultz

Blackbird: A Low-Cost, High-performance Bipedal Robot
Presented by: Gabrael Levine
Mentor: Frank Cascarano

CBD Efficacy on Canine Epilepsy and Anxiety
Presented by: Isabella Min
Mentor: Lisa Eshman

Climatocide in the Anthropocene: The Heuristics of Our Planetary Self-Immolation
Presented by: Helton Suzuki
Mentor: Scott Lankford & Brian Evans

Do I Belong Here
Presented by: Matthew Bodo
Mentor: Eta Lin

I'm So Stressed Out
Presented by: Pavini Sethi
Mentor: Eta Lin

Improving CPR through enhanced training: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and improving oxygenation during CPR training
Presented by: Arthur Raymond
Mentor: Scott Lankford

Liquid Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson, Marx, and Life after Climate Change
Presented by: Luis Lechuga-Espadas
Mentor: Scott Lankford

Morality 2.0: How Science Can Prompt Us to Reconsider our Moral Values
Presented by: Hooman Afzalzadeh and Sepp Farazi
Mentor: Ben Stefonik

Predicting Individual Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes to Determine Auxiliary Support Needs: A Computational Approach
Presented by: Russell Yang
Mentor: Rula Khayrallah

The Peripheral of Foreign Diplomacy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back in Azerbaijan’s Turbulent History Under Russian Dominance
Presented by: Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
Mentor: Joseph Woolcock

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