Highlights from the 2025 BHC Symposium

The Bay Honors Consortium offers community college students the opportunity to present their honors research projects at some of the most prestigious university campuses in California. This year, it was held at UC Berkeley.
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, nineteen of our members represented the Las Positas Honors Transfer Program at this momentous event. LPC Honors students made up the largest group of student presenters from a single community college at this symposium.
LPC Finalists: The Heslet Scholar Award
"This award, named after Mary Lou Heslet, a former Foothill College Honors Director and a founding member of the Honors Research Symposium team, is the grand prize of the Symposium. Every year, finalists are selected by the Proposal Committee based on the promise of their abstracts. A team of community college Honors Faculty judges views the finalist presentations and selects the winner" --> more info HERE
Raza Ali (Training and Refining a Machine Learning Model for Field Wildlife Detection)

Brittany Robles-Camacho & André Valle (Comparing First and Second-Generation Hispanic/Latino Immigrants: Investigating the Hispanic Paradox)
List of Presenters

(listed in order of appearance) 2025 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM PDF
Mattea Gutierrez (“Is This Okay?” Asian Americans and Their Children’s Stories)
Rebecca Lee (Bugging the Soil: How Pillbugs and Red Wigglers Boost Earth’s Health)
Dasha Orel (A Demand for Effective Environmental Self-Regulation at Lawrence Livermore National Labs)
Sidhant Parashar (Decoding Bitcoin Trends: Using Mathematics to Create Custom Cryptocurrency Market Indicators For Trading)
Pavan Siddharth Kosuru (Geospatial Image Analysis: Effects of Wind and Coal Power Plants on Astronomical Visibility)
Aisha Gupta & Daniel Zhang (Revolutionizing Exoplanet Habitability: A Novel Framework for Dynamic Classification and Data Imputation)
Rifa Sipai (Better Dead Than Diagnosed? The Deadly Impact of Cultural Stigmas on Help-Seeking Behaviors and the Suicide Rate in India)
Mia Wierzba (Young Adult Women’s Experience with ADHD)
Grant Young (From Calm to Chaos: The Impact of Music Genre on Exam Stress and Self-Perceived Performance)
Raza Ali (Training and Refining a Machine Learning Model for Field Wildlife Detection)
Crystal Zhu (Visualizing Medicine: Art as a Lens into Medical Discourse)
Cassandra Smith (Influenced by the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Consumer Behavior in College Students)
Ella Herndon (Enhancing Sustainable Architecture with Insights from Historical Modernism and Postmodernism)
Cheryl Cheung (Breaking Bonds, Not Spirits: Evaluating Computational Tools for Beginner Chemists)
Rohit Kancharla (The Calculus of Trust: Blockchain through the Lens of Mathematics)
Brittany Robles-Camacho & Andre Valle (Comparing First and Second-Generation Hispanic/Latino Immigrants: Investigating the Hispanic Paradox)
Kiran Waraich (Can You See Me? Navigating Intersectional Identities’ Role in Community College Students Pursuing Higher Education)
Shaan Singh (Effects of Caffeine and Polyphenols on Planarian Regeneration)
Anatoly Tsigelnik (Exploring the Six Degrees of Separation)
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Published November 24, 2025


