The Senior Program
All senior physics students work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive one-semester project combines original scientific research with reading and understanding the scientific literature. It culminates in a senior thesis that is defended in a series of oral presentations. The Senior Program reflects Hamilton's commitment to a strong grounding in writing and public speaking.
Recent projects in physics include:
- Happy and You Know It: Predicting Happiness in College Students
- Psychopathic Traits in College Populations: An Examination of Biological Sex, Aggression, and Facial Affect Recognition
- The Adjustment to College: Comparing Models of Parent and Peer Support on Emotional School Engagement and Academic Achievement
- Does Food-Related Thought Suppression Result in the Defensive Protection of Anti-Fat Biases?
- How Media Literacy Programs Can Override the Media’s Objectification of Women
- Defensive Self-Esteem as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Ego Threat and Anxiety
- Is Implicit Race Bias Associated with Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Problem Behavior?
- The Misinformation Effect and the Factors of Visual Perspective, Emotion, and Symptomatology
- Nontraditional Adjustment to College: Comparing First Years Entering in the Fall Versus the Spring
- Self-Harm, Alcohol Misuse, and Disordered Eating: Is Self-harm Replaced by More Acceptable Coping Strategies in Young Adulthood?
- Risk and Resilient Functioning Among Maltreated Adolescents with Disabilities
- Coping with Negative Affect: Examining Adaptive and Maladaptive Behavioral Coping Strategies Among College Students
- Social Networking Websites as an Assessment Tool Within the Hiring Process
- The Usability of College Admissions Websites Among Students with Learning Disabilities
- The Fallibility of Eyewitness Memory: Implications and Protections in the Courtroom
- The English Lens: Comparing Student Perceptions of Support and Belonging on Campus
- You Should ‘Insta’ That: An Unfiltered Look at Attitudes, Motivations, and Habits of Instagram and the Impact of Social Media Exposure on Self-Esteem and Mood
- The Effect of Heteronormative Advertising on the Brand Recall of Gays and Lesbians
- Information Overload: The Inverse Relationship Between Information and Experts’ Prediction Accuracy
- The Effects of Misinformation and the Own-Race Bias on Eyewitness Testimony
- Ethnic and Racial Identity and Academic Achievement Among International College Students: The Role of Acculturation
- Risk and Resiliency: Examining the Relationship between Language Brokering, Cultural Socialization, and Family Conflict among Adolescents
- The Role of Functional Behavior Assessment in Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder Interventions Appropriate for the General Education Setting
- The Effects of Music Videos and Video Games on Young Adults’ Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors
- Is Emotional Intelligence a Good Predictor of Job Performance Across Race/Ethnicity?
- The Effects of Counter-dispositional Behavior on Extroverts and Introverts
- Are We Well ‘Liked’? Comparing Facebook and Instagram Usage and Related Perceptions in Undergraduate Students
- Matching Person to Media: How Individual Differences Relate to Learning Preferences and Outcomes
- To Your Face, on Your Facebook, or on Yik Yak? College Students’ Perceptions of Relational Aggression
- The Overgenerality Effect and PTSD: An Evaluation and Assessment of the Underlying Mechanisms
- Civic Engagement in College Students: Are They Socially Responsible?
- Prehospital Pain Management: Attitudes of Mohawk Valley Advanced Life Support Providers
