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Africana Studies

American Studies

Anthropology

Archaeology

Art

 

Art History

 

Asian Studies

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

Biology

 

  • Regan Arnold, Modeling Retinoblastoma: Exploring Rbf1’s Role in Eye Development Using Drosophila melanogaster
  • Emily Bennett, The effect of bacterial load on sickness behaviors in American crows
  • Eileen Bussiere, The Effects of Habitat Type on Predation-Induced Fear in Small Mammal Communities
  • Megan Case, Exploration of Microcystin-Related Gene Expression in Freshwater Environments
  • Tessa Cole, Hi-C Resolved Pangenomics of Purple Sulfur Bacteria in Green Lake
  • Luke Ehrenfreund, Seasonal Variation in Sperm Allocation and Spermatophore Characteristics in Male Redback Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)
  • Teagan Graham and Gabriella (Ella) Heftved, Testosterone, inbreeding, and age effects on disease mortality of American Crows
  • Miranda Gregory, Histological Analysis of Oviductal Morphology in Two Species of Lithobates
  • Lilianna Gross and Abigail DeLena, Crowbot™: Investigating behavioral responses in American crows through robotic decoys
  • Faith Hollyer, Identifying nutrient inputs to Oriskany Creek from agriculture and sewage
  • Lisa Ito-Bagshaw, Michael LaPorte, Rebecca Munoz, Zaara Rehman, and Izabo Ramos, Fertilization mode shapes the evolution of novel flagellar structures in amphibians
  • Catherine Iven and Maya Gustavson, The effects of forest composition on rodent seed selection and activity levels
  • Carina Jones, Investigating the Transgenerational Effects of Lead (Pb) Exposure on Drosophila melanogaster
  • Benjamin LaBranche and Lucie Steig, The effect of pH on phenol oxidase and peroxidase activity in salt marsh soils: Testing the efficacy of enhanced olivine weathering
  • Alya MacDonald and Viola (Violet) Cue, Dynamics of the Green Lake Redoxcline: Oxic Methanogenesis and Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Abby Marzec and Shayna Polsky, Synthetic Reconstitution of Meiotic Drive in Ab10 Zea mays using LexA-LexO Tethering System in Yeast
  • Maggie Mieczkowski, Lead-Induced Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila melanogaster
  • Paige O’Hara, Tethering Cse4 via LexA-LexO to Create a Synthetic Kinetochore
  • Zach Orluk and Jordan Chan, Assessing migratory strategies and their effect on American Crow cognition
  • Brianna Padilla, Quantifying Particulate Phosphorus at Various Depths in Phosphorus-Limited Green Lake
  • Trang Pham, Spatial scale of underground freshwater gene flow in the amphipod, G. duebeni
  • Megan Rai and Bea Lefranc, Investigating the Role of Kinesins in Chromosome Segregation
  • Erin Rayhill, Photosynthetic Pigments and Particulate Matter in the Stratified Waters of the Meromictic Green Lake
  • Olivia Rendon Paolo, Assessing Tetrahymena thermophila Cell Viability
  • Jocelyn Rivera, The Effect of Intestinal Parasites on the Cognitive Abilities of American Crows
  • Sarah Roth, Salamander Spermatophore Phenology
  • Taylor Santulli, Electroactive Microbial Community Enrichment in Green Lake
  • Carter Segal and New Nee Sar, Assessing Kinesin-Driven Acentric Plasmid Inheritance in Budding Yeast Utilizing Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Zachary Smith, Investigating Glycogen Metabolism and the Effects of Starvation in Tetrahymena thermophila
  • Emma Tansky, Assessing Associative Learning in American Crows through a Touchscreen Operant Chamber
  • Jennie Weisbrot, Cloning Eyeless and Twin of Eyeless Enhancer Sequences
  • Julie Ying, Microbial H+ -PPase transcription rates in diverse energy environments
  • Lucy Zullo, The effect of inbreeding on the cognitive function of American crows

 

Chemistry

Chinese

  • Harisen Davis, Fashioning Identity: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Clothing and Self-Expression in Detroit and Taiwan
  • Edward (Eddie) Gamble, Beyond State-Sponsored Narratives: Migrant Worker Essentialization in Independent Media
  • Delaney Grace, A Close Reading of The Joy Luck Club (1993): How is Chinese-American Culture and Experiences Portrayed in American Film?
  • Edward (Eddie) Ha, The Transition of Chinese Consumption Habits (1980-2020)
  • Norbu Lhendup, A Critical Reading of Shanghai Noon: The Asian Stereotype in Hollywood Cinema
  • Devin Outhavong, Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Role of Confidence, Motivation, and Socioeconomic Factors in English Learning in China and Taiwan
  • Angela Zheng, From Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation to The Untamed: The Adaptation and Reception of Danmei Literature in Film and Television

Cinema and Media Studies

  • Trevor Wilkes, Horror + Nostalgia in the Internet Era

Classics

Classical Languages
Classical Studies

Computer Science

  • Ahmed Abdelrehim, Maheen Masoud, and Ivan Wu, Irish Tune Composer Recognition
  • Sam Anaevune, Abigail Bernardeau, Jamie Duncan, Ingrid Mast, and Andreas Matejka, Lighthouse Grant Management
  • Ally Berkowitz and Andrew Hadden, Math Policy Tracker
  • Shraddha Datta, Iris Izydorczak, Julian Kimball, and Ilsaa Siddiqui, Mapping Greater India

Dance and Movement Studies

Data Science

Economics

Honors presentations
  • Vaughn Amos, Drug price, insurance coverage, demographic characteristics, and perceived efficacy's influence on consumer choice among GLP-1 agonists
  • Robert Aronson, Ws and Donations: Examining how Athletic Success Impacts Giving at Division One Schools
  • Anoushka Aswin, Analyzing the Impact of Natural Disasters on U.S. Political Polarization
  • Eleanor Bailey, Greenbacks & Green Values: How Real Income Shapes Environmental Attitudes
  • Henry Boehm, Stealing Bases & Fans: The Impact of the 2023 MLB Rule Changes on Attendance, Game Duration, & Offensive Statistics
  • Jeffrey Cheng, The entry of WellNow Urgent Care clinics and its differential effect on reported health outcomes
  • Emanuel Fitsum, Exploring the Relationship Between Relative Income and Happiness Across Life Stages
  • Alexandra Glogoff, Penalty or Power Play: Examining the Influence of Income Tax Rates on NHL Free Agent Salaries
  • Abigail Hagan, Generosity Across Generations: Examining the Influence of Age and Perceived Need  on Intergenerational Giving in the Dictator Game
  • Autumn Halfpenny, Does Bilingualism on Resumes Affect Callback Rates?
  • Akay Kaya, Steering the Market: Common Ownership and Competition in the Automotive Industry
  • Maxwell Lee, Network Centrality and Rent Price Capitalization Along the Washington D.C. Metro: Silver Line Phase I as a Case Study
  • Andreas Molnar, Foul Play? Examining Commonality and Favoritism in Soccer Referees
  • Anoushka Saraf, Impact of the Aspirational Districts Program on Learning Outcomes in India
  • Tristan Sollecito, Improving Access to Golf Within Underrepresented Communities
  • Kate Solowey, The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Mothers Versus Fathers
  • Andrew Swanson, Using Adolescent Marijuana Use and Alcohol and Marijuana Use to Predict Behavioral Problems and Labor Market Outcomes

Environmental Studies

Capstone presentations
 
Thesis research
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French and Francophone Studies

Honors theses

Geosciences

German Studies

Government

Honors theses
  • Nikki Greenberg, How Do Senate Leaders Utilize Social Media to Accomplish Their Goals?
  • Natalie Guterman, The Effect of Political Polarization on National Party Conventions
  • Carter Hollins, The Political Power of Indigeneity: A Hawaiian Case Study
  • Hannah Lipskar, A Jewish and Democratic State: Religion’s Impact on Democratic Backsliding in Israel
  • Daniel Lipson, Moral Responsibility, Political Obligation, and Legitimacy: A Defense of Michael Walzer’s Just War Theory
  • Ainsley Novack, Imperial Legacies: Policing in the Philippines
  • Anna Richardson, Breaking the Safety Net: Understanding Negative Policy Feedback to Welfare in the U.S.

Hispanic Studies

Honors presentations

History

Honors theses
  • Lara Barreira, Networks of Health and Healthcare: Tracing Sickness in a 16th century Spanish Household
  • Rachel Navarro Santos Lion, To the winner, the potatoes: Brazilian National Identity in Literary Work

Interdisciplinary Studies

 

Japanese

  • Chinkhuslen “David” Batbayar, Living in the Image of a Vending Machine: I Sold My Life For 10,000 Yen Per Year
  • Santiago Chamorro, Shin’ichi Hoshi: The Voice of Dystopia
  • Meraly Morales, Cultural Exchange on Stage

Literature

Honors presentations
  • Rachel Budd, Prufrock, Reintegrated: Symbolic Redemption of “Prufrock” in Four Quartets
  • Toby Weissman, Immaterial Resistance in Faulkner’s Materialist World

 

Mathematics and Statistics

Honors projects

Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies

 

Music

Neuroscience

  • Elizabeth Carnright and Michelle Wu, Incoming Text from the ERN: You’ve Made a Mistake
  • Favour George-Ikechi, The Impact of Estradiol on Psychological Disorders Among College
  • Michael Fasano, The Role of Miro1 in Axon Pathways from the Cortex
  • Students
  • Sophia Katz (with psychology major Georgia Brown), Influence of Reward on Holistic Strategy Use in Visuomotor Adaptation
  • Charles Portoviejo, Evaluating the Impact of IL-6 in Self-Perceived Health and OCD Symptoms in Adult Participants
  • Bailey Reese (with psychology major Deanna Durben), Neural Correlates of Explicit Strategy Use in Visuomotor Rotation
  • Caroline Ross, Does Cronotype Affect Visual Search?
  • Jonathan Shi (with psychology major Cecily Bua), The Impact of Scaffolding on Learning Complex Tasks
  • Emma Toes (with psychology major Anna Zoccolillo), Does Error Processing Relate to Negative Affect and Right Wing Authoritarianism?

Philosophy

  • Caroline Friedrichs, The Paradox of True Friendship
  • Tinashe Manguwa, Ethics of Ambiguity
  • Avery Mason, Faith and Reason: A Post-Rational Depiction of Religious Faith
  • Hank Morgan, Virtuous Tribalism: How to Balance Morality and Practicality in Social Organization
  • Carlos Pichardo, Natural Buddhism: The Dangers and Merits of Secular Readings of Buddhism
  • Ashley Scheichet, Bridging Care and Justice: A Capabilities Approach to Ethical Educational Decision Making
  • Stephen Socolow, Collaborative Instruction in Logic: How to Teach Formal Logic to First-Time Philosophy Students
  • Christina Stoll, Curiosity, Agency, Creativity, and AI
  • Olivia Strigh, How AI Influences Beliefs Through Cognitive Extension
  • Jaden Valencia, In Defense of Private Language
  • Ivan Wu, Two Accounts of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities and Their Problems
  • Tilly Zwirn-Givnish, Run, Scream, Repeat: The Ethical Implications of Women’s Depictions in Slasher Films

Physics

Psychology

  • Naomi Andrew, Self-Compassion and Reactions to Imagining Being Confronted for Having Committed a Microaggression
  • Charlie Archer, The lmprovement of Early lntervention Treatment in Schizophrenia
  • Julian Arky, Eve Karmozyn, and Adele Sales, Whose to Blame? The Effect of Gender Similarity, Stereotypicality, and Perspective on Blame
  • Georgia Brown (with neuroscience major Sophia Katz), Influence of Reward on Holistic Strategy Use in Visuomotor Adaptation
  • Cecily Bua (with neuroscience major Jonathan Shi), The Impact of Scaffolding on Learning Complex Tasks
  • Deanna Durben (with neuroscience major Bailey Reese), Neural Correlates of Explicit Strategy Use in Visuomotor Rotation
  • Anais Geronimo, Who Blames Victims of Rape? Exploring the Role of Self-Compassion, Perspective Taking, Perceived Vulnerability, and Gender
  • Abby Hagan, Do Your Parents Predict Your Friends?
  • David Hynes, Understanding Motivations for Substance Use in College Students with ADHD
  • Hannah Ju, “This is Not Who I Am”: Reducing Defensive Responding with Self-Compassion
  • Rachel Parajuli, The Psychology of Recidivism: How Attributions, Criminal Identity, and Self-Stigma Shape Reoffending
  • Morgan Pettee, Gender Differences in Friendship Helping Behaviors
  • Alyssa Samuels, Defending Emotion: The Effect of Attorney Anger and Authenticity on Jury Decisions
  • Joey Tarlavsky, A Little Self Love: Awe, the Small Self, and Self-Compassion
  • Makenna Thomas, The Perceived Competence of Female Attorneys Based on Appearance and lnternalized Misogyny
  • Abby Weiss, The Use of Social Media For Friendship Fulfillment: How Age and Gender lmpact this Relationship
  • Anna Zoccolillo (with neuroscience major Emma Toes), Does Error Processing Relate to Negative Affect and Right Wing Authoritarianism?

Public Policy

Honors presentations

Religious Studies

  • Oumoul Diallo, Empowering Indonesian Muslim Women: The Role of Nahdlatul Ulama in Advancing Gender Equality
  • Johnathan Nemetz, Where's Your Judaism?: Jewish Identity at a Liberal Arts Campus
  • Kirk Petrie, The Lived Experience of Contemporary Christian Music

Russian Studies

Sociology

Theatre

  • Jessica Campuzano, directing, adapted excerpt from act two of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Leslie De La Rosa, acting, playing the roles of Inez and Norca in Hamilton’s Mainstage production of Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • Sydney Evans, staged play directing, Touch the Moon by Arianna Rose
  • David Li, written and staged play/devisement, Organic A Bomb presents: WAITING FOR Godot Grokked
  • Maggie Marks, writing, stage reading, BREAK: a short play
  • Kiara Nelson, scene design, Sizwe Banse is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona
  • Rosey Pineda, staged play directing, The Penitent by Vincent Scarsella
  • Trevor Wilkes, staged play design, The Penitent by Vincent Scarsella

 

Women’s and Gender Studies

World Politics

Honors theses
  • Zach Booth, Pork, Positions, and Pressure: Legislative Bargaining Among Outsider Populists
  • Marissa Duffy, Reevaluating Foreign Aid in Nigeria and Botswana: Challenges with the World Bank’s Classification and Graduation Process
  • Lena Klink, Atlanticism vs. Autonomy: Testing Theories of Integration to Analyze France and Germany’s Preferences for EU Defense Policy Cooperation
  • Billy Marin, Same-sex Marriage and the Right in Latin America
  • Christian McCann, When Dictators Defy: A Study of Autocrats and their Compliance with Human Rights Treaties
  • Mia McGrath, Between Regions and Realities: Lessons from the Gulf Cooperation Council’s Stalled Trade Negotiations
  • Gabby Nakkab, Shifting the “Refugee Burden:” UNHCR as a Surrogate State in Lebanon
  • Elizabeth Oakes, Lending for Leverage: Understanding China's Lending Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

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