2025 Senior Thesis Topics

American Studies

Anthropology

Practices and Performances of Selfhood

• Lane Barsh, Forever Becoming: Wellness Rituals, Neoliberal Demands, and the Pursuit of the Future Self
• Harriet Xu, The Presentation and Performance of Self Through Clothing Choice
• Cecilia Nourie, Making Time: Notions of ‘Self’ in the Commodification of Home and Heritage through Online ‘Aesthetic’ Culture
• Angela Escalante Zarco, Fragments of Trade: Ceramic Insights from a Historical Central New York Household

College Classrooms and Institutions

• Shan Worrell, A Synopsis of Black Women Seniors at Hamilton College as they Narrate their Experiences in Higher Education
• Sophie Gamble, Marketing U: Selling Hamilton in a Neoliberal Context
• Shraddha Datta, Using Technology in Liberal Arts: Navigating the “Real World” at Hamilton College

Identities, Place, and Space

• Grace Park, Our Daily Rice Cake: A Comparative Ethnography of Faith, Belonging, and Generational Tension in Korean American Churches
• Kritika Ghimire, Global Education, Local Inequality: How Nepali Students Learn to Leave
• Brandon Yam, Seeing Spaces and Between: A Social Syntax Analysis of Household Strata at 5MT123
• Nicole Soret, Social, Social, Social: Narratives of Migration and the Conception of the "Bad" Migrant in Jackson Heights, NY

College Extracurriculars

• Roselin Pineda, After Hours: Deconstructing “Safe Spaces” in Collegiate Fun
• Elena Dickison, Doing Something': Race, Performance, and Activism in an Elite College Setting
• Charlotte Quinn, The Language of Gender & Sexuality: An Ethnographic Study of Division III Collegiate Softball
• Willa Karr, Being a Good Friend: Neoliberal Expectations and the Search for Authentic Connection at Hamilton College

Archaeology

Art

 

Art History

• Sara Fischer, Antisemitic Imagery in the Age of Social Media
• Gabby Johnson, Curation and Colonialism: Exhibitions of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada
• Alexander Levine, “The Signature of One Artist, the Work of One Wrist”: Creativity and Conversation in Helen Frankenthaler’s Later Work
• Sylvie Najarian, Then and Now: Design-Build Architecture
• Hadley Noonan, Reclaiming Rose Valland: The Jeu de Paume’s Unlikely Spy
• Taylor Scatliffe, From Scientific Object to Artistic Subject: The Black Female Body in Dissection and Sculpture

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

• John Carbone, Further Exploring Fluoropyridyl Ethers as Leaving Groups in Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Allylation Reactions
• Caroline Chapman, Effects of Different Carbon Sources on T. thermophila Growth
• Jeffrey Cheng, Optimized Reaction Conditions for Amide Bond Formation in the Synthesis of a Fibrin-Targeted Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Probe
• Chrissy Crespo, TLR2/7 Agonist CL413 Enhances Influenza A Vaccine Response in Mice
• *Marissa Duffy, Ab10 Identification in Native Species of Zea mays
• *Owen Dzierzgowski, [Title Forthcoming]
• Kayli Franco, Tethering Cse4 via LexA-LexO to Create a Synthetic Kinetochore
• Lainey Groll, From Pond to Proteome, Comparing Protein Expression and Composition of Reproductive Structures in Frogs and Toads
• Madison Hopkins, Direct Amide Bond Formation Catalyzed by the Spore Peptidoglycan Biosynthetic Enzyme SwsB
• Ryan Howard, Investigating Permanent Decrease in pH in T. thermophila Food Vacuoles
• Layla Jarrahy, Ciliate Macronuclei Shape Analysis and Evolutionary History
• Dasomie Kim, Macrocyclization of Peptide Pharmaceuticals via Ultrasound-Assisted Disulfide Bond Formation at Infinite Dilution Condition
• Joe Kubofcik, Synthesis of Fluorescent Probes Targeting Somatostatin Receptor II for In Vivo Macrophage Imaging in Carotid Plaque
• Zach Lucchini, Progress Toward the Purification and Characterization of the Germinant Glycosidase CwlJ
• Abbie Morin, The Role of Retinal Determination Genes During Retinoblastoma Formation
• *Michael Ngaw, Investigating Maize’s Abnormal Chromosome 10 Kinesin Proteins and Their Efficacy at Segregating a Whole Chromosome in Yeast
• Ryan Rahman, Ultrasound-Assisted Cyclization of Cardioactive Peptides
• Isis Riviere, Unlocking the Potential of Biomass, Optimizing 5-HMF Oxidation to FDCA via Bimetallic Catalysis
• Amy Shanahan, From Pond to Proteome, Comparing Protein Expression and Composition of Reproductive Structures in Frogs and Toads
• Jacob Spafford, Stereochemistry of Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Allylation Reaction
• Will Strutton, The Synthesis and In Silico Analysis of Pyridinyl Indoles Displaying Antimicrobial Activity
• Katie Wetmore, Investigating the Metal and pH Dependence of the Sporulation Enzyme SwsB Using a Minimal Peptidoglycan Substrate
• Jayme Wilde, Progress Toward the Purification and Characterization of the Germinant Glycosidase CwlJ
• *Sean Zhang, Ab10 Identification in Native Species of Zea mays
   

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

• Taylor Bartels, Characterization of PaaA and PaaB Activity in Pantocin A Biosynthesis toward Structural Determination of Key Species
• Christophe Boivin, Enhancing CO2 Electrocatalysis by Cobalt Phthalocyanine through Electrostatic Interactions with Cationic ROMP Copolymers
• Amanda Browne, Rational Design of Pyridine:Phenol Co-polymers Immobilized in CoPc for the Electrocatalytic CO2RR
• Lauren Hanna, Reaction Optimization for Green Synthesis of Cardioactive Peptide
• Nestor Martinez, Benchmarking Electrocatalytic Polymers for the CO2RRc
• Andreas Matejka, Using MOF-303 to Filter Synthetic Dyes from Water
• Ian Vogelsang, The Design of Materials for the Facilitation of Electrochemical Reactions
• Allie Yanco, Post-Annealing Immersion of Terbium Metal-Organic Frameworks in Silica Glass
• Daniel Zheng, Developing a Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Allenylation Mechanism

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

• Andrew Hadden, The Impact of AI-Generated Film on Media and Creativity
• Jane Jeong, Little Forest(s): A comparative analysis on conceptions of community
• Kenneth Rix, AI and the Evolution of ACG and Deep Fakes: Technological Transformations and Global Concerns

Honors presentation

• Trevor Wilkes, Nostalgic Horror: Violence and Spectatorship in the Internet Era -- A Video Essay

Classics

• Andrew Brennan, The Power of the People: How the Plebeians effected change in the Roman Republic
• Tate Burgin, Vergil’s Characterization of Aeneas in The Aeneid
• Angela Escalante Zarco, The Gorgon Reclaimed: Tracing the Cultural and Symbolic Evolution of Medusa from Classical Antiquity to Contemporary Feminist Narratives
• Adele Sales, The Mirror and the Voice: Narcissus and Echo in the Digital Age
• Jonathan Shi, Medical Knowledge in Antiquity: Empirical vs “Divination” interventions Juxtaposed 

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
• Grace Johnson, Will Cho, Jun Cho, and Connor Whynott, Software for Visualizing, Analyzing, and Classifying Spectrum Data
• Bryce Molnar, Hadrian Fratarcangeli, Mia Chervenkova, and Alexis Ortiz, Digital Edition and Analysis of the Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans
• Tyler Rodenberger, Luke Struthers, Michael Stewart, and Sydney Eriksson, Electron Spin Resonance Experiments
• Jude Rouhana, Edward Rosenbaum, Pandelis Margaronis, and Kien Tran, Velocity-Based Training System for Hamilton Athletics
• Eddie Trenk, Jacob Mair, Ryhory Hatavets, and Ahn Truong, Automation and Dashboard for Jupyter Server Management in Education
• Gianna Verdi, Alex Herr, Carl Brinkman, and Nisha Stills ’26, Class Management System for Kirkland Art Center
• Kerry Wang, Jayden Federoff, David Batbayer, and Jacob Helnzer ’26, Software for Optimizing Pre-Health Course Planning
• Cooper Xu, Brian Tran, Ryan Connors, and Teja Singh, Historical Parliamentary Proceedings and Acts of Parliament

 

Creative Writing

 

Data Science

Honors presentation

Adam Koplik, Managing Commodity Risk: Simulating Corn and Soybean Meal Prices for Smarter Hedging

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

• Alexandra M. Bailey, The Arctic Popularity Contest: Coverage of Charismatic Animals in Scientific and Popular Articles
• Amelia B. Brown, Clearing the Air: An Equity Analysis of Air Quality Monitor Distribution in Southern California
• Heather G. Doyle, “Pow(d)er to the People”: Exclusivity and Accessibility in the Colorado Ski Industry
• Aidan M. Held, The Environmental Implications of Planned Obsolescence and Right to Repair
• Benjamin H. LaBranche, Sea-Level Rise in Boston: Who is affected and how does data impact funding for coastal resilience projects?
• Teghan Q. Michelson, Burning Inequality: How Socioeconomic factors shape wildfire vulnerability disparities in Southern California
• Wendy Ortega-Quezada, Toxic Transparency: Improving Public Access to Air Pollution and TRI 1:00 Data in Houston, Texas
• Zaara S. Rehman, Variations in Representation: Ocean Acidification Data Disparities Between the Global North and South
• Ella N. Scott, Data Centers and Urban Planning: Understanding the Environmental and Social Impacts of Data Storage in Minneapolis and Saint Paul
• Brendan S. Stewart, Public park accessibility trends in Dallas County, Texas
• Sasha Youn, Equity in Solarity: A Comparative Analysis of Communities With and Without Solar Farms

Capstone Panel Presentations

Panel 1

• Mattie Buneta, Queer Environmental Data Justice
• Jordan Chan, Racist Perceptions of Bushmeat: How Science and Conservation Perpetuates Stereotypes
• Eve Rudin, Diversity in Citizen Science: A Push for Demographic-Based Participation Strategies in Anticipation of a Worsening Climate Crisis

Panel 2

• Meliya Soller, Flooded with Injustices: Procedural Environmental Justice and the FEMA Flood Mapping Process
• Betsy Gross, Rethinking Green Progress: Procedural Injustice in The Rezoning and Development of the Gowanus Canal
• Luke Peplowski, Techno-Optimistic and AI Expansion

Panel 3

• Anna Hoover, Land, Justice, and Sovereignty: Addressing the Legal Obstacles to Meaningful Tribal Co-Stewardship
• Emily Younkin, The Path Home: Returning to Indigenous Methodologies and Epistemologies in Bison Restoration Efforts
• Jade Joyce, Nature, Peer Reviewed: Colonial Reason and the Ethical Debris of Global Climate Science

Thesis Research

• Austin Cipriano, Warming up to heat pumps: Navigating barriers to heat pump adoption in New York State households
• Charlotte Clark, Ashes to Ashes: Analyzing peri-urban forest dynamics and the carbon costs of the Emerald Ash Borer infestation
• Sarah DeSanto, B*ck this! Investigating the effect of European buckthorn on the pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi
• Calvin Doherty, From field to stream: Exploring the impacts of land use on surface water quality in Sauquoit Creek, NY
• Scott Levy, Interscalar wormholes: Supermarkets, local foods, and a politics of scale
• Elise Mizerak, Degrowth: An urbanist, civic republican approach
• Bella Ocava, Put down the tote bag: Building a real relationship with the environment
• Quinn Perkins, Measuring soil carbon from agriculture to forest: A case study of Hamilton College’s reforestation initiative
• Becca Perry, Appetite for community: Understanding how small-scale, local farmers build vital relationships within Central New York
• Ethan Tarini, Hiding people not yet here: The absence of pro- and anti-natalism in climate mitigation
• Anna Yankee, Scaling sustainability: Collaborative approaches and multidimensional scopes of responsibility at Starbucks and Forno Brisa

French and Francophone Studies

Honors theses

Geosciences

• Audrey Alix, Changes in Land Cover and Surface Temperature in the Utica, NY area
• Adeera Batlay, Tephrochronological analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene Chemeron Formation, Baringo Basin, Kenya: Refining stratigraphy and constraining chronology of vertebrate fossil sites
• Amelia Brown, Heavy Metal Contamination from Coin Corrosion in Freshwater Systems: A Case Study of Wakulla Springs, Florida
• Patrick Dicus, What’s in our water? Quantifying and analyzing dissolved ions and their possible sources in Oriskany Creek.
• Stella Essenmacher, Characterizing Ground Deformation at Whakaari/White Island from 2016-2024
• Andrew Federicks, Determining seasonal variability in the Omo-Turkana Basin from the Pleistocene to modern using ostracod stable isotope analysis
• Connor Grand, Developing a SWAT+ Model for the Oriskany Creek Basin in Upstate New York
• Charlie Haberstock, Evaluating Strain at the ancient San Andreas
• Abby Lonnegren, Potential Unrecognized Neoarchean Metamorphism in the East Pilbara Terrane: Insights from Monazite Uranium-Lead Geochronology
• Katie Moses, Identifying Predation Preferences on Freshwater Gastropods Using a New Quantification Methodology
• Tripp Peters, Constraining the Timing of Paleoarchean Doming in the East Pilbara Terrane: a Structural Study of the Wilina Pluton
• Jay Pratt, The River Bank: Heavy Metal Pollution from Coins and Impacts to Freshwater Molluscan Communities
• Xavier Schlemmer, Growing Pains of an Adolescent Earth: How did the Northeast Margin of the Shaw Dome, Western Australia, deform during emplacement?
• Claire S. Williams, Geologic mapping and kinematics of the Androscoggin Riverlands Shear Zone

German Studies

• Joe Cairns, Die Propaganda-Maschine: An Evaluation of Antisemitic Nazi Propaganda
• Lainey Groll, The Sedated Soul: Physical Illness and the Decay of Bourgeois Ideals in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain

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

• Eleanor Bailey, El flamenco como un gesto de deseo
• Katie Bielinski, Palabra y agencia en Malinche, novela de Laura Esquivel
• Zachary Booth, Narrar el trauma: Evolución de la figura del veterano en la literatura post-Malvinas
• Eliza Glass, Capitalismo y poder estatal en Huasipungo: Una crítica desde la teoría de la dependencia
• Josh Harmon, Réquiem por un campesino español, El cuarto de atrás y Soldados de Salamina como lieux de mémoire
• Michael Ko, Memoria en la música: Charly García como creador de lugares de memoria
• Christie Lam, Cuando las calles hablan: El barrio como personaje en las películas In the Heights (2021) y West Side Story (1961 & 2021)
• Alexandra Orlando, Cuerpos descartables y misoginia narco: Cosificación y agencia femenina en María, llena eres de gracia (2004)
• Anna Peterson, Maternidad e identidad: La reescritura poética de la experiencia femenina bajo el franquismo
• Sam Pettengill, 'Detenerle parecía imposible': formas del control en la segunda parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha
• Anna Richardson, En su propia voz: la construcción de una nueva feminidad en los cuentos de Carme Riera y Marina Mayoral
• Eve Rudin, El espejo animal: reflejos y reflexiones de la marginalización femenina y queer. La literatura de Amparo Dávila, Guadalupe Nettel y Clyo Mendoza
• Sophia Viscarello, Un peregrinaje mágico: amor, dolor y la condición humana en Doce cuentos peregrinos
• Kathryn Woodruff, Hacia un futuro queer: Memoria histórica y novelas actuales de mujeres sáficas bajo el franquismo

History

Honors theses

• Lara Barreira, Networks of Health and Healthcare: Tracing Sickness in a 16th century Spanish Household
• John Donohue, Tea, Tomahawks, and Truth: Native American Imagery and Historical Memory of the Boston Tea Party
• Luke Hayes, All I Know Is What I Don’t Read In The Papers: Reconsidering William Dudley Pelley (1928-1939)
• Akay Kaya, The Bassigny Prophecy and the Enduring Power of Medieval French Millenarianism
• Nicole McDonough, Irish Family Memory: Narrating Systems of Support, Ethnicity, and Pedigree through Correspondence
• Rachel Navarro Santos Lion, To the winner, the potatoes: Brazilian National Identity in Literary Work
• Mikaella Tortusa, Digitizing Modernity from the Margins: The Making of a New Filipino Nationhood
• Maximilian Wohlfeld, Reporting Korea: The Black Press’ Fusion of Anti-Communism and Colored Internationalism During the Korean War (1950-1954)

Interdisciplinary Studies

Interdisciplinary Studies in Food Studies

• Sabina Feder, Stirring the Pot: Redefining Food Security Work in Utica

Interdisciplinary Studies in Italian Studies

• Emma Toes, Life Underneath the Paintbrush: An Analysis of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Human Dissections for Art

• Interdisciplinary Studies in Digital Design

  Markos Lissarrague, Connecting to Nature Through Design

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
• Jayden Fedoroff, Changes in Speech Style Patterns and Politeness Strategies Among L2 Japanese Learners
• Meraly Morales, Cultural Exchange on Stage
• Devin Outhavong, Authenticity of First Person Pronoun (FPP) and Sentence Final Particle (SFP) in BL Manga
• Nguyen Vo, Idols Beyond Borders: A Comparative Study of J-POP and K-POP Through Appadurai’s Global Cultural Flows

 

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

 

Neuroscience

• Amirtha Bharathan and Erika Mendez, Effects of Puberty blocker and Hormone Replacement Therapy in a Male Rat Model
• Maeve Browne, Ella Crawford, and Caroline Grant, Investigating the Neural Circuitry of Amphetamine Reinstatement in Rats
• Elizabeth Carnright and Michelle Wu, Incoming Text from the ERN: You’ve Made a Mistake
• Michael Fasano, The Role of Miro1 in Axon Pathways from the Cortex
• Favour George-Ikechi, The Impact of Estradiol on Psychological Disorders Among College Students
• Jenny Gidicsin, Investigating the Role of Miro1 in Hippocampal Morphology and Long-Term Spatial Memory
• Lilah Hamill and Ali Joseph, An Investigation of the DREADD Mechanism Through c-fos Analysis
• Sophia Katz (with psychology major Georgia Brown), Influence of Reward on Holistic Strategy Use in Visuomotor Adaptation
• Addie Kujovsky, The Role of Parental Support in the Relationship Between Sibling Disability and Brain Development
• David Levine, Evaluating Retrograde and Non-Retrograde Cre-GFP Label in Neurons that Project to the Nucleus Accumbens.
• Abigail Lowder, Modeling Glioblastoma Angiogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
• Gabriela Munoz Rojas, Microglial Activation in Miro1 Knockout Mice and its Role in Neurodegenerative Disease
• Hope Obolanle and Nate Parker, Uncovering the Role of the Dopamine System in Lead- Induced Hyperactivity in Drosophila melanogaster
• Thuy Pham, Examining Hypothalamic Hormone Expression in Miro1 Knockout Mice
• 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
• Seth Tobin, Miro1 and its Role in Fear Memory
• Emma Toes (with psychology major Anna Zoccolillo), Does Error Processing Relate to Negative Affect and Right Wing Authoritarianism?
• Helen Xin, Lead Exposure Disrupts Developmental and Octopamine Signaling Pathways in Drosophila melanogaster Through Epigenetic Gene Silencing
   

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

• Peter Jones, Characterization of Heterodimer of Cr7Mn Using Custom Loop Gap Resonators
• Maya Kannan, Can we use NETMAP, an algebraic method for recovering the parameters of resonator networks, for electronic circuits?
• Nina Neumann ’26, Distance Distribution Modeling in Spin Systems Using DEER Spectroscopy
• Elizabeth Price, Get to the Chopper: Developing the Time of Flight System for the BL3 Neutron Lifetime Experiment
• Toby Weismann, Characterizing the Thermal Gradient Within Professor Collett's ESR Cryostat
• George Wieser, Building an Analog Synthesizer
• Daniel Zheng, DV-502 Thermal Evaporation System: Leak Detection and Thin Film Deposition

 

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
• Omar Bargout, Coping With Fear: Fear-Based Quality of Life and Coping Behaviors During COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents
• Mad Bartlett, The Imposter Phenomenon and Disability in Post-secondary Education Adaptation
• Eliza Behrke and Katie O’Shea, Love Thyself: The Impact of Self-Compassion on Negative Affect and Depression Following Social Exclusion
• Annika Benn, Eva Pearlman, and Hannah Vogt, The Impact of Role Play for Children: Exploring Attention, Creativity, and Character Complexity
• 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
• Virginia Davis, Childhood Emotional Neglect, Emotion Regulation, and the Role of Family Income
• Jamie Duncan, Ask Me Again After Immersion: The Impact of Language Immersion Experiences on the Moral Foreign Language Effec
• 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
• Alex Glogoff, Examining Family Emotional Context as a Mediator between SES and Emotion Regulation in Adolescence
• Madison Goodman-Leong, Food for Thought: The Impact of Nutritional Supplements on Depression Treatment
• Abby Hagan, Do Your Parents Predict Your Friends?
• Melina Haskel and Olivia Todd, From College to Career: Predicting Outcomes of Alumni with ADHD Symptomatology
• 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
• Paige McKenzie, Cognitive Tug-of-War: How Attention Bias Toward Threat Mediates the Relationship Between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Executive Function in Children Over Time
• Rachel Parajuli, The Psychology of Recidivism: How Attributions, Criminal Identity, and Self-Stigma Shape Reoffending
• Kirk Petrie, The Effect of Media Exposure on PTSD and Perceived Stress in Adolescents following Hurricane Irma: The Moderating Role of Gender
• Morgan Pettee, Gender Differences in Friendship Helping Behaviors
• Alyssa Samuels, Defending Emotion: The Effect of Attorney Anger and Authenticity on Jury Decisions
• Mady Schiro, When You Can’t Read the Vibe: How Cringey Behavior Affects Blame and Moral Character Judgments
• Diya Singh, An Influencer’s Influence: How Construed Framing Affects Moral Judgment of Sponsored Content
• Drew Stimson, Gaby Toppelberg, and Sophia Viscarello, Wait for It! Peer Influence on Self-Control in Children Ages 3-5
• 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
• Via Zhou, The Impact of Acculturation State on Internalizing Symptoms
• 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

Honors Presentation

• Kirk Petrie, The Use of Sacred Music in Christian Worship in Central New York

Russian Studies

• Naval Lappalainen, Personality in Power: A Trait-Based Analysis of Putin’s Responses to Terrorism

Sociology

• Maia Chakin, A Campus Divided?: Comparing Perspectives on Identity Politics at an Elite Liberal Arts Institution
• Irena Chen, Oops! I Might Really Need Help!: Socioeconomic Background and Learning How to Seek Help
• Hana Dolan, Coloring Inside the Lines: Racial Identity in the World of PWIs
• Deanna Durben, Stigma Management Strategies in Autistic College Students
• Allie Ennis, Bridging Home and School: The Impact of Social Class on Parent-Teacher Interactions
• Sebastian Ghosh, Thunder Lizards: Unpacking the Dynamics of Startup Survival and Success in the Technology Industry
• Mia Horvath, Is Kamala Brat?: Gen-Z, Trust, and Pop Culture as an Agent of Political Mobilization
• Diego Inzunza, Spectrums: A Qualitative Analysis of Individual Experiences Across the Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Neurodivergence
• Katie Krebs, Masculinity On and O? the Court: Male College Athletes and the Performance of Gender
• Esme Leach, Shattering Stigma or Building Barriers: Understanding Mental Health Seeking Behavior at Hamilton College
• Niamh McDade Clay, What’s In a Label?: Identity Formation and Negotiation Among Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Feminists
• Rachel Shin, Artificial Intelligence and Physicians: Perspectives, Experiences, and Resistance to Changing Dynamics in the Healthcare System
• Julia Smith, ‘What’s the right thing to post?’: Collaboration and Constrainment in Reproductions of the Instagram Anorexia Recovery Subculture
• Lauryn Socha, Just Here for the Season: Precarity, Privilege, and Belonging in a Western Ski Town
• Sara Temple, UPHOLDING IDEOLOGICAL REALITIES: Assessing Political Influencers’ Rhetorical Strategies Surrounding the 2024 Election
• Katt Withers, The Good Coach: An Investigation of How Moral Ideals, Gender, and Division Level Influence Collegiate Swim Coaches

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 121^st 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, staged 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

• Isa Cardoso, Songwriting for the Queer Liberation: On the Radical Potential of Music in the Lives of Queer People
• Phoebe Gray, Dear Grandma: Connecting, Conversing, and Communing across Generations
• Val Laurianti, Women in the Woods: How Senior Women Construct Identity through the Outdoors
• Abby Marzec, Disabling the “Good” Mom: The Making of Accessible Motherhoods

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