2026 Senior Thesis Topics

American Studies

Anthropology

Archaeology

Art

 

Art History

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

Biology

 

Chemistry

Chinese

• Katherine Appleman, Natural Disaster Mitigation in Taiwan
• Jack Gaillard, The Effect of Social Media Content on American Opinions of China
• Sandor Lin, Navigating Bicultural Identity: Psychological and Social Experiences of Chinese American College Students

 

Cinema and Media Studies

Classics

 

Computer Science

• Angel Apollos, Ricaldo Lewis, and Mia Wrisley, Preventing Wishcycling with the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority
• Charlie Beard and Lulu Ceccon, An Updated and Maintainable Audio Library for CS 101
• Hank Elsesser, Jules Henderson, Jack Kertscher, and Josh Smith, Analytics for Hamilton's Softball Team
• Javi Garcia and Tyrone Xue, A System to Prevent Removing Watermarks from Digital Photographs
• Bakir Husremovic, Kevin Pillsbury, and Jacqueline Reynaga, Streamlined Particle Tracking

Creative Writing

 

Data Science

 

Economics

 

Environmental Studies

 

French and Francophone Studies

 

Geosciences

German Studies

Government

 

Hispanic Studies

 

History

Honors thesis

• Andrew Hohmann, A Fleeting Glimpse: Lived Experiences of Freedmen in 1865 and 1866 in Petersburg, Virginia

Interdisciplinary Studies

 

Japanese

Literature

 

Mathematics and Statistics

 

Neuroscience

• Callie Burd, Expression of Regional Identity Markers in CA1 of the Hippocampus in Postnatal Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
• Ellie Casalmir, The Dendritic Architecture of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
• Anna Duarte, The Intersection Between Autism Behaviors, Environmental Factors, and MRI Brain Measures
• Amelya Greaves, Investigating Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychopathology and Prefrontal Cortical Correlates in an Adolescent Population
• Bridget Keogh, Sydney Klepper, and Natalie Peng, The Brain's First Glance: Neural Markers of Face and Object Processing
• Caitlin Malecky and Erika Stephens, Estrogen Attenuates Enhanced Fear in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Alexis Mayer, Hippocampal Area in Early Postnatal and Adult Miro1 Knockout Mice
• Cale Piedmonte-Lang, Estrogen-Mediated Sensitivity to Cocaine Does Not Occur in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Samantha Schwab, Estrogen Attenuates Fatigue in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Dana Schwartz, Neurodevelopment Under Stress: Linking Adverse Childhood Experiences, Orbitofrontal Cortex Volume, and ADHD in Adolescents
• Ashylia Sloane, The Way Animals Move: Temporal Perception and Stimulus Motion
• Sophia Testa, Role of Miro1 in Cajal Retzius Cell Population and Expression of Reelin in Early Postnatal Development
• Tyrone Xue, EEG Source Localization Using a Deep-Learning Transformer Model

Philosophy

• Gabrielle Brihn, How to Be a Snob: Why Aesthetic Snobbery Isn’t (Always) A Vice
• Kate Connolly, “I listen to you, and you listen to me”: Why We Need Contentious Discourse
• Reilan Garczynski, “Poetical Scientists”: Writing Science We Want to Read
• Daniel Goldberg, Markets vs. Media: How prediction markets are informationally superior
• Nicholas Hollander, “Just Use Chat”: AI and Intellectual Autonomy in Education
• Taylor Kaufman, Platonic Ontology and the Human Role in Morality of AI
• Kristiana Klein, Justice Alternatives for Free Will Skeptics
• Sacha Law-Gisiko, The Primacy of Art in the Platonic Ascent: The Reconciliation of Art and Beauty in the Disclosure of Truth
• Amaris Martins, Training the Soul: How Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Can Help Soldiers with  Moral Blindness in the Chaos of War
• Arjun Mehra, Psychology's Suspicious Scientific Authority
• Claire Murphy, Diagnosing Anxiety: Evaluating Mental Suffering in a Complex World
• Robert Neithart, Eat Your He(Art) Out: Food as Aesthetic & Art
• Fletcher Shaw, Alignment Without Principles: An Ethical Particularist Approach to AI Alignment
• Allison Sheehan, Disobedient Dialects: Resisting Legal and Epistemic Injustice with Forensic Linguistic Analysis
• Ashylia Sloane, Time of Death: Never? Speculations on the Nature of Death and Time
• Quintin Utterback, Identifying The Gamer’s Dilemma: The Limits of Justifying Virtual Immorality

Physics

Psychology

Public Policy

 

Religious Studies

• Iman A. Rahman, The Critique of Innovation and Imitation through the Work of 13th-Century Islamic Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah

Russian Studies

Sociology

Theatre

Women’s and Gender Studies

World Politics