BUA Hosts First Annual Senior Thesis Symposium
This year, BUA introduced a new forum to showcase the high-level research of our seniors. On May 13, 2024, BUA hosted its first annual Senior Thesis Symposium. The 53 members of the senior class presented their work at a poster session in the GSU’s Metcalf Hall, followed by individual thesis presentations. The topics ranged from CRISPR to cowboys, Euripides to the universe, fashion to existential philosophy, white roofs to Elie Wiesel. The Symposium offered a stage on which to celebrate our seniors and their remarkable thesis research, the academic culmination of their BUA experience: identifying a question worth exploring, seeking out mentorship, researching deeply, applying a critical analytical lens, communicating conclusions to a non-expert audience, and fielding questions. Read the complete list of 2024 Senior Thesis titles below – and prepare to be amazed!
Class of 2024 Senior Thesis Titles
The History and Ethics of CRISPR
The Ethical Dilemma of Busing in Massachusetts: Interrogating The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity
Heterosexual Relationships and Existential Freedom
German Romanticism: Music and Poetry
Green Capitalism or Eco-Socialism? Debating Economic Systems and Solutions for Climate Change in the Transportation Sector and Beyond
A Statistical Analysis of the Value of a Stolen BaseForging a Future for Taiwan and its Independence
CRISPR Activation for SynGAP Upregulation in Haploinsufficient Mice
Neuroregenerative Applications of STEM Cell-Loaded Extracellular Vesicles in Biocompatible Hydrogels: Insights from Nonhuman Primate Mode
Cowboys, Reality, Reputation, and Replica
Representations of Urbanization in 19th Century American Art
My Alcestis: Translating Euripides for a Modern Audience
Analysis of experimental data to identify axion-like dark matter spectral signatures
An Analysis of Eastern and Western Foreign Investment with a Focus on the Balkans; The Stall and the Lack of Transparency of the Modern European Union
Patient Sex Drives Differential Transcriptional Regulation in Pancreatic Cancer
Investigating HIV Defective Viruses through CRISPR-Cas9 and Self Inactivating Vectors
Summertime Impact of White Roofs on Building Energy Balance and Air Conditioning Flux
Social Media and Indigenous Language Revitalization
Molecular gastronomy in the everyday kitchen
Suspiria: Female Bodies and Horror Cinema
The Use of Formal Versus Informal Pronouns In Standard German
Fostering Success for Minority-Owned Businesses
I Buy, Therefore I Am: How Existentialist Philosophies Have Influenced the Modern Marketplace
Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Tuberculosis
Dynamics of the PVC Flooring Market: A Comprehensive Analysis of American Sectors
Asian American Silence: Appealing to Whiteness
The Effects of Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 Inhibitors on Rat Cardiomyocytes
Rethinking the American Dream
Utilizing Machine Learning Methods in Genome Scale Stoichiometric Models of P. simiae with COMETS
Validation of pPDH as a marker for inhibition of serotonergic neurons
Looking Up: Shifting Views in Observational Cosmology from the Classics to the Contemporary Period
Activation of the Complement System in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
The Effect of Fetal and Neonatal Environmental Exposures on Developmental and Degenerative Neurological Disorders
Characterizing Recruitment of CBP Binding Domains
Using Stellar Remnants to Understand How Often Massive Stars Form Planets
Cryopreservation Practices for Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Potential Effects During CpG Stimulation
Fashion Collection: Resilient Life
Race is a Roadblock, Even in Sports Journalism
A Case Study Analysis of Restorative Justice in Schools
Visual Representations of the Effect of Media on Teenagers’ Mental Health and Well-being
Visualizing Amyloid Fibrils: A Computational Chemistry Study
Developing and Applying an Inclusive Polygenic Risk Score to Alzheimer’s Related Traits
A Philosophical Approach on Realism: An International Relations Story
Nikhil Rich: “Playing Out:” Harmonic Freedom in Jazz Fusion Improvisation
A Brief Introduction to System Dynamics
Understanding Economics through Music Sentiment
Before the Boston Busing Crisis of 1974: Voices from the Freedom Schools
Predicting Oral Drug Elimination Half-life In Humans Using Regression Models
Drugs, Cults, and the Patriarchy: artistic and cultural understanding of the Maenads in late 5th-Century Athens Art
Modeling Rhizobacterial Colonization of Plant Roots in COMETS
Millcaster State
Improving vaccine uptake through machine learning: training and validation of a prediction model for seasonal influenza vaccine uptake