Senior Thesis
A culminating experience for all BUA students, the Senior Thesis is an independent research project that provides students with the opportunity to follow an intellectual passion in depth with the guidance of a university professor.
The year-long project is designed to demonstrate students’ ability to read closely, research thoroughly, think analytically, and write coherently in a scholarly fashion. Papers are expected to be between 4,000-6,000 words in length and written in accordance with generally accepted University standards. All students present their research to the BUA community prior to graduation.
Thesis topics run the gamut of academic fields and disciplines, and reflect the many and varied interests and passions of BUA students.
Senior Thesis Topics, Class of 2021
| Nadia Chitkushev Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a comorbidity of Gastroenteritis |
| Nathan Medros Rasterizing Fourth-Dimensional Objects via Projection |
| Cole FitzGibbons Placelessness in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise |
| Saoirse Killion Willow Woman: Creating an Illustrated Poetic Sequence |
| Kealan Biebesheimer The Fountain of Truth: Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand |
| Madison Young Practical Reality: Milton Friedman’s School Voucher Proposals and International Case Studies |
| James West Trying To Make a Short Film: An Explanation of Mumblecore |
| Will Gedney A Neurological and Psychological Analysis of Addiction |
| Sudarshan Ramanan Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Biomarkers and Neurobiology: A Case for Virtual Reality |
| Quinn Treacy Acceptable Irishmen in the Bostonian Democratic Party of the Gilded Age |
| Ava Landen Validation of a Robotic Bronchoscope |
| Irene Mitsiades Finding potential HOXB13 regulators in ER+/HER2- breast cancer |
| John Lee Factors that Affect Mask Wearing Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Jiahe Niu Mapping Brain Activity During Reasoning Behavior Using Individualized Network Atlases |
| Kieran Barrett Xibipío: A Sociolinguistic Examination of Pirahã |
| Justin Aronson Accessible Machine Learning Through Data Democratization |
| Nishita Nayudu The Economic Sociology of Telehealth |
| Ben Isakoff Costs and Benefits of Nepotism Among Directors of 19th Century English Railways |
| Jenny Wang Linguistics and Empathy in American Science Fiction |
| Manar Chkounda Human Immunodeficiency Virus Latency and Possible Cure Strategies |
| Maya Magavi Identifying Baseline Gas Composition and Trends in Massachusetts Interstate Pipelines |
| Arman Karim The Effects of Variable Temperatures on Manual Muscle Capabilities |
| Riya Mishra Analyzing Blobs in Blazars’ Jets |
| Phevos Paschalidis Optimizing a Microgrid |
| Jonas Rajagopal Automatic Inference of Players’ On-Court Locations from Basketball Videos |
| Markus Elbert Metabolic Models of Enterobacter Strains and Their Potential to Degrade Lignin |
| Luke Kong Exploring Suboptimal Play in Chess Engines |
| Olivia Chuang History and National Identity in Taiwan |
| Natalie Huang Covid and the US-China Trade War |
| Michelle Lisak User Experience and User Interface in Website Design |
| Jonathan Mu I Am the Apple of My Eye: An Animation with Oil Paint |
| Dmitri Demler Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Save Lives |
| Eunice Yun Brillouin spectroscopy as a new tool to improve In-Vitro Fertilization success rates |
| Benista Owusu-Amo The Characterization and Reactivity of Molybdenum (VI) Perflouropinacolate Complexes for Oxygen Atom Transfer |
| Nangwa Nyambose Tracing Spectra |
| Vika Maslova Longitudinal Cognitive Online Testing |
| Tim Pinkhassik Practical, Low-Cost Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Instrument Building a Ham Radio to Talk to Atoms |
| Peter Glavas Optimizing the Maneuverability of a Rigid Vessel Using Biomimetic Tuna Fish Fins |
| Michael Lang Synthetic Aperture Radar: From Signals to Code |
| Chandler Cheung The Effect of Task on Sentence Processing in the Language and Multiple Demand Brain Networks |
| Skyler Cheung Investigating Maneuverability of Underwater Vehicles |