Senior Thesis Presentations 2025

Senior Thesis Presentations for the Class of 2025 will take place on Monday, May 12. The schedule of the day is as follows:

12:00-1:15 p.m. – Welcome & Poster sessions | GSU Metcalf Hall, 2nd floor
1:30-3:55 p .m. – Thesis Presentations | BUA classrooms
4:00-5:00 p.m. – Senior Visual Arts Showcase & Reception | GSU Metcalf Hall, 2nd floor

The entire community is invited to attend the Senior Thesis poster sessions as well as the Senior Visual Arts Showcase & Reception.

The Senior Thesis presentation schedule is as follows:

Thesis Advisor Students Room
Alvarez 1:30 – Michael Butler: The New Plantation: Incarceration, Capitalism, and the Oppression of Minorities
1:52 – Quinn Lynn: Trauma & Agency: Understanding Abused Characters Across Texts
2:14 – Bella Marland-Hall: A Dilemma in Words: An Analysis of An American Dilemma Reviews from 1944 through 1964
3:00 – Satya Rencic: Against Definition: Identity and Technology in Penda’s Fen		 206
Ranney 1:30 – Ally Tian: Generating HIV Proviruses to Model Variation of Transcription and Latency Across Different HIV Subtypes
1:52 – Eesha Sinha: Factors Affecting Measurements Acquired by Remote Satellites using PLE/PLHR for Orbital Power Line Monitoring
2:14 – Ilan Kliman: Reinforcement Learning for CARLA: Using a Custom-Designed CARLA Reinforcement Learning Environment for Self-driving Cars
3:00 – Ryan Liu: TwoStream: A Convolutional Neural Network for Cardiac Imaging Diagnosis
3:22 – Zach Daniel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Humans		 112
Divac 1:30 – Jin Choi: Piezo2 Activation on the Development of Mouse LTMRs
1:52 – Owen Fantuzzi: Exploring the Implications of Light-Based Communications Through SeaPerch II
2:14 – Egor Lazarevich: On Some Aspects of Computer Programming of Business Simulation: An Example of Developing a “National Economy Development” Simulation
3:00 – Lukas Patten: Modelling the Growth and Gene Knockouts of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae with COMETS
3:22 – Peter Rindisbacher: Mapping Dynamics: Invariant Manifolds in Theory and Application		 113
Kamen 1:30 – Yiannis Asikis: Addressing Massachusetts’ Housing Crisis: Analyzing Legislative Efforts to Increase Affordable Housing Access
1:52 – Zeke Kramer: The Revolutionary Potential of Postmodern Aesthetics: A Historiography and Analysis
2:14 – Lani Nunez: Through the Eyes of the Breedloves: Slavery, Racism, and Identity in The Bluest Eye
3:00 – Sofia Stroe: Expanding the Frame: Diversifying the Female Figure in Art Nouveau		 204
Jewell 1:30 – Ely Bolgov: Boston on Film: Exploring the City’s Identity Through Cinema
1:52 – Lucia Jankowich: Perceiving Penelope
2:14 – Stavros Ligris: How AEK, Panathinaikos, and Olympiakos Reflect Athens’ Social Divisions
3:00 – Nye Matta: Microeconomic Sustainability of the State Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
3:22 – Lillian Yeh: Eclipse: The Coexistence of Light and Dark in the Healing Process		 217
Perrone 1:30 – Mira Chu-Shore: Long short-term memory neural network to identify surgical targets in human epilepsy
1:52 – Sophia Tang: The Comparative Study On Variation in Blood Drip Stains Characteristics due to Change in Paper Varieties
2:14 – Ercole LiPuma: Modelling of Rhizospheric Escherichiacoli and Pseudomonas simiae using COMETS
3:00 – Priya Roy: The Effects of the Overexpression of CKAP5 on Facial Morphology and the Development of Craniofacial Disorders
3:22 – Alex Shultz: The Power Behind The Model Minority Myth in 2025: Media and Mental Health		 115
Karnaukh 1:30 – Sophie Baden: Human in vitro modeling assesses the immune response elicited by vaccine adjuvant formulations in children
1:52 – Kendree Chen, Quinten Jin, Efrain Morales: Poseidon-Bot: A Streamlined Document Parsing RAG Model
2:14 – Ada Habip: Food Science Meets Commercialization: Developing Freeze-Thaw Protocols for Almond Milk and Non-Dairy Coffee Creamer
3:00 – Kendree Chen: A Community-Based Program Model For Engagement of Underserved Students in STEM
3:22 – Mark Vasserman: Using Bioinformatics to Look for Treatments for Acute Myeloid Leukemia		 114
White 1:30 – Rose Cairo: Using A Modified Sea Perch Robot for Water Quality Testing in the Charles River
1:52 – Celine Cheung: Properties of Alpha-Synuclein and Its Effects on Parkinson’s Disease
2:14 – Kaela Harrison: Polyp Growth Patterns of the Deep Sea Coral Genus Narella Due to Varying Environmental Factors
3:00 – Sahithi Lingareddy: Identifying the Optimal Parameters of Neuromodulation in Epilepsy
3:22 – Rebecca Berberi: Investigating the Impact of Various Opioid Use Disorder Rehabilitation Services on Treatment Completion for Individuals with Mental and Substance Use Disorders		 Art
Room
Karnaukh/White 1:30 – Noah David: AutomataGPT: A Generative Pre-Transformer Model
1:52 – Danielle Rones: Implications of Climate Change on Future Crop Yields and Potential Solutions
2:14 – Isabella Silvestrini: Modeling Long-term Habitability in Known Exoplanets
3:00 – Lucas Zarraga: Epidemiology of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Survey from a Community-based Screening Program in South Texas
3:22 – Sam Olken: The Responses of Infauna and Epifauna to Nitrogen Loading in Shallow Water Seagrass Beds		 Arts Wing 251
Perrone/Seth/
White		 1:30 – Maxwell Yu: Central Nervous System Recovery Evaluation through Computational With Analysis of Locomotion Kinematics
1:52 – Sabrina He: Perception and Imitation of Linguistic Prosody in Autistic Adults
2:14 – Metch Nelson: The Impact of All of Us Research Program on Personalized Medicine and Health Disparities
3:00 – Zaynab Khemmich: Cages at Risk: The Role of Anterior Column Release in Preventing Cage Dislodgement in Spinal Fusion Surgeries		 205
Krivacek/White 1:30 – Finn Hobelheinrich: Relationships between biomass and symbiont density under different food and light treatments in temperate scleractinian coral Astrangia poculata
1:52 – Angela Noyes: A Survey of Honey Bees and Native Pollinators at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
2:14 – Ylan Liu: Exploring Cultural Readiness: A Phenomenological Study of the Engagement of Vietnamese Americans in Diabetes Prevention and Self-Management Programs
3:00 – Corrina LaPlume: Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
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Brown 1:30 – Sam Friedman: The Prince as an Enigma: Unraveling Machiavelli’s Intentions
1:52 – Costa Gay-Afendulis: Roads Not Taken: The Legacy of Boston’s Unbuilt Urban Freeway
2:14 – Alejandro Latorre: Criticisms of the Field Of Impostor Phenomenon Research: Evaluating the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale
3:00 – Connor Swartz: 1950s Japanese Existentialist Cinema: Origins, Significance, and Meaning
3:22 – V Woolf: Play with Your Food Before You Eat: Exploring the Effect of Dominance on Play Initiation and Foraging Priority in Red (Varecia variegata rubra) and Black-and-White (Varecia variegata variegata) Ruffed Lemurs (Primates, Lemuridae)		 110
Alonge/White 1:30 – Shreya Sharma: How Body Motion Shapes Social Perception
1:52 – Quinlen Stevens: Implementing Classical Architecture in the Design of the City of Atlantis: Drawing Atlantis as Plato Would’ve Imagined
2:14 – Daphne Yesilaltay: Innervation of Axolotl Blastemas
3:00 – Royel Drane: A Ban on Billionaires?!
3:22 – Luke Chang: Political Applications of Archaeology under Capitalism and Fascism		 211
Seth 1:30 – Nathan Wu: Development of a New Method for Tetherless Underwater Communication Using COTS Parts
1:52 – Alex Furman: Direct Conversion of Centenarian PBMCs as an In Vitro Model of Aging and Resilience: DNA Extraction Protocol Optimization
2:14 – Ajay Wadhwani: Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Identifying Sharp-Wave Ripples in Epileptic Conditions
3:00 – Bella De Lemos: “Viva a banda-da-da // Long Live the Band”: Tropicália and the Cannibalistic Counterculture of the Global 1960s
3:22 – Ollie Kuchler: Traversing Food Deserts: Solving Food Insecurity with Urban Vertical Farming Systems		 116