Senior Thesis Presentations 2026

Senior Thesis Presentations for the Class of 2026 will take place on Monday, May 11. The schedule of the day is as follows:

12:00-1:15 p.m. – Welcome & Poster sessions | GSU Metcalf Hall, 2nd floor
     12:00-12:15 – Welcome
     12:15-12:45 – A-L last names
     12:45-1:15 – M-Z last names
1:35-3:55 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
Brown 1:35 – Scarlett Capellan: Democratic Erosion in the Second Trump Administration
2:00 – Nick Tahn: Redefining Asian American through Literature with Hong and Hsu and Lin and Kingston
2:55 – Elise Despujols: Appropriating Austen: How Film Adaptations Recast Feminist Realism as Reductive Regency Romance
3:20 – Ned Jefferies: Forgotten Legacies: Jews, China, and the Untold Story of Shanghai during World War II		 110
Ranney 1:35 – Tai Chu-Shore: Of Mice and Motion: An Analysis of the Correlation between Local Field Potential, Membrane Potential, and Movement in Mice
2:00 – Alessandro Lau: Exploring the Struggles of the Immigrant Community through Music
2:55 – Angelique Pacombe-Jones: The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on the Falsehood of the American Promise of Prosperity
3:20 – Ryan Song: Exploring the Relationship Between Sunspot Activity and Wheat, Rice, and Corn Production Using Time-Series Analysis and Moving Averages		 112
Divac 1:35 – Amber Chao: A Preliminary Analysis of the Brain Treebank Dataset
2:00 – Jack Conway: Using Machine Learning to Measure Clutchness in the NBA
2:55 – Sam Fisher: Modifying Dulong’s Equation to Better Predict HHV for Hydrochars
3:20 – Benjamin Taycher: Holomorphs, Yang-Baxter, and Braids: A Through-line		 113
Waring/Seth 1:35 – Yejin Choe: Using Phylogenetic and Genomic Characterization to Discover an Enzyme That Produces Selenoneine: A Natural Product Promoting Lifespan and Healthy Aging
2:00 – Asher Adams: Transcription Factor Regulation, Cofactor Regulation, the Development of a Liquid-Based Protein-Binding Microarray Assay and its Applications to Biomedical Research
2:55 – Ida Sanaktekin: Predicting CAR-T Cell Therapy Response in Multiple Myeloma Through Single-Cell AI Modeling
3:20 – Reeya Wadhwani: Equalizer or Enabler: Investigating Generative AI in Professional Networking		 114
Waring 1:35 – Angelina Tahn: Roots and Screens: Childhood Nature Exposure and Compulsive Internet Usage in Young Adults
2:00 – Betty Araia: Socioeconomic Status and Demographics of HIV Vaccine Study Participants
2:55 – Georgie Linscott: The Endangered Bug in Your Ear: Investigating Remedies & Responses to Climate Anxiety in Young Populations
3:20 – Camilla Horta: Community Engagement: The Key Element of Environmental Justice		 115
Seth 1:35 – Mason Chan: Mapping Tumor-Induced Neuronal Hyperactivity in Glioblastoma Mouse Models
2:00 – Nicholas Kennedy: A Hands on Investigation Prototyping, Testing, and Iterating Axial Flux Motors for Wide-spread Industry Adoption
2:55 – Philip Kou: Stabilizing Rowing Boats: Equilibrium Rigging Design
3:20 – Annie Yan: From Optimization to Development: Creating a New Market for Youth Hockey Analytics		 116
Jewell/Brown/
Martinez		 1:35 – Caroline James: Villains, Virgins, Victims: Archetypes of Women in Folklore and Our Culture’s Misunderstanding of the Feminine
2:00 – Vincent Pacheco: A Mini Thesis: How the Mini Morris Minor and Austin Seven Sold Britishness Throughout the 1960s
2:55 – Simon Natapov-White: The Modern American Dream
3:20 – Alex Nowosielski-Slepowron: Two-Lane Blacktop as a Model for the American Folktale: Narrative Humanism in the Movie, through the Lens of Fairytale Decomposition		 204
Karnaukh 1:35 – Zamira Marra: The Emotional Impact of Digital Art
2:00 – Talas Jaeger: Access to Menstrual Health in Bangladesh
2:55 – Camilo Gutierrez-Lara: The Venetian Solo Sonata in 1620s Venice: Sonata detta “La Campana”		 205
Alonge 1:35 – Kaitlyn Tan: Modern Myth Imaginings and Contemporary Motherhood
2:00 – Sofia Shih: The Misuse of Race in Medicine: How The Combination of Society and Doctors is Growing Health Disparity Gaps
2:55 – Henry Resnick: Fighting the Brainrot: How AI Shapes Secondary Education and Adolescent Development
3:20 – Momoko Hotta: Evolving Images of Parenthood: Gender Roles and Caregiving in Contemporary Japanese Commercials		 206
Martinez 1:35 – Henry Popp: Of Monsters and Men: Finding Humans’ Place in the Horror Film
2:00 – Owen Bergstein: “The Problem With Comedy”: Hannah Gadsby, Trans Humor, and the Reinvention of Stand-Up
2:55 – Alden Brown: Wrong For Thee But Not For Me: The Inadequacy of the Bible’s Moral Guidance
3:20 – Giorgos Asikis: From Exclusion to Accountability: Race, Media, and the Diversification of Boston Sports Now		 207
Karnaukh 1:35 – Armaan Mehta: The Independence of Isotropic Stress Evolution and Anisotropic Pattern Formation During Ion Bombardment of Silicon
2:00 – Nick Kohl: Uses of Adalimumab and its Future Application to the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease
2:55 – Kelsey Liu & Alden Carter: Automating Biology: Scalable Web Infrastructure for the DAMP Lab Workflow Manager
 209
Krivacek 1:35 – Arden Nasveschuk: Characterizing Envelope Region Enhancer Activity in HIV-1
2:00 – Daniel Shaer: Predicting Cell Fate: Analyzing p53 Dynamics in Ovarian Cancer Cells, Paving the Way for Future Therapies
2:55 – Lauren Sadka: Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep-Learning Cellular Segmentation with Cellpose: Application to IMC for Prostate Biopsies
3:20 – Vir Mehta: Applying Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Precision Medicine		 215
Jewell 1:35 – Sam Freifeld: Orlando’s Many Forms: How Narrative Autonomy Shapes Trans Stories
2:00 – Millie Mueller: Creating Moments
2:55 – Matty Jackman: Neuroplasticity and Optimal Learning: Why Classrooms Are Teaching Wrong
3:20 – Charlotte Harris: Resonant Bodies, Resonant Streets: Singing Boston Into Protest History		 217
White 1:35 – Matthew Lashley Lynch: Flipping Through the Worries of a Teenager: Exploration of the Effects of Adolescent Stressors and Comparison Culture Through the Lens of Digital Magazine Illustrations
2:00 – Lizzie Elliott: Defeating the Anthropocene by Correcting Misconceptions on Sustainable Living Through Art
2:55 – Angel Dong: Generative AI as a Double-Edged Sword for Marginalized Communities
3:20 – Lisa Zhou: Immunocytochemical Identification of Layer-Specific Markers in iPSC-Derived Cortical Neurons		 Art Room
White 1:35 – Coco Mueller: The MFA’s Representation of the Quilled Document Pouch (Mi’kmaq) and How Uncertain Displays Decolonialize Museums
2:00 – Matthew Wu: Active Fun in Goblin Goons: Activity Theory in Game Design
2:55 – Declan FitzGibbons: From Page and Ink to Pen and Paper: One Piece the Tabletop Roleplaying Game and its use of Adaption Theory		 Arts 251