Tag: senior thesis

BUA Senior Yiannis Asikis ’25 Serves as Student Representative on MA Board of Education

As the sole student representative and a full voting member on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary & Secondary Education (BESE), BUA senior Yiannis Asikis has an outsize impact on shaping the future of education in the Commonwealth.  The mission of BESE is to strengthen Massachusetts’ public education system so that every student is prepared to […]

Research Highlight: Siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 Present at Biomedical Engineering Society Conference

Last fall, siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 presented at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Baltimore, MD, as part of the conference’s two-hour poster session for high school students. Tai’s poster, entitled “Blood Vessel Reflectance as a Tool for Assessing DBS Efficacy in Mice,” focused on how blood vessels in mouse […]

Research Highlight: Metch Nelson ’25 Investigates Disparities in Healthcare via Large-Scale Genetic Research Studies

For his senior thesis project, Metch Nelson ’25, in collaboration with Dr. Brett Maricque at Washington University in St. Louis, is researching the disparities in healthcare in the context of large-scale genetic research programs. Specifically, Metch’s research focuses on the National Institute of Health’s All of Us Program, which aims to improve health care by […]

Research Highlight: Robbie Mulroy ’24 Explores the Role of CREB Binding Protein in Cancer

BUA senior Robbie Mulroy’s thesis project has the potential to impact the future of cancer research. For his senior thesis, Robbie ’24 is investigating the role of the CREB binding protein (CBP) in cancer under the guidance of BU Biology Professor Dr. Trevor Siggers as well as BUA Biology Teacher Dr. Colleen Krivacek, who by […]

Real Audiences

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending BUA’s annual Concerto Competition. Seven students performed solo pieces with piano accompaniment. Works ranged from Vivaldi, Popper, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Fauré, and Mozart. Our student soloists played the recorder, cello, piano, violin, and flute in front of several dozen friends, faculty, and family members. The performances […]

Summer Research Highlight: Genomic and Computational Approaches to Gene Regulation with Dr. John Quackenbush P’24

Each cell in our body contains a set of instructions, encoded in a molecule called DNA, that helps determine both our traits—including things like height, weight, hair color—and our individual risk of developing diseases such as diabetes or cancer. DNA is a long-chain polymer, and these instructions are encoded in the DNA “sequence” (the series […]

HOS Blog: The Most Rigorous Work a High Schooler Can Do

This is the week when our seniors present their senior thesis projects. Through their year-long studies, they have explored topics ranging from the housing crisis to haptic assistive technology; bessel beams to the resource curse; quantum mechanics to playwriting; white dwarf systems to reaganomics. They have written well researched, compelling, and sometimes publishable papers on those topics, […]

Head of School Blog – Senior Thesis: Purpose-Driven Inquiry

Over the past several weeks, our seniors have shared their Senior Thesis presentations — a beautiful showcase of their year-long efforts conducting research and writing an original piece of scholarship in an area of passion. Students work on those projects in partnership with a BUA faculty mentor and an outside expert: very often a BU […]

BUA Junior presents research as part of BU Sustainability Earth Week

Abhi Lingareddy ’22 presented his research on the urban heat island effect at the Campus Climate Lab Info Session as part of this week’s BU Sustainability Earth Week 2021. Abhi is conducting this research for his senior thesis in concert with — and funded by — Boston University’s Campus Climate Lab under the guidance of […]