College of Letters & Science Honors Program Senior Honors Theses
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Sensitivity Analyses for Missing Not at Random Data in Body Donor Program Studies
(2025)Missing data on socioeconomic variables, such as education and occupation, is a common issue in survey studies and can be Missing Not at Random (MNAR), where the likelihood of missingness depends on the unobserved value ... -
See, Hear, and Understand: Benchmarking Audiovisual Human Speech Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
(2025)"Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are expected to jointly interpret vision, audio, and language, yet existing video benchmarks rarely assess fine-grained reasoning about human speech. Many tasks remain visually ... -
Dynamic changes in Hox Gene Expression during Somite and Neural Tube Development
(2025)"Mammalian embryonic development is when body pattern is established and all organs are formed. Hoxa5 is expressed in lung, neural tube, somites, diaphragm, foregut, midgut, and patterns the cervical-thoracic region of ... -
The Politicization of VNSAs in the Middle East
(2025)This thesis investigates the lack of politicization of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, a finding derived from the End of Terror database on terrorist groups. This research was inspired by Jones and Libicki’s ... -
Naming Biases: Gender and Race Biases in Reference to Politicians
(2025)Implicit biases continue to promote gender and racial inequality in many professions. Our research investigated a particular variable, terms of reference, that may play a role in voter opinions of politicians and in ... -
Resolution Matters: An Effective Approach to Anomaly Detection
(2025)Unsupervised anomaly detection has been profoundly impacted by the advent of large-scale Vision Foundation Models (VFMs). The prevailing paradigm leverages features from a pre-trained encoder, where anomalies manifest as ... -
Glioblastoma Immunotherapy: Investigating the Role of Dendritic Cells in GIFT7-Induced TH17 Differentiation
(2025)"Glioblastoma (GBM) remains a highly aggressive and incurable brain tumor with limited treatment options. Immunotherapy, particularly tumor vaccines, has shown promise in other cancers but remains ineffective in GBM due ... -
Preschoolers’ Use of Expertise in Word Learning
(2025)As adults, we know it is impossible for everyone to know everything but at what age do we begin to understand that people can be experts? The present study investigated whether preschoolers are able to understand expertise ... -
Interactive Robotics in Education: Designing and Evaluating Adaptive Visual and Speech Interfaces
(2025)This study explores the design and development of two adaptive interfaces—Visual and Speech Dialogue—for educational robots, guided by the CAM (Capability, Availability, Motivation) framework. Aiming to enhance parent-robot-child ... -
Upending Chevron: The Loper Bright Decision and the Imbalance of Powers in American Government
(2025)The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision overturned the Chevron doctrine, reshaping administrative law and shifting power between the three federal branches of government. By transferring statutory interpretation ... -
Brain VR
(2025)For my Senior Thesis, I developed a VR model of the human brain in Unity, enabling users to explore brain anatomy in an immersive, interactive lab setting. The model features 141 interactive components, allowing users to ... -
Partisans Like Leaders Who Confirm Beliefs About Social Norms: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
(2025)Political leaders are frequent purveyors of misinformation, particularly when bolstering claims about support for their beliefs. We conducted two studies to determine how individuals respond to leaders spreading false ... -
Bostock’s Binary Ramifications on Titles VII and IX: Enabling Discrepancies in Discrimination Proceedings
(2025)In Bostock v. Clayton (2020), the United States Supreme Court labeled sexual orientation- and gender identity- based discrimination as categories of sex-based discrimination, therefore expanding the protections of Title ... -
Evaluating U.S. Municipal Policies for Decarbonization and Transitions to Sustainable Energy Systems
(2025)Climate change has driven governments to develop renewable energy and decarbonization policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Previous research has primarily focused on policies at the state and national level, ... -
Heat, Health, and Harm: The Impact of Extreme Temperatures on Suicide
(2025)"Climate change poses well-established risks to physical health, but little is known about its effects on mental health. I study the relationship between extreme tempera- ture exposure during summer months and suicide ... -
Revealing Galactic Structure with Simulation Based Inference
(2025)The structure of the Milky Way is poorly constrained. There is strong evidence that the Milky Way has spiral features, but the location and morphology of these features are largely unknown and rarely constrained quantitatively. ... -
Cognitive and sensory performance in a rhesus model of frontotemporal dementia
(2025)"Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of neurodegenerative disorders affecting the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. FTD is highly hereditary and is the most common dementia in patients under 60 years old. Dr. ... -
Associations Between Negative Emotional Recovery and Time Spent on Work
(2025)This study investigates the relationship between negative emotion regulation and work participation across the lifespan. Inefficient recovery from negative emotional experiences may be associated with reduced work capacity. ... -
Hog Heaven: A Comparison of Death in Human and Non-Human Animals
(2025)My senior honors thesis in philosophy investigates questions of how we ought to assess the harmfulness (or lack thereof) of death for those who have died. Specifically, I consider two hypothetical yet plausible case studies. ... -
The Television Set as a Social Sculptural Form
(2025)The Television Set as a Social Sculptural Object explores the entrance of the television set into art spaces as an object, and traces the fluctuations in its status as a tool, an object, an art object, and eventually a ...
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