Honors Scholar Theses from 2022
Starved for Knowledge: The Effect of Language Deprivation and “Mainstream” Education on Deaf Accessibility to the United States Education System, Katherine Arpino
ESKAPE Pathogens: The clinical Prevalence and Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance, Anusha Attre
The Effect of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva on the Tongue, Amy Backal, Amanda Harrop, and David J. Goldhamer Dr.
The Importance of Health Anxiety and Emotional Reasoning to Understand Vaccine Hesitancy and Safety Behaviors: Implications for Public Health Campaigns in a COVID_19 Era, Samantha Ballas and Kimberli Treadwell
NICU Nurses’ Varying Levels Of and Experiences With Moral Distress While Caring For Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Sarah Battaglia
Protective Effects of Caffeine via Microglia in a Rodent Model of Preterm Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury, Serena Beri
CloudBots: Autonomous Atmospheric Explorers, Akash Binoj
Associations Between Trauma History and Dimensions of Self-Concept in College Students, Francisco Carrillo-Alvarez
Forgotten Immigrant Voices: West Indian Immigrant Experiences and Attitudes towards Contemporary Immigration, Danielle Cross
Novel Epigenetic Therapeutics for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder, Suzannah De Almeida
As Seen on Screen: American Ambivalence Shown through Death Penalty and Vigilante Films, Lisette Donewald
The Effects of Poor Maternal Nutrition during Gestation in Sheep on the Reproductive Efficiency of the Offspring, Morgan Dougherty
“And We’re Happy, So Happy, to Be Modern Women”: Dissociative Feminism on Screen and in Literature, Michaela Elizabeth Flaherty
The Influence of Tetrabenazine on Operant Behavior and Binge-Like Eating Model in Rats, Reileigh Fleeher
Characterizing Rat Lateral Amygdala Interneurons by Colocalization of Calcium-Binding Proteins via Serial Multiplex Immunohistochemistry, Ethan Gasteyer
Headcase Regulates Growth in Response to Nutritional Status Downstream of Insulin Signaling, Thomas George
Salary Cap Efficiency: A Study of the Relationship between a NFL Quarterback’s Salary and their Team’s Performance, Prasad Gosavi
Electromagnetic Detectability of Binary Supermassive Black Holes, Kaylee Grace
Household Composition and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Purchases among Low Wage Workers, Salma Gudaf
Minimal Inscribed Polyforms, Jack Hanke
The Stamford Experience in the Twenty-First Century: Analyzing Urban Development Conflict at the Neighborhood Level, Michael Hernandez
Punishment vs. Rehabilitation: A Discourse on American Prison Reform & Comparative Analysis to Swedish Incarceration, Lauren Hipplewitz
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: What Role does Whiteness Ideology Play?, Siyu Huang
Triggering Thermal Runaway in Lithium-ion Batteries, Chris John
Plague and Devastation in Ancient Greece: Why Mourning Matters, Hannah Kallin
Calcium Ferrite as a Semiconductor for Microbially Assisted Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, Lauren King
A Case for Improved Financial Literacy Education in the United States, Nicholas Kinsella
5-axis Milling for Micro-machining of Implantable Flow Sensor, Devin Kot-Thompson
Exercise in the Heat: Perceptual Measures in Hydrated and Dehydrated Conditions, John Kromer
Plant-Based Diets and Metabolic Syndrome: Evaluating the Influence of Diet Quality, Lydia McGrath
Impact of the Quality of ESG Reporting on Profitability of Trucking and Oil Companies, Diane Meng
SEC Reporting of Cybersecurity Incidents, Michaela Morosky
Autistic Individuals May See Emotions Differently: How Gradable Adjectives Can Be Used to Determine Emotion Recognition, Devon Murphy
Correlates of Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Malaysia, Sydney Osborne
When Problems Become Solutions: Harnessing the Osteogenic Capacity of Disease-Causing Stem Cells to Repair Bone Fractures, Mehreen Pasha
Identification of Translesion Synthesis Inhibitors that Target Rev7/Rev3 Protein-Protein Interactions, Seema Patel
Defining the Role of Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic Neurons in the Modulation of Homeostatic Feeding, Julia Paul
Regaining Effort-Based Food Motivation: The Drug Methylphenidate Reverses the Depressive Effects of Tetrabenazine in Female Rats, Deanna Pietrorazio
Performance Improvements in Inner Product Encryption, Serena Riback
Does Anodal tDCS Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Using the C3-RSO Montage Improve Cognitive Control?, Jhoan Rodriguez
Content Analysis of Public Instagram Posts about Pelvic Floor Disorders and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Pregnancy, Lauren R. Rudin and Molly E. Waring
Museum Talk: Conversations Regarding Art Museums’ Practices and Policies, Eva Solano
Dimension Theory of Conformal Iterated Function Systems, Sharon Sneha Spaulding
The Potential of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins as Drug Targets, Matt Staid
Analyzing Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Endoribonuclease nsp15, Mary Staunton
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Mammalian Carnivore Activity in the Eastern United States, Joan Tremblay, Miranda Davis, and Robert Bagchi
Study of Porosity of Gelatin-Alginate Hydrogels to Model Brain Matter for Studying Traumatic Brain Injuries, Apolline Vincent
On Misuses of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test for One-Sample Goodness-of-Fit, Anthony Zeimbekakis
Autonomous Search and Rescue Helicopter System Design, Terry Zhao
Honors Scholar Theses from 2021
The Effect of Social Comparison and Fear of Missing Out on Anxiety Symptoms in Late Adolescents, Olivia Adams
Development of Physiological Markers for Tetrabenazine-Induced Motivational Dysfunctions Using Electroencephalography in Male and Female Rats, Stephanie Akosa
Differential White Blood Cell Counting, Gregory Austin
Reeling in New Antibiotics: Synthesis and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Zinc-Binding Clavanins from Styela clava (Sea Squirt), Eduardo Badillo-Colberg
Effects of a Play-Based Intervention on Locomotor Skills and Strength Performance of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Amber Bardsley
Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Growth and Health of Pre-Weaned Dairy Calves, Lily Bello
Une exploration du style et du message dans une sélection d’œuvres d’Annie Ernaux : L’écriture « qui ne ment pas », Maya Benson
Potential Improvements for Underwater Sound Speed Measurement Devices, Matthieu Bernier
The Effects of Poor Maternal Nutrition During Gestation on Colostrum and Milk Quality and Immunoglobulin G Concentrations in Sheep, Alexandra Bettencourt
Replacement of the Transfer Act: The Impact of Connecticut's Effort to Expedite Contaminated Site Remediation, Avery Bikerman
The Emerging Role of Pancreatic β-Cell Primary Cilia in Diabetes Mellitus, Emily Blackburn
Evaluating Quality Control Methods for Genomic Testing and Analyzation of DNA/RNA, Raabiah Chaudhry
Exploring Emotion Regulation as a Moderator of the Relationship between Benefit-Finding and Measures of Stress in Cancer Survivors, Sarah W. Chen
A Deep Learning Model for Predicting COVID-19 Transmission in Connecticut, Nathan Choi
Evaluating The Effect of Glyphosate on Host Survival and Microbiome, Sandro Cloiseau
Effects of tree felling in wetlands on the community composition and diel activity of mammals, Eve Cullerton
Meta-Network Analysis of Complex Construction Systems: Improving Project Efficiency Using Novel Computer-Based Analytic Methodology, Ethan Cummiskey
Does Anodal tDCS Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Using the F3-RSO Montage Improve Cognitive Control?, Sydney Darling
Identificando determinantes sociales de la salud en la comunidad de Granada, España (Identifying social determinants of health in the community of Granada, Spain), Mukund Desibhatla
The Development and Evaluation of Novel DA Transport Inhibitors and their Effects on Effort-Related Motivation: A Review, Mukund Desibhatla
Household Income and Air Pollution at Public Schools in the United States, Katyland Facas and Kristina Wagstrom
Synthesis and In-Vitro Voltage Sensitivity Testing of Two-Component Voltage Sensitive Dyes, Daniel Fairchild
Assessing Leadership in Business – Finance: A Critical Investigation of Jamie Dimon, Kelly Finn
Climate Change Preparedness in the Insurance Sector, Daniel Fischler
The Influence of the United States on Nuclear Laws, Michael Francomano
Molecular Markers of Climate Adaptation of Thysanoessa longicaudata (Euphausiacea) in the Arctic, Alexandra Frenzel
What the 123rd Congress Will Look Like: Examining the Gender Gap in Political Ambition of College Students, Maddison Gates
Seasonal plumage condition variation and the thermal value of the feather coats of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), Jordana MF Graveley, Margaret Rubega, and Kevin R. Burgio
Methodological and Theoretical Extensions to the TRACE Model of Spoken Word Recognition, Samantha Grubb
Effects of Noise on Speech Perception in Children Using Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Priya Gupta
Asian American Discrimination Through United States History, Disease Outbreaks, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth He
The Regulation of Chemokinesis by the soil amoeba, Dictyostelium Discoideum, Julia Horan
Linking Human Activities to Water Quality in Coastal New England: Past and Present, Amelia Hurst
A Picture of Hartford's Community Food Environment: An Image Recognition Approach, Evelyn Johnson
Using Citizen Science to Determine the Age of Alewife Fish, Rodchill-Paul Jules
The Effects of Infliximab on the Fibrosis Response of Three-spine Stickleback, Mita Kale
Exploring an Alternative to IPOs: Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), Vaishali Kanamalla
Modeling and Monitoring of Water Quantity and Quality in Permeable Pavement Systems Using Geophysical Equipment, Abby Klimowicz
Machine learning-based recognition on Crowdsourced Food Images, Aditya kulkarni
Relating Electrode Impedance and Recording Quality in the Rat Hippocampus, Mitchel Kuperstein
Use of Antisense Oligonucleotides to Target Notch2 in Mouse Chondrocytes, Gabrielle Viviana Lanza
The Rise of Alternative Early Stage Financing Methods, Tyler Lasicki