Caitlyn Elizabeth McClure, Washington, D.C. / Literature: “‘To the Horizon and Back’: Liminality in Three African American Migration Narratives” / Charles A. Walls Benjamin Paul Seligman, Silver Spring, Maryland / Literature: “‘Footless in the Void’: Landscape and Identity in the Desert West,” a study of The Prairie, Moby-Dick, and Blood Meridian / Deirdre d’Albertis Anne Franklin Sinsabaugh, New York, New York / Literature and Written Arts: “2010,” a romp through pop culture / Luc Sante
Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Oni Xiomara Banks, Brooklyn, New York / Biology: “The presence of relapsing fever group Borrelia in Dutchess County, New York” / Felicia Keesing Derek Hernandez, Los Angeles, California / Physics: Combined plan (3-2) dual-degree program at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science / Burton Brody Paul Campion Jordan, Billings, Montana / Biology and Chemistry: “Investigations of the protein interactions of a potentially antitumor ruthenium(III)-platinum(II) complex,” a spectroscopic and chromatographic analysis of the structural effects of, and interactions between, a mixed-metal complex and serum proteins / Craig Anderson and Michael Tibbetts Robert Clardy McNevin, New Providence, New Jersey / Computer Science: “Using Visual Sensors for Bayesian Robot Localization” / Keith O’Hara Samantha Alison Mutter, Arlington, Virginia / Mathematics: “Happy Numbers: An Exploration of an Iterated Function in Different Bases” / John Cullinan Hannah McRae Quay-de la Vallee, Santa Fe, New Mexico / Computer Science and Mathematics: “An Introduction to Quay Theory,” a search for a term-rewriting system for an idempotent, pseudo-selfdistributive theory and its relation to de la Vallee semigroups / Robert W. McGrail Regina Vaicˇekonyte·, Panevzˇys, Lithuania / Biology: "The effects of the removal of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on the abundance of entomopathogenic fungi" / Felicia Keesing
Division of Social Studies Timothy Luke Azarchs, Briarcliff Manor, New York / Economics: “The Curse of Resources: An Empirical and Theoretical Discussion of the Link between Natural Resources and Growth” / Tamar Khitarishvili Nina Bektic, Athens, Greece / Political Studies and Global and International Studies: “Analysis of the ‘First Phase’ of the International Community’s Mission in Kosovo and Metohija” / Jonathan Becker Anna Katsman, Staten Island, New York / Philosophy: “The Freedom of Love: The Possibility of Collective Self-Realization through Enduring Forms of Mutual Recognition” / Adam Rosen Psychology: “Embodied Empathy: The Possibility of Difference” / Barbara Luka
30 Senior Projects