Celebration of Excellence 2023 Program

A CELEBRATION of EXCELLENCE

COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE

May 25, 2023, 3:00 p.m.

Mullins Center

University of Massachusetts

A Celebration of Excellence

May 25, 2023, 3:00 p.m.

Mullins Center

University of Massachusetts

Amherst

A CELEBRATION of EXCELLENCE

MULLINS CENTER • PROGRAM OF EVENTS BEGINS AT 3:00 P.M.

WELCOME

Dean Mari Castañeda

Commonwealth Honors College

Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Provost Tricia Serio

University of Massachusetts Amherst

STUDENT SPEAKER

Joash Elijah Audrey Gabriel

Microbiology and Public Health Sciences

RECOGNITION OF FACULTY

RECOGNITION OF HONORS STUDENTS

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

School of Public Health & Health Sciences

College of Natural Sciences

College of Engineering

Robert and Donna Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

College of Education

Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration

College of Humanities & Fine Arts

Isenberg School of Management

CLOSING REMARKS

Dean Mari Castañeda

Commonwealth Honors College

PLATFORM PARTY

Mari Castañeda

Dean, Commonwealth Honors College

Kumble R. Subbaswamy Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tricia R. Serio

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Joash Elijah Audrey Gabriel Microbiology and Public Health Sciences Student Speaker

Anthony Paik Secretary of the Faculty Senate, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ann Marie Russell

Associate Dean for Student Recruitment, Inclusion, and Success, Commonwealth Honors College

Elena Carbone

Associate Dean for Curriculum and Academic Oversight, Commonwealth Honors College

Dominick Usher

Senior Assistant Dean, Commonwealth Honors College

Thomas Brashear-Alejandro Director, Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC)

Barbara Krauthamer Dean, College of Humanities & Fine Arts

Sanjay Raman

Dean, College of Engineering

Jack Wileden

Associate Dean, Student Affairs, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

William D. Brown Jr.

Associate Dean for Finance, Operations, & Strategic Initiatives, Isenberg School of Management

Nathaniel Whitaker Interim Dean, College of Natural Sciences

Allison Vorderstrasse

Dean, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

Karl Rethemeyer

Dean, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Anna Maria Siega-Riz

Dean, School of Public Health & Health Sciences

Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin

Dean, College of Education

Nandita Mani

Dean, University Libraries

MUSICIANS

Zandra Azoulay, Drums

Dakota Gill, Bass

Jayla McCall, Vocals Matthew Rich, Guitar

NAME READERS

Jill Kaufman

New England Public Media (NEPM)

Kari Njiiri

New England Public Media (NEPM)

COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE DISTINCTIONS

Commonwealth Honors College recognizes the members of the class of 2023 for their progress toward completing the Honors curriculum and graduating with honors distinction. The Honors curriculum includes two components: first, General Studies—a course of study that encourages students to develop broad perspectives, and, later, Advanced Scholarship—advanced work that engages students in research and deep analysis. Honors students may complete only the first portion, only the second portion, or the full curriculum.

GENERAL STUDIES HONORS

Students awarded General Studies Honors complete five Honors courses designed to aid them in building the skills and knowledge to grapple with both the timeless issues of humanity and the current dilemmas facing our culture. Students earning General Studies Honors typically complete these Honors courses during their first two years and continue to meet university- and major-related requirements with high academic achievement. General Studies Honors is available to students who started in 2018 or earlier.

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS

Students awarded Departmental Honors undertake advanced research by completing at least four additional Honors courses, including an Honors thesis or project designed to complement and enhance the course of study in their major.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY HONORS

Students awarded Multidisciplinary Honors undertake advanced research by completing four additional Honors courses, including an Honors thesis or project that is either outside of their declared major or that integrates two or more disciplines.

COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLAR

Students are awarded the distinction of Commonwealth Honors College Scholar (CHC Scholar) for successful completion of both the General Studies and advanced research portions of the curriculum.

CANDIDATES FOR DISTINCTION AND SENIOR RECIPIENTS OF COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE AWARDS

We are proud of all Honors scholars, and have assembled all the Candidates for Commonwealth Honors College Distinctions and Senior Recipients of Commonwealth Honors College Awards.

Please scan this QR Code for a full listing:

CANDIDATES FOR COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE DISTINCTION

Aalto, Rachel C. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Abrill Zegarra, Santiago G. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Variability in the Structure of Type III Secretion System Proteins

Alejandro P. Heuck, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Adak, Amrita — Individual Concentration: Neurobiology, Language and Trauma

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Reflecting on Translating Experiences in the Healthcare System as a Serbian Refugee

Megan Gross, Communication Disorders

Adams, Celia E. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Plasma-Based Biomarkers as Predictive Tools for Cognitive

Decline in the Common Marmoset: A Primate Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

Agnés Lacreuse, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Adams, Ella R. — Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Sky is Burning Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Adams, Paige F. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Adeniyi, Ifeoluwa A. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing the Motor Functions of Mice after Implantation to their Sciatic Nerve

Siyuan Rao, Biomedical Engineering

Agarkov, Laura L. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Genomic Analysis of Parathyroid Hormone Treatment in OVX Rats for a Personalized Medicine Approach

Seth W. Donahue, Biomedical Engineering

Aggor, Kalyn S. — Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Elite Research

Kevin Young, Economics

Agostinelli, Ashley M. — Psychology & Linguistics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

How Reliable Are the Measures of the Time Window of Integration in Audiovisual Speech Perception

Alexandra Jesse, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Agrawal, Shriya Shree — Psychology & Art

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Relationship between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms and Positive Emotion

Regulation in Early Childhood

Adam S. Grabell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Akar, Ibrahim Z. — Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The World’s First Sneaker Reselling Calculator

Charles J. Johnson, Isenberg School of Management

Albalawi, Seham — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Influence of Loneliness on Substance Use: An Examination of Smoking and Drinking Behaviors

Becky E. Ready, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Albro-Fisher, Adrienne — Studio Arts

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Spring Returns: Processing Grief and Cycles of Impermanence

Young Min Min Moon, Art

Aldahan, Samar — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Disability Study: Expanding Higher Education Access for Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Allain, Caroline — Classics & Anthropology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Rome Wasn’t Built on a Ramp: an Exploration of Accessibility Imperial Roman Urban Architecture

Anthony S. Tuck, Classics

Alvarez, Nicole E. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Collaborations & Partnerships for Newell Home Fragrances

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Alves, Arthur M. — Physics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Analyzing Uncertainties on B-field Experienced by Muons on the Muon g-2 Experiment

David M. Kawall, Physics

Alves, Beatriz Monteiro F. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Numerical Study on the Performance of Horizontal-Axis

Tidal Turbines

Krish Sharman, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Alves, Megan A. — Microbiology & Kinesiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Role of Parent Knowledge on Obesity-Related Health

Behaviors in Preschool-Aged Children

Sofiya Alhassan, Kinesiology

Amendolare, Joseph T. — Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Contact Angle Hysteresis of Water Droplets on Curved Surfaces

Tony D. Dinsmore, Physics

Amira, Nabil M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ataxia Telangiectasia: The Mysterious Link between Cancer and Neurodegeneration

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Ammirato, Hannah L. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Stereotypes in the Emergency Department: An Experimental

Study of the Effects of Patient Emotions on Nurses’

Assessments of an Asian American Patient

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Anand, Kripa — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Menopause and Body Composition

Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Anthropology

Anderson, Melissa K. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Social Comparisons between Instagram and Magazine Browsing

Allecia E. Reid, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Anderson, Bryn K. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Aoun, Iman T. — Middle Eastern Studies & History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Neoliberalism and Western Intervention in the Middle East: Lebanon, Iraq, and the Arab Spring

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Apisson, Alexa J. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Exploration of Mental Health and Wellness Programs at U.S . Accredited Veterinary Medical Schools

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Aponte, Haley E. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Perception of Author Credibility as a Potential Indicator of Scientific Media Literacy

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Ariagno, Abigail K. — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Influencer Marketing: The Practices Used to Produce Sponsored Content on Social Media

Burcu Baykurt, Communication

Atallah, Jenifer — Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Activism in the Digital Age: Assessing the Impact of Digital Activism on Social Movements

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Atiyolil, Priya — Biomedical Engineering & Mat hematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Formulae for the Number of Twin Primes

Elena T. Carbone, Nutrition

Atnoor, Soumya D. — Management & Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors : My Self, Family, and Culture

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Atwood, Devon J. — Operations & Information Management

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Badal-Rodrigues, Joshua R. — Microbiology & Portuguese

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Is Metformin Ready for a Second Act as an Antichlamydial? Implications for Alzheimer’s Disease

Wilmore Webley, Microbiology

Baek, Minki — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Balian, Sarah K. — English & Spanish General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring How Educators Can See and Support the Language and Literacy Practices That Students Bring to the Classroom

Rebecca R. Lorimer Leonard, English

Balk King, Nathan R. — Physics General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ballerene, Emily M. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Gastroenterology: Investigating GI Fellow Personas and Cu stomer Journey

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Baltazar, Justin M. — Computer Science & Mathematics General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Banerjee, Shoilee — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effects of Globalization on Western Appropriation of Ea stern Artifacts

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Bannister, Lily C. — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Business Strategy and Entrepreneurial Leadership

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Banoub, Marcus A. — Computer Engineering General Studies & Departmental Honors

Barash, Zachary H. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Weakening Citizens’ Political Autonomy: Negative Impacts on Health Outcomes and a Reduced National Capacity for Policy Reform

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Barglow, Raphael D. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Electronic Monitoring as an Alternative to Pr ison

Joshua A. Kaiser, Sociology

Barry, Devin J. — Mathematics & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Bikeshare Equity: A Case Study of the 2022 MBTA Orange Line Shutdown

Fidan A. Kurtulus, Economics

Barry, Juliet — Linguistics & Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Barton, William O. — Mathematics General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Baumy, Amr M. — Finance & Economics General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Bayrak, Saliha — Psychology & Journalism General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

School Segregation and Race-Related Stereotypes about Social Status

Tara Marissa Mandalaywala, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Beery, Normandy R. — Anthropology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Obstetrical Dilemma, Maternal Care and Mortality Rates in the United States Dean Robinson, Political Science

Bell, Catherine A. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Role of Impulsivity in Motor Choices under Risk

Youngbin Kwak, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Bensaber, Narmene M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Molecular Interaction between RAP and the LRP1 Receptor and Its Implications in Alzheimer’s Disease

Erica Light, Environmental Conservation

Bergeron, Lindsey A. — Accounting General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Berglund, Nicole E. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae Infections Treated with Clofazimine and Taurine

Wilmore Webley, Microbiology

Berman, Jaret R. — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors Writings, 2019–2023

John J. Hennessy, English

Bernardo, Haley E. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Influence of Sex and Morph on the Usage of Endogenous Fuels during Stopover in White-Throated Sparrows

Alexander R. Gerson, Biology

Bernhard, Emily — English

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Berry, Laura C. — Nursing General Studies & Departmental Honors

Bhatia, Aadit — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Bindra, Harman — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Listeners Use Knowledge of Sound Patterns When Rating Speech Pronunciation

Lisa Sanders, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Bird, Matthew P. — Individual Concentration:

Psychology in Public Health

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Emotionally Evocative Patients in the Emergency Department

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Birney, Caroline T. — Psychology; Individual Concentration: Child Healthcare and Family Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Health Literacy in the U.S., Canada, and Germany: A Comparative Examination of Women’s Reproductive Health and Policy

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Blacklow, Kazin S. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Trapped Ion Process Design Kit

Robert Niffenegger, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Physics

Blankson, Nancy A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Patient-Clinician Racial or Ethnic Concordance in Maternity Care in the United States

Laura B. Attanasio, Health Promotion & Policy

Bodrog, Patrick D. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Review of the Concussion & Mobility Literature

Douglas N. Martini, Kinesiology

Bond, Kendra — Legal Studies

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Court-Packing: Can a Planned Expansion Help to Rebalance the Supreme Court, and Would the American Public Be Receptive to Such Changes?

James Ben-Aaron, Political Science

Borda, Nicholas T. — Electrical Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Exploiting Radar Coexistence for Secret Communications

Dennis L. Goeckel, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Boudreau, Luke E. — Chemical Engineering; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Michaelis-Menten Kinetics for Chymotrypsin in Complex Coacervates

Sarah L. Perry, Chemical Engineering

Bouvier, Maxine A. — Communication & Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

I Live in My Body, I Live in My Mind

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Boyack, Isabella N. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Potential Recovery of Exocrine Pancreas Growth Following Embryonic PFAS Exposure in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Alicia Timme-Laragy, Environmental Health Sciences

Boyle, Meredith H. — Political Science & Art History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Step Toward Liberation: English Walking Dresses from 1790 to 1830

Jennifer N. Heuer, History

Boyne, Victoria E. — Finance

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Talent Assessments: Who Do They Help? Who Do They Hurt?

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Bozorgzadeh, Samantha N. — Nutrition & Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Nisin Efficacy against Helicobacter pylori

Margaret Ann Riley, Biology

Brady, Jake — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Gauging UMass Health and Wellness Programs: Are They Supporting Fitness Trends?

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Bramhe, Siddhi — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assembly of Non-Human Primate Hair

Microbial Communities

Jason Kamilar, Anthropology

Braun, Emily J. — Comparative Literature

General Studies Honors

Brion, Beverly Fe — Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Mass Media and Public Health: Determining the Impact the Media Has on the Knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Brocious, Jacob C. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Networking against the Digital Divide: Aiding the Social Platform for the Alliance for Digital Equity

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Brodsky, Max P. — Sport Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cutting Out

Daniel J. Pope, Film Studies

Brooks, Michael J. — Management

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

NFT Copyright Issues and Solutions

Jennifer F. Merton, Isenberg School of Management

Brown, Thomas W. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Campus Pond Pedestrian Bridge Design

Sanjay Raja Arwade, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Brown, Lauren E. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

High Throughput Teratogen Screening by Pluripotent Stem

Cell-based In Vitro Models

Yubing Sun, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Brown, Erika M. — Chemistry

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigation of Photoplasmonic Growth in Copper Nanoparticles

Joseph S. DuChene, Chemistry

Brown, Jacqueline E. — Astronomy & Physics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Seeking Dusty Monsters in the Early Universe

Min S. Yun, Astronomy

Brown, Nicole J. — Individual Concentration: The Sciences Of The Human Body

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Atomoxetine on Depression-like Cognitive and Parenting Disturbances

Ma riana Pereira, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Bryan, Flynn P. — Individual Concentration: Visual and Written Narratives

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Novel (Salamandre)

Molly Burnham, Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration

Bryson, Anna E. — Microbiology; German & Scandinavian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

German Immigrants and the American Workplace

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Bubly, Josh S. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Bucey, Emma R. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Occupational Wellbeing in Engineering Education

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Buchanan, Jaida I. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Maimed Motherhood: Black Women and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Budd, Joshua P. — Economics & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Remittances on the Philippine Economy from 1990–2019

Fidan A. Kurtulus, Economics

Bulens, Abigail J. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Relationship Quality or Coparenting Quality:

Understanding How Different Dimensions of Relationships Are Related to New Parents’ Mental Health

Maureen A. Perry-Jenkins, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Bulger, Audrey — Psychology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; French & Francophone Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Bunner, Samantha A. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Burkacki, Cameron P. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

UMass Amherst Campus Wellness Policy: Synergies between the Okanagan Charter and Green Building Certifications

Anita Milman, Environmental Conservation

Burke, Julia C. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Isolation of Matrix-Bound Nanovesicles Using Collagen

Scaffolds for Wound Healing

Cathal Kearney, Biomedical Engineering

Bussa, Jatin K. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Development of an Aerobic Fitness Prediction Equation Using Accelerometer Data

John R. Sirard, Kinesiology

Cabral, Jillian — Japanese Language & Literature; Anthropology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Stories in the Margins: Queer Women’s Writing in Contemporary Japan

Amanda C. Seaman, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Caflisch, Rachael A. — English & Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Authoritarianism, Sovereignty, and Rights of the Child: A Study of School Corporal Punishment in the U.S.

Diane L. Curtis, Political Science

Caires, Drew C. — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Garmin and the Wearable Technology Market: Past, Present, and Future

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Calderon Santana, Xiara — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use

Problems: The Role of Impulsivity

Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Callahan, William S. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Creating an Economically Accessible Research Grade

Ergometer for Plantar Flexion Exercise Protocols

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Callan, Max O. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Cammarata, Joseph C. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

A Smartphone Disorder? Self-Reported Survey on Adolescents’ Attitudes and Feelings toward Their Phones

Erik W. Cheries, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Campbell, Aidan E. — Economics; Chinese Language & Literature

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Cross-Border Interbank Payment System: A Case Study in Chinese Economic Leadership

Gerald A. Epstein, Economics

Campbell, Ebony — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Canty, Marie L. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Promoting Self-Advocacy: The Voices of Disabled Individuals

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Capri, Eric D. — Computer Science; Individual Concentration: Neuroengineering

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Caracciolo, Nicholas M. — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Currency Values, Stock Market Returns, and Interest Rates dur ing a Pandemic

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Carder, John J. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Role of the TERT Gene in Telomerase Overexpression and Cancer: Foundations, Transcription Factors, and Next Steps

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Carlisle, Sean T. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Associations of the Breast Microbiome with Breast Cancer Risk Factors

Kathleen F. Arcaro, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Carney, Erin E. — Mechanical Engineering & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Hafnium Oxide Layer-by-Layer Resistive Switching Devices

Stephen S. Nonnenmann, Mechanical & Industrial Engi neering

Carpenter, Krista — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Community COVID-19 Virus and Vaccine Literacy Campaign

Aline C. Gubrium, Health Promotion & Policy

Carroll, Haley A. — Marketing & Communication

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

How to Communicate Effectively and Position a Brand to Capture Gen Z

Charles D. Schewe, Isenberg School of Management

Carroll, Elizabeth A. — Economics & Legal Studies

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Pronouns and Hiring: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Lee Badgett, Economics, Public Policy & Administration

Caruso, Gabriella G. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effects of Physical Activity on Gait and Cognition in Older Adults

Douglas N. Martini, Kinesiology

Casivant, Nikos H. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Garmin and the Wearable Technology Market: Past, Present, and Future

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Castellano, Gina E. — Individual Concentration: Human Biology And Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Role of GABAergic Neurotransmission and 5-HT1A/2A

Modulation in Sensorimotor Gating and Prepulse Inhibition of Startle

Karine Fenelon, Biology

Cerullo, Matthew J. — Psychology & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing a Computer-Controlled Operant

Conditioning Instrument to Train American Crows in Small Device Retrieval

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Cesic, Leila — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Driver Attitudes and Behavior in the Presence of E-Scooters versus Bicyclists

Eleni Christofa, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Challa, Akshara — Finance & Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Social Media Beauty Influencers: Exploring the Relationship between Influencer Traits and Consumer Purchasing Behavior for Cosmetics

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Chan, Tsz W. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Measuring Yeast Viability in Bioethanol Production by Building an Automated Cell Counter

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Chandar, Vrinda N. — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

In Vitro Antiviral Activity of Neem (Azadirachta indica L.) on Human Norovirus Surrogate, MS2 Phage

Matthew D. Moore, Food Sciences

Chasalow, Samantha M. — Environmental Science

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Mitigating Scope 2 and 3 Emissions in the Cor porate Ecosystem

Scott M. Auerbach, Chemistry

Chaughule, Arya S. — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing Reliable Dynamic Stopping Criteria for Reinforcement Learning Problems

Bruno Castro da Silva, Information & Computer Science

Chen, Lu — Psychology & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Phonological Prediction for Words Ending in /s/, /z/, and /v/ in Long Sentences

Lisa Sanders, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Chen, Tina L. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Link between IBD and CRC: Implications for the Asian Population

Kar i D. Loomis, Biology

Cheung, Jason — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Understanding the Effect of Fairness and Accuracy on Trust in Machine Learning Models

Cindy Xiong, Information & Computer Science

Childs, Andrew J. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Chin, Cameron Y. — Environmental Science; Plant Soil & Insect Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Soil Microbial Responses to Chronic Nutrient Inputs

Ashley Keiser, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Cho, Elizabeth — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Not Lost, Nothing to Find: Reconciling Cultural Melancholia

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Choi, Janice — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigation of the Effects of Lung Cancer Cell on Adipocyte Metabolism

Soonkyu Chung, Nutrition

Christian, Will R. — Mathematics & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Chuang, Katie — Mathematics & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Analysis on Nuclear Energy’s Impact on Environmental Sustainability through the Lens of the Environmental

Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Clark, Harrison C. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Barriers to Large Solar Development in Massachusetts Towns

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Clewley, Scott P. — Geography & Spanish

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Development of the Tourism Economy in Iceland in Contrast to the Azores

Toby Applegate, Geosciences

Coelho, Olivia — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Undergraduate Students’ Exposure to and Evaluation of Social Media Food Marketing: A Quantitative Study

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Coggins, Daniel T. — Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cohen, Leah R. — Social Thought & Political Economy; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Fat Activism Online: The Merits and Limits of the Body

Positivity Movement on Instagram

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Cole, Jariah M. — Accounting

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Student Efficacy Analysis of DEI Initiatives in a Top Undergraduate Business School

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Coleman, Elliot H. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Classics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Synthesis of Hybrid Mussel Foot Proteins as a Demonstration of Hybridization Chain Reaction

Harry Bermudez, Polymer Science & Engineering

Collette, Aaron G. — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

A National Investigation on the Association between Positive and Negative Peace with Subjective Perceptions of Safety

Bernhard Leidner, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Collier, John R. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Comparing Vocabulary Targets for Phonological Awareness

Development versus Content Knowledge Development in Hispanic ESL Students

Lisa Sanders, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Connelly, Joseph F. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

A Financial Analysis and Assessment of “The Pinnacle of Motorsport”: Formula One

Robert Feingold, Isenberg School of Management

Conway, Claire A. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Costa, Nathan M. — Computer Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Side Channel Analysis of the CHACHA20 Stream Cipher on FPGA with Countermeasures

Wayne Peter Burleson, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Costello, Eleanor E. — History

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Economic Withdrawal: The Significance of Bank-Party

Relationships on the 2000 Electoral Decline of Mexico’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional

Joel W. Wolfe, History

Cottiero, Matthew T. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

How the Outlook for First-Time Home Buyers Changed

Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Matthew P. Linn, Isenberg School of Management

Curran, Crystal — Music & Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Curtin, Caitlin M. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Business Strategy & Entrepreneurial Leadership

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Cusick, Meghan J. — Kinesiology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

An Evaluation of Heart Rate Interval and Stress Levels

Using Photoplethysmography and Seismocardiography

Technology in College-Aged Females

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Czernik, Johnathan T. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

BioClockBot Fluid Delivery: A Robot for the Automation of Circadian Rhythm Tissue Engineering Research

Meghan E. Huber, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Daggett, Benjamin Y. — Computer Science & History

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Debt and the Puritan Home

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Dahlke, Christopher D. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Generation of Luciferase Reporters to Track Circadian Proteins

Michelle Farkas, Chemistry

Daignault, Luciette — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Protect Our Children: The Need for the Re-introduction of a Rehabilitative Focus in the United States Juvenile Justice System

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Dalla Costa, Colin J. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Improving Thermal Control at the Large Millimeter Telescope

Peter Schloerb, Astronomy

D’andrea, Astrid E. — Food Sciences

General Studies & Departmental Honors

A Comparison of the Nutritional Profile of Plant-Based and Dairy Yogurt Using the Nutrient Rich Foods Index

Alissa Nolden, Food Sciences

Dasilva, Gabriella S. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Working Mothers on Their Children

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Davidson Carroll, Gray D. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Poetry as Narrative Praxis & Intervention for LGBTQ+ Youth

Aline C. Gubrium, Health Promotion & Policy

Davtyan, Elizabeth L. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

De La Rosa Mejia, Sherley M. — Psychology & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors on Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood

Adam S. Grabell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

De Mora Ocana, Francesca F. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effects of Insecure Housing Affecting Young Mothers and Pregnant Women in Continuing Their Higher Education.

Melishia Santiago, College of Natural Sciences

Dearstyne, Trista N. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Cry for Help: The United States Government’s Failure to Protect Low-Income Minority Communities from Environmental Racism

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Defilippo, Julia C. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Broad Exploration into the Function and Significance of FERONI A: A Key Receptor in Arabidopsis thaliana

Alice Y. Cheung, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Degenaro, Daniel R. — Linguistics; Mathematics; Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Acting Different(-ly): Bringing Derivational Morphology into Variationist Linguistics

Lisa J. Green, Linguistics

Degrandpre, Ella L. — Management & Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Company Behavior within the Apparel Industry: The Tendency to Pursue a Sustainability Certification

Bogdan Prokopovych, Isenberg School of Management

Delano, Sarah E. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Delsignore, Jonathan H. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Disappointment Guaranteed!

John J. Hennessy, English

Demers, Austyn C. — Legal Studies & Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Navigating Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform

Jamie R. Rowen, Political Science

Demers, Leah J. — Communication; Individual Concentration: Film Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

See You at the Movies: Independent Cinema in Western Massachusetts

Barr y A. Spence, Humanities & Fine Arts

Depina, Leila I. — Chemistry

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Continuing “Identification and Quantification of Caffeic Acid in Coffee via HPLC for Applications in Film Development”

Ruthanne H. Paradise, Chemistry

Desai, Omkar S. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Reducing Minority Underrepresentation in Clinical Research

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Deshpande, Ria A. — Nursing

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment for Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder

Kimberly Dion, Nursing

Desir, Wendell B. — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Information on Re-entry Services for Women after Incarceration

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Desmond, Amanda V. — Economics & Astronomy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Launching into the Final Frontier: Why Major Countries around the World Are Driving Unprecedented Interest in Space

Kevin Young, Economics

Devito, Gabriella C. — Natural Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Woody Plants of MountainStar Forest: A Guide with Historical and Ecological Context

Lena Fletcher, Environmental Conservation

Devos, Anduin M. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors For the Birds

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Devos, Savana H. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Devre, Khushi — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Influence of Locus of Control on Belief in Meritocracy

Kevin Young, Economics

Dewsnap, Mark A. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Gauging UMass Health and Wellness Programs: Are They Supporting Fitness Trends?

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Diep, Karmen T. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Morphogen-Gradient Induced Brain Organoids: A 3-D Model System for In-vivo Dorsal-Ventral Patterning in Early Brain Development

ChangHui Pak, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Dieu, Gabrielle T. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Advancing Racial Equity and Improving Access: The Role of a Single Payer Health Care System

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Diskin, Erin M. — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Qualitative Investigation into Student Wellbeing and Success in Dual Language Classroom Programs in Massachusetts Primary Schools

Ysaaca D. Axelrod, Education

Distefano, Matthew P. — Finance & Economics Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors Evaluating Market Efficiency during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Matthew P. Linn, Isenberg School of Management

Ditchfield, Payton E. — Psychology & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Discovering Whether There is a Connection between Analytic Bias and Object-Based Attention

Kyle R. Cave, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Diwanji, Vedang V. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Understanding the Role of Uncertainty in Alzheimer’s Disease

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Doerries, Lea M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Doherty, Liam D. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Meritocratic Death Spiral: A Study of Why People Act against Their Own Interests

Kevin Young, Economics

Doherty, Sean V. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Dolcine, Carlea — Psychology & Afro-American Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Visioning In and Re-Visioning Schools: The Students Know What They Need

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Don, Noa — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Associations of Sperm Ribosomal DNA Copy Number and Assisted Reproductive Technology Outcomes: A Preliminary Study

Richard J. Pilsner, Environmental Health Sciences

Donescu, Victoria — Nutrition

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Mechanism of Effect of Probiotics Bacillus subtilis and Tetragenococcus halophilus in Vertebrate and Invertebrate Model Organisms

John G. Gibbons, Food Sciences

Donovan, Isaiah J. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Encouragement and Discouragement: Motivations for Violent Revolutionary Movements in an Irish Context

Robert P. Musgrave, Political Science

Dorceus, Kerleene M. — Anthropology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Rebranding Slavery: Criminalizing Abortion as a Modern

Theft of Female Bodily Autonomy

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Dorff, Jessie A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sesquiterpene Cytochrome P450 Characterization and Promiscuity in M. truncatula

Sibongile Mafu, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Dover, Madison E. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Turmeric (Curcuma longa): History, Features, and Molecular Mechanisms behind Its Anti-Neoplastic Properties

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Downes, Tess E. — Nursing & Spanish

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Associations between Participation in Culturally-Tailored Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Education and Levels of SelfEfficacy and Motivation to Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes among Latino/a/x American Populations: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis

Rae Walker, Nursing

Downing, Declan P. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Investigating the Impact of Reversible Electroporation on Membrane Integrity and CD3+ Receptor Localization in Human T Cells"

Govind Srimathveeravalli, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Drake, Leonardo P. — Astronomy & Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Characterization of Integrated X-Ray Emission from Nearby Highly-Inclined, Star-Forming Disk Galaxies

Daniel Q. Wang, Astronomy

Driscoll, Leah J. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Relationships between Increased Mammary Epithelial Permeability, an Anti-Inflammatory Diet, and Maternal Characteristics

Kathleen F. Arcaro, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Drummond, Elise — Public Health Sciences & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Public Health Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Abuse and Intergenerational Trauma

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Duchi Calderón, Anna J. — Marketing

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Sports Marketing: Analysis of Consumer Behavior through Commercialization of Soccer Using Players and Teams Sponsorships

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Duffy, James H. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Clouds I Hear

John J. Hennessy, English

Duncan, Nicholas J. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Testing for Local Adaptation in Latitudinally Different Populations of Urosalpinx cinerea: Investigating the Impact of Temperature on Consumption and Growth

Brian S. Cheng, Environmental Conservation

Duncan, Katherine N. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Associations between Social Media Use and Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Dunderdale, Laura E. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Measuring Emergency Physician Stress and Emotion with Wearable Sensors: An Exploratory Investigation

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Dupre, Robin N. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Examining Biases in Nursing Students toward People

Exper iencing Homelessness

Raeann Genevieve Leblanc, Nursing

Duquette, Anna E. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Postpartum Sleep Deprivation and Its Effects on MotherInfant Bonding

Carrie-Ellen Briere, Nursing

Dwyer, Bridget G. — Communication Disorders & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Dyer, Kai P. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Ebbecke, Duncan H. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Social Change and Health: How Civil Rights and 1960s

Policies Improved American Health and Reduced Health Disparities

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Eddinger, Nicholas J. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Edozie, Alexis — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Game Theory Perspective on Gene Essentiality

Patrick J. Flaherty, Mathematics & Statistics

Edwards, Jessica E. — Kinesiology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

IMU-Based Measures of Gait Stability during a Complex

Treadmill Walking Task

Wouter Hoogkamer, Kinesiology

Elliott, Connor R. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Similarities among CEOs

Kevin Young, Economics

Ellis, Joseph — English

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Eng, Ashley Y. — Microbiology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Investigating Thermal Adaptation of Soil Microbial Growth Traits

K risten M. DeAngelis, Microbiology

Escallón, Antonio — Environmental Science & Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Algorithmic Design of Power Trading and the Impact of Probabilistic Data Using Game Theory

Deborah Henson, Environmental Conservation

Evans, Griffin — Computer Science & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Extension of AssemblyScript Functionality through Transpilation

Marius Minea, Information & Computer Science

Ewick, Patrick J. — Pre-Veterinary Science & Natural Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ezeiruaku, Chimere I. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Implications of Resume AI

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Fakhri, Shanelle M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Quantification of Regulatory Light Chain Phosphorylation in Single Human Skeletal Muscle Fibers

Mark S. Miller, Kinesiology

Falanga, Sarah E. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

IV Dislodgement Prevention Device - Adhesive Component

Samantha Wojda, Biomedical Engineering

Falvey, Katherine N. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

3-D Printer and Raspberry Pi-Based Microscope for Live

Organoid Imaging and Quantitative Analysis Application

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Farooqui, Zara F. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Globalization on the Healthcare Sector of the Middle East with a Concentration on COVID-19

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Farrell, Abigail J. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing Food Availability and Growth Rates as Emigration

Cues for Juvenile River Herring

Allison H. Roy, Environmental Conservation

Farrell, Kaelly — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Optimization of Paper-Based Extraction of High-Quality

Nucleic Acid from Breast Milk

Kathleen F. Arcaro, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Fauman, Alexander G. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Schur Basis and the Littlewood-Richardson Rule

Owen G. Gwilliam, Mathematics & Statistics

Fenelon, Benjamin M. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Is Differential Privacy Worth the Energy? Analysis of Private Path Planning for UAVs

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ferguson, Aidan J. — Physics & Astronomy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ferrandino, Max G. — Social Thought & Political Economy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Filipova, Katerina S. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Importance of Consent Education and Sane Services on College Campuses

Celeste Surreira, Nursing

Finneran, Brendan P. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Justice for None: The War on Drugs and Its Effects on Marginalized U.S. Citizens

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Fiorentino, Joshua J. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Photodegradation of Acetaminophen: A Comparison between TiO2 and Chlorination

Mariana Lopes, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Fisher, Maxwell B. — Linguistics And Philosophy; Architecture; Linguistics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Identification of Patterns in the Syntactic Complexity of Questioning in U.S. Courts

Lisa J. Green, Linguistics

Fishman, Lauren A. — Marketing & Sport Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Collaborations and Partnerships in Generation Z

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Fitzgerald, Maggie E. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Fitzgerald, Aidan M. — Resource Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Flinn, Rosalie B. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

American Propaganda: Manufacturing Consent for Imperialist War

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Flockhart, Eleah L. — Microbiology & Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Mechanical Stimulation on Shoot-Borne Root

Development in the Model Grass Brachypodium distachyon

Samuel Hazen, Biology

Folan, Sean F. — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Fong, Claire E. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms by Which PFAS Exposure Disrupts Exocrine Pancreas

Morphogenesis and Cell Proliferation in Zebrafish

(Danio rerio)

Rolf Karlstrom, Biology

Forbes, Jacqueline — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring Entertainment Media: Associations between Substance Use-Related Media Exposure, Substance Use

Stigma, and Help-Seeking Intentions

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Forkus, Corin S. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Assessing Hemlock Defoliation and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Infestation Using NDVI and Machine Learning Techniques

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Fortune Jr., Scott P. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Foster, Lindsey B. — Microbiology & Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Inequalities of Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal

Morbidity in Native American/Alaskan Native Women: A Systematic Review

Lisa E. Chasan-Taber, Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Fox, George P. — Economics & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Inequality and the IMF — An Analysis of Conditionality, Rhetoric, and Reconciliation

Kevin Young, Economics

Frank, Ashleigh N. — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Outcome Expectation, Alliance, and Patient Improvement in Naturalistic Psychotherapy: Actor-Partner

Mediational Pathways

Michael J. Constantino, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Frederick, Jacqueline E. — Food Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Isolation and Identification of Human Gut Bacteria Capable of Digesting Food-Grade Kappa-Carrageenan

Hang Xiao, Food Sciences

Freitas, Joel C. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Municipal Outfall Ranking Matrix for Detecting Illicit Discharges

Nicholas B. Tooker, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Furey, Isabella P. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Energy Metabolism during Exercise in Eumenorrheic Females: Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase

Jane A. Kent, Kinesiology

Gabriel, Joash Elijah Audrey G. — Microbiology & Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Detection of Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances in Human Breast Milk Samples Using Liquid Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry

Martin Hunter, Biomedical Engineering

Gadekar, Anushka S. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

A Comparison of cFos Expression in the Maternal Brain

Induced by Interactions with Offspring of Varying Needs

Mariana Pereira, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Gagnon, Claire M. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

British Childrens’ World War II Experiences and the Impact of the Education Act of 1944

Jon B. Olsen, History

Gaibor, Sofia L. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Minority Women’s Health and Healthcare in the United States: Social Determinants and Challenges of Access

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Gallant, Samantha M. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

All Things Natural Are Strange: A Poetry Collection

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

Gampa, Anika — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Analyzing the Uncertainty and Risk of the Drug Development Process

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ganote, Anna — Political Science; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Colonizing Bodies: The United States Government’s

Sterilization of Indigenous Women

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Gao, Lily — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Novel Luciferase Reporter on Circadian Phenotype

Eric L. Bittman, Biology

Garcia Jalil Melendez, Greta — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Protecting the Environmentally Vulnerable: The Need for an International Climate/Environmental Migrant Protection Framework

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Garg, Pranav — Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Reinforcement Learning for Stock Trading

Hongkun Zhang, Mathematics & Statistics

Geldart, Elizabeth M. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Flaws of FDA Regulations on Medical Devices

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

George, Gracie T. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Germanetto, Emma G. — English & Italian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

John J. Hennessy, English

Getsey, Natalie V. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring Antimicrobial Treatment Techniques against Contact Lens-Associated Bacterial Keratitis

Margaret Ann Riley, Biology

Ghaddar, Karen A. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Revolutionizing Healthcare Delivery: The Rise of Telemedicine in Lebanon and the United States

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Ghosh, Siddhanth — Computer Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

AIRMAQ: A Mobile Air Quality Sensor

Richard E. Peltier Jr, Environmental Health Sciences

Gilbert, Brynn E. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Research on Partnerships and Collaborations to Boost Brand

Awareness and Capture Gen Z

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Gilmore, Derek M. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Constant Crisis: Inpatient Psychiatry throughout

American History

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Gindi, Sophie M. — Marketing & Sport Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Collaborations and Partnerships, Newell Brands

Charles D. Schewe, Isenberg School of Management

Glidden, Nicole E. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Discrimination Women Face in HIV Treatment and Pre ventative Care: An Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Ongoing Epidemic

Laura Reed, Commonwealth Honors College

Gold, Hannah R. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Goldman, Marina — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Check, Please?

John J. Hennessy, English

Golen, Saige A. — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Community and Connection Implications of SingleOccupancy Residential Halls: A Comparative Case Study

Analysis of Architectural Layouts and Amenities in Residential Life

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Goodwin, Thomas R. — Chemical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterization and Performance of Robust Membranes

Infused with Perfluoropolyether Oils for Water Purification

Jessica Schiffman, Chemical Engineering

Gordon, Joseph A. — Political Science & Philosophy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Why Resource-Rich African Nations Fail to Prosper under Neoliberalism: A Study of Botswana, the DRC, and South Africa

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Gore, Manasi Jitendra — Computer Science & Mat hematics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Matrix-Vector Query Algorithms for Triangle Counting

Cameron Nicholas Musco, Information & Computer Science

Goulet, Adam D. — Chemistry; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Enzyme Kinetics of the Binding Domains of ISOT

Eric R. Strieter, Chemistry

Grassia, Joshua R. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Behavioral Study on Cellar Spider Responses to Varying Vibrations

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Greenwood, Floyd — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Analysis of Conservation Land and Its Influence on Suburban Residential Home Value

John Mullin, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning

Gregoire, Riley E. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Anxieties of the Mid Century: The Media’s Influence on the Fear of Communism in Daily American Life

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Gridley, Charlotte K. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Optimization and Implementation of Lipid Uptake and Protease Activity Assays with Developmental PFOS

Exposure Using Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Alicia Timme-Laragy, Environmental Health Sciences

Grigely, Lily E. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the History of Human Anatomy through the Creation of Art

Cynthia N. Consentino, Art

Grinblatas, Leah G. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Grudic, Amaret M. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

State Level Climate Policy and Disparities in Welfare

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Guan, Erica S. — Mathematics & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Analysis of Patient Primary Language as a Determinant of ICU Length of Stay

David Chin, Health Promotion & Policy

Gubisch, Patience J. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Student-Led Fight for Educational Equality in East Los Angeles and Chicago, 1968: An Educational Resource for the High School History Teacher

Jennifer A. Fronc, History

Gustin, Cole T. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cancer Mechanisms in the Fire Service

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Gyurmey, Sarah D. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing an ESL Tutor Handbook to Be a Resource to English Language Learners

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Haas, Anju Y. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Business Strategy and Entrepreneurial Leadership

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Hall, Dereck N. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Creating a Solar-Powered Autonomous Environmental Monitoring Device with Wi-Fi Transmission

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Hamilton, Lila B. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Pandemic Space and Planetary Health: Identifying Co-benefits of Outdoor Space Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Hamilton, Molly M. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sugartown: A Short Story Collection

John J. Hennessy, English

Hannigan, Nora K. — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Hannon, Max S. — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

An Investigation of Attention Restoration in Campus Green Space

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Hansen, Ethan C. — Philosophy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Individual

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Harden, Sabrina K. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Impact of Centriole Depletion on Bipolar Spindle

Formation in Mitosis

Pat Wadsworth, Biology

Harding, Emily A. — Marketing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Newell Brands - Omnichannel Team Honors Thesis

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Harrison, Claire M. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Planning for the Future at the End of the World: Using Literature to Reckon with Climate Anxiety

Malcolm Sen, English

Harrison, Shealyn P. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Youth Homelessness in the United States: Causes, Con sequences, and Prevention Measures

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Hart, Nia L. — Sociology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Solandis

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Hart, Savannah M. — Individual Concentration: The Social Impacts Of Public Policy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Hartl, Madalene M. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Haskins, Victoria H. — Sustainable Community

Development

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Perception and Meaning of Three Types of Polish PostSocialist Green Spaces: The Allotment Garden, the Public Housing Space, and the Memorial

Theodore S. Eisenman, Landscape Architecture & Regional Pla nning

Hasty-Groves, Mackenzie J. — Pre-Veterinary Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Ellipses: A Commonwealth Honors College Project Manuscript

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Hatch, Dylan M. — Social Thought & Political Economy

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Reimagining Globalization through Economic Democracy

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Hawkins, Lucy K. — Architecture

General Studies & Departmental Honors

A Restorative Residence Hall: Biophilic Design for Student Wellbeing

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Hayek, Andrew J. — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Gauging UMass Health and Wellness Programs: Are They Supporting Fitness Trends?

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

He, Eric — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Grandmas Matter: Language Access for All

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Heinemann, Abigail R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Hekimian, Kristen M. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Healing the Wounds of Healthcare Injustices and Inaccessibility: Connecting Underserved Americans with Community Providers

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Hersey, Matthew H. — Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Visual Assistive Technology

Donghyun Kim, Information & Computer Science

Hershelman, Julia L. — Microbiology; French & Francophone Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Chemical Mutagenesis of Listeria monocytogenes for Increased Tolerance to Benzalkonium Chloride Shows Independent Genetic Underpinnings and Off-Target

Antibiotic Resistance

John G. Gibbons, Food Sciences

Hickey, Matthew T. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

To What Extent Have Demographic Shifts Influenced the Rise of Soccer’s Popularity in the United States?

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Hill, Kaleigh G. — Resource Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Disparities in Energy Efficiency Program Participation by Income and Minority Status

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Hissam, Carter A. — Microbiology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Hoang, Nicole — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

More Than Just a Feeling: Stress, Social Status, and Healthcare Inequality in the United States

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Hodgdon, Victoria R. — English

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and a Pathway Forward

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Hoff, Chloe E. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Caffeine’s Overnight Effect on Sleep and Memory in ADHD

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Hoffman, Noah — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Aging and Senolytics: A Clinical Trial

Laura I. Francis, Biology

Hoffman, Jonathan T. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Gauging UMass Health and Wellness Programs: Are They

Supporting Fitness Trends?

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Hogan, William F. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Evaluating United States Cyber Warfare Doctrine

MJ Peterson, Political Science

Hohler, Jeffrey C. — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Legalization of Online Gambling and Its Effects on Society

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Holden, Megan R. — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Holmes, Kileigh B. — Psychology & Classics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Psychological Implications of Digital Communications and Monitoring Systems in the Workplace

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Horgan, Kathryn M. — Communication & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

How Media Conceals, Justifies, and Upholds Patriarchal Censorship against Women Who Speak Out against Sexual and Sex-Based Harassment and Assault

Allison T. Butler, Communication

Hsiao, Enoch — Music & Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

User Role Management through a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) System within an Interactive CS Ethics

Learning Environment (PEaRCE)

Peter J. Haas, Information & Computer Science

Hughes, Camryn G. — Political Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

A Gender Policy Analysis of Saudi Arabia

Robert P. Musgrave, Political Science

Hughes, Jillian — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Portrayal and Intersection of Savior Siblings and Human Clones in Fiction Novels

Cassandra N. Spracklen, Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Hurley, Catherine P. — Journalism & History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ethics and Identity in Journalistic Podcasting

Kelsey Whipple, Journalism

Huynh, Tiffany J. — English & Comparative Literature

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Creative Writing

John J. Hennessy, English

Hyppolite, Shermarie C. — Communication & Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Dreamlike Realities

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Hyppolite, Niajah K. — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Illuminating Pathways for Black and Brown Students to Find Autonomy in Education and Navigate PWIs

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Ibas, Arda K. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Idahor, Peace O. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Circuit Visualization for Simulation and Verification of Arithmetic Circuits

Maciej Ciesielski, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Iftikhar, Abdul-Rehman — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

What Is the Generational Impact on Incarcerated Immigrants and Their Families? What Are the Social, Economic, and Psychological Effects of Being Incarcerated as an Immigrant in the United States?

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Iglesias, Maya A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Molecular Interaction between RAP and the LRP1 Receptor and Its Implications in Alzheimer’s Disease

Erica Light, Environmental Conservation

Inbar, Ravid — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effect of Removing Hub Domain on Human CaMKII

Isoforms Sensitivity to Calcium/Calmodulin

Margaret M. Stratton, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Indacochea, Ana P. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cybersecurity on a Global Level: Challenges and Opportunities

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Isbrandt, Vanessa A. — Political Science & Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ismahili, Ergi — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ivers, Joseph J. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Jackivicz, Kara L. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Universities and Their Complacency toward Rape Culture on Campuses

Jennifer L. Nye, History

Jackson, Foster J. — Management & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act

Mari Castañeda, Commonwealth Honors College, Communication

Jain, Rishabh R. — Physics & Astronomy

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Understanding Dynamics of Lipid Vesicles Exposed to Polycations

Tony D. Dinsmore, Physics

Jain Ganna, Mohit Tejraj — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Jankowski, Lydia C. — Sustainable Community Development

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Beyond the Studio: The Role of Artist Studio Complexes in Three Western Massachusetts Cities

Dee L. Boyle-Clapp, Arts Extension Service

Jeet, Simran — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Evaluating the Role of Adhesion between Biopolymer and Zwitterion Coated Nanofiber Mats on Polyurethane

Alfred J. Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering

Ji, Yuqi — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

How the State with the Best Education Neglects

Low-Income Towns

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Jonczyk, Leah E. — English; German & Scandinavian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

“Beer and Champagne” and Others

John J. Hennessy, English

Jones, Adam T. — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Mass Adoption of the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) Movement in the United States and Its Effects on the Country’s Economic Future

Matthew P. Linn, Isenberg School of Management

Jones, Henry P. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Neurodiversity in Higher Education Spaces

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Jones-Trudeau, Hannah L. — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Joshi, Sahil A. — Computer Science & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Detection of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Binary Signals

Donald F. Towsley, Information & Computer Science

Jung, Jane J. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Adopting Anaerobic

Digester Biomass Technology for the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Jung, Youngchul — Economics; Japanese Language & Literature

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Jury, Hannah E. — Sustainable Community Development

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a Framework for Deeper Understandings of and Support for the Unhoused

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Kambarova, Shirin — Interdisciplinary Studies

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Kamble, Arya — Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies; Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Kams, Ethan B. — Political Science & Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Globalization and the Spread of Soccer and Baseball throughout the World Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Kang, Mehak — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Identification of Neural Proliferative Zones in Juveniles of the Nudibranch Mollusc Berghia stephanieae

Paul S. Katz, Biology

Karam, Kathryn E. — Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Karri, Shreya — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Intersection of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Fashion: A Methodological Exploration of New Venture Creation and Usability Evaluation of E-Commerce Platforms

Molly Burnham, Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration

Karwa, Madhav — Finance & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Measures of Liquidity Risk in Assets Trading on AMMs

Nikunj P. Kapadia, Isenberg School of Management

Karyabdi, Kayla G. — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Uncertainty in ESG Investing amidst the Threat of Greenwashing

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Kassler, Andrew B. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Weather Conditions on Scoring in Major League Baseball and the National Football League: A Comparative Study

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Kassoy, Jaelyn — Sustainable Food & Farming

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Common Share Food Co-op: Tools and Networks for a Resilient Food-Secure Amherst

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Kaufman, Marinna — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Decision-Making about Reusable Menstruation Products

Allecia E. Reid, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Kaye, Emily J. — Psychology & Linguistics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Relation between Nap Transitioning and Language

Development across Early Toddlerhood

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Keagle, Abigail M. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Equitable Community Solar Policy in Massachusetts

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Keaveney, Jane M. — Accounting & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Fraud in Financial Sectors

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Keefe, Julia E. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing the Structural Condition and Ecological

Connectivity of Small Bridges and Culverts

Scott Jackson, Environmental Conservation

Kelly, Duncan T. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Transition to Neoliberalism in Chile, Venezuela, and Britain

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Kelly, Lauren M. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Wastewater Surveillance of Influenza on the UMass Campus

Caitlyn Shea Butler, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Kenslea, Margaret C. — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

CICS Diversity Full Stack Website

Jaime Davila, Information & Computer Science

Kessel, Harry R. — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Critical Analysis of Management Techniques in Professional Soccer Clubs

Bruce C. Skaggs, Isenberg School of Management

Khettry, Shreya — Informatics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Unmasking the Faces of Facial Recognition Technology

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Kiernan, Ellen E. — Sociology & Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Breaking the Cycle of Silence: An Examination of How the University of Massachusetts Fails Survivors of Sexual Violence

Jennifer L. Nye, History

Kim, Yoojee — Spanish

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Shaping Identity: An Examination of Latinx Personal Narratives in the United States

Stephanie Fetta, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Kinne, Caroline P. — Sport Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

National Hockey League: Determining Consumption

Drivers and Barriers to Facilitate Future Growth

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Kirk, Jeannie F. — Accounting

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Garmin and the Wearable Technology Market: Past, Present, and Future

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Kitzmiller, Claire E. — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Presence of Phosphatidylinositol

Mannosides in the Mycobacterial Cell Envelope

Yasu Morita, Microbiology

Klein, Emilee S. — Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Reporting on Consumer Transparency within the Massachusetts Seafood Supply Chain

Joshua A. Braun, Journalism

Knappik, Julianne R. — Electrical Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Stephen J. Frasier, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Knick, Emily R. — Linguistics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Prevoicing Loss in Tokyo Japanese Plosives: A Production and Perception Study

John Kingston, Linguistics

Knowlton, Emily G. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Visualizing Microglia in a Zebrafish Model of TBCK Syndrome

Gerald Downes, Biology

Koopman, Natalie A. — Individual Concentration:

Romance Languages

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Make Yourself at Home

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Kovarik, Jennifer M. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders

Experiences with Healthcare Professionals

Kimberly Dion, Nursing

Krause, Evan J. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Quantifying Impacts of Microclimate Variation on Agricultural Disease Modeling

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Kravette, Noah M. — Physics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Visualizing the UMaXX Radar Archive Weather Data

Stephen J. Frasier, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Krishnan, Hari P. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Improvements and Benchmark Testing of a 2-DOF Powered Ankle Prosthetic

Frank C. Sup, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Krista-Kelsey, Daniel M. — Astronomy & Physics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Characterization of the Source Confusion in the CHILES

Con Pol Ultra-Deep Radio Continuum Data

Min S. Yun, Astronomy

Krumsiek, Jane J. — Communication Disorders

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Understanding Assistive Listening Devices: How They Work and Benefit Students with Hearing Loss, and Reasons for Infrequent Implementation in Educational Settings

David M. Kawall, Physics

Kuhta, Fleur L. — Theater & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Here, Life Is Beautiful—Culture, Community & Chaos in Cabaret

Elisa S. Gonzales, Theater

Kushida, Haruka — Landscape Architecture

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Westernization of Japanese Urban Parks: A Historical Analysis of the Chiyoda District in Tokyo

Theodore S. Eisenman, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning

Kusumo, Edrick B. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Flow Characteristics of Direct, Multi-Jet Hydrogen Injection into Argon Ambient Gas

David P. Schmidt, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Laguda, Ajijolaoluwa O. — Political Science; Individual Concentration: International Affairs And Justice

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Evolving Role of the State under Globalization

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Lam, Grace S. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Investigation of Stylistic Composition through the Framework of a Theme in Variations

Brent L. Auerbach, Music & Dance

Laparra Lopez, Aseret G. — Education & Sustainable Community Development

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ecos del Pasado: A Journey through Memories

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Larson, Sophia J. — English & Communication General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lasic-Ellis, Phoebe L. — Individual Concentration: Perspectives In Emergency Care

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Novel Approach to Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infection with a Novel Polymer and Zwitterion Formulation

Wilmore Webley, Microbiology

Last, Olivia R. — Accounting General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Laurino, Alec P. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Analyzing the Relationship between Firms’ Engagement in Ethical Business Practices and Their Financial Performances

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Lauritsen, Katelyn E. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Engineering a Cost-Effective Dental Shade-Matching Device

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Laus, Emily M. — Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Use of Oxygenic Photogranules in Wastewater Treatment through Computational Fluid Dynamics and Experimental Comparison

David P. Schmidt, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Lawindy, Marena A. — Nutrition

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lawindy, Mary A. — Nutrition

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Leandro, Samantha M. — English & Portuguese

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Troubling Taxes: The Connection between Property Tax and Achievement Gaps in Education

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Leblanc, Brooke C. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Student Experience in Brett Hall: A Case Study of Renovations to Facilitate Inclusion

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Lee, Spencer — Music

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

French Romanticism and the Violin: A Study of Works by Franck, Chausson, and Saint-Saëns

Elizabeth Chang, Music & Dance

Lee, Evelyn M. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

In the Name of Science: Mistreatment of Indigenous People by Museums

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Lee, Jedhi — Communication & Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lee, Ginu — Finance & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lee, Cameron J. — Studio Arts

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lemont, Amelia R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Leonard, Catherine J. — Psychology & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Community Education and Mentoring Program—A

Workshop-Based Peer Support Model for Young Adults

Struggling with Mental Health

Lori Astheimer Best, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Lerner, Ryan J. — Individual Concentration: Chinese American Mental Health

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Using Music within Chinese American Families to Strengthen Parental Support of Adolescent/Young Adult Mental Health

Christopher W. White, Music & Dance

Leung, Andrea W. — Finance

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Machine Learning for Credit Scoring and Its Impact on Income Inequality

Mila Getmansky Sherman, Isenberg School of Management

Levi, James C. — Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Sugar Water Pollution on the Everglades and Its Tourism Economy

Christopher D. Boone, Economics

Lewis, Ian — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors Interludes

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Li, Kacie — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing a Method for Identifying a Typical Day for Energy Storage Modeling

Erin D. Baker, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Li, Keefer — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Impact of Nodulin-22 and Nodulin-25 on the Symbiosis between Medicago truncatula and Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobia

Dong Wang, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Li, Raymond C. — Computer Science & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Lienau, Camille J. — Communication

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

An Analysis of Neoliberalism’s Effects on Unions

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Lin, Jianxiong — Physics; Computer Science; Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Semantic Segmentation of Cardiac MRI with Weak Supervision and Domain Knowledge

Madalina Fiterau Brostean, Information & Computer Science

Liu, Carol A. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

WeChat, KakaoTalk, and LINE: The Social and Political Implications of East Asian Super Apps

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Loeb, Klil L. — Architecture & Sociology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Interstellar Architecture: Human Design for Martian Living

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Loffredo, Alessandra M. — Anthropology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cycling Back: How Reproductive History Affects the Timing of Menopause

Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Anthropology

Lonergan, John D. — Chemical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating Zeolite Self-Assembly via Monte Carlo Simulations

Scott M. Auerbach, Chemistry

Lopez, Emma I. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Characteristics of Big Tech Super Elites

Kevin Young, Economics

Louist, Christella — Finance

General Studies & Departmental Honors

How Tension between the U.S. and China Impacted Investments during the past 10 Years in the Solar Panel Industry

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Lovell, Kathryne O. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Engineering Education: An Evolution, a Revolution

Stephen P. Fernandez, Engineering

Lozada, Austin D. — Psychology & Philosophy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Call to Serve: An Examination of Multiple Potentially Motivational Factors Influencing the Decision to Join the Military

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Lubiak, Fenway P. — Kinesiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Intramyocellular Lipid Content Effects on Whole Skeletal Muscle Function and Single Fiber Properties in Humans

Mark S. Miller, Kinesiology

Lubicki, Daniel A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Lubintus, Gassendina — Political Science & Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Luce, Makenzie E. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Differences in Bird Songs between Carolina Wrens on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod

Jeffrey Podos, Biology

Lustig, Stuart M. — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of In-Game Narrator Dialogue on Cooperative Video Game Play

Beverly R. Woolf, Information & Computer Science

Lynch, Patrick A. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Residential Solar Photovoltaic Installation Trends in Ma ssachusetts

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Lynch, Hunter A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Spatially Resolved Expression Levels of Arabidopsis thaliana

Important Genes Involved in Interactions with Fusarium

oxysporum by Single Nuclei RNA Sequencing Analysis

Li-Jun Ma, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Lyons, Niamh E. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Poverty in the United States: A Multidimensional Factor That Affects Health Outcomes

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Macdonald, James F. — Anthropology & Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Role of Neoliberalism in Shaping

Current Imperialism, Immigration, and Trade Policies in Latin America

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Mackin, Samuel A. — Legal Studies & ECONOMICS

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Scots-Irish Influence of Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

Alan C. Gaitenby, Political Science

MacKinnon, Benjamin N. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

How Team-Based Learning Fosters Student Wellbeing in Higher Education

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

MacManus, Sara A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterization of the Stability of CaMKII alpha and beta

Margaret M. Stratton, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

MacMunn, Cassidy R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Medicine in the Media: Information Overload, Anxiety, and Its Relationship with Patient Health Behaviors

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Macpherson, Callista B. — Natural Resources

Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining Fish Assemblage Response to Dam Removal

Allison H. Roy, Environmental Conservation

Macuch, Cameron G. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

State Steering and Water System Partnerships

Anita Milman, Environmental Conservation

Madhukar, Anshuman — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Mah, Emily R. — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Real-Time Imaging of p-Coumaroyl-CoA Monolignol

Tran sferase Expression during Development of Brachypodium distachyon

Samuel Hazen, Biology

Mahendran, Thanga Aishwarya — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Constructing a Spectrophotometer to Measure Soil Macronutrient Levels

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Maheshwari, Aditya — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Maida, Nadyah A. — Philosophy & Microbiology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Telehealth and Dementia—The Age Friendly Way

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Mak, Eugene Y. — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Investigating the Future of Operating Systems: An Analysis of Systems Programming in Rust

Timothy D. Richards, Information & Computer Science

Malanga, Nicole J. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Dear You, Love Me

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Malik, Rhea — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The New Look of Dentistry: Dental Tourism

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Mangat, Jasmine K. — Computer Science & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Marini, Isabella G. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Dangers of Criminalizing Student Behavior: A Historical Analysis of Police Presence in Schools and Discussion of Alternatives to Disciplinary Action

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Marsh, Leslie R. — Education & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Students in the School Setting and How They Can Be Supported

Darrell S. Earnest, Education

Marshall, Kelly W. — Communication Disorders

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Examination of Phonological Representations and Speech

Production in Children with Phonological Disorders

Jill R. Hoover, Communication Disorders

Marshall, Ellen P. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring the Relationship between Mental Health and Movement Quality during Free-Form Dance in 18- to 85-Year-Old Adults

Aston K. McCullough, Music & Dance

Martin, Alison L. — Environmental Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Environmental and Sustainable Education: A Survey of Undergraduate Students

Marta Vicarelli, Economics

Martin, Julia K. — Accounting

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sustainability of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Student-Run Cooperative Businesses

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Martin, Seth D. — Astronomy & Physics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Testing and Calibrating Infrared Selection of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Prospector

Katherine E. Whitaker, Astronomy

Martin, Samantha E. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Effects of Radiation Therapy on Bone Architecture, Composition, and Mechanical Properties

Stacyann Bailey, Biomedical Engineering

Mastroianni, Seth A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring the Relationship between Hippocampal Development and Chronotype in Toddlers

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Psychological & Brain Sciences

McIsaac, Hayley A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biolog y; Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Evaluating the Properties, Cytotoxicity, and Antifouling

Capabilities of Polymer Zwitterion/Polydopamine

Composite Films

Todd S. Emrick, Polymer Science & Engineering

McLaughlin, Dylan M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Establishment of Cytosolic Small Heat Shock Protein

Knockout Lines in Arabidopsis thaliana

Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

McMorris, Skye A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Role of Calmodulin-like Genes in the Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation of Medicago truncatula and Rhizobia

Dong Wang, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

McNally, Rachel M. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

McQuaid, Timothy C. — Astronomy & Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Timescales of Star Cluster Emergence: The Case of NGC4449

Daniela Calzetti, Astronomy

Medeiros, Madyson N. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biolog y; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating PR Expression Differences in the Medial Preoptic Area Related to Maternal Behavior Deficits in a Rat Model of Depression

Mariana Pereira, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Medina, Génesis N. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

American Enough: A Study on National Essentialism and Stereotyping

Tara Marissa Mandalaywala, Psychological & Brai n Sciences

Mehrmann, Timothy M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biolog y; English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Fight for Viral RNA Fate: Investigating the Interaction between Shiftless and KSHV ORF57

Mandy Marie Muller, Microbiology

Mei, Joshua Z. — Environmental Science & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Messier, Jake A. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterizing the Influence of Print Direction on the Bulk Properties of 3-D-printed Tensile Coupons

Sanjay Raja Arwade, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mikula, Michael A. — Management

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Using Search Trend Data to Predict the Stock Market

Irem Onder Neuhofer, Isenberg School of Management

Miller, Edward C. — Biology & Public Health

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Role of Ultraviolet Radiation in the Molecular Development of Skin Cancers

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Miller, Victoria R. — Social Thought & Political Economy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Millstone, Samuel W. — Physics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Analyzing Star-Gas Evolution in STARFORGE

Robert A. Gutermuth, Astronomy

Milstein, Omer — Psychology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Min, Bellis — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Glutathione Response to PFOS Exposures in the Embr yonic Pancreas Is Modulated by Nrf2a in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Alicia Timme-Laragy, Environmental Health Sciences

Minkin, Avery T. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring the Utility of Motion Capture to Provide Feedback to Nursing Students during Injection Training

Frank C. Sup, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mishra, Maneeka — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Mistry, Karishma J. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Menstruation as a Stigma: Dominant Societal Discourse and Its Impact in South India and Amherst, Massachusetts

Aline C. Gubrium, Health Promotion & Policy

Mitchell, Chloe D. — Political Science & Communication

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Media Literacy and QAnon: Assessing College Students’ Ability to Decipher Extremist Political Media

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Mohammad, Tasneem M. — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Analysis of the Effect of Racialization on the Political Polarization of Universal Healthcare Policy Attitudes in the United States

Kevin Young, Economics

Monzon, Sebastian A. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Toward Generative Adversarial Audio Synthesis via Latent Inter polation between Desired Timbre Qualities

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Morency, Michelle L. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Evaluating the Development of Decision-Making Strategies under Uncertain Conditions

Youngbin Kwak, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Moriarty, Anna — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Microscope and Image Processing System to Identify Isolated Bacterial Colonies

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Morisset, Arensa J. — English

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Financial Implications of Dorm Room Decor on Low-Income Students’ Sense of Belonging Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Mulcahy, Sarah J. — Legal Studies & English

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Is Teach for America a Helpful Solution to Problems in Amer ican Public Schools...or Is It Perpetuating Educational Inequities?

Marissa L. Carrere, Political Science

Mulkern, Madeline A. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Avoidance and Anxiety: A Fearful Cycle

Carolyn D. Davies, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Muma, Hellen M. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The United States’ Control over Black People through Mass Incarceration and Racial Criminalization: A Historical Analysis

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Munch, Jacob — Sport Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Perceptions of Female and Male Play-by-Play Broadcasters among Sport Consumers: Is There Evidence of Gender Bias?

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Munsiff, Armaan — Economics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Supply Chain and Energy Equity Analysis of Perovskite

Solar Technology

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Murphy, Zoe L. — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

How Could the Energy Information Administration Address Equity in the Annual Energy Outlook?

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Murphy, Liam P. — Chemistry & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Synthesis of Novel GPX4 Inhibiting Ferroptosis Inducers

Rachid Skouta, Chemistry

Mustafa, Liri G. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Status of Sex Education in the United States

Rebecca Woodland, Education

Myers, Jack D. — Political Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Fare Access Program

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Nagaraja, Veda — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Private Investment on the Standard of Living in Bangalore, India

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Nagireddy, Srija — Computer Science & English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Echoes

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Nagle, Sarah — Marketing

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Gastroenterology: Investigating GI Fellow Personas and Customer Journey

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Nagle, Yash Mohan — Computer Science & Economics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Sentiment Analysis Using Distributed Representation of Characters

Jaime Davila, Information & Computer Science

Nair, Meghana — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Comparing Immortalization of Human Breast Epithelial Cells from Donors Differing in Breast Cancer Risk

D. Joseph Jerry, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Naismith, Evan J. — Legal Studies

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Najjar, Sabrina R. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Deep Dive into Customer Satisfaction: Analyzing Matley’s Pools and Spas

Verónica Martín Ruiz, Isenberg School of Management

Najjar, Julia A. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Variability in the Hibernation Season of Corynorhinus

townsendii

Jeffrey Podos, Biology

Naughton, Sarah M. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating Secreted DMBT1 Protein as a Tumor Suppressor in Human Breast Cancer

Janice Telfer, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Neal Reilly, Liam H. — Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Human Following System for Human Motion Capture Using the Mini-Cheetah

Meghan E. Huber, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Neira, Wilson — Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Concentro Shook Prototype: A Device Made for Reducing Concentration Loss

Jaime Dávila, Information & Computer Science

Nepal, Kusum — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Disparity in Health-Care Access for Immigrant Populations in the U.S.

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Ng, Jacqueline — Microbiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Cellular Decision-Making and Stochasticity within

Bacteriophage lambda

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nguyen, Vy H. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Invisible Victims: The Effect of Parental Incarceration on Children’s Mental Health and Development

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Nigro, Tara D. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Development of an Air Pollution Monitoring System in Amherst, Massachusetts

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Noel, Angele — Political Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Bottom of Hardship: An Analysis of How Legislative Decisions and Discriminatory Practices Have Fueled the Racial Wealth Gap

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Nolan, Kelsey L. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Language and Representation of Disability in the Media: Study of College Students’ Perceptions

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Noone-Price, Maeve E. — Natural Resources

Conservation

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Environmental Drivers Leading to Population Fluctuations of Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) within Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts from 2012–2022

Michael F. Nelson, Environmental Conservation

Nordman, Caelyn N. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

SEL Education in K-3: Reducing the Lifelong Effects of Childhood Trauma within Foster Care

Kirby D. Deater-Deckard, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Norton, Marley A. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Intersectional Approach to Identity: The Influence of Queer Diversity in STEM Research

Anna LaChance, Chemical Engineering

Novak, Sophia C. — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Influence of Aggression and Impulsivity in Risky Decision-Making

Youngbin Kwak, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Nuesslein, Benedikt G. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Function of SHORT INTERNODES Transcription

Factor Genes in Brachypodium distachyon

Madelaine Bartlett, Biology

Nulman, Jonathan — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterizing the LRP1 Sheddome, a Driver of Neuroinflammation

Jennifer N. Rauch, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

O’Brien, Hannah B. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Validation of Methods for Assessing Free-Living Physical

Behaviors in Older Adults

John R. Sirard, Kinesiology

O’Hare Gibson, Jordan — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Citizen behind the Science

Paige Warren, Environmental Conservation

Olanyk, Natasha R. — Art History & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Oliveira, Alex M. — Accounting

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Postmortem: A Narrative Reflection on Online Communities

Mari Castañeda, Commonwealth Honors College, Com munication

Oliver, Tegan V. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Socialized for Success: Exploring the Relationship between Gender and Political Ambition among Undergraduates

Jane Fountain, School of Public Policy

Olivier, Madelyn P. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Application and Expansion of World Librarians

Charles Schweik, Environmental Conservation, Public Pol icy & Administration

O’Malley, Sydney A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Neuronal Cell Type Characterization in GABRA3 Mutant

Zebrafish as Dictated by c-Fos Expression

Gerald Downes, Biology

O’Neill, Joseph M. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Ignorant Beliefs Are No Match for Experience with an Open Mind: Lessons in Education for the Incarcerated

Jonathan R. Wynn, Sociology

O’Neill, Kate N. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Exercise and Physical Activity on Stress; Facilitating Smoother Decision-Making

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

O’Reilly, Maeve — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Impact of Clinical Trial

Design on Minority Participation and Proposing Inclusive

Strategies for Immigrant Involvement

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

O’Shaughnessy, Honor R. — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

In a Distanced World: The Association of Social Touch

Mea sures with Depression and Anxiety in Young Women

Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson, Health Promotion & Policy

Ostiguy, Chloe P. — Linguistics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Corpus of Massachusetts Regional Dialects

Lisa J. Green, Linguistics

Owen, Renee R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Effects of Long-Term and Acute PFAS

Exposures on Zebrafish Exocrine Pancreas Development

Rolf Karlstrom, Biology

Padam, Arimita — Individual Concentration: The Art Of Neurobiology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Paine, Aiden G. — Chemistry

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Developing H-Filters for Post-transcriptional mRNA

Purification

Craig Martin, Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Paniagua Garzon, Natalia — Social Thought & Political Economy; German & Scandinavian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Pare, Lyle M. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Parker, Morgan C. — Marketing & Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Parry, Elliot H. — Astronomy & Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Charge on Granular Particles Subject to a Constant Shear Stress

Shubha Tewari, Physics

Pascal, Rose-Darla M. — Public Health Sciences & Philosophy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Plato’s Theory of Human Nature

Vanessa de Harven, Philosophy

Patel, Yesha N. — Economics; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Board Games: An Analysis of Corporate Interlocks in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Kevin Young, Economics

Patel, Preya K. — Biology & History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Patterson, Hunter D. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Paul, Amay — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Pednekar, Nidhi — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Mental Health Outcomes in Young Bisexual+ People

Nicole A. VanKim, Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Pedone, Loukas J. — Kinesiology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Resistance Training Identification by Wearable Accelerometers

John R. Sirard, Kinesiology

Pehlert, Julie A. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes

Toward Herpes simplex Virus

Celeste Surreira, Nursing

Peisner, Elana — Chemical Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Fabrication of Conductive Nanofibers for Sensory Applications

Jessica Schiffman, Chemical Engineering

Peller, Rebecca L. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Petersen, Benjamin A. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

High Risk: Low Reward

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Peterson, Emma J. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; German & Scandinavian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Characterization of the ATAD3 AAA+ ATPase Protein in Arabidopsis thaliana

Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Petrovich, Emma D. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Living through Borrowed Eyes

Connie D. Griffin, University Without Walls

Pham, Viet Hung — Food Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Extrusion 3-D Printing of Potato Protein Colloidal Gels via pH-temperature Route

David J. Mcclements, Food Sciences

Pham, Vi N. — Microbiology & Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students’ Mental Health Outcomes

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Philippakis, Elisavet — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Greek American Diaspora: A Study on the Perception and Role of Traditional Dress

Whitney L. Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology

Pho, Mai — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Actin Contraction Is a Major Determinant of Bleb-Based Nuclear Shape Deformation and Ruptures

Andrew D. Stephens, Biology

Picariello, Nicolas — Sustainable Food & FARMING

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Natural World as Teacher: Academics through Storytelling and Reciprocity

Sarah B. Berquist, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Piligian, Nathan H. — Chemical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Poelker-Mckee, Gregory N. — Sustainable Community Development

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Pollard, Lydia E. — Biology & English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Porterfield, Owen — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing Changes in Lead and Mercury Distributions and Cycling Dynamics in Undisturbed Forests of the Northeastern United States between 2011 and 2021

Justin B. Richardson, Geosciences

Portesi, Alana E. — Kinesiology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Potty, Jared D. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Study of Marmoset Personality and Cognitive Decline

Agnés Lacreuse, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Poulack, Isabelle — Communication Disorders & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Disability Disclosure among Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

Jill R. Hoover, Communication Disorders

Powell, Sayre I. — Classics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Social Media and the Parthenon Marbles Debate

Shannon L. Hogue, Classics

Proulx, Jack J. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Pulluru, Vidhya — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Purohit, Archana — Journalism & Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Short-Form Journalism Documentary: Undergraduate Research at UMass Amherst

Greeley A. Kyle, Journalism

Qu, Kevin L. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Positive and Negative Compatibility in Cancer Treatments

Occurring from Overlap of Targeted Mechanisms

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Radin, Max — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating Gastroenterology Fellow Personas and Customer Journey

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Rahill, Alexandra R. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Rainford, Shamar A. — Accounting

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Rajvanshi, Anumeha — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring the Phenotype of Central Amygdala Cells

Impacted by Adolescent Alcohol Drinking in Mice

Heather Richardson, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Ramos, Maria C. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Factors Contributing to and Effects of Juvenile Incarceration

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Rampello, Olivia M. — Operations & Information Management; Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Helping or Hurting? A Review of Preventative Dental Care Measures

Courtney Babbitt, Biology

Ranjan, Anvi — Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Fair Trade Movement: How Fair is It?

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Rauch, Alistaire — Chemical Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Elucidating Inflammasome Activation in Static and Dynamic Flow Conditions

Ashish A. Kulkarni, Chemical Engineering

Raza, Shayan B. — Legal Studies & Economics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Socioeconomic Status and Success in the Federal Court

System: An Analysis of Elite Litigants in America

Kevin Young, Economics

Reed, Ethan A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Nisin-Impregnated Catheters: A New Approach to Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Margaret Ann Riley, Biology

Reilly, Andrew P. — Landscape Architecture

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Fight and Flight: How UAVs and Thermal Cameras Can Help Design More Efficient Landscapes

Samantha Solano, Landscape Architecture

Reis, Herzen — Classics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Resnick, Walker L. — English

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

I Always Get the Same Thing Here

John J. Hennessy, English

Resnikoff, Liana J. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Characterizing Lon and ClpXP Interactions in Vibrio cholerae

Peter Chien, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Rhoades, Honour K. — Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Pervasive Injustice: The Story of the United States Legal System’s Jury Selection Process

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Rich, Connor M. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Selecting Borrelia burgdorferi OspC Strains for White-Tailed

Deer Sera Resistance

Stephen M. Rich, Microbiology

Riley, Adam M. — Sociology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sociological and Psychological Implications of Creative Expression in the American Home

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Riopel, Alexander J. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Absolute Price Momentum

Mila Getmansky Sherman, Isenberg School of Management

Rivera, Gerardo J. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Rivernider, Celina L. — Legal Studies & Journalism

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Ethical Prosecution in a System of Mass Incarceration

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Robert, George R. — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Roche, Kiera J. — Biology; German & Scandinavian Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Rodrigues, Ava J. — Mathematics & Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Symmetry on the Sedimentation of Particles in a Viscous Fluid

Narayanan Menon, Physics

Rodriguez-Galvis, Evelyn D. — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Language Barriers in the Court Service System: The Impact They Have on Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants

Jennifer F. Merton, Isenberg School of Management

Rollins, Morgan A. — Pre-Veterinary Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Roman, Leslie A. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

‘States of Disrepair’: The Harmful Effects of the Current Low-Income Housing System on Physical and Mental Wellbeing and the Potential for Creative Solutions

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Rose, Olive C. — Animal Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Roseman, Hailey R. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Isolation and Identification of B. infantis in Infant Stool Samples

David A. Sela, Food Sciences

Rossi, Steven A. — Computer Science; Management; Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

On Calculating Special Values of Dedekind Zeta Functions

Siman Wong, Mathematics & Statistics

Rotker, Benjamin L. — Computer Engineering & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Machine Learning for Automated Lecture Audio Processing

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Roy, Jashodhara S. — Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Straight Out of the Ivies

Kevin Young, Economics

Roy Chowdhury, Aditya Kumar — Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Dynamic Locality-Sensitive Orderings in Metric Spaces

Hung Viet Le, Information & Computer Science

Ruan, Yuehui — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Based on iOS, Benchmark Test and Analysis on Existing Famous ML System Framework

Hui Guan, Information & Computer Science

Rubin, Natalie G. — Legal Studies & Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Congress (Rarely) United: Personal Finance Unites

Political Elites over Partisan Divide

Kevin Young, Economics

Rubin, Nicholas M. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Garmin and the Wearable Technology Market: Past, Present, and Future

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Rugo, Sophia E. — Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Structural Adjustment and the Middle Class: An Analysis of the Gold Mining Industry in Ghana

Frederic C. Schaffer, Political Science

Ruiz Fernandez, Antonio — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Saab, Lea — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Health Inequalities by Race and Class

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Sabir, Saddaf — Public Health Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Oral Health Disparities: Impacts on Systemic Health and Interventions

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Sadock, Alexander I. — Finance

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Sahay, Akshat — Computer Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Design of a Wearable Device for Underwater Motion Analysis

Yeon Sik Noh, Nursing

Saiju, Aman P. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterization of the COVID-19 Immune Response

Present in Breastmilk and Its Implication on Infant Health and Breastfeeding

Kathleen F. Arcaro, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Salva, Justin D. — Natural Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Weed Risk Assessments: An Analysis of Comprehensiveness across Borders

Bethany A. Bradley, Environmental Conservation

Santel, Madison — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Santiago, Gabriella R. — Marketing

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Customer Needs in the Digital Age: An Omnichannel Approach

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Saqlain, Sheikh — Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Discovering Governing Equations for Dynamical Systems on Lattices

Panayotis Kevrekidis, Mathematics & Statistics

Sarafoglou, Athena — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Motherhood and the Algorithm: How Social Media is Changing Attitudes toward Motherhood

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Sarita, Tamara — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Brainwave Entrainment Audio Stimuli on the Human Nervous System

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Sarolkar, Savni R. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Influence of Early Visual Experiences on GABAergic

Signaling and Visual Development

Sarah Pallas, Biology

Satish, Siddhanth — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Satish Kumar, Samhitha — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Identifying Interacting Partners of S-Nitrosoglutathione

Reductase and Their Importance in Regulating Nitric Oxide

Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana

Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Satterthwaite, Philip A. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Boundary Layer Suction on Cold Spray Nozzles

David P. Schmidt, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sauger, Jack W. — Legal Studies

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Modern Police Controversy: Public Trust in the Institution

Post-George Floyd

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Saums, Adrienne L. — Communication Disorders

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

How Science for the People Relates to Social Justice and Change

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Sayan, Samira E. — Marketing & Communication

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Newell Brands – Omnichannel Team Honors Thesis

Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management

Schelleng, Caroline M. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sources of Mortality at Different Life Stages for Fall Cankerworm

Jeremy Catalin Andersen, Environmental Conservation

Schmidt, Judith G. — English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Schoenberg, Kyle F. — Chemical Engineering

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Schonemann, Emma I. — Education

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Combating Ageism through Intergenerational Activities

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Scott, Kate I. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Seetal, Maia K. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Restructuring Refugee Policies in the U.S. for Climate Migration

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Sekhar, Maya J. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Ethical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: An Investigation of Strategies and Implications

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Selvaraaj, Joseph Daniel — Finance; Mathematics; Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Sequential Rollouts with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Bruno Castro da Silva, Information & Computer Science

Sen, Prithul — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Engineering Bone-on-a-Chip Models Incorporating

Demineralized Bone and PDMS Cured in Molds from a CNC-Milling Machine

Jungwoo Lee, Chemical Engineering

Sena Balbino, Luana — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

How Parental Attitude and Behaviors Impact Children’s Development

Erik W. Cheries, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Serdy, Matthew R. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates among University Nursing Students

Ann M. Becker, Nursing

Sessions, Shotaro S. — Computer Science & Mathematics General Studies & Departmental Honors

Seymour, Sage M. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Synthesizing Biomaterials from Decellularized Plant Tissue

Shelly Peyton, Chemical Engineering

Shah, Sana G. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

CaMKII: Between Species

Luke R. Remage-Healey, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Shah, Ritik — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Mapping Water on the Surface of the Moon Using Machine Learning

Mario Parente, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Shah, Heta H. — Electrical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Spectrally Filtered Photodiode Pairs for Aptasensing of ATP

Guangyu Xu, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Shahbazyan, Anna A. — English & Comparative Literature

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Transmuting the Numinous: Arseny Tarkovsky’s Poems in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror

Barry A. Spence, Film Studies

Shapiro, Sophie A. — Political Science & Natural

Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing Road Stream Crossings for Aquatic

Connectivity and Developing a Passability Scoring System for Salmonid Fishes

Scott Jackson, Environmental Conservation

Sharma, Ruchira S. — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Prompt Tuning Techniques for Semantic Parsing

Andrew K. McCallum, Information & Computer Science

Shay, Jessica M. — Education & English

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing a Disability Literature Resource Guide for Elementary Teachers

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Shechter, Yuval — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Learning Low Dimensional Manifold Representations for Phi-4 Kink Dynamics

Panayotis Kevrekidis, Mathematics & Statistics

Sheffer, Tal — Physics & Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Effects of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles on Transmon

Qubits in the Second Excited State

Chen Wang, Physics

Shehata, Maria R. — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Evaluating the Effect of Strigolactones on Iron Homeostasis in Plants Using Arabidopsis thaliana as a Model System

Elsbeth Walker, Biology

Shemer, Amit — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

What Is Long-Term Incarceration For — and What Should It Be For?

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Shepherd, Maxwell L. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Synthetic Dataset Generation Techniques for Training

Convolution Neural Networks to Identify Ticks

Shira P. Epstein, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sheridan, Elizabeth C. — Political Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Did J.R. Ewing Win the Cold War? Measuring United States-Russian Foreign Policy Identities through Popular Media

Robert P. Musgrave, Political Science

Sheth, Sanah T. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Scaling of Surface Area, Volume, Mass, and Length among Marine Megafauna Using 3-D Software

Duncan Irschick, Biology

Shoshani, Ido — Computer Science & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Silva, Hannah L. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Marriage in the Modern Age

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Silva, Victoria M. — Finance

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Student Perceptions of America’s Global Performance

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Silwal, Pratik — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Implementation of Decentralized Technology by Businesses/Organizations

Angela Maione, Commonwealth Honors College

Simmons, Eric J. — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Simoes, Rachel L. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Singh, Kriti — Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

False Information in Social Media

Jaime Davila, Information & Computer Science

Singh, Prisha — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

IV Dislodgement Prevention Device, Hydrogel Component

Samantha J. Wojda, Biomedical Engineering

Sitaraman, Anupama A. — Computer Science

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Leveraging Solar PV and Storage for Deep Decarbonization of Residential Heating Systems

Prashant Shenoy, Information & Computer Science

Smart, Maggi P. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

An Unfair Fight: The Disproportionate Burden of Cancer on Minority Populations in the United States

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Smith, Liam R. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Application of Bacteriocins as Potential Antimicrobials in the Shrimp Industry

Margaret Ann Riley, Biology

Smith, Isobel H. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Diet and Refueling Rate Consequences of Differential

Migration in Gray Catbirds

Alexander R. Gerson, Biology

Smith, Talazen G. — Legal Studies

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Proposal for the Legalization of Prostitution in the United States

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Smith, Jessica M. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Understanding Utilization of Palliative Care: An Examination of Student Nurses’ Attitudes and Beliefs

Raeann Genevieve Leblanc, Nursing

Smith, Diamond — English

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Smith-Sokol, Chloe — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Increasing Exposure to Social-Emotional Learning: A Response to the Opportunity Gap in Elementary Public Education

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Somers, John G. — Individual Concentration: Film Studies; Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Song, Minjae — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Individual Concentration: Animal-Assisted Therapy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Developing Chemical Tools to Degrade Circadian Proteins

Michelle Farkas, Chemistry

Song, Yoonjae — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Individual Concentration: Expressive Therapy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Role of Pleiotrophin (PTN) in Schizophrenia Patient with Heterozygous NRXN1 Deletion

ChangHui Pak, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Song, Dasol — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Molecular Interaction between RAP and the LRP1 Receptor in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology Erica Light, Environmental Conservation

Song, Yae Hyun — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Sood, Andrew M. — Finance & Journalism

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Evaluating Financial Risk Management Methods When They Matter the Most Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Soparkar, Saarth N. — Mathematics & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sordillo, Jackson T. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Repairing Corroded Bridge Beams Using Wire Arc Additive

Manufacturing and Powder Bed Fusion

Symeon Gerasimidis, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Sorensen, Walker S. — Psychology & Computer Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Soucie, Jack S. — Natural Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Urban Stream

Conductivity in Boston, Massachusetts

Allison H. Roy, Environmental Conservation

Spencer, Samuel B. — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Murder to Excellence: How Rising in Class Changes the Experience of Race for Jay-Z

Millicent Thayer, Sociology

Spevack, Jeremy A. — History

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Autocrats at War

Audrey L. Altstadt, History

Sreelekha, Ananya Priyadarshini — Astronomy & Physics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating Noise Temperature in Heterodyne Receivers

Gopalakrishnan Narayanan, Astronomy

Srinivasan, Sanjana — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating the Roles of Exosome Complex Components 1 and 2 in Mouse Embryonic Development

Jesse Mager, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Stafford, Ethan H. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Predicting NFL Games Using Machine Learning

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Stewart-Smith, Eliza G. — Spanish & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Art as Therapy for Emerging Adults: Exploring Art Therapy

Practices in Higher Education

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Stotsky, Jared C. — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Gender (In)congruency: Examining the Role of Gendered

Stereotypes in Mental Illness Stigma

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Stover, Maeve M. — Public Health Sciences & Nutrition

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Examining the Impact of U.S. Policies on the Current Health

Disparities among Native American, Alaskan Native, and Indigenous Communities

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Strazdus, Benjamin C. — Mathematics & Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Applying Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System and Local Binary Pattern Operator to Images Taken by a Portable, Nonmydriatic, Fundus Camera

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Streilein, Christopher W. — Biomedical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Shear on Neurons and Surrounding Central Nervous System Cells

Chase Cornelison, Biomedical Engineering

Sturtevant, Faith E. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Breathing Bigotry: The Racist and Classist Discrimination behind Hazardous Waste Exposure

Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Anthropology, Commonwealth Honors College

Sule, Sahana S. — Psychology; Individual Concentration: Foundations Of Healthcare

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

“It Is What It Is”: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impacts of Race on the Experiences of Black Emergency Medicine

Physicians

Linda Isbell, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Sun, Chengwen — Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Data Driven Analysis of Energy Usage on Efficiency across Socioeconomic Groups

David E. Irwin, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sun, Kuirong R. — Animal Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sunuwar, Caroline — Political Science & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Global Spatiotemporal Pattern of Decoupling Transport CO2 Emissions per Capita from GDP per Capita through Electric Vehicles

Marta Vicarelli, Economics

Supple, Matthew D. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Szafran, Matthew D. — Finance & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Oil and Gas’ Terminal Value Problem: A MarketBased Interpretation

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Tajchman, Jacob J. — Individual Concentration: Neuromodulation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coil for Cell-Type Specific Targeted Neuromodulation

Siyuan Rao, Biomedical Engineering

Tang, Alan L. — Informatics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

A Case Study of Food Waste Initiatives at UMass

Caryn J. Brause, Architecture

Taranto, Millan — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Integrating Analytical and Conceptual Strategies for the Design and Testing of a Mars Rover Excavator

Meghan E. Huber, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Taubert, Kyle J. — Computer Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Mapping Underground Sanitation Infrastructure Using Street Level Imagery

Jayant K. Taneja, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Taveras, Jamille — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Using Creative Arts and Building Inclusive Community: A Case Study at the Amherst Survival Center

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Taylor, Jillian N. — Natural Resources Conservation General Studies & Departmental Honors

Quantifying Social Norms in the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Recreational Fisheries

Andrew Danylchuk, Environmental Conservation

Tefal, Abanoub M. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

The Association between Processed, Red Meat and Cancer, the Substitution of White Meat

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Teh, Olivia L. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Lived Experiences of Nursing Students during a Pandemic

Karen K. Giuliano, Nursing

Tesini, Carlina B. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Bike Club Civic Engagement Project: Fostering Community, Empowerment, and Mental Health in Underserved Youth

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Testa, Christine A. — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Fitness Content and Its Associations with Body Image in College-Aged Men

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Thompson, Amanda R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Does a Diet Rich in Fruit and Vegetables Increase the Level of the Anti-inflammatory Cytokine TGF-beta in Breast Milk?

Kathleen F. Arcaro, Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Tieuli, Cameryn O. — Linguistics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Tillman, Zoe G. — Physics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Curriculum Development for Physics 531: Electronics for Scientists Using the Raspberry Pi

Rory A. Miskimen, Physics

Tohline, Logan I. — Plant And Soil Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Efficacy and Residual Toxicity of Chitosan for Rhagoletis

pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Jaime Pinero, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Tolland, Sarah D. — Operations & Information Management; Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Exploring the Relationship between Incarceration Rates and the American Economy

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Toot, Paige K. — Sport Management

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Hockey Canada: The Uncovering of Illicit Success

Elizabeth Nicole Melton, Sport Management

Torok, Emily T. — English & Informatics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Vietnam’s Imperialist History: An Analysis of the Effects of War and Colonialism in Vietnam

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College

Tou, Ivy — Public Health Sciences

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impact of Sleep on Negative Memories among Adolescents

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Touadjine, Alia R. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Rhetoric versus Reality: UMass Students’ Need for Authentic Community Care and Space

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Townsend, Bram J. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Tralongo, Justin — Communication

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Clouding Intimacy: A Look at Pornography’s Effects on Views of Sex through the Lens of Cultivation Theory

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Tran, Thien M. — Biochemistry & Molecular BiologY

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Serotonin Pathway in Colorectal Tumorigenesis: The Regulation by Cannabidiol (CBD)

Zhenhua Liu, Nutrition

Tran, Wyatt C. — Microbiology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Role of Polyprenol Biosynthesis in Mycobacterial Membrane

Yasu Morita, Microbiology

Tran, Bao Tram — Mathematics & Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Trogan, Alon — Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Covert Communications through an Information Theory

Perspective with Applied Machine Learning

Dennis L. Goeckel, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Trueswell, Eric G. — Political Science; Economics; Mathematics

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdowns on American Food Expenditure

Jayati Ghosh, Economics

Tsamaase, Ame F. — Anthropology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Racialization of the American Immigration System

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Turner, Maekala — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Using Data to Highlight the Success of Women in Sports

Janet S. Fink, Sport Management

Tutu, Elsi — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Empowering Mothers of Color through Community Conversations

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Ungar, Brian D. — Kinesiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Resistance Training as a Form of Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation for Circus Artists

Judith B. LaBranche, Kinesiology

Urisman, Jacob M. — Computer Science & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Numerical Semigroups and the Cayley Semigroup

Membership Problem

David A. Mix Barrington, Information & Computer Science

Vadukul, Aysha M. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Integrative Incorporation of Cannabidiol (CBD) in Cancer Treatment

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Vaikunth, Rhidam — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Spreading a Message with Technology

John Francis Simpson, Commonwealth Honors College

Valente, Eliza M. — Individual Concentration: Disease Prevention

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Health Disparities from a Life Course Perspective: Policy Implications

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Valentin, Nathalie E. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Black Students’ Perceptions of Campus Climate

Brian A. Lickel, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Vanantwerp, Brahm T. — Environmental Science & Natural Resources Conservation

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Temporal and Spatial Variation in Patterns of Wildlife

Diversity and Use of Migration Corridors across the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts

Kelly B. Klingler, Environmental Conservation

Vareschi, Madeline G. — Marketing

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Consumer Perceptions of Data Privacy and the Effect on Online Consumption

Muzzo S. Uysal, Isenberg School of Management

Velasquez, Jocelyne — Marketing; Individual Concentration: Fashion Merchandising & Styling

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Velie, Lauren N. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Unraveling the Roles of Aldo-Keto Reductase Family 4C in Arabidopsis thaliana Nitric Oxide Homeostasis

Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Vigeant, Emily R. — Operations & Information Management

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Business Strategy and Entrepreneurial Leadership

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management

Villare, Ashley — Accounting

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Vo, Thuy-Tam H. — Public Health Sciences & Economics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Effects of Perinatal Exposure to Butyl Benzyl Phthalate on the Composition of the Stroma of the Mouse Mammary Gland in Adulthood

Laura N. Vandenberg, Environmental Health Sciences

Voke, Brian P. — Chemical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Development of a Set of TetR Homologue-Based Repressible Promoters for Use in the Model Gram-Positive Bacteria

Bacillus subtilis

Lauren B. Andrews, Chemical Engineering

Vu, Catherine X. — Accounting

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Prison Labor: From Slavery to the Modern Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers in the United States

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Waldman, Ariel H. — Environmental Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Adding an Agrivoltaic Array to Grazing Land in Deerfield, Massachusetts

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics

Walsh, Megan M. — Kinesiology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Sleep Restriction and Its Effects on Physical Behaviors in Young Adults

John R. Sirard, Kinesiology

Wang, Ruichen — Environmental Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effect of Landscape Factors around Log Landings on the Community-Level Bee Body Size

David I. King, Environmental Conservation

Wang, Alissa — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Impacts of Gut Microbiome Identity on Cancer

Development and the Efficacy of Immunotherapy

Treatments

Kari D. Loomis, Biology

Wang, Zhiheng — Computer Science & Mathematics

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Ward, Elizabeth — Sociology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Parenting behind Bars: Examining the Impact of Parental Incarceration on the Wellbeing of Children, Families, and Communities

Razvan Sibii, Journalism

Warner, Matthew A. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Game Theory Thesis

Brian Van Koten, Mathematics & Statistics

Weber, Samantha A. — Communication

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Horror Movie Exposure and Its Relationship with Anxiety

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Weinberg, Maxwell E. — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Representations of Novel and Familiar Social Stimuli in the Accessory Olfactory Bulb

Joseph F. Bergan, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Weiske, Nicholas C. — Economics & Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Weiss, Samantha B. — Political Science

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Treacherous Tweets: The Relationship between Affective Polarization and Social Media among Undergraduate Students

Erica Scharrer, Communication

Weitz, Benjamin D. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing the Long-Term Accuracy of PurpleAir Outdoor Air Quality Monitors

Richard E. Peltier Jr., Environmental Health Sciences

Westebbe, Skyler T. — Social Thought & Political Economy

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Wetmore, Zoe E. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Effect of Phosphorylation on an Hsp70 Chaperone

Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry

Whalen, Hannah M. — History & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Defining Black Motherhood: The Fight for Black Mothers’ Autonomy in the U.S.

Jennifer A. Fronc, History

Wheeler, Jacob — Psychology

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Orexin and Social Novelty

David E. Moorman, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Whitehead, Haley L. — Psychology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

The Impact of Maternal Experience and Chronic HPA Axis Activity on Infant Stress Regulation and Temperament in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Amanda F. Hamel, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Whittaker, Jayden P. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Who Believes in Liberal Hegemony? Investigating Public Understandings of U.S. Foreign Policy

Robert P. Musgrave, Political Science

Williams, Donald A. — Accounting

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors

Inequality within the NCAA and How to Combat It

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Williams, Caroline M. — Political Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Legislative Materials Promoting Open Educational Resources on College Campuses to Increase College

Affordability and Decrease Food Insecurity

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Williams, Caroline E. — Environmental Science & Geography

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

UMass Amherst Reusable Container Program at Grab N’ Go Dwayne S. Breger, Environmental Conservation

Wilson, Dylan A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Investigating CRISPR-Cas9 Mediated Gene Knockouts in Plant Cells

Tobias Baskin, Biology

Wing, Abigail G. — English

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Janine Solberg, English

Wolf, Lindsay N. — Mathematics

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Social Determinants of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Which American Communities Are Affected the Most?

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Wolfson, Elaina — Public Health Sciences & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Health Disparities in the United States: How Unions

Address the Social Determinants of Health

Dean Robinson, Political Science

Wong, Tiffany A. — Biology & Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Assessing the Impact of BioPrep on Student Learning

Rosa Moscarella, Biology

Woo, Emily W. — Nutrition

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Cook and Learn: School-Based Nutrition Education for Young Children

Lindiwe Sibeko, Nutrition

Wright, Nathaniel — Civil Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Thermal Efficacy of Green Walls in Building Structures in the Northeast United States

Kara D. Peterman, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Wright, Avery B. — Biology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Wu, Jessica Y. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Characterization of Tantalum Cold-Spray Coatings Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Stephen S. Nonnenmann, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Xu, Aaron Y. — Computer Science

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Drafted Recruiting App

Sara E. Smiarowski, Isenberg School of Management

Yang, Annie C. — Microbiology

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

Refining DNA Polymerase IC Cell-Cycle Dependent

Localization in Trypanosoma brucei: The Truncation Project

Michele Klingbeil, Microbiology

Yanulis, Liam F. — Physics & Astronomy

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

An Extragalactic Survey Probing X-Ray Emission of Active Galactic Nuclei at Intermediate Redshifts

Daniel Q. Wang, Astronomy

Yesepkin, Timothy C. — Chemistry; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Immobilization of Penicillin G Acylase onto Mesoporous Carbon

Wei Fan, Chemical Engineering

Yore, Rachel M. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Physiological Synchrony of Sleep between Parent-Child Dyads

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Yost, Rachel — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

The Effects of Sunflower Pollen on a Bumble Bee Gut Pathogen via Changes to the Gut Microbiome

Lynn S. Adler, Biology

Young, Caitlin H. — Mechanical Engineering

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Design of an Injection System for Intratumoral

Drug Delivery

Govind Srimathveeravalli, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Zeinoun, Gabriel A. — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Characterization of Novel Soil Archaea Discovered in Harvard Forest through Metagenomic Analysis

Jeffrey Blanchard, Biology

Zelikman, Joshua M. — Nursing

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Perceptions of Nurses toward Robotics

Frank C. Sup, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Zeng, Minting — Environmental Science; Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors

The Effect of Nano Sulfur on Arsenate Toxicity and Accumulation in Soybean

Om Parkash Dhankher, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Zhang, Hui Qian — Psychology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Generated Different White-Noise Effectiveness on Heart

Rate Variability

Steven D. Brewer, Biology

Zhao, Hannah Y. — Architecture; Building & Construction Technology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Shedding Light on Urban Sustainability: An Integrated Approach to Mitigating Light Pollution and Enhancing Bird

Migration in Metropolitan Chongqing, China

Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture

Zhen, Shannon S. — Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Zheng, Jasmin — Biology

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Modernizing the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and Development of the Physical Activity Sexism

Experiences Scale

John R. Sirard, Kinesiology

Zhu, Annie — Biology

General Studies & Departmental Honors

Examining How Mammals Reconfigure Their Neural Circuitry Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Sarah Pallas, Biology

Zolla, Victoria J. — Nutrition

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors

Understanding the Complexities of Peanut and Tree Nut

Allergies in Young Adults and Creating Healthy Recipes to Support Nutrition

Lisa M. Troy, Nutrition

SENIOR RECIPIENTS OF COMMONWEALTH HONORS COLLEGE AWARDS

Commonwealth Honors College recognizes the graduating seniors who have earned the following distinguished scholarships and awards for their outstanding academic performance, excellence in research, and varied contributions to campus and community life.

Anonymous Alumna Scholarship for Honors Students

An anonymous sociology alumna from the class of 1954 created this one-time award for Honors students studying sociology and/or participating in community service learning through her estate. Having received a scholarship for her own studies, she was driven by an “urgent desire to help,” as she was once helped and in the hope of fostering a more just and equitable world.

Erin Diskin, Sociology

Jamille Taveras, Sociology

Tina Brown-Stevenson and Harry C. Stevenson Diverse Healthcare Scholars Award

Established by two graduates of UMass Amherst, this scholarship is designed to provide access for a Commonwealth Honors College student who plans to pursue a career in healthcare fields such as pharmacology, medical research, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, or mental health. Tina BrownStevenson serves as a member of the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board.

Francesca De Mora Ocana, Biology

Class of 1941 Humanitarian Award

The Class of 1941 Humanitarian Award was endowed in 1991, on the occasion of the class’s 50th reunion, for Commonwealth Honors College students who share their commitment to world peace and furthering human progress. Award recipients are selected among junior and senior Honors College students who demonstrate academic excellence, document their community service, and submit an essay that recognizes the need for service beyond one’s self.

Jenifer Atallah, Legal Studies

Tina Chen, Psychology

Luciette Daignault, Psychology

Erin Diskin, Sociology

Niajah Hyppolite, Sociology

Timothy Mehrmann, Biochem. & Molecular Biology and English

Sheikh Saqlain, Mathematics

Jamille Taveres, Sociology

Commonwealth Honors College Community Scholarships – collective fund

The collective gifts of many donors from the Commonwealth Honors College community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and parents provide multi-year support for incoming Honors students with outstanding potential.

Lea Saab, Biology

Sanderson Commonwealth Honors College Community Scholarship

Funded by alumnus Tom Sanderson and his wife, Annette, in recognition of the importance of access to education, this scholarship is designed to provide access for incoming first-year Commonwealth Honors College students who demonstrate outstanding academic potential, with preference for first-generation college students. This scholarship is renewable over four years provided that recipients maintain good academic standing.

Leslie Ann Roman, Political Science

Chuck and Lily Schultz Community Scholarship in Commonwealth Honors College

Funded by alumnus Chuck Schultz and his wife, Lily, in recognition of the importance of access to education, this scholarship is designed to provide access for incoming first-year Commonwealth Honors College students who demonstrate outstanding academic potential, with preference for first-generation college students. This scholarship is renewable over four years provided that recipients maintain good academic standing.

Aseret G. Laparra, Education, Sustainable Community Development

Xiara Calderón Santana, Psychology

Eva Thomson Commonwealth Honors College Community Scholarship

Established by a 1978 graduate of UMass Amherst, the Eva Thomson Commonwealth Honors College Community Scholarship is designed to provide access for a student accepted to the Honors College who demonstrates outstanding academic potential, with preference for firstgeneration college students. The scholarship is renewable providing the recipient maintains good academic standing.

Trista Dearstyne, Environmental Science

Commonwealth Honors College Opportunity Scholarships – collective fund

The collective gifts of many donors from the Commonwealth Honors College community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and parents provide multi-year support for current UMass Amherst students who have been admitted to Commonwealth Honors College through the on-campus application process.

Lea Saab, Biology

Commonwealth Honors College Opportunity Scholarships – Malone fund

Established by a 1975 graduate of UMass Amherst, the Malone Commonwealth Honors College Opportunity Scholarship provides access to the Honors College for current UMass Amherst students who demonstrate outstanding academic potential and have been admitted to Commonwealth Honors College as part of the on-campus application process. The scholarship is renewable as long as recipients maintain good standing in the Honors College.

Victoria Hodgdon, English

Jianxiong Lin, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics

Cooke Family Fund Scholarship

This award is endowed by the Cooke family in memory of family members, several of whom were alumni of the University: Theodore F. Cooke Sr. 1901, Robert G. Cook 1925, Dorothy Cooke Robbins 1928, Theodore F. Cooke Jr. 1934, Helen Cooke Rudzinski Hough, and Alma Cooke Kendall Bassett. Recipients are selected among senior honors students who have shown outstanding scholarship, successful completion of research, and significant university or community service.

Hayley Bernardo, Pre-veterinary Science

Victoria Haskins, Sustainable Community Development

Jole Laguda, Political Science, Individual Concentration

Gerald S. Creem ’67 Scholarship

Established by a 1967 alumnus, this scholarship provides access for a student who demonstrates outstanding academic potential and has been accepted to Commonwealth Honors College through the on-campus application process. This scholarship is renewable over three years provided that the recipients maintain good academic standing in Commonwealth Honors College.

Niajah Hyppolite, Sociology

Ravid Inbar, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Psychology

Nancy M. Cullen ’76 Scholarship

Having served many years on the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board, alumna Nancy Cullen established this scholarship to encourage and reward the dedication and commitment necessary to be both a Commonwealth Honors College student and participant in the UMass Minuteman Marching Band. The scholarship is awarded annually to an Honors student who demonstrates outstanding scholarship while being an active participant in the marching band.

Marley Norton, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Frank and Helen DiGiammarino Scholarship Fund

This scholarship was established by members of the DiGiammarino family, many of whom are UMass alumni, as a way to honor their parents, Frank and Helen DiGiammarino, for their commitment to academics and community service. Peter DiGiammarino serves on the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board. This scholarship offers Commonwealth Honors College students the opportunity to participate in a new or ongoing community service or a community engaged research project during the summer.

Jole Laguda, Political Science, Individual Concentration

Isobel Smith, Biology

Elsi Tutu, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Dresden Family Scholarship

Established by a 1983 UMass Amherst alumna who also served as chair of the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board in honor of the generations of educators in her family, the Dresden Family Scholarship provides access for Commonwealth Honors College students who have demonstrated leadership.

Sherley De La Rosa Mejia, Psychology, Biology

Maeve Noone Price, Natural Resource Conservation

Evans Family Scholarship for Environmental Conservation

Alumna Wendy Evans and her husband, Morris Evans, through the Richard and Rebecca Evans Foundation, established the Evans Family Scholarship for Environmental Conservation. This scholarship recognizes a Commonwealth Honors College student’s exemplary work on any aspect of the environment that is completed as part of that student’s studies, and encourages exploration of our environment on an academic level.

Jaelyn Kassoy, Sustainable Food & Farming

Charles J. Hoff Scholarship

Funded by the Hoff Foundation, the Charles J. Hoff Scholarships are designed to provide assistance to Commonwealth Honors College sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are permanent residents of Massachusetts.

Arthur Alves, Physics

Sherley De La Rosa Mejia, Psychology, Biology

Francesca De Mora Ocana, Biology

Alexis Edozie, Mathematics

Ethan Hansen, Philosophy

Niajah Hyppolite, Sociology

Maeve Noone-Price, Natural Resource Conservation

Nicolas Picariello, Sustainable Food & Farming

Elsi Tutu, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Honors Dean’s Award

Honors Dean’s Awards are presented to Commonwealth Honors College seniors who have demonstrated excellence in research and submitted descriptions of their honors thesis or project with a supporting letter of recommendation from a faculty member.

Jenifer Atallah, Legal Studies

Lauren Brown, Biomedical Engineering

Elizabeth Carroll, Economics, Legal Studies

Lydia Jankowski, Sustainable Community Development

Jole Laguda, Political Science, Individual Concentration

Austin Lozada, Psychology, Philosophy

Tegan Oliver, Public Health Sciences

Yuehui Ruan, Computer Science

Elizabeth Sheridan, Political Science

Melvin Howard Scholarship

Established by alumnus Melvin Howard, former vice chairman of Xerox, who served as the chair of the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board for eighteen years, this scholarship provides support for outstanding students in Commonwealth Honors College with an interest in business or economics.

Sebastian Monzon, Computer Science, Business

Yuehui Ruan, Computer Science

Isenberg Honors Scholarship

The Isenberg Honors Scholarship provides scholarships for outstanding members of both Commonwealth Honors College and the Isenberg School of Management.

Alex Oliveira, Accounting

Jocelyne Velasquez, Marketing, Individual Concentration

Haley Whitehead, Psychology

Lang Global Scholars Award

This award was established by donations from former and current students, colleagues, and friends of Professor Timothy Lang in honor of his retirement from UMass Amherst. The Lang Global Scholars Award supports students enrolled in the International Scholars Program who will be studying abroad in the next academic year. Professor Lang was the longtime director of Commonwealth Honors College’s International Scholars Program.

Skye McMorris, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Chancellor John V. Lombardi and Cathryn L. Lombardi Scholarship

Established in honor of former UMass Amherst Chancellor John V. Lombardi and his wife, Cathryn, this scholarship provides renewable financial assistance to incoming Commonwealth Honors College students with interests in academic research and community service.

Nicole Brown, Individual Concentration

Karmen Diep, Psychology

Samantha Leandro, English, Portuguese

Marybeth T. Murphy Memorial Scholarship

This award was established in memory of Marybeth T. Murphy, a 1983 graduate who studied landscape architecture with a major in environmental design. This scholarship serves as a tribute to her and her commitment to public art. Friends and family established this scholarship to support Commonwealth Honors College students pursuing landscape architecture who share Marybeth's ideals.

Lydia Jankowski, Sustainable Community Development

Haruka Kushida, Landscape Architecture

Kenneth L. O’Brien Scholarship

Established by UMass Amherst alumnus Peter Bloom in honor of his cross-country and track coach, Kenneth L. O’Brien, this renewable scholarship is awarded to students with outstanding academic records who are also dedicated to endurance activities. Mr. Bloom has served as chair of the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board.

George Fox, Economics, Mathematics

Oxford Summer Seminar at Trinity College Scholarship

This scholarship was established to provide travel scholarships to Commonwealth Honors College students who have been accepted to the Oxford Summer Seminar held annually at Trinity College, Oxford University. Selection is based on a combination of financial need and academic merit.

Emily Kaye, Psychology, Linguistics

Jayden Whittaker, Political Science

Lawrence Payne ’77 Public Service Scholarship

Endowed by the class of 1977, this award commemorates Lawrence Payne, a classmate who graduated with Departmental Honors in political science. Lawrence Payne was serving as special assistant for U.S. and Foreign Commercial Services when he died in an April 3, 1996, plane crash in Croatia with Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown. The award recognizes a senior Commonwealth Honors College student who has demonstrated a strong record of public service.

Shealyn Harrison, Public Health Sciences

Howard H. Quint Memorial Prize in Honors

This award is endowed in memory of the founder of the Honors Program who also served as chair of the history department. Recipients are selected jointly by the Department of History and Commonwealth Honors College.

Nicholas Weiske, Economics & Mathematics

Joseph and Elizabeth Rountree Merit Scholarship

Established by a bequest from Elizabeth Mary Rountree, the Joseph and Elizabeth Rountree Merit Scholarship Fund provides access to Commonwealth Honors College for high-performing students who demonstrate outstanding talents and abilities. This scholarship is renewable provided that recipients maintain good academic standing in the Honors College.

Jaret Berman, Communication Molly Hamilton, English

Paul Solli Community Scholarship

Established by a 1979 alumnus, the Paul Solli Community Scholarship is a three-year award that provides access to Commonwealth Honors College for first-generation UMass Amherst students who demonstrate outstanding academic potential and have been admitted to Commonwealth Honors College as part of the on-campus application process.

Nancy Blankson, Biology

Sherley De La Rosa Meija, Psychology, Biology

Lynda Walker Dean’s Opportunity Fund

The Lynda Walker Dean’s Opportunity Fund provides flexibility for the dean of Commonwealth Honors College to direct support for Commonwealth Honors College students in alignment with the college’s priorities.

Carlea Dolcine, Psychology, Afro-American Studies

Emerging Scholars

Emerging Scholars is a collaborative Honors and Residential Academic program for first-year students with strong academic potential who are not yet admitted to Commonwealth Honors College. The following Emerging Scholars were admitted and chose to join Commonwealth Honors College, and have earned Honors distinctions.

Carlea Dolcine ’23, Psychology, Afro-American Studies

Alexis Edozie ’23, Economics, Mathematics

NiajahHyppolite’23, Sociology

Jole Laguda ’23, Political Science, Individual Concentration

Sarah Tolland ’23, Operations & Information Management, Economics

Maekala Turner ’23, Mathematics

Elaina Wolfson ’23, Public Health Sciences, Psychology

International Scholars Program

Founded and administered through the International Programs Office and Commonwealth Honors College, the International Scholars Program provides a vehicle for students who wish to focus on international study over an extended period of time. It is intended to enhance international study and provide an academic and cultural context for students’ experiences abroad. The program’s curriculum consists of two preparatory courses in the sophomore year, study abroad in the junior year, and a senior cross-cultural re-entry seminar. The following students have completed this program:

Ashley Agostinelli, Psychology, Linguistics

Maxwell Fisher, Linguistics, Philosophy, Architecture

Eric He, Operations & Information Management

Hannah Jury, Sustainable Community Development

Natalie Koopman, Individual Concentration

Marley Norton, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Recipients of Presidential Scholarships

William M. Bulger Presidential Scholarship

This scholarship was established in honor of the former president of the UMass System to provide recognition and financial assistance to an outstanding student on the basis of both merit and need. Eligible applicants must be firstyears, sophomores, or juniors enrolled full time at a UMass campus, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.25. They must also be residents of Massachusetts. This scholarship is open to all majors and is renewable for up to three years.

Niajah Hyppolite, Sociology

Grace K. Fey Scholarship

This scholarship was established in honor of the former chair of the UMass Board of Trustees to provide recognition and financial assistance to an outstanding student on the basis of both merit and need. Eligible applicants must be full-time sophomores at a UMass campus, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.5. They must also be residents of Massachusetts. This scholarship is open to all majors, with preference given to mathematics, sciences, and nursing.

Niajah Hyppolite, Sociology

James J. Karam Scholarship

This scholarship was established in 2013 by James J. Karam. Mr. Karam is chairman and founder of First Bristol Corporation, a regional real estate firm. His current and past professional and civic affiliations are extensive. He is on the board of directors of the largest community forprofit health care system in New England, Steward Health Care System, and was formerly chair of the UMass Board of Trustees. He also serves on the board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, and is an alumnus of UMass Dartmouth.

Samuele Abi-Younes, Finance

Chloe Morgado, Political Science

Kyle Neves, Political Science

Robert S. Karam Scholarship

This scholarship was established in 2001 to provide financial assistance to motivated UMass students from the country of Lebanon and/or alumni of B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts. Robert Karam, a 1967 graduate of UMass Dartmouth, is a principal of Karam Financial Group, located in his hometown of Fall River. Devoting much of his time to serving the community, he served as chair of the UMass Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees of Southeastern Massachusetts University, as well as on the UMass Memorial Health Care Board of Trustees.

Kyle Neves, Political Science

Recipients of National Scholarships and Fellowships

The Office of National Scholarship Advisement, a campuswide program housed within Commonwealth Honors College, assists students throughout the university who seek to compete for prestigious national scholarships and fellowships. Commonwealth Honors College recognizes the students who have received such awards in the past year.

DAAD Scholarships and Grants (German Academic Exchange)

Provides support for one to two years of study at a German university for U.S. and Canadian students in their final year of college.

Hannah Jury for MS in Urban Design, University of Berlin

Sara MacManus for MS in Regenerative Biology, University of Dresden

Renee Owen for research at Helmholtz Environmental Center, Leipzig

Brahm Van Antwerp for MS in Environment Pollution Management, Univ Koblenz-Landau

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the United States Congress in 1986 in honor the 1964 presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater. The Program's goal is to provide a continuing source of highly-qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in those fields.

Wes Walsh for doctoral studies in STEM

Fulbright Scholarship

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities in all academic disciplines to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds. Program participants pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English abroad.

Amrita Adak, Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, South Korea

Anna Shahbazyan, Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Moldova

HONORING ALUMNI

We are especially proud of the achievements of these graduating seniors. They now join a select group of UMass Amherst graduates with a long and proud history of having worked at the highest academic levels.

Commonwealth Honors College recognizes the alumni whose generosity has made this “Celebration of Excellence” possible. The continuing support of our alumni and their families is instrumental in allowing us to offer this and other special events, as well as many of the opportunities and services available to Commonwealth Honors College students. Through their donations, alumni express gratitude and appreciation for their Honors experience, and they keep the Honors tradition alive for others. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge their contributions and express our own thanks in return. The support of alumni is vital to continue our upward trajectory.

DONATIONS HELP US TO:

• Directly support current students through a wide array of research fellowships, scholarships, awards, and service internships

• Support the ever-popular Pizza & Prof series, thesis workshops, alumni speakers, and networking events with alumni

• Develop new and innovative Honors courses and support course enhancements and equipment upgrades

• Bring distinguished visitors to campus to speak with students

• Support a variety of programs and projects designed to enhance undergraduate life at UMass Amherst, such as the International Scholars Program and the Undergraduate Research Conference

• Create a cohesive physical environment through the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community that strengthens our community of scholars