Senior Thesis

A culminating experience for all bbin娱乐平台 students, the Senior Thesis is an independent research project that provides students with the opportunity to follow an intellectual passion in depth with the guidance of a university professor.

The year-long project is designed to demonstrate a student’s ability to read closely, research thoroughly, think analytically, and write coherently in a scholarly fashion. Thesis topics include research in history and politics; literature and music; linguistics and science. Papers are expected to be between 4,000-6,000 words in length and written in accordance with generally accepted university standards. All students present their research to the bbin娱乐平台 community prior to graduation.

List of Senior Thesis Topics, Class of 2024

• The History and Ethics of CRISPR
• The Ethical Dilemma of Busing in Massachusetts: Interrogating The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity
• Heterosexual Relationships and Existential Freedom
• Schumann and Schlegel: Music and Poetry in German Romanticism
• Green Capitalism or Eco-Socialism? Debating Economic Systems and Solutions for Climate Change in the Transportation Sector and Beyond
• A Statistical Analysis of the Value of a Stolen Base
• Forging a Future for Taiwan and its Independence
• CRISPR Activation for SYNGAP 1 Upregulation in Haploinsufficient Mice
• Neuroregenerative Applications of STEM Cell-Loaded Extracellular Vesicles in Biocompatible Hydrogels: Insights from Nonhuman Primate Models
• Cowboys, Reality, Reputation, and Replica
• Representations of Urbanization in 19th Century American Art
• My Alcestis: Translating Euripides for a Modern Audience
• Analysis of Experimental Data to Identify Axion-like Dark Matter Spectral Signatures
• An Analysis of Eastern and Western Foreign Investment with a Focus on the Balkans; The Stall and the Lack of Transparency of the Modern European Union
• Patient Sex Drives Differential Transcriptional Regulation in Pancreatic Cancer
• Investigating HIV Defective Viruses through CRISPR-Cas9 and Self Inactivating Vectors
• Summertime Impact of White Roofs on Building Energy Balance and Air Conditioning Flux
• The Impact of Social Media on Indigenous Language Revitalization
• Molecular Gastronomy in the Everyday Kitchen
• Horror as a Genre
• The Use of Formal Versus Informal Pronouns in Standard German
• Fostering Success for Minority-Owned Businesses
• I Buy, Therefore I Am: How Existentialist Philosophies Have Influenced the Modern Marketplace
• Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Tuberculosis
• Dynamics of the PVC Flooring Market: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinese and American Sectors
• Asian American Silence: Appealing to Whiteness
• Investigating the Effects of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitors on Rat Cardiomyocytes
• Women and the American Dream in the 21st Century
• Utilizing Machine Learning Methods in Genome Scale Stoichiometric Models of P. simiae with COMETS
• Validation of pPDH as a Marker for Inhibition of Serotonergic Neurons
• Looking Up: Shifting Views in Observational Cosmology from the Classics to the Contemporary Period
• Activation of the Complement System in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Effect of Fetal and Neonatal Environmental Exposures on Developmental and Degenerative Neurological Disorders
• Characterizing Recruitment of CBP Binding Domains
• Using Stellar Remnants to Understand How Often Massive Stars Form Planets
• Cryopreservation Practices for Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Potential Effects During CpG Stimulation
• Life Resilient: Interpreting Black Identity in Wearable Art
• Race is a Roadblock, Even in Sports Journalism
• A Case Study Analysis of Restorative Justice in Schools
• When Words Fail: The Existential Anguish of Breaking the Silence in Jewish Witness Memorialization and Translation
• Visual Representations of the Effect of Media on Teenagers’ Mental Health and Well-being
• Visualizing Amyloid Fibrils:A Computational Chemistry Study
• Developing and Applying an Inclusive Polygenic Risk Score to Alzheimer’s Related Traits
• A Philosophical Approach on International Relations
• Playing Out: Harmonic Freedom in Jazz Fusion Improvisation
• A Brief Introduction to System Dynamics
• Understanding Economics through Music Sentiment
• Before the Boston Busing Crisis of 1974: Voices from the Freedom Schools
• Predicting Oral Drug Elimination Half-life In Humans Using Regression Models
• Drugs, Cults, and the Patriarchy: Artistic and Cultural Understanding of the Maenads in late 5th Century Athens in the Context of Patriarchal Dominance
• Modeling Rhizobacterial Colonization of Roots in COMETS
• Millcaster State
• Improving Vaccine Uptake Through Machine Learning: Training and Validation of a Prediction Model for Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Uptake