Honors College Virtual Senior Symposium 2020

Showcased here are presentations detailing each of the Senior Thesis Projects conducted by our Honors College Class of 2020.

Below, you will find hyperlinks to each of the students' presentations, hosted on VoiceThread, as well as links to their full posters (you must be logged into your Stony Brook University Google Account to view). 

Note: VoiceThread presentations may be in parts - Advance slides using the arrows at the bottom of your screen to continue the presentation.

Exhibit #	Student Presenter	Title/Presentation Link	Faculty Mentor	Department	Poster (PDF)
1	Christina Mazza	Postcranial Robusticity and Stature in the Later Stone Age Khoesan of South Africa and the Transition to Pastoralism	Fred Grine	Anthropology
2	Bryce Small	The Evolution of Photography Since Ansel Adams	Brooke Belisle	Art
3	Brandon Tu	How Zen Buddhism Challenges Western Thought	Sachiko Murata	Asian and American Studies
4	Matthew Murphy	Weak Resonant Effects in Secular Massive Planet Systems	Philip Armitage	Astronomy
5	Benjamin Bacon	A Microphysical Analysis of the January 4, 2018 Blizzard	Brian Colle	Atmospheric Science
6	Ruben De Man	fMRI and RNAseq Findings Implicate Disrupted Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation in Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment	Barbara Rosati & David McKinnon	Biochemistry & Cell Biology; Physiology & Biophysics; Neurobiology & Behavior
7	Nidhi Patel	Analysis of Secreted Proteins in Candida Albicans and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae	Neta Dean	Biochemistry and Cell Biology
8	Vivek Sanghvi	An Analysis of Dendrite Formation in Treated Melanocyte Cells	Sanford Simon	Biochemistry and Cell Biology
9	Lauren Bednor	Phenotypic characterization of phosphomutants of the meiotic cohesin subunit REC8	Nancy Hollingsworth	Biochemistry and Cell Biology
10	Clara Tucker	Distribution of EPSPS Variation across Taxonomic Groups Supports Phylogenetic Conservatism	Liliana Davalos, Jackie Collier	Biology
11	Nirali Mandavawala	Role of the Cholinergic System in Age-Related Cognitive Decline	Lorna Role & David Talmage	Biology
12	Jennifer Yang	Cellular Adhesion Molecule Expression In Parotid Glands after MCMV Infection	Lucille London	Biology
13	Ryan McHugh	Communication Between Subunits in AAA+ Unfoldases	Steven E. Glynn	Biology
14	Kevin Carroll	Social Informant Discrepancies and Theory of Mind in Adolescents with ASD	Matthew Lerner	Biology
15	Claire Garfield	Eukaryotic Diversity of Nitrogen-Removing Biofilters	Jackie Collier	Biology; School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
16	Andreas Knaupp	Project Sanguis	Helmut Strey	Biomedical Engineering
17	Caleb Sooknanan, Christopher Tong	Full Wrist Motion in Forearm Prosthetics	Helmut Strey	Biomedical Engineering
18	Isha Punn	Early Detection of Post-Partum Hemorrhaging	Helmut Strey	Biomedical Engineering
19	Michael Gozelski	Non-Fusion Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Correction	James Barsi, Nicholas Pallotta, Helmut Strey	Biomedical Engineering
20	Yosman Dhar, Nicole Hershkowitz, & Sishir Pasumarthy	Apto: Adaptors for Surgical Retractors	Wei Yin	Biomedical Engineering
21	Carmen Florentin	Does (Mis)Matching Accent with Appearance Influence Trust?	Peter Caprariello	Business
22	Heidi Yeh	Interaction between gender of participant and message valence on work and family goals and whether these effects are mediated by career and/or caregiving ambitions	Julia Bear	Business
23	Nimi Patel	The Purification and Crystallization of Mouse Lipin-3 Domain to Gain Structural Insight Into Function of the Protein, and Implications on Human Triglyceride Disorders	Michael Airola	Cell Biology and Biochemistry
24	Benjamin Chase	The Effects of Knowledge and Effort on Saving Efficiency	Peter DeScioli	Center for Behavioral Political Economy
25	Jason Ha	Effects of Managed Care and Online Health Information on the Elderly Patient - Physician Relationship	Jeffrey Trilling	Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics
26	Jennifer Kustanovich	Stony Brook University Outreach Targeted At The Comorbid Relationship Between Eating Disorders And Substance Abuse Disorders	Lara Hunter	Center For Prevention and Outreach
27	Bharath Ayloo	The Controlled Synthesis and Analysis of Gold Nanoparticles and Single Atom Alloys	Stanislaus Wong	Chemistry
28	Chloe Savino	Trojan Horse Theranostics for Bacterial Infections	Eszter Boros	Chemistry
29	Samuel Kotlyar	Application of Graph Compactness Measures to Congressional Redistricting	Robert Kelly	Computer Science
30	Mustafa Alvi	A Survey on the Current State of Computational Humor	Christopher M. Kane	Computer Science
31	Kushal Delhiwala	The Impact of Incentivization on the Usability of a Crowdsourced App	Anthony Scarlatos	Computer Science
32	Johnny So	Be Careful of What You Click On	Nick Nikiforakis	Computer Science
33	Kavan Wadhwa	Identifying Attribution and Main Idea in Individual Sentences	Ritwik Banerjee	Computer Science
34	Amrith Arunachalam	Quasicentroidal Mesh Generation in 2D For Smooth Curves	Xiangmin Jiao	Computer Science
35	Ivan Lin	K-Resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution	Nguyen Phong Hoang, Michalis Polychronakis	Computer Science
37	Delphine Mossman	Reprise for Salmon: A Look at Pacific Salmon Populations Twenty Years After Song for the Blue Ocean	Jeffrey Levinton	Ecology & Evolution
38	Lillian Ehrlich	Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation	Gabriel Mihalache	Economics
39	James Edell	The Growth of Trade in Africa	Mark Montgomery	Economics
40	Olga Aristova	Socio-Economic Determinants of Abortion Demand in Women in Russia	Mark Montgomery	Economics
41	Muhammad M. Hussain	Facial Expression Recognition System	Peter Milder	Electrical and Computer Engineering
42	Elizabeth Lucarini	Dual-Axis Solar Panel Tracker	Matthew Eisaman	Electrical and Computer Engineering
43	Vincent Han	Grab and Go	Ridha Kamoua	Electrical and Computer Engineering
44	Charles Patterson & Christopher Romeo	Solar Thermal Evaporation and Purification Apparatus	Matthew Eisaman	Electrical and Computer Engineering
45	Emma Cesario	"The Pen Her Hand: Anne's Voice and the Ending of Persuasion"	Peter Manning	English
46	Eileen Cheng	Implementing Visual Art in Medical Education to Improve Clinical Observations: A Review	John Coulehan	Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
47	Danyaal Ain & Talha Shaikh	The Role of Complement (C1q and gC1qR) in the Tumor Microenvironment	Berhane Ghebrehiwet	Immunology
48	Antonia Brogna	The Plus Side of Fashion: Can technology improve the plus-size shopping experience?	Barbara Selvin	Journalism
36	Ryan Licht	The Masculine Singular Definite Article in Northern Italian Dialects	Lori Repetti	Linguistics
49	Jhinelle Walker	The Potential Effects of Abusive Language, Epithets, and Slurs on Children	Mark Aronoff	Linguistics
50	Noelle Fuggini	Abriendo el Idioma: Gender-neutral and inclusive adaptations in Spanish	Elena Davidiak	Linguistics
51	Kunal Shah	Enhanced Power Output and Tolerance to Fuel Impurities Demonstrated in a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Utilizing a Graphene Oxide Nanoparticle Coated Nafion Membrane	Miriam Rafailovich	Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
52	Emily Chen & Haley Ryan	The Effect of Precursors on the Activity of FeOx/CeO2 Catalysts for NO Reduction by CO	Taejin Kim	Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
53	Rachael Ng	Under-Actuated Robotic Gripper	Jeffrey Ge, Jay Mendelson	Mechanical Engineering
54	Terrie Hsun	My Name is Terrie: An Exploration of Twin Identity through Music	Norman Prusslin	Media Arts
55	Megan Hsun	I AM ME(GAN): Musical Reflections on Twin Identity and Experience	Norman Prusslin	Media Arts
56	Cody Brady	A Harmonic and Cultural Analysis on Choral Composition: Handling Loss	Shoshana Hershkowitz	Music
57	Andrew Mok	Tracing the Erhu in the Twentieth Century: Standardizing, Reform, and Innovation	Margarethe Adams	Music
59	Anirudh Murthy	Chibby Interacts With Novel Golgin Protein CAG110 Through its Coiled-Coil Domain	Feng-Qian Li	Pharmacology
60	Audrey Farrell	Simulating beam induced ionization-injection in plasma wakefield accelerators	Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi	Physics and Astronomy
61	Gregory Matousek	Simulated Measurements of Exclusive Vector Meson Production and the Gluon Saturation Phenomenon at a Future Electron Ion Collider	Abhay Deshpande	Physics and Astronomy
62	Andrew Bearkland	The Case for a Convention on Human Rights on the Basis of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sexual Characteristics (SOGIESC)	Charles Robbins	Political Science
63	Jeanette Blanchette	The Role of Social Media on Political Polarization	Yanna Krupnikov	Political Science
64	Angelina Pagano	An Evaluation of the Need for Closure Pertaining to Conservatism and Sexism	Katherine Sawyer	Political Science
65	Hyun A Kim (Hana)	Prevention or Relief? Public attitudes towards disaster policies	Reuben Kline	Political Science
66	Mohammad Amin Sadeghi	State Differences in the Comprehensibility and Components of Advance Directive Documents	Anne Moyer	Psychology
67	Anna Smith	Outreach methods for water conservation and preservation campaigns on Long Island	Tara Rider	School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
68	Alyson Hall	Projecting into the future: insights to inform restoration success of Zostera marina.	Bradley Peterson	School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
69	Caroline Cubells	Portrayal of Female Genital Mutilation/Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Qualitative Content Analysis	Rebekah Burroway	Sociology
70	Selena Thomas	A Literature Review of Rapid Maxillary Expansion in the Treatment of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Multidisciplinary Approach and its Limitations	Catherine Kier	Stony Brook Children’s Hospital - Department of Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
71	Olivia Taubenfeld	Comparative Neuroanatomy of Extinct Notosuchian Crocodylomorphs	Alan Turner	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Anatomical Sciences
72	Chandana Rajesh	Genetic Screen to Identify Novel Proteins Involved in ALS	Josh Dubnau	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Anesthesiology
73	Daniella (Rin) Yang	Exploring the Role of Btn/Btnl/Skint-like molecules to Elucidate the Mechanism of γδ T cell Activation	Camille Khairallah and Brian Sheridan	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology
74	Fionna Chiu	A Review of the Effects of Systemic Racism and Discrimination on Birth Outcomes in the US	Deidre Lee	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine
75	Nicholas Roig	Applying APEX2-mediated Proximity Labeling to the Conventional Plasma Membrane and Intracellular Membrane Domain of Mycobacterium smegmatis	Jessica C. Seeliger	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Pharmacological Sciences
76	Ashwin Upadhye	Investigating the Effects of Dystroglycan on Muscle Stem Cell Activation	Joav Prives	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Pharmacological Sciences
77	Jasmine Chadha	Evaluation of pain sensitivity using a temperature stimulus in subjects with varying severities of depression.	Ricardo Caceda; Diane Kim; Serah Narine	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
78	Sulaimaan Siddiqui	X-Ray Microbeam Irradiation of Rat Spinal Cord Contusion Injury Produces Substantial Hind-Leg Recovery	Avraham Dilmanian	Stony Brook Medicine - Department of Radiology
79	Jesse Pace	KLF4-STAT3 signaling regulates podocyt-parietal epithlial cell crosstalk	Sandeep Mallipattu	Stony Brook Medicine - Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
80	Mahesh Tiwari	Inappropriate gestational weight gain among pregnant women is related to BMI misperception: Can video counseling help?	Kimberly Herrera	Stony Brook Medicine - Gynecology and Obstetrics
81	Marianna Nerantzinis	Telemedicine and the Opioid Crisis in Rural America: An in-depth literature review	Deborah Zelizer	Stony Brook Medicine - School of Health Technology and Management
82	Zaid Rahman	Spectroscopic Analysis of Bone Graft Materials to Inspect Elemental Composition	Georgios Romanos	Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine - Periodontology
83	Boris Kishinevsky	Sonic Spaces	Ian Alan Paul	Studio Art
84	Ian Lesnick	An Examination of Education (In)Equity on Long Island – An Argument for School District Unification in one of the Country’s Most Segregated Regions	Sarah Jourdain	Teacher Preparation Program
85	Anna Clemens	Manual for Technical Directing and Coordinating at Stony Brook University	David Barnett	Theatre Arts
86	Vignesh Gunasekaran	Pre-Medical Advice with a Personal Touch	Peter H. Khost	Writing and Rhetoric
87	Matthew Licht	Oncolytic Virotherapy: Safety, Efficacy, and Shielding	Robert Kaplan	Writing and Rhetoric