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Honors Scholar Theses from 2023

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The Use of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Educational Settings, Jasmine Morris

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Acute Kidney Injury in the Elderly, Zachary Palanza

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An Empirical Study of Machine Learning Techniques for Accurate Stock Price Forecasting, Daniel Paliulis and Hari Patchigolla

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The Contribution of Self-Compassion to Anxiety and Mood in Daily Life, Yamini Pant

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Understanding the Relationship Between B chromosomes and Nondisjunction in Drosophila melanogaster, Ayushi Patel

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Assessing Leadership in Business: A Critical Investigation of Mary Barra, Krisha Patel

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Modeling Accuracy Matters: Aligning Molecular Dynamics with 2D NMR Derived NOE Restraints, Milan Patel

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Monitoring PM2.5 Pollution In The North End Of Hartford, CT, Jocelyn Phung and Kristina Wagstrom

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Exploring the Viability of Gold Jewelry as a Diversifying and Safe-Haven Investment, Monica Pydipati

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The Effect of DB1976 on the Fibrotic Response in Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), Saif Quraishi

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21st Century Political Agronomy: Between Collapse and Apocalypse in the Capitalist World System, Harrison Raskin

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Exploring the Effects of Christian Worldviews on Heart Rate, Stress, and Adjustment After Loss in Bereaved Individuals, Emma Radini Ratnavel

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UConn Baseball Batting Order Optimization, Gavin Rublewski and Gavin Rublewski

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Elucidating the Impact of SOS-response Timing in on Escherichia coli Survival Following Treatment with Fluoroquinolone Topoisomerase Inhibitors, Stephanie Schofield

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Living and Dying in 'Cancer Alley': Using Human Rights Law and Environmental Justice to Create a Litigation Framework for Marginalized Communities, Neeharika Sistu

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Exploration of Salivary-omics Analyses for Stress Biomarker Monitoring, Ashanthi Snell

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Feasibility Study for a Continuous Mansfield Hollow State Park Multi-Use Path, Owen P. Spangler

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Assessing Leadership in Business: A Critical Investigation of Warren Buffett, Jack Tubridy

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Effects of Tempering Temperature on Gas Turbine Fan Cases, Seth Utter

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Designing a mHealth App-Based Intervention to Address the Harm Reduction Needs of Malaysian Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Who Engage in Chemsex: Findings from a Qualitative Study, Christopher Uyar, Francesca Maviglia, Jeffery Wickersham, Antoine Khati, Olivia Kennedy, Nicholas Copenhaver, Mohd Akbar Ab Halim, Wan Mohd Ikhtiaruddin, Isklander Azwa, Kamal Gautam, and Roman Shrestha

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Ethical Considerations of Clinical Research in Emergency Care Settings: A Review, Adith Velavan

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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mergers and Acquisitions, Goodwill, and Goodwill Impairment in the Technology Industry, Dee Webster

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Assessing Leadership in Business: A Critical Investigation of Steve Ballmer, Brendan White

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The Relationship Between Reading Anxiety and General Anxiety in 7-10-year-old Children With Reading Difficulties, Bo Dehm Wicklund

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Breaking Down the Box Office: An Analysis of Film Profitability Factors, Zachary Wisnefsky

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Probabilistic Machine Learning for Battery State of Health Prognostics, Charli Zaretsky

Honors Scholar Theses from 2022

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Starved for Knowledge: The Effect of Language Deprivation and “Mainstream” Education on Deaf Accessibility to the United States Education System, Katherine Arpino

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ESKAPE Pathogens: The clinical Prevalence and Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance, Anusha Attre

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The Effect of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva on the Tongue, Amy Backal, Amanda Harrop, and David J. Goldhamer Dr.

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The Importance of Health Anxiety and Emotional Reasoning to Understand Vaccine Hesitancy and Safety Behaviors: Implications for Public Health Campaigns in a COVID_19 Era, Samantha Ballas and Kimberli Treadwell

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NICU Nurses’ Varying Levels Of and Experiences With Moral Distress While Caring For Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Sarah Battaglia

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Protective Effects of Caffeine via Microglia in a Rodent Model of Preterm Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury, Serena Beri

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CloudBots: Autonomous Atmospheric Explorers, Akash Binoj

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Associations Between Trauma History and Dimensions of Self-Concept in College Students, Francisco Carrillo-Alvarez

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Fourier Acceleration in the Linear Sigma Model, Cameron Cianci

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Forgotten Immigrant Voices: West Indian Immigrant Experiences and Attitudes towards Contemporary Immigration, Danielle Cross

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Identification of ciprofloxacin resistance factors via in vivo evolution of Aeromonas veronii in the medicinal leech, Lauren Daddi

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Novel Epigenetic Therapeutics for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder, Suzannah De Almeida

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As Seen on Screen: American Ambivalence Shown through Death Penalty and Vigilante Films, Lisette Donewald

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The Effects of Poor Maternal Nutrition during Gestation in Sheep on the Reproductive Efficiency of the Offspring, Morgan Dougherty

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Dissecting Discontent: How stocks and flows of county-level economic and social factors affect the vote shares of populist candidates, Thomas Dowd

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A Machine Learning and Deep Learning Framework for Binary, Ternary, and Multiclass Emotion Classification of Covid-19 Vaccine-Related Tweets, Aditya Dubey

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“And We’re Happy, So Happy, to Be Modern Women”: Dissociative Feminism on Screen and in Literature, Michaela Elizabeth Flaherty

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The Influence of Tetrabenazine on Operant Behavior and Binge-Like Eating Model in Rats, Reileigh Fleeher

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Characterizing Rat Lateral Amygdala Interneurons by Colocalization of Calcium-Binding Proteins via Serial Multiplex Immunohistochemistry, Ethan Gasteyer

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Headcase Regulates Growth in Response to Nutritional Status Downstream of Insulin Signaling, Thomas George

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Salary Cap Efficiency: A Study of the Relationship between a NFL Quarterback’s Salary and their Team’s Performance, Prasad Gosavi

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Electromagnetic Detectability of Binary Supermassive Black Holes, Kaylee Grace

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Household Composition and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Purchases among Low Wage Workers, Salma Gudaf

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Effects of Noise on Speech Perception in Children Using Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Priya Gupta

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Minimal Inscribed Polyforms, Jack Hanke

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Asian American Discrimination Through United States History, Disease Outbreaks, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth He

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The Stamford Experience in the Twenty-First Century: Analyzing Urban Development Conflict at the Neighborhood Level, Michael Hernandez

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Punishment vs. Rehabilitation: A Discourse on American Prison Reform & Comparative Analysis to Swedish Incarceration, Lauren Hipplewitz

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The Effects of a Plant-Based Diet with Eggs on the Parameters of Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Dietary Choline and Carotenoids, Lindsey Huang

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Affirmative Action in Higher Education: What Role does Whiteness Ideology Play?, Siyu Huang

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Case Study: Effects of Ultrasonic Vocalizations on Rat Behavior and Place Cell Remapping in the Hippocampus, Qingli Hu

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Triggering Thermal Runaway in Lithium-ion Batteries, Chris John

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Plague and Devastation in Ancient Greece: Why Mourning Matters, Hannah Kallin

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Calcium Ferrite as a Semiconductor for Microbially Assisted Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, Lauren King

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A Case for Improved Financial Literacy Education in the United States, Nicholas Kinsella

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5-axis Milling for Micro-machining of Implantable Flow Sensor, Devin Kot-Thompson

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Exercise in the Heat: Perceptual Measures in Hydrated and Dehydrated Conditions, John Kromer

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Plant-Based Diets and Metabolic Syndrome: Evaluating the Influence of Diet Quality, Lydia McGrath

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The Chemogenetic Application and Biotherapeutic Potential of Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs for Parkinson’s Disease, Andrew Mei

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Impact of the Quality of ESG Reporting on Profitability of Trucking and Oil Companies, Diane Meng

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SEC Reporting of Cybersecurity Incidents, Michaela Morosky

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Autistic Individuals May See Emotions Differently: How Gradable Adjectives Can Be Used to Determine Emotion Recognition, Devon Murphy

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Correlates of Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Malaysia, Sydney Osborne

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When Problems Become Solutions: Harnessing the Osteogenic Capacity of Disease-Causing Stem Cells to Repair Bone Fractures, Mehreen Pasha

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Identification of Translesion Synthesis Inhibitors that Target Rev7/Rev3 Protein-Protein Interactions, Seema Patel

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Defining the Role of Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic Neurons in the Modulation of Homeostatic Feeding, Julia Paul

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Regaining Effort-Based Food Motivation: The Drug Methylphenidate Reverses the Depressive Effects of Tetrabenazine in Female Rats, Deanna Pietrorazio

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Disrupting Monoallelic Expression of Variant Surface Glycoprotein in Trypanosoma brucei by a Non-lethal Mutation in Class I Transcription Factor A, Sarah Platt

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Performance Improvements in Inner Product Encryption, Serena Riback

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Does Anodal tDCS Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Using the C3-RSO Montage Improve Cognitive Control?, Jhoan Rodriguez

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Content Analysis of Public Instagram Posts about Pelvic Floor Disorders and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Pregnancy, Lauren R. Rudin and Molly E. Waring

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Investigating the Effects of Cell Signaling Mutants and Inhibitors on Chemokinesis in Dictyostelium discoideum., James Rybczyk

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Alterations of the Gut Mycobiome in Patients with MS - a Bioinformatic Approach, Saumya Shah

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Museum Talk: Conversations Regarding Art Museums’ Practices and Policies, Eva Solano

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Dimension Theory of Conformal Iterated Function Systems, Sharon Sneha Spaulding

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The Potential of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins as Drug Targets, Matt Staid

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Analyzing Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Endoribonuclease nsp15, Mary Staunton

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Effects of Feeding Probiotics to Pre-Weaned Dairy Calves, Sara Tomis

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COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Mammalian Carnivore Activity in the Eastern United States, Joan Tremblay, Miranda Davis, and Robert Bagchi

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Study of Porosity of Gelatin-Alginate Hydrogels to Model Brain Matter for Studying Traumatic Brain Injuries, Apolline Vincent

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Alterations in the Oral Microbiome Leading to Inflammatory Periodontal Disease, Emma Vlaun

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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Distance Learning, Rashana Weerasinghe

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The Effects of Poor Maternal Nutrition in Ewes on the Growth and Development of Offspring, Zoey Weisman

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On Misuses of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test for One-Sample Goodness-of-Fit, Anthony Zeimbekakis

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Autonomous Search and Rescue Helicopter System Design, Terry Zhao

Honors Scholar Theses from 2021

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The Effect of Social Comparison and Fear of Missing Out on Anxiety Symptoms in Late Adolescents, Olivia Adams

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Development of Physiological Markers for Tetrabenazine-Induced Motivational Dysfunctions Using Electroencephalography in Male and Female Rats, Stephanie Akosa

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Differential White Blood Cell Counting, Gregory Austin

Reeling in New Antibiotics: Synthesis and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Zinc-Binding Clavanins from Styela clava (Sea Squirt), Eduardo Badillo-Colberg

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Effects of a Play-Based Intervention on Locomotor Skills and Strength Performance of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Amber Bardsley

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Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Growth and Health of Pre-Weaned Dairy Calves, Lily Bello

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Une exploration du style et du message dans une sélection d’œuvres d’Annie Ernaux : L’écriture « qui ne ment pas », Maya Benson

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Darkness Falls Upon America’s Backyard: An Evaluation of Central Appalachia’s Past Economic Woes and a Blueprint for the Region’s Future Economic Development, Jack Bergantino

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Potential Improvements for Underwater Sound Speed Measurement Devices, Matthieu Bernier