Shanshan (Susan) Cao
Aesthetic Experiences of “Sensed Unities” in Mathematics: A Semi-Kantian Account
Taking inspiration from Kant’s claim that aesthetic experiences involve sensing cohesive wholes without subsuming them under concepts, I examine an experience in mathematics that follows this structure and argue that it might be the foundation for many other instances of aesthetic appreciation in mathematics.
Marissa Carty
Somewhere Among the Wildflowers: Poetry on the Psychology of Well-being
I am writing a poetry collection that explores well-being through scientific data and language as well as through more traditionally poetic, subjective experiences.
Catherine Devlin
Fighting for Peace: The Rose Dabney Forbes Story
This thesis will be the first secondary source on twentieth century peace activist Rose Dabney Forbes, reconstructing her life from archival documents.
Mira Dhakal
Highlighting the Magic of Shimane: Developing an Anime Pitch Deck
This project will culminate in a pitch deck for an animated television show in the style of traditional Japanese animation about a young girl who has the ability to see and communicate with spirits, highlighting the folklore, history, and rich cultural traditions of the Shimane Prefecture.
Audrey Hager
Financial Toxicity and Breast Cancer Drugs
To address and reveal the rising burden of healthcare costs on cancer patients, this project uses insurance claims data for oral breast cancer medication to determine the out-of-pocket costs that people are paying for these drugs.
Meghan Howard
Assessing Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy (IFTA) using Minimally-Invasive Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy as an Indicator of Kidney Health
Our group (which includes myself, Emily Oros, Ji Young Chung, and Giulia Boccardo) is designing and fabricating a needle tip probe to rapidly and quantitatively assess transplant kidneys.
Susritha Kopparapu
An Evaluation of Together We Feel Better: A Mental Health Workbook for Children and Parents
This project seeks to analyze the usability, acceptability, and efficacy of Together We Feel Better- a mental health workbook for Palestinian children (ages 6-8) and their families.
Jackson Moore-Otto
The Power of Dams for Innovation: Using Hydroelectric Facilities to Test the Impact of Density on Idea Formation
This project aims to add to the literature on urban density and innovation by using hydroelectric facilities as a proxy for increased density and patent data as the output.
Amos Mwaura
Mapping Diabetes Hotspots in Boston
This project compares diabetes rates in Boston’s 23 neighborhoods to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and the distribution of grocery stores and fitness centers in each neighborhood with the goal of better understanding Boston’s diabetes hotspots.
Christian Paredes
Is what you see what you get?: Understanding how viewing condomless anal sex in pornography relates to engagement in condomless anal sex among adolescent sexual minority males
This project aims to investigate the relations between viewing condomless anal sex in pornography, condom attitudes, and engagement in condomless anal sex among adolescent sexual minority males to understand how sexual behaviors viewed in pornography may be adopted.
Sawan Patel
A Systems-Level Model of Spatial Episodic Memory
Synthesizing the last decade of research concerning the identification of the neural circuitry enabling spatial episodic memory in mammals, this project aims to create an agreed-upon and testable model of spatial episodic memory that will be examined under several different simulated circumstances.
Katherine Sena
Characterization of opioid preference and binge eating differences in two closely related substrains of mice
This project investigates the mechanism of a gene associated with differential oxycodone metabolism between two closely related substrains of mice and determines binge eating differences in the same two substrains.
Gayatri Sundar Rajan
Water Harvesting: Producing Potable Water from Moisture in Air
Our project aims to produce potable water from moisture in air as a low-energy, cost-effective, and culturally conscious solution to water scarcity in remote, arid environments.
