Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations

Shivani Bhut, '23 (Biology; Neuroscience)

• Research: "Identification of Cellular Proteins Involved in Macropinocytosis"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Tijana Ivanovic

MJ Ibrahim, '23 (HSSP)

• Research: "PaperLess (A Resource Database for Undocumented Undergraduate Students)"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Kristen Lucken 

Anna Kang, '23 (Philosophy; Politics)

• Research: "Kant and Our Attitudinal Obligations to Others and Ourselves"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Kate Moran 

Feigele Lechtchiner, '23 (Economics; Urban Studies - IIM)

• Research: "Not In My Shul Yard: NIMBYism in Modern Orthodox Jewish Communities and Implications for Community Growth"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Jonathan Anjaria 

Chloe Nolin, '23 (Biology)

• Research: "Building Undergraduate Research Programs in the Brandeis Human Performance Lab: Assessing Student-Athlete Training and Recovery"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Maria Miara 

Fijare Plous, '24 (Biology)

• Research: "Mechanism of single-stranded DNA template in CRISPR/Cas9 retron based gene editing"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. James Haber 

Roshni Ray, '24 (Neuroscience)

• Research: "Biology in Powers of Ten: Quantitative Biology through Estimation Problems"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Melissa Kosinski-Collins 

Logan Shanks, '24 (AAAS; WGS; English)

• Research: Hoochiemamas, Babymamas, and Strippers: Exploring the interiority of contemporary Black female Archetypes
  
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Anya Wallace 

Sasha Soboleva, '23 (Linguistics)

• Research: "Language Buddy Program"
  
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Elena Gonzalez Ros

Jason Walter, '23 (Politics)

• Research: The U.S., International Organizations, and the Use of Force
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Kerry Chase 

Grace Wang, 23 (HSSP; Biology)

• Research: "Building Undergraduate Research Programs in the Brandeis Human Performance Lab: Promoting health and well-being through physical activity among Brandeis students"
  
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Maria Miara

Academic Year Award

Catie Lee Bellone, '24

• Majors: Biology, HSSP

• Research: "Basic Fiber Structures Impact on Blood Glucose in Type II Diabetes Mellitus"

• Faculty mentor: KC Hayes
  

Eleftheria Topaloglou, '24

• Major: Business, Applied Behavioral Sciences (IIM)
• Research: "The environmental and social impact of Fast Fashion in developing Asian countries"
• Faculty mentor: Prakash Kashwan

Senior Thesis Award

Olivia Combs

• Majors: Sociology, Biology
• Research: "The Invisible Scholar: Identity Formations of Students with Learning Disabilities in Higher Education"
• Faculty mentor: Siri Suh

Charlotte Cooper

• Majors: NEJS, Philosophy, and Economics (IIM)
• Research: "Implicitly Educating: The Impact of Jewish Youth Movements on Understandings of Women's Positionality in the Hebrew Bible"
• Faculty mentor: Ziva Hassenfeld

Annabelle Fitch

• Major: Neuroscience
• Research: "The Breathing Brain: Impacts of Nasal Respiration on Aversive Learning"
• Faculty mentor: James Howard

Elianna Gerut

• Majors: Studio Art, Carceral Studies (IIM)
• Research: "Dinnertime!!"
• Faculty mentor: Sheida Soleimani

Bailey Gold

• Majors: Neuroscience, Psychology
• Research: "Financial Capacity is associated with cognition and mental health in healthy older adults"
• Faculty mentor: Anne Berry

Zoe Lazar

• Major: Sociology
• Research: "The Perceived Role of Nonprofits In Supplementing the Public Education System"
• Faculty mentor: Karen Hansen

Lucca Raabe

• Majors: Math, Sociology
• Research: “Rational Racism: How Students Make Sense of Race in the Brandeis Math Department"
• Faculty mentor: Sara Mayorga

Angela Sun

• Majors: Art History, East Asian Studies
• Research: "Chow-Kwa and the Lane Family Portraits"
• Faculty mentor: Peter Kalb

Gavriella Troper-Hochstein

• Major: Education Studies
• Research: "Effects of Pedagogical Choices on Student Narratives of Learning"
• Faculty mentor: Ziva Hassenfeld

Youyuan Zhang

• Majors: Anthropology; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Research: "The impacts and necessities of constructing ambiguous sexual identities in modern Chinese queer communities"
• Faculty mentor: Elanah Uretsky

Yael Perlman, '23

• Major: Politics

• Title: "Senior Thesis — Israeli National Identity: A Study Through the Lens of Immigration"

• Faculty mentor: Eva Bellin

Alex Bazarsky, '23

Majors: Anthropology; Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

Title: "Excavation and Ground Verification of Lacanjá Tzeltal Post-LiDAR Analysis"

Faculty mentor: Charles Golden

Jillian Brosofsky, '23

• Major: Psychology
• Title: "A Holocaust Survivor's Surprise Family, and What It Tells Us About the Future of Kin"
• Faculty mentor: Neil Swidey

Sungwon Cho, '23

• Majors: Biology; Chemical Biology
• Title: "Applications of azobenzene: Visible light-activated self-assembly of DNA duplexes and nanoporous solid-solid phase change materials for thermal energy storage"
• Faculty mentor: Grace Han

Elinor Eggers, '23

• Majors: Education Studies; African and African American Studies
• Title: "Justice or Just Us: What Racial Justice Means to Brandeisians"
• Faculty mentor: Derron Wallace

Kyla-Yen Giffin, '23 

• Major: Anthropology
• Title: "Lucid: A Vietnamese-American Family Dreaming in the Diaspora"
• Faculty mentor: Howie Tam

Claire Hou, '23 

• Majors: English; Sociology
• Title: "Asian- American Visual Media History and Chinese- American Female Creators on TikTok"
  
• Faculty mentor: Dorothy Kim

MJ Ibrahim, '23 

• Major: Health: Science, Society, and Policy
• Title: "How Does Being Undocumented Affect One's Experience in Higher Education?"
• Faculty mentor: Kristen Lucken 

Zoe Lacroix, '23

• Majors: Health: Science, Society, and Policy; Sociocultural Anthropology
• Title: "Perspectives on Discrimination through Art"
• Faculty mentor: Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Christopher Li, '23 

• Majors: East Asian Studies; History; International and Global Studies
• Title: "Slurp! From Working Meal to National Symbol — An Analysis of Post WWII Ramen Through Japanese Literature and Movie"
  
• Faculty mentor: Amy Singer

Eric Liu, '24 

• Major: International and Global Studies
• Title: "The Return of Ideology: Wang Huning and China's New Cultural Confidence"
• Faculty mentor: Professor Chandler Rosenberger

Frank Liu, '23 

• Majors: Computer Science; Applied Mathematics
• Title: "Curriculum and Causal GCL Brings More Robustness to Out-of-Distribution Graphs"
  
• Faculty mentor: Chuxu Zhang

Julia Plaisted, '23

• Major: Anthropology; Environmental Studies
• Title: "Analysis of Pipe Artifacts from Croatoan Archeological Site"
• Faculty mentor: Charlotte Goudge

Sasha Soboleva, '23

• Major: Linguistics
• Title: "Language Ideology and Identity of Teenagers in Cusco: How Quechua and Spanish Languages Coexist in ihe Classroom Environment"
• Faculty mentor: Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Grace Wang, '23 

• Majors: Psychology; Neuroscience
• Title: "The Effect of TikTok on College Students' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
  
• Faculty mentor: Ellen Wright

Natalie Omori-Hoffe, '25

• Major: Undeclared

• Title: "A Comparative Case Analysis of the Institutional Betrayal and Harms Between Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons"

• Faculty mentor: Joanne Nicholson

Parker Thompson, '23

• Major: History
• Title: "Always Been: Presenting the Substance of the Black Snapshot"
• Faculty mentor: Abigail Cooper

Shivam Nainwal, December '22

• Majors: Anthropology; International and Global Studies

• Title: "Can I be gay and filial? Indian Filial Piety, Mental Health and Third World Queer Adolescents"

• Faculty mentor: Sarah Lamb

The Jerome A. Schiff Undergraduate Fellows Program provides a $2,000 stipend for students to perform an innovative research or pedagogical project under the guidance of a Brandeis faculty mentor. Faculty mentors recieve $500 towards their research.

Lydia Begag, '22

• Majors: Politics, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Title: "From Silence to Visibility: UN Security Council Resolution 1820 & the Role of Transnational Advocacy"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. Kerry Chase

Annabelle Fitch, '23

• Majors: Psychology, Neuroscience
• Title: "The Breathing Brain: Impacts of Mindfulness on Cognitive and Emotional Abilities"
• Faculty mentor: Dr. James Howard

Elizabeth Fricker, '22

• Majors: History of Science — Independent Interdisciplinary Major, Mathematics
• Title: "Relative Time: Analyzing Einstein's Theory of Relativity Through a Social Lens"
• Faculty mentor: Professor Wangui Muigai

Abigael Good, '22

• Majors: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Judaic Studies
• Title: "Jewish and Christian Claims to Superiority in Writing, Debate and Online"
• Faculty mentor: Bernadette Brooten

Daniel Hariyanto, '23

• Majors: Biophysics, Computer Science
• Title: "Strange Phase Separation Behavior at High Temperature"
• Faculty mentor: Ben Rogers

Hannah O'Koon, '22

• Major: English
• Title: "Essen und Erinnerungen: Kindertransport Kinder and Memories of Food"
• Faculty mentor: Prof. ChaeRan Freeze

Zoe Pringle, '22

• Majors: HSSP, Sociology
• Title: "Case Study: How hEDS patients and their doctors view their diagnosis experience"
• Faculty mentor: Professor Wendy Cadge

Teresa Shi, '23

• Majors: Economics, Undeclared
• Title: "Can capitalist principles be separated from capitalism economic structures?"
• Faculty mentor: Michael Strand

Gabby Tercatin, '23

• Majors: Biology, Health: Science, Society, and Policy
• Title: "Detecting interactions between radA and radD proteins using a yeast two-hybrid system and a biochemical assay in order to study homologous recombination"
• Faculty mentor: Susan Lovett, Vincent Suteta

Katie Ball, '22

• Majors: Music; Politics

• Title: "The Cultural Dynamics of Dvorak's New World Symphony: Appropriation, Legacy, and National Identity"

Amber Bartlett, '22

• Majors: Theater Arts; Psychology

• Title: "Theatrical Therapy Towards Healing"

Sienna Bucu, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts

• Title: "Passing Through Spaces"

Vicente Cayuela Aliaga, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts

• Title: "Juvenilia"

Elizabeth Hilliard, '22

• Majors: Theater Arts; Music

• Senior Thesis

Matthew Kaufman, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts; Psychology

• Title: "Ways of Seeing — The Art of Psychological Disorders"

Tenor Matys, '22

• Majors: Storytelling and Creative Media Studies

Anya Shire-Plumb, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts; Psychology

• Title: Senior Studio Honours

Marissa Small, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts; IIM (Biology and Society)

• Title: "Leaving Marks"

Ashley Young, '22

• Majors: Fine Arts; Studio Art

• Title: "Psychology A Sense of Agency: Addressing the Nude"

Senior Thesis

Vicente Cayuela Aliaga, '22

• Major: Studio Art
• Title: "JUVENILIA"

Sienna Bucu, '22

• Major: Studio Art
• Title: "Passing Through Spaces"

Matthew Kaufman, '22

• Major: Studio Art and Psychology
• Title: "The Art of Psychology: Ways of Seeing"

Ashley Young, '22

• Major: Psychology and Studio Art
• Title: "A Sense of Agency: Addressing the Female Nude"

The Jane Kahn '77 Fellowship awards up to 2 undergraduates a $5,000 stipend for summer semester research examining current and emerging issues in criminal justice reform and the rights of individuals with mental illness, disability, and socio-psychological factors frequently associated with incarceration.

Adah Anderson, '24

• Majors: Undeclared
• Title: "Analyzing the Effects of Mental Illness Treatment on Suicide and Recidivism Rates in Federal, State, and Private Prisons in Connecticut, Florida, and North Carolina"
• Faculty mentor: Jeffrey Lenowitz

Leah Fernandez, '22

• Majors: Psychology and Human Factors
• Title: "Investigating Educational Access for Incarcerated Juveniles with Disabilities in Massachusetts"
• Faculty mentor: Thomas Shapiro

Caroline O, '22

• Majors: English, American Studies
• Title: "Podcasting and Theater as Diversionary Programs"
• Faculty mentor: Rosalind Kabhrel

The Fori and Robert Kay Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations Endowed Fund supports undergraduate partcipation in research and creative colllaborations with faculty mentorship.

Gabriela Mendoza Cueva, '22

• Majors: HSSP, Anthropology
• Title: "The Experiences of Latinx Parents with Pediatric Cancer Care: An Anthropological Approach"
• Faculty mentor: Sarah Lamb 

Summer Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowships are $5,000 stipends to support undergraduates conducting a research or creative project with the mentorship of a Brandeis faculty mentor.

Kimika Arai, '22

• Majors: Physics, Math
• Title: "Piezoelectric Tube Actuators as a Fiber Positioner"
• Faculty mentor: Jim Bensinger, Kevan Hashemi

Natalie Chin, '23

• Major: Biochemistry
• Title: "Pandelia Establishing the mechanism by which YqeK contributes to biofilm formation and antibiotoic resistance"
• Faculty mentor: Maria-Eirini 

Felicia Deng, '22

• Major: Biochemistry
• Title: "Pandelia Insight into the function and structure of the human antiviral SAMHD1 protein in plants and its negative effects on plant health"
• Faculty mentor: Maria-Eirini 

Annabelle Fitch, '23

• Majors: Psychology, Neuroscience
• Title: "The Breathing Brain: Impacts of Mindfulness on Cognitive and Emotional Abilities"
• Faculty mentor: James Howard 

Kristina Fricker, '22

• Majors: History of Science (Independent Interdisciplinary Major); Mathematics
• Title: "Relative Time: Analyzing Einstein's Theory of Relativity Through a Social Lens"
• Faculty mentor: Wangui Muigai 

Jacob Gehtman, '24

• Major: Undeclared
• Title: "Spatial and Temporal Localization of Aging-Related circRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster"
• Faculty mentor: Sebastian Kadener 

Ashley Moushegian, '23

• Major: Psychology
• Title: "Differences in Co-Brooding and the Impact on Internalizing Symptoms Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
• Faculty mentor: Prof. Hannah Snyder 

Hannah O'Koon, '22

• Major: English
• Title: "Essen und Erinnerungen: Kindertransport Kinder and Memories of Food"
• Faculty mentor: Prof. ChaeRan Freeze

Zoe Pringle, '22

• Majors: HSSP and Sociology
• Title: "Case Study: How hEDS patients and their doctors view their diagnosis experience"
• Faculty mentor: Professor Wendy Cadge

Achara Schroder, '23

• Majors: Undeclared, Intended Politics and Economics
• Title: "Archiving Diversity in Asian Diaspora: Southeast Asians in Massachusetts and the Model Minority Myth"
• Faculty mentor: Soham Patel 

Parker Thompson, '23

• Major: History
• Title: "Substance in the Shadow"
• Faculty mentor: Muna Guvenc Ospina Leon 

Jason Walter, '23

• Major: Politics
• Title: "Legitimacy and the Kosovo War of 1999"
• Faculty mentor: Professor Kerry Chase

Kathryn (Katie) Ball, ‘22

• Major: Music
  
• Title: "The Cultural Dynamics of Dvorak's New World Symphony: Appropriation, Legacy, and National Identity"
  
• Faculty mentor: Erin Gee

Sienna Bucu, ‘22

• Major: Fine Arts
• Title: "Passing Through Spaces"
• Faculty mentor: Alfredo Gisholt

Vicente Cayuela Aliaga, ‘22

• Majors: Fine Arts and Film, TV, and Interactive Media
• Title: "Biological Burdens"
• Faculty mentor: Catherine Della Lucia

Duomi (Amy) Chen, ‘22

• Major: Fine Arts
  
• Title: "The Representation of Androgyny and Gender Fluidity in Late Nineteenth-Century European Art"
  
• Faculty mentor: Charles McClendon

Matthew Kaufman, ‘22

• Majors: Fine Arts, Psychology
  
• Title: "Ways of Seeing — The Art of Psychological Disorders"
  
• Faculty mentor: Joseph Wardwell

Anya Shire-Plumb, ‘22

• Majors: Fine Arts, Studio Art and Psychology
  
• Title: "Senior Studio Exploration"
  
• Faculty mentor: Catherine Della Lucia

Marissa Small, ‘22

• Majors: Fine Arts, IIM Biology & Society
  
• Title: "21st Century Futurisms"
  
• Faculty mentor: Peter Kalb

Ashley Young, ‘22

• Majors: Fine Arts and Studio Art, Psychology
  
• Title: "Disrupting and Deconstructing: Confronting Misogyny in the Art World"
  
• Faculty mentor: Joe Wardwell

Joelle Galatan, ‘22

• Major: Health: Science, Society, and Policy
• Title: "The Experiences of People with Endometriosis in Receiving non-Endometriosis-Related Gynecological Care"
• Faculty mentor: Sarah Lamb

Academic Year Award

Amy Schroeder, '23

• Major: Politics
• Title: "Archiving Diversity in Asian Diaspora: Southeast Asians in Massachusetts and the Model Minority Myth"
• Faculty mentor: Howie Tam

Senior Thesis Award

Maria Aranibar, '22

• Majors: Sociology, International Global Studies
• Title: "How Gentrification is Ruining our Public Schools: A Somerville Case Study"
  
• Faculty mentor: Sarah Mayorga

Kristi Ho, '22

• Major: Social Justice and Social Policy
• Title: "The Mental Health Impacts of Community Gardening and Urban Farming in a Diverse, Urban City"
  
• Faculty mentor: Thuy Lam

Savannah Jackson, '22

• Majors: Sociology, International Global Studies
• Title: "Mediating Authenticity: Interpretation as a Social Process"
  
• Faculty mentor: Sarah Mayorga

Mariah Lewis, '22

• Majors: Psychology, Sociology
• Title: "Interrogating Safety: How College Students Navigate Resources in Times of Need"
• Faculty mentor: Sarah Mayorga

Luochen Liu, '22

• Majors: Biology, Neuroscience
• Title: "Investigating the molecular mechanism of translation regulation through ribosome heterogeneity using rpL40 as a paradigm"
• Faculty mentor: Kene Piasta

Simona Shuman, '22

• Major: Sociology
• Title: "Food Insecurity in Two Neighboring Cities During the Covid-19 Pandemic"
  
• Faculty mentor: Wendy Cadge

Eric Blum, '22

• CLAS, with Joel Christensen
• "Greek Particles: Creating a Learner-Friendly Database of Contemporary Scholarship"

Haley Brown, '22

• AMST & FILM, with Daniel Breen
• "A Useable Past? New England Flirtations with Disunion, 1812-1815, and 1850-1861

Hunter Kessous, '22

• BIO & HSSP, with Keridwen Luis
• "Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Knowledge and Attitude Amongst Volunteers"

Richard (Quinn) King, '21

• SOC & ENG & WGS, with Tom King
• "Generations of Impactful Scholarship"

Luochen Liu, '22

• BIOL & NEURO, with Amy S. Lee.
• "Investigating the ribosome-specialized translation of vesicular stomatitis virus using rpL40-binding nanobodies"

Yoo Ra Sung, '23

• HIST & IGS, with Yuri Doolan.
• "Uncovering the Intergenerational Effects of Trauma on Korean and Korean American Women Through Oral History"

Isaac Rose-Berman, '22

• POL, with Lucy Goodhart.
• "The American Media's Role in Altering Issue Salience"

Angela Self, '22

• ANTH & REL, with Wendy Cage.
• "Is Christianity in Decline in the United States?"

Leah Trachtenberg, '22

• NEJS & WGS, with ChaeRan Freeze.
• "Bunnies and Nachasim: Jews in Playboy Magazine"

Amy Wang, '21

• PSYC & BIOL, with Teresa Mitchell.
• "Are Soft Sciences Theories More Easily Rejected than Hard Science Theories?"

Senior Thesis Research Support

Lauren Komer, '21

• Major: Theatre Arts
• Title: “Lulu: Challenging the Portrayal of Female Sexuality and Ambition Onstage”

Wanchen Zhao, '21

• Majors: Psychology, Philosophy, & Neuroscience
• Title: “The influence of culture on boundary extension: how culture and semantic consistency interact”

Ilana Stein, '21

• Major: HSSP
• Title: “John Henryism’s Influence on the Embodied Experiences of the Emerging Adult”

Academic Year Research Support

Claire Ogden, '21

• Title: “Anthropology and Media, Culture and Communication (IIM) Ethnographic Film on Art and Community during COVID-19

Alex Bazarsky

• Major: Anthropology 

• Title: Excavation and Understanding of the Sak Tz’i’-Lacanjá Tzeltal Marketplace

• Faculty mentor: Charles Golden

Hannah BenDavid

• Major: Biology

• Title: Optimizing CaMPARI: Activity and light dependent marking of active neurons

• Faculty mentor: Gina Turrigiano

Stephanie Brody

• Major: Biology

• Title: Role of Bud14 in polarized growth and cell morphology in S. cerevisiae

• Faculty mentor: Bruce Goode

Amanda Cao

• Major: Chemistry

• Title: Effects of Obstructed Growth on Pattern Formation

• Faculty mentor: Irving Epstein

Yuezhu Chen

• Major: History

• Title: The Influence of Orthodox Russian on Harbin Society in 1920-76

• Faculty mentor: Yuri Doolan

Billy Frankel

• Major: Sociology/PAX

• Title: "Peace Room Mural"

• Faculty mentor: Gordon Fellman

Lucy Frenkel

• Major: Psychology

• Title: "Are Child Sex Offenders, and their Subtypes, Really a Different Kind from Extrafamilial Child Molesters?"

• Faculty mentor: Raymond A. Knight

Prabu Gugagantha

• Major: Physics

• Title: "Uncovering the Causes of Discontinuous Shear Thickening via Computational Models"

• Faculty mentor: Bulbul Chakraborty

Jake Havelas

• Major: History

• Title: "When Ottomans Came to Boston: Armenian, Greek, and Syrian Migration to the Greater Boston Area, 1890-1940"

• Faculty mentor: Amy Singer

Ben Helzner

• Major: Philosophy

• Title: "Responsible Actors: Compatibilism, Identity, and Moral Agency"

• Faculty mentor: Kate Moran

Han Kang

• Major: Neuroscience

• Title: "Carbon Fiber Electrode Project"

• Faculty mentor: Stephen Van Hooser

David Qi

• Major: Biology

• Title: "The Development of Methods of Testing the Effectiveness of Hidden Markov Models"

• Faculty mentor: Paul Miller

Yancey Thomas

• Major: Physics

• Title: "Comparing the Radio Structure of Quasars at high redshift (young universe) to those at low redshift (old universe)"

• Faculty mentor: John Wardle

Iria Wang

• Major: Physics

• Title: "Simulation for the New ATLAS Tracking Detector at the LHC"

• Faculty mentor: Gabriella Sciolla

Max Weinstein

• Majors: English and Math

• Title: Percy Shelley: Romantic Attitudes Towards Mathematical Truth and the Sublime"

• Faculty mentor: William Flesch

Senior Thesis Research Support

Sadie Antine, ’21

• Major: Biology
• Title: “Mechanism and Physiology of eIF3-mediated Translation Repression of BTG1”

Anna Ginsburg ’21

• Major: Studio Art, Environmental Studies
• Title: “The Natural World and the Personal World: An Exploration in Painting”

Caroline Greaney ’21

• Major: English
• Title: "Invisible Enemy, Visible Loss: Unearthing Traces of the 1918 Flu in Tolkien's Middle-earth"

Sarah Karan ’21

• Major: Psychology and Sociology
• Title: “Values and Well-Being During COVID-19”

Aishwarya Khanna ’21

• Major: Neuroscience, HSSP
• Title: “Patient-facing Barriers and Facilitators to Smoking Cessation in the Context of Lung Cancer Screenings”

Kacy Ninteau ’21

• Major: Neuroscience, HSSP, Biology
• Title: “Barriers to Palliative Care in Nursing Homes During COVID-10 Public Health Emergency”

Mendel Weintraub ’21

• Major: Film, Television, and Interactive Media/Creative Writing
• Title: “Senior Thesis Project: Screenplay”

Academic Year Research Support

Daniel Hariyanto, ’23

• Title: “Biological Physics & Computer Science, Strange Phase Separation Behavior at High Temperature”

Claire Ogden, ’21

• Title: “Anthropology and Media, Culture and Communication (IIM) Ethnographic Film on Art and Community during COVID-19”