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2026 Candidates—G


SHAWN P. GALLIGAN — English   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Hairsbreadth (Short Stories) 

John J. Hennessy, English 

 

MIA F. GALVAM — History, Social Thought & Political Economy   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

The Unrecorded Revolution: Women of the Cabo Verdean Independence Movement 

Diana Sierra Becerra, History 

 

KEERTANA R. GANGIREDDY — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Impacts of a Restorative Practices Approach on Mental Health Outcomes in Franklin County 

Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning 

 

ANNA N. GANSS — Psychology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

STEVEN R. GAO — Operations & Information Management, Computer Science, Mathematics   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Improving 3-D Human Pose Estimation on Mobile Robots 

Donghyun Kim, Information & Computer Science 

 

AARON Z. GAO — Operations & Information Management, Computer Science, Mathematics 

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

AUDREY R. GARFINKEL — Dance, Education   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Funcionamos: A Discovery of the Definitions of Work Through Choreography 

Duane Holland, Jr, Music & Dance 

 

NEHAL GARG — Computer Science   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

CHARLES E. GARRETSON — Architecture   

General Studies & Departmental Honors 

 

RAMIN GASIMLI — Physics   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Hydrodynamic Brachistochrone: Conflicting Paths of Time and Energy Minima 

Varghese Mathai, Physics 

 

KYLE S. GASKILL — Biology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

MINNAH A. GAYED — Biology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Pharmaceuticals During Global Health Crises: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 

Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

CONNOR M. GEARY — Mechanical Engineering   

General Studies & Departmental Honors 

The Simulation of Tuned Heave Plates for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines 

Matthew A. Lackner, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 

 

GRIFFIN M. GEE — History 

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Bootleggers and Brahmin: Enforcement, Resistance, and Social Change in Prohibition-Era Boston 

Jennifer A. Fronc, History 

 

JASON R. GEHRING — Biology   

Advanced Scholarship - Departmental Honors 

Flocking with Family? Relatedness and Association in Black-Capped Chickadees 

Maria Stager, Biology 

 

ATA CINAR GENC — Computer Science   

General Studies & Departmental Honors 

Synthetic Speech Detection in Audio-Large Learning Models’ Latent Space 

Amir Houmansadr, Information & Computer Science 

 

DEEPAK GEORGE — Computer Science   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

DEVINA GERA — Computer Science, Mathematics   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

 

SOPHIA E. GERVASI — Managerial Economics   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

Learning in the Age of AI: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Higher Education 

Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering 

 

YUNI S. GERZON — Psychology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

The Impact of Anti-Communist Rhetoric on the Fight for Universal Health Insurance in the US 

Dean Robinson, Political Science 

 

NAINA BHARAT GIANANI — Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Navigating the Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions of Two Heavily Used Antidepressants, Sertraline and Fluoxetine, on Drug Utilization Across the Years Before, During, and After COVID 

Muzzo Uysal, Isenberg School of Management 

 

KATELYN E. GIBBINGS — Accounting   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Entertaining the Student Body: An Analysis of University Programming 

Anurag Sharma, Isenberg School of Management 

 

IAIN GILLESPIE — Sustainable Community Development   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Connectivity Through Separation: Exploring the Role of Intersection Designs in Low-Stress Bicycle Networks 

Peter Dunn, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning 

 

MICHAEL F. GILLESPIE — Neuroscience   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

A Study of Music's Impact on Cognitive and Emotional Expression in Memory Care Residents with Dementia 

Elena T. Carbone, Nutrition 

 

BENNETT GILLIG — Computer Science, Mathematics 

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Dynamic Type Inference for JavaScript 

Emery D. Berger, Information & Computer Science 

 

ISABELLA K. GOETZ — Biology, Neuroscience   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Identification and Structural Reconstruction of a Potential Olfactory Glomerulus in the Rhinophore Ganglion of Berghia stephanieae 

Paul S. Katz, Biology 

 

JONATHAN M. GOLDIN — Legal Studies   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Rights Without Meaning: Judicial Doctrine and the Rise of the School-to-Prison Pipeline 

Martha L. Yoder, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

SUMMER GOLEN — Public Health Sciences   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Stories That Connect Us: Expanding Access to Intergenerational Digital Storytelling as a Community-Based Response to Address Loneliness 

Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning 

 

RITA C. GOODWIN — Psychology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

The Poetic Path: How Sufi Poetry Conveys the Mystical Teachings of Islam 

Mark Roblee, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

MIA C. GORMAN — Kinesiology   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Validating Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Lower Extremity Joint Angle Approximation During Gait 

Douglas N. Martini, Kinesiology 

 

MARISA S. GOTTSCHE — Public Health Sciences   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Effects of British Colonialism on Health Systems in South Asia 

Maxine Oland, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

LAUREN S. GRACHUK — Political Science   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Dignity Degraded: Environmental Protection Through Human Dignity in American Jurisprudence 

Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

OWEN M. GRANDY — Landscape Architecture   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Collective Landscape Management for Fire Risk in the Coastal California Mosaic 

Robert L. Ryan, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning 

 

MATEO E. GRAUBART — Social Thought & Political Economy   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

The Actual State of Things: Federal Indian Law and the Evolution of Colonial Governance in the United States 

Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez, Commonwealth Honors College 

 

AUTUMN A. GRIFFITH — Public Health Sciences   

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality: A Comparative Case Analysis of Louisiana vs. Massachusetts 

Dean Robinson, Political Science 

 

HAYDEN T. GROH — Finance   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

Strategic Pursuit of Sponsorships in Global Sports Marketing: Risks, Opportunities, and a Case Study of Fenway Sports Management 

Muzzo Uysal, Isenberg School of Management 

 

MYA R. GROSSMAN — Microbiology   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

Biomembrane Interactions with Model Microplastics 

Maria Santore, Polymer Science & Engineering 

 

MINAHIL GUL — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

Mechanistic Investigation of TKD1079-Induced Ferroptosis in Cancer Cells 

Rachid Skouta, Chemistry 

 

SIYA N. GUNDA — Marketing, Communication  

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Ethnographic Photography: Comparative Analysis Through Photographs of Everyday Culture in India and Guatemala 

Thomas G. Brashear-Alejandro, Isenberg School of Management 

 

AVNI GUNJIKAR — Computer Science, Mathematics 

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Finding the Top L-Arms with an M-Constrained Quantum Oracle 

Mohammadhassan Hajiesmaili, Information & Computer Science 

 

EILISH M. GUNTHER — Environmental Science   

Advanced Scholarship - Multidisciplinary Honors 

Addressing the Gaps Impacting University Emission Initiatives 

Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics 

 

SHOURYA GUPTA — Neuroscience, Public Health Sciences 

General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors 

Exploring AAV-Mediated Overexpression of RAP as a Tau-LRP1 Complex Inhibitor 

Jennifer N. Rauch, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 

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