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