2025 Candidates—B
2025 Candidates—BBABCOCK, JOHN W. — MARKETING
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Heidi E. Bailey, Isenberg School of Management
BACKMAN, GRAHAM — POLITICAL SCIENCE
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Is There a Race Card in the Deck? Implicit and Explicit Racial Appeals in Modern Presidential Campaigns
Tatishe M. Nteta, Political Science
BADRI, SAMYUKTHA — POLITICAL SCIENCE
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
U.S. State Cannabis Social Equity Programs and Legal Cannabis Markets
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Resource Economics
BAHLOUS-BOLDI, RYAN — COMPUTER SCIENCE
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Survival of the Most General? Diversity and Symbolic Structure in Evolutionary Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Scott Niekum, Information & Computer Science
BAJAJ, LEYNA — ASTRONOMY; PHYSICS
Advanced Scholarship—Departmental Honors
BALANI, SAANIYA D. — PSYCHOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Examining Recruitment Barriers for Minority Inclusion in Clinical Trials
Razvan Sibii, Journalism
BALDACCI, SAMANTHA — BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Mindfulness as an Intervention for Stereotype Threat for Undergraduate Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields: An Electroencephalogram (EEG) Study
Jennifer M. McDermott, Psychological & Brain Sciences
BALDASSARRI, VINCENT M. — POLITICAL SCIENCE
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Parasitic Policy: How the Mining Industry Continues Systems of Colonial Extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Maxine Oland, Commonwealth Honors College
BALL, CAROLINE R. — SOCIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Carmen
Thomas L. Vacanti, Music & Dance
BARAT, ABHINABHA — BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
DeepTHOMAS: 3-D Segmentation of Subcortical Structures in the Brain
Manojkumar Saranthan, UMass Chan Medical School
BARON, ASHA J. — COMMUNICATION; JOURNALISM
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Life on the Canal: A Workplace Sitcom
Kevin Anderson, Communication
BARONE, LUCIE M. — MATHEMATICS
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
Investigating Differences in Collegiate Health Care Across Massachusetts Institutions
Hossein Pishro-Nik, Electrical & Computer Engineering
BARROWS, HAILEY — PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Health Literacy in Action: Developing a Sexual Health Curriculum for Underserved Adults
Ellen Correa, Civic Engagement & Service Learning
BASSOM, LOUISE C. — BIOLOGY
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Investigating Sexually Dimorphic Gene Expression in Mouse Embryos Prior to Gonadogenesis
Jesse Mager, Veterinary & Animal Sciences
BATEMAN, SHANEN L. — OPERATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Examining the Correlation Between High Screen Time, Social Media Use, and Mental Health: Are Phones to Blame?
Erica Scharrer, Communication
BAUER, ELENA C. — BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Letting Science Run the Show: The Appropriation and Discrediting of Indigenous Knowledge Through Drug Development and Integrated Medical Practices
Mark Roblee, History
BECK, MARA — BIOLOGY; PRE-VETERINARY SCIENCE
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Serological Surveillance of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2) in Free-Ranging New England White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Barbara Anne Osborne, Veterinary & Animal Sciences
BECKERT, ADELINE D. — NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Assessing Undergraduate Perceptions of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC): Attitudes Across Academic Disciplines
Christine L. Crago, Resource Economics
BECKMAN, HANNAH ROSE O. — PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Evaluation of a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Curriculum in Liberia: An Assessment of Knowledge, Comfort, and Confidence
Karl Cyr, Health Promotion & Policy
BEDARD, JAKE C. — BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
BELINETTE, AURELIE S. — BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Beyond State Lines: Mapping Maternal Mortality Differences Between Massachusetts and Oklahoma Through Policy and Biomarker Lenses
Dean E. Robinson, Political Science
BELK, EIRENE — HOSPITALITY & TOURISM MANAGEMENT
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Beauty, Belonging, and American Identity: A Commentary on Elements Necessary for Beauty and an Artistic Study of the Lost American Identity
Elena T. Carbone, Nutrition
BELLERIVE, DYLAN B. — ECONOMICS
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
The Application of Delinking
Deepika Marya, Commonwealth Honors College
BELMORE, KATELYN B. — BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
Unraveling the Function of ATAD3 in Arabidopsis thaliana
Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
BERGANROSS, RUTH E. — PSYCHOLOGY
Advanced Scholarship—Departmental Honors
Partnering and Patterns: Auditory and Social Behavior Processing in the Lateral Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus
Luke R. Remage-Healey, Psychological & Brain Sciences
BERGERON, ALICIA M. — BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Exploring Tau Conformations: Structural Insights via Covalent Labeling Mass Spectrometry
Richard W. Vachet, Chemistry
BERGERON, LINDSEY A. — ACCOUNTING
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Coerced Sterilization: The Lasting Effects of Eugenics on Indigenous Peoples
Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Commonwealth Honors College
BERGERON, MEGAN E. — PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
A Literature Review on the Impact of Social Support in the Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes Among Mexican Immigrants
Gloria T. DiFulvio, Health Promotion & Policy
BERNHARD, EMILY — ENGLISH
Advanced Scholarship—Departmental Honors
BERNHEART, GRACE E. — HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
Charli Carpenter, Political Science
BETTS, CHANDLER G. — FINANCE
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Crisis or Opportunity? Navigating Legal, Policy, and Financial Shifts in College Athletics
Charles D. T. Macaulay, Sport Management
BHATTACHARJEE, MAHIMA — SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING SCIENCES
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Enhancing Indian Representation in SLHS Through a Multicultural, Bilingual Aphasia Case Study
Jennifer Mack, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
BHIRUD, RITESH GUNVANT — COMPUTER SCIENCE
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
BIGELOW, LILY — BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Modeling Leptomeningeal Metastasis: Aligned and Random Electrospun Polycaprolactone Scaffolds Under Static and Dynamic Flow Conditions
X. Frank Zhang, Biomedical Engineering
BIRNBACH, JACOB — MATHEMATICS
General Studies & Departmental Honors
MoneyGANs: Generating Synthetic Moneyline Data for Sports Betting Markets
Jonathan Larson, Mathematics & Statistics
BISHAY, JOYCE A. — PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
A Legacy of Inequity: Understanding the Long-Standing Divide in Reproductive Health Care for Women of Color
Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Commonwealth Honors College
BORGES, JACQUELINE — MICROBIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Distribution and Abundance of Piroplasms in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and Ticks in Massachusetts
Stephen M. Rich, Microbiology
BOROWSKI, NICKOLAS J. — BIOLOGY
Advanced Scholarship—Departmental Honors
BOTROS, CARLA — BIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Neurodegeneration, Neurological Disease Risk, and the Social Determinants of Health
Dean E. Robinson, Political Science
BOTROS, MONICA — BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Exploring the Impact of Siblings, Age, and Biological Sex on Dog-Facilitated Youth Physical Activity
Katie M. Potter, Kinesiology
BOUCHER, SOPHIE J. — JOURNALISM
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
Public Relations: Intergenerational Relationships Working Together
Thomas G. Brashear-Alejandro, Isenberg School of Management
BOU-HARB, CYRIL — COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICS
Advanced Scholarship—Departmental Honors
Cultivating Computational Thinking: A Game-Based Approach
Neena Jawaharlal Thota, Information & Computer Science
BOWE, MOLLY R. — FINANCE
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
The Development of Long Island, New York
Ray Kinoshita Mann, Architecture
BOWEN, RILEY E. — ENGLISH
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
BOWLER, BRENNA M. — PSYCHOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Australia's Environment: Shaped by European Colonization
Maxine Oland, Commonwealth Honors College
BRADLEY, OLIVIER R. — ECONOMICS
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: A Way Forward
Deborah M. Keisch, Civic Engagement & Service Learning
BRANDT, ALEXIA M. — MARKETING
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
Ties Between News Exposure via Social Media and Levels of Civic and Political Engagement in Young Adults
Erica Scharrer, Communication
BRATTER, LINDSEY A. — PSYCHOLOGY
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Understanding the Link Between Children's Prosocial Behaviors and Attitudes Toward Disability
Ashley Woodman, Psychological & Brain Sciences
BRENNAN, ZACHARY — MUSIC
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Timbral Spectacle: Multi-Soloist Concertante Works of the 1960s and 1970s
Evan A. MacCarthy, Music & Dance
BRICKMAN, ISAAC M. — POLITICAL SCIENCE
Advanced Scholarship—Multidisciplinary Honors
A Taxonomy of Middleware and Its Implications
Ethan Zuckerman, Public Policy & Administration
BROMBERG, NOAH V. — CLASSICS
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
BROOKS, ABIGAIL J. — SOCIAL THOUGHT & POLITICAL ECONOMY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
BROOKS, SIMON — MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
General Studies & Departmental Honors
Evaluating Optimal Tuning Parameters in Tuned Rolling Cylinder Dampers for Wind Turbines
Matthew A. Lackner, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
BROWN, JAYDIN — LEGAL STUDIES; SPANISH
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Campus Crossroads: The Black Student Experience in Motion
Connie Griffin, Commonwealth Honors College
BRYANT, TAMYRE L. — BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Dismantling the Hierarchy of Medical Practices: An Analysis of the Evolution of Beliefs and Values Surrounding the Divisions of Medical Practices with an Emphasis on Traditional Herbal Medicine in Comparison to Modern Western Medicine
Mark Roblee, History
BUTLER, MARY C. — MANAGEMENT
General Studies & Multidisciplinary Honors
Dong Wang, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology