Senior Honors and Master’s Thesis projects
View a sampling of recent honors projects below.
Senior Honors Projects are independent research or community-based projects typically performed in the senior year (although students often begin their research earlier than that).
Master’s Thesis projects are performed in a fifth year after the Bachelor of Science degree is received for students accepted into the Neuroscience BS/MA program.
Senior Honors Projects
Spring 2026
Jude Altman ’26
Effect of Early Temperature Stress on Female Drosophila
Navya Arora ’26
Impact of Perceived Social Support on Prosocial Behavior During Prospective Memory Tasks in College Students
Alenka Doyle ’26
From Providing to Predicting: Expanding the Information-Driven Attentional Capture Hypothesis
Mariia Galochkina ’26
Guided Movement: Differential Effects of FGF1 and FGF8 Subfamilies on Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Migration
Stella Garson ’26
Exploring Heteromeric 5-HT3 Receptor Pairings Using FRET and FIR
Niamh Kastner ’26
Early Life Effects of Estradiol on Sensitivity to Cocaine in a Rodent Model of ADHD in Females
Zoe Kuehne ’26
Metabolic State Matters: Ketogenic Diet Effects on Acute Drug Response in Mice
Maria Mathew ’26
Longitudinal Analysis of Suicide Risk Screening Disparities in Pediatric BIPOC Youth in Emergency Departments
Halanda Nguyen ’26
Youth Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide Risk Screening
Junny Nguyen ’26
Efficacy of Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation in Brain Injury Patients
Orly Perez Frid ’26
Stress Biology and Well-Being After Childhood Adversity: A Study of Peripheral Dopamine, Cortisol, and Alpha Amylase
Malia Ruggiero ’26
Investigating Conformational Movements of KATP Channels Using FRET
Kamilla Volkova ’26
Using the Apple Vision Pro as a Portable Psychophysics Tool
Masters Thesis Project
Spring 2025
Nick Crotty ’25
Implementing the Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff Online: A Replication and Extension
Spring 2025
Eva Beiga ’25
Differences in Glucocorticoid Receptor Distribution Between Early and Late Hatched Red Eyed Tree Frogs
Danny Lenois ’25
An Exploration of the Use of Neurobiology to Promote Familial Economic Mobility
Kevin Lowe ’25
The Impact of Head Injuries on Sleep and Attention
Taylor Mikolajczak ’25
Development of a Sprague-Dawley Model of Socio-Cognitive Deficits in Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Matt Mitchell ’25
Speech Under Extreme Aerobic Conditions
Aili Ramsden ’25
Ovarian Steroid Hormones Are Required for the Behavioral Effects of Cocaine in Adult, But Not Adolescent, Females in a Rodent Model of ADHD
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Julia Torre ’25
Cognitive Effects of Physical and Emotional Trauma from Intimate Partner Violence
Shayla Whitaker ’25
Probing Enzymatic Activity of the KATP Channel Complex
Spring 2024
Alisha Aristel ’24
Exploring the Relationship Between Gene Expression and Neurotransmission at a Single Nuclei Resolution
Benjamin Attwood ’24
Neurocognitive Treatments for Perspective Memory in TBI Patients
Nick Crotty ’24
Deep Learning and Visual Search
Luz Mariana Cumpa Gomez ’24
The Impact of 2D:4D Ratios and Sexual Orientation on Anxiety-Like Symptoms and Problematic Drug Use
Shirin Dadina ’24
Development of Neuroscience Methods for Assessing Neotropical Frogs as Biomedical Models of ACEs
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Mariam Ghaloo ’24
The Effects of Adenosine on Depressive Symptoms in Mice
Miriam M. Kirylo ’24
Estrogen-Replacement Therapy on Neurodegeneration and Socio-Cognitive Deficits in a Female Rat Model of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
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Nora Kleiman ’24
Precocious Puberty in Girls: Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic as an Adverse Childhood Experience
Stephen Maurer ’24
Investigating Loss of Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder Genes Using Stem Cells
Ingrid Schoenborn ’24
Evaluating Sensitivity to Cocaine in Adolescent Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, a Rodent Model of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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Spring 2023
Aprille Gangi ‘23
Contributions of Objective Versus Subjective Cognition to Illness Intrusiveness in Multiple Sclerosis
Stephanie Garvis ’23
Retrospectively Acquired Scripted Modified Rankin Scale
Sydney Hall ’23
The Effects of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Restoring Prospective Memory in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Anastasia Hanifin ’23
Investigating the Effects of Early Stress on Neotropical Red-Eyed Treefrog Weight and Mortality
Julianna Kennedy ’23
Investigating Lateralized Asymmetry as a Potential Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alzheimer’s Disease Using Human Brain MRI Data
Sarah Mathew ’23
The Role of Brain Estrogen Receptor Activation in Motivation for Cocaine in Pregnant Sprague-Dawley Rats
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Berit Schuveiller ’23
The Cognitive Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Skyler Simpkins ’23
Investigating the Link Between Domestic Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury
Ryan Werner ’23
The Effect of Rehabilitation of Cognitive and Prospective Memory Impairment for Individuals that Suffer from Acquired Brain Injury
Nicholas Zacharewski ’23
Using a Health Corps Force to Reduce Disparities Following Discharge from an Urban Stroke Center
Spring 2022
Episodic future thought in Spanish-English bilingual Hispanics/Latinos
Alicia Camuy ’22
Cognitive and emotional functioning in women who have experienced traumatic brain injury as a result of domestic or intimate partner violence
Jocelyn Moran ’22
Characterizing Prospective Memory Errors and their Neuropsychological Correlations in Persons with MS
Caitlyn Nguyen ‘22
Effect of the ketogenic diet and estrous cycling on inflammatory pain in female mice
Allison Wells ‘22
Spring 2021
Jack Albanese ’21
Learned but not distracting: low-value stimuli and value-driven attentional capture.
Gabby Christensen ’21
Resources available to immigrant survivors of domestic violence
Andrew Frankini ’21
Effects of nutritional supplementation on insect muscle growth and electrophysical properties in Acheta domesticus
Jeffrey Sagun ’21
COVID Creativity: Creating a Global Academic Initiative During the Pandemic
Spring 2020
Kimber Boekell ‘20
Effects of a ketogenic diet on tactile sensitivity and nociception across the estrous cycle in female rats.
Emma England ’20
Amino acid sensing ability by the mechanistic target of rapamycin in oligodendrocytes.
Madison Guay ‘20
Sex differences in restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests in children with ASD.
Anna Hackett ‘20
Trinity return-to-learning post-concussion protocol assessment.
Meg Huston ’20
A ketogenic diet impairs conditioned place preference for cocaine in Sprague-Dawley rats.
Katie Lazur ’20
The expression of mTOR and Trib3 in oligodendrocyte lineage cells.
Brielle McDonald
Electrophysiologic Response to Classical Music in Instrumentalists, Vocalists and Non-musicians.
Isabella Sturdevant ‘20
The effects of a ketogenic diet on acute inflammatory pain in mice.
Ross Sawka ‘20
The effect of acute stress on time based prospective memory.
Spring 2019
Neurological discrepancies between bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder
Nat Bush ‘19
Manipulation of conscious awareness using continuous flash suppression and virtual reality
Patricia Gaitan ‘19
Development of an intrahippocampal kindling model of epilepsy
Carter Jones ‘19
Measuring the effects of acculturation in different types of memory in Spanish speakers
Student: Laura Cadavid ’19
Electroencephalogram as a diagnostic tool in acquired brain injury
Michael Zarra ‘19
Master’s Thesis Projects
Cognitive Rehabilitation Of Prospective Memory Deficits After Acquired Brain Injury: Cognitive, Behavioral, And Physiological Measures
Meaghan Race ’18 MA ’19
Psychometric Properties of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Across Pediatric Settings
Lori Berger ’18 MA ’19
