Theses are the culmination of honor students independent research under the guidance of faculty members and are representative of Union College's commitment to giving students the tools necessary for life-long learning.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Decreasing Tracheal Volume during Intermolt Development in Grasshoppers, Andrew Sheahan
The Patient Narrative and the Impositions of Implicit Biases in Health Care, Dhara Shukla
The Effect of Due Diligence (DD) Reports on Robinhood Stock Ownership During 2019, Ryan Sidorski
Reality Television: Investigating Discrimination Among America’s Guiltiest Pleasures, Shane M. Smith
Using Speech Perception to Measure Attitudes Toward Niqabi Speakers: Development of an Audiovisual Valence Priming Procedure and Stimulus Set, Hannah Soliman
Finance and Fear: Sentiment, Media, and Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alison N. Sommers
Understanding the Factors behind China's Economic Growth and its Growth Trends in the Future, Sadhika Thapa
How does the Abundance of Invasive honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) Increase Tick Density?, Cato Tran
The Effect of Sonic Hedgehog on the Developing Spiral Intestine in Leucoraja erinacea, Brianna Turner-Douglas
PIXE Analysis of Heavy Metals in Soil along the East River, Mia Villeneuve
Using Laughter to Inspire Change: Absurdist Theatre in Oppressive Societies, Mia Villeneuve
Bootstrapped Fractional Designs Applied to Models with Both Mixture and Process Variables, Laura Vinton
Autism and Gender: The Intersection Between Camouflaging and Gender-Related Distress, Jillian Walenda
Characterization of the Initial Explosive Phases of the 2021 Eruption at La Soufriere, St. Vincent, Sydney Walters
COVID-19 and Social Isolation: Predicting Psychological Distress in High vs. Low Self-Monitors, Miya Walto
Mental Health is Wealth Too: Did the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion Improve Mental Health Outcomes?, Dereck Wang
Enhancing Bifacial PV Efficiency With the Addition of a Rear Side Reflector, Neila Watson
The Role of the Sibling Relationship During Stressful Life Events, Brianna Weissel
Feasibility of Stable Isotope Analysis as a Method for Prior Ixodes scapularis Host Identification, Sarah Wettergreen
Convergence and Hegemony: The United States and China in the 21st Century, Daniel Wilcox
"Meatheads" Redefined: An Analysis of the Union College Football Team, Michaela Wood
Weight Measurement System for Emergency Pediatric Transports, Sarah Worth, William Duprey, John Masci, and Kiara Beckham
Sewage and Pathogen Contamination in Urban Streams in Schenectady in the Lower Mohawk Watershed, Joanna Wright
Impact of Movements on Facial Expression Recognition, Zhebin Yin
Bridging the Gap with Music: The Fusion of Chinese and American Culture in Mando-Pop, Katarina Zahedi
Mutations in Caveolin Binding Motif Alter Human Follicle Stimulating Hormone Receptor Signaling, Katarina Zahedi
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Digital Yuan and the BeiDou Satellite System: China’s Increasing Structural Power in an Interdependent World, Marina Angelopoulos
Microstructural Characterization of Catalytic Copper- and Chromium-Containing Alumina Aerogels, Chris Avanessian
Partial Translation of Clément Horvath’s Till Victory: Lettres du Jour J à la Victoire, David Bates
Orthopedic Anti-Plunging with External Cooling Drill System, David Bates, Nick Muro, Olivia Bresett, and Laura Wind
The Role of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Causing a Dysregulation of the HPA Axis on the Incidence of Depression, Elsa Bechu and Brian Cohen
Analysis of Possible Hybrid Meson Decay, Jasper Bergh
Quantum Walks on Expander Graphs, Jasper Bergh
PIXE Analysis of Soil Samples from the George Washington Bridge, Helen Black
Election Administration: The Effect of Race on Election Technology Implementation and Advancement in the United States, Danielle Blaustein
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry, Erika Bonnist
Analysis of Caveolin-1 Expression and Interaction with FSHR in Lipid Raft Domains, Joseph Bott
El neocolonialismo: la influencia imperialista del turismo en Honduras, Kelsey Brodie
Effects of Bounding Tree Complexity on Immersion in a Virtual Environment, Jonathan Caputo
Heavy Metal Contamination in Drinking Water and its Connection to Superfund Site Related Environmental Injustice, Emily Caruso
The Effect of Gender Roles and Priming on Mental Health Self-Stigma and Attitudes, Sarah Competiello
Analysis of Differential Gene Expression Patterns During Spiral Intestine Development in Leucoraja erinacea, Kelsey Cox
Antidepressant Prescriptions Among Hospice Patients During Their Final Days, Erika Crampton
Effects of Non-Homeostatic Feeding Mechanisms on the Long-Term Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery, Cameron Cyr
The Plight of Social Media: An Analysis of the Effects Social Media has on Political Discourse, Kelsey Delaney
Singular yet Shared: Willful Heroines and their Willful Communities in Young Adult Fantasy, Shea Delehaunty
The Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Schiff Base Transition Metal Complexes, Isabella Demyan
Design of a Sectioned Warming Device to Prevent Perioperative Hypothermia, Julia Dickson, Katherine Stevens, Annie O'Donnell, and Dessources Domond
The State of the Asylum: Assessing Institutional Legitimacy through an Examination of its Clientele, Peter Dranow
Hybrid Viability: An analysis of Drosophila hybrid competition and mating success amongst its parental species, Konrad Drzymalski
Let’s Talk About Sex: A Social Analysis of College Students’ Experiences with Hookup Culture, Samantha Epstein
The Poetry of Revolution: The Legacy of a Written Rebellion, Eva Erickson
Mapping the Queer Ephemeral, Mitchell Famulare
Electron Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy/An Introduction for Union College, Jacob Feinstein
The Precarious and Political: Undocumented Immigrant Activism, Rights Claims, and Networks of Solidarity, Caroline Fitzgerald
Pediatric Pulse Oximeter for Low Resource Countries, Celina Francis, Alexandra Kucinski, Lara Atalay, Saniyah Dar, and Fatima Shaat
Rethinking “Representative” Democracy, Tawreak Gamble-Eddington
The Black Experience in Early to Mid-20th-Century Great Britain, France, and Germany: The Positioning of a Community as the “Other”, Tawreak Gamble-Eddington
Triumphing Over Trauma: Addressing Past Experiences and Mental Health Following Resettlement in the United States, Tyler Greenwood
直到有正义（Until There is Justice), Nathalie A. Gullo and Elizabeth NiesGreeley
Radar Network Synchronization and Imaging using Semiconductor Laser System, Meesha Gupta
Reaping What They Sewed: Embroidery in Politics, Feminism, and Art, Lilith Haig
The Thematic Changes in DEFA Cinema, David Hillman
German Odysseys of the First World War, David Terence Hillman
President Donald J. Trump and His Attempted Politicization of the United States Military, Brian Huang
Probing an Alternative Structure in Precursor miRNA-92b with Small Organic Compounds, Sophie Hurwitz
IoT Garden Frost Alarm, Andrew James
Political Propaganda on Imperial Coinage in the Age of Augustus, Juliana Maria Ketting
HBO’s "The Wire" and its Portrayal of Baltimore Politics, Schools, and the Judicial System in Season 4: Was it Accurate then and Does it Stand the Test of Time?, Josephine Klingeman
Device for Affixation of Rear-Facing Child Restraint System to Ambulance Cot for Non-Emergent Transport, Troy Kohler, Kendall Rogoff, Matthew Miller, and Lily Buchanan
A Translation of Some Works of Louise Michel, Early French Feminist, Militant Anarchist, and Socialist Visionary, Julianna Kramer
"Gone, but Never Forgotten:" Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in the United States, Julianna Kramer
El éxito del turismo comunitario en Latinoamérica, Alexandra Lazar
La operación: Coerced Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women in the 20th Century, Alexandra Lazar
An Analysis of Religious Extremism Through Memoir, Sydney Lewis
Nymphettamine, Rebekah Lindsey
American Identity: The Political Consequences of Defining America Throughout the Nation’s Most Formative Moments, Cate Llewellyn
El agroturismo: la clave para el futuro sostenible de España, Emma Mahony
Systemic Inequalities in the Brazilian Education System: By Chance or by Choice?, Erin Marmen
Influence of Ligand Backbone and Solvent on Product Distribution of Cu(II) Salts with Imine Based Ligands, Jason Marmorstein and Laurie Tyler Dr.
Smooth muscle differentiation influences spiraling in the intestine of Leucoraja erinacea, Christian Mastroianni
Automated Greenhouse Watering and Heating System for the Schenectady ARC, Yusen Meng and Aikaterini Petridou
The Evolution of Protest and Social Movements in the National Basketball Association from the Mid-20th Century to the Present Day, Luke Messersmith
The Evolution of Protest and Social Movements in the National Basketball Association from the Mid-20th Century to the Present Day, Luke Messersmith
Device for Affixation of Rear-Facing Child Restraint System to Ambulance Cot for Non-Emergent Transport, Matthew Miller, Kendall Rogoff, Troy Kohler, and Lily Buchanan
Determination of the Calcium-Dependent Activation Mechanism for Metacaspase 1 from the Fungus Schizophyllum commune, Charlotte Mineo
The Paradox of the War on Terror: Domestic Terrorism and White Supremacist Extremism, Marie-Amélie Morange
Synthesis of Potential Small-Molecule Inhibitors for S. Commune Metacaspase, Makayla Mori and Joanne D. Kehlbeck
The Role of FSH in Osteoporosis & Ensuing Susceptibility to Fractures, Kenza Mourji
Visits to the Living: A Partial Translation of Cathie Barreau’s Visites aux vivants, Jennifer Mutch
Provenance, Jennifer Ann Mutch
"Prevention through Deterrence" Against Citizens: the Venezuela-Colombia Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Human Rights Implications, Andreina Negretti Benito
Circuit Breaker Failure Analysis System, Marlie Norbrun
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in Continental Africa and Beyond, Nathan Olsen