Senior Thesis

A culminating experience for all bbin娱乐平台 students, the Senior Thesis is an independent research project that provides students with the opportunity to follow an intellectual passion in depth with the guidance of a university professor.

The year-long project is designed to demonstrate a student’s ability to read closely, research thoroughly, think analytically, and write coherently in a scholarly fashion. Thesis topics include research in history and politics; literature and music; linguistics and science. Papers are expected to be between 4,000-6,000 words in length and written in accordance with generally accepted university standards. All students present their research to the bbin娱乐平台 community prior to graduation.

List of Senior Thesis Topics, Class of 2022

• Selling a Lifestyle: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County, and Social Expectations
• The 2008 Housing Crisis: Why the American Financial System collapsed and how it affected American Household
• A Comparison of Two Contrasting Film Styles: The Films of Wilder and Bresson
  Hemingway and The Hunger Games: Exploring the Literary Merit and Popularity of Science Fiction
• The Math of Magic and the Magic of Math
• A Comparative Analysis of Race and Socioeconomic Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US, UK, and Canada
• A Case for Greater Globalized Influence to United States Healthcare System
• The Dunk Craze: How Social Media Influenced the Biggest Sneaker Trend Of 2020
• An Evaluation of Weak-Anion Exchange Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges for the Quantification of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Compounds 
• Increased inflammation in sleep-relevant nuclei is associated with REM sleep behavior disorder in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• Chinese Character Effect on the Foreign Language Effect
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• Quantifying the Effects of Starvation, Thermal, and Photosynthetic Stress, and Microplastics on Astrangia poculata to Understand the Anthropogenic Impacts on Temperate Corals
• A study on Enterobacter RC202 and its ability to biodegrade lignin, with potential for biofuel production
• The Genetic Pathway of Artemisinin in the A. annua Plant
• Ergothioneine: Analysis of a Stroke Drug Candidate
• Using RGB Contrast Values in MATLAB® to locate Exfoliated Nano-Material
• Comparison of Mathematical Models for Epidemics to Historical Data
• Framing the Conversation: An Analysis of Public Discussion of Sexual and Reproductive Health
• A Stylistic Exploration of Egon Schiele
• The Effects of Reaganomics on Economic Inequality in America
• Lead Optimization of CNS Drugs Using Computational Analysis
• The Efficacy of Urban Heat Mitigation Techniques in Boston
• The Role of Acculturation on Mental Health in Chinese Communities
• The Application of Haptic Technology in Increasing Situational Awareness for the Visually Impaired
• Applications and Optimizations of Bessel Beams for Confocal Microscopy
• Investigating the Effect of B Cell Treatment on Native B Cell Populations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Via Waddington Optimal Transport Analysis
• A Solution to the Internet’s Affect on Sex Crimes Against Girls in Thailand
• Reviews of Soft Hand Based Exosuits for Osteoarthritis and Similar Conditions
• The Effects of Narcissistic Abuse on Adult Children of Pathological Narcissists
• Depictions of Fatherhood in American Media
• The Big Other: An analysis and its role in Neoliberal Capitalism
• Pagan Influence on Christianity, an Evolving View
• Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic Time Warping on Run-Length Encoded Strings
• Cryptocurrency Mining and its Environmental Impact
• Establishment of HIV Defective Proviruses and their Expression
• The ATD2021 Challenge: Detecting anomalies and patterns in traffic flow
• Sex-Linked Differences in Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAD)
• Structure Determination of Indene via Cavity Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy
• Testing the Linearity of Quantum Mechanics
• A Case Study of Venezuela and Norway: Is the Resource Curse Avoidable?
• An Urgent Need for Policy Change: the Cancer Susceptibility Mutation R337H with a Founder Effect in South and Southeastern Brazil
• Visual Analysis and Vetting Software for White Dwarf Binary Systems
• Moving MRI: Identifying and Mapping the Field Strength of an MRI Magnet