Honors Hosts Annual Research Fair
On a beautiful Friday kicking off Family Weekend, Honors hosted the annual student Research Fair in the Bowne Hall 3rd Floor Atrium, where a hearty to-go lunch was served. Research is a critical part of the Honors experience, and 18 seniors in the Honors Program devoted their time with juniors and first-year students to explain their thesis projects and share their individual journeys. The annual fair exposes first-year students to research early in their academic careers, to plant seeds that we expect will blossom throughout their lives. The fair cultivates learning so that students have the capacity to synthesize information and to produce unique research. The aim is for students to discover their own niches and contribute their work to solving complex problems facing humanity. Presentations spanned a wide range of disciplines across many schools and colleges.
Honors is grateful to the following students for highlighting their fantastic thesis projects:
| First Name | Last Name | Thesis field | Working Title | Faculty Advisor |
| Connor | Johnson | Acting/Communications | Bid Day | Ricky Pak |
| Victoria | Hathaway | Bioengineering | Neonatal and Pediatric minimally invasive portable kidney dialysis machine | Pun To Yung |
| Mary | Ross | Biology | The Role of Daf-12 in the Regulation of Osm-9 in C. Elegans | Sarah Hall |
| Nathena | Murray | Biomedical and Chemical Engineering | Designing New Biomaterials using Lipid-dated Disordered Proteins | Shikha Nangia |
| Devon | Drabick | History | Spanish Conquest of the Americas was not Inevitable: Marronage as Resistance in Hispaniola 1492-1612 | Tessa Murphy |
| Elizabeth | Barash | Political Science | Analyzing Voter Information, Political Socialization, Participation and Engagement of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Vermont | Shana Gadarian |
| Daniel | Nagle | Sport Analytics | Analyzing Formula 1 Driver Pairs | Rodney Paul |
| Caroline | Whinney | Real Estate & Finance | Keller Williams Internship Experience | Thomas Barkley |
| Taylor | Drabick | Biology | Val66Met Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Single Nucleotide Polymorphism: Implications for Learning and Memory | Donna Korol |
| Claire | Bandet | Biology | Microbial Associations and Nitrogen Fixation of Switchgrass | Mark Ritchie |
| David | Williams | Education Policy & Technology | Transforming Education: A Digital Toolkit for Success | Austin Zwick |
| Bridget | Essing | Forensic Science | Quantification of Secondary Transfer of Touch DNA | Michael Marciano |
| Amanda | Paule | Magazine, News, and Digital Journalism | Visualizing 81: Revisiting Syracuse’s Inner-City Highway and 15th Ward | Melissa Chessher |
| Rosalyn | Impink | Policy Studies | Crisis Management: Public Administration through the COVID-19 Pandemic in Massachusetts Municipalities | Austin Zwick |
| Gretchen | Coleman | Political Science | Understanding Political Trust among Youth and Implications for the Electoral Process | Tina Nabatchi |
| Aparajita | Rao | Psychology | Restrictive Behaviors as a Predictors of Anxiety in Autistic Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults | Natalie Russo |
| Megan | Willkens | Public Health | Malaria Control with pyrethroids and cognitive deficits in pre-school children in sub-Sarahan Africa | David Larsen |
| Sophia | Perida | History | Ingesting Indigenous Ingenuity: Histories of Food, Power and Policies in the U.S. and Italy | Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn |
