Hometown: Woodbridge, CT;
Major: Psychology;
Thesis: "Physical Attractiveness and Mate Selection on Dating Applications"
Amber Albe
Hometown: Wallingford, CT;
Majors: English & New Media Studies;
Thesis: "Exploring, Forming, and Mediating Sexuality Online: The Rhetoric of Pornosexuality on Tumblr"
Emma Avery
Hometown: Bristol, CT;
Majors: Political Science & Environmental Earth Science (Sustainable Energy Concentration);
Thesis: "An Analysis of Southern New England Climate: Linking Marine Deposits with Public Records"
Danielle Berube
Hometown: Burlington, CT;
Major & Minors: Biology, Psychology & Spanish;
Thesis: "Rates of Child Compliance With Imperative Versus Interrogative and 'Do' Versus 'Don't' Commands"
Taylor Brown
Hometown: Windsor, CT;
Major & Minor: Biology & Geographic Information Systems;
Thesis: "The Effect of Temperature Change and Plant Invasions on Native Tadpole Performance"
Anthony Coss
Hometown: East Haven, CT;
Majors: Mathematics & Secondary Education;
Thesis: "Serving the Average Secondary Student: Examining What Motivates Students to Learn Mathematics and How Classroom Factors Affect Their Motivation"
Jacob Dayton
Hometown: Bolton, CT;
Major: Biology;
Thesis: "Differing Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Selection Revealed by Neutral and Novel Candidate Loci Across Differentially Migrating Units of a Seabird Population"
Catherine Falvey
Hometown: West Hartford, CT;
Majors: Mathematics & Economics;
Thesis: "Educational and Occupational Aspirations: A Consideration of Attainment of American Youth"
Alicia Finegan
Hometown: Norwich, CT;
Majors: Biology & Criminology;
Thesis: "Investigating the Role of Glutamate Reuptake by Astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease"
Allison Gagliano
Hometown: Salem, CT;
Majors: Mathematics & Computer Science;
Thesis: "Multivariate Statistical Models and Their Application to the Study of Adolescent Alcohol Use"
Emily Hill
Hometown: Willimantic, CT;
Majors: Elementary Education & English;
Thesis: "Moral Implications of Children's Literature: The Impact of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in Connecticut"
Haley Knox
Hometown: Bristol, CT;
Major & Minors: Mathematics, Computer Science & Writing;
Thesis: "Network Analysis of the Spread of Fake News on Twitter"
Demitra Kourtzidis
Hometown: East Hampton, CT;
Major and Minors: Political Science, Economics & Spanish;
Thesis: "How States Pass Criminal Justice Policy: A Study of Three Cases"
Jared Simon Kranc
Hometown: Colchester, CT;
Majors: History (American Studies) & Economics (Business Economics);
Thesis: "The Impact of Economics on Hurricane Evacuation"
Katlyn Little
Hometown: New Britain, CT;
Major & Minor: Biology & Genetic Counseling;
Thesis: "Examining the Physiological Role of Therapy Dogs on Stress Level"
Emily Miclon
Hometown: Enfield, CT;
Major: and Minor: Music (Percussion Performance Concentration) & Spanish;
Thesis: "La Musique en Plein Air: Debussy and Open Air Freedom"
Jessica Miclon
Hometown: Enfield, CT;
Major & Minors: English, Sociology & Women and Gender Studies;
Thesis: Dilate:" A Novel in Stories on Women Living with Vaginismus"
Samuel Pallis
Hometown: Tolland, CT;
Major: Biology;
Thesis: "Method Analysis for Capturing the Common Mudpuppy"
Malvina Pietrzykowski
Hometown: Norwich, CT;
Major & Minor: Psychology & Biology;
Thesis: "Physiological Measures of Pain Empathy Implicating Mirror Neuron Activity and Gender Differences in Self-Reported Empathy"
Samantha Price
Hometown: Cheshire, CT;
Majors & Minor: English, Digital Art & Photography;
Thesis: "Resisting the Grand Narrative of Homelessness; Local Stories from the Windham No Freeze Center"
Jessica Purick
Hometown: Wading River, NY;
Major & Minor: Biology & Mathematics;
Thesis: "The Regulation of Multidrug Resistance Protein 4 (Mrp4) Activity by AMP-activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) in the Renal Proximal Tubule"
Jonathan Rappi
Hometown: Southington, CT;
Major: Biology;
Thesis: "RNAi Screen for Transcriptional Regulators of Odd-Skipped Genes in C. Elegans"
Francesco Ricigliano
Hometown: Southington, CT;
Major & Minors: Political Science, Mathematics & Computer Science;
Thesis: "A Three-Dimensional Approach to Voter Turnout"
Shayne Sampognaro
Hometown: Glastonbury, CT;
Major and Minor: Biology & Mathematics;
Thesis: "Identification of a Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitor"
Elena Sorrentino
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY;
Majors & Minor: English, New Media Studies & Writing;
Thesis: "One Author to Define Them All?: How Fanfiction Authors Utilize Originally Created Female Characters to Portray Gender in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Series"
