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Year |
Name |
Major |
Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | Max Hendrix | Double major in Philosophy and Economics | "Intricacies of Agency: Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Our Normative Commitments" Advisors: Karsten Stueber and Kolleen Rask, Mark Hallahan and Daniel Schwab |
| 2022–2023 | Isabella Giaquinta | Double major in Mathematics and Health Sciences | "Leveraging the Power of Machine Learning to Predict and Potentially Mitigate the Risk of Poor Clinical Outcomes Among Refugees in a New England Healthcare Setting" Advisor: Shannon Stock |
| 2021-22 |
Charles Millard |
BIO/Biochemistry Concentrator |
PLHIV Perspectives on Improving ART Adherence through Drug Design and the Promise of Targeting the HIV-1 Restriction Factor APOBEC3G |
| 2020-21 | Maia Lee Chin | CLAS | Classics in the Classroom: Retelling the Iliad in Worcester Advisors: Mary Ebbott, Dominic Machado, and Lauren Capotasto |
| 2019-20 | Matthew Pinder | MUSC | The Stations of the Cross: A Non-Traditional Musical Passion Advisors: Osvaldo Golijov and Jessica Waldoff |
| 2018-19 | Mia Yee | ANTH/ARST | Asians Eat Food and Drink Bubble Tea: The Co-Construction of Contemporary Asian Food Spaces and Asian (American) Identity Advisors: Ann Marie Leshkowich and David Karmon |
| 2017-18 | Claude Hanley | CLAS | Transformation in Divine Love: Ancient Mercy for the Modern Age Advisor: John Gavin, S.J. |
| 2015-16 | Joseph MacNeill | CLAS/CATH | Encountering God as Logos: A Postmodern Theology Advisor: John Manoussakis |
| 2014-15 | Nicholas Cormier | BIOL/SOCL | The Social Management of Risk and Compliance in the Field of Transplantation Medicine Advisors: Renee Beard and Selina Gallo-Cruz |
| 2012-13 | Greg Peters | PSYC | Schizophrenia in Research and Practice: The Case for Conceptual and Methodological Pluralism Advisors: Alo Basu, Andrew Futterman, Daniel Bitran |
|
2010-11 |
Meredyth Winter |
VAHI |
Conspicuous Consumption: How Indian Textiles Have Come to Shape the Western Design Vocabulary |
|
2009-10 |
Owen S. Fenton |
CHEM |
Exploring the Interface Between Chemistry and Education |
|
2008-09 |
Rebecca Krier |
RELS |
Edith Stein and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola |
|
2008-09 |
Emily Rast |
THEA |
Female Identity in the Ingenues of American Musical Theatre |
|
2007-08 |
Brenton R. Franklin |
CHEM |
Using Organometallic Chemistry to Develop Imaging Agents |
|
2006-07 |
Cristina Baldor |
ENGL |
Our Exilio: Portraits of Life in Cuban-America |
|
2006-07 |
Candida Desjardins |
MATH |
Blood Pressure Waveform Measurement with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer |
|
2006-07 |
Catherine A. Hughes |
FREN/MUSC |
Debussy in Context: Continuity and Change in Fin-de-Siecle France |
|
2005-06 |
Timothy Duffy |
ENGL |
Redeeming Elizabethan Poetry: Metaphysical Poets Reform the Word |
|
2005-06 |
Ellen Gasparovic |
MATH |
Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry: An Evaluation of the Synthetic and Analytic Approaches with an Emphasis on Lie Sphere Geometry |
|
2005-06 |
Daniel Ricciardi |
HIST |
Changing Perceptions of Insanity in Early America, 1750 - 1844 |
|
2004-05 |
Mark Ferraguto |
MUSC |
Reading the 'Program' in Beethoven's Instrumental Music |
|
2003-04 |
Shayne Piasta |
PSYC |
Beginning Reading Instruction in Massachusetts Public Schools: Research, Policy, and Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs" |
|
2002-03 |
Evan A. MacCarthy |
CLAS/MUSC |
The Contenance Angloise: The Role of Humanism in the Rise of a New Musical Aesthetic in Renaissance Italy." |
|
2002-03 |
John T. Giblin, Jr. |
MATH/PHYS |
Embedding Diagrams for General Relativity and Analysis of Their Educational Potential Advisors: Robert Garvey, Thomas Cecil, Annette Jenner and Danuta Bukatko |
|
2001-02 |
Charles T. Strauss |
HIST |
Shall We Trust in Liberty?: The Impact of the South African War on Irish American Nationalism, 1899-1902 |
|
2000-01 |
Frances Orlando |
PSYC |
Reducing Psychiatric Diagnoses to Abnormal Brain States: A Case Study of Endogenous Depression |
|
1999-2000 |
Bethany Collier |
MUSC |
Sound, Texture and Meaning: Text and Music In Balinese Shadow Theatre |
|
1998 |
Jaime Grande |
SPAN/MUSC |
Basket of Palm - A Musical Dramatic Work |
|
1998 |
Jessica Suzanne Parker |
CHEM/MATH |
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Interfaces Utilizing In-Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
|
1997 |
Jonathan W. Hastings |
THEA |
Towards a Sense of Modern Comedy in Film and Dramatic Literature |
|
1997 |
Michael A. Palumbo |
RELS |
Masculine Spirituality: A Critical Transformative Approach |
|
1996 |
Marnie J. Cambria |
BIOL |
The Separation of CD34 Positive Cells from Umbilical Cord Blood and the Ethics of Fetal Tissue Research - "Spare Parts or Beating Hearts?" |
|
1995 |
Jason F. Hall |
CHEM |
Constrained Cis-Proline Amides as Potential Inhibitors of HIV Cell Infection |
|
1995 |
Lisa J. Fluet |
ENGL |
James Joyce and His Other Language: The abnihilization of the etym" (FW 353:22)" |
|
1994 |
Suzanne Buchta |
MATH |
Applications of Topology to DNA Structure And Function |
|
1994 |
David McCraw |
CLAS/THEA |
A Post-Mortem of The Bacchae, Theatrical Presentation |
|
1993 |
Christine E. Doyle |
HIST |
Constructing History: Literary Historians, Culture And Gender in Late Nineteenth Century America |
|
1993 |
Joel P. Poudrier |
POLS |
Life As a Work of Art: The Philosophical, Political, and Artistic Thought of Vaclav Havel and Friends |
|
1993 |
Edward G. Soltesz |
CLAS/CHEM |
"Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations into the Theoretical Assumptions and Function of Drug Therapy in The Corpus Hippocraticum" |
|
1992 |
John Margiotta |
BIOL |
Living in a Disenchanted World |
|
1992 |
Sara L. Toomey |
PHIL |
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Research and Implications |
|
1991 |
Philip J. Fournier |
MUSC |
Musical Presentation - "How James Learns About Flowers" |
|
1991 |
Christopher P. Vogt |
RELS |
The Catholic Liberal Arts College: A Contradiction in Terms? - Catholic Mission and Identity in an Age of Pluralism |
|
1990 |
Rebecca Runnels |
CLAS/MATH |
The Political and Intellectual Influences on the Development of Mathematics an Ancient Greece |
|
1989 |
Rebecca A. Rourke |
HIST |
Signs of Culture: Deafness in 19th Century America |
|
1988 |
Christine Freemer |
BIOL |
A Hermeneutical Study of the Language of Dance In Relationship to Our Religious Experience - "Dance As Religious Experience" Advisor: Irena Makarushka |
|
1987 |
Kathryn Furio |
MATH |
Riemann Surfaces: A Unifying Approach to Mathematics - "Riemann Surfaces: Distribution of Weierstrass Points on Rational Nodal Curves of Arithmetic Genus 2" |
|
1986 |
James J. Collins |
PHYS |
Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation: An Analysis of the Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Foundations of Walking - "Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation: Population Variability of Electromyographic Gait Patterns" |
|
1985 |
Mark T. Maybury |
MATH |
M.A.R.K.:Machine Acquisition and Representation of Knowledge- "Artificial Intelligence: Generalized Expert Systems" |
|
1985 |
Mark D. Nevins |
ENGL |
Beowulf for Modern Man: Orality and Literacy And the Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poem |
|
1984 |
Gael E. Reilly |
ENGL |
My Present Past: A Dramatic Monologue Based on the Life and Works of George Eliot |
|
1983 |
George A. Paletta, Jr. |
CHEM |
Modified Nucleosides as Anticancer Agents - "The Synthesis of 2-Bromo-9-(3',5'-di-p-toluoyl-2'deoxy-β-D-ribofuranosyl) hypoxanthine; An Important Intermediate for Conversion to Modified 2’-deoxyguanosines with The Potential for Anticancer and/or Antiviral Activity” |
|
1982 |
Gary J. Gala |
ENGL |
An Experiment in Translating Ideas into Fiction: Valley at Dusk |
|
1981 |
Raymond J. Heisler |
CLAS |
The Convergence of Christianity with Pagan Philosophical Thought in the 2nd Century A.D. - "Christians Meet Non-Christians: The Contributions of Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria to the Dialogue" |
|
1980 |
Daniel DeFerie |
CHEM |
Shape Change in Human Erythrocytes |
|
1979 |
Paula M. Kane |
HIST |
American Revival Songs, 1820-1850: The Christian Lyre and Spiritual Songs For Social Worship |
|
1978 |
Barbara Tylenda |
PSYC |
Discovering Jung and Remembering Things Past - "Earliest Childhood Memory: An Integration With Jungian Theory" Approved by: Charles M. Locurto, Ph.D., Gene Qualls, M.D., John P. Reboli, S.J., Ph.D., Wayne G. Rollins, Ph.D., Leonard C. Sulski, Ph.D. |
|
1977 |
Joyce A. O'Shaughnessy |
BIOL |
Leukemia: The Wayward Cell of Unknown Origin - "Surface Membrane Activity and Microfilament Function in Murine and Human Leukemia Cells" |
|
1976 |
Joseph Germino |
CHEM |
Investigation into the Sex Pheromones of Two Species of Flies: Sarcophaga Bullata and Musca Domestica |
|
1976 |
Joyce Walczak |
ENGL |
The Radiating Technique of Dickens: An Analysis of His Thematic Measure |
|
1975 |
Robert M. Hayden |
PSYC |
Relationship Between Religiosity and Various Forms of Altruistic Behavior |
|
1975 |
Elizabeth Peiffer |
ECON/PSYC |
Levels of Self-Actualization Among Married Working Women Compared Across the Sex-typing of Occupations |
|
1974 |
Richard A. Johnson |
CHEM |
Oxygen Content and Consumption in Tumor Cells - "Oxygen Consumption By Acrylamide Polymerization For Rapid Screening of Chemotherapeutic Agents" |
|
1974 |
Henry P. Miranda |
MATH |
Paradoxes and their Relation to the Foundations Of Set Theories - Three Papers in Mathematical Logic: "An Algebraic Proof Of Set Theories "An Algebraic Proof of the Completeness of Sentential Logic," "Godel's Proof of the Incompleteness of Axiomatic Number Theory," "The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis" |
|
1973 |
James Boulos |
SOCL |
The Sociology of Social Theory |
|
1973 |
John Cutting |
CHEM |
Research on Aromatic and Anti-Aromatic Compounds - "Toward a Triafulvalene, Via Iron Carbonyl Complexes of Cyclopropenes" |
|
1973 |
Brian Hattery |
ENGL |
Love-Friendship Words in Early Greek Literature - "A Study of the Connotations and Meanings of the Greek Word (philos) And Its Cognates in the Works of Homer, Hesiod, and Selected Lyric Poets" |
|
1973 |
Michael McCarthy |
ENGL |
Imagism and its Influence on Poetry - "Imagism and the Free Verse Movement" |
|
1973 |
Gregory Walsh |
HIST/PHIL |
Biophysical Research - "Polyvinyl Chloride Electrets" |
|
1972 |
Thomas Higgins |
HIST |
The Haymarket Riot: A Study in American Radical Thought |
|
1972 |
Robert McCabe |
CHEM |
"The Relative Viscosities of Urea and Urea Derivatives in Water and Methyl Alcohol" |
|
1972 |
Edward Vodoklys |
CLAS |
Sophocles in the Age of Goethe: An Analysis of Sophoclean Influence in the Klassik-Romantik Era |
|
1972 |
Theodore Wells, Jr. |
ECON |
A Primer: The Potential Effects of Cable Television Upon Boston's Public Services |
|
1972 |
William Wolfram |
ECON |
A Quantitative Examination of Student Impact Upon the Demand for Rental Housing in the Worcester Area |
|
1971 |
John Balser |
SOCL/MATH |
|
|
1971 |
Frank Capobianco |
MATH |
Two Results of the Fenwick Scholar Project |
|
1971 |
Bruce Clouette |
HIST |
|
|
1971 |
Thomas Myers |
POLS |
The Political Theory of the Black Panther Party: A Study in Marxism-Leninism |
|
1970 |
James Daly |
CLAS |
Mysticism and Judeo-Hellinism in Philo - "The Correlation of Philo and the Alexandrian Jewish Community with Contemporary Pagan Mystery Religions" Mentor: R. Healey, S.J. |
|
1970 |
John Day |
ENGL |
Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort as Renaissance Dialogue Response |
|
1970 |
John DeCiccio |
MATH |
Basic Markov Chain Theory |
|
1970 |
James Dorey |
HIST |
19th Century English Humanitarian Reform Movement - "The Attitude of William Wilberforce and the Evangelicals Toward the Reform of Working-Class Conditions in Early Nineteenth-Century England" |
|
1970 |
John Hughes |
HIST |
Utopian and Marxist Elements in Southern Populist Thought |
|
1970 |
Kevin Leary |
MATH |
Closed Schemes with Nil Potent Elements |
|
1970 |
Thomas Moisan |
ENGL |
Novels of Henry James |
|
1970 |
John Muench |
POLS |
British Cabinet in Policy Making Process in the 19th Century |
|
1970 |
Joseph O'Mealy |
ENGL |
Film and Film Criticism |
|
1970 |
Robert Stokes |
MATH |
Numerical Analysis - "Why Use Trigonometric Series?" |
|
1970 |
John Wilson |
PSYC |
Manifest Anxiety in the College Student |
|
1969 |
John Baldovin |
CLAS |
Ministry and Polity of the Primitive Church |
|
1969 |
Richard Carriuolo |
HIST |
American Society in the 1920's |
|
1969 |
Robert Devaney |
MATH |
Lens Space as Coset Spaces |
|
1969 |
Dennis Egan |
PSYC |
Psychology of Stuttering |
|
1969 |
Timothy Goodsell |
POLS |
Reform in Worcester: The Adoption of Plan E Government, 1949 |
|
1969 |
Christopher Kenny |
ENGL |
Novel |
|
1969 |
Patrick O'Connell, Jr. |
ENGL |
George Herbert |
|
1969 |
Edward Sessa |
ENGL |
Coherence and Collapse in Shelly's Poetry |
|
1969 |
John Tutino |
HIST |
Mid 19th Century Mexican Reform |
|
1969 |
Dennis White |
ENGL |
John Barth's Giles Goat Boy: The Novel as Layer Cake |
|
1968 |
Richard Bonneau |
MATH |
Proposed a research project in abstract algebra |
|
1968 |
Terence Kearns |
ENGL |
Proposed a comparative study of the ballad form of poetry in England and Germany during the Romantic Period |
|
1968 |
Paul McNamee |
CHEM/MATH |
Proposed a specialized program in chemistry and math along with a research project in photochemistry |
|
1968 |
Daniel Monagle |
ENGL |
Proposed research on the influence of Fyodor Dostoevski on British novelist Joseph Conrad |
|
1967 |
Richard Pederson |
ENGL |
Research on Tristram Shandy |