Spring 2020 Honors Thesis Schedule

Spring 2020 Honors Thesis Presentations

Please join us to hear our senior honor students present their research.
3:00-5:00PM
Dates and locations listed below
Light refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, March 25th
in Degnan Conference Room

Devin Varela
Advisor: Prof. Raymond Butkus
Title: The Impact of Stress on Leader Behavior

Alexander Slawinski
Advisor: Dr. Devin Rafferty
Title: Private Equity: Leveraged Buyouts, Robotics and Drones Industry and the Economical and Societal Implications on Our Planet

Jonathan Rodriguez
Advisor: Devin Rafferty
Title: Nicaragua’s Humanitarian Crisis: President Daniel Ortega’s Policies Impact the Economy and Tourism Industry

Thursday, March 26th
Thesis defenses will begin at 3:30pm today only in McIntyre Conference Room A

Alexandra Antonucci
Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Walker
Title: Factors Contributing to the Habits of the Adult Voter

Alexis Morales
Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Walker
Title: Parasocial Relationships: A Look into How We Know So Much about People We’ve Never Met

Mario Viera
Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Walker
Title: Gender Representation in Comic Books

Monday, March 30th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Alicia Baez
Advisor: Prof. Chanaz Gargouri
Title: The Rise of Social Enterprises: Why Are They Important to the Well-being of Our Community

Ruby Hernandez
Advisor: Dr. Mary McDonough
Title: Anime and Its Popularity

Andrea Lopez
Advisor: Dr. Marilu Marcillo
Title: Global Urbanization: A Corporate Social Responsibility Approach

Stanley Garrant
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Gilkey
Title: The Modernization of Golf

Tuesday, March 31st
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Nicole Font
Advisor: Dr. Lisa O’Neill Sanders
Title: An Analysis of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Tempest through the Triad of Experience Observation, and Imagination

Dominick Mastrodonato
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Rivera-Colon
Title: Theatrical Revolutions in U.S. Urban Spaces

Marina DeSantis
Advisor: Dr. Rachel Wifall
Title: Milton and the Angels of Paradise Lost

Sara Gonzalez
Advisor: Dr. Scott Stoddart
Title: The Purple Thread of Doom: Aestheticism and Dysfunction in the Works of Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, April 1st
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Kevin Rojas
Advisor: Dr. Jon Boshart
Title: The Artistic Self-Image of Artemisia Gentileschi

Kimberly Jaramillo
Advisor: Prof. Beatrice Mady
Title: The Evolution of Branding

David Simon
Advisor: Dr. Mark DeStephano
Title: Takayama Ukon: How “Christ’s Samurai” Embodies Japanese Christianity

Thursday, April 2nd
in Degnan Conference Room

Jerry Guallpa
Advisor: Dr. Kari Larsen
Title: Lethal Injection Executions: How Are States Responding to the Current Drug Shortage

Leanna Hernandez
Advisor: Dr. Beth Adubato
Title: Portrayals of Latina Women in Media and Their Impact on Latina Youth

Anthony Rodrigues
Advisor: Hon. Kevin Callahan
Title: The Effects of a Major Religion on a State’s Legal System

Monday, April 6th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Danielle Lopez
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Romano
Title: The Mystery of Multiple Sclerosis: Searching of a Cause to Find a Cure

Alison Makinen
Advisor: Dr. Christina Mortellaro
Title: Investigating the Use of Technology in the Occupational Therapy Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children

Hak Ja De Sousa
Advisor: Dr. Maryellen Hamilton
Title: Examination of Performance in Rote memory Testing Versus Skill-based Testing in Low-stakes Environments for Predisposed Test-anxious and Non-predisposed Test-anxious students

Tuesday, April 7th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Kyle Labrincha
Advisor: Dr. Anna Brown
Title: Trump: How We Got Here, and What Lies Ahead

Josh Norris
Advisor: Dr. Monise Valente da Silva
Title: What Does It Take to Democratize? Prospects of Democracy Consolidation in Ecuador, Malaysia, and Morocco

Patrick Cucurullo
Advisor: Dr. Alain Sanders
Title: In Defense of Deference: The Kisor Decision and Its Role in Defining the American Administrative State

Wednesday, April 8th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Daniel Gotshall
Advisor: Dr. Dawn Nelson
Title: Patterns in Variations of the Fibonacci Sequence

Elda Castellon
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Conley
Title: An Investigation of Type I Error for Hypothesis Testing

Azuri Hughes
Advisor: Dr. Leonard Sciorra
Title: The Impact of BCAAs on Hepatic Insulin Signaling and Mitochondrial Function

Tuesday, April 14th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Nicole Caetano
Advisor: Dr. Jeanette Wilmanski
Title: The Incidence of Alcohol and Cannabis Impaired Vehicular Fatalities in the State of NJ

Elizabeth Demers
Advisor: Dr. Christian Traba
Title: Treatments of PET Films

Khawlah Nazzal
Advisor: Dr. Christina Mortellaro
Title: Effects of Aspartame and Saccharin on the Gut Microbiome

Wednesday, April 15th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Wonja Kim
Advisor: Dr. Laura Twersky
Title: Effects of Green Tea and Triphala Extract, Individually and in Combination, on Weight Loss in Danio rerio (Zebrafish)

Bhavtik Patel
Advisor: Dr. Laura Twersky
Title: The Potential Use of Selected Organiz Natural Products, Individually and in Combination, as Antifungal and/or Antibacterial Agents

Chiara Mercado
Advisor: Dr. Brandy Garrett-Kluthe
Title: A Comparative Study of the Fungicidal and Growth-inhibitory Effects of Homeopathic Alternative vs. Allopathic Ketoconazole 

Thursday, April 16th
in McIntyre Conference Room A

Hunter Criollo
Advisor: Dr. John Ruppert
Title: Epistemic Cognition and Moral Engagement: Applying the v-Air Model to the Ethical Conclusions of Vaccinations

Oswaldo Lobo
Advisor: Dr. John Ruppert
Title: Refining a Quantitative Assessment of Socio-Scientific Reasoning Using the vAIR Model

Ambika Ram
Advisor: Dr. John Ruppert
Title: Usefulness of Science in Everyday Life