Senior Research, Real-World Impact
Read more about how Hughes designed efficient delivery routes for Food Bank of CNY. ➜
A dramatic short film, featuring Leonardo Velez ’28, Mina Morcelo ’28, and Benjamin White ’26 by Mekhia Foster a cinema and media studies major from Riverview, Fla.
Read more about how Mekhia’s documentary In Her Care was accepted to FirstGlance film festival. ➜
Read about Lily’s curatorial exhibition internship at the Smithsonian. ➜
Read about Frank’s selection to the 2026 NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team. ➜
Africana Studies
, A Story of Security, Sovereignty, and Continuities: Rwanda and DRC in Historical Perspective
Anthropology
, “We Need A Café”: “Café People,” Caffeine Addicts, and the Balancing Act of Leisure, Labor, and Social Life at Cafés in the United States and Taiwan
, Supportive Dialogue in Female Friendships
, From Writer to Editor and Back Again: The Reproduction of Journalism within The Spectator
, Whose Good Writing?: Cultural Capital and Institutional Expectations at Hamilton’s Writing Center
, Mediating Difficult Conversations: Alignment, Stance, and Disclosure in Close-Relationship Talk
, “No One Is Sitting Around Talking About It”: Socially Filtering Common Core Education Policy
, Let’s talk about (anything but) Sex? Sneaking Out & Adolescent Sexuality at Summer Camp
Art
2026 Senior Art Thesis Show Website
FIRE ON THE HILL, on display May 7 through May 23, 2026, at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art.
Exhibiting seniors: Caroline Boies, Lee Casstevens, Margot Delany, Arí Dougal, Clara Fu, Ellana Glassner, Sofia Isabel Gonzalez Alvarado, Eval-Eniman Abasi-Ifreke Imoke, Maria Ioannou, Lan Yi, Carolyn Levin, Magalen Nichols, Gregory Parizhsky, Sofia Santana, Kat Showalter, Mina Stevens, Ella Lynn Strasser, Linh Tran, and Lindsey White.
The range of media is painting (oil, acrylic, charcoal drawing), photography (film, inkjet prints), video, digital art – 3d printing, printmaking, and sculpture (wood, concrete, paper pulp, ceramics, yarn, fabric).
Art History
, A Lasting Impression: The Colonial Legacy of Plaster Cast Reproductions
, Beyond the Façade: Adapting Modernism in Mexico City
, Red Carpet Medievalism
, Institutional Authority and Valuation: The Market as Canon-Maker in the Twenty-First Century
, From Palace to Premiere: Cartier and ‘Islamic’ Design
, Reprinting Bellocq: A New History of Lee Friedlander
, Not By Human Hands: The Printed Matrix and the Meta-Image of Pressure
, “It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean Michel”: Race, Canon, and Quotation in Music Video
, The Blatant Image: From Rootworks to Archive
, Pornography as Technology: Separating Art and Pornography in the Age of Social Media
, Seeing Music at Borobudur’s Grand Eastern Entrance
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
, Effect of Olivine Weathering on Methanogenesis in Saltmarsh Soils
, Phagosomal Accidification of Food Vacoules in Tetrahymena thermophila
with (biology), Microbiome-Mediated Mitigation of Lead Toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster
, (neuroscience), and (biology), Investigating the initiation of twin of buckeyeless expression during Drosophila development
, Investigating the Role of SMD13 in Zea mays Abnormal Chromosome Segregation
, The Selective Enrichment of Microbes Capable of Endogenous Extracellular Electron Shuttling in an Anaerobic Loop-Flow Reactor
Biology
, Seed Functional Trait Resilience to False Spring
and (biochemistry)Reconstructing Zea mays Ab10 Meiotic Drive System using LexO Tethering
, The effects of acute Coccidia infection on the spatial memory of the American crow
and , Effects of pH on Phenol Oxidase and Peroxidase Activities in Salt Marsh Soils
, , , and , Analyzing Polychaete Diversity in Coral Reef Cryptobiomes
, Using genetic analysis to trace the lineage of peony cultivars in the Grant Garden at Hamilton College
, with (neuroscience) and (biochemistry/molecular biology), Spatiotemporal Expression of Orthodenticle in Drosophila melanogaster
, Does size matter? The impacts of sperm size and male condition on media-dependent sperm performance in Green Frogs
, Understanding Microclimatic Effects on Tick Density
, Reflexive Artificial Intelligence Methods for Advancing Human Genetics Research
and , Macrophage response to household preservative methylisothiazolinone treatment in vitro
, Impact of false spring and canopy closure on Trillium grandiflorum and Erythronium americanum
and , Assessing Kinesin-Driven Acentric Plasmid Inheritance in Budding Yeast Utilizing Fluorescence Microscopy
and , Fibroblast and Mast Cell Crosstalk in Inflammatory Allergen-Driven Vulvar Pain
, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Seed Removal in Reforestation vs. Mature Forests
and , Campylobacter infection dynamics in captive American crows
, Sperm morphological diversity across 37 species of Ecuadorian amphibians
, Buckthorn invasion does not affect perceived predation risk in foraging rodents
, Using Tetrahymena thermophila as a model for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: Visualization and knockout of the pkd2 gene
, Exploring Microbial Metabolism in the Hanging Garden Biofilm of Fayetteville Green Lake
, Karst-mediated gene flow in Gammarus duebeni: hydrological connectivity across Irish turloughs
, Artificial seeds produce inconsistent patterns in seed removal rates from scatter-hoarding rodents
and , The effects of multiple parasites on the cognitive performance of American crows
, Investigating Oxygen Dynamics Across the Redoxcline of Green Lake
, Nucleotide Salvage Pathway in Tetrahymena thermophila
, Assessing neuroinflammation in a model of chronic vulvar pain
, The glycoengineering of antibodies and their potential as a therapeutic treatment for pancreatic cancer
, Characterization of Adenylate Cyclases in Ciliates: Phylogeny and Function Diversification
, Functional Characterization of NTP6 and NTP11 Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters in Tetrahymena thermophila
, Enrichment of Electroactive Bacteria Communities and their Dynamics in Fayetteville Green Lake
Chemistry
, Synthesis and Luminescence Studies of Eu3+, Gd3+, and Tb3+ Benzenetricarboxylate Complexes
, Metal-free coupling of indoles to pyridines
, Synthesis of Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles for the Removal of Arsenic from Groundwater
, Investigation of a uridine UVC sensitive actinometer for use in wastewater disinfection photochemistry
, Improving the Efficacy of Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Vinylation
, Total Synthesis of (+)-Leucolusine: Progress toward Efficient Reductive Cyclization
, Investigation of Aryl Ethers as Leaving Groups in Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Allylation Reactions
, Developing Fluorescent Cell-Penetrating Block Copolymers for Photodynamic Therapy
, Progress towards the synthesis of a lipid-linked biofilm polysaccharide precursor
Chinese
, Natural Disaster Mitigation in Taiwan
, Competing Narratives: China's Boarding Schools in Tibet
, The Effect of Social Media Content on American Opinions of China
, Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry and Its Impact on the Economy and Politics
, Navigating Bicultural Identity: Psychological and Social Experiences of Chinese American College Students
, The History, Spread, and Cultural Significance of Mahjong
Cinema and Media Studies
Honors Projects
, Hit Me Harder! (dramatic short film, featuring Leonardo Velez ’28, Mina Morcelo ’28, and Benjamin White ’26)
, Goalposts: A portrait of Bruce Thomas (feature documentary)
, Visual Advertising and Marketing in the WNBA, from 1995 to 2026 (video essay and essay)
Classics
, Daughters of Eve to Mirrors of Mary: Exempla in Byzantine Christian Literature
, The Hidden Monster: Odysseus, Heracles, and Achilles as Ostensible Heroes in Ancient Greek Myth
, A Little Party Never Killed Nobody: Performances of Masculinity in Petronius Arbiter’s Satyricon and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
, The Failed Odysseus: Reading Pai Hsien-yung’s Taipei People (1971) through ‘odyssean tropes’
, A Psychoanalytic Reading of Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice
, You Are What You Eat: A Survey of Lattara’s Shifting Culinary Practice from 500 BCE to 200 CE
Computer Science
, , and , Preventing Wishcycling with the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority
and , An Updated and Maintainable Audio Library for CS 101
, , , and , Analytics for Hamilton's Softball Team
and , A System to Prevent Removing Watermarks from Digital Photographs
, , and , Streamlined Particle Tracking
Senior Seminar Presentations
, , and , AI-Driven Pre-Arrival Orientation
and , A System for Maintaining Question Banks and Generating Exams
and, Brain Image Analysis
and , Football Play-by-Play Data Analysis Pipeline
, , and , A Symposium Scheduler for the Oral Communication Center
, , and , Jazz Oral History Topic Exploration
, , and , Software for Softball: A Robust App for In-Game Data and Statistics
Creative Writing
, poetry, Inside and Out
, poetry, I Reconcile Now
, novel, Cassanovia College
, novel, The Seed of the Poppy
, novel, Reaper
, novel, Infinite Tomorrows
, novella, Life After
Dance
, A Celebration of Dance
Economics
Honors Presentations
, The Neocolonial Channel: Monetary Policy Spillovers and Cross-Border Lending to Former African Colonies
, The Elasticity of Healthcare Employment
, Invisible Exposure, Uncertain Effects: Water Fluoridation and Neurodevelopment in the United States
, The Impact of Immigration on Native Income in Immigrant-Dense Industries
, The Lasting Effects of US Temporary Trade Barriers
, Higher Education, Lower Traditionalism? College and Gender Role Attitudes in the NLSY79
, The Contract Year Phenomenon: Evidence From the NHL
, Economic Storytelling: How News Narratives and Education Shape Consumer Confidence
, Merger Policy and Innovation
Economics, cont’d.
, Less Birth, Better Worth, Greater China? The Effect of the One-Child Policy on Daughters’ Educational Attainment in China
, Persistence of Institutions on Politics: Evidence from British Colonial India
, Beliefs Under Trade Policy: Tariff Announcements and Inflation Expectations
, Discrimination Against Transgender Patients in Primary Care: Evidence from an Audit Study and Survey Experiment
, Religiosity & Agricultural Innovation in 19th-Century France
, Energy Transition in the Developing World: Examining the Relationship Between Renewable Energy Usage and GDP Growth in Developing Economies
, The Impact of Housing Assistance on Individual Health Outcomes
, How Renewable Growth Shapes Energy Storage Economics: Evidence from ERCOT’s Wind and Solar Expansion
, Is Less More? Investigating the Impact of Maximizing Decision-Making Tendencies on Satisfaction
, Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Rural Hospital Emergency Departments
, Examining the Effects of Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances on Rental Prices Across U.S. Cities
, Medicaid Dental Deserts and Health Outcomes
, Access and Autonomy: Evaluating the Effects of Full Practice Authority Laws for Nurse Practitioners on Health Outcomes
, The Price of Hostility: How Native Attitudes Shape Immigrant Wellbeing
, Consolidation in the Ski Industry and Local Economic Outcomes
, Economic Effects of Broadband Internet at the County Level
, The Impact of Instructional Modes During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Standardized Test Scores
, Geography as Risk: The Impact of Local Characteristics on Mortgage Lending Outcomes
, Stay-at-Home Order Severity and Remote-Work Persistence: State-Level Evidence After COVID-19
, The Relative Inefficiency of Supply vs. Demand Side Rental Assistance Subsidies
, The Effect of Political Influence on FED Monetary Policy
, Impact of Statewide Bag Bans on Household Food Purchases
, Paying More for Better Care? Testing the Price-Quality Heuristic in U.S. Health Insurance
, A Roadblock on the Path to the American Dream: The Relationship Between Housing Market Conditions and Housing Attainability for Young Americans
, Do FOMC Transcripts Reveal More Dissent Than Votes? Using NLP to Measure Regional Influence on Monetary Policy Deliberation
, Exploring Private Equity's Impact on Nursing Home Quality
, Asserting Leadership: The Impact of Cultural Differences on the Bamboo Ceiling
Environmental Studies
Capstone Presentations
, How The History Of The New York State Electric Grid Shaped NYISO’s Current Sustainability Challenges
, Credits, Constraints, and the CLCPA: Evaluating Renewable Energy Deployment in NYISO
, Watershed Land-Use Change and Water Quality in Wakulla Springs: A Scenario-Based Evaluation of Conservation Policy
, Displacing Natural Gas: The Role of Battery Storage in CAISO’s Evening Ramp, 2019–2040
, Florida Mollusk Aquaculture Vulnerability Assessment
, Sea Level Rise and Housing Insecurity in Portland, Maine
, Water Vulnerability in a Changing Climate: A Comparative Case Study of Drought Projections Across the Western United States
, Plastic to the Sea: Modeling Plastic Transport and Breakdown Pathways in New York State
, Climate Communication: Messaging Strategies and Public Understanding of Flood Risk in Upstate New York
, The Concerns About Water Privatization and Successful Factors in Anti-Privatization Resistance Campaigns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
, Milking the Trend: How Small Scale Dairy Farms in Upstate NY Adapt to Increased Demand for ‘High-Protein’ Dairy Products
, Student Perceptions of the Walkways on the Hamilton College Campus
, Carbon, Community, and the Construction of Impact: How Emphasis on Carbon Metrics Shapes Sustainability Reporting in Renewables
Thesis Presentations
, Mother’s Labor of Love: How Trad-Wives are Transforming the Way We Eat
, Variation of Soil Carbon Levels Among Temperate Forest Plots in Clinton, New York
, Political Torment: A Theory of Why Injustice Persists when Policy Exists
, More Than a Fad: Why Community Fridges Should Be Included in Food Environment Maps
, “Scams,” “Talking Points,” and “Marketing Schemes”: Project Framing and Resistance to Utility- Scale Solar Development in Rural New York
, Giving Sugar Maples the Cold Shoulder: How Shoulder Season Conditions Impact Sugar Maple Growth in the Northeastern United States
Just Transition: An Analysis of Public Perceptions Toward Nuclear Energy Deployment in the Central New York Region
, Central New York Farmers’ Adaptive Strategies to Extreme Weather
Geosciences
, Paleoenvironmental and Climatic Reconstruction of the Middle Miocene Site of Buluk, Kenya
, From Headwaters to Human Impact: Hydrogeology, Land Use, and Conservation Policy in a Karst Spring and River System
, Predicting Streamflow using Multilinear Regression Modeling
, Improving SWAT+ Simulated Discharge of Oriskany Creek
, Evaluating Freshwater Gastropods as Paleotemperature Proxies in the Wakulla Spring System (Florida, U.S.A) Using Stable-Oxygen Isotopic Analysis
, Assessment of Water Quality in Central New York Through Principal Component Analysis
, Dateable microstructures: Investigating titanite's capacity to deform by dissolution-reprecipitation creep
, Divergence of Freshwater Molluscan Communities from Pre-Industrial Baselines in the Wakulla River (Florida, USA)
, Principal Component Analysis Program for Petrochronology Datasets
, A Tephrostratigraphic Analysis and Characterization of the Chemeron Formation, Baringo Basin, Kenya
German Studies
, Bureaucratic Language and Violence in Heimrad Bäcker’s nachschrift
“I am the Nora from Ibsen” Repetition and the Limits of Emancipation in Elfriede Jelinek’s Was geschah nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften
Government
Honors Presentations
, Food Insecurity and Street-Level Bureaucracy: How Quasi-Bureaucrats Interpret and Implement Food Policy on Long Island
, From Classroom to Clinic: Sex Education and Abortion Politics in the U.S.
, Water Personhood in the EU
, Virtue, Virtu, or Just the First President: Understanding the Veneration of George Washington Through Political Theory
, Coercive Policing and Local Accountability in Upstate New York
, How Does the Implementation of Body-Worn Cameras during Training Affect Police Officers’ Experiences on the Job?
, Checks and Balances Under Threat? The Extent to Which the Supreme Court Constrains Executive Power
, Beyond Work: Justice, Care, and Technology in the Case for Universal Basic Income
, Does Government Efficiency Matter? An Experimental Evaluation of Public Spending and Taxpayer Support
Hispanic Studies
Honors Presentations
, Hermanas y extranjeras: explorando la sexualidad y el maternaje a través de la poesía contemporánea española
, Al borde del delito: el amor lésbico y la sodomía en la España del siglo XVII
History
, Anticommunism and Religionization in the Inter-Coup Period in Turkey (1960-1980)
, The Maxim Gun: Industrialized Warfare and the British State at Home
, The Gap: Critical Historians in the Discourse of September 11, 2001
, The Vietnam War: Hubris & Humanity
, A Community on the Hill: Fostering Community at Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, 1897-1957
, A Fleeting Glimpse Understanding Freedmen Legal System and Daily Life in Petersburg, Virginia, from 1865 to 1866
, The Pipeline and Periphery: Covert International Intervention and the Making of the Afghan Mujahideen
, At the Heart of the Confederacy: Civil War Memory and Monuments in Richmond, Virginia
, In Search of Shangri-La: Tourism and its impacts in Nepal’s Annapurna Range
, Unraveling the Practical Impacts of Petro-Textiles on American Laundry Practices Through Oral History
, Legitimate Embeddedness and Its Absence: Norman Normandy and the Danelaw, c. 878–1000
, Picture Perfect: A General Overview of the Methodologies and Content within the Oneida Community’s Photographic Collection
, Irony and Independence: Jewish Confederate Identity and Influence in the Old South
Honors Theses
, Rebuilding Agadir: Modernism, Memory, Other-Archives, and the Politics of Urban Space
, Archival Warfare & Reading Repression: New York State Police's Encounter with the Republic of New Afrika in the Hudson Valley
, Broadcasting Utopia: Technologies of Nation-Building in the Pahlavi Regime
, Tocqueville and Beaumont on Race and Democracy: Rethinking the American Dilemma
, The Corrosion of Privilege: Finance, Language, and the Making of a Modern Prestige System
Interdisciplinary Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Studies
, Toward 90% Waste Diversion: Experimental Evidence for Improving Waste Sorting Behavior at Hamilton College
Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology
, “No One Is Sitting Around Talking About It”: Socially Filtering Common Core Education Policy
Interdisciplinary Studies in Music, Hispanic Studies, and Japanese
, Representations of Latin American Diversity
Japanese
Capstone Projects
Representations of Latin American Diversity
, Educational Inequality in Japan
, The Recovery Process of Communities Impacted by Gun Violence
, The Virtual World: A New Living Space for Youth
Addressing the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health in Japan
Strategies for Protecting Endangered Dialects
Can Japan’s Educational Inequality be Solved?
The Global Impact of Populism: A Hungarian Perspective
The Influence of the ‘Lost Generation’ on Contemporary Japanese Society
Literature
, Poetry as Subversion in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
, The Pleasure Experiment: Long-Distance Paradise in the “Letter of Prester John” and Sir John Mandeville’s Book of Marvels and Travels
, Beyond Seduction: Rape and Sexual Morality in the Novels of Laclos, Sade, and Lewis
, Performing Innocence in Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses and Diderot’s The Nun
, Voice as a Real Object: The Embodied Archive of Caribbean Women by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
, Canton and Cantonese in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
, What Have I Done?! I Could Do That Again: Shifting Representations and Meanings of “Post-Nut Clarity” in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
, Crime, Libertinage, and Class in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
Literature
Honors Presentations
, “A Good Story”: Pushing Back on Masculinity and Isolation in Demon Copperhead
, The Grammar of Damnation: Pronoun Shifts and Reflexivity in Doctor Faustus
, Reading the Saint: Transvestism, Translation, and the Assertion of Hermeneutic Authority in Old English Eugenia and Euphrosyne
, “You Are Not Permitted to Look Away”: The Clinical Ethics of Seeing in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules
, Alone Together: Contradiction, Memory, and Survival in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
Mathematics
, Modeling Microbiome Stability and Antibiotic Use
, Closer When Farther: Rethinking Distance with p-adic Numbers
, On the Stability of the Euler Characteristic Transform for a Perturbed Embedding
, Asymptotic Stability in Machine Learning
Music
, baritone, vocal music from Mozart to Gregory Spears
A Suggested Method and Criteria in Repertoire Selection for the Undergraduate Countertenor and vocal recital
Neuroscience
, Expression of Regional Identity Markers in CA1 of the Hippocampus in Postnatal Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
, How an Ancient Philosophy Serves Our Modern Minds: Stoicism at the Intersection of Emotion Regulation, SABS, & Heart Rate Variability
, The Dendritic Architecture of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
, Miro1 ablation causes dentate gyrus hypoplasia.
and , A DREADDful Investigation: Refining the Chemogenetic Surgical Approach
, The Intersection Between Autism Behaviors, Environmental Factors, and MRI Brain Measures
, Investigating Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychopathology and Prefrontal Cortical Correlates in an Adolescent Population
,, and , The Brain's First Glance: Neural Markers of Face and Object Processing
and, Estrogen Attenuates Enhanced Fear in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
, Hippocampal Area in Early Postnatal and Adult Miro1 Knockout Mice
, Estrogen-Mediated Sensitivity to Cocaine Does Not Occur in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
, Using a touchscreen operant chamber to assess associative learning in American Crows
, Effects of a Stoic Intervention on Fear of Negative Evaluation
, Estrogen Attenuates Fatigue in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
, Neurodevelopment Under Stress: Linking Adverse Childhood Experiences, Orbitofrontal Cortex Volume, and ADHD in Adolescents
, The Way Animals Move: Temporal Perception and Stimulus Motion
, Investigating the Relationship Between 3-MPST RNA Expression Levels and MDS-UPDRS Part III Total Motor Scores in Parkinson’s Disease
, Role of Miro1 in Cajal Retzius Cell Population and Expression of Reelin in Early Postnatal Development
and , Does Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Heighten Cocaine Sensitivity in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats?
, Visualizing CGRP in methylisothiazolinone-challenged skin using immunofluorescence
, EEG Source Localization Using a Deep-Learning Transformer Model
Philosophy
, How to Be a Snob: Why Aesthetic Snobbery Isn’t (Always) A Vice
, “I listen to you, and you listen to me”: Why We Need Contentious Discourse
, “Poetical Scientists”: Writing Science We Want to Read
, Markets vs. Media: How prediction markets are informationally superior
, “Just Use Chat”: AI and Intellectual Autonomy in Education
, Platonic Ontology and the Human Role in Morality of AI
, Justice Alternatives for Free Will Skeptics
, The Primacy of Art in the Platonic Ascent: The Reconciliation of Art and Beauty in the Disclosure of Truth
, Training the Soul: How Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Can Help Soldiers with Moral Blindness in the Chaos of War
, Psychology’s Suspicious Scientific Authority
, Diagnosing Anxiety: Evaluating Mental Suffering in a Complex World
, Eat Your He(Art) Out: Food as Aesthetic & Art
, Alignment Without Principles: An Ethical Particularist Approach to AI Alignment
, Disobedient Dialects: Resisting Legal and Epistemic Injustice with Forensic Linguistic Analysis
, Time of Death: Never? Speculations on the Nature of Death and Time
, Identifying The Gamer’s Dilemma: The Limits of Justifying Virtual Immorality
Physics
, Radioactive Sources for the BL3 Neutron Lifetime Experiment
, Tabletop Testing of Electron Spin Resonance Resonators
, A Toy Model for Neutrino Oscillations within the framework of PT Quantum Mechanics
, Verifying 3He Detector Functionality via Neutron Spectra and Pulse Analysis
, Analytical Characterization of a Novel Superconducting Circuit Design
, Identifying and Characterizing Transit in Unresolved Star Pair with Potentially Unexplained Intrinsic Variability
, Optical Packaging of Photonic Integrated Circuits for Cryogenic Operation
, On The Characterization of Near Horizon Spacetime Fluctuations
, On The Thermodynamics of Schwarzschild Black Holes For Near Horizon Observers
Psychology
, “Knowing vs Remembering:” How Judgments of Learning Interact with Induced Feelings of Stress for Neutral Stimuli
, Too Many Texts: How Relationships and Texting Styles Affect Our Decision to Respond
, From Stoic Attitudes to Resilience: Evaluating the Impact of STAR
, Gender Differences in the Interpretation of Organizational Support
, Spillover Effects of Helping Behavior in the Workplace
, Memory for Faces When Expressions Change
, Can Self-Compassion Reduce White People’s Defensiveness When Confronted With Their Racial Privilege?
, The Views We Take: The Impact of Stoic Philosophy on Emotion Regulation
, Climate Anxiety and Action Among Adolescents: The Role of Coping Strategies
, Does Self-Compassion Mitigate Responses to Social Rejection?
, Psilocybin Microdosing and Cognitive Training for Post-Concussion Working-Memory Recovery
, Friendship Transgressions and Conflict Resolution Strategies in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature
, The Psychophysiological Cost of Emotion Dysregulation: Sympathetic Responses to Social Stress
, Interrupting Motivated Forgetting: Can Retrieval Pathways Reduce Selective Omission in Children?
, “Not My Place:” Barriers to M 4:00 ale Allyship in the Workplace
, Faces as Memory Cues: Babyfacedness and Source Monitoring Accuracy
, The Relationship Between ADHD Symptomatology and Socioemotional Well-Being In Incoming College First-Years
, The Differential Role of Parental Vulnerable Narcissism in Child Mental Health Outcomes
, When More Is Less: The Effect of Social Abundance on Romantic and Friendship Initiation
, Black and Female in the Workplace: The Effects of Race-Gender Stereotypes on Perceptions of Receiving Help
, Understanding the Bamboo Ceiling: How Assertiveness and Ethnic Homophily Influence Leadership Outcomes
Public Policy
Honors Theses
, Exploring Policy Alternatives to Address Tribal Food Insecurity in the United States
, Improving Rural STEM Education Access
, Sexual Harassment and Reporting in Corporate America
, Black and White and in the Red: Addressing the Decline of Local Media in the U.S.
, The Critique of Innovation and Imitation through the Work of 13th-Century Islamic Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah
Russian Studies
, Metamodernism in Monetochka’s Political Aesthetics
Sociology
, Between Crisis and Belonging: Racialized Emotions and Identity Formation in the Haitian-American Second Generation
, Examining the Use of Whitewashing in an Elite Predominantly White College
, “Always Going to be Part of Me”: Navigating The Self After Cancer
, The Consent Gap: What College Students Say About Consent – And What They Actually Do
, Stratified Smiles: Socioeconomic Status and Inequality in Dental Care Experiences
, Fragmented Feeds, Fragmented Masculinity: How Social Media Shapes Boys’ Understanding of Manhood
, “Other People Have it Worse:” How Students with Chronic Pain Negotiate Their Identity While at College
, Resistance to Change: Depictions of Native Americans in Film Over Time
, “Special” Treatment: How Teachers, Peers, and the Broader K-12 School Environment Shape the Student Identity of Those with ADHD
, Institutional Senders, Carriers, and Recipients: A Cross-College Comparison of Organizational Identity Formation
, “I Want to Help, But…”: A Sociological Analysis of Volunteer Motivation, Process, and Outcomes at an Elite Institution
, Crossing Oceans and Identities: Migrants’ Belonging and Assimilation as Represented by Refugees from Myanmar in Utica
, Mexican-American Parent-Child Relationships with College-Educated Children in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley)
, The Role of Identity Abroad: The Experiences of American Students in South Korea
Theatre
, directing, Aegis, by Quinn Xavier Hernadez
, thesis and devising, Fourteen Women, Five Men, and Two Dogs
Devising also by Liviya Hoskinson ’28, Roman Padera ’28, Anna Duarte ’26, Collin Morales ’27, Ben White ’26, and Cate van den Beemt ’26
, writing, directing, The Axiom of Choice
, directing, Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe
, writing, directing, Bootleg Sells The Spectacular!
Women’s and Gender Studies
, The Survival of Black Women in a Liberal Arts College
, When We’re Green We Grow: Black Women’s Labor is Creating a Unique American Cuisine and Reparative World Building
World Politics
Honors Theses
, Beyond the Ground: A Comparative Assessment of Theories of Military Effectiveness in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
, Uneven Urbanization: A Comparative Analysis of Informal Settlements in Peru and Colombia
Posted July 15, 2026
Hamilton’s Class of 2026 has been celebrated, and now its grads are setting off to explore what’s next. They’re launching careers, starting grad school, and pursuing internships to further explore interests they discovered on the Hill. We asked a few recent graduates to tell us about who influenced them, memorable moments, and proudest accomplishments.
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