An Honors College education allows students to explore local and global issues, solve problems through research, think creatively, connect with faculty experts and other passionate students, invest energy and thought in an issue, and make important contributions in the world. All honors students spread their wings in substantial, independent senior projects, which include senior theses, service-learning, and teaching opportunities. Many students present their senior projects at the annual undergraduate statewide research conference or to committees of faculty mentors.
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Honors Theses from 2017
Racial Roots of Romanticism: American and European Africanism Are The Creation of Bio-Politics, James Flynn
LGBT Student Experiences in Boston Public Schools: A Case Study, David Geyer
Wage Penalties in Major League Baseball, Thomas Kraemer
Women in Leadership: A Comparative Case Study on Successful Leadership, Christine Newcomb
The Effects of Gentrification: Inhabitants, Education, and Displacement, Marilyn Pineda
How Racial Microaggressions Impact the Mental Health of Black Women of Different Occupational Prestige, Esthanette Reid
Improving Patient Outcomes: Early Mobilization of Intensive Care Patients, Casey Teves
Honors Theses from 2016
RNA Seq Analysis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Induced by Metabolic Syndrome in a Mouse Model, Diego Almanza
Break the Internet: Gendered Image Manipulation and Political Subject Formation, Sarah Bolden
Still Waiting: An analysis of the permeation of racial stereotypes in top-grossing Black Romance films from the 1960s to the 2000s, Jasmine Boyd-Perry
Bolling v. Sharpe and Beyond: The Unfinished and Untold History of School Desegregation in Washington, D.C., Bryce Celotto
Gender in STEM: An Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Feminist Ethnography, Michelle Chouinard
Political Action in Public Education, Brian Edmonds
The Benefits of Shifting from a Punitive Justice System to One that is Mental Health Aware, Sarah Flatin
Interdependent mechanisms for processing gender and emotion: The special status of angry male faces, Daniel Harris and Vivian Ciaramitaro
Campaign Finance Reform in the United States in the Wake of Citizens United vs. FEC 2010, Kayla Junkins
Becoming Baby Friendly: Rooming-in for Patient Centered Care in the Maternal Setting, Liana MacDonald
The Tobacco Free College Campus: An Assessment of Policy Implementation and Enforcement at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Annie McDougall
Event-Based Biotechnology Stock Price Movement: Valuing Success and Failure in Biotechnology Product Development, Faris Sumadi
Honors Theses from 2015
Role of the Orphan CRISPR 2 in Enterococcus faecalis, Andriy Barchuk
Sternal Precautions: Is it Necessary to Restrict Our Patients?, Lauren Belyea
The role of valproic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, in reducing anxiety levels in rats: an epigenetics study, Juliet Buteme
Towards a Healthy Neighborhood: Recommendations for Health Assessments of Future Development in Upham’s Corner, Luc Figueiredo Miller
The Triumph of Men: Reassessing Gender in Fragonard’s Progress of Love, James McCabe
Multilingual and Multicultural Identity Exploration, Tyler McCloud
Recyclable Organocatalysis of One-pot Michael/Mannich/Lactamization Sequence for Asymmetric Synthesis of Fluorinated Poly-substituted 2-Piperidinones, Anthony P. Tran
Honors Theses from 2014
Creative Economies: Using Arts To Revitalize Post-industrial Cities and Towns in Massachusetts, Anna Price
Information Thieves: Using Industrial Espionage to Examine the Development of the Information Economy, David Schaffner
Honors Theses from 2013
A New Approach to an Old Problem: Defining Nursing’s Role in Successful Transitions to Long-Term Residential Care, Kyleen Aldrich
Diagnostic Interaction: First-Person Patient Narratives on Hacking's Looping Effects and the Normative Status of Psychiatric Nosology, Corinne Jager
The Relationship Between Subjectively Motivational Music and Various Exercise Variables While Running At Maximal Speed, Michael Maloney
Honors Theses from 2012
Arguments for a Living Wage in the United States: Prospects for Persuasion and Expansion, Corinne Bazzinotti
Sustainability of MFIs through Governance Mechanisms: A cross-Country Analysis of Regulation on Outreach and Operational Self Sufficiency, Daniel Muwamba