2018 Early Afternoon Presentation Session

Seelye 102

Sally Jankovic GS’18 and Angelica Estrada GS’18
Non-Fibonacci Phyllotaxis: Quasi-Symmetry; presentation deriving from classwork with Christopher Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics

Oumayma Koulouh ’19
A Geometric Proof of the Appearance of the Fibonnaci Sequence in Phyllotaxis; presentation deriving from special studies with Christopher Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics

Natalie LaBossier ’19
Minority Stress and Mental Health in Transgender Individuals; presentation deriving from special studies with Miles Ott, assistant professor of statistical and data sciences

Angelica Estrada GS’18 and Taré Suriel ’18
Suicide Ideation and Pain Reliever Use; presentation deriving from classwork with Benjamin Capistrant, lecturer in statistical and data sciences


Seelye 105

Ashley Rohall ’18 and Faith Flowers ’20J
Anxiety Sensitivity in Hoarding Disorder and OCD; presentation deriving from classwork with Randy Frost, H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology

Julianna Calabrese ’18 and Emma Ning ’19
An Examination of Family Warmth and Perfectionism in Hoarding Disorder; presentation deriving from classwork with Randy Frost, H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology

Ivana William ’18 and Asher Johnson ’18
Correlations Between Multiple Aspects of Hoarding Disorder and Trauma; presentation deriving from classwork with Randy Frost, H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology

Sonja Imhoof ’18 and Sarah Pieper ’18
Giving Attention to ADHD and Its Relationship to Hoarding Disorder; presentation deriving from classwork with Randy Frost, H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology


Seelye 107

Parisa Haiqa Mohamed ’18
Effect of Crises on South Asian Economies; presentation deriving from classwork with Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of Jill Ker Conway Innovation Center

Vedica Bhasin ’18
Attempting to Understand Information, Ideology, and ’Othering’ After the 1947 Partition; presentation deriving from classwork with Andy Rotman, professor of religion and Nalini Bhushan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Philosophy

Lily Prendergast ’18
The Story of An Anthropological Exercise in Studying Attitudes and Usages of Contraceptives in Pune City, India; presentation deriving from internship with Nalini Bhushan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Philosophy

Tasbiha Chowdhury ’19 
Assessing Barriers to Scalability Associated with Arsenic Mitigation Projects in Bangladesh: A Closer Look at the Discourse of International Development (with a focus in technology); presentation deriving from AEMES McKinley Fellowship with Denise McKahn, associate professor of engineering


Seelye 109

Alina Wang ’19J
Forming The Body and World: An Enactivist Account of Psychiatry and Placebo Effects; presentation deriving from thesis with Jay Garfield, Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy and Director of Logic

Gael Bemis ’20
Death, Dying, and Neglected Gardens: Exploring the Ethical Consequences of Immortality; presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy

Lillian Campbell ’20, Ronnie Schwaller ’20, Jordan Moody ’20, Talia Natoli ’20 and Elizabeth Davidson Blythe ’19
Staging Being and Time; presentation deriving from special studies with Susan Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy


Seelye 110

Hunter Myers ’18, Hannah Kass ’18 and Teddy Schneider ’18
Honors Theses in Jewish Studies (American Jewish Anti-Zionism; Searching for the Jew in Comic Book Superheroes; Rikudah Potash’s In the Alleys of Jerusalem: Yiddish Stories); presentation deriving from thesis with Justin Cammy, associate professor of Jewish Studies and comparative literature and director of Jewish Studies

Leigh Johnston ’18 and Rebecca York ’18
The Transnational Adoptee Oral History Project; presentation deriving from special studies with Kelly Anderson, lecturer in study of women and gender


Seelye 202

Suroor Seher Gandhi ’18
Interference Patterns of Expanding Bose-Einstein Condensate Shells; presentation deriving from thesis with Courtney Lannert, associate professor and chair of physics

Enas Jahangir ’18
Of Daughters and Disbelievers: Re-imagining Religiosity Through Art; exhibition deriving from special studies with Suleiman Mourad, professor of religion

Siyu Lily Qian ’19J
Data Visualizations of the Design Thinking Initiative; presentation deriving from work study with Zaza Kabayadondo, Design Thinking Initiative co-director

Gelonnie Smith ’18, Raegan Thomas ’19 and Ryan Kim ’18
Black in the Americas; presentation deriving from classwork with Diana Burnett, McPherson and Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow of Africana Studies


Seelye 206

This session of presentations derived from Kahn Institute Fellowship with Alexandra Keller, professor and director of film and media studies, Cornelia Pearsall, professor of English language and literature, Andrew Guswa, professor and director of engineering,  Mlada Bukovansky, professor of government and Ann Leone, professor of French studies and director of landscape studies

Molly Hurd ’18
Social Factors in the Collapse of the Greenland Colonies

Emma Harnisch ’18
Extractive Resources: Human Stories Hidden in Stones


Seelye 208

This session of presentations derived from capstone projects for the Book Studies Concentration with Nancy Bradbury, professor of English language and literature, Barry Moser, Irwin & Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art and Karen Kukil, associate curator of special collections

Nancy Kitchener ’18
Blackletter: Power and Grace

Céline Ganiere ’18
Sarah Orne Jewett: Life and Work

Marty Bongfeldt ’19J AC
Writing a Children’s Book