At the end of each academic year, each department chooses one graduating student as its representative in a senior forum. The students deliver presentations based on their Senior Program theses. To listen to audio recordings of the presentations delivered on May 15, 2008, click on the students' photos below.
Note: We suggest that you set the equalizer on your audio player to "voice" or "speech"; otherwise, the recording will sound tinny.
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PHYSICS Becky Giannattassio — “The Need for Creativity in the Physics Lab" (8:28) Adviser: Dr. Otto Raths |
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SPANISH Camille Karimzad — “Memories in Argentine Film: The Representation of the Dirty War in 'Official Story' and 'Kamchatka' ” (6:33) Adviser: Dr. Margarita Sanchez |
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BUSINESS Elena Marchenko — “The Jobsien Way: Ingredients of a Brilliant Marketing Mix” (5:21) Adviser: Dr. Frank DeSimone |
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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Kathryn Wentzel — “A Comparison of French and U.S. Subsidized Housing: History, Programs and Problems" (8:53) Adviser: Dr. Steve Snow |
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BIOLOGY Christina Lamb — “Teratogenic effects on eye development resulting from lithium chloride exposure during early embryogenesis in zebrafish (Danio rerio)" (12:59) Adviser: Dr. Ammini Moorthy |
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HISTORY Sherrill Menyhert — "Defending Atrocities: Ensuring Justice for War Crimes" (7:38) Adviser: Dr. Lori Weintrob |
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CHEMISTRY Meaghan Robbins — “Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) analysis on Sunset Park Escherichia coli isolates" (10:51) Advisers: Drs. G. Kleinheinz and T. Sandrin |
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SOCIOLOGY Shayne Laslow — "The Effectiveness of Diversity Workshops" (12:57) Adviser: Dr. Chien Liu |
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ART Megan Czaja — "An Artist's Portfolio" (10:58) Advisers: Prof. Bill Murphy & Dr. Laura Morowitz |
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FRENCH Heather Sohara — “Post-Colonialism and Autobiography in Ken Bugul's 'The Abandoned Baobob' " (6:18) Adviser: Dr. Natalie Edwards |
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ECONOMICS Matt Alvo — “The Dethroning of a Welfare Queen: Did the 1996 Welfare Reforms Turn Welfare Mothers into the Working Poor?" (9:46) Adviser: Dr. Mary Rose Leacy |
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PHILOSOPHY Richard Hvizdak — "The Extremism of Singer's Animal Liberation" (8:12) To read an abstract of Mr. Hvizdak's presentation, CLICK HERE Adviser: Dr. Sarah Donovan |
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MICROBIOLOGY Lauren Maltese — “Pathogenesis of a Pseudomonas aueruginosa infection of the cardio-thoracic region of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)" (9:26) Adviser: Dr. Kathy Bobbitt |
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MARKETING Diane Gantenhammer — “Is Humor Effective in Advertising?" (10:20) Adviser: Dr. John Moran |
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PSYCHOLOGY Sara Ferguson — “Freedom from Fear" (9:02) Adviser: Dr. Richard Brower |
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ENGLISH Katherine Smith — “The Silence of Women: Patriarchy in Orhan Pamuk's 'Snow' " (12:07) Advisers: Drs. S. Bernardo & A. Hurley |
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PHYSICS Joseph LaPreta — “Evaporative Cooling" (7:45) Adviser: Dr. Otto Raths |
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EDUCATION Danielle Arena — “Encountering the World Through Fiction" (14:12) Adviser: Dr. Katia Gonzalez-Acquaro |