Each year, on the day before commencement, one student from each department is chosen to represent their colleagues in a senior thesis symposium. This year's symposium was held on Thursday, May 20. Nineteen presentatations were given, and video was recorded for each. To watch the videos -- and, in some cases, to see the slideshows that accompanied the presentations -- just click on the TV screens below.

MICHAEL GUTKIN (BIOLOGY)
"Cellular Events in Zebrafish Optic Tectal Brain Explants:
A Model to Study Neurotrauma and Neuroregeneration"

RACHEL DELP (BIOPSYCHOLOGY)
"The Risks of a Multiple Gestation Pregnancy
Resulting From Infertility Treatment"

SALVATORE VALENTI (MICROBIOLOGY)
"Isolation and Transmission Electron Microscopic Characterization of Bacteriophages
in Sewage Specific for Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Citrobacter freundii"

KATHRYN CHEPIGA (CHEMISTRY)
"Inhibition of Very Long Chain Acyl-CoA Synthetase 3 in U87
Malignant Glioma Cells: A Potential Cancer Treatment"

KENNETH LUCANTE (ECONOMICS)
"An Analysis of Regulatory Reform
in the Post-Recession Banking Industry"

SLOANE HERRICK (EDUCATION)
“Learning Together in an Inclusive Environment:
A Critical Reflection”

JESSICA TROIANO (GOVERNMENT & POLITICS)
“Canarsie, Staten Island and White Flight”

ALEXANDER BANZON (PHYSICS)
“Automated Time Interval Measurements for an Air Track”

ANNA LYSENKO (B.S., PSYCHOLOGY)
“Alzheimer’s Disease: A Glimpse into Research and
Treatment Options for a Detrimental Disease”

JILLIAN BERNARDINI (ANTHROPOLOGY)
“Healthy Food Access in New York City: Low-Income Families Living in
Food Deserts, and the Role of Alternative Food Networks”

BRIANNA SOLDANO (STUDIO ART)
“Perception of Movement through Contemporary Art”

MARINA McFARLAND (ENGLISH)
“Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’:
Postmodern Expressions of the Post-Colonial Condition”

SARAH-FAYE KAUFFMAN (FRENCH)
“L’Imaginaire et le Symbolique: Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein
de Marguerite Duras à Travers les Théories de Jacques Lacan”

AMANDA GLAND (HISTORY)
“The Spotted Death: Smallpox and the
Culture of 18th Century America”

ANDREW HAGER (PHILOSOPHY)
“Moral and Ethical Application of Sartre’s Existential Philosophy”

SARAH TRANCHINA & DYLAN BRENNAN (THEATER)
Excerpt from the 2010 Senior Performance Showcase

AMY WINTERS (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)
“Gender Stereotypes Supporting the Current Wage Gap”