Senior Presentations - Class of 2021
Congratulations!
This spring finds us once again challenged with unprecedented stresses, emotional, and professional burdens. As you, the class of 2021, celebrate your graduation in person, we encourage you to find purpose and joy in the amazing work you have accomplished by sharing with an audience that reaches far beyond those you are able to host on campus. Particularly in these past two months as you have completed your work, know that the questions and problems you ask and address below will serve you and the world as you embark on your next adventures. Now more than ever the world needs your intellect and skills: nurses that promote health and wellness and combat addiction and depression, future investors to change the world, scientists to pave the road in computational chemistry and aging, historians to uncover new stories of past conflicts and religious events, and social scientists ask questions about what makes us human. Usually, on the morning of Baccalaureate, a small group of seniors from across the college, chosen by their departments, come together to present their Senior Learning Community project to family, friends, and faculty. While we still cannot be in person to do this, we offer these ‘artifacts’ to our community, and invite all to enjoy and celebrate the accomplishments of these outstanding students who have completed the final leg of their Wagner Plan with great success.
-Sarah J. Scott, Dean of Integrated Learning
-Utteeyo Dasgupta, Coordinator of the Senior Learning Community Program
List of Artifacts
Anthropology
Business
- Konstantinos Syrmas – Investing in Greece: Good or Bad Idea?
- Christina Ottrando – Big Tech, Big Profits, and an Addiction to a Black Mirror
Biopsychology
- Edward Pollock – Effects of Age on Second Language Acquisition and Evidence of a Critical Period
- Kaelin Wolf – Analysis of the Function of Small Intestinal Aggregates of the Necturus Based on Old Classical and Recent Literature Data
Chemistry
Economics
English
- James Hagenberg – Prescribing Depression: An Analysis of Patriarchal Perpetuation in The Bell Jar and My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Elena Rotzokou – ‘Centre and Circumference’: The Status of the Object and the Formation of Aesthetic Experience in Shelley’s “Alastor” and “Mont Blanc”
Environmental Studies
History
- Kevin Farrell – Elusive Victory: Iraqi De-Ba’athification and its Consequences
- Margaret Winton – “The Shining City Upon the Hill:” Christian Zionism and the Politics of Woodrow Wilson & Harry S. Truman
Microbiology
Nursing
- Kristen Evangelist, Christina Foote, Cassie Paradise – Cardiovascular Disease on the North Shore of SI in Low Income Families: Solving the Problem Starts With “A Heart Healthy You”
- Sabrina Frasca, Caitlyn Oddo, Jenna Saccomano – Vaping/Electronic Cigarette Use Amongst Staten Island Adolescence
- Gabriella Pawlowski, Filiary Tsybushkina, Victoria Withers – The Stratera Retreat: A Proposal to Improve Respiratory Manifestations and Quality of Life for 9/11 First Responders
- Jill Jacobi, Moriah Sottile, Victoria Tabacco – Texting while Driving and its Effects on the South Shore community in SI, NY
- Laura Franzese, Ambera Gjokaj, Lilianna Marcelli – On the Road to Eradication: The Jewish Population and Vaccinations in Brooklyn, New York
- Nicole Mastrangelo, Joseph Pallarino, Dominique Scherma – Substance Abuse of Young Adults in the South Shore of Staten Island
- Maya Barr, Abby Bryant, Caridad Lambert – Neonatal Mortality in Somalia
- Alexa Calamia, Anna Calamia, Alanna Ferrandino – Homelessness in San Francisco
- Nicole Caruana, Angelo Mendez, Lauren Pitarresi – Sex Trafficking of Young Adolescent Females in Manhattan
- Angelina Gonzalez, Sam Santorelli – Increased Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Bronx
- Cara Angelo, Dominic Branda, Aleah Mirand – Tic-Tac-No
- Megha Biju, Antoinette Nuara, Marissa Stavola – Antimicrobial Resistance in the Maasai Community
- Alexa Burgalassi, Aleksandra Kubrak, Serena Lawrence – Gun Violence and Its Effects on School Age Children in Newtown, Connecticut
- Mya Donnelly, Kerry Ann Maher, Ben Steenland – Minimizing Risk of Overconsumption of Alcohol in College Aged Students in Manhattan, New York
- Adedayo Adebo, Megan Chiu – Implementing Yoga as an Intervention for Reducing Caretaker Burnout in Caregivers of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Community on the North Shore of Staten Island
- Christopher Allen, Jonathan Allen, Jasmine Philip – Depression in Adolescents of Paterson, New Jersey
- Taylor Burgio, Lisa DeSimone, Shannon Kuehm – Nursing Burnout Among Oncology Nurses
- Neive Borg, Jessica Corulla, Monique Tuite – Improving the Quality of Life of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Bailey Eaton, Erin Kerstetter, Erin Weisert – National Collegiate Athletic Association Eating Disorders in Female Athletes
- Samantha Falcone, Kylee Gambal, Stephanie Matishek – Health Disparities Among the LGBTQ in Lower Manhattan
- Paula Povzlov, Alma Purisic, Sammi Ruan – Diabetes Mellitus: Diabetes in the Hispanic Population in the South Bronx
- Danielle Gaglia, Nicole O’Grady, Jillian Rabin – Prenatal Care and Resources in Rural Haiti
- Gracie Martensen, Nadia Othman, Olivia Torregrossa – Infertility in Nigeria
Philosophy
Psychology
- Jenna Derleth – Developmental Perceptions of Death
- Paulina Korzyk – Interventions for Elementary School-Aged Children with Level One or Two Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Leila-Tiare Akana – Remote Learning for Adolescents during COVID-19: The Importance of Parental Involvement
- Maryjo Riscinti – Psychological Reactance and COVID-19: Is Perceived Limited Freedom Influencing Response to the Pandemic?