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Honors Program Graduates
The mission of the Marist College Honors Program is to develop scholars, leaders and global citizens. All Honors students complete a curriculum that is broader, deeper, and more complex. This includes seminars on enduring questions in the arts and sciences, as well as seminars focusing on some of the most pressing social and political challenges we face today. Each Honors Program graduate completes a thesis project under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: My Sister's Closet: Selling Sustainability
Faculty Mentor: Joyce Lee
Degree: B.A. Educational Psychology - Childhood/Students with Disabilities 1-6
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Mindfulness Workshop for Somaliland and Students Transitioning to College
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Generations at Work: Changes from College to the Workplace
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Job Satisfaction
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Quinn
Degree: B.S. Environmental Science/Policy
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: From Pen to Preserve: Making Environmental Dreams a Sustainable Reality
Faculty Mentor: Richard Feldman
Kaeden Andrasko
Degree: B.A. History
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: In the Best Interest of Their People?: U.S. and Iran Relations in the Twentieth Century
Faculty Mentor: Steven Garabedian
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Relation of Parenting Style to College Students' Academic and Social Wellbeing
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Kinlaw
Degree: B.S. Digital Media
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Harmful Effects of Plea Deals on the Justice System
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Holtsnider
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Thesis: Interventions for Feeding Disorders in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Killian
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences and Spanish
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Biochemical Characterization of Autophagy in Melanocytes
Faculty Mentor: Megan Dennis
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Cum Laude
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Decrease Detection Time of Melanoma with Nonmedical Personnel Screening
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Anxieties of Marist Athletes: A Podcast
Faculty Mentor: Leander Schaerlaeckens
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Resiliency of Breweries in the Hudson Valley
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Bass
Degree: B.S. Information Technology and Systems
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Transforming a Large Yelp Data Set: Techniques for Data Preprocessing, Analytics, and Visualization
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Matheus
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mindfulness Practice and Anxiety Reduction: An Autoethnographic Approach
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Jay
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Healthcare Inequities Promote Trends within Community Health: An Examination of Dutchess County and the City of Poughkeepsie
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Gaeke
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Mindfulness Interventions for At-Risk Youth at Poughkeepsie Middle School
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Disney: Progressive or Profiting
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Empathy and Mindfulness in Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Jay
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: The Progression of Mental Health: The Dark Side of the Media
Faculty Mentor: William Van Ornum
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Millennials vs. GenZ and How the Evolution of Social Media Has Affected Social Interaction
Faculty Mentor: Wenjing Xie
Degree: B.S. Digital Media
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Transmedia, Transcontinental Women
Faculty Mentor: Courtney Wrenn
Degree: B.A. Psychology/Special Education
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Teacher's Impact on Students
Faculty Mentor: Kari Morrison
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Impact of Guided Meditation on Implicit Attitudes
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Jay
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Streaming Wars: Will Netflix Maintain Video Streaming Dominance?
Faculty Mentor: David Gavin
Degree: B.A. English/Adolescent Education
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Marist College Book Club
Faculty Mentor: Moira Fitzgibbons
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: An Ancient Practice for a Modern Disorder
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Physiological Effects of Cannabis
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: How Migrants See Themselves in America
Faculty Mentor: Juris Pupcenoks
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: In the Glory of Shadows - a story of Terezin
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Murkoff
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Estimating Parameters of Students' T-distribution Using Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Faculty Mentor: Duy Nguyen
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Narrative of the Climate Survey: Told by Black Students on Campus
Faculty Mentor: Addrain Conyers
Degree: B.A. English
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: English Language Arts Common Core: A Call for Creative Writing
Faculty Mentor: Leigh Graham
Degree: B.S. Computer Science
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: How to build an iOS App from scratch: Marist Maps
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Johnson
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: CRISPR: The Ethics of Gene Editing: A Utilitarian Analysis of the Ethics of CRISPR-Cas9 Applications
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.F.A. Fashion Design
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Gender in the Modern World: A Zine for Efficient Education
Faculty Mentor: DooRi Chung
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: "Like" Less, Live More
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Environmental Science/Policy
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Uncoupling the influences of organic matter and groundwater inflow on endangered turtle habitat in wetland ponds
Faculty Mentor: Zion Klos
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: You Can't Spell Leadership without E I
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The impact of the Honor Your Mind mindfulness intervention on the well-being of undergraduate honors students
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Chromatin remodeling mediates repair of DNA damage in C. elegans germ cells
Faculty Mentor: Paula Checchi
Degree: B.S. Fashion Merchandising
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: The Uncertain Future of the Apparel Supply Chain
Faculty Mentor: Jodi Hartmann
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mirroring Reality: Female Users' Perceptions of Authenticity on Instagram
Faculty Mentor: Sara Nowlin
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Making an Ethical Case for the Fusion of Traditional and Western Medicine
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: College Students Perception of Greenwashing and it's Impact on Purchasing Behavior
Faculty Mentor: Joanna D'Avanzo
Degree: B.A. History
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Pa's Wandering Foot: A 19th Century Case Study of Mental Illness
Faculty Mentor: Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: An Ethical Analysis of the Opioid Crisis and the Role of Pharmacists
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Stephens
Degree: B.A. Communication and Economics
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Women in Sports Course
Faculty Mentor: Jane McManus
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Effects of select bacterial combinations on biofilm formation patterns from equine wound bacteria
Faculty Mentor: Raymond Kepner
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: "A Human Enterprise:" Newsroom Transparency as an Effort to Increase Public Trust in American Journalism
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Lerner
Degree: B.S. Criminal Justice
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Cultivating Understanding of the Sexual Assault Recovery Process
Faculty Mentor: Julie Raines
Degree: B.S. Biology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: The Effect of Body-Scan Meditation on Phantom Limb Pain: A Case Study
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Jay
Degree: B.A. Economics
Thesis: 525,600 Minutes
Faculty Mentor: Henry Pratt
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Childhood Cancer: Misconceptions vs. Reality
Faculty Mentor: Maryellen Guardino
Degree: B.S. Games and Emerging Media
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Unusually Straight-Forward Life of Kris Kennedy
Faculty Mentor: Henry Pratt
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Interaction of Audio and Visual Input in Memory of Popular Music
Faculty Mentor: Kimery Levering
Degree: B.S. Environmental Science/Policy
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Marist Earth Ally: Environmental Advocacy and Allyship
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Boscarino
Degree: B.A. Psychology/Special Education
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The Fifty Percent of People Elementary History Curriculums Forget About
Faculty Mentor: Janine Peterson
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Developing Global Perspectives in Secondary Education: An International Pen Pal Program with At Risk Youth
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.A. Political Science and Philosophy
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Exploring How Nonprofits Influence Public Policy: A Case for Effectiveness
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Gaeke
Degree: B.S./M.S. Software Development and Business Finance
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Improving Learning Management Systems with Emerging Web Application Technologies
Faculty Mentor: Brian Gormanly
Degree: B.S. Business Administration and Economics
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The ‘Bully Pulpit’ and the Federal Reserve: Clarifying the Role of Politics and the Presidency in American Monetary Policy
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Murray
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Success vs. Failure: Determining the Crucial Factors in Entrepreneurship
Faculty Mentor: David Gavin
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Women In The Workplace
Faculty Mentor: Joanne Gavin
Degree: B.A. Italian
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Language Lens: Language Learning in the 21st Century
Faculty Mentor: Maureen Melita
Degree: B.S. Cybersecurity
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: An Ontology for Semantic I/O
Faculty Mentor: Brian Gormanly
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Changing the World One Takoda Service Dog at a Time
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Apfel
Degree: B.A. Political Science and Philosophy
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Examining the Ethical Nature of Human Genetic Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Campisi
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Societal Impacts on Gender Inequality in Thailand and the United States
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.S. Medical Technology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Garlic: A Natural Solution for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Faculty Mentor: Zofia Gagnon
Degree: B.A. Criminal Justice
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: You are Not Alone: Empathy Among the Formerly Incarcerated
Faculty Mentor: Addrain Conyers
Degree: B.A. Fine Arts
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Alice Neel in Spanish Harlem - Extraordinary Portraits of Ordinary People
Faculty Mentor: Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap
Degree: B.A. History
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Gender, Sexuality & Masculinity in China and Thailand
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Bayer
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Behind the Scenes: Marketing and Promoting Scientific Comedy Show, "Dr. Gravity: What Goes Up!?"
Faculty Mentor: Babette Fasolino
Degree: B.A. Biochemistry
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Therapeutic Properties of Resveratrol Against GI Tract Infectious Agents
Faculty Mentor: Kristin Dragos
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Love in the Age of Tinder: A Memoir
Faculty Mentor: Leigh Graham
Degree: B.S. Accounting
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Robotic Process Automation: Is this the Future of Accounting?
Faculty Mentor: Don Warren
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Navigating the Moral Ambiguity of Death and Dying as a Future Physician
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.A. Political Science and History
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Kingston, New York - The Potential Dark Side of Being, “Modern, Renewed and Developed.”
Faculty Mentor: JoAnne Myers
Degree: B.S. Computer Science
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Bringing Automated Testing into the Intro to Programming Curriculum at Marist
Faculty Mentor: Brian Gormanly
Degree: B.A. Mathematics/Adolescence Education
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Talkin’ Like a Mathematician: Exploring Academic Vocabulary Instruction in Mathematics Classrooms
Faculty Mentor: Mary Kelly
Degree: B.S. Fashion Merchandising and Italian
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Identity and Gender Role in Elena Ferrante's L'Amore Molesto
Faculty Mentor: Maureen Melita
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics and Accounting
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: How to Win the Lottery
Faculty Mentor: K. Peter Krog
Degree: B.A. History
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: An Exploration of Inquisition (A Collection)
Faculty Mentor: Edward Smith
Degree: B.S. Economics
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: A Gen-Z Guide To The American Economy and Financial Literacy
Faculty Mentor: Christy Caridi
Degree: B.A. Biochemistry
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: An Analysis of Community Based Dentistry: Developing an Implementation Plan for Poughkeepsie, NY
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Gaeke
Degree: B.S. Chemistry
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Solvatochromism and aggregation-induced emission enhancement in V-shaped donor-acceptor molecules
Faculty Mentor: Jocelyn Nadeau
Degree: B.A. Economics
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Tech's Low Hanging Fruit - Innovation in Informal Markets
Faculty Mentor: Della Lee Sue
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Sciences and Spanish
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: The Unintentional Targets: How Long Rooted Medical Disparities Have Resurfaced in the Spread of Coronavirus through Minority Populations In the United States
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Ferrer
Degree: B.A. Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: An Ethical Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Gen Z Stress Entering the Workforce: How to Decrease Stress and Remain Productive
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Daniel O'Brien
Degree: B.S. Computer Science
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Multi-Tiered Text Similarity Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Michael Gildein
Degree: Psychology/Special Education
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Nonverbal Communication Between a Choral Conductor and a Choir
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Williams
Degree: B.S. Information Technology and Systems
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Transforming a Large Yelp Data Set: Techniques for Data Preprocessing, Analytics, and Visualization
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Matheus
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Behind the Scenes: Marketing and Promoting Scientific Comedy Show, "Dr. Gravity: What Goes Up!?"
Faculty Mentor: Babette Fasolino
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Power, Privilege, and Discretion
Faculty Mentor: Addrain Conyers
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Promoting Queer Allyship Within Families: An Attachment-Based Approach
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Killian
Degree: B.S. Business Administration and History
Thesis: Turning Point Battles in History
Faculty Mentor: Janine Peterson
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: On Legislative Supremacy: A Road Map to Effective Legislative Government
Faculty Mentor: Lynn Eckert
Degree: B.S. Environmental Science/Policy
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Double Trouble in the Hudson River Estuary: Dominant abiotic factors controlling harmful algal bloom risk and the compounding influence of invasive water chestnut
Faculty Mentor: Zion Klos
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Improving Bicycle and Pedestrian Accessibility at Marist
Faculty Mentor: J. Theodore Fink
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Disney: Progressive or Profit Seeking
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Consistency in Recruitment Methods
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.S. Social Work
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mindfulness at Marist
Faculty Mentor: Daria Hanssen and Mary Stone
Degree: B.S. Business Administration and Economics
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: What Causes Financial Crises?
Faculty Mentor: Christy Caridi
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: 2020 Presidential Election: Analysis of Convergent Democratic Political Strategies
Faculty Mentor: Lee Miringoff
Degree: B.S. Business Administration
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: The Art of Veteran Homelessness
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Zurhellen
Degree: B.A. History
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Faith in Democracy or Faith in FDR?: Assessing The Consolidation of The Executive Branch In The 1930s
Faculty Mentor: Robyn Rosen
Degree: B.A. Psychology
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mindfulness at Marist
Faculty Mentor: Daria Hanssen and Mary Stone
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mirroring Reality: Female Users' Perceptions of Authenticity on Instagram
Faculty Mentor: Sara Nowlin
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Mitigating the Threat of an Active Shooter Through Increased Protocol Awareness
Faculty Mentor: Scott Frank
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Examining Climate Trends in New York State Utilizing Singular Value Decomposition
Faculty Mentor: Scott Frank
Degree: B.S. Business Administration and Accounting
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: An Analysis of the Modern Portfolio Theory & Its Relevance in Practical Banking
Faculty Mentor: John Finnigan
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Determining Where We Are: Civic and Political Engagement Among Marist Students
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Gaeke
Degree: B.A. Economics and Philosophy
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Measuring Community Impact
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.A. Educational Psychology - Childhood/Students with Disabilities 1-6
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: The effect of an extended professional development model on teacher self-efficacy
Faculty Mentor: Mary Stone
Degree: B.A. Political Science
Thesis: The 'Untouchables:' Chhaupadi Pratha in Nepal
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Kaknes
Degree: B.S. Fashion Merchandising
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Uncaged: Uncovering the Fashion Industry's Impact on Body Image
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Weisberg
Degree: B.A. Educational Psychology - Childhood/Students with Disabilities 1-6
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Global Impact of Educational Videos
Faculty Mentor: James Snyder
Degree: B.S. Computer Science
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Exploring the Latent Spaces Induced by a Wasserstein GAN
Faculty Mentor: Pablo Rivas
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Extensions of the Stable Marriage Problem
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Reid
Degree: B.S. Applied Mathematics
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: On The Problem of Two Normal Samples: An Exact Likelihood Ratio Test
Faculty Mentor: Duy Nguyen
Degree: B.S. Digital Media
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: Examining User Experience Design
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Frieburghaus
Degree: B.A. Mathematics
Honors: Cum Laude
Thesis: Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Applications
Faculty Mentor: Duy Nguyen
Degree: B.A. Communication
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: "We Are A Newspaper": How The Washington Post Utilizes TikTok to Engage with Young Audiences in the Time of COVID-19
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Lerner
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