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Twenty-One Knox Students Complete Senior Honors Project

The Knox College Honors Program gives students the opportunity to conduct a year-long independent research, scholarly, or creative project under the guidance of a faculty committee

“It was an incredible experience, and definitely the hardest project I’ve ever done here at Knox. Three terms of a project are very difficult, and you still feel like it is never done, but it was so much fun and great to work with other highly-motivated students, figuring out different ways that the project can work.”–Sarah Lorek Strauss ’26

During the 2025-26 academic year, 21 Knox College seniors completed their Honors Project. Honors projects culminate in a thesis, portfolio, or comparable product, defended in an oral examination before a faculty committee that includes a qualified expert from outside the Knox community. 

“It was an incredible experience, and definitely the hardest project I’ve ever done here at Knox,” Sarah Lorek Strauss ’26 said. “Three terms of a project are very difficult, and you still feel like it is never done, but it was so much fun and great to work with other highly-motivated students, figuring out different ways that the project can work.”

Anthropology/Sociology

Anne Kashiwagi – Seeking to Belong: Culture, Community and Academics Among International Students at Knox College 

Biology 

Selene Chew Chien Huei – The effect of Bacopa monnieri on the Proliferation and Morphology of C6 Glioma Cells 

Tisya Goel – Effect of Bacopa monnieri on Oxidative Stress in C6 Rat Glioma Cells 

Ian David Smith – Development of an Analytical Framework for Applying XROMM Data to Clinically Relevant Jaw Joint Pathologies 

Chemistry 

Ryudo Kawanami – Comparison of liquid crystalline properties of heteroleptic copper(II) dimers with  mixtures of homoleptic copper(II) dimers. 

Precious Mofiyinfoluwa Odejimi – Computational analysis of model iron cyclooctadiene catalysts supported by substituted alpha-diimine ligands 

Computer Science 

Ridham Dholaria – On-Premises vs. Cloud: Replicating Core Cloud Infrastructure on a Raspberry Pi Cluster and Evaluating the Cost, Effort, and Feasibility of Self-Hosted Computing 

Richie Gordon Dix – Integrating and Fine-tuning Single-Image-to-3D Model for 4D XR Human  Visualization 

Anirudh Madarapu – Wrench Voice: Reclaiming the Hours Lost to Typing in the Automotive  Service Bay 

David Sulpice – Effects of Gameplay Intensity on Player Engagement 

Creative Writing 

Julia Maron – Dreamland: A Novel 

Economics 

Daniyal Ahmed – Interest Rates and Inflation under New-Keynesian and Modern Monetary Theory

Environmental Science and Statistics 

Avery Celia Leigh – The Effect of Ecotone Proximity on Ecosystem Resilience in Temperate Forest Grassland Systems 

Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology/Sociology

Bruno Santana Freitas – Care, Embodiment, and Kinship in Bahia: Domestic Workers and the Social Life of Feeling 

History 

Nathan Andrew Brooks – Curating the Nation: Museums as an Instrument of Influence 

International Relations and Environmental Science

Sarah Lorek Strauss – Peace Parks: Analyzing the Effectiveness of Conservation as a Form of  Peacebuilding 

Masculinity Studies 

Phuong Nguyen – “First of all, I’m not white”: A mixed-methods study of navigating masculinities in young East Asian men living in the United States 

Physics and Astronomy 

Naysha Jain – Estimating Black Hole Masses in Quasars Using Machine Learning on Photometric Time Series 

Political Science and History 

Bryce Sebastian Woodard – The New Deal, Same as the Old Deal? Monopoly, Collusion, and  Continuity of the Liberal State 

Psychology 

Sania Shetty – Sounds That Stick: The Role of Sound Symbolism in Memory & Perception 

Public Health and Modern Languages 

Paula Flores Cevallos – Reproductive Justice Through the Lens of Surrogacy

Published on June 15, 2026

- Scott Holland, Knox College Office of Communications