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QSS Honors Theses presentations, Spring 2025

  • Group 1

    William Ermarth (top left), Luke Hafermann (top right), Raine Brookshire (bottom left), and Allison Burg (bottom right)

  • Group 2

    Maya Magee (top left), Shoaib Jamil (top right), Eli Kimche (bottom left), and Leyla Jacoby (bottom right)

  • Group 3

    Gabrielle Park (top left), Emma Nguyen (top right), Victor Moreno (bottom left), and Justin Pare (bottom right)

  • Group 4

    Jose Luis Salinas Vargas (top left), Chloe Terestchenko (top right), and Jeremy Rodriguez (bottom right)

  • Group 5

    Marina Wang (top left), Daniel Xu (top right), and Ann Tran (bottom right)

All students writing honors theses in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College are required to publicly defend their research before completing their projects. During the first three weeks of May, 18 students presented their theses. Each thesis is supervised by a primary faculty advisor, with a second reader assigned to provide additional evaluation. Professor Michael Herron, Chair of QSS, worked closely with all of the thesis students throughout the 2024–2025 academic year.

This year's QSS theses are as follows:

Luke Hafermann: Memory Test for Interconnected vs. Tightly-Scoped Thinking, Long Term Working Memory, and Schema Formation 

Maya Magee: Primed and Prejudiced: How ChatGPT-4 Spreads Political Content on Social Media 

William Ermarth: Perceptions of Renewable Energy: How, Misinformation, Proximity, and Identity Shape, Public Support 

Justin Pare: Economic Sanctions as Domestic Signals: Are They Still Effective in Rallying Public Support Among a Polarized US Electorate? 

Victor Moreno: Interminority Conversations about Race: The Relationship Between Conversational Receptiveness and Interminority Solidarity 

Leyla Jacoby: Measuring the Effects of News Framing on Public Opinion: Computational and Survey Experimental Evidence from U.S. Immigration 

Eli Kimche: Connectivity and Innovation in Pharmaceutical Networks: An Empirical Study of Inter-Firm Ties, Knowledge Exchange, and Strategic Positioning 

Emma Nguyen: Health Costs of Grocery Store Closures: The effect of grocery store closures in rural New England on maternal and child health. 

Gabrielle Park: Inequality in End-of-Life Care: Geographic and Socioeconomic Patterns of Hospice Accessibility for Patients with Advanced Cancer 

Raine Brookshire: Investigating Gang Presence as a Nuanced Mechanism that Reinforces School Gun Violence 

Jeremy Rodriguez: Framing Homelessness: Race, Class and Media Effects on Policy Attitudes 

Shoaib Jamil: Visa and Value: How Visa Entry Status Shapes Perceptions of Immigrant Loyalty in the U.S. 

Marina Wang: Exploring Racial Disparities in Physicians' Treatment of Patient Pain 

Jose Luis Salinas Vargas: Depression Across Cultural Boundaries: A Colombian Case Study 

Ann Tran: Misperceptions About Governance and Preferences for Foreign Aid 

Chloe Terestchenko: Heart Rate Variability as a Biomarker of Mental Well-Being: The Role of Resilience in Medical Students 

Daniel Xu: Improving Uncertainty Characterization in Home Energy Projections 

Allison Burg: The Supreme Court and Public Opinion: An Analysis of Ideological Location Since 2020 

Honors Thesis Presentation Schedule Spring 2025