Babson Honors Students Present Research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Nine Babson College honors students participated this month in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia.

“We are incredibly proud of our honors students who represented Babson at this year’s conference. Their participation at NCUR underscores the strength of undergraduate research within the Babson Honors Program,” said Sabrina Stehly, associate director of the Honors Program, who accompanied the students, along with Associate Professor Krista Hill Cummings, director of the program.

“From health policy, finance, and queer literature to sports analytics and analyses of Islamic architecture and beyond, these projects reflect our students’ ability to engage complex questions and contribute meaningfully to national academic conversations,” Stehly added.

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READ MORE about the Babson Honors Program in Babson Magazine.

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The Honors Program students will display their research projects at the annual Honors Program Presentations from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30 at the Len Green Recreation and Athletics Complex. The students who presented at NCUR, along with the full Honors Program students in the Class of 2026, will be displaying their poster presentations at the drop-in event for the entire College community.

Here are the nine honors students (and their research topics and faculty advisors) who presented at NCUR:

• Sanjana Garlapati ’26: “Lost in Expansion: Missing Medicaid Responses in the American Community Survey,” Associate Professor Eric Chan ’08
• Amy Guo ’26: “Collecting Under Uncertainty: An Analysis of Consumer Motivations and Behavior in the U.S. Blind Box Market,” Cummings
• Nikela Hulton ’26: “When Prices Move the Wrong Way: Abnormal Reaction Events Around Earnings Announcements,” Associate Professor Linghang Zeng
• Sameera Madhurima Kunaparaju ’26: “Blow the Whistle, Get a Dismissal: Expose Government Secrets, Then Vanish Like You Were Never Official,” Assistant Professor Alex Adamson
• Nikita Mankad ’26: “From Puritans to Progressives: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Cultures in Massachusetts and California,” Professor Kevin Bruyneel
• Aisha Sattani ’26: “The Sacred and the Spectacle: Islamic Architecture in the UAE Today,” Assistant Professor Asiel Sepúlveda
• Jonathan Segal ’26: “Going to WAR: Balancing Talent Accumulation with Situational Leverage to Refine Wins Above Replacement,” Associate Professor of Practice George Recck ’82, MBA’84
• Jake Spignese ’26: “Consumed by Grief: Queer Affect and Monstrous Embodiment in Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s Monstrilio,” Associate Teaching Professor Samantha Wallace
• Kaya Uchimura ’26: “The Effects of Early Parental Absence on Adult Romantic Relationships,” Cummings