Public Policy

The Senior Program

Working closely with a faculty member in the department, senior public policy majors complete a senior thesis. In the Senior Program, students draw on their accumulated skills and knowledge to produce focused, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem.

Recent projects in public policy include:

Honors presentations

• Exploring Policy Alternatives to Address Tribal Food Insecurity in the United States
• Improving Rural STEM Education Access
• Sexual Harassment and Reporting in Corporate America
• Black and White and in the Red: Addressing the Decline of Local Media in the U.S.
• Gearing up for the Future: Policies to Boost Cycling in Utica, NY
• Policy Designed to Alleviate Income Inequality: Taxing the Dead to Lift the Living
• When Reform Repeats Itself: Dissent, Precedent, and the Resistant Image in Tech Policy
• Addressing the Lack of Affordable Childcare in the United States
• (Agri)cultural Sustainability: Towards a More Sustainable Approach to Dairy Farming in New York State
• Balancing the Scale: Tackling the U.S. Obesity Epidemic through Policy
• Closing the Gap: Progressive Solutions for New York State’s Public School Finance System
• The Little to No Accountability on Gun Manufacturers in the Wake of Mass Shootings
• Policy Analysis: Inadequacy of Climate Policy in the United States