About a third of the Class of 2014 completed a senior thesis – a piece of in-depth, independent research undertaken in close collaboration with a professor. Here are the products of their work…


Observing & overlooking in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, by Abigail Adams Investigation of the potential neuroprotective effects of estradiol in a mouse model of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury, by Jenna C. Adams “Whereas a Controversy has Long Subsisted”: The Massachusetts-New York border dispute, 1609-1787, by Jacob D. Addelson Predictors of pubertal timing among adolescent girls: The roles of interpersonal stress & diurnal cortisol rhythms, by Elizabeth B. Albert An investigation of quality & hype in the market for wine: A panel SVAR approach, by Alex Albright Explicit forms for & some functional analysis behind a family of multidimensional continued fractions: Triangle partition maps & their associated transfer operators, by Ilya Amburg The eruptive history of Strawberry Crater, San Francisco Volcanic Field, Northern Arizona, by Eloise Andry Evidence of export-related VAT evasion & firm-level responses to the changes in the standard VAT rate, by Ivan Badinski Effect of group housing & exercise on brown fat gene expression & fatty acid profiles, by Shayna M. Barbash Sick of the very name: Jane Austin & illness, by Anna McDonald Barnes Cheap talk, rich interests: The social construction of CEOs & corporate policymaking, 2001-2010, by Emily Barreca Carbon mitigation potential of solar ovens in Nicaragua, by Gordon Bauer Shadow of the beast: Complexities & legacies of Godzilla in Japan & the United States, by Sharona Bollinger Polymeric carriers for polyphenol antioxidant delivery, by Todd Aaron Brenner Toward a precision measurement of the stark shift in the indium 5P1/2 [yields] 6S1/2 [yields] 6P1/2 transition, by Nathan R. Bricault The relationship of spousal earnings over the course of marriage, by Carson Brooks; Toward the synthesis of enigmazole A: Efforts toward a C1-C12 fragment, by Craig Burt Bubble,” by Emily Nichols Calkins Resampling methods with applications in variance estimation, by Shiwen Chen Promoting entrepreneurism in South Africa: A study of the constraints facing SMMES & the ineffective – ness of government policy, by Taylor Lynn-Louise Chertkov Shifting homes: Identity formations of the Chinese in Peru, by Linda Tzu-Kwan Chu Synthesis & characterization of phenylenevinylene oligomers & functionalized aromatic systems, by Peter L. Clement Ripping & stitching: Narrative & the trauma of 9/11, by Abigail E. Conyers The uneasy eroticism of Renoir’s Boy with Cat , by Galen E. Corey Completions of unique factorization domains with unique factorization modulo a principal prime ideal, by Craig Corsi Chunking in preschoolers: The effects of conceptual & spatial organizational cues on young children’s working memory, by Alida A. Davis A study in syzygy: Observations analyses of stellar occultations & the 2013 total solar eclipse, by Allen B. Davis A radiocarbon reconstruction of the deglacial Bering Sea, by Paul A. de Konkoly Thege A characterization of trees with convex obstacle number 1 or 2, by Philippe Demontigny Short-term ecological responses to an intense storm event in the Hopkins Memorial Forest, by Jamie Dickhaus For meat’s sake: Anticipated hypocrisy & environmental information avoidance, by Peter M. Drews A paleoclimate reconstruction of Lake Linné: Interpreting the influence of sediment sources through time, by Johanna Eidmann Beating the standard: Improved hologram calculation for highly symmetric holographic optical trapping, by Richard P. Eiselen Modeling & improving pitching strategies in major league baseball, by Carson Eisenach Facebook Official: Affirmation, validation & ambivalence among the children of the social network, by Rebecca Fallon Habitat selection in the boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata), by Luke Faust Decoupling & coalescing race checks, by Parker Finch Maria A-Z, by Samuel O. Flinn Multi-class feature selection, by Joshua Elliot Geller War is over if you want it”: Cooperative security in the Persian Gulf, by Kerry Goettlich Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theater: The stage presence of Down syndrome, by Sarah Gottesman Mapping the relevant downstream pathways on the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT), by Allison Graebner The art of survival, by Isabel Greer Variation in the benefits of ant-tending to the treehopper Publilia concava, by Eric Hagen The type VI secretion system of agrobacterium tumefaciens in biofilm formation & attachment, by Elizabeth M. Hart Does residential segregation inhibit gentrification? Accounting for race in a housing-based model of gentrification, by William Hayes Planetary nebulae as tracers of the chemical history of the Andromeda Galaxy, by Kerrin Hensley Conceptualizing progress in the thought of Jacques Rancière, by C.J. Higgins Genomic adaptation & molecular acclimation to light stress in Prochlorococcus, by Kathleen Higgins A kinetically mixed Z’ gauge boson at the LHC, by Isaac Hoenig Ancient Maya socioeconomic complexity, by Cecelia Holm von Hippel-Lindau mRNA & protein may mediate asymmetrical cell division during Helobdella robusta embryonic development, by Nina B. Horowitz Benford’s law & power law behavior in fragmentation processes, by Joseph R. Iafrate Nature & artifice: Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, by Melanie Idler Identification of discrete, intermingled hypocretin (Hcrt) neuronal populations, by Manasi Iyer The sedimentology of storm-emplaced coastal boulder deposits in the northeastern Atlantic region, by Kalle L. Jahn Reflections of a Haitian American: Politics, testimony & cultural agency, by Kenny E. Jean From pictures to pageants though plastic: Korea’s changing face, by Annie Estella Jeong Dare to survive: gendered & cultural survival strategies of the Africana diaspora, by Jallicia A. Jolly ADF vs. CR: The relative physiologic effects of alternate day fasting and caloric restriction on chronic disease risk factors in male C57BL-6 obese mice, by Patrick Magnus Neset Joslin Contested memory: Struggles of the 1990s in post-Cold War Okinawa, by Sara Kang A new all-fiber pulsed laser: Continued study of the nonlinear optical loop mirror, by Maxwell LaBerge When moving gets you nowhere: Investigating the limits of the dynamic superiority effect, by Alexander LaTourrette Time-series forecasting using a large number of predictors, by Vu Le Shocks & trends in global equity markets, by Vu Le Reunion, by Christopher Lee Performing the artist: the role of gender in understanding Pollock & Warhol, by Louisa M. Lee We are not superheroes, others are not villains: Identity & body politics in Japanese & Korean war films, by Min Joo Lee “Neither first, nor last, nor only, nor alone”: Skepticism & realism in James Joyce’s Ulysses, by Amy Levine How can experience justify our beliefs? Rethinking McDowell’s rejection of the Given, by Amy Levine Sharing is caring: Adult prosocial behavior & emotional responses to real & fictional social interactions, by Eric Y. Liao Benford’s Law & fraud detection, by Yang Lu The effect of liquidity on low beta anomaly, by Yang Lu Relieving & readjusting Pythagoras: Improving the Pythagorean formula, by Victor Luo Imitations: Medium & stereotype in the art of Betye Saar & Kara Walker, by Annie Lynch The enigma of American primary care: A political economic study of physician specialization informed by the Canadian experience, by Rachel Lai-Ying MacLean What we do in the liar: Stories, by Stephen Marino Memorabilia, by Sato Matsui Unreasonable ethics: A Socratic insight into Gandhian ethics, by Isaac Maze-Rothstein As if it were: Stories, by Nickolas Maziarka Aberrant pathway choice of Mauthner axons may cause lateralization of startle responses in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata, by Kelsey McDermott Weight-based discrimination of Cornus canadensis in a generalist pollination network, by Molly H.F. McEntee Did tax cuts contribute to rising pre-tax income inequality in the United States? Evidence from a long panel of state- level data, by Brian Westfall McGrail Dopaminergic regulation of activity & sleep in the mushroom body of Drosophila melanogaster, by Zachary M. McKenzie The law of any numbers, by Cassandra Dolores McLellan Informing teacher tenure decisions using value-added modeling: The case of New York City, by Carl Jepsen McPherson The political theology of antinomianism, by Ali McTar Timescales for the quantum Zeno effect, by Cesar Melendez Fitting in to feel good: Implicit & explicit predictors of conformity, by Fanny R. Mlawer Activation of [sigma]U & the putative role of PrsU in Streptomyces coelicolor, by Jessica E. Monterrosa Mena The butterfly’s wing & the framework of steel: Reality & narrative form in the fiction of Virginia Woolf, by Sophia Whitney Montgomery The atom transfer radical polymerization of acrylated methyl oleate, by Lilliana Schmalzer Morris A study of male & female gametogenesis in the non-indigenous sea anemone Diadumene lineata in North America, by Katherine Newcomer Synthesis of amino acid containing block copolymers by ATRP, by Julia Nguyen The role of dfoxo in the fat body of Drosophila, by Stephanie Nguyen Examining the associations between diurnal cortisol rhythms, subjective appraisals of stress & depressive symptoms in adolescent girls, by Emily M. Norkett Selfish city, by Alyssa Northrop Let the skies speak: The evolution of aerial discourse & the poetics of flight, by Taylor W. Nutting Blueprint for a new vision: The past, the present & future of war museums in Japan, by Leo K. Obata Uptake of HIV prevention technologies: Conditional cash transfers may bridge the age-based gap in the uptake of voluntary male circumcision in Kenya, by Jackline Atieno Odhiambo Creating kings: Gertrude Bell’s evolving views of Arab political aspirations & the creation of Iraq, by Alexandra Rossana Oviedo Chasing the gangster: Generic repetition & revision in The Sopranos, by Frank Pagliaro Physiological & molecular characterization of light acclimation responses of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, by Catherine J. Pang Sulfate reduction at Deep Springs Lake, California: Applicability to the dolomite problem? by Michelle E. Paradis The North Korean mass education system, by Eilin Rafael Perez Completions of reduced local rings with prescribed minimal prime ideals, by Byron Perpetua Simultaneous inference on margins of binary data, by Faraz W. Rahman “Was that a good performance?!” The effect of visual cues on judgments of music performance quality, by SarahVictoria Skylar Rosemann Sister goddesses in exile: Gender roles within the Ache Lhamo performances of Tibetan refugee communities, by SarahVictoria Skylar Rosemann The economic & social implications of patterns in internship participation, by Sarah Rosenberg SCO6672 in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): Defining its role as a carrier protein phosphodiesterase in antibiotic production, by Georgiana Salant Testing Benford’s law, by Jirapat Samranvedhya She-Wolf, written & performed by Sarah E. Sanders Characterizing the subcellular localization oh Hspb7 in developing zebrafish embryos, by John B. Sanderson Investigating the role of dfoxo in affecting the central nervous system, bang-sensitivity, foraging & starvation in Drosophila, by Rahul Sangar Louis I. Kahn’s memorial to the six million Jewish martyrs & the architecture of remembrance, by Henry Schmidt Atmospheres of sound: Debussy’s impressionism & the music of Beethoven & Messiaen, by Daniel Schreiner Building sum-product networks, by Daniel T. Seita Lives of their own: A social history of the German Democratic Republic examined through Die Kinder von Golzow, by Joon Hun Seong Savages or activists? U.S. journalists narrate Ecuadorian indigenous movements, 1990-1995, by Quinn Squires Solfisburg The American feeling: Female writers’ reflective process of the sentimental bind, by Nitza Solis From grassroots to government: A study of social movement to political party transformations in Bolivia, Brazil & Ecuador, by Ariana Spiliotes Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating & Homo sapiens evolution: Evolutionary significance of [greater than] 200,000-year-old Homo sapiens teeth found in Tanzania, by Kassandra Violet Spiller A place apart from place: The relief & vanity of Oriental escape in selections of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poetry & James Joyce’s Araby & Ulysses, by Elizabeth Brodie Stern A novel model for white nose syndrome in little brown bats, by David Stevens Peter/Wolf, by Adam J. Strawbridge Negotiating narrative: Reading accounts of sex work & sex trafficking through Daniel Defoe, by Amanda Su Maximal bipartite subgraphs of special 4-regular planar graphs, by Sean Sutherland Sandusky County, Ohio: A community at war, by Nathaniel Chase Sutton Limiting spectral measures of random matrix ensembles with a polynomial link function, by Kirk Swanson Edible forest gardening at the Clark Art Institute, by Sonja M.N. Thalheimer Examination of the protective effects of progesterone in a mouse model of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury, by Megan H. Trager Primes in arithmetic progressions of polynomials, by Samuel Tripp Paul Klee’s drawings: Line, temporality & space, by Xiaoxiao Tu Atatürk & the language reforms of Turkey: One man’s vision & the future of a nation, by Nicholas Tyson Polymeric micelles with varying hydrophobic blocks for delivery of therapeutics, by Bianca A. Ulloa Developing novel non-heme iron catalytic systems using amino acid & ester derived ligands for olefin epoxidation, by Areli Valencia “Every joke is a tiny revolution”: Political humor in Egypt, by Isabel Fairchild Vázquez Development of biochemical & chemical systems for novel antibiotic discovery, by Chau D. Vo Measurement of the hyperfine structure of the 7P1/2 state & the 8P1/2 state in 205Tl & 203Tl, by Gabrielle Vukasin As you like it: Frauds, charlatans & bullshit, by Madeline Vuong Reciprocal modulation of A. tumefaciens type VI secretion system & host defense expression, by Melinda Wang Educational differentials in morality: Evidence from the U.S. census & CPS, by Sam Woodbury The influence of grade leniency & student gender on student evaluations of female teachers in traditional & online classroom settings, by Mattia Wruble The new economic geography of industrial agglomerations in China, by Dan Zhao Expression of small heat shock protein HSPB7 in the zebrafish heart is essential to valvulogenesis, by Kaijie Zheng Synthesis & modeling of diaryl pyrazole & diaryl isoxazole compounds for CckA & PhoQ inhibition, by Anna S. Zhou