Creating Knowledge
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
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