Commencement 2013

The Arts

Marvin Hamor Bernardo

Art

The Continuity and Evolution of Chinese Design

Alisa Mohrgan Bones

Art

Subtractive Painting: or, ADHD Color Fields

Andrew Cunningham Brown

Theatre

Flesh, Ideology, and Silence Embodying the Social Drama of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba

Elizabeth Ivanova Dinkova

Theatre

Communicating Across Differences: Directing Approaches to the Socialist Absurd

Autumn Cortney Dobbins

Theatre

Performing the Digital: Translating Cyberspatiality into Physical Performance Space

Matthew Karl Eilar

Music

Samuel Barber’s Vanessa and the Operatic Tradition

Katherine Chandler French

Art

The Museum of Modern Art and the Exhibition of Futurism: The Founding Years Through 1961

Emily Marie Goble

Art

Chronotropics: Aesthetics of the Moribund

Daniel F.R. Henry

Music

Technology’s Role in Music Composition: The Origins and Influence of Dubstep

Charles Scott Higgins

Art

Indian Style

Nicholas Christian Irvin

Art

On Diagrams and Diagrammatic Aesthetics: Mark Lombardi, Hanne Darboven, Thomas Hirschhorn

Allison D King

Art

Infringement: A Study of the Impacts of Copyright Law on New Media Art

Amandine Malkovich

Art

Painterly gastronomy

James Henry Mason

Art

Games Effecting Gameplay

Marisa Hope Rowland

Art

For the Record

Arion Paige Russell

Theatre

Everyday Performance: An Exploration of Inspiration in Costume and Clothing

Rebecca Gilbert Switzer

Art

Fragile: Life and Decay of Sugar and Body

Cora Saar Walters

Theatre

“Seed It All in Visions”: Cultural Sustainability and the Aesthetic Radicality of Storytelling in Appalachian Community-Based Performance

History & Social Sciences

Ezwan Amzar Abdullah Faiz

Economics

Sowing Philanthropy: An Empirical Analysis of Reed College Young Alumni Giving

Nathan Blair Allen

History

Changes in Hindu Personal Law in the Context of Ideological Shifts during Colonial and Postcolonial India

Casey John Anderson

Economics

The Effect of Fixed and Mobile Telecommunications on Economic Productivity

Nicolas Alan Arms

Anthropology

Spirits and Metamorphosis in Chocóan Thought

David Azrael

Political Science

Opening the Closed Society: An Argument for Rawlsian Open Borders

Andrew Lee Barney

Political Science

Wherever You Go, You Will Be a Polis: Hannah Arendt on Politics and Modernity

Aubrey L.M. Bauer

Anthropology

Speaking Utopia: Kibbutz Architectonics in Israeli-Palestine Landscapes

AnnaLise Cornelia Bender-Brown

Anthropology

Female Genital Cutting Intervention Projects and Girls’ Agency

Nicole Marie Betancourt

Political Science

An Analysis of Mainstream Pro-Choice Rhetoric Using a Theory of Neoliberal Political Rationality

Patrick Miles Bryan

History

Earth First! & Ecology

Heather Suiwah Chan

History

Familiar but Foreign: The Hybridity of Han Chinese Ethnic Attire, 1644–1930

Katharine Chen

Sociology

The Commercialization of the Unmanaged Heart: The Case of Argentine Tango Dance Instruction

Danielle Erica Ciccone

History

Working With my Brothers, Fighting Beside my Sisters: Gay Men, Lesbians, Activism and ACT UP/NY

Garret Anderson Conour

Economics

Predicting Consumer Welfare Loss In A Hypothetical Chinese Rare Earth Embargo

Taylor Lea Cross-Whiter

History

The Radical Right in Britain From 1945-1999

Grayson Michael Curtis

History

Building the Enlightened City: Ruin, Reason and the Reconstruction of Post-earthquake Lisbon, 1755–1775

Clarice Winona Jane Cutler

Political Science

Political, Financial, and Environmental Influences upon Land Conservation Easements in the Conterminous United States

Lauren Elizabeth DeRosa

Economics

The Creative Labor Market in Portland, Oregon

Emily Catherine Due

Anthropology

Foreign Bodies: Migration, the U.S. Nation, and the Imaginative Geographies of Public Health

Alexander Hoch Eveleth

Political Science

Deterrence, Credibility, and the Absence of High-Level Arms Control Negotiations Between the United States and the PRC

Soudea Antoinette Forbes

Anthropology

Liberating Les Beurettes

Harry Osborne Fukano

History

Irish In the Civil War: America’s Wild Geese

Emily Alisa Rachel Goldman

History

“I Have Told The Truth”: Realism, Regionalism, and the Great Depression in Children’s Fiction by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lois Lenski

Carl Gunnar Hedman

Economics

A Reinvestigation of the Effects of Neighborhood on Employment and Earnings Outcomes in the Interim Period of the Move to Opportunity Experiment

Zachary Edward Horváth

Economics

Does Broadband Internet Make Us Happier? Evidence from Individual Survey Responses in Sixteen European Countries, 2002-2011

Dorothy Rose Howard

History

Visuality and Politics in Weimar Era Photobooks of Technology and Mobilization

Sean Arthur Howard

Economics

A Theory and Practice of Money Laundering

Huazejia

Anthropology

Constructing “Civilized” Subjects and “Stable” Societies Through The Reorganization of Space: The Nomadic Settlement Project Among Tibetans in Amdo

Lai Jiang

Economics

An Empirical Study of Whether U.S. States Reformed Eminent Domain Laws In Response to the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Kelo v. New London

Patrick Burton Johnson

History

The Old Capital: Urban Modernity in Republication Beijing, 1900-1937

Kaatje Leilani Jones

Anthropology

Journeys in Paradox A Medieval Pilgrimage in 21st Century Spain

Stella Lucia Jones

Anthropology

The Anatomy of a Promise: Exploring the Epistemology of Truth and Trust in the Vlax Romani Kris

Lillian Anastasia Karabaic

Economics

Let’s Get Physical: Valuation of Bikeability in Portland’s Apartment Rental Market

Daniel Tomás Ku

Sociology

Disrupting the Network: the Structure of Hacktivism

Emily Melissa Lai

Political Science

“Let’s Talk About Sex (Strikes)”: A Comparative Analysis of “Sex Strikes” in Liberia, Kenya, and the U.S.

Jeremy Boyd Laughton

Economics

Negligent Hiring and the Effectiveness of Legal Incentives

Mary Matilda Lindeblad-Fry

Sociology

Rez-onomics: A Cross Comparative Analysis of Tribal Economic Performance

Nina Liss-Schultz

Political Science

Limitations of Discourse The Use of Rights in the Health Care Debate

Su Liu

Economics

Schrödinger’s Hat: Decision Making and Uncertainty in Real and Virtual Worlds

Elizabeth Grace Mastrangelo

Anthropology

Please Don’t Pick the Cotton: Representations of Gullah Geechees and Paternalistic Ideology in 21st Century Cultural Resource Management

Alexander Lewis May

Economics

Big Money, Big Trouble; Protectionism and National Security Concerns in FDI Regulations Worldwide

Justin Reeves McMillan

Political Science

The Procurement of the V-22 Osprey: a Policy Narrative Analysis

Brian David Moore

Economics

All News Is Bad News: The Effects of Policy Uncertainty on Manufacturing Investment

Nora Mullman

History

Symbols of Transgression: Turkish Imagery in the Early English Coffeehouses

Andreina Del Carmen Mundarain

Political Science

Electoral Fraud, Democratic Bias, and Authoritarian Regimes

Laura Muco Naraguma

Sociology

African Immigration and Integration to Portland, Oregon

Hai Thi Hong Nguyen

Economics

Electricity Restructuring in Vietnam: Why? And How? An Approach from Economic Theory and Country Lessons

Cameron Ruston Joseph Nilles

Economics

Local Fast Food: An Econometric Analysis of Sales and Optimal Expansion Locations

Benjamin Nortey

Anthropology

Boko Haram: The Amorphous Absolute Enemy

Melissa Dawn Osborne

Sociology

Smoking With Felons: Building Community and Eroding Barriers in the Isolated Liminal Space of Reentry

Robert James Paley

History

A Tragedy of Good Intentions: The United States’ Approach to Pacification in the Vietnam War

Lilliana Bourdo Paratore

History

“this Spirit of the desert”: On Women’s Narratives of Self, Landscape, and Alterity, 1850-1903

Kristina Marie Perez

Economics

Cost Benefit Analysis of the Portland Composts! Program

Erdis Ovel Perla

History

What to Do When All the Ships Have Gone Out to Sea: Interpreting the Role of Government Regulation and Enforcement in the Rise and Fall of the Shipping and Trading Industry in Fujian during the Ming and Qing

Evan Millspaugh Pikulski

History

Auferstanden aus Ruinen Architecture and Urban Planning in the GDR

Nicholas Mayer Pittman

Economics

The Effect of Low-Income Housing Developments on Nearby Home Sale Prices in Portland, Oregon

Garnett George Puett IV

Political Science

Agricultural Biotechnology: Food, Discipline, & Empire

Jessa Elizabeth Ramsey

Sociology

The Real “Housewives” of Moscow: Exploring the Wealth, Status and Personal Narratives of Russia’s Female Elite

Kelly Marie Reed

Anthropology

Based on a True Story: An Examination of the Relationship between Fiction and Ethnography

Ariana Ruth Samuelson

Anthropology

New Man, New Nation? Gender-Based Violence, Nation-Building, and Historical Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Daniel Jacob Sellers

Political Science

Accountability Without Democracy: Lessons from African Famines in the 1980s

Lucy Sexton

Political Science

Law As A Language Game

Taro Mergenthaler Shido

Political Science

The Experience and Politics of Giorgio Agamben: retracing Spectacular Elections with Citizens United

Laramie Hermine Cody Van Duzer Silber

Anthropology

Homeland Heroes, Desire, and Loyalty: Right-Wing Nationalism, Norse Mythology and Task of World Building

Coleman Samuel Smith

Anthropology

“The Market Climbs the Hill”: Mega-Events and the Neoliberal Production of Space in Rio de Janeiro

Samuel Benarde Sutphin

Economics

Megaevents as International Signals: The Effects of the Pan American Games on International Trade

Emily MeiMei Taw

History

Theaters of Memory: The Architectural Practice of Writing and Uncovering Memory in Post WWII Germany

Taylor Calamity Thompson

Anthropology

Sights and Sites of the Self: Sex Reassignment Surgical Tourism in Thailand and the Politics of Consumption

Talia Yudkin Tiffany

Sociology

Vital Social Ecology: Investigating the State and Forms of Contemporary International Communities

Zoe Chase Tsavdarides

Anthropology

Spectacular!: Performance and Representation in the Modern Olympics

Joseph B. Warren

Economics

Money Supply by Profit-Seeking Firms

Political Science

Evolutionary Theory and Institutional Change

Creighton Taylor Weidner

Anthropology

Anthropophagic Frontier: Cannibal Ethics in the Age of Biocolonialism

Rozenn Marie Suzanne Welsh

History

The Overseas Chinese in Early Colonial Indochina

Eric Sorensen Whalen

Economics

Quality and Signaling in the Video-game industry

Brittany Nicole Wideman

Sociology

The Contemporary Culture of Right Wing Extremism

A Content Analysis on Framing in Mass Media of the Internet Age

Dagny Joy Wise

History

To “fall in love with such a beautiful body”: Female Performance and Star Image in Japan, 1629 - 1939

Ashley Ming-Hui Yang

Political Science

Does School Board Selection Procedure Matter? Intra-Board Conflict as a Function of Selection Procedure and Its Influence on Student Achievement

Literature & Languages

Richard Price Aldersley

English

Ernest Hemingway’s Naturalist Bildungsroman: The Nick Adams Story and the Ecology of Development

Quinn Charles Amacher

English

Imagining Bodies in The Winter’s Tale

R. Conner Barnett

French

The Fantastic in 19th Century French Poetics

Stephanie Hope Bastek

English

Everything Will Be All Right, Nothing Will Get Better

Willa Jean Bauman

English

Words to Clothe a Naked Thing: Mysticism and Myth-Making in John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown

Michelle Kathleen Baxa

Chinese

Autumn is Coming: The Poetry of Qui Jin

Jordan Alexander Berg

Spanish

Barcelona Multiplied: The Filmic Reinterpretations of Idealized Urban Space

Grant Taylor Burgess

English

Prospero Steps Forth: Parabasis in The Tempest, Tristram Shandy, and At Swim-Two-Birds

Zoe Miriam Bursztajn-Illingworth

English

Nameless Spectacle: Audience and Form in Early Cinema and Williams’ Spring and All

Sarah MacPartlin Carlisle

English

“So Fine a Brush”: Jane Austen and the Development of Free Indirect Discourse

Edward Volney Carson

Spanish

Inferno Unbound: the Aesthetic Dimension of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Arielle Sarice Collins

English

Light Privilege: Navigating the Politics of Exclusion in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Quicksand

Cecilia Grace D’Anastasio

Classics

The Myth of Er: A Meditation on the Value of True Belief in Plato’s Republic

Olivia Clementine Durif-Varambon

English

Competing Prose Styles in Hardy’s The Woodlanders

Amy Egerton-Wiley

Chinese

Already Exiled from Home: History and Nostalgic Dissonance in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum

Taylor C.G. Farnham

Classics

Sallust the Revolutionary Subordinate: Bellum Jugurthinum as Contemporary Propaganda

Thomas Raymond Finlon III

Spanish

Photographic Representations in Short Stories of the Río de la Plata

Lydia Fitzgerald

General Literature

Lolita in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility: Iconicity and the Reproducible Image

Simon Joseph Friedland

German

Correspondences: The Reconstruction of a Women’s Romantic Literary Tradition in the Works of Karoline von Günderrode, Bettine von Arnim, and Christa Wolf

Ylana Loeb Frydman

English

Movement Through Static: How Repetition Animates the Experience of Reading William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Eva Manuhani Csilla Gabor-Fourcade

French

“Ce Soleil Toujours Levant”: The Dialogical Dream in the Works of Yves Bonnefoy

Kyle Davis Giller

Spanish

A Portrait Done in Blood: Painting and Ideological Representation in the Comedías of Calderón de la Barca

Arien Hughes Gutierrez

Classics

Marks Upon the Body

Crystel Tsuzumi Hadley

English

“Trying to Speak Proper”: Vernacular Language in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Elizabeth McLeod Heintges

Classics

Songs of Cyrene: Genre and Foundation in Callimachus and Pindar

Andrew Charles Hereford

English

Homo-aesthetic Inhumanities: Affect, History, and Community in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

Adrienne Nicole Herr

English

Speaking Space : Naming Breath

Heather Ashley Hill

English

Magic by Gaslight: Detective as Magician Figure in Victorian Crime Novels

Rebecca En-Szu Hu-Van Wright

English

“I might look simple, but I Definitely ain’t no fool!” African American Vernacular English and the construction of black identity in the Simple short stories of Langston Hughes

Samuel George Jackson

English

Living Images, Imaging Lives: Six Readings of Character through Ekphrasis

McCullough Kelly-Willis

French

À peu près muet, presque sans vie: Silence in the work of Samuel Beckett and Francis Ponge

Erin Elizabeth Kleinfeld

English

This Is Not The Truth: Stories

Matthew Mahavir Kumar

English

“No one is India”: Geography and Ontology in Contemporary Postcolonial Studies and the Literature of the British Raj

Audrey Sage Lorberfeld

Classics

The Paradox of Alexander in the Greek Alexander Romances

Alanna Dora Lynn

English

Translating a Genre, Bridging a Void: Metafiction, Chronotopes, and Intersectionality in Select Feminist Fairy Tales

Patrick James Lyons

French

Paroles d’une rive à l’autre rive: Self-Writing Towards the Other in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Literature

Max Louis Maller

Chinese

Xiangsheng and its Audience: Comedy, Remonstrance, and the Invention of Tradition in Modern China

Kaitlin Allison McCully

Spanish

The Dehumanization and Rehumanization of the Modern Self in Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York

Alan Daniel Montecillo

Chinese
Songs in the Jin Ping Mei Cihua 金瓶梅詞話

Greta Louise Moran

English

Velveteen

Theodore R.A. Ovrom

Classics

(De) Constructing Narrative: An Examination of Contests in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Marija Perunovic

English

The Rise and Fall of Ikar Gubelkijan: A Translation

Megan Erica Ryan

English

Disability Refigured: Oliver Sacks and the Auto/biography

Maya Claire Scherr-Willson

Spanish

Towards a Humanized Vision of the Santa Muerte

Aaron Michael Smith

Classics

Homer’s Barbarians: The Invention of Foreignness in the Iliad

Stephen Andrew Stack

English

The Uses of Pastoral

Rose Eugenia Statman

Chinese

“Make the past serve the present”: images of the past in two pre-Cultural Revolution modern-day Peking Operas

Elizabeth Brianna Stoddard

English

Erasure

Sara Yan Tan

French

Re-Anchoring Language in the Material: A Study of the Poetry and Prose of Mallarmé

François Gabriel Vigneault

English

“Wow! That’s the Stuff Comics Are Made Of!”: Traditional Comic Book Elements in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas

Harrison Vinther Watson

English

A Lack of Completion: The Limitation and Expansion of Narrative in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire

Sarah Elizabeth Wheels

English

The Inscrutability of Madness: Postmodernism and Interpretive Challenges in Vladimir Nabokov’s Defense, Lolita, and The Original of Laura

Joel Kelly Whitehead

Chinese

Thymotic Community and the Sovereign Chinese Self in Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem and Other Root-seeking Fiction

Roland Dah-Wen Wu

Spanish

Por la mutación textual: La traducción de El Gran Vidrio de Mario Bellatin

Timothy Yi

English

The Phantom Tollbooth: An Allegory

Mathematics & Natural Sciences

Wyatt Kennedy Alt

Mathematics

Enumeration of Domino Tilings on the Projective Grid Graph

Neil William Anderson

Physics

Reggeized central production of ƞ and ƞ’ mesons

Rachel M. Baden

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The N-Terminal Helix and DNA Binding by the Manganese Transport Regulator MntR

Michael Fu’ad Badr

Biology

Transposons in Transition: Rethinking Models of Mobile Genetics

Amber Mia Bang

Biology

The Role of GABAA in the Synchronization of the Xenopus Laevis Vocal Central Pattern Generator

Alan Marshall Baur

Physics

Chasing Pinwheels: Measuring the Force of the Electric Wind

Zachary Owen Brown

Physics

Phase Transitions in a Chipping Model on Simple and Bipartite Lattices

Rhea Chawla

Biology

The Effect of Mutation Salt Tolerance in Daphnia pulex

Vaughn Collins Cody

Chemistry

Effects of Thermal Annealing on the Structure and Electronic Properties of Sol-Gel Derived V2O5 Materials

Alec Friedrich Condon

Biology

PinX1 inhibition of telomerase and PCR

Jack McTavish Craig

Biology

Salmon Increase in the Reed Canyon: A Multi-Year Study of Conservation and Restoration

Emily Marie Crotteau

Mathematics-Biology

Alignment Algorithms in Theory and Practice: Applications in Cichlid Fish

Kaslin Portlock Daniels

Biology

Enzymatic Antioxidant Response of Three Differently Acclimated Lichens to Desiccation and Rehydration

Madeline Rose Dansky

Biology

Transcriptional Regulation of the Antioxidant Gene NQO1 by Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators

William Kenneth Dibb

Biology

A Performance of a Lifetime: Thermal and Morphological Effects on C-Start and Sprint Performance of Bombina orientalis Predator Avoidance Response

Danielle Catherine Draper

Chemistry

NO2 effects on nighttime secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation

William Craig Eichelberger

Physics

A Numerical Model for the Partial Coalescence of Small Fluid Drops: Navier-Stokes and the Damped Harmonic Oscillator

Emma Elizabeth G. Farley

Chemistry

Three Stereocenters, One Product: A Computational Study of a Stereoselective Amine-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction

Julia Louise Fisk

Physics

Emission Intermittency in CdSe Quantum Dots

Ian Andrew Flower

Physics

Deep Blue: Examining Cerenkov Radiation Through Non-traditional Media

Andre Sterenberg Frankenthal

Physics

The Quantum-Mechanical Dynamics of a Particle in the Anti-de Sitter Space Central Potential

Michael Jeffry George-Hallgren

Mathematics

Toward a Category-Theoretic Construction of the Adeles

Katrina Joelle Gertz

Biology

Social Regulation of Adult Neurogenesis in Astatotilapia burtoni

Malkolm Edward Graffe

Chemistry

Electrical Properties of V2O5 Thin Films Synthesized from the Sol-Gel Method

Evan Michael Green

Chemistry

A Journey into the Unknown: Exploring Manganese Specificity in ManS

Maxwell Edison Gurewitz

Physics

Multilayer Perceptrons

Nadir Hajouji

Mathematics

The Semihull Theorem for Siegel Modular Forms

Jeffrey Okino Hamada

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Effect of Structural Variation of Quinolone-3-diarylethers on Cytochrome bc1 Selectivity

Anna Julia Henkin

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Characterization of RNA-binding by MBNL zinc fingers 1/2 using fluorescence anisotropy

Samuel Francis Hopkins

Mathematics

The Quantum Hidden Subgroup Problem for Semidirect Products of Cyclic Groups

Nicole Noel Horbinski

Chemistry

Investigating the Potential Photocatalytic Activity of Molybdates and Tungstates

Lucas Julian Howard

Physics

A Numerical Investigation of Water Waves

Alec James Jackson

Physics

Optical Variability of BL Lac Object MRK 421

Erin Elizabeth Jacot

Chemistry

Exploring the Activation Mechanism of ScaR Through Mutations to its Metal Binding Sites

Zina Penelope Jenny

Biology

Acute Effects of Estrogen on CyclinT1 Recruitment to the Fos Gene During Transcriptional Activation

Lucas A Johns

Physics

Exploring the Conformal Equivalence of Metrics

Sarah Charlotte Johnson

Biology

Mitochondrial Calcium Regulation in Drosophila melanogaster: A Genetic Screen for Modifiers of the GMR/GAL4 Driven dMICU Knockdown Eye Phenotype

Bibek Kafle

Physics

On the Spectral Properties of Quasicrystals and Other Deterministic Aperiodic Structures

Ross William Killion

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

DR3 Receptor Exclusivity: An Examination of the Expression of the DR3 receptor in Lymphocyte-Rich Tissues and Lymphoma Cell Lines

Carolyn Kim

Physics

Combined Program, Columbia University

Jonathan Miners Kindem

Physics

Optical Precursors

Ilsa Talaya Kirby

Chemistry

A Series of Unfortunate Compounds: Improving the Solubility of Host-Targeted Antivirals for In Vivo Testing

Brendan Francis Kohrn

Biology

An examination of anthocyanin gene copy number in two northwest Delphinium species

Wren Elliot Nicholas Kominos-Marve

Biology

A Kinetic Mechanism of Splicing in the Proto-oncogene c-fos

Jacob Swann Kopczynski

Mathematics

Pushy Computing: Complexity Theory and the Game Abalone

Laura Krause

Chemistry

Adventures in Field Work: A Quantitative Analysis of Ambient Organic Aerosol Composition by FTIR with Meterological and Gas-phase Oxidant Characterization in the Columbia River Gorge

Ashley Rose Kroll

Biology

Characterizing the Transposble Element Content of the Manduca sexta Genome

Lukas Christopher Kuczynski

Physics

Extending Piecewise-Linear Chaos to Ultra-High-Frequencies Using Time-Delayed Feedback

Genevra Marie Kuziel

Biology

In Vivo Interaction of the Xenopus laevis proteins xTRF1 and xPinX1.

Mikhail Lepilov

Mathematics

Quantum State Discrimination of Symmetric Mixed States

Benjamin Alexander Lerch

Biology

Transcript Abundance Estimation of Cycad Root Tissue Using RNA-Seq

Ethan Bernard Linck

Biology

Molecular phylogenetics of the Louisiade White-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus)

Laura N.M. Lockshon

Biology

Mind Control on the Fly: genetic expression in response to Sex Peptide receipt in female Drosophila melanogaster

Xueping Long

Physics

Implementation of a Chaotic Electromechanical Oscillator Described by a Hybrid Differential Equation

Victor Barna Lowney

Physics

Altering the Grid Structure beneath the Active Walker Model

Daniel Benjamin Lybrand

Biology

An investigation of the role of ascorbate peroxidase in the cyanobacteria-cycad symbiosis

Luis Edmund Maldonado

Mathematics

Generalizing the Curry-Howard Isomorphism to Classical Logic

Andrew Phillip Malkin

Mathematics

A Combinatorial Game Theoretic Analysis of the Impartial Game of Dots and Boxes

Ian William McCahill

Biology

Metabolic Engineering of Enhanced Stress Tolerance in Poplar

Rhiana Davida Meade

Chemistry

An Investigation into the Metal-Binding Properties of the Manganese Transporter MntA

Galen Patrick Miley

Chemistry

Towards the Eradication of Malaria: Novel Introduction of Acid Sensitive Functionality in Endochin-Like-Quinolones

Caitlin Hope Miller

Biology

Aggression, Behavioral Plasticity, and the Brain: Neural Expression Patterns of Nonapeptide Receptors and Social Environment in Julidochromis

Maria Pia Molina Sefchick

Biology

A Comparison of Resveratrol-Induced Apoptosis in Amphibian and Mammalian Cancer Cells: Expression of Fas, FasL, and p53

Julius Adam Monello

Physics

Two-Dimensional Stable Configurations of BuckyBalls®

Noah Keller Muldavin

Physics

The N-Body Simulation of Galaxy Dynamics

Amelia Ann Munson

Biology

It’s Not Where You’re From, It’s Where Your Mom is From: An Investigation into the Effect of Maternal Care on Stress Response in Astatotilapia Burtoni

Ellen Kelm Murphy

Chemistry

A Novel Synthetic Route to Porous V2O5

Teresa Cybele Myers

Biology

Effects of chronic melatonin treatment on cell proliferation and MAPK signaling in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells

Robert Phillip Norfleet

Physics

Conductance Quantization in Gold Nanowires

Dillon Bolster Nye

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

A Crystallographic Study of SloR

Anand Panchal

Biology

Zinc as a Therapeutic Agent in Enteric Infections

Mica Emmett Peacock

Biology

Proliferation and Differentiation in the Developing Zebrafish egghead Mutant Retina

Collin Fisher Perkinson

Chemistry-Physics

Real-Time Tunable-Emission Mn2+: ZnSe/CdSe Nanocrystal Films

Joseph Gabriel Perry

Biology

Mechanisms of Synchronization in the Vocal Central Pattern Generator of Xenopus laevis

Alexander B.K. Perusse

Mathematics

The Application of the Theory of Representations in the Natural Sciences

Carolynn Atlanta Polanchek

Physics

Composing Cavities and Stringing 19 Tones into One Octave

Christina Lynn Porter

Physics

Der Kugelblitz! Laboratory Ball Lightning via Electrical Arcing Through Silicon

Benjamin Robert Puliafito

Biology

Bromodomain Protein Brd4 is an Essential Cofactor in Rapid, Estrogen-Mediated Transcriptional Activation and TFF1 Pre-mRNA Splicing

Neha Krothapalli Rao

Chemistry

Calculating Depolarization Ratios through the Irreducible Tensor Method for Dipole-Forbidden Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Clara Mott Redwood

Mathematics

Curving Paper: A Folding Algorithm for Origami Ellipsoid Patterns Using Curved Crease Couplets

Shaurav Regmi

Biology

Importance of Ler Linker Region in Oligomerization and E. coli Pathogenesis

Marcus Paul Robinson

Mathematics

Critical Groups of Simplicial Complexes

Kathryn Sydney Martin Sackinger

Chemistry

Synthetic Models for Second-Generation Monoterpene Chemistry in NO3•-Influenced Aerosol Formation

Katharine Elizabeth Schimel

Biology

Connectivity metrics and the role of roadsides in conservation

Kayla Adele Sheridan

Chemistry

On the Development and Synthesis of Thienopyridine Dengue Antivirals: A Novel Approach to a Neglected Problem

Lindsay Irene Sonderhouse

Physics

Phase and Amplitude Instability in an Optoelectronic Oscillator with Delayed Self-Feedback

Rachel Rose Strominger

Biology

Metabolic niche: the yqeF gene of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Elisabeth Ann Thomas

Physics

The Problem of Microwave Absorption in DNA

Colin Charles Townes-Anderson

Biology

FGF Signaling and Stem Cell Behavior in the Ciliary Marginal Zone of Danio rerio

Darko Trifunovski

Mathematics

Computing the Extreme Core of Siegel Modular Forms

Michael Alexander Vignal

Physics

A Thermal Mapping of the Reed Research Reactor Core

Terra Stormi Vleeshouwer-Neumann

Biology

Effects of the Retinoic Acid Pathway on the Behavior of Retinal Stem Cells in Zebrafish

Halley Wren Vrijmoet

Physics

Numerically Levitating Objects with Rockets

Connor James Wallace

Physics

Two-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Fermion Systems

Matthew N Yee

Biology

Neural Changes in the Androgen-Treated Female African Clawed Frog

Austin David Young

Mathematics

The Finite Sums Theorem: a Topological Approach

Philosophy, Religion, Psychology & Linguistics

Melissa Lynn Aslo

Religion

The 99: A Study of Religion and Media

Taylor Sumner Bailey

Philosophy

What Can Zie Know?: A Radical Feminist Exploration of how Knowledge Suffers in Oppression-Based Societies

Margaret Rose Balk

Psychology

Anxiety, Bodily Awareness, and Substance Use

Jiung Bang

Philosophy

Why the Atheist Who Accepts the Theory of Evolution is Irrational

Yogan Wayra Barrientos

Psychology

The Experience of Competition and Scarcity while Performing on a Cognitive Task

Allison L Berry

Psychology

The Effects of Chronic Peripheral Oxytocin Administration in Diet-Induced Obese Rats on a High Protein Diet

Katelyn Louise Isabelle Best

Linguistics

Talk to the Hand: Counterevidence to the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis from Nicaraguan Sign Language

Deirdre Kathryn Cain

Psychology

The Effects of Motivation on False Memory Adoption

Mackenzie Eileen Callis

Psychology

The Effects of Social Exclusion on Behavioral Willingness in Simulated Collegiate Drinking Contexts

Laila Judith Caron

Religion

The World is Waiting to Sing the Song of Shabbos: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and Twentieth Century Jewish Revitalization

Aaron Carreras

Psychology

Reevaluating Learning Without Awareness: An extension of Williams (2005)

Lauren Elizabeth Cary

Philosophy

Respect for the Land: A Study of Ecological Functioning and Moral Consideration

Robert Edward Chiles

Psychology

The Impact of Lineup Instructions on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

Anna Marilyn Cooper

Religion

The Ongoing Conversation: Tradition, Authenticity, and Contemporary Mosque Architecture

Genevieve Fullerton Dash

Psychology

Academic Motivation and Motives to Use or Abstain From Marijuana in Adolescents: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

Katherine Ross Davis

Psychology

Exposure to the nonnutritive sweetener saccharin promotes weight gain in adolescent rats and disrupts caloric intake in adults

Elizabeth Ivanova Dinkova

Psychology

Perception of Visual Causality in the Pigeon

Jane M.H. Doerflinger

Psychology

Kapow!?: A Holistic Investigation of Violent Media and Aggression

Kimberly Ann Durkin

Linguistics

Computer Input Methods for Languages that do not use the Latin Alphabet

Ariel Marton Fischer

Philosophy

Biomedical Ethics: Arguing for the Medical Model of Human Disability

Juan Antonio Flores

Linguistics

Lavender Linguistics in the Rose City: A Linguistic investigation of the construction of “top” and “bottom” stances by gay men in Portland, Oregon

Annelyse Robin Gelman

Psychology

The Effects of Improvisation on Creative Problem-Solving

Gina Camille Giliberti

Religion

Henry Chichele’s Corpus: Transi Tombs and the Reconceptualization of the Ecclesiastic Body in 15th Century England

Moriah Sara Gottman

Psychology

Caffeine Acts as a Neuroprotective Agent in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Sharon Lotery Heichman

Psychology

Effects of Ghrelin and Neuropeptide Y Microinjections into the Ventral Tegmental Area on Appetitive Motivation and Food Intake

Rowan Hodges Hildebrand-Chupp

Psychology

“Where’s the harm in that?”: Asexuality, Same-Sex Sexuality, and the DSM Definition of Mental Disorder

Mary Alexandra Houston

Psychology

Do jurors trust their own eyes over the expert when presented with fingerprint evidence?

Rosemary Walton Ingham

Linguistics

The effect of native language formality on acquisition of Japanese formality levels

Haley Lauren Jacobson

Linguistics

Blood Makes The Grass Grow: Athletic Communities, Political Bodies; Constructing Salient Linguistic Identities for Female Athletes In An Intellectual Powerhouse

Aria Ceridwyn Joughin

Religion

(Re)Creating God’s Story: New Monasticism, Narrative, and the Construction of Religious Identity

August Jonas Krater

Psychology

How Anger Helps Memory: An Investigation into Emotion-Based Memory Narrowing

Natalia Ann Leontovich

Psychology

An exploration of ghrelin’s effects within the basolateral amygdala in a repeated elevated plus maze paradigm

Clara Rose Lewis

Psychology

The Collegiate-Simulated Intoxication Digital Elicitation (C-SIDE) and Concurrent Alcohol Use, Context, and Motives

Melissa Dawn Lewis

Psychology

An Open Science Electrophysiology Study of Anxiety and Error Monitoring

Daire Eoin MacFadden

Religion

Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Critique of Modernity

Rodney Ellis Mastick

Psychology

The Effect of Ambiguity in Situation and Threat on Evacuation Behavior: Extending the Social Identity Model of Collective Flight Behavior

Elizabeth Ashley Maxon

Psychology

The Influence of Relational Language on Theory of Mind Reasoning in Early Childhood: Exploring the Use of Labels in False-Belief Tasks

William Bradford Meese

Psychology

The Effect of Social Identity Threat on College Students With ADHD

Sara Elizabeth Mulliner

Linguistics

“We’re born naked and the rest is a drag”: a sociophonetic investigation of stylistic variation in the speech of an African-American drag performer

Sydney Alysse Negus

Linguistics

The “Hackey” Rink and the Binghamton “A”: a study of dialect change in Upstate New York

Jacob Alonzo Nelken

Psychology

The Effects of Head-Related Transfer Functions on the Enjoyment of Sound

Carlie Hanna Neumann

Psychology

The Zooniversal Nature of Anxiety: A Comparative Assessment of Stereotypic Behavior Across Species

Linda Youjung Oh

Psychology

Can Procrastination be Productive?: Individual and Behavioral Differences of Active Procrastination

Alicia Pang Yoon Ching

Psychology

Stereotypicality and Social Identity Complexity: Considering Multiple Social Identities Under Stereotype Threat

Ethan David Pettyjohn

Psychology

Player Motivation and the Addiction-Engagement Distinction in World of Warcraft

Eugenia Plascencia

Psychology-Linguistics

Using psycholinguistics to investigate the syntactic structure of the dative alternation in Mexican Spanish

Eva Katherine Raisz

Psychology

Social Comparison: Assimilation and Contrast Effects in the Presence of In-group and Out-group Targets

Claire Lauren Ramey

Religion

Through the Veil: The Lord of the Rings as Illuminated by Simone Weil

Kimya Ashley Ramezani

Psychology

Twitter: A Window on Alcohol Use?

Claudia S. Realegeno

Psychology

Better Living through Chemistry: Modafinil as a Pharmacotherapy for Neuropsychological Recovery from Methamphetamine Dependence

Lori Vanessa Rodriguez

Religion

Recovering the Feminine Principle: Ecofeminist Spirituality and Gandhian Stayagraha in the Activism of Vandana Shiva

Salvador Julian Rodriguez

Psychology

Mortality Salience and Intellectual Function

Alexander David Scola

Psychology

Vividness of Mental Imagery as a Predictor for Familiar Face Recognition Proficiency

Juliet P Shafto

Psychology

Neural signatures of conscious face perception: The N170 is absent during inattentional blindness

Robert Sanderson Shryock

Religion

Authenticity in Contemporary Christian Worship Music

Aidan Sigman

Philosophy

Naturalizing Intentionality

Karen Debra Silbert

Psychology

8-OH-DPAT has anxiogenic effects in the ventral amygdala which are reversed by subsequent microinjection of ghrelin

Jack Alan Simonson

Philosophy

Dispositions, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility: An Examination of a New Compatibilist Argument

Frank Alexander Sosa

Psychology

A Method for Examining the Generality of Risky Choice and Loss Aversion Throughout the Animal Kingdom

Hannah Elizabeth Stein

Psychology

Clinical Judgment and Cultural Differences in the Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa

Erin C. Strahan

Linguistics

Word order variation in Mandarin directional complement constructions

Finn Oehlke Terdal

Philosophy

What Does Not Compute?

Jemana Grady Theis

Psychology

“Nature is Not a Place to Visit”: Exploring the Relationship between Childhood Place, Environmental Identity, and Environment-Related Activity

Daniel Vedensky

Linguistics

Georgian Medial Verb Nominalizations

Shelby Elizabeth Renshaw Wauson

Psychology

Investigation of the enhancing effects of ghrelin in the VTA on reward-cue acquisition mediated by the BLA in a reinstatement paradigm

Lucas Baran Wells

Psychology

Why do people make poor choices? A cognitive perspective on real world decision-making

Katherine Eleanor Werner

Religion

Bill vs. William: A Story of Bill Wilson, William James and Alcoholics Anonymous

Nathan Caleb Westbrook

Philosophy

Defending Endurance from the Threat of Coincidence

Simone Elise Wood

Religion

A Dynamic and Digital Zohar: An Experiment in 3D Textual Environments

Clemence Jane Wotherspoon

Psychology

The Interaction Of TRPV1 Channels And CB1 Receptors In The Enhancement Of Emotional Memory Within The Basolateral Amygdala

Loretta Kar-Ning Yiu

Psychology

An Electrophysiological Study of the Time Course of Syntactic and Language Tag Processing During Bilingual Word Recognition

Interdisciplinary

Renata Antonia Barreto

International and Comparative Policy Studies
Peruvian Squatters: A Comparative Case Study of Land Tilting Programs in Rural Regions

James Walter Bianconi

Environmental Studies

Monitoring The Ozonolysis Of α-Pinene Using GC/FID

Martis Earl Buchholz

Mathematics-Economics

An Examination of Rational Speculative Bubble Models: Early Rational Bubbles Models, Herding, and Heterogeneous Beliefs

Jess Aran Delaney

Mathematics-Economics

Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the Black-Scholes Formula

Isabel D. Eisen

American Studies

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on the U.S.: A Consideration

Mackenzie Scott Fuller

International and Comparative Policy Studies
Antibiotic Resistance Policies in England and Canada: The Impact of Physician Payment Type on Socioeconomic Inequality Discourse

Zachary Francis Hailey

Classics-Religion

Christian Identity Formation in Augustine’s De Divinatione Daemonvm

Elizabeth Bates Henderson

Literature-Theatre

Shakespeare For the Lolz: Original Practice, Metatheatricality, and Actor-Audience Interaction

Kelsey Ann Houston-Edwards

Philosophy-Mathematics

The Continuum Hypothesis: A Mathematico-Philosophical Exposition

Alden Rivendale Jones

Mathematics-Economics

Time-Varying Risk Premia and the Euro: a State-Space Model

Michael Scott Kincaid

Mathematics-Economics

Is The Euro Optimal? An Examination of Trade and Cycles in Europe

Rosalind A.C. Lewis

Art-Russian

Haдгpoбнъɪй Maдpигaл: Russian-American Funerary Aesthetics in California and Oregon

Auden Michael Lincoln-Vogel

Art-Russian

Surreal Returns

Malia Nicole McCollister

Environmental Studies

Invasive Species: Immigrant Impact on Native Population

Laura Jeannette Nelson

Classics-Religion

Sensing Divinity: The Dynamics of Sense Perception in Kassia’s Troparion for Holy Wednesday

Tristan MacDonald Nieto

Literature-Theatre

Sex, Drag, & Rock ’N’ Roll: Investigating Performance as Social Activism at The Rocky Horror No Picture Show

Heidi Marie Frances Whitehouse

History-Literature

A “Criminality of Inefficiency”: Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and English-Language Literary Criticism

David Sheppard Wills

Classics-Religion

Reading the Ascesis of Community in the Letters of Dorotheos of Gaza

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Jenna Lynn Berthiaume

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Rethinking the Imperial Archive: The Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) Digital Photographic Archive, Powered by Omeka and Wordpress

Erin DeJesus

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Magazine as World in Miniature: S .M .S . Makes Visible the Invisible Frames of Perception

Julie Sprague Felix

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

“A Plausible Witness” Helen of Troy and the Problem of Truth and Representation in Early Greek Literature

Joseph Sawyer Jatcko

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

False Fathers: Marlen Khutsiev’s Ilich’s Gate and the Myth of Soviet Paternity

Josephine Rae Nealy

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Anti-Immigration Legislation in Alabama: Comparing House Bill 56 to Jim Crow Segregation

Steven Paul Taylor

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

The Mormon Stories