Congratulations, Reed College seniors! Completing the thesis is a capstone of the Reed experience and a tremendous academic accomplishment.
Thesis: Do you understand logging well enough for automation? A comprehensive introductory survey on logging
Thesis: The Poison is in the Medicine: Illness, Refuge, and Humanitiarianism in Paris, France
Thesis: The Effects of Estradiol on Xenopus laevis Vocal Behavior
Thesis: Genre, Gender, Performance, and Power in the Music of BABYMETAL
Thesis: Contortion: A Collection of Short Fiction
Thesis: Maybe Retroflex is Kinda Retro: Exploring the Status of Sibilant Production in Taiwan Mandarin
Thesis: My Life in U+2588
Thesis: A New Drosophila Activity Monitor: Image-Based Video Tracking of D. melanogaster Allows for Circadian Rhythm and Social Behavior Characterization
Thesis: Japanese-American Postwar Literature and Wartime Incarceration from the 1940s-1970s
Thesis: The Life and Legacy of Andreas Vesalius's Fabrica and Being an Author in the Renaissance
Thesis: Old Growth, Hot Topic: Investigating Crown Fuels and Epiphyte Fire Risk in Douglas-fir Forests
Thesis: 11-Ketotestosterone and Aggressive Behavior in Julidochromis transcriptus
Thesis: The Myth of Mining as Sustainable Development: Mining Conflict in the Andes Mountains, 1992-2018
Thesis: There Is No Future Here: Drug War Violence and Depeasantization in Cold War Mexico
Thesis: An Unserious Epic? Sexual Violence in Statius's Achilleid
Thesis: OPC-Ya Later! Investigating the Role of Precursor Cells in Response to Neurodegenerative Injury
Thesis: Hooked on Reed Lake: Competitive interactions between non-native pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) and native threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with consideration of barriers to establishment
Thesis: Tick, Tick, BOOM! The Doomsday Clock, Environmental Catastrophe, and the Cold War, 1939-1991
Thesis: Bioeffect Modeling of the Response of Cancer Cells to Targeted Alpha Therapy Using OpenTOPAS
Thesis: Many Birds, No Stones: Abandonment, Value, and Care in a Maltese Horse Sanctuary
Thesis: Genetic Regulators in Plastic Degrading Bacteria
Thesis: Is Seeing, Perceiving? A Look at Visual Awareness Using Dichoptic Color Fusion
Thesis: Notebooks That Bear Witness to Life: Writing, History-Making, and the Marvelous Real in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Thesis: Communication and Affective Responsiveness: Examining the Influence of Family Functioning on Adolescent Eating Disorder Severity
Thesis: Modulated Signal Filtering: Wouldn’t it be Noise?
Thesis: Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a risk factor for Parkinson’s Disease and CPAP mitigates risk of PD: an EHR- based cohort study in military Veterans
Thesis: Dyanmic Volatility in Financial Markets: An Evaluation of the GARCH Model
Thesis: Decoding EEG Bifurcation Dynamics Around Visual Detection Threshold in No-Report
Thesis: A Naïve Realist Theory of Perception
Thesis: Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II's solution to Pell's Equation
Thesis: The Personal is Political: Autobiographical Performance in Contemporary Dance
Thesis: Understanding Undergraduate College Admissions: A Causal Framework
Thesis: The Effect of Gender & Transness on the Self- & Peer-Directed Protective Behavioral Strategies of Emerging Adults
Thesis: “Society has no clue what to do with my gender”: The mediating effect of transgender/gender non-conforming pride/shame on passing beliefs and mental health outcomes
Thesis: Hilbert-Kunz Functions of Powers of Diagonal Hypersurfaces
Thesis: Reassessing the DHS Wealth Index as a Proxy for Socioeconomic Status: Insights from Large-Scale Surveys in the Middle East and North Africa
Thesis: Constrained Reinforcement learning using Lagrange Multipliers
Thesis: The Board is Set, and the Pieces Are About to Move: Evangelical Apocalyptic Thinking, QAnon, and the Sense of an Ending
Thesis: The Slipping
Thesis: Unnamed House Story
Thesis: Mere Moral Stability or Moral Imperviousness? --- Stability of Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics
Thesis: Layers of Allegory: Interpretation and Meaning Within The Faerie Queene
Thesis: Bit by Bit: Implementing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
Thesis: Effects of Psychological Affect on Tipping
Thesis: Home is Where the Sun Crosses the Horizon: A Collection About a Mixed-Asian Experience
Thesis: This thesis investigates the role of queer women in an ongoing language change, that is, back vowel fronting. I conducted sociolinguistic interviews with nine queer women in Portland, OR and asked them to rate themselves on scales of 1-10 for masculinity, femininity, and queerness. Then, I analyzed their speech with regard to the frontness of the back vowels GOOSE and GOAT. I found that phonetic environment (coronal vs. non-coronal onset), femininity ratings, and Asian identity had statistically significant effects on the fronting of GOOSE and GOAT. A coronal onset predicts a fronter vowel for both GOOSE and GOAT. In contrast, Asian identity predicts a backer vowel for both GOOSE and GOAT, and higher femininity predicts a backer vowel for GOOSE alone. I use theories of indexicality and performativity to explore these results and draw connections between resistance of back vowel fronting and resistance of normativity.
Thesis: Model-free learning activity in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area in Rhesus macaques
Thesis: Keeping It Cool: Effects of Spatial Variation on Thermal Tolerance Evolution in Phytoplankton
Thesis: Branching Out: Phylogenetic Tree Construction and the Method of Invariants
Thesis: Linguistic Shifts and Emotion Regulation Across Languages: The Case of "Estar" in Spanish
Thesis: Surprising Song: Music in Tolkien's Legendarium
Thesis: Indians At Work: The Civilian Conservation Corps “Indian Division” as Federal Reform in Depression-Era Washington State
Thesis: The Book of (Neuro)genesis: Exploring Interactions Among BMP, MAPK, and RA Signaling Pathways During Eye Development
Thesis: Extending Zero-Knowledge PCPs Beyond NP
Thesis: A Tale of Two Species: Uncovering the Interactions Between Bacillus and Pseudomonas on PET Plastics
Thesis: An Unstoppable Labor Force Meets an Immovable Political Machine: The 1886 Electoral Battle Between Organized Labor and the Tammany Hall Machine in New York City
Thesis: I Can Feel The Echoes Reaching
Thesis: Education's Role in the Conservation of Southern Resident Killer Whales
Thesis: Landlord & Context Switches
Thesis: Blank Spaces: Poetry and History in Baudelaire, Valéry, and Char
Thesis: "Our History, Our Way": The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in the Social Movements of the Hawaiian Renaissance
Thesis: Post from the Aimless Road
Thesis: Indonesian and Malaysian Mak Yong: Making and Remaking Culture, Ritual, and Identity
Thesis: First Impressions Matter? How Initial Exposure to a Film Sequence Shapes Subsequent Understanding of Cause and Effect
Thesis: From the Screen to the Self: How Feminist Video Transforms the Spectator
Thesis: In Pursuit of the Saffron Gatherers: Developing a “Complete” Understanding of Minoan Women
Thesis: "Against Forgetting:" Care, Performance, and Dissensus in "Comfort Women" Memorials
Thesis: Investigating the Role of the SPECC1L Homolog, Split Discs, in Non-Muscle Myosin II Contractility Dynamics in Drosophila
Thesis: Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Basolateral Amygdala in a Modified Risky Decision Task: A Model of Gambling Disorder
Thesis: Examining Model Robustness for Treatment Efficacy Prediction in Major Depressive Disorder
Thesis: Baile Seanáchaí / Ballyshanachie
Thesis: Exploration of Xenopus laevis Vocal Evolution using Computational Modeling
Thesis: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A Discourse Analysis of Plural Voting in Northern Ireland
Thesis: Peering into the End of the World: Time Travel Science Fiction
Thesis: Illuminating Neutrons: Investigation of Quantum Dot-Based Scintillators for Full Spectrum Neutron Detection
Thesis: Aristotle's Empeiria in Legislation
Thesis: “Whut ‘n Gawd’s name’re yew sayin’?” : Exploring Ideas of Race, Gender, and Labor in the Dialect of Early Twentieth-Century Southern Short Fiction
Thesis: Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: The Clash of Coalitions Over the Lower Snake River Dams.
Thesis: Cultural Life, Cultural Death: Ritual, Tourism, and Indigenous Revival in Yucatán, Mexico
Thesis: Overgrown: How Colonial Perception Affects our Valuation of Illustrated Graphic Media
Thesis: Storytime! Congress and the Little AI That Could
Thesis: Towards reCYPlable PE plastic: Isolation and Characterization of a putative PE-degrading enzyme from B.thuringiensis
Thesis: Metafiction (And Its Many Uses)
Thesis: A New Age of Technology and Flexible Intellectual Property Protections: An Economic Analysis of the Developing Discord Between Generative AI and Copyright Law
Thesis: High Dysfunction, Low Trust: Federalism, Political Trust and COVID-19 Policy in Four US States
Thesis: A Formal Synthesis of Corynoxine
Thesis: The Politics of Fatness and its Influence on Voting Preferences Among White Men in Rural Wisconsin
Thesis: Creativity Entangled: A Posthumanist Perspective on AI Art
Thesis: The Color of the Kit: Football Supporters and the Politics of Identity in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Europe
Thesis: Camas and Carbon: Collaboration, Comparative Collections, and Using Archaeology for Good
Thesis: I Like Us but You Might Not: Local Partial Coreference in Mexican Spanish
Thesis: The Cyborg at the End of the World: A Theory of the Gendered Grotesque, from Female Oppression to Queer Liberation
Thesis: WARPing Environmental Preferences: Green Nudges and Rationality
Thesis: "The 73ʼ Chevy Impala of Rivers:" Ruin, Restoration, and Indigenous Futures Along Johnson Creek
Thesis: Taking a Lichen-ing to Heavy Metals: A Comparison of the Biosorption Efficacies of Two Lichen Species Towards Heavy Metals
Thesis: Culture and Compliance: Identifying Reed's Coupling Processes with its Alcohol and Other Drug Policy
Thesis: The Role of Solitary Cannabis Use and Coping Motives in Depression and Anxiety Among Emerging Adults: A Longitudinal Study
Thesis: Icelandic Formations of National Identity through the Ownership of Material Culture in a Post Colonial Context
Thesis: CRISPR/Cas9 Targeted Disruption of tshz1a Reveals New Role in Axial Patterning and Extension
Thesis: The CUBE: Using Virtual Reality to Visualize Electromagnetic Fields in Real-Time
Thesis: [Dancing] with Dance: Investigating Liminality Through the Lens of Butoh
Thesis: Dollars and Saints: Mormon Articulations of Shifting Economic Ideology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Thesis: Statistical Modeling of atoh7 in the Developing Zebrafish Retina
Thesis: "When Philoi clash with Philoi in Strife": Familicide in Greek Tragedy and Fragility of the Family in Athens
Thesis: "Your riches rot, your clothes are moth-eaten": The Letter of James's Use of Wisdom Literature to Spur Social Upheaval
Thesis: Community Owned Community Solar in the United States: Emergence and Organizational Strategies for Success