Congratulations, Reed College seniors! Completing the thesis is a capstone of the Reed experience and a tremendous academic accomplishment.
Thesis: "Money or River": A Bistable Approach to Investigating the Neural Correlates of Lexical Ambiguity
Thesis: Rapid Prosodic Change in Begining Spanish Learners
Thesis: Fluid Modeling in Computer Graphics with the Moving Least Squares-Material Point Model
Thesis: “Lean in, Engage, and Maybe Die”: A Critical Analysis of the Haunting World of Horror Theatre
Thesis: The Benefits of Extracurricular Involvement in Undergraduate Students from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Thesis: Lost in Transition: Electron Localization in Transition States of Quantum Hall Systems
Thesis: Surviving Political Sex Scandals
Thesis: Big Brain Energy: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Disruption Reveals a Requirement for the RA Responsive Transcription Factor tshz1a in Dorsal-Ventral Axis Formation
Thesis: Making a Simple GPU
Thesis: Full-length 16S rRNA Sequencing Reveals Perturbations to Gut Microbiome Composition in Response to in vitro Treatment with Tamoxifen and 17ꞵ-Estradiol
Thesis: The Buddhist Householders’ Claim in the 1920s Modern Chinese Religious Space: The Nation-Building Visions in Shanghai Merit Grove Hygienic Vegetarian Restaurant
Thesis: Supervised Machine Learning to Predict Student Proficiency in Oregon Public Schools
Thesis: Nintendo Entertainment System Emulation in Rust
Thesis: Optimizing Gadgets for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Thesis: "O fortunate citizens, bear witness": Staging memory and Performing Spectatorship in Antigona Furiosa
Thesis: Exploring Noninterference in Programming Languages: A Study of Simple Dependency Core Calculus and Logical Relations
Thesis: Spectroscopic Studies of the CuA Assembly Mechanism
Thesis: Love’s Coming for your Head! A Translation, Commentary, and Analysis of Pseudo-Theocritus, Idyll 23
Thesis: Venture Capital Investing Since the Covid-19 Shock
Thesis: Reformed, not Abolished: The Forced Labor of Native Americans in California
Thesis: Exuviae
Thesis: Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials of Matroids
Thesis: Game Sound Practices as a Result of Technological and Commercial Advancement
Thesis: An investigation of Drosophila neural ECM proteoglycans and their association with human homologues related to schizophrenia
Thesis: The Empire Never Ended: Authenticity, Paranoia, and Religion in Selected Works of Philip K. Dick
Thesis: What's That Snell? An Exploration of Diastereoselective Reductions of Chiral Cyclic Ketones by Snelling Salt
Thesis: Mixed race identity: An acoustic analysis of individuals with one Japanese and one white parent
Thesis: The Reconciliation of The Marvelous Land of Oz
Thesis: aDNA: an Unfit Arbiter of the Indo-European Debate
Thesis: Linguistic Erasure Hertz; a post-binary discussion of F0 performance in read speech
Thesis: Thinking With Fire: Burning Landscapes of Knowledge and Power
Thesis: The Battle for Political Autonomy: War and National Identity in the Writings of Heinrich von Kleist
Thesis: Yeah Sex is Cool, but Have You Tried Obligate Parthenogenesis? The Effect of Methyl Farnesoate on Sex-Determining Genes in Daphnia pulex
Thesis: The Impact of Schools on Traffic Congestion: A Case Study in California K-12 Public Schools
Thesis: How The Plane of Cell Division Changes Between Wildtype and hdac mutants
Thesis: “I Feel Bloated:” A Historical Ethnography of Body Image in the United States
Thesis: (How) Is Compensatory Mitigation Working? An Analysis of Environmental Impact Statements for Clean Energy Projects in Washington State
Thesis: Investigating the Political Implications of Alcoholics Anonymous as a Religio-Communitarian Formation
Thesis: The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its Application to Clustering.
Thesis: Restoring and Updating the Reed Rubidium Magneto-Optical Trap
Thesis: Pursuing the Bacillus subtilis ZnuABC Complex
Thesis: An Introduction to Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, and the Modularity Theorem
Thesis: Harmonies Bound in Markov Chains
Thesis: The Intersubjective World of Guantánamo Bay
Thesis: Archiving the Nation, Region by Region: The Archive of American Folk Song, 1928–1942
Thesis: It’s (Not) a Mut Point: The Effects of Mutation on Competitive Ability in Daphnia Makes a Case for the Conservation of Intraspecific Biodiversity
Thesis: Narratives of Roman History in Salvian's De Gubernatione Dei
Thesis: Classical Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity: Towards Quantization
Thesis: Representation Theory, Schur-Weyl Duality, and the Partition Algebra
Thesis: Examining Sensations in Baudelaire and 19th Century French Poetry: A Sensory Escape from Reality
Thesis: Auditory Preferences in Female Xenopus laevis for Male Advertisement Calls
Thesis: Effects of Long-Term Levonorgestrel Administration on Anxiety and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Intact Female Long-Evans Rats
Thesis: Looking at Determinants of Health Status Using Machine Learning
Thesis: Quantification of Plant Hemoglobin Gene Expression in Glycine Max
Thesis: Towards Analysis of Parallel Caching with Variable Size Items
Thesis: No Space Exempt from Justice: Contradictions of Equal Opportunity and Family Autonomy in Rawls' A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism
Thesis: The Power of Perspective: How the Egyptian Nation Thwarted Authoritarian Oppression
Thesis: Optogenetic Stimulation of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area Under Anxiety and Reward Related Paradigms
Thesis: Simplicial Homology Computation Using Discrete Morse Theory
Thesis: Medicine and Religion in Early China: On the Discourse of Wind
Thesis: The Wake
Thesis: A History of Japanese-American Settlement and Resettlement in Oregon
Thesis: Sexual selection for male advertisement call dominant frequency ratios in Xenopus petersii
Thesis: Is the Federal Reserve contributing to racial wealth inequality? Monetary policy and the racial wealth gap in Minneapolis, MN.
Thesis: E-cology: simulating cancer with evolutionary and ecological dynamics
Thesis: Flowers Seen Through the Fog
Thesis: Surfacing
Thesis: Primes in Extensions and Expressions via Binary Quadratic Forms
Thesis: Measures of Body Satisfaction in a Gender-Diverse Community
Thesis: Following the Flood: A Case Study Comparison of Municipal Flood Risk & Insurance Communication Practices
Thesis: Green and Full of Everything
Thesis: Exploration of Mutation By Looking At the Daphnia magna Ionome
Thesis: Implementing a Dichroic Atomic Vapor Lock for the Reed Magneto-Optical Trap Repump Laser
Thesis: Surviving the scorch: an ecological perspective on human mortality during heat-waves
Thesis: Korsgaardian Normativity
Thesis: A Defense of Russellian Monism
Thesis: Simulated Futures
Thesis: Male-Male Clasping in African Clawed Frogs, Xenopus laevis
Thesis: Dielectric Response of Bulk hBN
Thesis: The Spatial Politics of the German Soundscape, 1918-1945
Thesis: Persisting Through The Convexity: Convex Modules for the Commutative
Thesis: Solar Customer Responsiveness to Time-of-Use Net Energy Metering: A Study of Demographic and Environmental Factors in California
Thesis: How long are they really? An investigation into the telomere length of Xenopus laevis with nanopore sequenceing
Thesis: Rain. On. Me. Synthetic Fibers in Portland Rainwater
Thesis: Three Problems in the Philosophy of Time
Thesis: Crosslinguistic Indexical Transfer of the Perception of Rhotics in Beijing Mandarin and Canadian French
Thesis: Geodesics in Color Space
Thesis: Da Bin Lou: Understanding My Chinese American Identity
Thesis: An Accessible Proof of the Prime Number Theorem
Thesis: What Royals Fear: Magic and Political Scandal in Early Modern Europe
Thesis: A Tale of Two Quercus: storytelling of oak evolutionary genetics and local botanical history through artistic approach
Thesis: Cringecore Ethics: Nabokov’s Poshlust Versus the Apathetic Imagination
Thesis: Two Can Play That Game: An Investigation into the Co-Occurrence of Minisatellites and Recombination Hotspots
Thesis: rhizophora
Thesis: Beginnings of a Structural Analysis of Manganese Exporters MneP and MneS
Thesis: Experimental exploration of water waves
Thesis: The Examination of Virtus, Slavery, and Civil War in the Third Servile War in Appian's Civil Wars
Thesis: Building To The Third Story: An AI To Play Santorini
Thesis: Away with the Fairies
Thesis: The Way To Here: A New Approach To Wittgenstein And Asian Philosophy
Thesis: Salmon Pluralities: Nch’í Wána Pum, Traditional Fishing, and Indigenous Modernity
Thesis: Linguistic Encoding of Gender and Gender Self-Concept in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Thesis: NMDA Receptors and the Complexity of Single Neurons
Thesis: Wild Boars Won't Let Me Sleep: A Study of Immersive Theatre
Thesis: Constructions and Representations of the Middle East in Post-9/11 Pop and Hip- Hop Music
Thesis: An expansion of Miss Ratio Curves
Thesis: Monsters and Miracles: A Medieval Comic Anthology
Thesis: Lone Pine Talk: TRAP-backing and Connection to Place in Rural California
Thesis: Toward a Semi-Classical Percolation Model
Thesis: Big Trouble, Little Forest: Differential Responses of Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) and Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) to Ecological Restoration in SW Oregon
Thesis: Development of a Solitary Drinking Measure
Thesis: Who Speaks for the Trees?: Place Attachment and Environment Identity in the Pacific Northwest Forest Industry
Thesis: Characterization of a Transmembrane Protein TerC
Thesis: Republic of Warlords: A Governor’s Ambition
Thesis: Woven Fibers: Thrifted Clothing as a Material Nexus in Hawai'i
Thesis: Application of Quantum Dot Microfluidic Paper-based Devices (µPADs) for the Detection of Heavy Metals in Water Samples
Thesis: Got Milkweed? A Study on Smoke Water and Monarch Butterfly Habitat
Thesis: Artificially Artistic or Cyborgian Artist? AI Art Exists in a Complicated Entanglement of Economies, Smoke Screens, and Robot Relations
Thesis: Formal Verification of Key Exchange Protocol Security
Thesis: ”That’s your Auntie”: An analysis of Southwest Pueblo Indian family-making after attending Indian boarding school
Thesis: A Zero-Knowledge Proof for Norinori
Thesis: Misogyny and Moralism: A History of Bias in HIV/AIDS Research
Thesis: Hiding in plain sight: Validation of an urban climate refugium for Thuja plicata (western redcedar) in Portland, OR
Thesis: Soaking it all in: Employment of Halogen Bonding to Form Dynamic Crystal Molecular Sponges
Thesis: Inclusive Course Content Shifts in Higher Education: Driven by School Classification, Socio-Demographic Diversity, and Departmental Creation
Thesis: “A Teachable Moment”: Examining Student Attitudes Towards Chemistry
Thesis: Minzu Categorization in Southwest China: Connections between the Qing and PRC
Thesis: Expression and Purification of E. coli CusS Sensor Domain: Solubility and Possibilities
Thesis: The Irishman and The Unspeakable
Thesis: The Land of Equal Opportunity: Changing Dehumanization Towards Latinx Immigrants Through Storytelling
Thesis: Saving Seed: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Corn Farming in Chiapas, Mexico
Thesis: Your Attention, Please: The Competition and Comparisons between Social Cues in Directing Attention
Thesis: Urban Regimes in Transit: A Case Study of Boston, Portland, and St. Louis
Thesis: Split Discs and the Challenges of Purifying a Protein from Drosophila Cells
Thesis: The Implications of Representing Turkish National Identity in Contemporary Fashion Design
Thesis: Staging the Square: Community and Queerness Through the Lens of American Square Dance
Thesis: Virtual Reality and Theatre: Defining Lenses Through Which to Understand Virtual Reality Theatre and Audience Relationships
Thesis: Managing Masculinity in the Military: Experiences, Outlooks, and Reflections after Serving
Thesis: Style, Affect, and Embodied Energy: An Analysis of Pitch and Gesture in Performances of Social Personae
Thesis: Relativistic Ehrenfest Relations for Klein-Gordon Fields
Thesis: A Study on Alcohol Decision-Making: How Group Composition Relates to Behavioral Willingness in Social Drinking Contexts
Thesis: Disrupting the Bildungsroman: Silence as a Symptom of Shame, Reading, and Learning in Northanger Abbey, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Normal People
Thesis: Tending, Making, Breaking: Dyke Play as World Creation
Thesis: Three Metaphysical Fables
Thesis: Three Metaphysical Fables
Thesis: Animating Towards a Brighter Future through the Implied Child Viewer: the Significance of Queer and POC Representation in Children’s Media
Thesis: Everyone wants to be sustainable until they have to pay for it: Barriers to sustainable urban restructuring in Santa Rosa, CA
Thesis: Participatory Defense: Highlighting Cambodian American Perfected Personhood
Thesis: Reinventing the Wheel: How Parents of Medically Complex, Disabled Children Experience, Navigate and Create Care Systems
Thesis: Behavioral Nuances of the Oregon Zoo Chimpanzees Pan Troglodytes In captivity
Thesis: Taking Up Space: An Analysis of the Intersection Between Fatness and Femininity
Thesis: Appealing to Novels to Defend the Epistemic Value of Thought Experiments
Thesis: The Curious Case of the Disappearing Polymorph: Pharmaceutical Co-crystallization, Polymorphism, and Vanilla Flavored Crystals
Thesis: Investigation of Formic Acid Dehydrogenation with Alternatives to an Ir-Ru Catalyst
Thesis: Ecotourism and Unpredictability: Multispecies Ethnography in the Waters of Bonaire
Thesis: Political Outsiders at a Small Liberal Arts College
Thesis: Stuffed and Silent: A Study of the Troubling Legacies of Taxidermy at the Field Museum, 1890-1920
Thesis: Classical Analog of Quantum States in the Infinite Square Well
Thesis: Decadency and Orthodoxy: Life-Creation in the Works of Mother Maria Skobtsova
Thesis: Self Portraits With a Severed Head
Thesis: Stories for the Slow Apocalypse: Iyashikei in the Anthropocene
Thesis: Multithreaded Prefix-Free Parsing for Multi-Genome Index Construction
Thesis: Differentially Private Weighted Linear Regression
Thesis: Optimizing Lempel-Ziv-Welch for DNA Compression
Thesis: "We will not leave the mountains till Zion is redeemed": Mormon Political Thought in Early Utah Territory, 1850-1858
Thesis: Synthesis of a small molecule inhibitor for ZnuA to investigate the mechanism of metal ion transport
Thesis: An Enzymatic Biosensor for the Detection of Changes in Acetylcholine and Choline Levels in Xenopus Laevis
Thesis: Two Novel Green Syntheses of Silver Nanoparticles; Thimbleberry Leaf AgNPs and Sword Fern Extract AgNPs
Thesis: On Estimating the Number of Clusters: Mind the Gap!
Thesis: A Non-Field-Theoretical Evaluation to the Point Charge Electrodynamics in Compact Extra Dimension - Potential, Bound States and Self-Forcing
Thesis: The Beesis
Thesis: Dyke Discourse
Thesis: Reimagining Family Life in Peru: The Consequences of High Rates of Adolescent Pregnancy on Household Structures
Thesis: Swayed and Swaying All Under Heaven: A Consideration of the Mao Commentary to the Poetry 毛詩訓詁傳
Thesis: How the “Trans Panic Defense” Shapes Attitudes toward Anti-Transgender Violence
Thesis: Fitting In: Examining Strategic Self-Presentation Through Clothing as a Means of Belonging for Fat Students
Thesis: Symbol Grounding Re-Defined
Thesis: A Bayesian Approach to Zero-Inflation Modeling
Thesis: Anthropomorphic Language and Reasoning about Political Entities
Thesis: Leave Room for Community in my Coffee: Creating Social Capital in a Community Centered Café
Thesis: Color Lightness Effects in Attention and Decision Making
Thesis: Crystal in Motion: Dynamic Behavior in Crystalline Adamantane-Azopyridine Assemblies
Thesis: Exploring Linsanity: the Model Minority Myth, Laboring Bodies, and Asian American Racialization through Sport
Thesis: Antitrust, the Second Gilded Age, and the Future of Technological Society
Thesis: All That is Left of Me is You
Thesis: Chasing an Escape: Cottagecore, COVID-19, Capitalism, and Climate Change
Thesis: After the Light Is Gone
Thesis: Investigating the Effect of Race and Skin Color on Emotion Attributions
Thesis: The Flower of Chivalry Withers: Social Class Anxieties through Military English Military Development in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
Thesis: Making Sense of Making Sense of Sensitivity
Thesis: Fray and Contaminated: Posthuman subjectivity in contemporary science fiction
Thesis: “For Lewd and Immoral Purposes”: Chinese Women in the United States and the Page Act of 1875
Thesis: From Wilson to Wells: A Semiotic Examination of the Renaming of a Portland High School
Thesis: Striking Gold: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Gold Nanoparticle-Polymer Interfaces
Thesis: Past Brown: The Supreme Court's March Towards Resegregation
Thesis: The Mind Behind the Music: AI, Intentionality, and the Perception of Musical Narrative
Thesis: Between Resurrections
Thesis: Shakers and Movers: A Case Study in Earthquakes, Communities, Politics, and Redevelopment
Thesis: Persistent Homology and Applications to Graph Data
Thesis: Alcohol Expectancies and Implicit Associations in Heterosexuals and Sexual Minority Groups
Thesis: A Parameterized Approach for Hedcut Rendering
Thesis: Who's Doing What: Birth Control Practices and Divisions of Labor in Young Couples
Thesis: The L-Systems Explorer: An Introduction to Generative Art
Thesis: Honey I Ate the Kids: Fish Brains, Fry, & Fluorescent Imaging
Thesis: The Psychology of UX: Assessing and Applying HCI Theory and Empathic Design Frameworks with Dykes on Bikes® Portland Oregon Chapter
Thesis: Lineage of Nationalism in the Philippines from 1896 to 1916
Thesis: The impact of authenticity-marking menu language on consumer perceptions of “ethnic” restaurants
Thesis: Growing Holiday Magic: Nature, Labor, and Meaning in Christmas Trees in the Mid-Twentieth Century Pacific Northwest
Thesis: The Effects of Public Transportation Infrastructure on Income Inequality
Thesis: More Than Words: An Examination of Different Functions of Language in Han Shaogong’s 韩少功 A Dictionary of Maqiao 马桥词典
Thesis: Changing Perceptions: Investigating Novel Associations Between Stress Mindset and Academic Motivation
Thesis: Bildungsroman
Thesis: A Study of Performance-Based Compensation in the Indian Premier League (IPL)
Thesis: Development, Modeling and Radiation Characterization of the Reed Research Reactor Central Thimble and Neutron Beam Facilities through Monte Carlo Simulations and the Neutron Transport Equation
Thesis: UnCarted Waters: Urbanity, Political Power, and the Future of the Food Carts in Portland, Oregon
Thesis: What Ever Happened to Those Rail Workers?
Thesis: Something Seems Fishy: An Exploratory Study on Daphnia magna Neuroanatomy and Neural Reactions to Predation Stress
Thesis: Gastric Heroics: Towards a Grammar of Eating in Archaic Greek Poetry
Thesis: Paragraph IV and Category X; Why Do Generic Pharmaceutical Companies Agree to Settlements That Delay Generic Entry for Free?
Thesis: The 21st Century Minnesota Music Community: An Oral Present
Thesis: Comparative Analysis of Occupational Mobility of Low-Skilled Workers in the U.S. and Germany
Thesis: A Fish in the Hothouse: Trophic Interactions and Heatwave Response in a Freshwater Community
Thesis: A Survey of Categorification: Towards Categorical Algebra and Higher Categories
Thesis: Salted Waters: The Implications of Salinization and Predator Kairomones for Inducible Multicellularity in Phytoplankton
Thesis: Union Suppression and New Organized Labor: The Case of Union Revival at Amazon
Thesis: What is Going Anh? 1,2-Diastereoselectivity in Reductions with a Novel Binary Hydride
Thesis: Out of Body, Out of Mind: Interoceptive Awareness and Attention as Modulators for Full Body Illusions
Thesis: Not Another Hideous Progeny: Frankenstein, Adaptation, and the Theatre
Thesis: Bringing the Truth to Bear: Obed Dickinson and an Imagined Community of Racial Equality in Nineteenth-Century Salem, Oregon
Thesis: The Escapism Manifesto
Thesis: A Comparison of Homeric and Virgilian Similes
Thesis: Closing the Loop: TPA Recovery from a Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium
Thesis: From Pen to Palace: Examining Roman Britain Through Literary Sources and Archaeological Discoveries at Fishbourne and Vindolanda
Thesis: Revolution at the Ballot Box: Ranked choice voting in the US as a model of electoral change.
Thesis: Last Name, First Name
Thesis: How Ethnic Enclaves Interact with the City
Thesis: Flipping the Script: Divergent Transcriptional Elements in the hTERT Promoter
Thesis: Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With Me? Implications of Social Media Audience Ideation in Young Women
Thesis: Perceptions of the City Under the City, A Literary and Material Phenomenology of the Urban Underground
Thesis: Adding Fuel to the Fire: An Analysis of State Land Use Policies and Local Conditions and their Impact on Wildfire Hazard Mitigation in the WUI
Thesis: Examining Human Impacts on Stomatal Development Through Drought and Agrochemicals
Thesis: My Favorite Martian (Manhunter): J’onn J’onzz, Alien Immigrants in Comics
Thesis: The Politics of Paperwork: Evaluating US Forest Service Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act
Thesis: "Is Portland Over?" The Economic Impact of Homicide Shootings in Portland, OR in 2021
Thesis: Estate Inheritance and Gift Taxes: An Unsatisfactory Solution to the Problem of Inequality in the United States
Thesis: ESG Beyond Investing: Spillover Effects in Sustainability Signaling
Thesis: Neurons Are Not the Only Things That Matter: What Happens When Brain Glial Cells Encounter Vision Loss?
Thesis: A Call to Action: Bacterial Diversity in the Vaginal Tract of Individuals with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Thesis: Writing Love and Liminality: Female Homoeroticism in Republican Chinese Fiction
Thesis: ERP Correlates of Perceptual Reversal During Binocular Rivalry: A No-Report Paradigm
Thesis: A RARE Catch: The Potential of Computational Algorithms in Aiding Discovery of Novel Genetic Regulation Interactions
Thesis: The Impact of Urbanization on the Trophic Niche of Coyotes
Thesis: Has Fission Fizzled? Surveying Risk Perceptions and Voting Behavior in the Pacific Northwest
Thesis: An Analysis of Sodium and Stable Water Isotopes Throughout the Holocene from the Skytrain Ice Core
Thesis: Black, Yellow, Orange: Implementing bumblebee species monitoring as a measure of habitat succession post-fire disturbance in mixed-conifer Pacific Northwest ecosystems
Thesis: The CW Decomposition of the Grassmannian Manifold
Thesis: Writing the Mystical Subject; the Works of Saint Teresa of Avila
Thesis: Pandemic Effects on Gross Domestic Product and the Unemployment Rate
Thesis: Contestations of Nations and States: Modern Tibet, 1912-1951
Thesis: Resisting the Bureaucratic Mode of Perception and Creating Relational Spectatorship through Celda 211 and Ciutat Morta