Congratulations, Reed College seniors! Completing the thesis is a capstone of the Reed experience and a tremendous academic accomplishment.
Thesis: газель - غزل: On the Persian Element in Russian Symbolist Poetry
Thesis: Lichen the Flames? Quantifying flammability for seven epiphytic species of the West Cascades
Thesis: True Confessions: Reading Hearts in Three Novels of Graham Greene
Thesis: Acetylation, Phosphorylation's Maligned Little Brother: Acetylation of Non-Muscle Myosin II in Drosophila Cells
Thesis: Nicotine Modulation of Alcohol Tolerance, Dependence, and Withdrawal in Rodent Models of Addiction
Thesis: Nicotine Modulation of Alcohol Tolerance, Dependence, and Withdrawal in Rodent Models of Addiction
Thesis: Supramolecular Sponge Blobs: Tuning Electronic Environments to Promote the Crystal Growth of Polymeric Boroxine Networks
Thesis: A Construct-First Based Approach to a Selective Unification of Theories of Consciousness
Thesis: Stalling in the Salt Flats: The Paradox of Bolivian Lithium Development under Evo Morales
Thesis: Fish Fight Club: Dominance Hierarchy and Filial Cannibalism in the African Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni
Thesis: Glia Cell Dynamics in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum
Thesis: Enfolding Liveliness: Invoking Bacteriophage Therapy for More-Than-Human Kinships
Thesis: Nebulous Truths: Climate, Science, and Empire in Late Nineteenth Century England
Thesis: Keep Your Hands Off My Books: How Grove Press Championed Against Literature Censorship
Thesis: Heard But Not Seen: The Life and Work of Female Composers in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Genre
Thesis: Pride and Prejudice: Austen's Most Gifted Performer Meets Her Most Dedicated Spectator
Thesis: Can you get this A(u)tomatically? The Efficacy of Focus-Deficits through Atomoxetine Treatment
Thesis: Illuminating MoS2: Characterizing mm-Size Exfoliated 2D MoS2 for Electroluminescence
Thesis: Plans for an Amphitheater: A Novella
Thesis: Between Order and Anarchy: Constructing Police Legitimacy During the Portland George Floyd Uprising of 2020
Thesis: Charged Particle Dynamics in Uniform Magnetic Fields
Thesis: A Continued Inquiry into Granularity-Change Cache Simulation
Thesis: Gender Differences in Risk Perception and Motives for Alcohol Use
Thesis: Mind's Eye Morality: Mental Imagery, Gender, & Emotion in the Footbridge Problem
Thesis: Olympia Indie Pop: Creating an Independent Music Scene Through Style, Ideology and Genre
Thesis: The Boundaries of Being: Limitations of Gender, Class, and Geography in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet
Thesis: The Status Quo Bias on Location Privacy Settings
Thesis: Queer Localities: A Challenge to Global Categories
Thesis: Climate Chamge Adaptation Strategies in Maine Oyster Aquaculture
Thesis: Who’s the Leader: Dorsalized signaling pathway interactions of BMP, RA, and MAPK affecting neurogenesis within the retina.
Thesis: A Man and His Monument: The Creation of the Nixon Presidential Library and the Archival Impact of Richard Nixon's Legacy
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of Internal Solitary Waves
Thesis: Constructing Romani Identity in Les Ursitory and Stopping Places
Thesis: The Birds and the Biases: The Influence of Socio-demographics on Urban Bird Communities & eBird Surveys in Portland, OR
Thesis: Suboptimal Multi-Heuristic Approaches for Solving the Rubik’s Cube Incorporating Deep Learning and Group Theory
Thesis: Believers Only In This Thread: Making (Religious) Meaning from Video Game Secret-Seeking
Thesis: Benjamin-Ono Periodic Traveling Waves: Pole Dynamics and Dispersion Relations
Thesis: “A Curious Race in the West Virginia Mountains”: Sangers and the Nineteenth Century Appalachian Botanical Drug Trade
Thesis: Kleos through the Oikos: Women as Household Managers in the Odyssey
Thesis: We don't read about dinosaurs: investigating the unique motivational struggles of students at Reed with ADHD
Thesis: Disorders at Odds: Examining the Comorbidity of OCD and ADHD Using an Animal Model
Thesis: In the Company of the Marquis: Reevaluating the Collapse of the Aztec Empire
Thesis: "In Changing Nature, Man Changes Himself": An Environmental History of the Gulag
Thesis: Say it with flowers: the semiotics of a not so secret language
Thesis: Perception of Creaky Voice: Effects of Listener Age
Thesis: Do you hear "Talk about" or "Taco Bell": a Raciolinguistic View of the Indexical Orders of /l/ Vocalization
Thesis: Privacy Paradox: Regularized Neural Networks and Distributional Differential Privacy
Thesis: Changeling and Hear Us Scream: Exploring Trans Voices/Expressions in Music
Thesis: Sparse theorems are full of triangles
Thesis: Street Plazas and their effects on Local Businesses and Sociability
Thesis: Scaling Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Filtering and Approximations for Influence Functions for Large Language Models
Thesis: It's Not Just in Her Head: Sex Bis and Autoimmune Disease
Thesis: Juvenile Neurogenesis: Probing Xenopus laevis Vocal Hindbrain Circuit for Evidence of Neurogenesis
Thesis: State SNAP Policy: Enrollment, Poverty and Food Security
Thesis: Female Agency and Interstitial Spaces in Medieval Romances
Thesis: Male to Male Vocal Dominance Hierarchy in Xenopus Laevis
Thesis: A Geodesic Journey into the Wormholes
Thesis: From History to Healing: A Systematic Scoping Review of Mental Health Disparities for BIPOC
Thesis: Androgen-Induced Masculinization of Non-Ovariectomized Xenopus laevis
Thesis: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Marriage Corner: Value, Semi-colonialism, and Racial Categories
Thesis: Split Ergativity and Case Assignment in Yucatecan Mayan Languages
Thesis: Naturalist Afterlives of the Frontier Myth
Thesis: Investigating the Regulation of Biological Pathways in the Cross-Sex Behavioral Roles of Julidochromis transcriptus
Thesis: The Making of a Good Birth
Thesis: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Satellites Collision Detection Method:Applying Private Set Intersection Using Garbled Circuit
Thesis: All They do is Sit and Talk About me: Representation of the Self in Queer Cinema
Thesis: So What We Get Drunk: Social Anxiety, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Consumption in a Gender Diverse Emerging Adult Community Sample
Thesis: Reel Identities: The Portrayal of Asian American Experience in U.S. Cinema and Television
Thesis: One Albuquerque? Crime, Security, and Dispossession in Albuquerque’s Sacrifice Zone
Thesis: Digitizing The Self
Thesis: Like Water: A Cross-cultural Journey through Philosophical and Poetical Tides
Thesis: Again, in the Green World: The Pursuit of Linguistic Closure in Henry Green’s Late Modernist Works Back and Concluding
Thesis: Planting the Seeds of Belonging: Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Horticulture with Justice-Involved Youths
Thesis: Mixed Signals: A Game-Based Analysis of the Signal Protocol in the Presence of Active Adversaries
Thesis: Analyzing the Impact of Userspace Bypass on the Performance of the Spectre Attack
Thesis: Theologizing Queerness: The Formations and Impacts of Roman Catholic Ontological Fields
Thesis: Maximum Overdrive: a Frequency Response Analysis of Distortion Due to Clipping
Thesis: Extending Targeted Function Balancing to Models without Linear Representations
Thesis: “A much-needed reminder of how important writing is to me”: The Impact of Utility and Attainment Value Interventions on Creativity and Motivation for Poetry Writing
Thesis: Exploring Memory Tiering Policies for Composable Memory Systems.
Thesis: Everyday Violence or Tragedy?: Race and the Media Construction of Mass Shootings in Illinois
Thesis: "C'était en plein Paris": Remembering the Massacre of October 17, 1961
Thesis: Broken Chains, Broken Plough: On Mourning in Post-Revolutionary Ireland and Haiti
Thesis: Armed with the Knowledge of the Place We’ve Been: Empowerment of Gang Members Through Memoirs
Thesis: Structural Prediction of MHETase NlhH in PET-degrading Pseudomonas Bacteria
Thesis: No-Report Rivalry: The ERP Correlates of Probe-Mediated Perceptual Reversals
Thesis: Towards Constructing the Affine Partition Algebra
Thesis: Decentered and Embraced: The Re-union of Character and Setting in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Seven Steeples
Thesis: “If you wait in the systems, you're just not going to get helped:” Uncertainty and Strategies of Agency Within Medical Institutions for Patients With Contested Illness
Thesis: Geez, that’s bananas: Quantifying perivascular spaces in aged rhesus macaques with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Thesis: Towards the Characterization of a Bacterial Zinc Importer from Bacillus Subtills
Thesis: The Plan Is To Feel Bad: Reflections on I Made It Home Safely
Thesis: It’s Not Just The Straws: Investigating the Biology and Genetics of Sea Turtles and the Implications of Climate Change
Thesis: Returning to Repatriation: An Examination of the Evolving Forces Behind the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Thesis: Spectral Shifts: Understanding the Collaborative Pianist Through Genre, Listening Habits, Partnership, and Practice
Thesis: Illusory Motion Produced by a Computational Model of the Retinal Direction Selective Circuit
Thesis: A Spectral Graph Theoretic Analysis of the Sign Flipping Sequence
Thesis: A Study on the Lindblad Master Equation of Open Quantum Systems Using Spin-1/2 Chains
Thesis: Managing Manganese: The Corporate Duties of MntR in Regulating Metal Ion Homeostasis
Thesis: Community Composition and Size-Structure Characterization of Phytoplankton in the Northern Gulf of Alaska
Thesis: Symbolic Analysis on C Binaries
Thesis: A Higher-Order Network Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Thesis: A Kinetic Investigation into the Mechanism of Pt--Me Bond Protonolysis
Thesis: My Grandma Thinks I'm Digging in the Swamp: Nostalgic Practice as Survivance
Thesis: Cocrystallization and Different Solid-States of Pharmaceuticals: A New Approach to Drug Development
Thesis: Some Approaches to Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity
Thesis: MntR: The Mastermind of Manganese Ion Homeostasis
Thesis: Airline Profitability & Fleet Strategies in a Carbon-Tax Environment
Thesis: A Postulation on the Role of Drosophila Protein Split Discs in Focal Adhesion Assembly
Thesis: “I am here today not because I want to be”: How the #MeToo Movement Impacted New York Times Reporting of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Supreme Court Nominees
Thesis: The Case for Harm Reduction: Explaining America's Reluctance for Harm Reduction Policy Implementation
Thesis: Porous Perspectives: Dementia and Creativity through Communication
Thesis: That's Hot! Heat Loss at the Reed Research Reactor.
Thesis: From Bottles to Biodegradation: Investigating Crystal Polymorphism for Chemo-Microbial Plastic Degradation
Thesis: Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca": The Poetics, Places, and Gender Politics of the Lesbian Gothic
Thesis: A SPECC1L Protein: Biochemical Investigation of the Drosophila Homolog Split Discs
Thesis: Who gets ‘Developed’ in Development Finance? Historical Political Economy of the World Bank and Chinese Lending in Zambia
Thesis: An Examination of Hinterleitner Doubly Special Relativity
Thesis: “Take a Hundred Lines for the Memory of Those who Lived on Tubabao”: The Poetics of Exile and Displacement in Olga Skopichenko’s Verse
Thesis: Out of the Woods: Land Use Allocation and Timber Regulation Changes on Oregon and California Land
Thesis: Using Machine Learning to Predict Reading Comprehension Based on Demographic Factors
Thesis: Complexity in Comfort: The 21st-Century American Weekly-Release Sitcom
Thesis: The Impact of Oxycodone Self-Administration on Negative Affective Behaviors in Rats
Thesis: Rattled: Shifts in Global Nuclear Norms due to Russian Nuclear Threats in the 21st Century
Thesis: Statistical Foraging: A Comparative Analysis of Compositional Barycentric Matching and Q-Learning for Describing Foraging Behavior in Rats
Thesis: Piecing Daughterhood: Cloth, Gender, and Memory
Thesis: Can You Do Things with Lyric? Explorations of Presence/Absence in Select Elegiac Lyrics
Thesis: Queer Attitudes: The Influence of Sexual Minority Status on the Attitude- Behavior Gap in College Hookups
Thesis: Control Liberate the Narrative: Black Liberation Through Re-Appropriations in Modern Art
Thesis: Drag Faces: Hypernatural and Supernatural Makeup
Thesis: Empires of the Mind
Thesis: The Road to Synodality
Thesis: Here's What I DID: A Physical Representation of a Difficult to Interpret Disorder
Thesis: The Starving Artist? Analyzing Dance Major Graduation Rates During Recessions
Thesis: Now That I Know That We’re Breaking Apart Again: Lyric Responses to Death and the Dead in Britain c. 1370-1570
Thesis: Parameter-Pack Iteration in Swift
Thesis: tfb: a Package for Targeted Function Balancing
Thesis: Open Sesame: An exploration of trap closure temporality and learning in Dionaea muscipula
Thesis: Autoregressive Time Series Modeling: A Comparative Analysis of Parameter Estimation and State Prediction Methods
Thesis: Is It Good for the Jews? Conceptions of Modernity in American Jewish Folk Dance 1910-1990
Thesis: Pleasure and Pain in the Midbrain: Dopamine and Drugs Outside the Lab
Thesis: Anticolonial Diplomacy in Biology
Thesis: Handling Adolf Eichmann: A Story of Inheritance and Facade
Thesis: Radical Frontiers: Finding Utopia in the Early United States
Thesis: Investigating the Efficacy of Applied Theatre: A Theoretical Exploration into Quantifiable Impact using Community Sentiment Analysis
Thesis: An Analysis of Race- and Income-Based Disparities in the National Distribution of Environmental Hazard
Thesis: LEER
Thesis: Coalescence T-oalescence: Analyzing Fixed Segment Reduplication as Coalescence, and Things of That Nature
Thesis: Becoming a Neuron: Examining Visual Input Influences on the Pace of Neurogenesis in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum
Thesis: The Succession of Land Management Strategies in Australia
Thesis: The Drying of the Colorado River: How the Neoliberalization of Ecosystem Service could impact U.S. Water Resources
Thesis: What Forgiveness can teach us about punishment
Thesis: "It's All About the Green”: The Tony Award's Effect on Broadway Show Demand
Thesis: A Different Kind of Canoe: The Transmission of Lushootseed Stories In The Contemporary World
Thesis: Aging in The Sun: An exploration of the Jewish Retirement Community in South Beach, Florida.
Thesis: Snailseed Pondweed
Thesis: Celestial Choreography: Turbulence’s Influence on Dust Clouds in the Heart of NGC 628
Thesis: An Empire of Racial Liberty: Jefferson's View on Liberty and Race in the Early U.S. Republic
Thesis: Widespread Aptitude for Detecting Pitch-Shifts in Familiar Audio Clips
Thesis: The h-Vector Conjecture for Matroids with Cycle Systems
Thesis: Regional Effects on the Determinants of Per Capita GDP in China
Thesis: How Mental Illness Impacts Moral Responsibility
Thesis: Essays on Street Art, Neo and Self Expression: The Egyptian Revolution of 2011
Thesis: TIF: Terrific or Terrible? The History and Efficacy of Tax Increment Financing in Portland, Oregon
Thesis: How Can Digital Advisors Cater to Loss-Averse Investors?
Thesis: Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment Dynamics in Developed Economies: Post 2007-2008 Financial Crisis Insights from the Group of 7
Thesis: The Transition from Loot Boxes to Battle Passes in Video Games
Thesis: Seating Placement as a Predictor of Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement