Theses from 2021
The Influence of Racial Bias on Jury Selection and Potential Consequences for Justice, Kate S. Abramowitz
Gardening as a Response to Disaster, Mary Margaret Adams
Exploring the Potential of Biochar Production in Maine: Sequestration and Economic Viability, John K. Attenborough
Franklin Park: Imagining an Antiracist Design, Adam B. Banks
Pestilence and Penitence: The Cyprianic Plague and the Rise of Christianity, Alan C. Bisesi
Comprehensive Planning and Food Justice in Auburn, Maine, Eliza Blood
Queerness for Kids: A Content Analysis of LGBTQ Narrative Picture Books, Emma W. Bouchey
Boys to Braves: Performing an Idealized Colonial State at Ontario Canoe-Tripping Camps, Helen Moran Bruckner
The Long-Term Impacts of the School of Environmental Studies, Erin E. Bucki
Unvanquished: the Kumeyaay and the 1775 Revolt, Catherine Joan Buse
Tet2 Knockout May Lead to Selective Memory Enhancement, Mallory M. Caron
“You don’t see yourself:” On the relationship between women’s body appreciation, self-objectification, and sexual agency, Shelby Elizabeth Cronkhite
“What We Do Minister to Our Gross Selves”: Afflicted Bodies, Illicit Sex, and the Agency of Disease in Romeo & Juliet and Measure for Measure, Deon J. Custard
Post cleanup composition and geochemical analysis of historic gold processing residues, Owen Daniell
Impacts of Sea-Level Rise, Accretion, and Subsidence on Recent Changes in Elevation of the Sprague Marsh in Phippsburg, Maine., Summer Caroline Dias
Choosing Between Hope and Fear: A Collective Reflection on Coming of Age During the Climate Crisis, Lily I. Edelman-Gold
The Natural History of the Milky Ribbon Worm: As Told by Maine Clam Diggers, Oaklea Bullock Elfström
Quantifying Changes in Snow Melt Conditions and Water Equivalent as Result of Arctic Warming in Linnédalen, Svalbard, Olympia CH Fisher
Bedrock Geology, Geochronology, and Tectonic History of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium in Northern New Hampshire, Liza Anne Folsom
The Protection of Black Mesa Within the Web of Life, Dominique M. Frideger
Stories from the Flood: Narratives of Celilo Falls, 1805-2021, Maximilian LeGrand Friedenwald-Fishman
Geometry of Brittle and Ductile Bedrock Structures Influencing Groundwater Hydrology Adjacent to the Chlor-alkali Superfund Site, Berlin, NH, Peter B. Galloway
The Role of Law in Finding Environmental Justice: How the legal system can be used by America's most disinfranchised, ryan giunta
“Resolute Support:” Contextualizing Afro-Asian Imagery of the Cultural Revolution through the Lens of Maoist Theory, Owen Greenwood
The Impacts of Mountain Biking on the Underlying Soils at a North East Trail System, Matthew S. Hanus
Choosing the Fall to Rise Up: Gender Consumption and Eve’s Culinary World, Sarah Catherine Herde
Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shell, Xiaole Jiang
ESG Investing, Nelly C. Junesand
The effect of tidal flow restriction on carbon density in Sprague and Small Point marsh, Phippsburg, Maine., Brianna Karboski
"Without Lawful Authority": Reassessing Nullification and its Contributions to Political and Constitutional Development in Antebellum America, Benjamin Keener
General Motors' Transition to Electric Vehicles, Casey J. Kelley
Moral Duties Amid Legal Bias, Benjamin Klafter
Fluid Stirring on a Sphere -- a Topological Approach, Kirstin E. Koepnick
Minimal Requirements for Topologically Protected Edge Modes, Kirstin E. Koepnick
Exploring Community Land Trusts as an Alternative to Mainstream Models of Affordable Housing and Envisioning a CLT in Lewiston, Maine, Sophie E. Landes
Widespread Social Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Child and Parent Perspectives, Nicki S. Lane
Aquatic Habitat In the Ogunquit River, Jacob Lawlor
Beguiling time, making air, and taking milk for gall: queerness in Macbeth, Erin Lyons
Lake Metabolism in Lake Auburn: An Analysis of 2018 and 2019 events, Sarah C. MacCormick
Laying the Groundwork: Desert Spaces and the Sacralization of U.S. Settler Colonialism, Anna-Elena Maheu
Exploring “Cultural Sensitivity” Among Frontline Workers Addressing Violence Against Women in Lewiston, Maine, Hannah Marian McKenzie
The Production of Space within the Rural Idyll: A Case Study on Airbnb in the State of Maine, Meredith Melendy
Effects of Climate Variability on Yelloweye Rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) Bioenergetics in the California Current Ecosystem, Sophia Miller
Development Pathways in Aquaculture: Factors that Influence Consolidation of Ownership and Inhibit Success of Small-Scale Producers, Natalie R. Moon
"I Became Unstoppable:" A Community-Based Quantitative and Qualitative Examination of a Mentoring Program's Effect on Youth in the Foster Care System, Emma Morehouse-Hulbert
The Design Experience: Accessing Design in a Liberal Arts Education, Julia Ann Nash
Thinking with Mangroves: A Biocentric Approach to Conservation and Carbon Sequestration, Brady Mark Orozco-Herman
Data Analysis and Spatial Mapping of Dissolved Oxygen in the Surface Waters of the Androscoggin River from 1930-2019, Vanessa Lee Paolella
The Effects of Damming on River Herring Spawning Habitat in the Kennebec, Penobscot and St. Croix Watersheds of Maine, Tucker Kingsbury Pierce Mr
“The Real Target”: Medical Racism and AIDS Genocide Conspiracy Theory, Madeline Grace Polkinghorn
Reconstructing the Female Experience in Classical Attica Through A Close Analysis of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Nicholas P. Quill
Why We Need Translingualism: An Antiracist Approach in the Writing Center, Sarah Townsend Raphael
On Brass and Snow: An Athlete's History of the Sport of Biathlon, Brad William Ravenelle
New School(s), Same Problem: An Analysis of Black Students’ Experiences in Urban Charter Schools, Joshua Redd
Sounds of Scotland, Ian W. Robertson
Sounds of Scotland, Ian W. Robertson
Monitoring Beach Retreat and Sediment Shift at Seawall Beach, Phippsburg, ME, Jacob Purdy Russett
Rural Gentrification in the Methow Valley, Maya C. Seckinger
The Nature of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium - Central Maine Terrane Contact in the North Berlin 7.5’ Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Thomas F. Sheils
Authorship Identification of Li Qingzhao’s Anthology: A Computational Approach, Richard Tyler Simmons
Seas Are Rising: Assessing Coastal Vulnerabilities in Phippsburg, Maine, Dylan Simon
A Comparison of Sediments from Above and Below a Tidal Restriction in the Back River Creek Marsh, Woolwich, ME, Carolyn Ruth Snow
Hemp: from seed to garment, Talia Boutwell Sperduto
Nest Sanitation as the Possible Evolutionary Basis for Parasitic Egg Rejection in the American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus), James B. Stratton
"La Migración Cambió Mi Visión (Migration Changed My Vision)": How and Why Oaxacan Return Migrants Run for Mayor of Their Hometowns, Daniel Lawrence Tepler
How Humans Made the Wilderness and Our Role in Protecting It: Invasive Milfoil and Wilderness Ideologies in Little Sebago Lake, Kassandra Wilson
Theses from 2020
Endangering Danger: An Anthropological Exploration of the Relationship between Snakes and People in Sāmoa., Ariel Abonizio
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Auburn Public School District, Samantha Alexander
Exploring Structure in Origami Constructions, Deveena R. Banerjee
Applying the Generalized Quasilinear Approximation to Taylor-Couette Flow, Morgan Baxter
Conceptualizing the Variables That Shape the International Student Experience in Higher Education, Francesca Biondi Morra
Light Pollution and Urban Children’s Geographies: The Effects of Skyglow as an Extension of Adult Ordering on Urban Nightscapes, Tess A. Black
Green is Good for You: A Curriculum that Encourages Environmental Global Citizenship, Anne K. Blakslee
Representations of Black Queer Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Music: A Close Analysis of Tyler, The Creator and Frank Ocean, Josephine Blanchon
The Wild Mustang Crisis: Confronting the Overpopulation of Wild Horses in the United States, Alison Evans Bodner
Should Beauty be Pain? An Exploration of the Usage of Parabens within Personal Care Products and Cosmetics, Michaela E.` Bowen
A Taste of Life, Christian A. Bradna Diaz
Lake Auburn: A case study in metabolic rates fromo 2013 to 2016, Christopher Castaneda and Topher Castaneda
The Role Of ABC Transporters ABCC4 and ABCE1 in Establishing Ephydatia muelleri/Chlorella Symbioses, Lillian Chang
U.S. SOLAR MARKET CATALYSTS: Analyzing the Effects of Financial Incentives on Solar Market Deployment Across the United States, Julian G. Cook
Exploring the Possibility of Liquid Immiscibility in the Ste. Dorothée Sill near Montréal, Québec, Michael Cooper
'Always on Kitchen Duty' A collection of stories from outdoors(wo)men, Alexandra Cullen
2D and 3D Magneto-Optical Trapping of ⁸⁷Rb in an Atom Chip Bose-Einstein Condensation Apparatus, Michał Ćwik
Climbing the Glass Mountain: Perspectives on Gender Equity in Alpine Guiding, Sarah L. Delany
The EngAging Project, from Temuco, Chile to Maine: Stories of Aging in Place Chart Loneliness' Roots and Antidotes in Community, Grace Gallagher Ellrodt
The Effects of Fluorine on the Viscosity of Melts in the (Na, K) ALSiO4-SiO2 System, Emily Erard-Stone
Armed Struggle, Global Stage: Irish-American Politics & The Troubles in the 1980s, James Claiborne Fagan
Chinese Authoritarianism and the Systematic Suppression of the Uighur Ethnic Minority, Grace Fitzgerald
"The Divergent Paths of Jihad: Comparing Violence Against Civilians Perpetrated by IS and JN in the Syrian Civil War", Abigail Katherine Frost
Examining the Role of Brownfield Redevelopment in Completing the Objectives of the New York State Green New Deal, Adam Gordon Gardner
“Your Favorite Rapper’s a Christian Rapper”: Chance the Rapper’s Creation of a New Community of Christian Hip Hop Through His Use of Religious Discourse on the 2016 Mixtape Coloring Book, Samuel Patrick Glenn
The Attitudes We Live By: The Impact of Symbols of Authority and the Questionable Nature of their Rejection, William Moses Green
Ugly Tourists: How Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua and Ecopornography Reveal Mindless Behavior, Ava V. Gulino
The Origins and Dynamics of Phosphorus in Maine’s Lake Auburn Watershed, Lars Gundersen
Impact of Lead Mining on Sediments in a Proximal Pond to the Mascot Mine in Gorham, New Hampshire, Forrest Hamilton
An Examination of the use of Revenue Within the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: A Modern Model of Carbon Pricing in the United States, Anna Katherine Helms
The Development of Meaning and Purpose in Life Among Adolescents in Germany and Maine, Janika Ho
Late Glacial to Holocene Sea Level History of Kapp Linné, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, Hannah Brierly Johnson
Characterizing the Gulf of Maine Rocky Intertidal: NeCSA Protocol to Monitor Environmental Change, Olivia LaMarche