Theses from 2023
The Synthesis of a Novel TET Inhibitor and its Inhibition of the TET Enzyme, Elizabeth G. LaCroix
Abundance of Plankton Taxa and Their Effects on the Planktonic Community in Lake Auburn., Dylan Ernest Larose
The Right Against Coercion: A Normative Conception Restricts Police Deception, Nathaniel J. Lewis
Food Justice Imaginaries: A Critical Look at Elite and Grassroots Discourses, Claire Lim
Understanding and Quantifying Phosphorus Transport from Septic Systems to Lake Auburn, Evan Ma
Plant Succession and Soil Chemical Weathering on Post-glacial Landscapes, SE Alaska, Alana Margerum
Mitigating Air Pollution in Jakarta, Indonesia: An Evaluation of “Rendering Technical”, Trevor Forest McAuliffe
A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Central Seismic Gap and Rupture Extent of the AD1505 Earthquake: Northwest Himalaya, India, Natalie Meenan
Investigating the intersectionality between gun violence and climate change in marginalized communities, Gabrielle Sophie Meisel
Petrogenetic history of lava flows from the Casitas Shield in the Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile, Maeve S. Mikulski
'Take What You Need, Give What You Can': An Analysis of the Feasibility of a Community Fridge as a Means to Combat Food Insecurity in Lewiston, Maine, Annika Mirchandani
An Ethnographic Examination of Belonging and Hype in Web3 Communities, Kian Moaledj
An Exploration Into Earths Carbon Threshold, Lucy Moseley
Fascism and the Invention of the “New Woman” in Mussolini’s Italy, Katherine E. North
Del ‘bárbaro’ noble a su deconstrucción: La representación del 'indio' en La Araucana y La Florida del Inca, Cody M. Pfeiffer
“Habia abido y abia y andaba en ellas duende…”: The case of a duende in early modern Spain, Cody M. Pfeiffer
Wildfires in the US and Australia: NGO Polarization Amidst Political Polarization and Climate Disasters, Kallie E. Polgrean
Lead in Our Paint & Water: Poisoning the Minds and Potential of Lewiston’s Children, Avrah Ross
The Role of Vulnerability, Anticipation, and Narrative Structure in California’s Drought Management and Water Allocation Strategies, Sophie C. Scola
Tackling PFAS in Maine: a Resident's Guide to "Forever Chemicals", Victoria Theodora Scott
An Analysis on the Portland-Montreal Pipeline; Indigenous Philosophical Perspectives, Linnéa J. Selendy
The Environmental Implications of War: Analysis of the Spectacular and Slow Environmental Violence Inflicted through Russia’s Deliberate Targeting and Weaponization of Ukrainian Environments, Alexander Campanile Sheikh
Constructing Temporality and Contextualizing the Passing of Time: How Native Foods Operate as Timekeepers / How the Modern American Food Market Manipulates Their Functionality, Robert Francis Sheils
The Heart and Spirit of the Table: Discourses and Practices of the Sobremesa in Madrid, Spain, Isabella Andrea Sobolewski
The Case for Climate Reparations: Implementing Compensatory Justice Measures to Amend the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Josephine Buell Stevens
Planar Lipid Bilayer Analysis of Candidate Rotavirus Antivirals, Emily H. Tamkin
Urban Environmental Education: Redefining Nature and Realigning Pedagogy, Clare Anne Trinity
A Critical Environmental Justice Review of Manufactured Housing, Charles Van Damme
Maine Tisanes: Herbal Tea Past, Present, and Future, Friedrich DB Wilcox
RenoRide? The Biggest Little Bike-Share in the World, Isaac A. Williams
The Forgotten Women of South Africa: Mamphela Ramphele and Her Role in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Ellie Wolfe
A Case for Re-Commoning: The (De)commodification of Food in Lewiston, Maine, Sophie Worsh-Farnum
Getting Warmer? Motivations, Messages, and Distance to Goal in Fundraising Campaigns, Qiyun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Importance of Snake Education on Snake Conservation, Jason Alfandre
The Emancipating Potential of Linguistic Justice: Standardized Language and Writing Practices in Higher Education and the Reproduction of Oppressive Structures, Eliana Al-Konsul
Stability Analysis of Manganese-Oxides As Cathodes for Sodium Ion Batteries, Loren Andrews
Sustainable Urban Living: A Cultural Take on Tokyo's Sustainability Efforts, Koharu Aoki
Analyzing the Great Resignation and the 躺平 Lying Flat Movement, Elizabeth Bauer
An Examination of Zoos: Suffering, Domination, and More., Jasper Destefano Beardslee
“Nobody’s More Country”: Identity in Country-Rap Crossover Music, Amanda Mai T. Becker
One Blue Bowl: A Graphic History of the Silk Roads, Maya Benziger
An Environmental Virtue Ethics Approach To Understanding Eco-Terrorism, Daniel S. Bileca
“These People, Do They Care?” Facilitating Connections to Post-Incarceration Reentry Supports, Emma R. Block
Methane Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, and Groundwater Hydrology Along the Freshwater Margin of the Sprague River Salt Marsh, Parker Caswell
Reconstructing early Holocene warmth in outer Isfjorden, Svalbard using stable isotope analysis on the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, Emma Isabelle Christman
Metaphor, Gendered Slurs, and Epistemic Injustice, Sophie Cohen
Critical Thermal Maxima and Plasticity in Metabolic Rates: A Comparison of Two Ant Species, Etti Olivia Cooper
The Nez Perce Struggle for Wild Chinook Salmon Restoration and an Exploration of Necessary Collaborations Moving Forward, Rosie Crawford
Adopting Low-Carbon Energy Systems in Lewiston, Charles J. Cronin
Suite: for Woodwind Quintet, Haik Oliver Der Manuelian
Learning to Fly on the Way Down: Directing and Teaching Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, Olivia Davidson Dimond
Grappling with Greenspace Inequity Through Urban Climate Change Adaptation: An Analysis of Urban Greening in Boston and Baltimore, Liza Dubinsky
Preclinical Drug Development of a Novel Antiviral Target in Rotavirus, Emily-Claire Kathleen Duffy
The Role of Phosphoinositide Metabolism in the Regulation of Neuronal Activity, Abhirami Elayidom
Analyzing Management Methods for Isolated Bighorn Sheep Populations: a Teton Sheep Case Study, Hayden Evans
The Effects of Invasive Rainbow Smelt on Native Fishes in Two Wisconsin Lakes, Ian Fagan
Dancing on the Precipice: How People Reason about Threshold Problems in a Socially-Rich Real World Context, Xavier Fallone
The Realistic and Fantasy Paradigms of Ski and Surf Film: An Analysis of Localism and Wilderness Narrative, Maximilian G. Freund
Meatpacking, Unpacked, Wilder Geier
Gardening Our Way to a Better Lewiston Middle School, Dianna Maria Georges
Quantifying Crevassing, Damage, and Deformation on the Vaughan Lewis Icefall, Alaska, Cecilia G. Gichner
Fields of Abuse, Ronan Rhea Goulden
The ‘Forever Migrant:’ An Intersectional Analysis of L/A Workplace Discrimination on the Basis of Race, African Accent, and English Language Proficiency, Ronan Rhea Goulden
The Giant Panda: Two Sides to the Face of Conservation, Jesse Hagy
Social Taboo And New Worlds: Resilience of Identity Facing Ecological and Cultural Crisis, Andreas T. Hansen
Growing Gardens in US Prisons: The Benefits and Limitations of Prison Horticulture Programs, Carly Harris
Mobility Justice as a Discursive Omission: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Environmental Organizations and the Electric Vehicle Transition, Julia Henderson
Marine Climate Reconstruction from the Early Holocene Arctica islandica from Erdmannflya Peninsula, Svalbard, Dewi Henry
Math for Liberation: Designing a Math of Voting Systems Unit for Lewiston Middle School, Tess L. Hick
A Place Beyond all Hope, Thomas A. Hiscock
Beyond Partisanship: The Role of Social Movements in Addressing the Climate Crisis, Abby L. Holden
The Colonization of Mountains: Comparing Settler and Indigenous Narratives of Katahdin, Daphne James
The Effects of Aquaculture in Maine’s Coastal Communities: Indicators that Contribute to the Triple Bottom Line, Jake Bradley Jenkins
Assessing the Impacts of a Ditch Plug on Groundwater Hydrology, Sedimentation, and Carbon Dynamics in a Salt Marsh, Phippsburg ME, Henry Stephen King
Flatness, Distortion, Nonsense, and the Ordinary in the Novels of Bolaño, O'Brien, and Bernhard, Elizabeth Claire Kissane
The Shul in the Factory: The Role of Community in Jewish American Women’s Activism in Early Twentieth Century New York City’s Garment Industry, Ashley T. Koman
Emotion in the Neutral Court: Attorney Appeals to Emotion in Jury Trial Argumentation, Elise Marie Lambert
Shanshui Reinterpreted: The Contemporary Art of Xu Bing, Yao Lu, and Yang Yongliang, Anna Landgren
Who's in your water? an investigation into the impacts of land use and chemical water properties on the microbial inhabitants of the Basin, Chloe India Lo Faro
Wait...What! with Kate Loughlin, Kate Loughlin
Evaluating the Role of Race in Foreign Policymaking: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Latin America during Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Sophie Mackin
Nitrogen isotopes in Zostera marina: tracking anthropogenic nitrogen in Casco Bay, Maine., Ojochenemi T. Maji
Climate Displacement: What does a Climate Refugee look like?, Conor M. McCoy
Holocene marine climate reconstruction through δ18O isotopes of the bivalve Serripes groenlandicus, Maya P. McDonough
Sediment Variation and Occurrence of Milky Ribbon Worm (Cerebratulus lacteus) in the Gulf of Maine, Isabel Mohammadi-Hall
Spatial Elevation Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Variability Within Sprague Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Margaret R. O'Brien
Mainstream: How to Make Almost Everyone Care About Climate Change, Jared S. Pantalony
Over A Decade of Striped Bass, Nicholas H. Prawer
Exploring the RAD Framework: Management Methods that Guides the Conservation of National Parks, Henry W. Raff
Geochemistry of Three Distinct Lewiston Quadrangle Pegmatites, ZaneAldeen Rahabi