Theses from 2015
Vocal performance in the chipping sparrow: can a bird change his song?, Meredith C. Miles
Collective Action within an Authoritarian State: The Emergence of an Anti-Mining Movement in Tibetan Regions of the PRC, Tenzin Namdol
Wastelands: Managing Trash and Humans on the US-Mexico Border, Gabriel Scott Nudel
Shaping the Possible: Stories of the resistance and power of community farmers in Maine, Ashleen E. O'Brien
Reflections in the Author's Eye: Optics, Involution, and Artifice in the Novels and Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Amelia J. Oliver
Petrogenesis and Paleostress Analysis of the Mesozoic Mill Brook Dike Zone in the Mount Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Graham Grear Oxman
Nuancing Czech Secularism and Debunking Assumptions of Atheism: Finding Spirituality and Questioning Identity in a Culturally Christian Post-Communist Society, Molly Irene Pailet
Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Recommendations for a Case Study in Lewiston, ME, Kate B. Paladin
Mindful Urban Walking, Benjamin F. Pardee
Using Community Structure Networks to Model Heterogeneous Mixing in Epidemics, and a Potential Application to HIV in Washington, D.C., Katherine Ragland Paulson
The Lady is a Tramp: The Integration of the Appalachian Mountain Club Hut System as a Distillation of the Women’s Rights Movement, Grace Lillian Pezzella
Conserving the Endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly: An Analysis of Animals' Place in Society Which Determines tts Importance, Kathy Polanco
The Transformative Power of Social Entrepreneurship, Kathryn E. Polio
The Consequences of Plan Colombia: Domestic Drug Policies in Colombia, Brittany T. Reid
The Third Dimension of Power within Education Based NGOs in Nicaragua, Emily Catherine Roseman
Interpreting Innocence: Romantic Thought in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Rachel S. Ryan
Apocalyptic Simplification as Human Renewal: Examining the Tropes of Hope found in Post-Apocalyptic American Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Elizabeth Frieda Sangree
Going West: An Interdisciplinary Study of Marfa, Texas, Martha Schnee
Aging in Japan: An analysis of the growing vulnerability of the elderly in the context of the Tohoku Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011, Hannah T. Siegel
UNDER THE COVERS: Deconstructing the Presentation of the Human Reproductive System in Secondary Biology Education, Alexandra M. Skaperdas
White Privilege: A Study of White Students' Racial Awareness at a Predominantly White, but Historically Inclusive Institution, Quincy Elizabeth Snellings
"Infinitesimal Progress": Rethinking Bergsonian Modalities of Time in William Faulkner's Novels, 1929-1932, Beau P. Sperry
“To my virginity!”: Queerness, Silencing, and Dominicanity in Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Nicholas Jason Steverson
What Role Did the Sassanid Empire Truly Play in the Fall of the Western Roman Empire? Exploring Divergences in Causal Frameworks, Nicholas Vladimir Strunc and Nicholas Vladimir Strunc
Tourist or Traveler? An Examination of Local-Outsider Relations in Patagonia, Lucy Kaplan Triedman
"The Way We Gaze On A Loved One": Lessons in Ecological Consciousness from American Science Fiction, Shana AvRutick Wallace
Analysis of Sediment Traps in Linnévatnet, Svalbard for Reconstruction of Annual Sediment Flux and Lacustrine Processes, Tess L. Walther
Decreased Attentional Abilities are Related to Dissociation in Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study of Dissociation, Cognition, Sleep and Mood, Hannah L. Weiss
Controlling Birth Control: Media Representations of Contraception in the 1960s, Anna Forest Whetzle
Bedrock Geology of the Mt. Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Sarah Mei Xiao and J. Dykstra Eusden
The Gentrification of Munjoy Hill, Felix Xie
Evaluation of the ubiquitin-protein ligases UBE3A and DTX3L as mediators of EMCV 3C protease concentration, Joshua T. Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Microbial Isolates on Waiting Room Toys in Two Maine Pediatric Clinics, Zachary D. Abbott
Scottish Nostalgias: Evocations of Home in the 1990s Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie, Kathryn A. Ailes
Neuromodulatory Effects of Delta Opioid Receptors on Accessory Olfactory Bulb Processing, Abigail Jane Alexander
An Investigation of Quantum Dynamics in a Three-Level Bose-Einstein Condensate System, Saad J. Ansari
A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Linnédalen, Svalbard using Geochemical and Productivity Proxies, Alexandra Michelle Balter
Same Sex Relationships and the Right to Intimate Association: Developing an Alternative Constitutional Framework in Support of Gay Rights, Evan L. Binder
Scotland within Empire: the Quest for Independence with or without Union, Michaela E. Brady
Why Haiti?: A case study of human processes in a "natural" disaster, Lucy Louisa Brennan
The Use of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in a Baseline Characterization of the Input Streams of Lake Auburn, Jordan J. Buetow
Materiality and the Literary Letter, Alexandra McDowell Carley
A Chemical Method for Testing Total Phosphorus, Bridgette Krishna Chandhoke
Detroit's Development of a Rebellion: Understanding the 12th Street Rebellion in a Spatial Framework, Jedd Daniel Countey
Nutrient dynamics of an alewife migration in Nequasset Lake: Evidence and modeling efforts, Wells Tanner Cunningham
In the Interest of Coexisting: Evaluating Industrial Agriculture Using Paul Taylor's Theory of Environmental Ethics, Caroline Serena Daniels
A Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy as a Potential Primary Energy Source for Maine and Bates College, Catherine Elizabeth Dioli
An Evaluation of the Ecological Effects of Wind-Powered Facilities on Bat Fatalities in the United States, Rakey Drammeh
Monitoring Sedimentation Patterns and Inlet Migration at Popham, Seawall and Small Point Beaches, Phippsburg, Maine, Sara May El Assaad
Family Planning and Democratization: The Employment and Impact of Foreign Intervention in Kenya, Laura M. Entwisle
The Power to Envision Change: Art as Environmental Activism, Sonja Raven Favaloro
The Anthropology of Think Tanks: Democracy Promotion in Egypt after the 2011 Uprisings, Sabina Erika Lee Frizell
A Wooden Alternative: Examining the Environmental Impact of the Production of Surfboards, Tyler H. Grees
A Study of Matter-Wave Diffraction in Bose-Einstein Condensates for Atom Interferometry Applications, Yang Guo
A Physical and Mineralogical Analysis of Late Holocene Sand Deposits: A Case Study of Little Ice Age Coastal Change in the Shetland Islands, UK, Christopher Trent Halsted
Assessing the Landscape: In Search of a Coherent Value Theory for Environmental Ethics, Alex J. Hamilton
Assessing the Landscape: In Search of a Coherent Value Theory for Environmental Ethics, Alex J. Hamilton
Using LiDAR to Map the Geomorphology of the Swift River Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Cameron A. Held
Abstracting Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe's White Rose and River Paintings, Daniel Edward Huston
The role of the Local in Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the United States: A Case Study of the proposed Cape Wind project in Massachusetts, Sarah Elizabeth Jacobson
Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Service Losses Associated With Mangrove Conversion Due to Shrimp Aquaculture, Rohan K. Jaffrey
Edward Abbey’s Indirect Affect on National Park Service Ideology: Abbey’s Literature as “Media” in Parallel with National Park Service “Media”, Gretchen Flora Kaija
Water Quality and Phosphorus Budget of Lake Auburn in Auburn, Maine, Megan L. Kearns
I Protest!: A Look into Causes of Protest Responses in Contingent Valuation Surveys, Bo Ra Kim
Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Water Supply and Sanitation: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment in the Context of Africa and Tanzania, Adelaide Sayi Makwaia
Do Reentrant Processes Facilitate Feature Binding?, Mariya E. Manahova
Shifting Identities: Analyzing the Effect of Non-Coercive Power on Karen Identity, Benjamin James McCormack
The More the Merrier: Exploring the Efficacy of Foreign Supernatural Agents as Mechanisms of Compensatory Control, Mary Alice Millard
El poder de la emoción en una marcha sin fin: Un diálogo con los académicos, la prensa internacional y las palabras de las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Hannah A. Miller
Information as a Tool for Invasive Plant Management: Targeting Phases of Invasion, Hannah Bernstein Mitchell
Design and construction of multi-dimensional optical lattices for 87 Rb Bose-Einstein condensates, Edward Russell Moan
Critical Speed Analysis of Railcars and Wheelsets on Curved and Straight Track, Joanna Charlotte Moody
The Ainu Speak of Famine: How Oral Traditions Reflect and Inform Historical Analysis of Changing Food Practices and Trade Relations in Early Modern Period Hokkaido (1603-1868), Joanna Charlotte Moody
Transplanting Culture Back into Agriculture, Matthew R. Mosca
The Strategies of Environmental Non Governmental Organizations to Better the Environment in Face of the Laws Restricting NGOs, Kristian Benbow Muldoon Mr.
Ecopoetry: Evolution and Practice, Kathryn Mulholland
Education from the Ground Up: Benefits of School Garden Strategies, Derek William Murphy
Legal Hybridity: Rule of Law under Authoritarianism, Aung Phone Myint
Climate Refugees: Evaluating and Re-purposing the Term in the Face of Modern Day Vulnerabilities, Anne Ngo
The Tropical Eigenvalue-Vector Problem from Algebraic, Graphical, and Computational Perspectives, Alex William Nowak
The Biopolitics of Marriage and Motherhood: Understanding the Transformative Role of White Middle-Class Women in the American Eugenics Movement 1900-1930, Emma Barrett Perkinson
Finding a Balance for Man and Nature: A Study of Prespa National Park in Northern Greece, Wallis H. Pierce
The Reign of “King Henequen”: The Rise and Fall of Yucatán’s Export Crop from the Pre-Columbian Era through 1930, Nyle Lucien Rioux
Heritage Tourism and Local Identity in Greenville, Maine, Anne K. Rockwell
Right to Know GMO: MOFGA's Campaign in Support of LD718 and its Potential for Replication Beyond Maine, Carole Judith Rosenberg
Managing Risk in Modernity: An analysis of modern technological risks and risk management techniques, Eric Ruta
How the Mind Refigures Memory: The Role of Social Construction and Fallibility in the Fictions of Faulkner, Woolf, and Nabokov, Rebecca H. Salzman-Fiske
Maine summertime blooms: Variability in populations of Gloeotrichia in three Maine lakes, Anabel Rose Schmelz
Chilean University Students’ Understandings of Dating Violence: A Qualitative Study, Simone H. Schriger
Religion and the Postmodern in Contemporary North American Fiction, Alexandra T. Sentner
Human exploitation may not be the cause for the declining size of Patella vulgata (Common limpet): A comparison between the Late Norse and the modern populations of Patella vulgata at Sandwick Bay, Unst, Shetland Islands, UK, Sarah Mae Brennan Silverberg
The Politics of the Gate: Byzantine City Walls and the Urban Negotiation of Imperial Authority, Samuel Aldred Slattery
Sex Scandals in Victorian Britain: Moral Codes and National Reputation in Crisis, Rachel Spence
"Another Landscape, Another Tongue:" The Queer Language of Silence in Virginia Woolf's Fiction, Sarah Streat
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant