Theses from 2020
Earthworm Cover Crop Habitat Preference, Paige Baisley
Rural Economic Development in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Developing a Place-Sensitive Plan for the Region, Dustin Bishop
Using Schlieren Optics To Visualize Ultrasonic Standing Waves In Acoustic Levitation, Ming-Hua Chang
The (In)Convenient Truth: Exploring Waidner-Spahr Library as a Repository for Books, Scholars & whiteness, Sierra Climaco
Symbolic Protest and Creating Community: The Resilience of Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Cailey Cummins
Examining Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Resource Management in Pennsylvania, Olivia Ellard
Humor and the Absurd, Austin Fuller
A Colombian Peace: Impartial Ceasefires and Protected Reintegration Processes, Isiah Godoy
Georgia at a Crossroads: Balancing Western Aspirations, Russian Influences & Internal Divisions, Grace Ingle
Turkish Foreign Policy toward Russia: Kemalism, Neo-Ottomanism & the Transition Out of Empire (1923-2020), Grace Ingle
The 17th Century Origins of 19th and 20th Century Radical Thought, Drew Kaplan
Yo Sé Perder. Pero, Ay, Cómo Me Duele, Zoe JM Kiefreider
Biogeochemical Cycling of Methane in Icelandic Glacial Melt, Rachel Krewson
Moroccan Jewish Popular Belief, Joshua Lesser
Delegate or Trustee? Preferences of Representation for School Board Members and Constituents, Sarah Lutz
Resettlement and Resistance: A Critique of Classification and Social Domination Using Refugee and Host-Community Oral Histories, Ethan Mayer-Rich
The Body as Enemy: Patriarchy and Women’s Acts of Gender Violence, Alana Richards
Una donna contro il patriarcato: Gli spazi simbolici nel romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo, Natura Sant Foster
"I must laugh or die:" the Satirical Feminism of Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" and Other Stories, Audrey Schlimm
“To Be or Not to Be”: Paradoxical Representations of Women in LUCE News Broadcasts and “White Telephone” Films during the Fascist Ventennio, Sophia Scorcia
Coherentist Theories of Epistemic Justification, Nicholas Serensits
Ascribing Knowledge: An Approved Reliable Methods Account, Xiaoyu Su
Embattled Enforcement: U.S. Commissioners and the Failures of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1854, Cooper Wingert
K-Pop Connection: Maintaining Fandom Loyalty in K-Pop and V Live, Amanda Xiong
Using 3D Printing Techniques for Prototyping Absorbers for Solar Air Heaters, Olivia Young
Theses from 2019
Agroecology and Critical Pedagogy: Contributions to Resistance in a Rural Community in Ceará, Brazil, Daniela Aldrich
Politics of Memory and the Escrache in Post Dictatorship Argentina, Jaqueline Amezcua
Ladies' Room: Women's Space in Women's Literature, Maia Baker
Beyond Scared Straight: Shucking and Jiving in a New Age, Janaiya Banks
Microwave-Assisted Hydrogenolysis and Elimination of Cysteine Perfluoroaryl Thioethers, Taylor Bednar
The Role of Fos and JunB in the Reprogramming of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells, Kayla Bendinelli
The Role of EGR in the Genetic Reprogramming of Human Leukemia Cells, Shannon Bonner
El Matrimonio Como Contrato Familiar: El Codigo Civil Chileno y Martin Rivas, Michael Borsch
The Silencing of Anita Hill and Dr. Blasely Ford: An Examination of Gendered Language Differences in Cases of Sexual Misconduct, Sarah Campbell
Dynamics of the Taylor Series Approximation of the Dixon Elliptic Functions, Mengting Chao
Empirical Evaluation of Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) for Internet of Things, Adam Cogen
Lead Isotopes and Trace Metals as Indicators of Terrestrial Contaminant Sources Associated with Browning in Lake Giles, PA, Allison Curley
A Characterization of Critical Zone Architecture and Near-Surface Seismic Anisotropy in Oregon Ridge Park, MD, Benjamin Eppinger
Jose de Acosta's Middle Ground: Negotiating the Religious and Economic Motives of the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century, Caitlin Filiato
Relating Diatom Community Shifts to Environmental Change in Icelandic Freshwater Lakes, Lydia Fox
Dictatorship and Trauma in the Dominican Republic, Keisy Germosen
Gender Formation in Childhood and Masculinities at Dickinson College, Courtney Gistaro
Keep Up Signifyin(g): Black Boys' Revision, Repetition, and Response to Censored Speech, Quadrese Glass
Charles de Gaulle and the “Forever Abandoned”: Conceptualizations of Empire and French Identity, Julien Herpers
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the 2014 Chinese Hukou Reform, Adam Huang
Design, Construction, and Performance Testing of the RD-SAH, Julia Huddy
Second Language and Cultural Training for Early Childhood Education: Design, Practice, Impact, Jules Isacson
Active Reduction of Heat Losses Through the Glazing of a Solar Air Heater, Sophie Kirkman
Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Localized Modes in Virbrational and Magnetic Lattices, Hieu Le
Venit, Vidit, Vicit, Scripsit: Caesar's Conscious Manipulations in His Commentarii, Seth Levin
Soil, Adelgids, and the Health of Eastern Hemlock Trees, Yeuli Liang
#MeToo Means Who?: Shining a Light on the Darkness A Rhetorical Analysis of Inclusivity and Exclusivity within the #MeToo Movement, Meaghan McBride
Bifurcation, Symmetry Breaking, and Synchronization in a Coupled-Logistic Map Circuit, Houssem Mhiri
Self-Adaptive Chaotic Mutation Operators in Evolutionary Computation, Daniel Ngo
Great Awakening (an oratorio), Sam Phelps
The Effects of Dissolved Organic Carbon on Methane Cycling in Lakes, Madie Ritter
Is Winning a Necessity for Financial Success in the Cycling Industry, Grant Shearer
Cue the AABA Jokes: The American Association of Physical Anthropologists as a Case Study for the Changing Culture of Higher Academia, Caroline Snyder
Deliberative Democracy in the #MeToo Era: A Chance to Reconcile?, Emma Spector
James Miller McKim and the Abolitionists' Civil War, Becca Stout
Iconocentric Mysticism in Byzantine Christianity and South Asian Religions, Holden Sweger
Climate Change and Local Governments: A Case Study in Pennsylvania Water Management and Planning, Olivia Termini
Maypole Braids: An Analysis Using the Annular Braid Group, Moyi Tian
The Role of Methanotrophs in Aquatic Food Webs, Josie Verter
Traveling and Transformed Bodies: Reconceptualizing Leprosy in Late-Qing Literature (1848-1909), Min Xie
The Line between the Parent and the Child: An Analysis of the Complications Caused by Drug Addiction in the Dependency System, Michaela Zanis
Changes in Forest Fungal Communities With Respect to Eastern Hemlock Abundance, Ilana Zeitzer
Theses from 2018
Secure and Lightweight Communication in Heterogeneous IoT Environments, Jake Beley
Reprogramming Leukemia Cells Toward Cell Cycle Arrest, Grace Crossland
Touch in Sexual Encounters: Perceptions of Partners’ Consent, Katherine DeBroeck
Double-Slit Interference with Partially-Coherent Light, Natalie Ferris
Size distribution in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) populations, Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, Nicholas Gabuzda
The Taming of the Yeast: Domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus Yeasts, Courtney Gamache
In the Hands of Its Mothers: Georgia Swift King, Temperance, and the Challenges of African American Progressivism, Sarah Goldberg
Probing the tetrameric structure of Leishmania major Pteridine Reductase (PTR1) with point mutations and interface-derived peptides, Meredith Johnson
Explaining the Referent of “We”: An Explanatory Answer to Olsen’s Question, John Leibundgut
Echándole ganas: Identity and Resilience in Oral Histories of Women of Mexican Descent at Dickinson College, Elizabeth Marin
Plant communities in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) stands impacted by hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), Cheyenne Moore
Effects of Armed Conflict on Women's Political Participation: A Study of Selected Civil Wars in the Arab World., Celina Natzic
Construction of Washington, D.C. and Modern Paris: Cultural Ideologies Reflected in Capital Cities, Jillian Paffenbarger
Separating Church and State: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Religious Freedom in France and the United States, Jillian Paffenbarger
Reaching for the Stars: Fictional Women, Female Researchers, and the Importance of Role Models in Japan’s Aerospace Fields, Leigh Anne Parrott
Selective reactions of cysteine perfluoroaryl thioethers, Allison Resnikoff
The Role of MafB in Reversing the Transformed Phenotype of Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells, Tulley Shofner
Characterizing expression of the protein Yorkie in the Drosophila embryo, Sadie Signorella
Impacts of insect growth regulator pesticides on populations of beneficial dung beetles in Pennsylvania agroecosystems, Kayla Simpson
Russian ikan’e and akan’e in Learners with L1 American English, Allison Stroyan
Self and Service: The Grounds of the Engaged Spirituality of Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh, Christian Sweger