Honors Projects
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Examining the Effect of Aromatic Substituents in Peptoid Catalysts of Stereoselective Trifluoromethylation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Daniel Chi
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Three Decades of Replicated Field Studies Reveal Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Inhibits Soft-shell Clam (Mya arenaria) Growth in Eastern Maine This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-16
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Everett Horch
Access: Embargoed
Non-Naturalism and Naturalism in Mathematics, Morality, and Epistemology
Date: 2018-05-01
Creator: Nicholas DiStefano
Access: Open access

Chromatin-conformation differences in natural populations of D. melanogaster Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
- Restriction End Date: 2026-06-01
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Nicholas J. Purchase
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"In Loving Virtue": Staging the Virgin Body in Early Modern Drama
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Miranda Viederman
Access: Open access
- The aim of this Honors project is to investigate representations of female virginity in Renaissance English dramatic works. I view the period as one in which the womb became the site of a unique renewal of cultural anxieties surrounding the stability of the patriarchy and the inaccessibility of female sexual desire. I am most interested in virginity as a “bodily narrative” dependent on the construction and maintenance of performance. I analyze representations of virginity in female characters from four works of drama originating in the Jacobean period of the English Renaissance, during and after the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. Across four chapters, I examine the characters of Isabella from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1604), Beatrice-Joanna from Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling (1622), the Jailer’s Daughter from Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634), and Helen from Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (c. 1602-1605). To establish a framework for my readings, I situate each work in its contemporary cultural context, drawing upon Catholic and Protestant religious doctrines, period medical texts, and popular culture. I intend to explore the complex, often contradictory nature of the forms of virginity the plays depict. Still, I hope by uncovering the opportunities these four characters are provided by their virginity, that I can widen the confines of the category.

Examining Functional Roles for Anthocyanins in Plant Leaves Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2016-05-01
Creator: Benjamin M West
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A Practical Study in Conducting Renaissance and Contemporary Choral Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Emily M. Ha
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Functional redundancy of a non-native foundation species (eelgrass, Zostera japonica) across intertidal stress gradients
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: S. Maria Garcia
Access: Open access
- Non-native species foundation species can alter ecosystems in both positive and negative ways. The creation of habitat can be beneficial to native species when they provide a limiting resource or in a stressful environment. Yet this creation of habitat can also be detrimental by replacing native species and/or facilitating the presence of more non-native species. In Willapa Bay, WA, a non-native foundation species, Zostera japonica, co-exists with the native foundation species Zostera marina. Zostera japonica persists at the higher intertidal in monocultures, the two species overlap in the mid intertidal, and Z. marina persists in monocultures in the low intertidal. Epifaunal invertebrates, the organisms that live on eelgrass blades, connect eelgrass to higher trophic levels. Through a series of transplants and removals, I used this zonation pattern to ask if the two species can fulfill a similar functional role in respect to epifaunal invertebrates (functional redundancy), and if this was due to the identity of the foundation species or a response to the stress gradient of the intertidal. My results suggest that the epifaunal invertebrate community is responding more to the physiological stress gradient, and the functional redundancy of the two species depends on the location they are found. Z. japonica is expanding the range of vegetated habitat into to the physiologically stressful high zone, which supports a different community. This experiment highlights that the impacts of non- native species are highly localized and that abiotic and biotic factors are important to trophic interactions.

Origin of Rhyolite from Magma Mush: Plutonic Lithics from the Ohakuri Ignimbrite, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-15
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Christine Reimer
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Policy Making, Decision Making, and Advocacy: The U.S. Asylum System Since 9/11
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Clara Jergins
Access: Open access
- Immigration justice advocates and immigration restrictionists alike are unhappy with the way that the U.S. asylum system functions. This project seeks to develop a better understanding of policy changes and the politicized influence of the president and executive authorities over the asylum system since 9/11—in particular, these individuals’ ability to implement their policy preferences through the hiring and instruction of Asylum Officers and Immigration Judges. Through case studies of nonprofit organizations, it identifies the key points in the asylum process where asylum has been restricted, and the ways in which these restrictions can be responded to. On the basis of these factors, this project identifies four key changes, made by Congress, through which the asylum system could be improved: the establishment of an Article I immigration court, encoded testimonial and credibility standards, universal representation, and an end to asylum seeker detention. These changes are asserted to depoliticize the asylum process and to create a stable asylum system in which those that should qualify for asylum do qualify.