Honors Projects

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Miniature of That’s DOPE: the delayed-onset, prolonged excitation response of a primary auditory interneuron in <i>Gryllus bimaculatus</i>
That’s DOPE: the delayed-onset, prolonged excitation response of a primary auditory interneuron in Gryllus bimaculatus
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    • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-13

    Date: 2020-01-01

    Creator: Samuel G. Brill-Weil

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      Survival Strategies: Historic Preservation, Jewish Community, and the German Democratic Republic

      Date: 2020-01-01

      Creator: Emily Ann Cohen

      Access: Open access

      Following the Second World War, as German Communists worked to establish a new socialist East German state, Jews who survived persecution and imprisonment by the Nazis worked to reestablish a Jewish community at the same time. Though many scholars dismiss the relationship between Jews and the Socialist Unity Party, the ruling party of the German Democratic Republic, as one characterized only by neglect and occasional political exploitation, it was much more nuanced, shaped in large part by the Cold War. Both the party and the Jewish community relied on the other to accomplish their goals, namely, survival in a new world order: The Socialist Unity Party relied on the Jewish community to maintain the German Democratic Republic's claim to legitimacy, and the Jews, few in number, relied on the party for financial support. Despite mutual benefits, however, the state and party nearly always had the upper hand. The power imbalance led Jews to find creative ways to fulfill their needs and, at several points, even prompted protest of the party’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. This paper follows the course of this relationship by focusing on the German Democratic Republic's management of sites of historical significance—which vacillated between outright destruction and dedicated protection—returning particularly to the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. With this particular lens, this project addresses questions about memory, mythology, and agency in a socialist dictatorship and challenges assumptions about Jewish life in East Germany.


      Miniature of Food Comes First: Growing Up at my Family’s Table
      Food Comes First: Growing Up at my Family’s Table
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        • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-14

        Date: 2020-01-01

        Creator: Eleanor Sapat

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          Perdido en la transculturación: Compromisos de identidad en la América Latina judía

          Date: 2020-01-01

          Creator: Jacob Bernard Baskes

          Access: Open access

          Esta investigación explora los procesos de negociación y compromiso presentes en la experiencia judía de América Latina. Durante siglos, esta identidad ha existido junta con otras, sean nacionales, religiosas, o raciales, lo cual resulta en una nueva identidad compleja y singular. A través de novelas de Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala), Achy Obejas y Leonardo Padura (Cuba) e Isaac Goldemberg (Perú) en adición a una investigación antropológica en Lima, el texto explora una colección de temas que incluye el movimiento, la memoria, el exilio, la diáspora, el trauma, y el mestizaje. Cada tema aquí analizado tiene un rol profundo en la formación de la identidad judía de América Latina, tanto en su forma histórica como en su forma actual.


          Miniature of The Photodegradation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Aqueous Solutions
          The Photodegradation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Aqueous Solutions
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              Date: 2014-05-01

              Creator: Peyton C Morss

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                Bubbles & Bought-Ins: Reevaluating Price Movements in the Art Market

                Date: 2020-01-01

                Creator: Silas Wuerth

                Access: Open access

                Employs two tests for bubbles in the art market. First, a right-hand forward recursive augmented Dickey-Fuller test to identify explosive price movements. Second, a test for the statistical significance of hedonic regression price index coefficients after controlling for equity market performance. Finds strong evidence for a speculative bubble in the pre-Great Recession "Post-War & Contemporary" market. Evidence for this bubble diminishes but does not dissipate after accounting for the effect of failed sales on index returns.


                Miniature of Gateway to the Forest City? Portland, Maine's Bayside Neighborhood, 1866-2014
                Gateway to the Forest City? Portland, Maine's Bayside Neighborhood, 1866-2014
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                    Date: 2014-05-01

                    Creator: Alexander J. Tougas

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                      Miniature of Functionality of <i>Candida albicans</i> She3 in the mRNA transport of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>
                      Functionality of Candida albicans She3 in the mRNA transport of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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                          Date: 2021-01-01

                          Creator: Sheikh Omar Kunjo

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                            A Moderated-Mediation Model of Emerging Adult and Parent Religiosity, Externalizing Behavior, and Parenting Style

                            Date: 2021-01-01

                            Creator: Benjamin M. Simonds

                            Access: Open access

                            The present study investigated whether emerging adult religiosity mediated the relationship between high parental religiosity and low levels of offspring externalizing, and whether these pathways are moderated by aspects of authoritative parenting (i.e., acceptance, firm control, and psychological autonomy). Surveys were completed by 275 emerging adults aged 18-25, including scales assessing their religiosity, the religiosity of their parents, the style of parenting in which they were raised, and their own engagement in externalizing behaviors. Results indicated a correlation between high levels of parental and emerging adult religiosity, and a marginal relationship between high parental religiosity and reduced offspring externalizing. However, emerging adult religiosity was not related to externalizing, such that no mediation model could be tested. Psychological autonomy granting moderated the relationship between parental religiosity and emerging adult externalizing: low parental religiosity was associated with high levels of emerging adult externalizing only in parents who exhibited low levels of psychological autonomy granting, while high parental religiosity was related to low emerging adult externalizing regardless of psychological autonomy granting. The results indicate a complex relationship between parenting, externalizing, and religiosity.


                            “Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising of Cherán K’eri

                            Date: 2020-01-01

                            Creator: Ray Tarango

                            Access: Open access

                            In the spring of 2011, the indigenous community of Cherán K’eri in western Mexico rose up to protect their forests. Organized crime, and its allies, had taken over this town during the previous decade and had logged significant portions of its communal forests in the surrounding hills. This thesis examines the following questions: How do townspeople recall their experience under a narco state? What pushed this indigenous community to organize to protect the forest despite the threat of violence? What was it about this landscape in particular that brought people together? Previous research into this uprising has overlooked the gender dynamics of the community, and has failed to consider the townspeople’s connection to nature. Using interviews gathered over eighteen months in three separate visits, this thesis argues that despite patriarchal expectations that men “protect” the community and its resources it was women who led and organized the uprising. Chapter One analyzes how organized crime took control of the community, suggesting that memories and trauma of the “war on drugs” deeply affected the townspeople. Chapter Two centers on the uprising itself, exploring not only the gendered dynamics of that spring, but connecting the material and affective importance of the forest to the women who led the uprising. This thesis analyzes how organized crime took control of the community and argues that townspeople’s multilayered connection to nature played a central role in the town’s movement.