Honors Projects

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Crazy American

Date: 2022-01-01

Creator: Emma Quan Dewey

Access: Open access

Crazy American is an evening-length dance solo choreographed and performed by Bowdoin's first Dance honors student, Emma Quan Dewey. This dance is an embodied exploration of her mother's family migration history from South China to the Philippines to the US, and how it places her and her family within structures of US imperialism, racial hierarchies, and Chineseness itself. Based on ethnographic, historical, theoretical, and embodied research, Crazy American examines the intimate ways these structures play out at the level of the body, and seeks to imagine new possibilities for moving through systems and stories of power.


Modeling Oyster Growth Dynamics in FLUPSY Systems to Develop a Decision Support Tool for Seed Management

Date: 2023-01-01

Creator: Gretchen Clauss

Access: Open access

As the Gulf of Maine warms and lobsters move north to colder waters, Maine’s working water front has begun to diversify. There is a thriving new ecosystem of aquaculturists looking to keep Maine’s waterfront traditions alive in a lasting, sustainable way. One of the most popular aquaculture industries is oyster farming. With an increasing number of oyster farms developing in Midcoast Maine each year, we seek to develop a decision support tool to aid farmers in seed management. Oyster farmers can choose weather or not to use an upweller on their farm, and our goal is to provide guidance on this choice, as well as on upweller management. We begin by culminating and synthesizing data from previous literature and oyster farmers. We then use this data to first build a basic analytical model of a cohort of oysters based on an exponential growth model. We expand this model to include biological differences among oysters as well as management practices. Finally, we walk through a case study, illustrating how our tool could be used to make seed management decisions on an individual farm scale.


Miniature of Exploring Solution-Based Co-Crystal Growth of Curcumin as an Approach for Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
Exploring Solution-Based Co-Crystal Growth of Curcumin as an Approach for Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
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      Date: 2025-01-01

      Creator: Nadia E. Puente

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        Miniature of Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization With Applications to AI for Social Good
        Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization With Applications to AI for Social Good
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            Date: 2025-01-01

            Creator: Sajel Surati

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              Miniature of Settling down to a long winter's nap: Seasonality and temperature on evergreen entrance into winter dormancy
              Settling down to a long winter's nap: Seasonality and temperature on evergreen entrance into winter dormancy
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                  Date: 2025-01-01

                  Creator: Roger M. Wilder

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                    Miniature of Using Fluorogenic Monosaccharides to Detect and Identify Glycan-Degrading Enzymes
                    Using Fluorogenic Monosaccharides to Detect and Identify Glycan-Degrading Enzymes
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                        Date: 2025-01-01

                        Creator: Esteban Tarazona Guzman

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                          The Collision of Oil and Anticolonial Nationalism in the Persian Gulf

                          Date: 2025-01-01

                          Creator: Vaughn Vial

                          Access: Open access

                          In the 1950s and 1960s, Arab nationalism swept across the Arabian Peninsula from Egypt and the Levant, carried by migrants, refugees, and in magazines and newspapers that circulated across national borders. In the Gulf countries this wave of Arab nationalism collided with a flow more material in nature: the movement of enormous amounts of carbon energy in the form of oil. In Arab nationalism, oil workers at Aramco in Saudi Arabia and Bapco in Bahrain found not only a direction for political change but a means of overcoming religious and national divides with their fellow workers. Strikes and labor actions soon ensued at a scale that was unprecedented in these countries. This project explores how the confluence of oil flows and anticolonial nationalism both imbued this moment with the potential to effect egalitarian political change and, simultaneously, limited that potential.


                          Miniature of The Sublethal Impacts of Epizootic Shell Disease, Molting and Damage on Energy Storage and Immune Function in the American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
                          The Sublethal Impacts of Epizootic Shell Disease, Molting and Damage on Energy Storage and Immune Function in the American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
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                              Date: 2025-01-01

                              Creator: Annika Ruth Bell

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                                Miniature of Latent Landscapes: Deep Learning Techniques for Measuring Poverty and Vulnerability
                                Latent Landscapes: Deep Learning Techniques for Measuring Poverty and Vulnerability
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                                    Date: 2025-01-01

                                    Creator: Brian Liu

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                                      New Creatures in Old Gazes: Investigating Shifts Away from Anthropocentrism in Contemporary Animal Fiction

                                      Date: 2025-01-01

                                      Creator: Catherine Mose

                                      Access: Open access

                                      This paper examines three works of animal-based fiction published within the last decade that all center on hypothetical forms of animals with a focus on decentering anthropocentric narratives of how much agency an animal is allowed to have in a human-centric narrative without engaging in anthropmorphism. By comparing the books with theory from the academic field of animal studies, older works of animal-based fiction, and historical debates surrounding the depiction of real-world animals in writing, I aim to interrogate the methods these authors use to decouple their animals' agency from anthropomorphism, and the ways in which this shift allows anthropocentrism to take new forms rather than be eradicated.