Honors Projects
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Exploring the functional role of theta oscillations in top-down control of episodic memory retrieval Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Emma F.B. Gibbens
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Suite For a Changing Climate
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Hayden Byrne
Access: Open access
- Suite for a Changing Climate is a set of compositions inspired by the changing rhythms of the New England seasons and the evolving ways in which we experience them in the shadow of climate change. Each piece captures a distinct facet of the seasonal year, whether rooted in sensory experience or in cultural memory, while reflecting on how these once-familiar patterns are being reshaped by environmental instability.

“I belong as much as I want to”: Changing Perceptions of Belonging through COVID and After among Elite Undergraduates Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Fiona Bor
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Exploring Eelgrass Restoration: Understanding Zostera marina seed development and germination in Casco Bay, ME Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Lucille Jean de Ferranti Dutton
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Que vivan los estudiantes: Cycles of Contention and the Chilean Student Movement (1906-present)
Date: 2018-01-01
Creator: Jonah Watt
Access: Open access
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The Role of Competition and Patient Travel in Hospital Profits: Why Health Insurers Should Subsidize Patient Travel
Date: 2013-05-01
Creator: Joseph S Durgin
Access: Open access
- This paper explores the effects of patient travel distance on hospital profit margins, with consideration to the effects of travel subsidies on hospital pricing. We develop a model in which hospital agglomeration leads to a negative relationship between profit margins and patient travel distance, challenging the standard IO theory that profit margins are higher for firms with greater distances of customer travel. Using data on patient visits and hospital finances from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), we test our theory and confirm that a hospital tends to have less pricing power if it draws patients from beyond its local cluster. We then consider how our results might justify the subsidizing of patient travel by insurers and government payers. Lastly, we present an argument for why the ubiquitous Hirschman-Herfindahl index of market concentration can be robust to owner and system-level hospital cooperation.
Superhero Ecologies: An Environmental Reading of Contemporary Superhero Cinema
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Andrew McGowan
Access: Open access
Identifying a distinct developmental module in the zebrafish dentition
Date: 2018-01-01
Creator: Caleb Matthew Gordon
Access: Open access
- In the zebrafish pharynx, the first three teeth to form, 3V1, 4V1, and 5V1, have distinct adult and embryonic morphologies, suggesting that these teeth may form using different developmental pathways. Previous studies of gene expression profiles and mutant phenotypes in 3V1, 4V1, and 5V1 have identified four genes that might be involved in dissociating these tooth modules: pitx2b, eve1, pbx1a, and pbx1b. To determine how the developmental roles of these four genes differ across 3V1, 4V1, and 5V1, and obtain a better understanding of how these three teeth develop, I performed CRISPR/Cas9– mediated knockouts in each of these genes, or analyzed embryos from a stable transgenic mutant line where available, and observed the resulting tooth germs and mineralized tooth structures via fluorescence and confocal microscopy. Preliminary results implicate pitx2 as being required for tooth mineralization, offer a possible role for pbx1a, pbx1b, and eve1 in distinguishing the developmental pathway of 3V1, and suggest that 3V1 constitutes a distinct developmental module within the early ventral dentition.
“I’m Going to Help You Become a Better You”: Teacher-Student Dynamics in Special Education
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Sophie Sadovnikoff
Access: Open access
- This study explores teachers’ roles in special education in terms of how they interact with students with disabilities. In the struggle against oppression and disempowerment, teachers can play a crucial role in employing education as the great equalizer, or else not. The question this research seeks to answer is: how do special education teachers interact with their students with disabilities, and how does this teacher role fit within a society that seeks to marginalize these students? I argue that special education teachers reproduce ableism by disciplining, normalizing, and controlling their students, but teachers express a deep sense of caring for and about their students, and understand their work as being their best effort at helping their students. The ableist actions that they perform are, ironically, an effort to help their students create fulfilling lives within an ableist society.
Ecotourism Reconsidered: Chinese and Western Participation in the Thai Elephant Industry
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Miao (Jasmine) Long
Access: Open access