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Miniature of <i>Body of Work</i>: Physicality and the Electric Guitar
Body of Work: Physicality and the Electric Guitar
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      Date: 2021-01-01

      Creator: Samantha Pollack

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        Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation in the Teaching of Visual Arts

        Date: 2021-01-01

        Access: Open access

        My honors thesis argues that at Bowdoin College, failure to provide Culturally Relevant Teaching in art studio courses dismisses the representation of Blackness in the Visual Arts Department. Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT) recognizes the importance of all students' cultural experiences in different aspects of learning. It allows for equitable access to education for students of diverse backgrounds. CRT is crucial to reconstructing Art Education to represent diverse student bodies. My position as a Black-Indigenous artist enables me to reflect on the intersection of these frameworks and to build upon them in order to highlight the need for pedagogical practice in studio art courses, that doesn’t center technical training derived from the Western canon of art production in Bowdoin’s Visual Arts Department. My research lives on a digital format, where you will engage with the history of Art at Bowdoin from 1794 to the present, oral histories from Black identifying alumni who have navigated the department, theoretical frameworks, and an auto ethnography that breaks down my self-taught pedagogical practice in response to the representational gaps in the curriculum. As you navigate this site, I ask you to follow the written instructions and engage with the interactive material. I will virtually guide you through this project chronologically, and through the lens in which I have experienced personally and through observation.


        Miniature of Investigating the Impact of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> Glycan Biosynthesis on Host Immune Response
        Investigating the Impact of Helicobacter pylori Glycan Biosynthesis on Host Immune Response
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            Date: 2024-01-01

            Creator: William Joseph Surks

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              Miniature of Characterization of Bacterial Glycosylation Pathways with Fluorescent Monosaccharide Probes
              Characterization of Bacterial Glycosylation Pathways with Fluorescent Monosaccharide Probes
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                  Date: 2023-01-01

                  Creator: Lucas John DiCerbo

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                    Miniature of Developing methods of transient absorption spectroscopy for the study of triplet state photoacids
                    Developing methods of transient absorption spectroscopy for the study of triplet state photoacids
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                        Date: 2023-01-01

                        Creator: Jack R Callahan

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                          Robot Detection Using Gradient and Color Signatures

                          Date: 2016-05-01

                          Creator: Megan Marie Maher

                          Access: Open access

                          Tasks which are simple for a human can be some of the most challenging for a robot. Finding and classifying objects in an image is a complex computer vision problem that computer scientists are constantly working to solve. In the context of the RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL) Competition, in which humanoid robots are programmed to autonomously play soccer, identifying other robots on the field is an example of this difficult computer vision problem. Without obstacle detection in RoboCup, the robotic soccer players are unable to smoothly move around the field and can be penalized for walking into another robot. This project aims to use gradient and color signatures to identify robots in an image as a novel approach to visual robot detection. The method, "Fastgrad", is presented and analyzed in the context of the Bowdoin College Northern Bites codebase and then compared to other common methods of robot detection in RoboCup SPL.


                          Miniature of Selective Attention and Memory: Event Related Potentials and the IOR Effect
                          Selective Attention and Memory: Event Related Potentials and the IOR Effect
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                              Date: 2015-05-01

                              Creator: Leigh A Andrews

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                                Some like it cold: the relationship between thermal tolerance and mitochondrial genotype in an invasive population of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas

                                Date: 2017-05-01

                                Creator: Aidan Fisher Coyle

                                Access: Open access

                                Hybrid zones provide natural laboratories to study how specific genes, and interactions among genes, may influence fitness. On the east coast of North America, two separate populations of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) have been introduced in the last two centuries. An early invasion from Southern Europe colonized New England around 1800, and was followed by a second invasion from Northern Europe to Nova Scotia in the early 1980s (Roman 2006). As these populations hybridize, new combinations of genes potentially adapted to different ends of a thermal spectrum are created in a hybrid zone. To test the hypothesis that mitochondrial and nuclear genes have effects on thermal tolerance, I measured response to cold stress in crabs collected from locations between southern Maine and northern Nova Scotia, and then genotyped the mitochondrial CO1 gene and two nuclear SNPs. Three mitochondrial haplotypes, originally from Northern Europe, had a strong effect on the ability of crabs to right themselves at a temperature of 4.5ºC. Crabs carrying these three haplotypes were 20% more likely to right compared to crabs carrying the haplotype from Southern Europe. The two nuclear SNPs, which were derived from transcriptome sequencing and were strong outliers between Northern and Southern European C. maenas populations, had no effect on righting response at low temperature. These results add C. maenas to the short list of ectotherms in which mitochondrial variation affects thermal tolerance, and suggests that natural selection is shaping the structure of the hybrid zone between the northern and southern populations This discovery of linkage between mitochondrial genotype and thermal tolerance also provides potential insight into the patterns of expansion for invasive populations of C. maenas around the world.


                                Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: A Logical Analysis of Moral Dilemmas

                                Date: 2018-05-01

                                Creator: Samuel Monkman

                                Access: Open access

                                This project explores the logical structure of moral dilemmas. I introduce the notion of genuine contingent moral dilemmas, as well as basic topics in deontic logic. I then examine two formal arguments claiming that dilemmas are logically impossible. Each argument relies on certain principles of normative reasoning sometimes accepted as axioms of deontic logic. I argue that the principle of agglomeration and a statement of entailment of obligations are both not basic to ethical reasoning, concluding that dilemmas will be admissible under some logically consistent ethical theories. In the final chapter, I examine some consequences of admitting dilemmas into a theory, in particular how doing so complicates assignment of blame.