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Interview with Emma Johnson (Class of 2014), Chelsea Shaffer (Class of 2014), and Hannah Tennent (Class of 2014) with Emma Kellogg

Date: 2019-06-01

Creator: Emma Johnson, Chelsea Shaffer, Hannah Tennent

Access: Open access

Emma Johnson (Class of 2014), Chelsea Shaffer (Class of 2014), and Hannah Tennent (Class of 2014) describe their memories of meeting one another as first year roommates in Coleman Hall. Johnson, Shaffer, and Tennent discuss their on-campus jobs as well as various extracurricular activities, including the Generous Enthusiasts, the Judicial Board, and the Outing Club, respectively. The three reminisce about some of their most impactful courses in departments like Anthropology, Earth and Oceanographic Science, and Visual Arts. They reflect on cultural conversations happening on campus during their tenure and mention hazing, the Social House system, and discussions of diversity. Additionally, the group comments on the life lessons they learned at Bowdoin and what the College means to them as alumni.


Blockholders and Their Effect on Project Value: An Empirical Approach of Understanding Ownership Concentration and Firm Value Using an Event Study Framework

Date: 2017-05-01

Creator: Xuanming Guo

Access: Open access

This study uses an event study framework to find the relationship between ownership concentration and project value. I find that project value first increases with ownership concentration when block size, the percentage ownership of the largest blockholder, is smaller than 10%, then declines with ownership concentration when block size gets larger, and finally rises again when block size exceeds 30%. However, my research only suggests an ambiguous relationship between ownership concentration and firm value. Additionally, ownership concentration seems to affect both the timing of market responses and the market’s interpretation of large investment projects.


Miniature of A Neighbor’s Impact: The Influence of Emotional Valence on Visual Word Processing
A Neighbor’s Impact: The Influence of Emotional Valence on Visual Word Processing
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      Date: 2014-05-01

      Creator: Marissa C Rosenthal

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        Miniature of The Power of In-Person Digital Repatriation: Returning Historic Photographs to West Greenland Communities
        The Power of In-Person Digital Repatriation: Returning Historic Photographs to West Greenland Communities
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          • Embargo End Date: 2029-05-15

          Date: 2024-01-01

          Creator: Agnes Macy

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            Activation of Hydrogen by Sterically Modulated Coinage Metal Catalysts via Mutual Quenching of Hard/Soft Acid/Base Mismatches

            Date: 2024-01-01

            Creator: Zach Leibowitz

            Access: Open access

            To mitigate the devastating environmental impacts of climate change in the coming decades, it is imperative that we replace the use of fossil fuels with renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric. As these renewable energy sources are inherently intermittent, there exists a need for sustainable mechanisms to store renewable energy for later use. While the direct use of dihydrogen (H2) as a combustible fuel would allow for energy storage without the harmful release of carbon dioxide (CO2) upon combustion, the practicality of H2 as a synthetic fuel is limited by its low volumetric energy density. Combining sustainable H2 production (e.g. electrolysis using energy from renewable sources) with subsequent carbon fixation (e.g. the hydrogenation of CO2) represents a promising pathway to the sustainable production of high-density synthetic fuels. We hypothesize that such a process could be catalyzed by an IPr**-supported catalyst containing a hard/soft acid/base (HSAB) mismatch, with a polarizable coinage metal acting as a soft acid. As such, the aim of our project is the construction of a catalogue of IPr**-supported copper, silver, and gold catalysts that we anticipate will facilitate the heterolysis of dihydrogen and subsequent hydrogenation of CO2. In the present paper, we report the synthesis and characterization of an IPr**-silver complex which will serve as a precursor to many of our proposed HSAB mismatch catalysts and discuss next steps as we construct our catalogue of catalysts.



            Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 15 (1940-1941)

            Date: 1941-01-01

            Access: Open access



            Miniature of Modeling Strategic Behavior in the U.S. Senate Using Ideal Points with Social Interactions
            Modeling Strategic Behavior in the U.S. Senate Using Ideal Points with Social Interactions
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                Date: 2017-05-01

                Creator: Tucker Gordon

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                  Miniature of Hunter-Gatherers: The Survival of the Foraging Practice In Modern States
                  Hunter-Gatherers: The Survival of the Foraging Practice In Modern States
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                      Date: 2015-05-01

                      Creator: Tristan C Van Kote

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                        *dhéĝhōm,*héshr, and *wek (earth, blood, and speech): an archaeological, genetic, and linguistic exploration of Indo-European origins

                        Date: 2017-05-01

                        Creator: Lara Bluhm

                        Access: Open access

                        This project investigates strategies for learning about prehistoric languages that have left no written records. It focuses upon the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family (the world’s largest by total speaking population, today including most of the languages between Iceland and India) and its associated speakers, who likely emerged during the Neolithic from someplace in eastern Europe or western Asia. There are two primary hypotheses regarding the origins of these languages and the so-called Indo-Europeans themselves. In one, it is argued that they arose via the expansion of agriculture out of Anatolia and into Europe, c. 5000 BC. The other, and leading, hypothesis suggests instead that the languages spread through migrations of highly mobile pastoralists outward from the Black Sea steppes at the end of the Neolithic, c. 3000 BC. This project will explore the developing interface between archaeology, genetics, and linguistics in prehistoric resarch. There are three main chapters: (1) some background and historical context about Indo-European studies; (2) an examination of methodological interaction among archaeology, linguistics, and genetics; and (3) a survey of various archaeological, genetic, and linguistic data as they pertain to the Indo-Europeans and the above two hypotheses of their origins.