The Senior Scholars Program is a college-wide program that provides the opportunity to devote significant time to a major project resulting is an intense independent research project which is completed during a student's senior year. The Independent Study Committee sets the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the Senior Scholars Paper, is asked to archive his or her project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.
All Senior Scholars Papers in this collection are available for review and research purposes at no cost. This open access policy in no way diminishes the copyright responsibility of those viewing or downloading the documents. The authors of these documents retain the copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.
Senior Scholars Papers from 1993
Gravity: a new play by Greg Belanger, Greg Belanger
Insuring cleaner oceans: the economics of oil pollution prevention, Donald E. Bindler
Presidential Precampaign & the Press, William Charron
Examination of the Roles of Microtubules and Microfilaments in Developing Nematocytes of the Sea Anemone Metridium Senile, Michael Genco
Theatre of the mind: an Experiment in Modern American Audio Fiction, Thomas M. Gerencer
Something Whole: Poems, Christopher Iannini
Softly spoken, Sarah Inman
Loyal Parent: an Analysis of the Role Played by Zhou Enlai in China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), Sumner Lemon
The Cultural Construction of the Maine Sporting Camps, March O. McCubrey
Exploration in oil painting and charcoal drawing, Eric Miles
Choreographic exploration of physical duress: motivation for and responses to exhaustion (a project in performance), Sara F. Regan
Dust, Kristin J. Winkler
Senior Scholars Papers from 1992
Religious Justification of Violence: a Look into the Crusades, Bryan Chase
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Three Subfossil Coleopteran Faunas from the Toklat River Drainage, Central Alaska, Lisa L. Churchill
VOICES Three Stories and a Novella, Brooke Daniella Coleman
Momentary loss : stories, Craig Damrauer
Third Eye of the Hindu Goddess Durga, Pika Ghosh
Imperial shoe palace: a collection of poems, Alexandria Peary
Involvement of free radicals in peroxidatic reactions catalyzed by chloroperoxidase, David P. Provencal
Characterization and Implementation of a Continuos Flow Trace Metal Preconcentration System for Inductively Couples Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry, Robert N. Sibley
Paleofloristic Trends in Devonshire Marsh, Bermuda, Theodore N. vonWallmenich
Bleeding: A Collection of Poetry and Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar
Senior Scholars Papers from 1991
Molecular genetic analysis of the interaction between the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria and the tomato plant, Peter M. Antall
Effects of Treating Females with Exogenous Gonadotropins on the Utrastructure of Mouse Embryos and Oocytes, Todd Astor
Pollen analysis of the Sepphoris archaeological site, Beit Natofa Valley, Lower Galilee, Israel, Tristram Hussey
Bringing Japanese manufacturing systems to America: the feasibility of implementing just-in-time production in the United States, Magda Lacharite
Caught Under the Sky: a Collection of Poems, Erika Mailman
Looking through windows: a collection of short fiction, Christopher Quentin Overly
Adrienne Rich: The Emergence of a Female Poetic Voice, Susan Willis
Senior Scholars Papers from 1990
Paleoenvironmental analysis of a late-holocene subfossil Coleopteran fauna from Starks, Maine, Heather A. Hall
Re-present-ing the past: identity, re-memory and historical resonance in the works of contemporary African-American women writers, Joseph Lilore
Enforcement in environmental law: an economic analysis of citizen suits, Wendy S. Naysnerski
Two-dimensional gel electrophoretic analysis of cellular proteins from escherichia coli in the presence of mutated and homologous genes for 4.5S RNA, Michael O'Loughlin
Analysis of the Chlorination and Bromination Reaction Mechanisms of the Enzyme Chloroperoxidase, Amy Shedd
Senior Scholars Papers from 1989
Figure and abstraction, Joanna Brace
Figurative sculpture and drawing, a sumation of a year's work, Matthew Burke
Strings of light: stories about fathers and sons, Gary DeAngelo
Symbolic interactionist and neurophysiological models of action towards an integration, David Spencer Fearon
Beyond a Patriarchal Interpretation, Holly Nicole Schamban
Sarongs - A Collection of Poems, Jody A. Zorgdrager
Senior Scholars Papers from 1988
Chutes and ladders: poems, Susan Hallawell
Role of presidential personality in the Carter administration, Colleen McKenna
Senior Scholars Papers from 1987
Proper Emptiness, Gregg Bach
Did she donkeystone her doorstep?: the Victorian ideal of domesticity and the reality of working class women's lives, Rebecca Binder
Pivoting: a novel, Glenn Cummings
House Burning and Other Poems, Julie D'Amico
Project in Choreography, Maura Murphy
The Necessity of Desire, Pamela Sherbondy
The Modern Welfare State: Pathway to Progress, or Road to Ruin? A Comparative Analysis of Social Policy in the US, Great Britain, and Sweden, Jeffrey D. Thaxter
Senior Scholars Papers from 1986
Good thing: a novella, Wendy Lapham
Poems, Grantland S. Rice
Senior Scholars Papers from 1985
What we bury: poems and epilogues, James Harry Nicholas Martin
Greek shipping and the crisis of the 1980's, James Eyre McHugo
Painting: exploring an evolutionary process, Lincoln C. Peirce
Eugene O'Neill and The Hairy Ape: a Study in Background and Production, Susan A. Perry
Senior Scholars Papers from 1984
The National Book Awards and The American Book Awards: The Treatment of Women in Prize-Winning American Fiction, 1962-1983, Kathleen M. Shaw
X-Ray Crystallography, Keith P. Wilson
Senior Scholars Papers from 1983
Images of Women in American Popular Culture: The Post-World War II Legacy, Jennifer Beever
Monetarism and its Application in the Australian Economy, Linwood C. Downs
Nature and Abstraction in painting, Douglas Kopsco
Senior Scholars Papers from 1982
Women involved in Maine's political culture, Donna K. Curran
Women Involved in Maine's Political Culture, Donna K. Curran
Comparative slave systems: an economic analysis of sugar production in Jamaica and Louisiana, Martin J. Eisenberg
Contemporarary American women poets: new voices, new visions, Diana Fuss
Theoretical and experimental optical holography, Warren A. Krueger
The Human Figure in Drawing and Sculpture, Carolyn J. Treat
Senior Scholars Papers from 1981
Labor study of the Franco-American community of Waterville, Maine from 1890 to 1940, Margaret Bernier
The Use of Economic Incentives to Control Pollution: The Case of Chlorofluorocarbons, Kenneth A. Bruder
Synthesis of carbon nucleosides : potential antibiotics, Jeffery Davis
"Painting in half-light" and other poems, Jane Eklund
Women in the Hebrew Bible: misunderstanding and the tyranny of tradition, Dana Johnston
Nude and its environment, Margaret Libby
Women's quilts, women's lives: a study of historic Maine quilts and their makers, Susan M. Meyer
Exploration of the idea of the horse in graphics and sculpture, Katherine H. Moore
Senior Scholars Papers from 1980
Dancing with Mr. Penrose and other stories, Geoffrey Becker
World of Elizabeth James Seelye: Female Culture in Upper Middle Class Victorian America, Susan Erb
Policy analysis of the revision of the national ambient air quality standards for photochemical oxidants: focus on Maine, Susan MacKenzie
Independent study in the applied arts, Susan M. Miller
Senior Scholar in Painting, Cathy Mueller
Two Centuries of Change in Personal Wealth holding Patterns: the United Kingdom vs. the United States, Kelley Osgood
Short fiction of Thomas Hardy: an exploration and assessment, Rebecca G. Peters
Senior Scholars Papers from 1979
Nine old men and one New Deal -- the Supreme Court crisis of 1937 -- a political history, Dwight Darrow
Philosophical perspectives on American studies methodology, Gregory Mark Pfitzer
High anxiety, Andy Plante
Philosophy and the environmental crisis: foundation for a new technological paradigm, David M. Rice
Spring into summer : a novel, Jeff Wuorio
Senior Scholars Papers from 1978
Room at Dawn, Jennifer Barber
Ice House and Other Poems, Sam Cremin
Visual Interpretation of Man's Environment through Photo-realistic Techniques in Painting, Katherine Kincaid
The Realization of the Basso Continuo in German and Italian Music, 1680-1750, John Saunders
Optical Management of the Spruce-Fir Forest against the Spruce Budworm, Gari B. Simon
Crown ethers : applications in inorganic synthesis, Robert L. Sundberg
Senior Scholars Papers from 1977
Synoptic problem : an investigation of synoptic relationships, George Capone
The seaswan : a first draft for a novel, Kevin Farnham
Saul Bellow and New Nonfiction: A Comparative Approach To Contemporary American Literature, Kenneth Fox
Socioeconomic Analysis of Population Growth, Qaiser Khan
Moral Decision and Moral Development, Deborah Kraus
Historical reasons for differences in comparative accounting systems, Mona Pinette