The Honors Thesis is a research project for which eligible students apply during their junior year and complete in their senior year. Colby departments and programs that have an honors program establish the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the thesis, has the opportunity to publish their project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.

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Honors Theses from 2014

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The Talbot Effect, Malia Kawamura

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What’s Gender Got to Do With It?: The Effects of Women’s Decision-­‐Making Power in Morocco, Shannon Hume Kooser

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La Identidad de Los Carabineros de Chile: The Evolving Identity of Chile's National Police Force and the 1973 Military Coup, Jeffrey O. Lamson

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The Relationships between Local Food and Food Security in Maine, Erin Love

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In Search of Murmurings (Full Score), Luke Martin

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Generational Dream: First Generation American Citizens and Their Relationship to the American Dream, Anna A. Mintz

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Deformation Mechanisms in the Metasedimentary Rocks Within the Kellyland Fault Zone, Washington County, Maine, Morgan E. Monz

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Influence of the Sea Surface Microlayer on Ozone Deposition Velocity, Kathryn Moore

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Illusion of Control: The Struggle for History and Humanity, Samantha R. Nystrom

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Adaptive Co-management in the Face of Environmental Change: Invasive Green Crabs and the Soft-shell Clam Fishery in Maine, Grace O’Connor

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Learning By Playing: Evaluating Backward Induction, Alexandra Ojerholm

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An Economic Impact Analysis of the Belgrade Lakes Watershed, Lucy G. O'Keeffe

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The Chinese Social Enterprise: A Global Phenomenon with Chinese Characteristics, Amanda Jingtong O'Malley

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The Social Media Tango, Anne E. Papadellis Ms.

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Beyond Our Conscience: A Proposal for an Improved Model of Self-Forgiveness, Kelsey M. Park

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Life Insurance Holdings in the Great Recession: Examining the Impact of Changes in Household Structure, Financial Position, and Risk Aversion on the Decision to Purchase or Drop Coverage, Clare Peaslee

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The Effect of Azo Textile Dyes on Gross Primary Production and Community Respiration in an Artificial Environment, Theresa L. Petzoldt

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Failures of Chivalry and Love in Chretien de Troyes, Adele Priestley

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Feminicidios en Cd. Juárez: Sombras del evanescente olvido; luces de lucha, fuerza y resistencia, Amber Ramirez

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Do Unexpected FIFA World Cup Match Results Impact the Stock Market?, Brandan Rivard

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Dante’s Inferno in the Modern World: A Study of Religiosity in a World of Religious Apathy, Kristen N. Robinson

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Solidifying Citizenship: Ethnonationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Morality, Joshua Rothenberg

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The Historical Ecology of Sharks in New England, Elizabeth R. Schell

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Was Housing to Blame? A DSGE Analysis of the Great Recession, Justin Swansburg

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A New Balance: National Security and Privacy in a Post 9-11 World, Russell B. Wilson

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The Role of Underutilized Fish in New England's Seafood System, Taylor Witkin

Honors Theses from 2013

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Can the Stock Market Predict FDA Approvals for New Drug Applications?, Thomas D. Abe

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Les Contes de fées oubliés: vision d'un monde plus égal, Deborah Amato

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The Eichler-Selberg Trace Formula for Level-One Hecke Operators, Alex Barron

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The Effects of Island Size and Geographic Distance on the Genetic Diversity of Blue Flag Irises (Iris versicolor) in the Bay of Fundy, Elise Begin

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Metallic Mineral Mining in Maine, Kaitlyn Bernard

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The American Rifled Musket: Technical Revolution or Tactical Redundancy?, Alexandre F. Caillot

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Omona!: Gender Representation in Three Gender-Bending Korean Dramas, Eleni Choephel

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A Monte Carlo Simulation Study of the Performance of Hypothesis Tests Under Assumption Violations, Gareth Cleveland

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Remapping Nature: Motherhood, Autonomy, and Anti-Mining Activism in Íntag, Ecuador, Ellicott K. Dandy

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Aiding or Abetting? An Analysis of Medical Humanitarian Aid in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, Claire Dunn

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Investigating the effects of BAG3 knockdown on the cytotoxicity of the anticancer drug Laromustine, Kayla Gross

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Investigating the Interaction of Zinc-Finger Peptides and Nicked DNA Using Phage Display, Rachel Maria Guerra

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Life on the Edge: Biotic and Abiotic Production of Hydrogen Production Along the Chemical Gradient, Carly Elise Hallowell

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Development of a Standard and Functional Tactical Emergency Medical Curriculum -- TEMS Medic, Benjamin Hannon

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The Wanderer's Journey, Jay Holman

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Managing the Global Marine Aquarium Trade, Sarah Holmes

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An Unexpected Verdict: Exploring the Economic Implications of an Expanding Chinese Presence in Dakar's Informal Market, Georgina Hurst

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Classroom Peer Effects in Higher Education: Evidence from Colby College, Peter C. Jones

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The Macroeconomic Effect of Currency Union Dissolution: Evidence from the Narrative, Marcus Josefsson

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Conservation Easement Policies Across New England, Virginia A. Keesler

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Massive Quiescent Disk Galaxies in the CANDELS Survey, Aurora Y. Kesseli

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We Came! We Stripped! We Conquered! The Sextremist Feminists of FEMEN in Ukrainian Historical Context and Contemporary Controversy, Jayeon Kim

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The Value of Truth: The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Story and an Examination of the Idea of “Truth” in Journalism, Eliza R. Larson

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Political Priming: The Effect of Contextual Factors on Word Recognition and Recall, Adam LaViolet

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Factors Influencing National Park Establishment: Cases to Inform the Maine Woods, Larissa N. Lee

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Green Light over the Drop Zone: American Army and Marine Paratroopers in World War II, Audrey Lomax

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When the Walls Talk: Political Graffiti at la Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia, Abbott Grey Matthews

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The Aesthetic of Failure: Authenticity, Effort, and Imperfection in American Contemporary Dance, Delaney McDonough

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L’Autre de Montaigne: vers une vision tolérante de nos perceptions, Brita L. Midness

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Investigating the Role of Epibiotic Bacteria in Defense Against Chytridiomycosis in the Green Frog, Lithobates clamitans, Sarah Nalven

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The Post-Crisis Relevance of Inflation Targeting, Rebecca Newman

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Prenatal Choline Supplementation and MK-801 Toxicity: Protecting Memory and Preventing Neurodegeneration, Chelsea Nickerson

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From the Slums of Shaolin to the Bard of Avon: The Homosocial Bond in Shakespeare and Hip Hop, Camilla Ostrow

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Notes on the Politics of the Auteur: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, and the Spectator, Michael Perreault

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"Kill the Indian, Save the Man," Americanization through Education: Richard Henry Pratt's Legacy, Lindsay Peterson

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Uphams Corner and "Other" Spaces: Racialized Youth Identities in Boston's Cape Verdean Community, Jessica F. Pires

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Unknotting Number and Combinatorial Sutured Manifold Theory, Alexander Rasmussen

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Gender, Nature, and the Fairytale Structure in Robin McKinley's Works, Molly Rogers

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Finite to Fail, Infinite to Venture: Interactivism and Relational Ethics, Rachel A. Rosenbaum

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Scripture and Fiction: An Aesthetic Approach to The Little Pilgrim, Brian Russo

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Through the Eyes of Urban Students: Educational Inequality and Socioeconomic Disparities in Santiago, Chile, Hillary Sapanski

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Repercussions on the Educational System? The Argentine Example of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH), Grace Schlesinger

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First Year Collegiate Academic Achievement: Do Athletes Perform at the Same Level as Their Peers?, justine m. seraganian

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Massive Gravity Theories, Greg Seyfarth

Gendered Geographies and Coded Spaces in Urban Tehran, Shireen Smalley

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Relationship of Cross-Linking Potential to Mechanism of Cell Death, Adam N. Spierer

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Climate Change and Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus): Is Maine's Most Valuable Fishery Doomed?, Michael W. Stephens Jr.

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When the Confederates Terrorized Maine: The Battle of Portland Harbor, Carter Stevens

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Does Exchange Market React to Central Bank Governor Replacements: Evidence from a New Dataset using Narrative Approach, Siyang Xu

Honors Theses from 2012

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The Radon Transform and the Mathematics of Medical Imaging, Jen Beatty

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Examination of Spatial Variations in Recrystallization Mechanisms in Quartz, Emma N. Beck

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The Side Effects of Medical Marijuana: The Impact of Legalization on Marijuana and Alcohol Consumption, Anne M. Burton

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Forecasting the Future: The Early United States Weather Bureau, Robert T. Canning

In Favor of Riding Bikes and other poems, Jenny Chen

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A Poet of the Sikhs: Aesthetic Embodiment in the Poetry of a Young and Elderly Bhai Vir Singh, Todd Curcuru

Virginia Woolf and the Language of the Mind, Angelica D'Aiello

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The Effectiveness of Capital Controls on Capital Inflows in Emerging Markets, Kathleen A. Davis

Knocking from the Inside: Poems, Elise DeSimone

Like a Fish in Dark Water, Lucy Dotson

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The Influence of Framing Effects and Regret on Health Decision-Making, Sarah Falkof

A Violent Language: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and the Possibility of Narrative Transcendence, Veronica Foster

After the Rush and other poems, Rachel Goff

The Foundling, Jenna Gundersen

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Recurrence Relations, Fractals, and Chaos: Implications for Analyzing Gene Structure, Sarah. M. Harmon

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Island Voices, Sarah Hirsch

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Cameras, Satellites, and Surveys: A Multi-Platform Approach to Monitoring Lake Conservation Behavior, Daniel D. Homeier

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Edible Activism: Food and the Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, Sandra Johnson

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Geodynamic Constraints on the Flow of Samoan-Plume Mantle into the Northern Lau Basin, Nathan Katsiaficas

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“Called Her Women Together” Home Birth in Maine, Margaret Kruithoff

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From Pond to Pump: Microalgae as a Feedstock for Biodiesel, Anna H. Leavitt

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The Development and Morphology of Zebrafish after Embryonic Ethanol Exposure, Frances Lee

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Odd or Even: Uncovering Parity of Rank in a Family of Rational Elliptic Curves, Anika Lindemann

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Should She Run? The Decision for Female Congressíenal Candidates, Laura . J. Maloney

Northern Dragons: Transformations of Manchu Male Identity during the Early and Mid-Qing (1644-1795), Fiona R. Masland