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MUNICH: Reappraising the Munich Agreement and Repurposing the Munich Analogy
(2015-07-01)On September 30, 1938, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed an agreement detailing the procedure by which territory would be transferred from Czechoslovakia to Germany. Known as the Munich Agreement, ... -
Muscle activation and strain in the guinea pig hindlimb
(2011-02-16)Muscle activity and length-change studies in a diverse group of quadrupeds (rats, goats, dogs, and horses) have highlighted the similarities and differences in hip and knee extensors. Specific hindlimb muscles, the vastus ... -
Mustangs and Mexican Vaqueros: Terrains of Belonging and Exclusion in the Great Basin
(2013-06-26)In this thesis, I explore the concept of belonging as it has applied to mustangs and people through time in the Great Basin of the American West. The mustang, or wild horse, is an animal that has existed on Western lands ... -
Mutational analysis of a gene required for flagellar motility in the African Sleeping Sickness parasite
(2011-02-16)Trypanosoma brucei is a flagellated, unicellular protozoan that causes African Sleeping Sickness, a disease infecting humans and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. The flagellum plays an integral role in pathogenicity of the ... -
Mutational Analysis of T. brucei Components of Motile Flagella (TbCMF) Genes in the African Trypanosome
(2011-02-16)Flagella and cilia play significant roles in mobility and environmental sensing in microbes as well as organ and gamete function in more complex organisms. The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, is a model organism ... -
My Self Was Reborn of the Union: A Poetic Contexture
(2016-06-20)This project is, at its core, a contexture of poems. With a special attention to the structuralist elements of poetry, these 30 poems are divided into three sections which form an overarching narrative when evaluated in ... -
My Start-up Summer in Silicon Valley
(2018-03-26)Osmo (www.playosmo.com) is a high-impact edutech start-up in Silicon Valley with a creative, crazy team 25 people and I was lucky enough to be a part of the team this past summer. My journey at Osmo gave me important duties ... -
My Summer in Washington D.C
(2019-04-22)This summer, I interned at the Arab American Institute in Washington D.C. where I was also an external intern for No One Left Behind, an association that assists with the resettlement of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who ... -
Narcocorridos: Mexican Immigrant Women and Chicano Youth Identities (1970s to Present)
(2015-04-06)The narcocorrido is a popular genre of music that has crystallized with the formation of the narcocultura or drug culture, caused by the US-Mexican drug war. I examine the formation of the narcocorrido from the 1940s onward ... -
Nature for Money: The Configuration of Transnational Institutional Space for Environmental Governance (The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations.)
(London: Pluto Press, 2014)In this chapter I link the translocal spaces and actors involved in a seemingly simple conservation project in northern Pakistan to stress that a focus on the scalar dimensions of power relations is integral to understanding ... -
The Nature of Laminations in Cores from Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway
(2009-07-14)Emme studied a thin section of a core recovered from Lake Kongress in order to characterize the lamination stratigraphy. Her work suggests that the varves are chemical in nature. -
Navigating an Unfamiliar Industry
(2014-06-06)This summer, I interned in the newsroom at WAMC, an affiliate of National Public Radio based in Albany, NY. I will talk about why I chose WAMC despite having no background in radio; what working in a newsroom was like; and ... -
Negotiating the Nagoya Protocol: Indigenous Demands for Justice
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)On October 29, 2010, following two weeks of intense negotiations, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Tenth Conference of Parties (COP10) in Nagoya, Japan, adopted the Nagoya Protocol on Access ... -
New Albion: Adaptive Reuse of a Holyoke Mill
(2011-07-26)This thesis project examines the possible impact of an adaptive reuse project in Center City Holyoke. The city of Holyoke faces a number of challenges, including poverty and crime, which are particularly prevalent within ... -
New device architectures for lead sulfide colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics utilizing metal oxide transport layers and electrodes
(2011-07-01)Colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics are a class of third generation solar cell with the potential to harness greater amounts of solar energy than their silicon predecessors. These devices operate on the basis of electron ... -
New Device Structures for Organic Photovoltaics Using Transfer Printing
(2015-07-01)Organic photovoltaics provide an inexpensive and lightweight alternative to conventional silicon solar panels. However, low power conversion efficiencies, mainly due to low open-circuit voltage (VOC) prevent them from ... -
New Media Art: Moving Beyond the Visual
(2013-06-30)New media/digital art is a genre that contains references to ‘traditional’ forms of visual art but also extends far beyond the solely visual because it combines moving images, sound, and installed elements that contribute ...