Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Nikkei-ness: A Cyber-Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Among the Japanese Peruvians of Peru
(2011-02-16)Transnational migration has led to a situation in which humans can no longer form an identity based on location. The nikkei of Peru, or Japanese immigrants and their descendents, are an example of this circumstance. ... -
Nineteenth-Century Italian Flute Culture
(2020-06-18)Italy is often neglected in the histories of the flute, where the focus is primarily on France, Germany, and England. Additionally, what little has been written about Italian flutes is almost exclusively in Italian. In ... -
No Guts No Glory: Dissecting Flesh With Paint
(2011-06-01)The human body is a finely tuned organic machine that man has learned to gainfully disturb through modern medicine. In embroidering, making prints and painting, I pictorially expose these disruptions while simultaneously ... -
No Longer Creatures of Habit: American Women Religious and Conflicts of Obedience
(2013-05-22)In the 1960s, a group of American women, Religious, separated from the Roman Catholic Church following a prolonged conflict. These women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Los Angeles, were women of integrity and dedicated ... -
No Name Women Write Back: Silence and Transnational Subjectivity in Asian American Women's Literature
(2017-06-30)This thesis focuses on silence wrought and refracted through transnational Asian American gender formation in the works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Rupi Kaur, and Tarfia Faizullah. Experimentation with the genres of memoir ... -
No Place I've Slept in Will Ever Be Quite as Good
(2013-07-03)The written portion of my thesis tracks the progression of my studio work and practice from the summer of 2012 to the spring of 2013. It culminates in an analysis of the relationships between the final sculptures included ... -
No, Really: What is Cosplay?
(2013-05-03)In cosplay, one dresses up as a fictional character among fellow sci-fi/fantasy enthusiasts. This study examines the socio-physical experience of cosplay as a stylized self-performance of identity—as opposed to the popular ... -
NOAA Phytoplankton Monitoring Program: Understanding Ecosystem Conditions for Phytoplankton in Kachemak Bay
(2016-07-01)My research focuses on the two most common and harmful phytoplankton genera in Kachemak Bay, Alaska, Chaetoceros spp. and Pseudo-nitzschia spp. Chaetoceros spp. can be deadly to fish in high concentrations because they ... -
Nothing happens until something moves: Exploring the Kinetic Energy of Body, Sound and Space through Movement
(2016-06-30)Nothing happens until something moves? If nothing is happening where is the movement initiated from? Life moves in a series of reactions and changes in energy. Movement is produced from the conversion of potential ... -
A numerical approach to the geometry of ciliary dynamics
(2011-05-05)The motion of cilia and flagella under internal stresses has been widely studied over the past years as a way of relating the biology of these structures and the functions they perform. While the mechanism which leads to ... -
Of Nature: Design Proposal for the Nitobe Memorial Hall
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Off the Hook: The Social Inequities Inherent in Savannah River Mercury Fish Advisories
(2011-11-16)This thesis builds upon my findings of mercury contamination in the Savannah River (summarized in Chapter I and Chapter II) by examining the mercury exposure from fish consumption in the Savannah River. I examine the ...