Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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Rationality and Moral Responsibility in Aesthetics
(2015-07-01)If I find aesthetic value in an image depicting violence, have I done something wrong? Am I at fault for finding the image aesthetically appealing? Is my enjoyment of this work immoral? These are the sort of questions this ... -
(Re)producing Inequality: The Persistence of Poverty in Contemporary America, Using Opportunity NYC as a Case Study
(2011-06-27)This thesis theorizes Opportunity NYC, the first conditional cash transfer program outside the developing world. This program is contextualized within the history of U.S. public policy toward the poor, as well as within ... -
Reading with Thought and Effort
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Reconsidering Literary Onomastics: Names and Naming in Faulkner and Morrison
(2014-06-30)The subject of this thesis is literary onomastics – the study of names in literature. My focus is on American literature, and, specifically, on two important authors within the genre: William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. ... -
Reconstructing Late Holocene Climate through Tree-Ring Analysis of Siberian Larch: Altai Mountains, Western Mongolia
(2011-02-16)Abstract Dendroclimatology utilizes tree-rings to reconstruct past climate. Tree-ring growth is related to limiting growth factors, which can be either internal (biologic) or external (environmental or climatic). A ... -
Reduced Damage From Facing-Target Sputtering of Indium Tin Oxide Films
(2020-05-11)This study addresses a current limitation in the development of high performance organic optoelectronic devices: depositing indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent, conductive film, without damage to underlying organic films. ... -
A Reflection of Home: Defining the Space of the Raj, 1857-1914
(2011-02-16)Using anthropological ideas about understanding identity through material culture, this piece seeks to unlock how racial identity was created and maintained by colonial Britons in India from 1857-1914. From the layout of ... -
Reflective Space: A Response to Environment Through Process and Performance
(2020-07-06)Throughout my thesis work, I created three pieces that incorporate the themes of reflection, transformation, and embodiment of space. The first sculptural piece I address is titled Absence. This work was a response to my ... -
Regulation of Matrix metalloproteinase 2 Expression by E93 during Fat Body Remodeling in Drosophila melanogaster
(2012-05-17)Regulation of Matrix metalloproteinase 2 Expression by E93 during Fat Body Remodeling in Drosophila melanogaster Student presenter: Nshunge Musheshe Project advisor: Craig Woodard Changes in Drosophila melanogaster ... -
Regulatory targeting of Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 by βftz-f1 in Drosophila melanogaster fat body remodeling
(2016-06-10)Tissue remodeling is involved in multiple functions in the animal body, as the process through which cells dissociate and detach from each other. Tissue remodeling is the driving force behind wound healing and cancer ... -
Reimagining Mount Holyoke's Past Through 3D Modeling
(2019-07-01)It is difficult to picture Mount Holyoke without thinking of its distinctive neo-Gothic architecture. Although this style plays a significant role in Mount Holyoke’s current identity, the campus looked very different at ... -
The Relationship Between Music and Emotion, as Conveyed by Prosody, in Individuals With Williams Syndrome
(2011-02-16)This study examined the relationship between musical training and the emotional comprehension of prosodic sentences in a special population, individuals with Williams syndrome. Many of the stimuli and procedures of Thompson, ... -
The Relationship between Radar Scattering and Lunar Surface Roughness
(2012-05-08)Understanding the morphology of volcanic features on the Moon is essential to discovering their emplacement mechanisms. It is possible to use radar to distinguish different volcanic terrains on the Moon. In this work, we ... -
The Relationship Between Reading Comprehension, Prosodic Fluency, and Prosodic Sensitivity in High School Students
(2016-07-01)Reading comprehension may be the pinnacle skill in determining the success of a reader. It can be a difficult skill to master due to the amount of processes that affect its mastery. Prosodic fluency, the ability to ... -
"Religious" and "Secular" in Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina
(2011-02-16)This thesis analyzes the Communist experiment of the separation of Church & state and secularization policies, alongside an ethnic accommodation of Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims in multi-confessional Bosnia-Herzegovina ... -
Remains of Genocide: The Impact of Objects in Negotiating Politically Sensitive Memorial Spaces in Rwanda
(2013-07-01)In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda killed over 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu citizens in approximately 100 days. The extent and brutality of the violence affected nearly every Rwandan. In the aftermath, civil society and ...