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(2011-02-16)This thesis will examine the visually-created inner workings of the bilingual brain, while also portraying the conflict and frustrations that come with being raised bicultural. I explore the ideas of language and duality: ... -
A Community Health-Based Research Experience: A Well-Rounded Internship at the SPRC
(2018-03-26)The Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) is composed of leading researchers who strive to combat diseases and improve the health of populations within the United States and across the world. During the summer of 2015, ... -
A Modern Dance with Death: Percy Delf Smith and the Aesthetic of Direct Experience
(2020-05-25)In 1919, immediately following the First World War, the English artist Percy Smith produced a series of seven etchings entitled Dance of Death 1914-1918. Contemporaries responded enthusiastically to his inventive treatment ... -
A Summer at the UN: Lessons in Diplomacy & International Policy Creation
(2019-04-19)This summer, I was a participant and primary witness to the upscaling and downscaling processes involved in the formation of international law and policy, and to the impact of the practice of diplomacy on domestic policy ... -
A Summer of 25 Concerts and a Great Deal of Experience Gained
(2019-04-22)Aren’t you supposed to have fun in the summer? This summer I did exactly that. I worked for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, a summer-long music festival run by a non-profit in Brooklyn, New York, as a lighting production intern. ... -
A Taste of the Chemistry World
(2019-04-22)During my internship at Mount Holyoke College, granted by the Lynk Program, I immersed myself in an environment that further developed my chemical background. Working under the mentorship of Kyle Broaders, I explored ... -
Ability of Orconectus rusticus to Recover from Exposure to the Pesticide Imidacloprid
(2018-07-02)Imidacloprid, the most widely used pesticide in the world, is known to affect invertebrates’ ability to move and feed. There is growing concern about the effects Imidacloprid may be having on non-target organisms. In my ... -
Abject Utopia
(2012-05-21)Through bodily mark-making, overlapping and layering multiple lithographs and screen prints, and the use of color, I strive to reference a sexual encounter within a figural landscape, so the figure is both the subject and ... -
About our cognitive processes: computational verses embodied
(2015-05-20)This thesis discusses two distinct cognitive theories in philosophy of mind. In 1975, Jerry Fodor proposed the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOTH). This hypothesis essentially offers a computational theory of mind. It ... -
Access to Death: Prisons, Hospice and Voices
(2011-06-27)Since, 1992 the number of inmates over the age of fifty in the United States has almost tripled. This rapidly growing population of elderly inmates is due to a national “tough on crime” attitude, which has put 1 in 100 ... -
An Acre of America in Cairo: The American University in Cairo and the Production of Americanized Egypt from 1919-1948
(2013-07-02)In 1919, after years of planning and earning financial support, the American University at Cairo (AUC) opened its doors to students from the Middle East in a building formally built as a palace turned cigarette factory ... -
Adsorption of poly(vinyl alcohol) onto polydimethylsiloxane substrates: formation of continuous films, honeycomb structures, and fractal morphologies
(2015-05-05)While polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has many uses in analytical, biomedical, and electronic systems, its hydrophobicity hinders some of its applications by causing incompatibility with aqueous media. Specifically, this can ... -
Advocacy for Low-Income LGBTQ and HIV+ New Yorkers
(2019-04-22)The LGBTQ and HIV unit at Brooklyn Legal Services provides free legal services to LGBTQ and HIV+ residents of Brooklyn on problems related to housing, public benefits, immigration, and employment law. Paralegal interns ... -
After the Evening Bell: Working Women and Leisure Time in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1860
(2016-06-13)In the fall of 1836, Harriot Curtis opened a letter to her friend and suitor, Hezikiah Wead, with a statement about the boundless sense of independence she cherished. “Alone, I am fancy free,” she declared, “… with the ... -
The Age and Petrogenesis of a Sillimanite Gneiss within the Belchertown Igneous Complex, Massachusetts
(2021-05-24)This study applies chemical dating of monazite following the methods of Williams et al. (2017) in samples from a septum of metapelite that lies within the Belchertown intrusion in central Massachusetts. This septum is ... -
Agent, Editor, Author: Planning for a Future in Publishing
(2019-04-22)Ever wonder what happens to a book before it lands on an editor’s desk? Trisha spent her summer immersed in the New York City publishing scene through her work at InkWell Management, a literary agency with a client base ... -
Algebraic Number Fields and Codes
(2011-02-16)We explore error-correcting codes based on algebraic number fields using a particular code construction given by Guruswami in ``Constructions of Codes from Number Fields". After reviewing the necessary mathematical ... -
All the World's a Stage
(2019-04-19)As an early career actor, getting your foot in the door of a professional theatre and jump-starting your career can be a daunting and overwhelming task. Do you take the time to focus primarily on training? Do you dive right ... -
Alleviating Harm Within International Development
(2019-05-13)This thesis examines the relationship between cultural values and international development policies in Samoa to discern the uneven distribution of harm within the development apparatus. In so doing, I analyze the a) ...