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D. Dwight Davis’s Legacy: A Morphological Examination of the Evolutionary Synthesis
(2017-06-05)D. Dwight Davis was a morphologist who worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, publishing between 1932 and 1964. Best-known for an authoritative monograph on the comparative anatomy of the giant panda, ... -
DACA and its Economic Impacts on Undocumented Immigrants
(2018-06-04)This study focuses on how the introduction of legalization impacted DACA eligible undocumented immigrants in comparison to the ineligible group. DACA is expected to increase wages and the propensity of the eligible immigrants ... -
Dancing in Time: Embodied Engagements with Feminist and Queer Theory
(2021-07-02)My project springs from the years I have spent at Mount Holyoke College deepening my understanding of the world through simultaneous engagement with my dance practice and with feminist and queer theory. Dance has always ... -
Dark Matter in the Darkest Galaxies: Exploring the Structure of Low Surface Brightness Spirals
(2022-07-01)Dark matter in our universe is not evenly distributed: some galaxies are lacking it entirely, and some galaxies have it in abundance. While its existence is generally agreed on, its distribution within galaxies is hotly ... -
Data Entries from the African Diaspora
(2019-04-22)When I decided I wanted to major in economics, I felt relieved. I would live a normal life and have a normal job. The path of studying economics felt stable to me. Normal would be far from anything I was ever accustomed ... -
The Daunting Task of College: First-year Seminars and Student Experience
(2023-05-16)This study examines the significance of first-year seminars (FYS) on student experience by looking through the lens of the nationwide shutdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through surveys and interviews, Mount Holyoke professors ... -
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, 1933-1940
(2015-06-01)On March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet Secretary in American history. As FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she was a key architect of the New Deal. This thesis tells the story of a lesser-known aspect ... -
Decolonizing English: Reimagining English Language Learning and Teaching through Critical Pedagogies
(2013-12-16)At the turn of the century, nearly a quarter of the world’s population (1.5 billion people) was estimated to speak English with some fluency. English has gained an official or special status in at least seventy-five countries ... -
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: The Ahistoric Rake in Restoration Literature
(2011-02-16)Perhaps no literary era is more closely associated with a character type than the Restoration with the flamboyant, self-important seducer. From 1660 through the early eighteenth century, the rake fired the popular ... -
Deepening the Defense for Diversity: Affirmative Action, Social Science, and the Quest for a Compelling Interest
(2015-07-09)This project will explore the attendant benefits and constraints of incorporating social science research into legal resolution – and more narrowly, of incorporating “contact literature” on intergroup relations in higher ... -
Defoe's Mercantilist Ordeal: Understanding the Demise of Credit and the Rise of Racism
(2019-07-01)British businessman and writer Daniel Defoe’s intellectual trajectory evolved alongside his personal history and British political and economic history. From 1719 to 1722, Defoe wrote about slavery, mercantilism, and racial ... -
Dehumanization-type Stereotypes as a Mediator between Generalized Racial Essentialism and Punishment
(2020-06-18)This study examined whether dehumanization-type stereotypes acted as a mediator in the relationship between essentialist thinking and punishment given to Blacks and Asians. White participants were selected for inclusion ... -
Delivery of Nucleotides for Gene Silencing of Cancer-Promoting Genes in Breast Cancer Cells
(2016-07-05)Gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) is a common tool for cancer therapy via the delivery of siRNA. While this siRNA is effective at knocking down genes, a problem arises due to the inability of siRNA to ... -
Demographic Differences in Access to Formal Sex Education in the United States
(2019-06-03)This paper examines differences in access to formal sex education among adolescents in the United States by demographic characteristics. Previous research has found disparities in access to sex education by demographic, ... -
Demonstrating Failures of Attentional Guidance in Visual Search
(2021-07-03)There are many differences across individuals in the strategies that people use while performing visual search tasks. Prior literature suggests that visual search is more efficient when performed using some search ... -
Den "Gast" Integrieren, Das "Ich" Konstruieren: Herausforderungen des Zweitspracherwerbs im Schüleraustausch
(2011-02-16)Secondary exchange students are commonly expected to adapt to their host country and language through a model of "natural" language and culture learning. I unpack the notion of what is considered "natural" in secondary ... -
Denitrification Along a Restoration Gradient of Southeastern Massachusetts Cranberry Bogs
(2015-06-22)American cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is a wetland fruit native to North America. Cranberries are commercially grown in bogs, which are a type of wetland. The industry has dominated southeastern Massachusetts for over ... -
DENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THREE POPULATIONS OF CHRISTIANS AND NON-MUSLIMS IN POLLENTIA, MALLORCA
(2017-06-30)The diet, health, nutrition, and genetics of an individual leave unique and identifiable markers on dental remains. Those markers can be used to understand the diet and health of an ancient population. This study presents ... -
Dependency, Multiculturalism and Agency: Marriage Migration in Singapore and South Korea
(2014-06-06)An understudied dimension of recent cross-border movement in Asia pertains to marriage migration, defined as women from countries in East, Southeast and South Asia migrating to marry men in more economically prosperous ... -
The Depression Questions: A Feminist Inquiry
(2015-07-02)As psychological inquiry increasingly utilizes the medium of the scientific, the importance of the personal narrative is diminished. Disembodied, "objective" research studies are weighted heavier than first person accounts. ...