From 1976 to 1981 during the Northern Irish “Troubles,” the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Britain fought a proxy war within the Northern Irish prison system. The question was that of “political status,” or the right of ...

Every year over 600,000 people are released from incarceration in the United States. Upon their return to the free world, a big portion of this population faces housing insecurity or outright homelessness. Although research ...

In order to understand potential novel electrical device applications for a material, it is critical to understand fundamental properties about how charges can move within the material. The density of states (DOS) is a ...

On shellfish farms, cultivated seaweed may remove sufficient amounts of CO2 to mitigate acidification at small spatial scales during peak primary production. This thesis investigates whether cultured sugar kelp, Saccharina ...

The climate is rapidly changing due to human activity, and these changes will impact our water resources. In the town of Shutesbury, Massachusetts, a municipal water supply does not exist. Instead, water comes from private ...

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) ...

The cosmic x-ray background is diffuse, uniform x-ray radiation originat- ing from outside our galaxy. Over the past several decades since its discovery, much of it has been resolved into discrete sources. However, a ...

Interning for the international office of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice offered insight to the ways in which an office job in Italy differs from one in the United States. My summer experience deepened my understanding ...

Elizabeth’s life went to new heights as she left her small hometown in Georgia for the Big Apple this summer. She joined Emporia Entertainment, a production company that does everything from photoshoots to commercials to ...

My internship was divided into two parts to explore both the construction and design aspect of the architecture field. First I interned at Space4 Architecture, a firm based in New York. There I created scaled foam models, ...