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Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Theses prior to 2023 are currently being migrated to this site. In the interim, they can be accessed via TriCollege Libraries Institutional Scholarship.

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Theses from 2015 2015

"Very different from most other people": Identity Exploration and Development in Queer and Ally Youths in Out of School Programs and on Social Media, Joan Huang , '15

"A Door to a Good and Happy Life": Building Social and Cultural Capital in a College Success Program, Zachary Kronstat , '15

Learning Shakespeare Shouldn't Hurt: An Engaging 4-Week Othello Curriculum for 9th Graders, Amelia Kucic , '16

Development of Extraction Methods for the Determination of Epoxiconazole and Myclobutanil in Agar Media by HPLC, Martin T. Mathay , '15

Analysis of Achiral and Chiral Degradation of Myclobutanil by Soil Bacteria Grown on Various Mediums, Roxanne K. Morris , '15

Using Planar Chiral Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes: A Focus on Azaspirocycles and the Use of an Oxazolidinone Chiral Auxiliary, Julia S. Murphy , '15

Civic Goods and the Machine in Westchester: An Unauthorized Minority Report: The Case of New Rochelle and Mount Vernon New York, Roxanne Neilson , '15

Angular Scale Expansion of Adults and Children, Jaehyun Oh , '15

Population genetic effects and signals of a recent population collapse in the forked fungus beetle Bolitotherus cornutus, Jonas J. Oppenheimer , '15

Investigating the effect of an actin-stabilizing agent on rodent spatial memory following sleep deprivation, Olivia D. Perez , '15; R. Havekes; and T. Abel

Neural glucocorticoid receptor expression predicts corticosterone dynamics in a population of wild-caught great tits (Parus major), Rebecca A. Senft , '15

Is Two Better Than One?: Analogical Reasoning in Bilingual and Monolingual Children, So Yeon Shin , '15

Arts-Based Education for Social Justice, Samantha Stevens , '15

Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts: Teacher Use of Multiple Texts and Literacies in the Classroom, Emmy Talian , '15

Theses from 2014 2014

Street Kids, Poster Children, and Enfermitos: Poliomyelitis in Argentina, Amy DiPierro , '15

Characterizing the Interactions Between Influenza A M2 Protein and Cholesterol in Membranes, Matthew R. Elkins , '14

Revolution in Education: Learning Resistance in Cuban Schools, Amanda Epstein , '15

Reconstructing the Traumatic Past: Argentine Youth and Memories of Dictatorship: A Study in Oral History, Robert Fain , '14

Synthesis of Novel N-Substituted Polyamide Porphyrins and Characterization of Ruthenium Complexes and Hemiporphyrazines as Potential G-quadruplex Stabilizers, Michelle N. Ferreira , '14

Extracellular matrix and associated proteins in Aiptasia pallida: Immunofluorescence detection and attempts to alter matrix assembly, Valentina E. Garcia , '14

Envisioning Ideal Teaching Selves: Teachers' Experiences of Constraint and Support in Negotiating Critical Pedagogies in Everyday Practice, Rachel Giovanniello , '14

Identification of critical residues in the periplasmic domain of MgrB in the PhoQ/PhoP signaling system of Escherichia coli, Ted Goh , '14

A role for boxer (extl3) and dackel (ext2) in motoneuron outgrowth and guidance during zebrafish development, Hannah A. Grunwald , '14

Accounting for Heroes: Violence and Virtue During the Great War, 1914-1918, Steven H. Hazel , '14

Filling the Gap: Nonviolent strategies for civilian self-protection during mass atrocities, Danny Hirschel-Burns , '14

"They Don't Need to Ask Why. They Just Need to Do It:" The Tension of Adult Control and Student Agency In School and Home Disciplinary Practices, Christina Keller , '14

The Rationalized Yet Unnecessary Policy: The Consequences of Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies in U.S. Public Schools, Catherine Kelley , '14

Probing and Characterizing Different Conformations of the Influenza A M2 Protein Using SDSL-EPR Spectroscopy, Sangwoo Shawn Kim , '14

Viscoelasticity and slow locomotion allow Leptosynapta clarki, an infaunal, soft-bodied vermiform sea cucumber to burrow into stiff sediment, Hyee Ryun Lee , '14

The intertidal front lines: A comparison of the aggressive response between high and low intertidal clones of the aggregating anemone A. elegantissima, Mark P. Levine-Weinberg , '14

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characteristics of Assembly in the Chromonic Liquid Crystal IR-806, Benjamin R. Mercado , '14

Shattered Glass: The Reptilian Moment at the Jardin des Plantes, 1874, Thera Naiman , '14

Teachers Talk Back: Philadelphia Teacher Voices During a Policy Shutout, Paloma Perez , '14

The World Bank's Influence on Chinese Urban Transport Development, Emma V. Saarel , '14

Investigation of Porphyrins as Potential G-Quadruplex Stabilizing Ligands and Fluorescent Probes, Navin C. Sabharwal , '14

"Hacerlos sentir a ellos como seres humanos importantes": Teaching for Social Justice in Rural Dominican Republic, Isabel M. Sacks , '15

Green Power and Great Powers: The Origins and Implications of Techno-Nationalism in China's Renewable Energy Industry, Collin B. Smith , '14

Female sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster: the role of precopulatory behaviors in communicating sexual receptivity and modulating male behavior, Cristian C. Taborda , '14

Investigations of the Putative Active Site of the Quorum Quenching Protein LsrG from Escherichia Coli and Purification of LsrE from Salmonella Typhimurium, Samuel E. Tanner , '14

SDSL-EPR Structural Studies of the Cytoplasmic Helix in Novel Full-Length Constructs of the Influenza A M2 Protein, Megan E. Thompson , '14

The Mother Citizen and the Absent Father: Gender Roles and the Family in Early Bolshevik Posters, Treasure J. Tinsley , '15

Communities of Change in an Institution of Exclusion: Race, Activism, and Identity of Student Organizers of Color at Swarthmore College, Shelly Wen , '14

Promoter hypermethylation of expanded C90RF72 may play a protective role in ALS and FTD patients, Kathryn M. Wu , '14

Theses from 2013 2013

A Mathematical Model of Early-Stage Non-EBV Classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma (cHL), Julienne Abad , '13

Detroit, Theory, Practice: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers and Black Power at the Point of Production, 1967-1971, Kate Aronoff , '14

Jet-Cooled Spectroscopic Characterization of Anethole (methoxy-4-(prop-1-enyl)benzene), a Natual Styrene Derivative, Victoria P. Barber , '13

Investigating G-quadruplex Formation and its Structural Perturbation by and Interactions with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX, Steven P. Barrett , '13

Seward Collins as Provocateur: A New View on Collins’s Fascism and the American Review, Tyler Becker , '14

The role of prolyl-4-hydroxylase in the trafficking of symbionts in Aiptasia pallida, Curran K. Bice , '13

The mass lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orleans: Marking Italians as racially "Dago", Nicholas Borkowski , '14

Overexpression, Purification, Spin-Labeling, and Characterization of Full-Length M2, an Integral Membrane Protein of Influenza A, in Detergent Micelles and in Mixed Lipid Vesicles, Richard Chen , '13

Training for Change: Moving from Theory to Practice in Adult Education for Empowerment, Elowyn Corby , '13

Training for Change: Moving from Theory to Practice in Adult Education for Empowerment, Elowyn Corby , '13

Towards a unified model of Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed) growth and control by mechanical techniques, Emily L. Dolson , '13

The Pennsylvania County Fair: A Snapshot of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Sarah Duda , '14

Language Policies as Structural Violence in the Former Yugoslavia, Daniel Duncan , '13

Communication-centered mathematics: The interplay of context, beliefs, and mathematical social practice in an abstract algebra classroom, Allison Gantt , '13

Into A Great Nation: Mennonites and Nationalism in Imperial Germany, 1871-1900, Benjamin W. Goossen , '13

The Evolution of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in American Cinema and Culture, Patrick Hackeling , '14

Disaggregation of HIV transmission-enhancing amyloid fibrils formed by SEM1 and SEM2, Rebecca M. Hammond , '13

In Radical Defense of Themselves: Women Prison Organizing in the 1975 Raleigh Revolt, Andrea Jácome , '14

Envisioning Community: The Promise of Teacher Leadership for Career Sustainability, Spencer L. Jones , '13

Knowing Nothing: Labor, Nativism, and Class Divisions in turn-of-the century Pittsburgh, Jay Kober , '14

Isolation, characterization, and enrichment of soil bacteria capable of metabolizing the triazole fungicide epoxiconazole, Nina N. Kogekar , '13

Going to School with Them or without Them: The Interactions of Schooling and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Hannah M. Kurtz , '13

The Space Between "Justice" and "Expediency" in Woman’s Suffrage Speech, 1870-1920, Heather Lane , '14

Hard Force, Soft Power: China's Rise and the "Grammar" of Normative Construction, Lorand C. Laskai , '13

Expanding Identities: Identity Transformations in In-prison Higher Education, Hannah Lehmann , '13

Native American Military Participation in World War 1: What Kind of Victory?, Abigail R. Lipnick , '14

The impact of content relevance and inquiry-based learning on student interest and retention in chemistry: An examination of a Romanian professional development program for high school chemistry teachers, Diane K. Marpozan , '14

A Historical Interpretation of Shifting Definition of Ijime during the 1980s and the 1990s, Kana Matsumoto , '14

Chemical ecology of the defensive secretions of a ground beetle, Travis M. Mattingly , '13

A Computational Investigation of SN2 and E2 Reactivity and Transition State Geometries, Brett D. McLarney , '12

Immigration, Nationality, and Xenophobia in Late-19th Century Marseilles, Patrick McNeill , '14

Evaluation of the immunogenicity of candidate antigens and a syngeneic immunocompetent mouse model for the testing of immunotherapies for ovarian cancer, Erin Murphy Curtis , '13

Observation of Cytoskeletal Proteins in Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Aiptasia pallida, Renu A. Nadkarni , '13

Between Drama and Danger: The Effects of Latino Second Graders' Identities on Gendered Patterns in School Success, Sam Panepinto , '13

An Analysis of Federal Education Policy from A Nation at Risk to Present: The Persistence of Standards-Based Reform in Mainstream Political Discourse & Its Harmful Effects on Urban Public Schools, Victoria Pang , '13

A model and typology of reduplication in Sora, Jacob B. Phillips , '13

This Little City': Constructed Colonialism at the 1922 Colonial Exposition of Marseille, Allison Ranshous , '13

Critical Politics in a Neoliberal Institution: Gay and Lesbian Organizing at Swarthmore College, 1988-1993, Ali Roseberry-Polier , '14

Characterization of a homozygous nonsense mutation in SLITRK6 associated with sensorineural hearing loss, Eric A. Sherman , '13

Let Not a Red Come in Thy Bed: Construction of Hair in 17th Century England, Holly Smith , '14

The Effect of Universal Stress Protein A Phosphorylation on Heat Shock Response in Escherichia coli, Emma S. Spady , '13

Studies on the Diastereoselctive Synthesis of Spiroketals and Bis-spiroketals Utilizing a Planar Chiral Sulfinyl Diene Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Scaffold, Jacob S. Tracy , '13

Interaction of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes With Human Telometric DNA, Vienna Tran , '13

Analysis of Beetle Cuticular Hydrocarbons, Elizabeth A. Williams , '13

Utilizing Enantiopure Planar Chiral Sulfinyl and N-Oxazolidinyl Iron(O) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes for the Installation of Adjacent Stereocenters, Alice R. Wong , '13

Theses from 2012 2012

Maximizing feeding in minimal flow: behavioral and morphological plasticity of Balanus glandula, Katherine C. Cushman , '12

MIT family members MITF, TFE3, and TFEB regulate transcription of PPARγ coactivator-I∝ (PGC-I∝), a coactivator important in ROS control mechanisms, Hannah E. Edelman , '12

Separated at Birth: An Analysis of the Origins and Evolution of Peace and Conflict Studies and Security Studies, Olivia Ensign , '12

Characterizing the Relationship between a Small Heat Shock Protein with Chaperone Activity and the 26S Proteasome in Arabidopsis, Melissa A. Frick , '12

Prodigal Sons and Daughters: Unitarianism in Philadelphia, 1796 -1846, Charlotte Gaw , '12

"I'm Tellin' Because it's Mine and I Can": Digital Storytelling Projects in Two Different Elementary Age Communities, Hilary Hamilton , '12

Same Refreshing Taste, No Empire: Argentinean Advertising, Coca-Cola and the Shortcomings of the Cultural Imperialist Framework in Buenos Aires, 1940-1965, Solange Hilfinger-Pardo , '12

Quantitative 4D tracking analysis and chemical induction of heat shock granules during cytosolic misfolded protein stress, Rosalie E. Lawrence , '12

"I like that we have special brains": A longitudinal study of self-perception in youth with Asperger's Syndrome and high-functioning autism at a summer camp exclusively for children with social difficulties, Gabriela E. Moats , '12

Characterization of the Trehalose Biosynthesis Pathway in Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, Laura H. Rodgers , '12

The Writings of John of Damascus During the First Iconoclast Controversy, Alejandro Sills , '13

A genetic interaction between chaperone and proteasome activity in Arabidopsis, Elan W. Silverblatt-Buser , '12