Honors Projects

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Miniature of The Things We Carried:  Effect of Exogenous Government Spending Shocks on Wartime Inflation, Evidence from the U.S. and the World
The Things We Carried: Effect of Exogenous Government Spending Shocks on Wartime Inflation, Evidence from the U.S. and the World
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  • Restriction End Date: 2029-06-01

    Date: 2024-01-01

    Creator: Tingjun Huang

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      To hum or not to hum: analyzing and provoking sound production in the American lobster (Homarus americanus)

      Date: 2024-01-01

      Creator: Renske Kerkhofs

      Access: Open access

      American lobsters (Homarus americanus) produce humming sounds by vibrating their carapace. These sounds have a fundamental frequency on the order of 100 Hz, with multiple higher harmonics. Though I found no relationship between lobster carapace length and hum frequency, I observed sounds similarly structured to hums but with frequencies an order of magnitude higher, suggesting that lobsters may use a wider range of sounds than previously thought. Using laser vibrometry, I was able to pick up high frequencies of carapace vibration that were similar to those I observed on sound recordings. Lobsters seem to hum most readily when approached from above, but many studies have found it difficult to reliably find soniferous lobsters. To find a way to reliably evoke sound production in American lobsters without contributing to the sound environment, lobsters were exposed to overhead abstract visual stimuli on a screen, after which their behavioral reactions were recorded, as well as any sound production in response to the stimulus. Lobsters responded to the screen stimulus with the same types of behaviors with which they responded to general overhead physical stimuli. This study demonstrates that American lobsters may produce high-pitched sounds and that abstract visual cues can be used as a silent tool to elicit lobster behaviors, but not sound production.


      The Federal Disproportionate Minority Contact Mandate: An Examination of Its Effectiveness in Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice

      Date: 2014-05-01

      Creator: Hanna Leigh Wurgaft

      Access: Open access

      This paper challenges the effectiveness of the federal Disproportionate Minority Contact mandate. It first traces the legislative history of the mandate, from the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act of 1974, to the establishment of the Disproportionate Minority Confinement mandate of 1988, to the final shift to Disproportionate Minority Contact in 2002. It then describes and analyzes implementation of the mandate in the New England states, showing uneven data collection and limited compliance with the mandate. The next chapter explores factors outside the jurisdiction of the DMC mandate that create and perpetuate racial disparities in juvenile justice, including concentrated poverty, police tactics driven in part by federal initiatives, and school disciplinary policies. Ultimately, this paper reports that racial disparities in arrests of juveniles have increased significantly- not declined- during the life of the mandate. It then discusses the limits of federal legislation in remedying racial disparities in juvenile justice.



      Miniature of Disease on the Half-Shell: Prevalence and impact of the protistan pathogen MSX on oyster population health throughout the Gulf of Maine
      Disease on the Half-Shell: Prevalence and impact of the protistan pathogen MSX on oyster population health throughout the Gulf of Maine
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          Date: 2018-05-01

          Creator: Madeline Schuldt

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            Miniature of Attentional Inhibition of a Distractor on Memory Facilitation
            Attentional Inhibition of a Distractor on Memory Facilitation
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                Date: 2016-05-01

                Creator: Jacob M MacDonald

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                  The Role of Protein Kinases ROG1 and SRF6 in the WAK Stress Response Pathway

                  Date: 2015-05-01

                  Creator: Jaepil E Yoon

                  Access: Open access



                  Miniature of Efficacy of Curcumin as a Neuroprotectant Against Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) - Induced Effects on the Mammalian Spinal Cord Locomotor Neural Network
                  Efficacy of Curcumin as a Neuroprotectant Against Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) - Induced Effects on the Mammalian Spinal Cord Locomotor Neural Network
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                    • Embargo End Date: 2027-05-15

                    Date: 2024-01-01

                    Creator: Eliza Schotten

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                      Three-Year-Old Agents of Social Change: How aeioTU Educators Build on Children’s Agency

                      Date: 2024-01-01

                      Creator: Andrea Rodriguez

                      Access: Open access

                      aeioTU is a Colombian organization that works to enact social change through the field of early childhood education. In collaboration with the Colombian government, aeioTU oversees several public centers located in socioeconomically vulnerable municipalities in Colombia. This thesis analyzes the aeioTU curriculum and the practices of several aeioTU teachers through the theoretical lens of Freire’s critical pedagogy. This thesis argues that by fostering critical awareness of the world from an early age, as well as by collaborating closely with mothers and the communities at large, aeioTU teachers equip children with the tools to become social agents who can challenge and positively change their lived realities. The research presented in this thesis affirms the potential of aeioTU teachers to enact social change in socioeconomically vulnerable communities by building on young children’s social agency.


                      Miniature of Plutonic lithics record dynamics in the magmatic system beneath the Akaroa Volcanic Complex, New Zealand
                      Plutonic lithics record dynamics in the magmatic system beneath the Akaroa Volcanic Complex, New Zealand
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                          Date: 2018-05-01

                          Creator: Elizabeth Teeter

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