Virtual Commons offers open access copies of Commonwealth and Departmental Honors Program theses and projects completed by undergraduate students who have submitted them electronically since 2013. The authors of these documents retain copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.
Theses/Projects from 2017
How Do You Like Me Now? An Examination of College Students’ Use of Social Media Sites, James D. Wheeler III
The Whole World in Your Hands: An Exploration of the Benefits Diverse Literature Has on Students, Emily Wiegand
Theses/Projects from 2016
Your Story, Your History: Social Studies and History Instruction in a Nicaraguan Primary School, Nicole Akin
Does Inclusion Really Mean Included?, Nicole M. Aldrich
Processes of Racialization through Media Depictions of Transracial Violence, Megan Allen
Most Effective Intervention for Adolescent Substance Use Disorder, Nichole Anderson
Banks vs. Credit Unions: A Comparative Analysis of Massachusetts Banks and Credit Unions Before, During and After the Recession, Mikaela Astore
How Do You Squash a Cricket? A Collection of Essays, Kelley Barrett
Social Media and Female Body Image, Kathryn Bell
Making Math hAPPen: Exploring Math iPad Games with Sixth Grade Students, Molly Bennett
Fairy Tales Rewritten: Reclaiming Womanhood for Women, Caitlin Rose Bradley
Hell Hound Rogers or The Great Town Benefactor: Who Was Henry Huttleston Rogers, David Braga
Beliefs about Childhood Obesity, Jillian Braley
Quantifying the DNA Binding Properties of the Binuclear Ruthenium Complex ΛΛ-P, Nicholas Bryden
People are Oceans: A Novel, Brianna Cataldo
Examining the Term Transgender in Attitude Studies, Amanda Constant
Observational Analysis of Inter-annual Boundary Layer Processes within the Glaciated Llanganuco Valley, Peru, Jason Covert
Advanced Dual Beam Optical Tweezers for Undergraduate Biophysics Research, Brian Daudelin
School Based Mental Health Provider Study, Amanda Dellea
Cultural Exchanges in the Far North: Twentieth-Century Contact in the Canadian Arctic, Gabrielle Desmarais
A Comparison of Accounting Fraud Before and After Sarbanes-Oxley, Kayla Dowd
Apologies in Higher Education: Students' Perceptions of Professors Who Apologize, Rebecca Dunlop
Quantum Field Theory and Jet Phenomena, David Elofson
An Examination of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: Literary and Mythological Significance, Tyler Garvey
The Virgin Beauty Queen: Gender, Productivity, and Modernity in Martin McDonagh's Ireland, Hannah Green
Creating the Perfect NBA Team: A Look at PER and How It Affects Wins, Gregory Hamalian
Physiological and Behavioral Effects of High Fat Diet Removal and Wheel Running in C57BL/6J Mice, Aikaterini Hatzidis
An Era of Convergence: Joint Defense between the United States and Canada 1949-1963, Melanie Hawes
Socio-Cultural Experiences and Openness to Music Genres, Britni Heustis
Epistemic Problems in Contemporary History, Michael Hollien
Determining Diesel Education in Urban Middle Schools in Eastern Massachusetts, Julianne Hooper
Picture This! Objectification Versus Empowerment in Women's Photos on Social Media, Amber L. Horan
The State of Bridgewater: Developments in the Bridgewater State College Campus through Undergraduate Students Activism, Kayla Jane Hoyt
Scapegoat Hysteria: A Comparison of the Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare, Andreanna Hughes
Aligning CityLab Biotechnology Curriculum with NGSS Standards and Practices, Arianna Jefferson
How Microfinance Can Close Asymmetrical Information on Peer-to-Peer Platforms, Justin Jones
The Enclosure of Eden: John Clare and the Politics of Place and Past, Amanda Labriola
Femininity and Feminism in Courtship in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Nicole Langevin
Becoming a Certified Public Accountant: It is the Only Way to Go, Benjamin Lombard
America's First Subway - History of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Kelsey Lynch
Characterizations of Four Interval Wavelet Sets and Algorithms, Christopher McDonald
(Knight)3: A Graphical Perspective of the Knight's Tour on a Multi-Layered Chess Board, Frederick Scott Neilan
American Kettlebell Swing and the Risk of Lumbar Spine Injury, Steve Oikarinen
Modeling Consequences of Reduced Vaccination Levels on the Spread of Measles, Guillermo Ortiz
Screening and Stigma: Lack of Male Representation in Childhood Sexual Abuse Research and Literature, Dylan Preston
Crossing the Line? Victim and Defendant Attractiveness Impacts Juror Perceptions in a Stalking Case, Kristin M. Purnell
Conversations: Research and Choreographic Analysis, Aaron Roberts
Development of a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters Using 1H (1D and 2D) NMR, Leonard W. Sprague
"Diverse but not too diverse": Social Identity, Oppression, and Resistance in Fan Culture, Julia Stern