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 2019
Assessing Risk and Cash Bail in Massachusetts, Brittany M. Gammett
Bringing Science to Life in the Fifth-Grade Classroom Through Hands-On Learning, Kelly Gately
Love the Art in Yourself: Empowering Actors to Honestly, Comfortably, and Successfully Embody their Characters, Alyssa Germaine
The Effects of Meloidogyne incognita on JAZ1, JAZ12, and JAZ13 Gene Expression in Arabidopsis, Emily Green
Marketing U: Preparing Students to Succeed in the Job Search Process, Emily Guyon
The Viking Dialogue Narrative: Egil’s Saga and Storytelling, Gabriel Hazeldine
Implementation of Computational Chemistry as part of the Physical Chemistry Curriculum, Erica Hess
Re/vision: An Artistic Exploration of the Fallacy of Memory, Emma Johansen-Hewitt
Narrative Style and the Female Story in Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Parker Jones
The LeBron Effect: Is a Superstar Worth the Money?, Colin Josselyn
Vaping: The 21st Century Cigarette? What the Cigarette Smoking Generation thinks of the Vaping Generation, Alyssa Jusseaume
Do you remember? Mock jurors’ perceptions of elder maltreatment when the elder has Alzheimer’s disease, Samantha Kameese
The Education of Digital Design for Children, Neha Kharidi
Radios Life Expectancy, Edward Krikorian
The Power of Promotional Marketing to Millennials, Colleen Longley
Modified Ramsey Numbers, Meaghan Mahoney
PYY3-36 Efficacy is Independent of Photoperiod but Dependent on Time of Day, Marissa Maroni
A Survey of Dark Matter Candidates and Relations to Particle Physics and General Relativity, Tyler Martell
Finite Field Dynamics: Exploring Isomorphic Graphs and Cycles of Length p, Catlain McCarthy
The Opportunity Zones Program Provides High Returns on Investments, Kane Moran
The Effects of Neocolonialism on Indigenous Peruvians, Christina Nelson
Addiction and Recovery in Silas Marner, Sarah Netto
Bounding the Rates of Convergence Towards the Extreme Value Distributions, James Palmer
Model Minority Myth: Minority Status Intersectionality, Simone Porter
The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten on School Readiness, Megan Royek
Orangutan Infant Behavior: A Critical Component for Primate Conservation, Mia Sarkisian
Synthesis of Novel ReIII and ReV Metallointercalator Complexes for Use as DNA Damage Probes, Eli Schwartz
Silent Singing: Investigating visual perceptual narrowing of rhythm from a developmental perspective, Gillian Sheehan
Testing Tocqueville: The Political Theory of the “Mayflower Compact” and Its Legacy, Vanessa Sherman
Haitian Life, Traditions, and Culture in the Works of Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Sprague
South African Water Rights and the Legacies of Apartheid, Rachel Tarantino
The Effects of Beetroot Juice Consumption on Maximal Oxygen Consumption, Margaret Vacher-Weiss
Mindful Phone Use, Gwendolynne Weissinger
Visions of Hell, John Wilson
Samuel Johnson and Thomas Jefferson: Their Contradictory Lockean Responses to the Legality of the American Revolution, Joshua Wright
High Speed Mid Altitude Aircraft Project, Eric Yan
Analyzing and Estimating Cyberattack Trends by Performing Data Mining on a Cybersecurity Data Set, Chan Young Koh
Theses/Projects from 2018
Characterizing Nab2 Phosphorylation and its Role in Regulating Egr Transcription Factors, Kimberly Abt
Growing Social Connection: A Case Study of a Therapeutic Farm Community, Theresa Aldrich
Middle East Media Landscapes: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen, Cody J. Baker
Unseen and Unheard: The Experiences of Immigrants Who Work as Low-Level Healthcare Providers, Daniela Belice
“Only a Passing Idiocy”: The Ku Klux Klan in Maine State Politics, Erin Best
Kinetic studies on the aqueous chemistry of the glutathione-methyleneoxindole conjugate to model its inhibition of glyoxalase I, Ariane Borges
On Hold: Relationships in the Age of Mobile Phone Distraction, Isabel M. Bourget
Development of a High-throughput Screening Assay for Potential Inhibitors Against DNA Polymerase Eta, Keri Bryson
Art Created by Women in Response to Social Change: A Study of Women’s Identity from the Twentieth Century to the Present, Kathleen Carroll