Theses from 2021
Plasmaspheric dynamics studied using a three-dimensional machine learning-based plasma density model in the inner magnetosphere and the ionosphere, Hannah Ace, Physics
La Balena: A Weird Fiction Representation of Women’s Asylums and Emigration in Fascist Italy, Aiden McGwire Blasi, English
Estrogen replacement in ovariectomized rats during acquisition delays the habit formation consistently observed in intact female rats with the same level of instrumental training, Gillian P. Bremer, Neuroscience
Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Aging as a Risk Factor for Cognitive Dysfunction, Maja Burch, Neuroscience
Impacts of Estrogen and Progesterone Replacement During Acquisition on Habit Formation in Ovariectomized Female Rats, Francesca Carasi-Schwartz, Psychological Sciences
Eco-Anxiety in “the Climate Generation”: Is Action an Antidote?, Isabel Grace Coppola, Environmental Studies
France’s Asylum Seeker and Refugee Populations in the Age of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Alexandra Crosby, Global & Regional Studies Department
Immune Cell Composition in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Tumors, Delores R. Cupak, Medicine (Immunobiology)
Prison, Punishment, and Premature Death: Group-differentiated Health Impacts of Incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Valentina Czochanski, Global Studies
Toward a More Efficient and Effective Method for Tracking 3D Bone Position and Orientation in Fluoroscopic Images, Harrison M. Davis, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Anxiety Responses Across the Estrous Cycle in Relation to BNST-PACAP Interactions, Claire Deckers, Psychological Sciences
The Influence of Vegetation and Green Spaces on Air Quality and Outdoor Air Temperature Mitigation on Multiple Scales, McKinley Deery, Environmental Studies
Rural Access to Credit in Vermont: An Examination of Rural Vermont’s Access to Credit and Regulated Lenders in the Wake of a Consolidated Banking Industry and the Subprime Crisis, Samuel Disman-Eager, Economics
Functional Characterization of Somatic STK11 Variants of Unknown Significance Identified in Lung Adenocarcinoma, Jenna G. Eaton, Biomedical and Health Sciences
COVID-19: How a Pandemic Exposed the Vulnerability of International Students in the U.S., Darcy Eliot, Global Studies
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among Staphylococcus aureus strains in Animals: a systematic review, Seth W.M. Epling and John Barlow, Department of Biology
Female Productivity and Calf Survivorship of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Bocas del Toro, Panama, Kahlia P. Gonzales, Biology
“Have Wigs- Will Travel”: An Exploration into the Culture and Evolution of Drag, Trans Identities, and Gender Nonconformity in the United States, 1952-2009, Carmen Annie Harris, History
Constructing a Rainbow OLED Using Fabry-Pérot Microcavities, Alex Howe, Physics
Social Capital and Disasters: A Study of Post-Hurricane Behavior & Attitudes in the United States, Lee D. Hughes, Political Science
Understanding the Normalization of Violence: Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary El Salvador, Sasha H. Hull, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
The Racial State and Race Formation: A Comparative Case Study of the Use of Racial Narratives and Government Coercion for Racial Nation-State Building in Chile, China, and Myanmar, McKenzie Imhoff, Sociology
Test of the Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Model in Predicting Hypomanic Symptoms in College Students, Helena Meeri Juntunen, Psychological Science
Factors that Influence Whether Choices are Consistent with Loss Aversion, Julian Kafka, Psychological Science
The Effects of Body Mass Index on Hippocampal Volume in Women with Down Syndrome, Theresa M. Kirsimagi
"One Country Alone Cannot Solve These Problems": German Leadership's Role in Europe's Decade of Crisis, Sophia Knappertz, Global Studies
Legal Positivism, Natural Law, and Normativity, Jack P. Ligon, Philosophy
Exploring the Social, Emotional, and Educational Foundations and Merits of Elementary Afterschool Programs in Burlington Vermont, Charlotte F. McCarthy, Social Work
Neurophysiological and Behavioral Correlates of Post-Concussion Syndrome: A scoping review and validation of methods, Ashley Marie Mekkelsen, Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science
The Direction of Justification Problem: Understanding the Strengths and Shortcomings of Philosophies of Economics, Liam O'Brien, Philosophy
Identifying the Impact of Glial Engulfment and Aβ42-induced Nervous System Dysfunction, Zoë A. Paige, Department of Biology
Investigation of Thermal Acclimation on Mitochondrial Membrane Fluidity in Tropical and Temperate Populations of Drosophila melanogaster, Neel Patel, Biology
The Effects of Maternal Antidepressant Usage on a Child’s Psychological Health, Skyler O. Pearse, Neuroscience
Modeling of Photophysical Phenomena: Anomalies to Kasha’s Rule and Conventional Stokes Shifts, Adam N. Petrucci, Chemistry
A computational and experimental analysis of the temperature stability of the enzyme Drosophila Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Ali Razavi, Ali (Shervin) Razavi, and Shervin (Ali) Razavi, Biology Department, Physics Department
Molecular Mechanisms of Cortex Glial Morphology in Drosophila, Grace Ross, Biology
Linking mycorrhizal colonization to pollinator behavior and reproductive success in highbush blueberry, Joanna Santoro, Biology
Movement-Improvisation Across the Lifecycle, Chloe Annabella Schafer, Anthropology & Dance
An Analysis of Potential Parallel Evolution between Two Spatial Scales of Balsam Poplar, Populus balsamifera, William E. Seligmann, Plant Biology
Forging a New Freedom Trail: The Path to Black-White Wealth Equity in Boston, Emma J. Staff, Department of Education
Effect of Thermal Stress across Development in Drosophila melanogaster, Andrew Karl Stoloff, Department of Biology
Effect of Thermal Stress across Development in Drosophila melanogaster, Andrew Karl Stoloff, Department of Biology
The role of geomorphic variability on floodplain function: an analysis of sediment and phosphorus deposition, Shayla P. Triantafillou, Geography
ERROR 404 CONSENT NOT FOUND: The Problem with Exchanging Privacy for Accessing Modern Technological Goods & Services, Seth Wade, Philosophy
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance following Dietary Stress in Drosophila, Jessica Wright, Biology
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Grotesque as a Tool of the Past in As I Lay Dying and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Leela Actis, English
Enzymatic Pathways Involved in Serotonin Breakdown in the GI Tract, Corinne Atkinson, Neurological Sciences Department, Larner College of Medicine
Postcolonial Entanglement: How the Carnivalesque Links Toni Morrison and Chris Abani in Disruptive Dialogue, Katherine B. Bamberger, English
Temperature Dependent Charge Transport Characteristics of Ferroelectric Organic Field Effect Transistors, Jared C. Benson, Physics
Temperature Dependent Charge Transport Characteristics of Ferroelectric Organic Field Effect Transistors, Jared C. Benson, Physics
The Sugarbush: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of a Vermont Landscape, Samuel H. Blair, Individually Designed
Changing Endowments in the Public Goods Game, Madeleine Bowe, Economics
Economic Growth and Weight Gain: A Dynamic Approach to the Obesity Epidemic, Courtney M. Brady, Economics
'Coming Out' in the Modern Novel, Stephanie L. Brooks, English
A Stitch Between, Erin Elizabeth Bundock, Art and Art History
Isolated or Integrated: Exploring the Social Bidirectionality of Ethnic Russians in Estonia and Latvia, Colin J. Bushweller, German and Russian
Theta Wave Coherence in Pre-Semantic Processing: An EEG study of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Azilee J. Curl Miss, Neuroscience; Communication Sciences & Disorders
An fNIRS Investigation of the Prefrontal Cortical Processing Demands Associated with a Communication Based Assessment for Mild Cognitive Impairment, Julia K. Deziel, Neuroscience/Communication Sciences & Disorders
The Effect of Reproductive Experience on Habit Formation, Elizabeth Dybas, Psychological Science
To Flip or Not to Flip?: Individual Cognitive Differences and L2 Russian Acquisition of Verbal Morphology in a Flipped Classroom, Katie M. Esser, Linguistics
Field Guides for Leaving: A poetic exploration of the hyperlocal in Burlington, Vermont, Rachel A. Foster, English
5-Bar Linkage Kinematic Solver and Simulator, Brandon J. Gamble, Mechanical Engineering
Ethnographic Storytelling: Sharing an Armenian Tradition through Collaborative Digital Media, Tali Gelenian, Anthropology
Analyzing the Implementation of the Agile Methodology in a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Course, Michael Vincent Gilarde, Mechanical Engineering
Achieving Anorexia: An Improbable but Possible Aspiration among College-Age Students, Kate Louise Goldberg, Psychological Science
Including Emergency Food in Our Vision of Community Food Security: The Values of Feeding Chittenden and the Community Kitchen Academy on the Burlington Community, Adrianna Grinder, Anthropology
A Multi-Context Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Preschool Children and Identify Barriers to PA in the Home, Casey N. Henehan, Psychological Science
Diagnosing and Addressing Mental Illness Among Vermont Refugees: A Study of Mental Health Screening and Community Resources in Burlington, VT, Zachary Johns, Political Science
Mechanisms of Cold Tolerance in Temperate-Zone Insects, Jhanavi Hemal Kapadia, Biology
our city, Kyle P. King, Film and Television Studies
UVM's Roadmap to Zero Waste, Isabel Lisle, Environmental Studies
The Cows Don’t Milk Themselves: Using Worker-Driven Social Responsibility to Fight Labor and Housing Injustice on Vermont’s Dairy Farms, Marisa Grace Loury, Anthropology
Exploring the Pharmacophore of Novel Synthetic Peptide Activators of type I-alpha cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase, Emily E. MacDonald, Pharmacology
Artificial Growth of Aerosol Particles for Mass Spectrometry Measurement, Janey Marie Masi, Chemistry
Micro Wind Turbine Viability at the University of Vermont, Christopher Michael Nolan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Forever Everglades: Understanding Magical Realism Through Place, Julia L. Nugent, English
Comparison of inflammatory response and morphologic damage induced by endotoxin in mouse and bovine mammary gland, Laura Ashley Olszanski, Animal and Veterinary Science
The Causes of the Catalan Secession Movement, Cullen Samuel Paradis, Political Science
Analysis of Retailer Inventory and Financial Performance, Maria Pitari, Grossman School of Business
Landscapes of Care Amid Crisis: Vermont's Response to the Opioid Epidemic, Lucia Possehl, Geography
“Superheroines” -- A Translation of Barbi Marković's Novel Superheldinnen, Emma Roach, German and Russian
Environmental Health Disparities in Vermont, Julia Selle, Environmental Studies
The Culture of College Wilderness Adventure Clubs: Exploring Leadership, Language, and Gender, Blair Shields, Sociology
Climate Change and Conflict: the Darfur Conflict and Syrian Civil War, Evan Gray Smith, Political Science
Engagement in Vermont Recovery Services and Reported Quality of Life Among Adults with Substance Use Disorders, Nellie Anne Stidham, Neuroscience
Growing Relations: The Intersection of Food and Farm Security in Chittenden County, Vermont, Claire E. Tylke, Anthropology
On the Faculty of Intuition, Oliver P. Waite, Philosophy
The Guinea Pig Club: Social Support and Developments in Medical Practice, Camille J. Walton, History
Using X-ray diffraction of stream sediment to better understand the geology and weathering environment of central Cuba, Landon Williamson, Geology
Methamphetamine Exposure Delays Formation of Habitual Behavior in Female Rats, Abigail B. Wootton, Department of Psychological Science
Is Your Child Even Listening to You?: Relationship between Socialization of Coping and Coping Behavior, Moderated by Physiological Stress Reactivity, Emily E. Young, Psychological Sciences
Speech perception and involuntary orientation to speech stimuli in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Reana Leah Young-Morrison, Neuroscience
Assessing Trends in Future Precipitation Extremes in the Northeastern United States using the Method of Block Maxima, Connor Peter Zwonik, Mathematics and Statistics
Theses from 2019
Interaction of Age and Cancer Treatment on Brain Function and Structure in Breast Cancer Survivors, Yara Alshaabi, Psychiatry
Daughters of Ares: Iconography of the Amazons, Peyton K. Ashley, Classics Department
Understanding Public Perceptions of Immigrant Criminality, Hayley S. Barriere, Global Studies
"It's So Bomb": Exploring Corpus-Based Threat Detection on Twitter with Discourse Analysis, Addie Beach, Department of Romance Languages & Linguistics
El papel de mujeres españolas en la conquista y colonización de las Américas: las mujeres más importantes en el Pacífico sudamericano durante el siglo XVI, Lucille J. Bisselle, Department of Romance Languages and Linguistics
An Evolution of Jane and Lizzie: Adaptation Studies Need to Accommodate for the Rise of Internet-Based Media, Katherine Anne Bryce, English
Targeting the Roots of Disaster: Community Work Dismantling Vulnerability in Mariana, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Rachael E. A. Carrell, Geography