Honors Projects
Characterization of trace metal concentrations and mining legacy in soils, Boulder County, Colorado, Ellen Marcia Maley, Honors Project
The role of the orexin/hypocretin system in the incubation of alcohol craving in rats, Olivia Gilman Mallari, Honors Project
Determining Gastrointestinal Parasite Load in Diceros bicornis of the Southern Kalahari Using 18S rRNA Next Generation Amplicon Sequencing The Start of a Longitudinal Study of Nematode Prevalence, Diversity, and Load in a Critically Endangered Rhinoceros Species, River Mallick, Honors Project
Banking on metaphors : an analysis of economic metaphors in literature and economics, Evelyn Maria Mandel, Honors Project
Through a glass darkly : Pynchon, Calvino, and the mirror, Sasha Mann, Honors Project
The evolution of androgen receptor distribution in the spinal cord to support specialized sexual displays : a comparative analysis using a foot-flagging frog, Staurois parvus, Gina Elizabeth Mantica, Honors Project
Characterization and comparison of 2,6 Di-sec-butylphenol modulation of the GABAa and glycine receptors, Shuqi Mao, Honors Project
Good against goods : viewing health and its social determinants through a Platonic lens, Marianna Victoria Mapes, Honors Project
The role of language in understanding second order relations : an eyetracker study, Katherine Starkman Margulis, Honors Project
Decolonial Liminality: Boundary Crossings in the Novels of Michelle Cliff, Diamond Christina Mark, Honors Project
Playing childhood : translating personal experience into collective narratives in prints, Arielle Marks, Honors Project
Martydom within the poetry of G.M. Hopkins, Julia Ann Marley, Honors Project
Iskra : a folk opera in two acts, Jessica Leigh Marlor, Honors Project
Training and injury prevention for the hypermobile dancer : a means to functional and aesthetic mobility and Choreography and analysis of Confluent peripheries, Alison Georgia Marsh, Honors Project
Aintabtzis in America: an Armenian Community Rebuilt, Alex Martin, Honors Project
Computational analysis of in vivo circadian bioluminescence in freely moving mice, Blanca Cristina Martin Burgos, Honors Project
Identity and representation in the All-State circuit : a critical inquiry of American high school concert band repertoire, Cas Ford Martin, Honors Project
"Citizen, my mother is the Republic" : ideologies of terror, gender and heroism in Charles Dicken's A tale of two cities and Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize, Elyse Jade Martin, Honors Project
Methylation of oxygen nucleophiles using dimethyl carbonate : mechanistic studies, Noelia Margarita Martinez-Muñoz, Honors Project
Disrobing modesty : how female practitioners articulate Christian womanhood in the blogoshere, Gabrielle Sara Martin, Honors Project
The St. John's Wood Clique : "the lost pages of history", Laura Martin, Honors Project
Precision Spectroscopy of Atomic Nitrogen-14 and Oxygen-16, Chitsoe Maruko, Honors Project
Developing a molecular method for estimating the effective population size of ciliate morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata, Cynthia Jepkosgei Masai, Honors Project
The role of narrative development in preschool in the language and literacy development of English/Spanish dual language learners, Lillian Rose Masek, Honors Project
Popularizing Mysticism: William James, Carl Jung, and the Development of American Psycho-Spirituality, Grace Mason-Brown, Honors Project
Lev Shestov : faith, reason, and experience, Avery M. Masters, Honors Project
A tale of two Italys : immigration, economics, and the rise of the Italian far-right, Hannah Louise Mathews, Honors Project
Micromixer : a benchtop polymer mixer, Emily Matz, Honors Project
Self-help for hoarding : a follow-up study, Sarah Beth Maxner, Honors Project
The responsibilities of audiences to speakers : a speech act theory of epistemic violence, Helen Celia Mayer, Honors Project
Making sense of environmental enrichment : the behavioral responses of captive African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) to ecologically relevant scents, Lily Thane Maynard, Honors Project
Between Russia and the United States : concepts and conflicts of Jewish citizenship in the early twentieth century, Emily Alyse Mazza, Honors Project
Effects of prenatal folic acid exposure on social behavior in prairie voles, Taylor Eve McCain, Honors Project
Guerreras de la cancha : leveling the playing field: exploring the role of government in facilitating equal access to soccer for girls in the United States and Ecuador, Maya Nicole McCann, Honors Project
Authoritarianism and attitudes about arranged marriages in Bangladesh and South India, Jessica McCarthy, Honors Project
Tentacular thinking : Medusa in and of the Anthropocene, Lilian Rose McCarthy, Honors Project
Feeding-induced circadian disruption in the liver : towards a non-invasive method of observing circadian disruption in peripheral tissues, Eleanor Evans McCartney, Honors Project
Dimensions of religious orientation and hazardous alcohol use among college students, Elan McCollum, Honors Project
Exploring the evolution of Ramsey games, Theodore McCulloch, Honors Project
Snake cube puzzles : Hamilton paths in grid graphs, Alison Elizabeth McDonough, Honors Project
Archaeocyathan reefs and chemostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian wood canyon formation in Titanothere Canyon, Death Valley, California, Teresa Claire McGann, Honors Project
Extraction and functionalization of Neurolinens from Neuoleana lobata, Catherine Patricia McGeogh, Honors Project
A network model for auditory-system changes to increases in intracranial pressure, Mary Clark McGrath, Honors Project
The effects of IL-1β on sleep and circadian rhythmicity in an animal model of fatigue, Grace Brown McKay-Corkum, Honors Project
The synthesis and use of stimuli-responsive cross-linkers to prepare PVDMA hydrogels, Isabella Frances McNamara, Honors Project
Knot theory and the Alexander polynomial, Reagin McNeill, Honors Project
Shadows on the "little bit ... of ivory : Jane Austen's religious and political convictions as expressed in her novels, Jessica Jo McQuillan, Honors Project
A metagenomic analysis of the equine gastrointestinal tract when affected by parasitic helminths, Ivy Laurene Mead, Honors Project
Putting the "success" in succession : comparing dominant species in a deciduous forest isn't so "clear cut", Madeleine Ann Meadows-McDonnell, Honors Project
Microbial metazoan interaction and the generation of microbial fabrics, Molly Megan, Honors Project
Stormwater harvesting recommendations, Rajiha Mehdi, Honors Project
The presence of lateral gene transfer events in fungal genomes : determining the presence of viral lateral gene transfer events in Eukaryotic genomes, Jiaqi Mei, Honors Project
Jorge Amado in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : publications and popularity, Victoria Melnikova, Honors Project
Creating consciousness : technology and characterization at Walt Disney Animated Studios and Pixar Animated Studios, Alison Shay Meneghetti, Honors Project
Domestic violence begets Black women's incarceration : Marissa Alexander's 20-year sentence for non-fatal self-defense, Michaella Mentu, Honors Project
The Future is an Open Door: Interfaith Collaborations to Combat White Christian Nationalist Violence in Synagogues and at the Border, Eliza Menzel, Honors Project
Gravitational Lens Modeling to Inform Studies of Distant Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: A Close Look at J132217, Lilah Mercadante, Honors Project
Normative measurements of energy reflectance in healthy newborns and one-month olds, Gabrielle R. Merchant, Honors Project
Critique and conscience : classics in Louis MacNeice's Autumn journal, Kimberly Meskimen, Honors Project
Trafficking in multiracialist politics : American visual culture in the 21st century, Nichola W. Metzger, Honors Project
The Role of Electricity Sector Modeling in Climate Policy Design: A Case Study of Massachusetts, Lucy E. Metz, Honors Project
Dissolved organic carbon in Avery Brook, West Whately, Massachusetts, Susanna M. Michael, Honors Project
Historicizing Coming out : a cinematic encounter between national heterosexuality and gay identity in East Germany, Madeline Grace Michels, Honors Project
Public School Funding and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from New York City, Lia Mikhelashvili, Honors Project
Dancing westwards : depictions of the American west in the mid-twentieth century ballets of Balanchine and de Mille, Katelynn Anne Mikulka, Honors Project
Shooter bias and sunk costs in a policing context : using an escalation of commitment framework to investigate shooting decisions, Martha Miller, Honors Project
Using gravitational-wave signals to model the distribution of spin across the binary black hole population, Simona Jane Miller, Honors Project
"Transmuee me senti toute" : queer transgender perspectives on the works of Chrstine de Pizan, T. Miller, Honors Project
Hydrogel formation via photocontrolled ring opening reactions of poly(2-alkenyl azlactone)s with photocaged primary amines, Autumn M. Mineo, Honors Project
Detection of a putative Brugia malayi POU-homeodomain transcription factor binding to its congate promoter, Hafsa Mohamud Mire, Honors Project
Legitimacy in transitional justice : a comparative look at transitional justice processes in South Africa, the former Yugoslavia, and East Timor, Amelia Hawkins Mitchell, Honors Project
Reading women and writing art in Elizabethan epyllia, Dianne Marie Mitchell, Honors Project
A shape to fill a lack : absence, gender and the American South in three novels by William Faulkner, 1929-1931, Esther Maria Mobley, Honors Project
Investigating complex phytoplankton dynamics : pseudo-nitzschia spp. diversity and toxicity in the nearshore Gulf of Maine, Hanna Margaret Mogensen, Honors Project
De-constructing construction : role of environmental standards in the building sector, Anna Carr Mokros, Honors Project
The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo, Honors Project
Locating slow slip events in Cascadia across space and time, Elias Greylin Molitors Bergman, Honors Project
Galectins and lymphatic filariasis : exploring the role of Brugia malayi galectins in parasite persistence, Margaret Mumbi Mongare, Honors Project
Bilattices and the logic of goal modeling, Isabel Grace Montesanto, Honors Project
The effects of carbon source and oxygen availability on gene expression in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Grace M. Moore, Honors Project
Microfossil assemblages in Cryogenian (~716 Ma) cap carbonates of Namibia, Zambia, Mongolia and Arctic Alaska, Kelsey Reed Moore, Honors Project
Intertextuality and forging identity in Alison Bechdel's Fun home: a family tragicomic, Melina Alice Moore, Honors Project
Who is in charge? : exploring the connection between connexin dependent bioelectrics and morphogen signaling during axis determination in zebrafish, Janeth Mora-Martinez, Honors Project
On film and television : the portrayal of bioethics in popular culture, Elizabeth Morgan, Honors Project
Nanoscale cargo transport of spherical DNA origami structures by ensembles of molecular motor proteins, Jessica Marie Morgan, Honors Project
Investigating Weyl Semimetal and Magnetized Phases in Quantum Materials Using Stochastic and Machine Learning Methods, Elizabeth Morningstar, Honors Project
The effect of an anabolic steroid on the proteome of developing muscle cells, Emily Ann Morris, Honors Project
The role of romantic comedies in the cognitive processes of female self-perception, Emily Jane Morris, Honors Project
"Wild abandon" : rural lesbian histories in Wyoming and Montana, 1960-1998, Katherine Luann Morris, Honors Project
Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley, Honors Project
The role of sex and ovarian cycles in rodent behavioral and physiological variability, Kathleen Jane Moshofsky, Honors Project
The effect of circadian disruption and a high fat diet on arcuate microglia in C57/B6 mice, Donna L. Mosley, Honors Project
Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley, Honors Project
Does a correlation between severe/regressive autism and viral co-infection exist?, Mojdeh Mostafavi, Honors Project
Characterization of Amyloid Precursor Protein Regulation by Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors 3, 6 and 12, Sabra Mouhi, Honors Project
Investigating the nature of mutualisms between Rhododendron seedlings and local versus novel communities of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi, Taryn Leigh Mueller, Honors Project
Unearthing stories : Caribbean women respond to the Brontës, Sarah Muffly, Honors Project
Cosmologies of healing in Ceremony and The salt eaters, Kathleen Frances Mullins, Honors Project
Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia, Honors Project
NYC Community Schools and Student Crime Incidents, Parunjodhi Munisamy, Honors Project