The honors project offers seniors the opportunity to engage in original scholarship under the supervision of a faculty member in their major department or program and results in a written thesis and/or oral defense, artistic performance or showing, depending on the student’s field of study.
The catalog record for each honors thesis can be seen here. Print versions of honors projects created between 1924 and 2019 are available in the Bowdoin College Library’s Department of Special Collections & Archives.
2023
The Photocatalytic Degradation of 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and Related Estrogens, Kevin Jairre Fleshman
Structural and methodological factors influencing the sorption of alkylpyridiniums to aluminosilicates, Seamus Frey
Rhythmic behaviors: Understanding neuromodulation at the neuromuscular level, Kenneth Garcia
Functional redundancy of a non-native foundation species (eelgrass, Zostera japonica) across intertidal stress gradients, S. Maria Garcia
Dispersive Shock Waves in Granular Chains, Ari Geisler
#IVFgotyou: Instagram IVF Influencers as Social (Media) Support Systems, Susu Gharib
Songs for Birds: An Exploration of Climate Change and the Changing Soundscape, Logan Paige Gillis
Invisible Ailments: A Collection, Jane L. Godiner
Working Hands and Shifting Identities among Lobstermen in the Gulf of Maine’s Waterscape, Meghan Gonzalez
Surface Soil Stocks: Peat Development and Soil Carbon Storage on South Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, Ana Gunther
Live imaging of somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila supports a button-based mechanism for pairing facilitated by the genetic insulator gypsy, Holden D. Hadfield
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy, Jackson David Lakowsky Hansen
Determining the influence of proximal Zeste binding sites and promoters on rates of transvection, Molly Henderson
Identifying crustacean neuropeptides and precursor-related peptides by LC/MS: An investigation of strategies for extraction and orthogonal separations, Emily Grace Herndon
Modeling UV Light Through N95 Filters, Lorenzo Hess
Surfing the Kali Yuga: Tracking the Alt-Right on Twitter, Jaida Hodge-Adams
Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata, Deva K. Holliman
The Shah Bano Case: An English-Language Democratic Practice in Post-Colonial India, Hafsa Hossain
An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies, Zubin Jay Kenkare
Una Comprensione Computazionale della Psiche Emotiva e Ordine nelle Ballate del Decameron: Stilometria e Elaborazione del Linguaggio Naturale, Nothando Khumalo
Service Beyond Bars: How Correctional Chaplains Mediate the Movement of Religion in Prisons and Jails, Lia F. Kornmehl
Liberty and Its Legacy An Analysis of Freedom and Liberty in American Political Rhetoric, Ryan S. Kovarovics
Properties of Slicing Conditions for Charged Black Holes, Sean E. Li
Mathematically Modeling a Nonlinear, Passive Acoustic Filter, Bjorn Ludwig
Characterizing the Roles of Toll7 in the Gryllus Bimaculatus Peripheral Nervous System Development, Rowland Luo
Pragmatics and Accessibility in Referential Communication, Thomas Mazzuchi
Phenylisonitrile Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt to Form a Catalyst for the Selective Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins, Colleen Hughes McAloon
Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators on ST-X Quartz, Angela McKenzie
Sorption of Cationic Heterocyclic Amines to Soils: Effects of Charge Delocalization and other Factors, Mariah McKenzie
Bodies, Memories, Ghosts, and Objects or Telling a Memory, Natsumi Lynne Meyer
Characterization of Retinoic Acid Signaling During Tooth Morphogenesis and Evolution in Danio rerio, Lyn Stephanie Miranda Portillo
Examining the Predictive Value of Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation Screening in Determining Psychosis Risk, Tara M. D. Mullen
Vienna Secession, Bobby Murray
Host and symbiont-specific patterns of gene expression in response to cold stress in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata, Kellie Navarro
Photoacidic properties of 8-amino-2-naphthol in imidazolium salts, Rachel E. Nealon
Electrical Transport Properties of Graphene, Nhi Nguyen
An Analysis of Tidal Mixing Front Dynamics and Frontal Biophysical Interaction in the Harpswell Sound Shelf Sea, Lemona Yingzhuo Niu
Exploring sex-specific and developmental outcomes of early life adversity on DNA methylation in parvalbumin-containing interneurons, Emma Straw Noel
"I Remember!": Irish Postcolonial Memory in the Early Short Stories of Seán O'Faoláin, Rebecca Norden-Bright
Diatom blooms in Harpswell Sound: seasonality, succession, and origin, Charlie Francis O'Brien
Ethnicity and Territory: Cultural and Political Autonomy for African Descended Colombians through Law 70, Ayana Opong-Nyantekyi
An unbiased glimpse into the sex-specific effects of ketamine treatment on rats who have experienced early life adversity., Lucia Marie O'Sullivan
The Crossroads We Make: Intergenerational Trauma and Reparative Reading in Recent Asian American Memoirs (2018-2022), Josh-Pablo Manish Patel
The effect of early life adversity on basolateral amygdala projections to the prefrontal cortex in male and female rats during development, Khushali N. Patel
Freezing temperatures drive functional trait clustering more than habitat structure in eelgrass communities in the Gulf of Maine, Bridget Marjorie Patterson
Peripheral modulation of cardiac contractions in the American lobster, Homarus americanus, by the peptide myosuppressin is mediated by effects on the cardiac muscle itself, Isabel Stella Petropoulos
Thioglycosides modulate bacterial glycosylation, Isabella de la Luz Quintana
Neptune City, Lily Randall
Neurophysiological Effects of Temperature on the Mammalian Spinal Central Pattern Generator (CPG) Network for Locomotion, Eliza M. Rhee
Love is Real & I Just Had Some for Dessert: Legacies of Communal Care & Compassion in Asian Diasporic Women's Food Writing, Miki Rierson
The impact of plastic contaminants and neuroprotectants on spinal neural circuits controlling vertebrate locomotion, Violet Louise Rizzieri
Synthesis and Metalation of a Bifunctional Ligand for Hydrogen Activation, Eliana Roberts
Growing Pains: Toward a Coalition-Based Theory of State Land Use Policy, Patrick Rochford
Development of a Schiff base Synthetic Platform for 8-phenyliminonaphthol Photoacids, Ibrahim G. Saleh
Regresando a Casa, Edwin Sánchez Huizar
Playing the Fool: Analyzing the Phenomena of Iurodstvo In Contemporary Russian Cinema and Civil Society., Colby Silva Santana
Written in the Body: Embodiments of Gender, Asexuality, Queerness, and Disability, Corey Schmolka
The Impact of Toll 6-1 Function on the Maintenance and Plasticity of the Gryllus bimaculatus Auditory System, Jada Scotland
The role of modulation on the pyloric neurons and the neuromuscular junction in a pattern generator-effector system, Jackie Seddon
From Homer to the Roman Empire: The Reception of Music in Antiquity, Augustine Segger
The modulation of calcium-activated potassium channels for the stabilization of mammalian spinal locomotor activity, Hattie Sargent Slayton
A multifaceted analysis of Semaphorin-induced neuroplasticity in the nervous system of Gryllus bimaculatus, Ean Lev Small
A Quadtree-Based, Multi-Resolution Algorithm for Computing Viewsheds on Grid Terrains, Lily Caroline Smith
Is Faith the Ultimate Divider?: The Intersections Between Religion and Political Behavior in the United States, Ryan Supple
Investigating the effects of a glutamine-rich protein on the localization of a mutant RNA-binding protein and stress response in Candida albicans, Christoph Anders Tatgenhorst
Sociocultural Orientations and Mental Illness Stigma: A Novel Mediational Model, Karis Treadwell
The ELMO Family of Pectin Biosynthesis Scaffold Proteins, Margaret Elizabeth Weinstock
James Joyce’s Prose Pedagogy: Language in Freirean Dialogue, Jack McDermott Wellschlager
When There's A Fire–Short Stories, Zoë Ellis Wilson
The Current Support Theorem in Context, Ethan Winters
Effects of Picrotoxin Application on the Cardiac Ganglion of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, John T. Woolley
ELMO, A Possible Pectin Biosynthesis Scaffold, Nuoya (Laura) Yang
A Machine Learning Approach to Sector Based Market Efficiency, Angus Zuklie
2022
Identification of genes involved in Helicobacter pylori glycolipid and glycoprotein biosynthesis, Adedunmola Praise Adewale
Antimicrobial Compounds in the Lobster, Homarus americanus: An Investigation of Lobster Shell Extracts, Usira Ahmed Ali
Modern Love and Marriage: The Problems and Insights of Rousseau, Beauvoir, and Plato, Isabella Angel
Genetic Analysis of Adhesion Protein ELMO3 in Arabidopsis thaliana, Garrison Asper
The Role of ELMO5 in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell Adhesion, Isabel Kristina Ball
Characterization of Spaetzle Protein in the Mediterranean field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) and its role in central nervous system plasticity, Anthea L. Bell
Directed Information Flow During Episodic Memory Retrieval at Theta Frequency, Patrick F. Bloniasz
“Something most girls don’t do” An Ethnographic Study of Women in Extreme Sports, Jacqueline Boben
Characterizing Toll Receptors in the Mediterranean Cricket, Warsameh Bulhan
Predicting Anionic Pharmaceutical Sorption to Soils Using Probe Compounds, Francesca Ann Cawley
Sex- and age-specific susceptibility of parvalbumin neurons to DNA methylation in a model of early life adversity, Alissa Chen
"Possessive gentleness": Insecure Attachments in American Literature, Ella Pearl Crabtree
Outlier Detection in Energy Datasets, Stephen Crawford
Forests as Fuel? An Investigation of Biomass’ Role in a Just Energy Transition, Brianna Cunliffe
Impact of SR-Like RNA-Binding Protein (Slr1) Structure on Splicing in Candida albicans, Michael Christopher Dean
A Conscious Image of Liberation: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in the Late Franco Regime, Through the Lens of the Press, Sebastian de Lasa
Crazy American, Emma Quan Dewey
The sex specific effects of acute ketamine treatment on parvalbumin and anxiety and depression following early life adversity, Seneca N. Ellis
Finite Element Modeling of Piezoelectric Surface Wave Focusing, Kieran Enzian
Narration, Nation et Nationalisme dans les récits d’enfance de Mouloud Feraoun et Mohammed Dib, Reed Foehl
Economic Analysis of the Critical Habitat Designation Process for Endangered and Threatened Species Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, Katherine Fosburgh
Urban Pastures: A Computational Approach to Identify the Barriers of Segregation, Noah Gans