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 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
Enhancer usage variation assessed via chromatin-conformation within and among three species of Drosophila, Maia B. Granoski
Hot Boy Summer? Analyzing Managerial Reactions to Season-long Fluctuating Player Performance In Major League Baseball, John Rodgers Hood
Photosynthetic phenology of a boreal spruce forest observed at stand and needle scales, Jeremy A. Hoyne Grosvenor
A Comprehensive Survey on Functional Approximation, Yucheng Hua
Binding Energy Determination of CO2 Adsorption in MOF-74 with Diffusion Monte Carlo, Yucheng Hua
Re-envisioning the Tropics: Nick Joaquin's Philippine Gothic, Ella Marie Jaman
Unraveling Paradise: Colonialism and Disguise in German Language Literature, Brigita Kant
Bacterial Coat of Armor: Probing how Glycan Biosynthesis in Helicobacter pylori Modulates Host Immune Recognition, Francis Jacob Kassama
Literary Stolpersteine that Produce Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Contemporary German Narratives of Migration, Lauren Katz
Clones, Corporations, and Community: Cyborg Bodies Onstage, Grace Kellar-Long
Echoing Memories and Synchronicities of an Adoptive Family: A Memoir, Gemma Jyothika Kelton
Minor, Ugly, and Meta: Feelings in Contemporary Korean American Literature, Kyubin Kim
Sensitivity Analysis of Basins of Attraction for Gradient-Based Optimization Methods, Gillian King
Investigating the Effects of Mixed Solvents on the Excited State Proton Transfer Mechanisms of 8-Amino-2-naphthol, Alexander Avrom Kreines
Greening the Market: Natural Groceries from the Countercuisine to Whole Foods, Livia Kunins-Berkowitz
Role of the Dopamine Subtype 1 Receptor (D1R) Modulation of the Ih Current in Rhythmic Spinal Mammalian Motor Networks, Grace Soeun Lee
The Current Hunt for Nitric Oxide's Effects on the Homarus americanus Cardiac Ganglion, Joanna Lin
Exploiting Context in Linear Influence Games: Improved Algorithms for Model Selection and Performance Evaluation, Daniel Little
New Institutional Economics: Political Institutions and Divergent Development in Costa Rica and Honduras, Maynor Alberto Loaisiga Bojorge
Metabolic Glycan Labeling in Bacteria Using Rare Azido L-sugars, Phuong Luong
Illumination, Inspiration, and Inquisition: The 15th and 16th century reception and reaction of Dante’s Divina Commedia in Spain, Francesca Mauro
Parole lievitanti: La panificazione spirituale di S. Caterina di Bologna, Katherine Aiello McKee
Empire of Horror: Race, Animality, and Monstrosity in the Victorian Gothic, Grace Monaghan
Tracking photosynthetic seasonality at needle and forest scales in pines experiencing mild winters, Sara Elizabeth Nelson
Ink, Andrew MacGregor Nicholson
Investigating the photoacidic properties of 8-benzylideneamino-2-naphthol, Oliver M. Nix
Discovery and characterization of novel crustin family antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the American lobster, Homarus americanus, using transcriptomics and peptidomics, Emily Yuan-ann Pan
"Italianos por todos lados (Italians Everywhere)": Italian Immigrants and Argentine Exceptionalism, Julia Elisabeth Perillo
Sexual Knowledge in Late-Colonial Bombay: Contested Authority, Politicized Sciences, Rahul Prabhu
The Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen and Three Beta-Blockers using BiOCl: An Investigation into the Mechanisms Responsible for Photocatalytic Activity, Jeffrey Charles Price
Hypersensitization of Helicobacter pylori to Antibiotics Through Perturbation of Bacterial Glycan Armor, William J. Rackear
Characterization of the ELMO2 Protein that Mediates Cell Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Devaki Rajiv
Mitigation of Negative Effects of Ocean Change on Oysters by Eelgrass and its Implications for Aquaculture in Midcoast Maine, Fiona G. Ralph
Examining the Ability of Remote Sensing to Characterize Turfgrass Stress Physiology, Benjamin Ross
A Time for Every Purpose: Race, Medical Professionalism, and the Physicians’ Dilemma, Reuben Mindlin Schafir
Divinity School: A Novel, Ella Marie Schmidt
Accretion Onto a Black Hole at the Center of a Neutron Star: Nuclear Equations of State, Sophia Christina Schnauck
Characterizing and Investigating the Electrophysiological Properties of the Plastic Cricket Auditory System in Response to Cooling, Hannah Tess Scotch
Sensitivity Analysis of Basins of Attraction for Nelder-Mead, Sonia K. Shah
Digital Market Concentration: An Institutional and Social Cost Analysis, Jack Shane
"Proud Flesh and Blood": Phineas Fletcher, Gabriel Daniel, and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Embodiment, Micaela Elanor Simeone
Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Unidirectional Interdigital Transducers, Shane Anthony Smolenski
Rebellion as an Approach to Life in the Work of Albert Camus, Emily Ruth Staten
The experience of crunch in the video games industry amongst current and aspiring developers, Radu Ioan Stochita
Nuevas posibilidades para la subjetividad feminista en la literatura del Cono Sur, Kate Elizabeth Tapscott
Evaluating Dam Relicensing and River Herring Habitat Restoration from a Broad, Multi-Ecosystem Perspective, Matthew L. Thomas
"In Loving Virtue": Staging the Virgin Body in Early Modern Drama, Miranda Viederman
Transforming the Humane: Human/Animal Relationships in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand and Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung, Joosep R. Vorno
Theories of Thanks: Affect Studies, Reciprocity, and Theoretical Perspectives on Gratitude, Clayton James Wackerman
Instability in a Time-Modulated Lattice, Evelyn Wallace
Localizing Potential Messenger RNA Transport Protein Ips1 in Candida albicans, Yi Peng Wang
An analysis and characterization of Sonic Hedgehog and Fgf genes in Danio rerio embryonic tooth development, Lauren Kanoelani Waters
Relations between four-point amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity at one, two, and three loops, Theodore Wolcott Wecker
Building Home in Diaspora: New York’s Jewish Left and the History of the Bronx Housing Cooperatives, Micah Benjamin Wilson
Effects of myosuppressin, a peptide neuromodulator, on membrane currents in the crustacean cardiac ganglion, Anthony Yanez
Comparing natural variation in enhancer usage within and among Drosophila species, Justin K. Yang
Enlightenment as Global History: The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century France, Rachel Yang
2021
Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) in the Lobster, Homarus Americanus: Isolation and Activity, Ruby Chimereucheya Ahaiwe
Regional Identity, Devolution and Ethnic Outbidding: The Rise and Radicalization of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Spain, Alex Baselga Garriga
Improving Energy Efficiency through Compiler Optimizations, Jack Beckitt-Marshall
Experiments in Gender: A Comparative Analysis on the Literary Representation of Women in Medicine and Science during the Weimar Republic, Rachel Bercovitch
LE VAL ET LE CADRE : ESPACES MORTIVITAUX DE RIMBAUD ET DE MOUAWAD, Dylan J. Bess
Genetic Analysis of Cellular Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Andrew Close Bolender
Can Small Donations Have Big Consequences? Candidate Ideology, Small Donations, and Election Results in the 2016 and 2018 Congressional Cycles, Michael Borecki
Maïssa Bey : comment dire le traumatisme et la violence des guerres en Algérie, Anna Bosari