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.
2024
The Influence of Polymers on the Solubility of Flufenamic Acid and Mefenamic Acid Cocrystals, Morgan Adams
Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Coinage Metals and Their Application in the Activation of Hydrogen, Maryam Akramova
Identity Formation in the Lebanese-American Christian Diaspora, Matthew Cesar Audi
Radical and Liberal Approaches to Gay Rights Organizing from Stonewall to AIDS, Sophia Blaha
The Body Negotiating Unprecedented Movement, Mei Bock
The Forest Before Us: Storying the North Maine Woods, Lillyana Browder
Beyond Religion: Reframing Liberal Democracy’s Treatment of Exemptions Within the Public-Private Separation, Julianna Brown
The French Official Mistress: Fashioning Female Political Power in the Ancien Régime, Samantha Brown
The combinatorial effects of temperature and salinity on the nervous system of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, Katrina Carrier
A phylogenomic approach to the blue-barred parrotfish (Scarus ghobban) complex across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Eban Charles
Examining the Effect of Aromatic Substituents in Peptoid Catalysts of Stereoselective Trifluoromethylation, Daniel Chi
Hemocyte-derived proteins from the lobster, Homarus americanus: Changes in response to an LPS immune system challenge, Olivia Sewon Choi
The identification and visualization of candidate early embryonic patterning genes in Bradysia coprophila, Sarah Conant
Pathways: Montana Stories and Poems, Tess Davis
Promoter Choice in Transvection at the eya Gene of Drosophila melanogaster, Victoria Dunphy
Physiological responses of the American lobster cardiovascular system to neuropeptide SGRNFLRFamide (SGRN), Andre Eden
Modeling the Development & Expression of Political Opinion: A Zallerian Approach, Avery C. Ellis
The role of pubertal hormones on female rats' sensitivity to acute ketamine treatment in an early-life-adversity model, Nuanxi (Sissi) Feng
Racial Bias within Capital Punishment: Instructional Comprehension, Marcus Gadsden
Selective Procedural Content Generation Using Multi-Discriminator Generative Adversarial Networks, Darien Gillespie
Statistically Principled Deep Learning for SAR Image Segmentation, Cassandra Goldberg
Self-Censorsh** in the Classroom, Sarah Greenberg
Modulation of the crustacean cardiac neuromuscular system by the SLY neuropeptide family, Grant Griesman
Deciphering Policymaking—The Enigma of the 2003 Iraq War, Chengkai Gu
Investigating the Impacts of Drought on Turfgrass (Festuca arundinacea) Chlorophyll-a Fluorescence Emission, Ayanna S. Hatton
The Things We Carried: Effect of Exogenous Government Spending Shocks on Wartime Inflation, Evidence from the U.S. and the World, Tingjun Huang
Being and Salvation: Environmental Implications of Martin Heidegger's Thought, Eleanor S. Huntington
Policy Making, Decision Making, and Advocacy: The U.S. Asylum System Since 9/11, Clara Jergins
Eroding the Bedrock: The Future of Public Administration Without Chevron Deference, Rose Keller
To hum or not to hum: analyzing and provoking sound production in the American lobster (Homarus americanus), Renske Kerkhofs
Postmemory’s Shadow Archives: Reshaping the Punctum in Asian Diaspora Poetry, Hannah Kim
East End Eden: The Gentrification of Portland’s Munjoy Hill, Katharine Kurtz
He Mauka Teitei, Ko Aoraki, The Loftiest of Mountains: The Names of Aotearoa’s Highest Peak and Beyond, Joseph B. Lancia
Effects of the plasticizer tributyl phosphate (TBP) on the intrinsic properties of mammalian lumbar motor neurons, Connor Joseph Latona
Activation of Hydrogen by Sterically Modulated Coinage Metal Catalysts via Mutual Quenching of Hard/Soft Acid/Base Mismatches, Zach Leibowitz
Reframing Mourning: Liberatory Grief in Post-Tragedy Chinese American Women’s Fiction, Sophia Li
Mitochondrial adaptation in the green crab hybrid zone of the Gulf of Maine, Jared Lynch
The Power of In-Person Digital Repatriation: Returning Historic Photographs to West Greenland Communities, Agnes Macy
Basins of Attraction and Metaoptimization for Particle Swarm Optimization Methods, David Ma
A histological investigation of Arceuthobium pusillum infections in Picea rubens and Picea glauca, Sade K. McClean
Characterizing the Motor Activity Patterns of the Mammalian Thoracic Spinal Cord Neural Network, Sam McClelland
Mythologies modernes : à la recherche des écrivaines dans la capitale littéraire de Paris de l’entre-deux-guerres, Stephanie Ruth McCurrach
Are People Blaming Artificial Intelligence More or Less for Incorrect Advice?, Anh Nguyen
Fall forward, spring back: Drivers of synchrony in the sea star crawl-bounce gait transition, Brady R. Nichols
Evaluation of design parameters for monosaccharide probes used in the metabolic labeling of bacterial glycans, Sophia Elisabeth Nigrovic
Creating Enantioselective Peptoid Catalysts with 2-Picolylamine and 2-Picolinic Acid Catalytic Sites, Devin Kathleen O’Loughlin
Group-theory constraints on color-ordered four-point amplitudes in SO(N) gauge-theories, Athis Osathapan
How do Robinhood Investors React to Macroeconomic News?, Aditya S. Pall-Pareek
The Politics of Seeing: John Ruskin As Political Thinker, Hayden D. Redelman
Origin of Rhyolite from Magma Mush: Plutonic Lithics from the Ohakuri Ignimbrite, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Christine Reimer
Early life adversity induces sex-specific behavioral changes and does not alter precocial neural recruitment in response to basolateral amygdala stimulation, Zackery D. Reynolds
I Am Bearing Myself in the Mouth of the Sun, Dylan Austin Richmond
Three-Year-Old Agents of Social Change: How aeioTU Educators Build on Children’s Agency, Andrea Rodriguez
An AGN as a Counterpart for Neutrino Event IceCube-220303A, Nur Schettino
The EOL Enhancer Activates Eya Expression to Mediate Visual System Development in Drosophila melanogaster, Benjamin Sewell-Grossman
Distance Based Pre-clustering for Deep Time-Series Forecasting: A Data Selection Approach, Leopold Felix Spieler
Investigating the Impact of Helicobacter pylori Glycan Biosynthesis on Host Immune Response, William Joseph Surks
Fluorescent Sugar Analogs as Probes for Bacterial Monosaccharide Uptake, Foje-Geh Robert Tendoh
The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Dilemma of Eritrean Sovereignty, Liat G. Tesfazgi
Neural compensation in response to salinity perturbation in the cardiac ganglion of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, Josephine P. Tidmore
Nietzsche & the Destiny of Man: Human Greatness & Great Politics, Alexander Tully
Investigating the effect of Fuc-O-NAP on the glycosylation of Helicobacter pylori, Panhasith Ung
Prescriptions of Identity: Jewish identities defined, questioned, and remembered in Early Modern Spain and early colonial America, Juliana Keyes Vandermark
Modulation of the stretch feedback pathway in the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, Karin van Hassel
Ionic Liquids as Additives for Metal-Organic Framework Crystallization, Oliver Wang
Eelgrass meadow structure drives epifaunal community composition more than temperature during a Marine Heat Wave in the Gulf of Maine, Nicholas Takaki Tienhui Yoong
2023
On L-functions and the 1-Level Density, Arav Agarwal
From Shadow to Spotlight: Minoritarian Characters, Representative Failures, and High School Powerarchy in Teen Television, Paloma Ada Aguirre
Agent-Based Modeling of Asset Markets: A Study of Risks, Preferences, and Shocks, Evan Albers
A Problem Best Put Off Until Tomorrow, Evan Albers
Characterization of Spaetzle-Toll Ligand-Receptor Pairs in Gryllus bimaculatus, Tabarak Al Musawi
The influence of Toll 7 on the neuroplasticity of auditory neurons in the Mediterranean field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), Brooke Asherman
Investigating the Role of Helicobacter pylori Glycan Biosynthesis in Modulating Host Immune Cell Recognition, Katharine Barrett
Power Play: The President's Role in Shaping Renewable Energy Regulation and Policy, Luke Bartol
Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice, Halina E. Bennet
Infant and Maternal Health Outcomes Following Improved Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Pregnant Women, Emma A. Bomfim
Guarding Whiteness: Disability, Eugenics, and Rhetorical Agency in Southern Renaissance Fiction, Philip Carl Bonanno
Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction, Sydney M. Bonauto
Phenotypic divergence between sites in photosynthetic thermal response despite low genetic differentiation in Gulf of Maine Ascophyllum nodosum, Olivia Bronzo-Munich
Onkel Toms Hütte: Translation, Intervention, and Nation, Sofie Brown
Developing methods of transient absorption spectroscopy for the study of triplet state photoacids, Jack R. Callahan
How do long-term above-ground biomass dynamics vary between different forest stand types at Harvard Forest?, Maya Y. Chandar-Kouba
"What's Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction, Andrew YH Chang
Religious Negotiation and Identity Formation: Reading Material Religion in Oaxaca’s “Guelaguetza Oficial”, Rene Sebastian Cisneros
Modeling Oyster Growth Dynamics in FLUPSY Systems to Develop a Decision Support Tool for Seed Management, Gretchen Clauss
Timing the Paleozoic Oxygenation of the Deep Ocean Using Thallium Isotopes, Jean Nikolas R. Clemente
An Alternative Perspective on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): Underpricing in the “No Target" Phase, Anna G. Constantine
The Roles of Personality, Internalized Stigma, and Shame Proneness as Barriers to Mental Health Treatment, Grace Cross
This Is All for You: Stories, Catherine Crouch
Searle’s Mind: Brains, Subjects, and Systems, Saul Cuevas-Landeros
Do Voters Reward Incumbents for Service Provision? Electoral Accountability in South African Elections, Rory Mayne Devlin
Characterization of Bacterial Glycosylation Pathways with Fluorescent Monosaccharide Probes, Lucas John DiCerbo
"Know-Nothingism, Abolitionism, and Fanaticism:" An Analysis of the Collapse of the Second Party System in Maine, Justis Dixon
Student Activism and Malaysian Politics, 1955-74: Revising the History of the Malay Language Society (PBMUM), Song Eraou