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  • Our Alphabet Book: Promoting Personal Relationships Between Children with Disabilities and their Nondisabled Peers 
    DeAngelo, Maria A. (1990-04-18)
    'Our Alphabet Book' was created because negative attitudes do not allow interaction between children with disabilities and their peers to occur naturally, and so it must be planned. This book provides one opportunity for ...
  • Technological Advances of Imaging As Applied to Library Archives 
    Youells, Bernadette D. (1995-05-08)
    In this report I discuss the advantages of using digital imaging, its applications, and how much it costs. I also review the necessary hardware and software needed to implement a digital imaging program. The advantages of ...
  • The History of the Student Senate of Alfred University and its correlation with national issues 
    Pellicciotti, Michael (2000-05)
    The Student Senate has been the student government of Alfred University since 1906. This thesis shows, through a historical record of Student Senate, how national issues correlate with Senate's structure and its issues. ...
  • Are the Pines There Now? An Historical Study of Pine Hill, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 
    Sloane, Kristin E. (2000-05)
    Pine Hill is a tract of land that is used often by Alfred University students and faculty, but its history has not been well recorded. The forest has been mentioned fondly in diaries and memoirs of students and faculty, ...
  • Locke, Hobbes and the State of Nature 
    Williams, Brett (2009-05)
    This paper looks at the political theories of Locke and Hobbes and compares them. It then tries to draw some conclusions from their theories and apply those conclusions to our current lives. Social contract theory is a ...
  • Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivor Mental Health 
    Skwarek, Natalie (2011-05-02)
    My thesis discusses the effects of trauma on the mental health of Holocaust and World War II survivors.
  • BFA Thesis Exhibition 
    Keith, Tory (2011-12)
    Extract from the thesis: "It is not until we grow, and see the world we have built for ourselves crack from the pressure, that we begin to understand the extent to which our views have shaped what we allow ourselves to ...
  • Modern conflict resolution efforts: faith-based and sport-based approaches 
    Dannick, Samantha (2012-04)
    Of the multiple ways to approach conflict resolution, the sport-based and faith-based models discussed in this thesis are only two of the many options. That being said, they are two very dissimilar approaches. What can be ...
  • An assessment of stream conditions and their effects on benthic macroinvertebrate community structure 
    Rice-Mitchell, Ean (2012-05)
    I examined the effects of environmental variables on benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in four stream catchments in the Upper Genesee Watershed of Allegany County. I proposed that some variables would be more ...
  • A legacy of travelers: an Alfred University student travels to Italy 
    Pellicciotti, Anne (2012-05)
    My thesis is a creative nonfiction piece in the subgenre of travel writing. In this small collection of essays, I have written about my experiences of traveling abroad in Florence, Italy. I am working from true experiences ...
  • Out of context: a visual artist's relationship with books 
    Ventura, Annmarie (2012-05)
    I began the process of collecting books with the hope that by transforming them into visual art I would better understand why I loved them so much. The way they smell, the colors, small black letters on white pages helping ...
  • The Muses Revived 
    Koltiska, Katherine (2012-05)
    My work is about finding the center. It is about searching for the calm, appreciating the understated, and celebrating the small moments. There are three major elements: simplicity of form; complexity of meaning; and ...
  • Participation as observation: how I create myself from others 
    Maffey, Jessica (2012-05)
    My work consists of images of the type of people I have had the most experience with: 20-something year old, white, middle-class men. Almost all of the images are of my closest friends, or of other young men I am around ...
  • Including foreign language in elementary school 
    Streisel, Jessica (2012-05)
    In an effort to understand how the foreign-language-learning process works, I taught a series of Spanish lessons to a group of 21 fifth-grade students. Using the Total Physical Response Storytelling method, developed by ...
  • How the plight of small farmers shapes their perceptions of abandoned land 
    Kuntz, Kara (2012-05)
    For my honor's thesis, I surveyed Allegany County farmers on their perceptions of abandoned land, with a goal of discovering how they felt personally affected by land abandonment and what personal factors (socio-political) ...
  • Online and mobile app startup ideation: testing demand with Google Adwords and guerrilla marketing campaigns 
    Grove, Zachary (2012-05)
    The premise of the thesis was to develop and articulate several ideas for online or mobile app businesses, with varying degrees of niche customers. I wanted to fit the potential businesses along a continuum of market size ...
  • Zinc-Finger Nucleases: the past and future of in vivo genome editing 
    VanderWeide, Kaitlin (2012-05)
    The race to discover the solution to genetic disease has been a long one; only recently has it come to look like it is a race that may actually be won. Zinc-Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) are synthetic enzymes that can be designed ...
  • The observational sketchbook: strangeness in the familiar 
    Dunscombe, Hannah (2012-05)
    Observational drawing is the artist's way of discovering his or her surroundings. In order to explore this, I constructed an accordion-fold sketchbook and filled it with drawings done around upstate New York. In order to ...
  • "On" and "Through" 
    Zajac, Michelle (2012-05)
    In search of authenticity, I have begun to question the different aspects that make up life. Perhaps life is merely an array of experiences felt through time. The concepts of experience and time are both universal and ...
  • Heirloom Artifacts 
    Westfall, Kathryn Chandler (2012-05-07)
    "I collect artifacts of the people, places, and events that hold my roots. My inspiration began with the experience of looking through boxes of unsorted ancestral photographs in my grandmother's attic. I would like people ...

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