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Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

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  • Arteev, Polina (2019-05-07)
    Equal parts art and creative writing, this project is an exercise in worldbuilding that recontextualizes original character design ideas to fit into a brand new world.
  • Mullen, Jillian (2017-05-09)
    This project examines the problem of gender socialization as it begins in childhood. My campaign, Genderation, reflects the difficulties of discussing gender. It centers on parents, the key audience, in an informal way ...
  • Piedmonte, Allison (2018-05-09)
    This project aimed to teach the Alfred community more about a topic that most shy away from: Feminism.
  • 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 ...
  • Denne, Roselynn (2016-05-06)
    This project has been about exploring the cosmos through glass and light. I wanted to create an interactive piece that emulated the light from the sun striking the earth, following the night, dawn, day, twilight cycle. ...
  • Angie, Juliann (2015-05-07)
    My Senior Honors Thesis is a science fiction novel draft edited with the eventual goal of publication. The manuscript follows Keith Hayes, a seventeen year-old immigrant who moved with his father from Earth, to a new ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kang, Dana T. (2016-05-03)
    Inspired by the color palette and surface treatment of classical paintings and sculptures, my work exhibits quaintness. I employ highly contrasting lightings, and muted colors from the paintings of Caravaggio and Zurbaran ...
  • Wright, Garrett (2017-12-14)
    The wind energy industry needs technological advancements in cost-efficiency if it is to compete with fossil fuels for large-scale energy production. In addition, many communities refuse to allow wind turbines to be erected ...
  • Dilai, Mark A. (2021-05)
    Conductive polymers go against the normal properties of all other polymers and are instead conductive albeit requiring certain thresholds to be achieved or circumstances present to achieve this conductivity. Polypyrrole ...
  • Hameister, Ava (2021-05-10)
    Betta splendens are a very popular fish. They are commonly kept as pets, but are also occasionally used as models for research. With such a wide variety of colors possible, and breeders often looking for specific colorations, ...
  • Marnon, Samantha N. (2015-04-29)
    The following paper offers an analysis of the history of mathematics in Ancient Greece. Its main focus is on five mathematicians from 600 BCE to 200 BCE: Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, Apollonius, and Archimedes. After looking ...
  • Howland, Jenna (2021-05)
    My thesis is a 30 page essay on my experience of living through Hurricane Matthew in Haiti in October 2016.
  • Davis, Janina (2015-05-07)
    It would have been enough to write a play, direct one that was not my own or to act as a designer and technical director on a different project. However, I did all three for Campfire Tales are Best Told in Whispers, not ...
  • Wood, Samantha R. (2014-05-05)
    Self-Determination Theory (STD) assumes people by nature are self-motivating and eager to succeed because it is personally satisfying and rewarding. This suggests that academic success is highly determined by a student's ...
  • Vit, Aaron (2021-05-07)
    The Ceramic Insulated Droid project is a design project sponsored by the Alfred University Mechanical Engineering department. This project’s goal is to create a fireproof robot which can enter burning buildings, survey for ...
  • Argersinger, Haley E. (2016-05-03)
    Natural organic matter (NOM), a diverse collection of organic chemical entities derived from the natural decay of biomass in the environment, is ubiquitous in most ecosystems. NOM is known to develop strong interactions ...
  • Ferguson, Brennan (2015-05-05)
    Natural organic matter (NOM) is a complex mixture of bio-derived molecules often intimately associated with inorganic minerals in surface soils, colloids and sediments, and some sedimentary rock types such as shale. The ...
  • Schweitzer, Aliza (2018-05-08)
    The primary theme of my work is how the interaction between gender identity and expression can be seamless or contradictory. I explore craft, design, identity, and the body through my work in clay. There are particular ...
  • Gray, Danny (2016-05-09)
    This thesis will elaborate on the function of clowns and their variety of iterations throughout history, primarily addressing the development of the clown from a Western lens. That being said, clowns exist in nearly every ...

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