Posts by Blythe
Madalyn Bozinski
DOM Control of Mercury Methylation in a Meromictic Lake Describe your project. When elemental mercury from the environment enters a lake through deposition, it is generally harmless. However, within certain depths of a lake, bacteria can exist that use elemental mercury for respiration, allowing elemental mercury to be methylated. Methylation of mercury creates the element’s…
Read More2019 Thesis Presentation Day Schedule
Hello Honors Thesis presenters! Below is our finalized Honors Thesis Presentation Day schedule! Presentation day takes place on Wednesday May 1st, 2019 in the Hall of Languages. The schedule below groups each room together and sorts the presentations by individual present time. We have accommodated time requests according to your responses to our previous inquiry…
Read MoreAn Honors Thesis Can be Anything You Want it to Be
Jackie Homan, ’18, used her Crown Award Thesis funding to turn a two-year project into more than an essay: she published a book! Her work is entitled “On the Record: Notes from 20 Powerful Women in Journalism,” and has a corresponding website, ontherecordbook.com. Her writing is aimed at high school and college students who want…
Read MoreAn Opportunity to Travel the World
Caitlin Harrison (‘18), received funding to complete her Honors Capstone entitled Refugees Welcome? Why Governments Decide to Accept or Reject Refugees. She focused on whether or not public opinion plays a role in governments’ decisions to accept or reject refugees. Caitlin used the Syrian refugee crisis as a case study and analyze the responses of…
Read MoreSet Apart from the Rest
Anthe Stylianou used Crown funding to complete her Capstone entitled Characterizing Pitx2 Tooth Morphology and Candidate Genes of Axenfeld- Rieger Syndrome in Zebrafish. Her research focused on Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome (ARS), which is classified as a rare autosomal dominant disorder that includes defects in the eyes, teeth and craniofacial design. Her first goal was to discover…
Read MoreTexture of Memory
The definition of memory is “the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms.” For her research, Amanda used the memory of the site of the Ghetto Nuovo to challenge the notion of memory as an individual’s recollection of a place, but rather the memory of…
Read MoreNetworking and Innovation
Yejin Lee researched how to utilize already explored blockchain potentials as a guide to explore and introduce new potentials in blockchain for supply chain in omni-channels. Her Crown Award funding allowed her to attend two very-exclusive conferences, where only top blockchain researchers and leaders congregated. She was not only able to gain insights and research…
Read MoreAn Opportunity to Conduct Research that no one else is Doing
In his capstone project, A Compact Binary Coalescence Search for Gravitational Wave Counterparts to Fast Radio Burst Events, Greg Walsh used multi-messenger astronomy to probe an astrophysical event known as a Fast Radio Burst, an energetic, millisecond radio pulse of extragalactic origins. His project brought him to the forefront of the field of Physics, conducting…
Read MoreA Feeling of Accomplishment
Margaret McCoy’s research project, Control of Meiotic Prophase One Progression in the Perinatal Mouse Ovary, focused on developing an in house method for analyzing meiotic prophase one. Margaret created a timeline of meiotic prophase one mice ages 17.5dpc to PND 4, and analyzed the effect estrogen deficiency and MEK inhibition have on meitoic prophase one…
Read MoreA Pyramid for the 21st Century
Maximilian Kronauer (Architecture ‘17) completed his capstone project entitled Charon’s Passage: A Pyramid for the 21st Century. Maximilian’s project focuses on the role cemeteries can play in modern day architecture. It postulates whether or not tombs and mausoleums can perform a social role in modern day life. Funding allowed Maximilian to explore cemeteries of Europe…
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