| Year |
Name |
Major |
Project |
| 1967 |
Richard Pederson |
ENGL |
Research on Tristram Shandy |
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| 1968 |
Richard Bonneau |
MATH |
Proposed a research project in abstract algebra |
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| 1968 |
Terence Kearns |
ENGL |
Proposed a comparative study of the ballad form of poetry in England and Germany during the Romantic Period |
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| 1968 |
Paul McNamee |
CHEM/MATH |
Proposed a specialized program in chemistry and math along with a research project in photochemistry |
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| 1968 |
Daniel Monagle |
ENGL |
Proposed research on the influence of Fyodor Dostoevski on British novelist Joseph Conrad |
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| 1969 |
John Baldovin |
CLAS |
Ministry and Polity of the Primitive Church |
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| 1969 |
Richard Carriuolo |
HIST |
American Society in the 1920's |
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| 1969 |
Robert Devaney |
MATH |
Lens Space as Coset Spaces |
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| 1969 |
Dennis Egan |
PSYC |
Psychology of Stuttering |
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| 1969 |
Timothy Goodsell |
POLS |
Reform in Worcester: The Adoption of Plan E Government, 1949 |
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| 1969 |
Christopher Kenny |
ENGL |
Novel |
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| 1969 |
Patrick O'Connell, Jr. |
ENGL |
George Herbert |
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| 1969 |
Edward Sessa |
ENGL |
Coherence and Collapse in Shelly's Poetry |
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| 1969 |
John Tutino |
HIST |
Mid 19th Century Mexican Reform |
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| 1969 |
Dennis White |
ENGL |
John Barth's Giles Goat Boy: The Novel as Layer Cake |
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| 1970 |
James Daly |
CLAS |
Mysticism and Judeo-Hellinism in Philo - "The Correlation of Philo and the Alexandrian Jewish Community with Contemporary Pagan Mystery Religions" Mentor: R. Healey, S.J. |
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| 1970 |
John Day |
ENGL |
Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort as Renaissance Dialogue Response
Mentor Thomas M. C. Lawlor |
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| 1970 |
John DeCiccio |
MATH |
Basic Markov Chain Theory
Mentor: Vincent McBrien |
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| 1970 |
James Dorey |
HIST |
19th Century English Humanitarian Reform Movement - "The Attitude of William Wilberforce and the Evangelicals Toward the Reform of Working-Class Conditions in Early Nineteenth-Century England"
Mentor: William Green |
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| 1970 |
John Hughes |
HIST |
Utopian and Marxist Elements in Southern Populist Thought
Mentor: Robert L. Brandfon |
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| 1970 |
Kevin Leary |
MATH |
Closed Schemes with Nil Potent Elements |
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| 1970 |
Thomas Moisan |
ENGL |
Novels of Henry James
Mentor: John Mayer & S. E.
Teichgraeber |
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| 1970 |
John Muench |
POLS |
British Cabinet in Policy Making Process in the 19th Century
Mentor: Trowbridge Ford |
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| 1970 |
Joseph O'Mealy |
ENGL |
Film and Film Criticism
Mentor: Anton I. Klotz |
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| 1970 |
Robert Stokes |
MATH |
Numerical Analysis - "Why Use Trigonometric Series?"
Mentor: J. R. McCarthy |
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| 1970 |
John Wilson |
PSYC |
Manifest Anxiety in the College Student
Mentor: W. J. O'Halloran, S. J. |
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| 1971 |
John Balser |
SOCL/MATH |
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| 1971 |
Frank Capobianco |
MATH |
Two Results of the Fenwick Scholar Project |
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| 1971 |
Bruce Clouette |
HIST |
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| 1971 |
Thomas Myers |
POLS |
The Political Theory of the Black Panther Party: A Study in Marxism-Leninism
Advisor: Walter T. Odell |
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| 1972 |
Thomas Higgins |
HIST |
The Haymarket Riot: A Study in American Radical Thought
Advisor: Joseph Holmes |
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| 1972 |
Robert McCabe |
CHEM |
"The Relative Viscosities of Urea and Urea Derivatives in Water and Methyl Alcohol" |
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| 1972 |
Edward Vodoklys |
CLAS |
Sophocles in the Age of Goethe: An Analysis of Sophoclean Influence in the Klassik-Romantik Era
Advisors: William J. Ziobro & Thomas Kennedy |
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| 1972 |
Theodore Wells, Jr. |
ECON |
A Primer: The Potential Effects of Cable Television Upon Boston's Public Services |
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| 1972 |
William Wolfram |
ECON |
A Quantitative Examination of Student Impact Upon the Demand for Rental Housing in the Worcester Area |
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| 1973 |
James Boulos |
SOCL |
The Sociology of Social Theory |
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| 1973 |
John Cutting |
CHEM |
Research on Aromatic and Anti-Aromatic Compounds - "Toward a Triafulvalene, Via Iron Carbonyl Complexes of Cyclopropenes"
Advisor: Michael. McGrath |
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| 1973 |
Brian Hattery |
ENGL |
Love-Friendship Words in Early Greek Literature - "A Study of the Connotations and Meanings of the Greek Word (philos) And Its Cognates in the Works of Homer, Hesiod, and Selected Lyric Poets"
Advisor: Gerald Lavery |
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| 1973 |
Michael McCarthy |
ENGL |
Imagism and its Influence on Poetry - "Imagism and the Free Verse Movement"
Advisor: Dr. John Mayer |
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| 1973 |
Gregory Walsh |
HIST/PHIL |
Biophysical Research - "Polyvinyl Chloride Electrets"
Advisor: Dr. Roy Gunter |
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| 1974 |
Richard A. Johnson |
CHEM |
Oxygen Content and Consumption in Tumor Cells - "Oxygen Consumption By Acrylamide Polymerization For Rapid Screening of Chemotherapeutic Agents" |
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| 1974 |
Henry P. Miranda |
MATH |
Paradoxes and their Relation to the Foundations Of Set Theories - Three Papers in Mathematical Logic: "An Algebraic Proof Of Set Theories "An Algebraic Proof of the Completeness of Sentential Logic," "Godel's Proof of the Incompleteness of Axiomatic Number Theory," "The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis" |
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| 1975 |
Robert M. Hayden |
PSYC |
Relationship Between Religiosity and Various Forms of Altruistic Behavior |
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| 1975 |
Elizabeth Peiffer |
ECON/PSYC |
Levels of Self-Actualization Among Married Working Women Compared Across the Sex-typing of Occupations |
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| 1976 |
Joseph Germino |
CHEM |
Investigation into the Sex Pheromones of Two Species of Flies: Sarcophaga Bullata and Musca Domestica |
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| 1976 |
Joyce Walczak |
ENGL |
The Radiating Technique of Dickens: An Analysis of His Thematic Measure |
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| 1977 |
Joyce A. O'Shaughnessy |
BIOL |
Leukemia: The Wayward Cell of Unknown Origin - "Surface Membrane Activity and Microfilament Function in Murine and Human Leukemia Cells" |
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| 1978 |
Barbara Tylenda |
PSYC |
Discovering Jung and Remembering Things Past - "Earliest Childhood Memory: An Integration With Jungian Theory" Approved by: Charles M. Locurto, Ph.D., Gene Qualls, M.D., John P. Reboli, S.J., Ph.D., Wayne G. Rollins, Ph.D., Leonard C. Sulski, Ph.D. |
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| 1979 |
Paula M. Kane |
HIST |
American Revival Songs, 1820-1850: The Christian Lyre and Spiritual Songs For Social Worship
Advisors: Ross Beales & David McKay |
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| 1980 |
Daniel DeFerie |
CHEM |
Shape Change in Human Erythrocytes |
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| 1981 |
Raymond J. Heisler |
CLAS |
The Convergence of Christianity with Pagan Philosophical Thought in the 2nd Century A.D. - "Christians Meet Non-Christians: The Contributions of Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria to the Dialogue"
Advisor: John D. B. Hamilton, S.J. |
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| 1982 |
Gary J. Gala |
ENGL |
An Experiment in Translating Ideas into Fiction: Valley at Dusk
Advisor: Richard H. Rodino |
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| 1983 |
George A. Paletta, Jr. |
CHEM |
Modified Nucleosides as Anticancer Agents - "The Synthesis of 2-Bromo-9-(3',5'-di-p-toluoyl-2'deoxy-β-D-ribofuranosyl) hypoxanthine; An Important Intermediate for Conversion to Modified 2’-deoxyguanosines with The Potential for Anticancer and/or Antiviral Activity” |
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| 1984 |
Gael E. Reilly |
ENGL |
My Present Past: A Dramatic Monologue Based on the Life and Works of George Eliot
Primary Advisor: Rev. Philip C. Rule, S.J.
Advisors: Lynn Kremer Babcock, Edward J. Herson & Helen M. Whall |
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| 1985 |
Mark T. Maybury |
MATH |
M.A.R.K.:Machine Acquisition and Representation of Knowledge- "Artificial Intelligence: Generalized Expert Systems"
Principle Advisor: Robert Haring-Smith
Readers: John Little & Brian Straub |
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| 1985 |
Mark D. Nevins |
ENGL |
Beowulf for Modern Man: Orality and Literacy And the Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poem
Advisor: John Wilson
Readers: Deborah Boedeker, James Kee, John Mayer & Richard Rodino |
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| 1986 |
James J. Collins |
PHYS |
Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation: An Analysis of the Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Foundations of Walking - "Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation: Population Variability of Electromyographic Gait Patterns"
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Prestwich
Secondary Advisor: Dr. Edward Kennedy
Reader: Dr. John Axelson |
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| 1987 |
Kathryn Furio |
MATH |
Riemann Surfaces: A Unifying Approach to Mathematics - "Riemann Surfaces: Distribution of Weierstrass Points on Rational Nodal Curves of Artithmetic Genus 2"
Advisor: John B. Little
Readers: Margaret Freije & John T. ? |
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| 1988 |
Christine Freemer |
BIOL |
A Hermeneutical Study of the Language of Dance In Relationship to Our Religious Experience - "Dance As Religious Experience" Advisor: Irena Makarushka
Reader: Mary Paula Hunter |
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| 1989 |
Rebecca A. Rourke |
HIST |
Signs of Culture: Deafness in 19th Century America
Advisor: Ross W. Beales
Readers: Diane Bell & Joseph Bruce, S.J., |
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| 1990 |
Rebecca Runnels |
CLAS/MATH |
The Political and Intellectual Influences on the Development of Mathematics an Ancient Greece
Advisor: Margaret Freije
Readers: Blaise Nagy & John Little |
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| 1991 |
Philip J. Fournier |
MUSC |
Musical Presentation - "How James Learns About Flowers"
Advisors: Shirish Korde & Joseph Lawrence |
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| 1991 |
Christopher P. Vogt |
RELS |
The Catholic Liberal Arts College: A Contradiction in Terms? - Catholic Mission and Identity in an Age of Pluralism
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Hinsdale
Reader: Professor David J. O'Brien |
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| 1992 |
John Margiotta |
BIOL |
Living in a Disenchanted World |
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| 1992 |
Sara L. Toomey |
PHIL |
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Research and Implications
Advisor: Mary E. Morton
Readers: Kenneth Prestwich & Maura Ryan |
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| 1993 |
Christine E. Doyle |
HIST |
Constructing History: Literary Historians, Culture And Gender in Late Nineteenth Century America
Advisors: Ross Beales, Jr. & Theresa M. McBride
Reader: Susan Rodgers |
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| 1993 |
Joel P. Poudrier |
POLS |
Life As a Work of Art: The Philosophical, Political, and Artistic Thought of Vaclav Havel and Friends
Thesis Director: Virginia Raguin
Reader: Noel Cary |
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| 1993 |
Edward G. Soltesz |
CLAS/CHEM |
"Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations into the Theoretical Assumptions and Function of Drug Therapy in The Corpus Hippocraticum"
Advisors: Guido Majno & John D. B. Hamilton |
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| 1994 |
Suzanne Buchta |
MATH |
Applications of Topology to DNA Structure And Function
Advisors: Professor David B. Damiano & Professor Margaret N. Freije |
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| 1994 |
David McCraw |
CLAS/THEA |
A Post-Mortem of The Bacchae, Theatrical Presentation |
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| 1995 |
Jason F. Hall |
CHEM |
Constrained Cis-Proline Amides as Potential Inhibitors of HIV Cell Infection
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Curran
Readers: Dr. Peter Parsons & Dr. Alice Deckert |
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| 1995 |
Lisa J. Fluet |
ENGL |
James Joyce and His Other Language: The abnihilization of the etym" (FW 353:22)"
Primary Advisors: John T. Mayer & Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Readers: Margo Griffin-Wilson, Kenneth Happe, Sarah Stanbury, Steve Vineberg |
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| 1996 |
Marnie J. Cambria |
BIOL |
The Separation of CD34 Positive Cells from Umbilical Cord Blood and the Ethics of Fetal Tissue Research - "Spare Parts or Beating Hearts?"
Advisors: Dr. Peter Parsons & Rev. William Stempsey, S.J. |
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| 1997 |
Jonathan W. Hastings |
THEA |
Towards a Sense of Modern Comedy in Film and Dramatic Literature
Advisor: Steve Vineberg |
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| 1997 |
Michael A. Palumbo |
RELS |
Masculine Spirituality: A Critical Transformative Approach
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Hinsdale
Reader: Professor Gary Philips |
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| 1998 |
Jaime Grande |
SPAN/MUSC |
Basket of Palm - A Musical Dramatic Work
Directing Advising - Ed Isser, Lynn Kremer & Steve Vineberg |
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| 1998 |
Jessica Suzanne Parker |
CHEM/MATH |
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Interfaces Utilizing In-Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Advisors: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Taylor ? |
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| 1999-2000 |
Bethany Collier |
MUSC |
Sound, Texture and Meaning: Text and Music In Balinese Shadow Theatre
Primary Advisor: Shirish Korde
Readers: Lynn Kremer, Susan Rodgers & Jessica Waldoff |
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| 2000-01 |
Frances Orlando |
PSYC |
Reducing Psychiatric Diagnoses to Abnormal Brain States: A Case Study of Endogenous Depression
Advisor: Andrew Futterman |
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| 2001-02 |
Charles T. Strauss |
HIST |
Shall We Trust in Liberty?: The Impact of the South African War on Irish American Nationalism, 1899-1902
Advisor: Professor Edward O'Donnell
Reader: David O'Brien |
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| 2002-03 |
Evan A. MacCarthy |
CLAS/MUSC |
The Contenance Angloise: The Role of Humanism in the Rise of a New Musical Aesthetic in Renaissance Italy."
Advisor: Jessica Waldoff |
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| 2002-03 |
John T. Giblin, Jr. |
MATH/PHYS |
Embedding Diagrams for General Relativity and Analysis of Their Educational Potential Advisors: Robert Garvey, Thomas Cecil, Annette Jenner and Danuta Bukatko
Readers: Randy Ross and Andrew Hwang |
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| 2003-04 |
Shayne Piasta |
PSYC |
Beginning Reading Instruction in Massachusetts Public Schools: Research, Policy, and Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs" |
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| 2004-05 |
Mark Ferraguto |
MUSC |
Reading the 'Program' in Beethoven's Instrumental Music
Advisor: Jessica Waldoff
Reader: Noel Cary |
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| 2005-06 |
Timothy Duffy |
ENGL |
Redeeming Elizabethan Poetry: Metaphysical Poets Reform the Word
Advisors: Christine Koch and Helen Whall |
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| 2005-06 |
Ellen Gasparovic |
MATH |
Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry: An Evaluation of the Synthetic and Analytic Approaches with an Emphasis on Lie Sphere Geometry
Advisor: Thomas Cecil |
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| 2005-06 |
Daniel Ricciardi |
HIST |
Changing Perceptions of Insanity in Early America, 1750 - 1844
Advisor: Ross Beales |
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| 2006-07 |
Cristina Baldor |
ENGL |
Our Exilio: Portraits of Life in Cuban-America
Advisors: Leila Philip and Isabel Alvarez-Borland |
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| 2006-07 |
Candida Desjardins |
MATH |
Blood Pressure Waveform Measurement with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer
Advisors: Edward Soares and Lynn Antonelli (NUWC Division Newport) |
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| 2006-07 |
Catherine A. Hughes |
FREN/MUSC |
Debussy in Context: Continuity and Change in Fin-de-Siecle France
Advisor: Jessica Waldoff |
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| 2007-08 |
Brenton R. Franklin |
CHEM |
Using Organometallic Chemistry to Develop Imaging Agents
Advisor: Richard S. Herrick |
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| 2008-09 |
Rebecca Krier |
RELS |
Edith Stein and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola
Advisor: Mathew Schmalz |
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| 2008-09 |
Emily Rast |
THEA |
Female Identity in the Ingenues of American Musical Theatre
Advisors: Steve Vineberg and Lynn Kremer |
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| 2009-10 |
Owen S. Fenton |
CHEM |
Exploring the Interface Between Chemistry and Education
Advisor: Bianca Sculimbrene |
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| 2010-11 |
Meredyth Winter |
VAHI |
Conspicuous Consumption: How Indian Textiles Have Come to Shape the Western Design Vocabulary
Advisor: Mika Natif |
