2022 Honors Thesis Submissions

Chaucer’s Missing Manuscripts

Green, Adrienne (2021-09)
Public Spaces, Private Spheres: Spaces of Alienation and the Politics of Otherness in Modernist Women’s Writing

Browning, Eliza (2022-05-10)
Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance

MacLaughlin, Delia Aileen (Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)

Food assistance is one form of aid that people in poverty can use to lighten the load of financial stress and ensure that they can maintain a nutritious, sustaining diet. Food pantries are a common final distribution site ...
Thermal Quenching of Luminescence in YAG:Ce.

Osborn, Benjamin M. (Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)

Yttrium aluminum garnet doped with cerium (YAG:Ce) is currently the phosphor of choice for LED lighting applications, due to its broad spectrum emission and relatively high efficiency at common LED operating temperatures. ...
The 2821 Star Southern Hemisphere Optical SETI Survey: An Archival Search for Candidate Laser Signals in ESO’s HARPS Spectroscope Database

Fields, Benjamin (2022-05-16)

I conducted a survey of archived observations taken from 2821 stellar targets by the HARPS spectroscope for potential signatures of lasers from extraterrestrial civilizations. The HARPS instrument examines light across a ...