2022 Honors Thesis Submissions
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Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance
(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.
(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
(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 ... -
Derivation and meaning: a computer-assisted investigation into etymological and semantic connections in English
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)An important subfield within philology is etymology, the study of words and their origins. This thesis combines philology and etymology with computational techniques to quantify the large-scale relationships between words ... -
Pregnancy and Childbirth in Victorian Literature
(2022)This honors thesis reviews the development of the fields of obstetrics and gynecology during the nineteenth century, and the subsequent changes that occurred in the cultural understanding of the female body. Women, once ...