Browsing 2022 Honors Thesis Submissions by Issue Date
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Chaucer’s Missing Manuscripts
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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 ... -
Rethinking the People's Party: An Examination of American Populism and Its Intersection with Race, Gender, and Religion
(2022-05-12)The People's Party was the political manifestation of the Populist movement following the Civil War and Reconstruction and during the Gilded Age. "Rethinking the People's Party: An Examination of American Populism and Its ... -
Impact of cortisol treatment on specific cell types in the regenerating caudal fin in zebrafish.
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Cortisol is a stress hormone that is regulated by the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis which is impacted by both circadian rhythms and acute stress. If stress becomes chronic, cortisol levels in the body continually ... -
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. ... -
Synthesis and structural analysis of lanthanide perfluoropinacolates
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Three new lanthanide perfluoropinacolate complexes ([K(THF)2][Ln(pinF)2(THF)x] (x = 3, Ln = Pr; x = 2, Ln = Tb, Ho)) have been synthesized and their solid-state structures were collected via single crystal X-ray diffractometry. ... -
Tea Waste as a Green Method in Removing Aluminum from Drinking Water
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass), 2022-05-16)The goal of this study was to determine how different types of tea waste (green, black, and white) interact with aluminum ions, Al3+ (aq), to remove this toxic heavy metal from solution as efficiently as possible. The ... -
Removal of Iron (II) ions from wastewater using Black, Green and White Tea waste
(2022-05-16)Due to their toxicity, heavy metal ion like Fe2+ are a category of contaminants that should be avoided in the aquatic environment. The necessity to develop a low-cost, efficient technology for removing heavy metals from ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Local and Landscape Level Effects on the Abundance, Morphometrics, and Diet Diversity of Invasive mantids Tenedora Sinensis and Mantis religiosa.
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass), 2022-05-16)Arthropod Generalist Predators (AGP) play a substantial role in the ecosystem, feeding on a variety of prey items across trophic levels with little to no selective bias. As a result, AGP can be especially problematic if ... -
Vapor Pressure Measurements of Pentane at Low Temperatures (-160 ºC to -50 ºC) using Cost-Effective Equipment
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Certain extraterrestrial environments like ocean worlds and icy satellites, are promising astrobiological places that can host a plethora of organic compounds trapped in their ices. The vapor pressure curves derived from ... -
A comparison of mercury contamination in invertebrates associated with a stormwater catch basin and a vernal pool
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass), 2022-05-16)Mercury is an environmental contaminant that reaches aquatic environments through atmospheric deposition of inorganic mercury. A highly toxic form of mercury, methylmercury, occurs as a result of methylation by anaerobic ... -
What’s lost and what’s found: the prevalence of posttraumatic growth in undergraduate college students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)The present study examined the prevalence of posttraumatic growth in college students, whether there was lingering distress related to living through a pandemic, and investigated what factors contributed to the development ... -
Counterion Effect on the Luminescence of Lanthanide Complexes with Fluorinated Alkoxide Ligands
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Lanthanides have many commercial and industrial uses due to their luminescence characteristics. To be able to understand the effect that counterion size has on these characteristics can lead to optimization and better ... -
Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors.
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Human activities have driven environmental changes such as soil warming, nitrogen enrichment, and non-native plant invasions, and all three of these global change drivers have been shown to alter soil fungal communities. ... -
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 ... -
Studies toward a greener chemical synthesis for l-arginine
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)L-arginine is a conditional amino acid that has been shown to benefit through supplementation, which has led to the mass production of L-arginine. Most industrial syntheses have been through keratin hydrolysis, which is ...
