• “Everybody Knows ‘She is Mataji:’” The Relationships of Jain Sadhvis as Instruments of Empowerment and Identity Formation 

  McConnell, K.C. (2016)

  Both within and outside of South Asia, sadhvis are revered by Jain laypeople as paragons of the religion’s ascetic imperative. Yet while some might conceive of these renunciant women as unaffected by the nexus of relationships ...
• Abigail Stephenson’s Senior Thesis Recital 

  Stephenson, Abigail (2016)

  Track 01. Tornami a vagheggair by George Frideric Handel --Track 02. Con que la Lavare by Joaquin Rodrigo -- Track 03. De los Alamos Vengo Madre by Joaquin Rodrigo -- Track 04. Fruhlingsmorgen by Gustav Mahler -- Track ...
• You Don't Know What You Do Know: The Curse of Knowledge in Cognition and Teaching 

  Conrad, Kimberly (2016)

  The curse of knowledge refers to the common experience of having difficulty setting aside one’s own knowledge when inferring the knowledge of others. Within heuristics and biases research, the curse of knowledge is discussed ...
• The Right to a Place: Stories of Korean Elders Living in Flushing, Queens, New York 

  Ryu, Miji (2016)

  I introduce the older Korean population in Flushing, Queens, New York, with a historical review of Korean immigration to the United States. The emergence of a Korean-American community also entailed that of a new Korean-American ...
• Finding Solidarity Across Diversity: An Examination of the Transnational Networks of the Solidarity Economy Movement 

  Egilman, Alex (2016)

  The solidarity economy is an umbrella term that represents a wide range of solidarity-­‐based economic practices that have proliferated worldwide such as cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and community land trusts. ...
• Perceptible Value: Toward a Weak Realist Account of Moral Properties 

  Jensen, Luke (2016)

  Realists and anti-realists about value acknowledge that we have and talk about evaluative experiences, but the status of our experiences and talk is contentious. What is up for debate is whether such experiences are ...
• The Effects of Culture and Expressive Writing on Social Support 

  Ward, Michaela (2016)

  Both social support and expressive writing are known to function as coping tools whose usefulness is determined by culture. To integrate previous research on social support, expressive writing, and culture, we studied ...
• Every Nation’s Refugee? A Comparative Analysis of Asylum Policies towards Syrians among Hungary, France, and Germany 

  DeSousa, Dhario (2016)
• Is Decentralization at Odds with Democracy?: The Implications of Decentralization in the Democratization Process of Developing Countries 

  Lujan-Hernandez, Alesia (2016)
• The Red Pen: Applying Computer Vision to Automate the Grading of Traditional Assignments 

  Guggenheimer, Brian (2016)

  This paper explores the limits of how established computer vision techniques can be applied to the problem of grading simple assignments. The goal is to allow teachers to be able to keep a traditional assessment format but ...
• Asian American Educational Experiences and the Malleable Persistence of Orientalism 

  Owyang, Kelsey (2016)

  In this thesis, I examine contemporary stereotyping of Asian American students through the lens of the persistent and malleable legacy of Orientalism (Said 1978). I argue that Orientalism has evolved from a discourse of ...
• Rush Hour in Rio: How the Development of Transportation for the 2016 Olympics is Affecting the City 

  Vámos, Csilla Krisztina (2016)

  As Rio prepares for the 2016 Olympics, the city and national government have tackled various issues that will define the city as “modern” on a global stage. This thesis examines how the redevelopment of transportation ...
• Creating Green in the City: the Intersection of “Nature” and Urban Planning in the Metropolitan Region of Valparaíso 

  McAlear, Zoë (2016)

  Relationships between nature and the built environment of our cities often end up simplified and neglected, with urban planning focused on preserving park spaces, but not concerned with the city as a complete ecosystem. ...
• Elite Suburbs and their Social Reproduction: Transportation, Education and Association in the Philadelphia Main Line and the Chicago North Shore 

  Kondelis, Peter Nicholas (2016)

  In the mid-19th century, the spread of commuter rail service converged with growing demand for single-family homes amid open space and bucolic surroundings. By the late 19th century, a national class of elite inner railroad ...
• Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Sexual Experience-Dependent Neuroplasticity of the Nucleus Accumbens after in Syrian Hamsters 

  Sidibe, David (2016)

  This study is an aims to clarify the role of delta fos-b in the reinforcement of sexual behavior in Syrian (Golden) hamsters. We used a one-way ANOVA to compare levels of delta fos-b expression from experienced animals to ...
• Computational modeling of musical enculturation: An investigation of multicultural music learning using self-organizing maps 

  Pazdera, Jesse (2016)

  Past research has shown that children are able to implicitly learn the underlying melodic structure of their native culture's musical system, even without formal musical training. Although implicit musical learning has ...
• Motivation, Construal, and the Temporal Span of the Present 

  Parris, Michelle (2016)

  This study aimed to investigate the effect of present extension on academic motivation, as mediated by psychological distance and construal of goal-oriented strategies. Present extension was manipulated by instructing ...
• Motivation, Construal, and the Temporal Span of the Present 

  Ozer, Emily (2016)

  The way humans perceive and interact with time is a largely overlooked influence on behavior. Temporal perspective is the partition of subjective time into the past, present, and future. Little attention has been paid to ...
• Cultural Differences in Reciprocal and Mutual Social Support 

  Shiv, Divya (2016)

  Social support is an invaluable component of our lives, and yet the way we perceive, use and benefit from support depends on one’s cultural background. Through two studies, we explored the differences between reciprocity ...
• Naturally Motivated Behavior and Neuroplasticity: How Sexual Experience Affects Neural Activation During Sexual Behavior in Female Syrian Hamsters 

  Caron, Madeline F. (2016)

  Naturally motivated behaviors, like sexual behavior, are subject to behavioral plasticity, which can affect neuronal function. The purpose of this study was to investigate the plasticity of sexual behavior and neural ...

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