ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH COMMENCEMENT MONDAY MAY
19 2025
The Program
PROCESSIONAL*
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Audrey Bilger, President
WELCOME
Deborah D. Kamali ’85, Chair, Board of Trustees
ALUMNI WELCOME
Andrei Stephens ’08
REED COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
“Her beacon-hand beckons” (no. 3 from To The Hands)
Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS INTRODUCTION
Audrey Bilger, President
ADDRESS
Advait Mahesh Jukar ’11
CONFERRING OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
Audrey Bilger, President
CONFERRING OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES
Audrey Bilger, President
RECESSIONAL*
MARSHALS
Commencement Marshal
Kristen G. Anderson, Professor of Psychology
Student Marshals
Sameer ud Dowla Khan, Professor of Linguistics
Matt Pearson ’92, Professor of Linguistics
Margaret Scharle, Professor of Philosophy & Humanities
Faculty Marshals
Alison Crocker, A.A. Knowlton Professor of Physics
Victoria Fortuna, Associate Professor of Dance
*The audience is requested to rise for the processional and recessional. Our bagpiper is John Goff.
Please remain in place during the recessional until the faculty and class of 2025 have left the tent.
Graduates and guests are invited to a reception after the ceremony in the Gray Campus Center Quad.
Advait Mahesh Jukar ’11
Advait M. Jukar ’11, PhD, is assistant curator and professor of vertebrate paleontology in the department of natural history at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. At the museum, he oversees one of the largest collections of fossil vertebrates in the world. For over a decade, Advait has conducted research in, curated collections for, and built exhibitions at major museums such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the Yale Peabody Museum, where he also holds research appointments. He is passionate about natural history museums and views them as tools to bring people closer to nature. He is also a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
Spanning 200 million years and ranging from North America to Eurasia and Africa, his research focuses on ice age extinctions, the evolution of terrestrial mammals, and the ecology of dinosaurs. He also has a soft spot for elephants, both living and extinct, and is a global expert on their evolution and diversity. He has conducted field research in Asia and North America and most recently discovered new dinosaurs in India. As someone deeply familiar with extinction, Advait is also committed to conservation. He is an associate at the Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science & Policy, where he develops strategies to advance the center’s conservation goals and leads their fellowship program.
Prior to his appointment as the curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Advait was a professor at the University of Arizona. He has also held the prestigious Deep Time Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellowship at Yale.
Advait received his BA in Biology from Reed in 2011 and wrote his thesis under Robert Kaplan on the ecology and evolution of a Korean frog. He received a master’s and doctorate from George Mason University, where he studied a variety of topics from Caribbean coral reefs to South Asian fossil mammals. He is the co-chair of the All For Reed committee and a Reed College Alumni Board member.
Music by Rose City Brass Quintet
Logan Thane Brown, trumpet
Lars Campbell, trombone
Eric Hamilton, tuba
Joseph Klause, trumpet
Daniel Partridge, horn
PRELUDE
Fanfare from La Peri
Paul Dukas (1865–1935)
Scherzo
John Cheetham (1939–2024)
Quintet No. 1
Victor Ewald (1860–1935)
1. Moderato
2. Adagio non troppo lento
3. Allegro Moderato
PROCESSIONAL
Pomp and Circumstance, op. 39, no. 4
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Arranged for the Rose City Brass Quintet by Lars Campbell
RECESSIONAL
Selections from La Danserye
Tylman Susato (1510/15–after 1570)
Arranged and edited by John Iverson
Collegium Musicum
SHOHEI KOBAYASHI
Assistant Professor of Music
Soprano
Ella Arnold ’25
Ava Burge ’25
Jules Camden ’25
Isabella Daniels ’25
Surabhi Kannappan ’25
Arianne Lin ’25
Mariia Vorozhko ’27
Bass
Zimm Davis ’27
James Hodges ’28
Lucca Jones ’26
Sterling Kennedy ’26
Miles McCall ’25
Josue Sandoval ’25
Alto
Liraz Brand ’25
Violet Burns ’25
Zoe Cute ’25
Elena O'Grady ’25
Asta Rossi ’25
Naomi Smith ’25
Prasiddhi Thapaliya ’25
Tenor
Sam Kuo ’28
Lemon Mastel ’25
Gabriella Oliveri ’25
Max Ongbongan ’25
“Her beacon-hand beckons” (no. 3 from To The Hands)
Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
Text written by the composer in response to the 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, which was mounted on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903. Collegium last performed this piece at Commencement in 2017 with Visiting Assistant Professor John C. Cox.
Her beacon-hand beckons: give give to me give give
give to me those yearning to breathe free tempest-tossed they cannot see what lies beyond the olive tree what lies beyond
give to me those yearning to breathe free tempest-tossed they cannot see what lies beyond the olive tree whose branch was lost
amid the pleas for mercy your tired fighters fleeing flying from the from those yearning to breathe free those yearning to breathe
i will be your refuge i will be your refuge i will be we will we will be your we will be your refuge
Seniors are listed alphabetically under each of Reed’s five academic divisions, followed by interdisciplinary majors that cross the divisions and master's graduates.
The listing includes the academic department in which the student majored and any concentration within that major (noted by a colon). Interdisciplinary majors are noted by a slash. Students who had more than one major are listed under each applicable division.
The title of the student's thesis is listed, except for students who completed one of Reed's combined degree programs in place of the thesis year at Reed.
The information within this program is accurate as of time of printing on May 13, 2025.
The Arts
GALEN KELLY ADOLPH
Art: Studio Art
Still Life with Warm Beer and Cold Regards
JAMES AKINSHIN
Art: Studio Art Arktoi
ORLA ANDERSON
Art: Art History
Brú na Bóinne: Abode of the Eternal
PRANAV SARUP BHATNAGAR
Art: Art History
Modern sight and post-modern metonymy : a study of Anne Truitt's mature sculpture
AVA M BURGE Music
“I’m Not Pretty”: An Ethnographic Study on Inclusion in the Portland DIY Music Scene
SADIE LEE BURKE
Art: Studio Art Garden Quilt
JASMINE BURKHOLDER Theatre
A Case for Tragedy in Contemporary Trans Theatre
KATIE ROSE CAALAMAN
Art: Studio Art
Pockets of Sun: Documenting Generational Relationships to the Environment
GILLAN CAMPBELL
Art: Studio Art
Overgrown: How Colonial Perception Affects our Valuation of Illustrated Graphic Media
YIK YIN CHEUK
Art: Studio Art
My Life in U+2588
LIA BEA CHRISTENSON
Art: Studio Art
Not So Far To Fall
ACHALI COCHRANE
Art: Studio Art
Scintilla Spei: A Spark of Hope
MAX COSTIGAN
Theatre
Producing Silence: An Exploration of Silence Through Sound
RAINE DUFORD
Art: Studio Art
More Than Adornment: Tattoos as a process of ritual, resistance and self-formation
ISAAC CHARLES
GREGG ELLINGSON
Dance
Step, Kick, Kick, Leap, Kick, Touch; or, Teaching Choreography to Non-Dancer Performers in Theatre
Productions: A Workshop Approach
PERSON FORMERLY KNOWN AS EMMA FAN
Art: Studio Art
Creativity Entangled: A Posthumanist Perspective on AI Art
MAYA GALVIN
Theatre
Playing Privileged: Examining Subversive Casting as a Tool for Marking White Patriarchy in Matt & Ben
LINA GAYLORD
Music
The Return of the Analog Synthesizer in Contemporary Synthwave Music
LILLIAN M. HAHM
Art: Art History
“Against Forgetting:" Care, Performance, and Dissensus is “Comfort Women" Memorials
IVY HARPER
Art: Studio Art Army Boyz: Join the Fight!
ARIAH ROSE HENDERSON
Dance
The Revolution Will Not Be Live Streamed: Dialectics of Black Feminine Subjectivity in Viral TikTok Dances and Beyond
BEIER LI
Dance
The Personal is Political: Autobiographical Performance in Contemporary Dance
KARINA LUCERO
Art: Art History A Feminist Art History of Horror
JULIO EDWIN MEDINA
Music
Genre, Gender, Performance, and Power in the Music of BABYMETAL
SOPHIE TACHIBANA MILLER
Art: Studio Art
The Art of Organizing Collaborative and Reciprocal Community Partnerships - Entry Activation at Ground Score Association
DANI PETERSON
Dance
[Dancing] with Death: Investigating Liminality Through the Lens of Butoh
SEHENO RANDRIAMANALINA
Art: Studio Art When I journeyed home
NOMI RIO SOLWREN
Theatre
Characterization through Physicality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody
SALVADOR WALLIN
Music
Explorations in Programmatic Composition for Pierrot Ensemble
SYDNEY TERESA WEGENER
Art: Studio Art
The Detachable Pocket
DANIEL ROY KITANO YOGI
Theatre
“Normal is a Myth” - An Examination and Guide to Accommodating Performers with Invisible Disabilities in Theatre
KALI ZAFFRANN
Art: Studio Art
The Slipping
History & Social Sciences
LUCAS ALLAM
History
Class in the Maelstrom: Class Conflict and Nationalism on the Lebanese Campus from the Six-Day War to the Civil War (1967–1975)
OLIVER ALTAMIRANO
Anthropology
The Becoming of the High Cross: Reimagining the Materiality and Meaning of the Cross of the Scriptures
SIMON ATWILL
Economics:
Quantitative Economics
Road to Nowhere: The Impact of Wage Inequality on Interstate Labor Migration
JAMES BARRY
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies
Imagined Lines & Hands that Bind: The Social Lives and the Power of Maps in the Pacific Northwest
IAN BENDAÑA
Anthropology
A Krewe of White and Gold: Class and Gender in Mardi Gras Exclusive Membership Organizations
SERENA BOHRA
Political Science
An Analysis of Human Trafficking in India
AVA BONNEY
Anthropology
Cultural Life, Cultural Death: Ritual, Tourism, and Indigenous Revival in Yucatán, Mexico
DANIEL BRASE
Political Science
Greater Idaho and the Foundations of Federalism
CASSIDY BRIDGES
Political Science
On the Idea of an Unthinkable World: An Essay on Cartesian Epistemology
ZOE BUHALIS
Anthropology
The Art of Hanging Out: The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Worldbuilding, and Community
MAURA BURNS
Sociology
And I Came Out for What?: Sexual Identity Cultures at New Lesbian Bars
BELLA CHAMBERLAND
Sociology
Resisting a New ‘Normal’: CovidRelated Mutual Aid and Logics of Systemic Vulnerability After the End of the Public Health Emergency Order
TALIAH C. CHURCHILL Economics
A New Age of Technology and Flexible Intellectual Property Protections: An Economic Analysis of the Developing Discord Between Generative AI and Copyright Law
MICHAEL CISTERNINO
History
Especifismo and its Antecedents: The Persistence and Evolution of Classical and Neoclassical Anarchism in the Southern Cone and Beyond
WILLIAM SCOTT CLOUSE Economics
Walkability in Portland Oregon
TESSA CORBET Political Science
Rhinoceros Horn Poaching Prevention: A Case Study of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe
PATRICK TOMÁS DÓÑEZ
History
There is No Future Here: Drug War Violence and Depeasantization in Cold War Mexico
PARKER JUDE DORAN History
The Color of the Kit: Football Supporters and the Politics of Identity in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Europe
JOHN EBINGER
Economics
Testing for Inefficient Spreads: An Analysis of Relative Accuracy of Spreads in the National Football League Betting Market
MADELEINE ECCLESINE Sociology
Boundaries of Belonging to DIY Music Scenes: Independant Local Music Communities in Portland and Chicago
HARPER EGGINTON
Anthropology
Same As It Ever Was: The Function of Drugs and Nudity as Traditions in Liberal Arts Society
AUDEN FRIEDMAN
Political Science
Beyond Villains and Victims: Leftist Struggles with Antisemitism
MILO GARDNER-STEPHENS
Economics
Evaluating the Effectiveness of PSYPACT
LILLIAN DEVIN GARVEY
Political Science
Negotiations over Space: Human Rights Organizations and the Claim to Argentina’s Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada
EVA LUCERO BERNABE FRANCISCO GOEKE
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies Todas las Plantas son Medicina
AARON GRINBERG
Sociology
Opening the Gates?: Cannabis Legalization's Effect on Gateway Drug Patterns
SIARA HABTEWOLDE LAURO
Economics
Migration as a Result of Civil Conflict
NICHOLAS HARVEY-GUEDES
Anthropology
Just Sitting: Ritual and American Zen in Portland
LAURA JOHNSON
History
Where Do We Go from Here: The Impact of the Great Migration on Family and Community in South Bend, Indiana
SAVANNAH RAYE JONES
Anthropology Lukewarm Water: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ideology in Soviet-Cuban Intermarriages
EDEN KALAJ-RICE
Political Science
Running Towards Oblivion: Examining the Conditions of Capitalist Accumulation that Construct the Anthropocene
EMILIE KELLY
Anthropology
Changing of the Guards/ Changing of the House : Nationalism and Memory at Berlin's Neue Wache
MOLLY ERIKA KIMBALL
Political Science
Islamic feminism, cross-cultural commentary, and perspectives on veiling
ENZO DIEGO
SHAO-CHUNG LEE-DIVITO
History
Japanese-American Postwar Literature and Wartime Incarceration from the 1940s-1970s
LINDIE LEWIS
Anthropology
Icelandic Formations of National Identity through the Ownership of Material Culture in a Post Colonial Context
HANNAH LIN
Economics
The Bidirectional Relationship Between United States Labor Market Outcomes and Architecture: COVID-19
LINDA LU
Sociology
Community Owned Community Solar in the United States: Emergence and Organizational Strategies for Success
ANDREW LUCKSINGER
History
Students and “The Scars of a Democracy": Political Possibilities at the West German Campus from 1967-1969
KAYRA LYONS History
Sacred Persistence: Huacas, Conversion, and Colonialism in the 16th and 17th Century Andes
EMMA MAREK
History
“What Can Be Done": Maternity and Immigration in Britain, 1948-1971
GABRIEL VARGAS MASTEL
Political Science Gone to Market: Arendt, Community, and Debt
PARKER MIRALDI
Anthropology
Camas and Carbon: Collaboration, Comparative Collections, and Using Archaeology for Good
AAKASH MISHRA
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies
The Poison is in the Medicine: Illness, Refuge, and Humanitarianism in Paris, France
FINN MUELLER
History
An Unstoppable Labor Force
Meets an Immovable Political Machine: The 1886 Electoral Battle Between Organized Labor and the Tammany Hall Machine in New York City
MARGARET NAOMI MURRAY
History
“An Image of Precious Death”: Illness in the Works of Three Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Mystics
JESSE NEUMAN-HAMMOND
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies
Tangled Nets: Reckoning with Precarity in Bristol Bay, Alaska
MIRANDA NEWMAN
Political Science
From Schlafly to Sour Dough: Understanding the Tradwife Phenomenon and its Antifeminist Context
MAURA NOWAK
Anthropology
Indigenizing the Blue Jean: Remaking Vintage Americana in Japan
ASHLEY FAITH OLIVER
Sociology
Compliance Versus Support: Competing Priorities Affecting Peer Campus-Based Advocacy Programs in an Era of Increased Legal Regulation
SARAH PAUL
Political Science
Can I Speak to Your Manager: Discourse Analysis of the “Karen” Meme
VIVIAN PETERSEN
History
Dollars and Saints: Mormon Articulations of Shifting Economic Ideology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ESTELLE POWELL
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies (Un)Making Resource: The Removal of the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project
OSCAR R. PULLIAM
Economics:
Quantitative Economics A Redneck's Guide to the Affordable Care Act & Small Town America
BLIX RATLIFF
History
The Life and Legacy of Andreas Vesalius’s Fabrica and Being an Author in the Renaissance
JEFFERSON RATLIFF
Political Science
High Dysfunction, Low Trust: Federalism, Political Trust and COVID-19 Policy in Four US States
ASTOR REDHEAD
Political Science
Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
MEGAN RIEPE
History
The King is Dead: A Comparative Analysis of European Revolutionary Regicides
JULIAN J. SARIN
Anthropology
Defining Abundance: Investigating Oregon Salmon Conservation Policy Negotiations Through the Lens of Ethopolitics
NADAV SCHUL-KUTAS
Economics
Effects of Psychological Affect on Tipping
LINNÉA SPRINGBERG
Economics
Voluntary Family Leave Policy: Economic Justifications for a New Paid Leave Model
AKSEL TAYLOR
History
Rascality on the Mississippi: The Henderson Gang & Criminalizing Black Mobility in the Antebellum South
WILLIAM MACFADDEN THAYER
Anthropology
Many Birds, No Stones; Abandonment, Value, and Care in a Maltese Horse Sanctuary
LAURA VAN
History
Codifying Racism: Chinese and Japanese Immigration Law in the United States from 1868 to 1965
KES VOUNZI
Sociology
Culture and Compliance: Identifying Reed's Coupling Processes with its Alcohol and Other Drug Policy
YUSHI WANG
Economics: Quantitative Economics
Revisiting NAFTA—Liberalization under Imperfect Market and Profits
SOPHIE WEHR
Anthropology
Skin Deep: The Tattooed Body, Nationalism, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Postcolonial South Korea
LEE WHITING
Political Science
The Mutated Permeability of a Disease and an Assessment of the Cure: Methadone and Addiction Treatment
AILA WOOD
Economics
Foreign Capital or Supply Restrictions? Implications on Housing Affordability
CALLUM WOOSTER
Political Science
Equality among Whom? On the Margins of Respect for Persons
LINDSAY ELIZABETH WORRELL
Political Science
The Politics of Fatness and its Influence on Voting Preferences Among White Men in Rural Wisconsin
HANNAH XIE
Political Science
Storytime! Congress and the Little AI That Could
MADELINE YAP
History
Homebound: The Chinese Six Companies, Transnational Networks, and Control in California, 1848-1882
ZHONGYI ZHANG
History
The Invisible: Violence from post-war France to the Algerian War
XUEFU ZHAO
Economics: Quantitative Economics
What Causes Youth Unemployment in China?
Literature & Languages
ELLA GRACE ARNOLD
Greek, Latin, and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology
In Pursuit of the Saffron Gatherers: Developing a “Complete” Understanding of Minoan Women
GEORGIA BARTON
English: Creative Writing a translation of the unspeakable
ELIZABETH BEAVER
English
Listening to Trauma and Memory in Science Fiction/Horror Cinema: The Soundscapes of Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon and Alex Garland’s Annihilation
TIAGO ALISTAIR BITTENCOURT
IVANCKO BECK
English: Creative Writing Time Pigeons and Other Amalgamations of Prose
DECLYNN ALYSE BRIAN
Russian
“…So where can I go?”: Koryo-saram Literature and Questions of Identity
YOURS TRULY BUSCHINI
English: Creative Writing Metafiction (And Its Many Uses)
FAOLAN WOLOHAN CADIZ
English
Jorge Luis Borges: Refashioning the Argentine Literary Tradition
RONAN CAREY
Russian
“If we ourselves are to suffer deception, our hands are no longer tied": an Analysis of Icepick Lodge's Pathologic (2005)
ABRI CARNATHAN
English
“Whut ‘n Gawd’s name’re yew sayin’?”: Exploring Ideas of Race, Gender, and Labor in the Dialect of Early Twentieth-Century Southern Short Fiction
FREYA CHURCH
English: Creative Writing Where the Wind Blows Through Her
HAVEN TANG-DAVIS
English: Creative Writing Home is Where the Sun Crosses the Horizon: A Collection About a Mixed-Asian Experience
QUINN DEEMING
English
Butch Blues- Solidarity, Community, and Oppression as Explored through Literary Analysis of Intersectionality
LANE KIRKPATRICK DEVERS
English: Creative Writing Heartbreak Museum
SIARA BLAIR EDWARDS
English
“I Give You My Word, A Permanent Impermanence”: Promises for an Unreliable World in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
ROSHAN CYRUS EMAD-SYRING
English Weird Fiction: Capitalism's Shadow
ELIANA FEINSTEIN
English Through Time and Space: Tracing the Celtic Otherworld Motif
SHIQIAO FENG
Comparative Literature
Degenerate Generations: A Comparative Study of the Bildungsroman between Flaubert and Joyce
BAILEY TRUITT GALT
Chinese
Strange Beasts, Everyday Evils: An Examination of Othering in Yan Ge's Strange Beasts
SOPHIE M. GARTHOFF
English: Creative Writing Contortion: A Collection of Short Fiction
FINN GIRVAN
English: Creative Writing Road Trip Infinity
ADELAIDE IRENE GRAHAM
English
A Study in Wishful Thinking: A Feminist Reading of the Conjunction of Affect and Magical Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits
SEQUOIA RAE HACK
French Discœurs
WILLA HAMERSKY
Comparative Literature Fata Morgana
ANDREW HARRIS
Greek, Latin, and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology
Cicero's Monsters: Sex and Gender in Cicero's In Catilinam and Pro Caelio
AMANDA HEASLIP
English A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of the Role of Sound in English Romantic Poetry
SKYLER HENDRIKS
English
I Was Blind, But Now I See: American History as Tragedy in Absalom! Absalom!
SEBASTIAN GLEN HOBBS
Comparative Literature Profane TempleOS
CHARLOTTE HOWELL
English: Creative Writing One Inch Behind the Eyes
WILL INGLE
Comparative Literature
Conspiracy Theory and Umberto Eco's Hermetic Semiosis
EL JOHNSON
Comparative Literature
The Cyborg at the End of the World: A Theory of the Gendered Grotesque, from Female Oppression to Queer Liberation
ADRIAN HELEN KELLER FELD
English: Creative Writing Baile Seanáchaí / Ballyshanachie
ANNIE KIM
English: Creative Writing 한지 [Hanji]
ALEXIS KRAMER
English
The Sacred Fetters of Land and Blood: Monstrous Imagination, Sublime Landscape, and Irish Femininity in Edna O'Brien's Fiction
AUDREY LAMBERT
English: Creative Writing Post from the Aimless Road
SOPHIA LENCZOWSKI
Comparative Literature From the Screen to the Self: How Feminist Video Transforms the Spectator
KASEY LIM
English: Creative Writing The Clean Stain Stays Unclear in American Phrases
TAYLOR MAXWELL
Comparative Literature
Blank Spaces: Poetry and History in Baudelaire, Valéry, and Char
OLIVIA GRACE MAZUR
English
Notebooks That Bear Witness to Life: Writing, History-Making, and the Marvelous Real in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
MATTIE MCNEIL
English
Peering into the End of the World: Time-Travel Science Fiction
CASSANDRA MINICUCCI
English
“I am the enemy you killed, my friend”: Trauma and Moral Injury in the Great War Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon
WYATT MISCHLER
English
A Field Journal of the Pisan Cantos
NANDINI NALAM
English
A Not-So-Brief Interview with David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men
CLAIRE NAVRATIL
English: Creative Writing To Reap What Was Sown
SARA LYNN NIEDERNHOFER
English
Natural Reason, the Body, and Selfhood in Ceremony and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
CONNOR NOLD
Russian
“The Poor, but Necessary Pleasure": Sex and Gender in Andrei Platonov's “The River Potudan" and Two Film Adaptations
CAROLINE “ CARE ” PADEN
English: Creative Writing
Land-Legs: An Exploration of the (Re)Familiar
CLARA PANDOLFI
English: Creative Writing Her Escapes: A Collection of Short Fiction
KIYAN CYRUS PARVARESH
French
Unveiling the Unknown: Depictions of the Ocean in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
INDIGO PINDER MAGAÑA
English: Creative Writing Old Grizz
ETHAN PLUNKETT
English: Creative Writing HIPPOCAMPI
MATTHEW REDFORD
English
Layers of Allegory: Interpretation and Meaning Within The Faerie Queene
AYDEN ROMERO
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Greek and Latin Animal Husbandry in Ancient Rome
ASTA ROSSI
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology
The Rhetoric of Sex and Gender in Politics: a Close Reading of Aeschines’ Against Timarchos and Apollodoros’ Against Neaira
BASIL ANNE STACKPOLE
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Greek and Latin
An Unserious Epic? Sexual Violence in Statius's Achilles
CALEB STANCO
English
American Theodicy: Blood Meridian and the Problem of Violence
CAROLINE STEELE
English
How to Say “I Love You”: Language, Identity, and Generational Trauma in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth
We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Thi Bui’s
The Best We Could Do
JANEY THOGMARTIN
English: Creative Writing I Can Feel The Echoes Reaching
MARCO ANDRÉS TONDA KELLER
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology
Aelia Pulcheria Augusta: Imperial Authority, Divinity, and Gender Construction in 5th Century Constantinople
MAGGIE TOPEL
English
Surprising Song: Music in Tolkien's Legendarium
LAURA VILLASEÑOR
English: Creative Writing Sïrankua
GILLIAN VOTAW-LEVENTHAL
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology
“When Philoi clash with Philoi in Strife": Familicide in Greek Tragedy and Fragility of the Family in Athens
ELAINA WEAKLIEM
English
Grief Brought to Numbers: The Phenomenology of Grief in Contemporary Lyric Poetry
JUNIPER WHITE
English: Creative Writing Unnamed House Story
FLORA WRIGHT
Comparative Literature
Oil Encounters: Representations of Petroleum Struggles in Modern American Novels and CinemaOil
Encounters: Representations of Petroleum Struggles in Modern American Novels and Cinema
KATYA ZIOLKOWSKI
Russian
The Carnality of Humanity: Meat and Multidirectional Memory in SovietJewish Literature of the Bloodlands
Mathematical & Natural Sciences
CAMERON ADAMS
Mathematics
A Mathematical Exploration Into The Field of Abstract Interpretation
CHANCE ADDIS
Mathematics: Statistics
Kingmaker: A Simulation Analysis of Strategic Voting
SIDHAESH AVINASH AGARWAL
Chemistry
Boron to be Wild but All Chained Up: Tuning Organoboroxine Polymerization for the Development of Organic Semiconducting Materials
ELIZA BAKER
Biology
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delphinium Delineation in the PNW and a Search for Variation within the Chloroplast Genome
LEO BARNES
Physics
Thunderstorms, Linearity, and Climate Change: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Temperature, Precipitation, and Lightning in the Americas From 2018-2024
QUINN TAYLOR BEHRENS
Computer Science
Exploring Raytracing in Four Dimensions
ANAÏS BELFOR
Biology
The Effects of Fluoxetine, Metformin, and Crowding on Daphnia magna
KATALEYA BENJAMIN
Biology
It's Getting Hot In Here: Phenotypic Effect and Gene Expression Changes in Response to Chronic UVB Radiation Exposure in Daphnia
CASS BILES
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry of Biochemical recycling: exploring PETase EstB and putative MHETase NlhH
LUCAS BINDER
Biology
Exploration of Xenopus laevis
Vocal Evolution using Computational Modeling
PAUL-PIERRE BOUTET
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Breaking the Ice on MneP: Toward the Structural and Functional Characterization of a Bacterial Manganese Transporter
SIOBHAN BOYLE
Biology
Woke Feminists Take Over Aquatic Ecosystems!!! The Effects of Estrogen Contamination and 17α-ethinylestradiol on Daphnia Magna Reproduction and Metabolism
LIRAZ ANAIS BRAND
Biology
Sex and Traumatic Brain Injury: How does sex impact the transcriptomic profiles of X. laevis brains following glutamate-induced excitotoxicity?
MAXINE EMILIA BRESNAN
Physics
Power Spectrum Analysis of Lenticular Galaxy NGC 524
CHARLES AUGUST
BRUGGEMANN
Mathematics
Relativistic Hypercomputation or how to know the unknowable using black holes
VIOLET ANASTASIA BURNS
Chemistry
Verification of a Nitric Acid Permeation Source for Use in Calibrating a Continuous Analyzer for Total Oxidized Nitrogen in Air
JOE KITAJIMA BUSH
Chemistry
The Electrochemical Characterization of a Cr-bisterpyridine Dimer Complex
MATTIA CASSELL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Corynoxine's Complicated Components: Towards Identification of a Synthetically Accessible Yet Pharmacologically Similar Analogue Through Molecular Docking
ELLIOTT CHANG
Mathematics: Statistics
Autoregressive Representations for Nonstationary Time Series
Classification and Clustering
ALICE ESTELLE COLATRELLA
Chemistry
Crystal Engineering of Hydrophobic Drugs for Controlled Delivery and Release
CHLOE JANE CORNELL
Mathematics
Tiling Space by Translation
JULIA HAMERMAN D'AMICO
Mathematics
Geometry of Weighted Infinitely Degenerate Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
ZEKE DAWSON
Computer Science
Use of Adversarial Graph Neural Networks for MRI Super-Resolution
CHARLIE DELANO
Mathematics: Statistics
Inference on the Mean Function of Time Series using the Sieve Bootstrap
ASHWIN DEV
Mathematics: Statistics
Dynamic Volatility in Financial Markets: An Evaluation of the GARCH Model
MATHILDE (HOLDEN) DOHERTY
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Progress Towards a Solid Supported Total Synthesis of 6-Deoxyerthronolide B
NATHAN EDWARDS
Mathematics
A Study of Borel Probability Measures on � That Aren’t Absolutely Continuous With Respect to Lebesgue Measure
AMELIE EL MAHMOUD
Mathematics
Branching Out: Phylogenetic Tree Construction and the Method of Invariants
MARIA DE JESUS ELIAS GUTIERREZ
Biology
Daphna magna Metal Band: Variance in The Relationship Between Copper Concentrations and Daphnia magna Mortality Among Populations and Genotypes
LAURA ESTRIDGE
Physics
The CUBE: Using Virtual Reality to Visualize Electromagnetic Fields in Real-Time
JOAQUIN SANTIAGO
FERNANDEZ ODELL
Physics
A Continuum Model for Physical Billiards
INDY FITCH
Biology
Quantification of Douglas-fir Traumatic Resin Ducts as a Dendroecological and Forest Health Tool in the Klamath Mountains, OR, USA
LUCAS FORSHEE
Chemistry
Strychnine: History and Synthesis
ADAM FRIEDLAND
Physics
Studying the Potential for Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on Polymer Surfaces with Embedded Nanostructures
AKASH GANESAN
Mathematics/Computer Science Reinforcement Learning for Theorem Proving in First-Order Logic: Bridging AI and Formal Reasoning
MIA GIULIA BERTACCHI
GATHRIGHT
Biology
How are Tumor Associated Macrophages Promoting the Exclusion of Cytotoxic T-cells in the Cancer Stem Cell Niche of Squamous Cell Carcinoma? An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Onco-Immunology
SAM GAUCK
Computer Science
Bit by Bit: Implementing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
ELENA GEFFEN
Mathematics
A Topological Analysis of Neurodegeneration in MR Images
DARYUSH GHANEABASSIRI
Chemistry
Sustainable Extraction of Essential Oils in Undergraduate Lab Classes
AUGUST GROSSMAN
Biology
Old Growth, Hot Topic: Investigating Crown Fuels and Epiphyte Fire Risk in Douglas-fir Forests
ANGIE GUERRA
Biology
Taphonomy and Bryophytic Growth on Porcine Bones in PNW Microclimates
EVAN HEINTZ
Mathematics: Statistics
Statistical Modeling of atoh7 in the Developing Zebrafish Retina
ISHANI HIRATA-CHANDRAN
Biology
Tweeter Verification: A Systematic Review of Vocal Signatures in Birds
KOKORO KAGEYAMA HOLCOMB
Biology
Green, glossy, and gorgeous: A Study of Phenotypic Variation in Phyllaplysia taylori and Trends in Seagrass Habitat Along the North American West Coast
ISABELLA DANUSIA HOPEWELL
Biology
A Complex Situation: Towards Structural Characterization of MntRDNA-RNAP
RUNE DUPRÉ HOUSTON
Biology
Retinal Renaissance: Imaging Cell Repair Dynamics in the Retinal Ganglion Cells of Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
ALLANAH SIENA HSU-CHEN
Biology
Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Endopolyploidy: A Genome-Wide Association Study in Arabidopsis thaliana
CHLOE HSY
Biology
Bacteria in the Mix: Exploring Microbial Recycling of PostConsumer Plastic Waste
GEORGES-HENRI HUJOEL
Mathematics
Zooming in on the Variety of Interleavings
MICHAEL HUYNH
Mathematics
Moduli Space of Polygons
ROSALIE IMBIMBO
Biology
Taking a Lichen-ing to Heavy Metals: A Comparison of the Biosorption Efficacies of Two Lichen Species Towards Heavy Metals
JULIAN JACKLIN ZAPATA
Mathematics: Statistics
Understanding Undergraduate College Admissions: A Causal Framework
ALLISON JEFFERIS
Biology
Investigating the Role of the SPECC1L Homolog, Split Discs, in Non-Muscle Myosin II Contractility Dynamics in Drosophila
ISABELLA JULIA JUPITER
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mannerisms of Metforon: Mechanochemical synthesis, characterization, and biological applications of a metformin derivative
MAXIM Y. KOPYLOV
Computer Science TST on Solid Grid Graphs
ANIE KOTHA
Biology
Ow that hurts! How UV-B Radiation Impacts Pollen Viability in Erythronium
ELLA KRAUS-MCLEAN
Biology
Intraspecific Variation in Fitness Under Acid Stress in Daphnia magna
ROWAN LAWRENCE
Physics
Hofstadter butterfly on nonorientable topology
MIMI TRAN LE
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Tagged and Bagged: Purifying MeeF and MeeY TerC Proteins Using an Atypical Resin-Teabag Method
NICOLE XUAN YE LI ( 李炫烨 )
Biology
Ouch! My Wound! — Interrogating The Effects of Microtubule Polarity Regulators on Cellular Migration in Drosophila
LYDIA LONGFRITZ
Biology/Computer Science
Optimizing the Fluorescence of GFP Using Deep Learning
SAJID BIN MAHAMUD
Mathematics
Spectral Characterization of the Closed Walk Matrix
DEREK MAYO
Computer Science
Delaunay Triangulation
JACK MCHUGH
Physics
Hopf Bifurcation of Time-Delayed Nonlinear Self-Oscillation
FLORIAN MEISTER
Mathematics
Topological K-Theory and the K-Theory of Finite Fields
MADELEINE MICHAEL
Physics
Dust Motes and Galaxy Formation
NAT MICHAELS
Biology
m6A RNA Methylation of Endopolyploid Soybean (Glycine max) Root Nodule Cells
KATE MITCHELL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Genetic Regulators in Plastic Degrading Bacteria
AIDAN MASHALLAH MOKALLA
Computer Science
Language-Independent Concept Spaces Found in Large Language Models
MOSS
Mathematics/Computer Science
O-Sequences and some Surrounding Complexity Problems
MOHAMED JASSIM
MUNAVAR HUSSAIN
Physics
An exploration of the Earth-Ionosphere System as a waveguide
IVO NALEFSKI
Biology
A New Drosophila Activity Monitor: Image-Based Video Tracking of D. melanogaster Allows for Circadian Rhythm and Social Behavior Characterization
DUBIN NAM
Mathematics
Understanding Monsky's Theorem: A Study Through Sperner's Lemma and p-adic Valuations
XAVIER NASON
Mathematics
An Examination of Quadratic Reciprocity and Results with a Quadratic Form
MAUD NEELEY
Biology
Keeping It Cool: Effects of Spatial Variation on Thermal Tolerance Evolution in Phytoplankton
CHRISTOPHER NEWELL
Mathematics/
Computer Science
A Study on Sorting Network Fault Tolerance
CHRISELDA LE THUY NGUYEN
Chemistry
Study of the Mechanism of Pt–Methyl Bond Protonolysis
BRIAN JIAMAO NI Physics
Deep Learning for Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 Embedded Star Clusters Detection Based on PHANGS–HST
PATRICK NORTON
Mathematics/ Computer Science
Extending Zero-Knowledge PCPs Beyond NP
TORY NORTON
Mathematics: Statistics How Many Mixtures? Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches to Inferring the Number of Latent Groups
JULIA NOVAK
Mathematics
Blowing up the Fundamental Ideal
JULIA O'BEIRNE
Mathematics
Quandle Coloring Quivers; Why Knot?
MALCOLM ROBERT OEHLER
Biology
Expanding Majesty: Exploring Bacterial Control Over Endoreduplication in the SoybeanBradyrhizobium Endosymbiosis
GABRIELLA SIMONE OLIVERI
Chemistry
Illuminating Neutrons: Investigation of Quantum Dot-Based Scintillators for Full Spectrum Neutron Detection
MAX ONGBONGAN
Chemistry
A Formal Synthesis of Corynoxine
ALISTER OROZCO
Biology
Xenopus laevis Brain Sex-pression: Imaging Sexual Dimorphisms of the Vocal Circuit via HCR-FISH
ALONZO ORTIZ-SANCHEZ
Computer Science
Do you understand logging well enough for automation?
A comprehensive introductory survey on logging
CHARLES OTTMAN
Physics
The Search for Stable, Periodic, Coexisting Solutions Within a Delayed Relay System
PATRICIO PALOMINO ORDORICA
Biology
A Tale of Two Species: Uncovering the Interactions Between Bacillus and Pseudomonas on PET Plastics
DRUTI BHARGAV PANDYA
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Plasmodium cynomolgi
Gametocyte Kinetics using Orthologous qPCR assays in Japanese and Rhesus Macaques
GABRIEL AMPADU SASU
Computer Science
Constrained Reinforcement learning using Lagrange Multipliers
DALE
SCHANDELMEIER-LYNCH
Mathematics/
Computer Science
Two Cases of the Symmetric Oracle Discrimination Problem: Representation Theory in Quantum Computing
BRAM SCHUIJFF
Mathematics/ Computer Science
Landlord & Context Switches
NATHAN SENTERS
Mathematics
Baire Functions with the Darboux Property
LIZAVETA SHARAKOVA
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Kratom Kinetics: Investigating the Interaction Between CYP3A4 and Mitragynine.
AYAH SIBAI
Biology
The Stripes of Optic Morphogenesis: Gene Expression Patterning in Zebrafish Development
ALEXANDER LEE SINSKEY
Biology
What’s the buzz? Using simulated territory intrusions to test whether buzz syllables serve intersexual or intrasexual purposes in House finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
LAURA J. SMITH
Physics
Bioeffect Modeling of the Response of Cancer Cells to Targeted Alpha Therapy Using OpenTOPAS
TREVOR WADE SMITH
Computer Science
Hardware Acceleration of the Kyber post-quantum key encapsulation scheme
ADAM SNELLING
Mathematics/ Computer Science
An Analysis of Stack Algorithms Using the Symmetric Group
ARMAAN SATYA SOOD
Mathematics
Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II's solution to Pell's Equation
MADELYN TARARA
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Towards reCYPlable PE plastic: Isolation and Characterization of a putative PE-degrading enzyme from B.thuringiensis
TUCKER R. TWOMEY
Computer Science
Modeling Protocols for Cryptographically-Secure, VoterVerifiable Ranked-Choice Voting
MIRANDA ROSANA
ULLOA ESTRADA
Biology
CRISPR/Cas9 Targeted Disruption of tshz1a Reveals New Role in Axial Patterning and Extension
ALEX VANDENDRIES
Biology
Intraspecific Variability in Vulnerability to Embolism in Two Native Conifers: Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
LUCAS WALKER
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Not Just a PET Project: Large-scale PET Degradation by a Bacterial Consortium
ELIJAH WHITLAM-SANDLER
Mathematics
Algebraic Applications to Shuffling Problems
KAVI STANLEY WILSON
Computer Science
Soul of an Old Machine: Reverse-engineering the TMS 1000
BEN WINOGRAD
Biology
Genome duplication and cellular symbiosis: cloning a fluorescent reporter of CCS52A
LIXING YI
Mathematics
Hilbert-Kunz Functions of Powers of Diagonal Hypersurfaces
AVERY YOUNG
Mathematics
Sphere Packings through Persistence Homology of Root Lattices
OMAR MOHAMED YOUSSIF
Mathematics: Statistics
Reassessing the DHS Wealth Index as a Proxy for Socioeconomic Status: Insights from Large-Scale Surveys in the Middle East and North Africa
SOREN ZAPATA
Biology
Untangling the Threads between Climate Change and Foodborne Disease
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology & Linguistics
LIBBY ALFIERI
Psychology
A First Look at Spiritual Transcendence and MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD
GRACE ANDERSON
Linguistics
Enacting Debater: Style-Shift(ing) Practices in High School Competitive Deba/t/e
RAMYA ARAKALGUD
Psychology
Risk, Altruism & Prisoner's Dilemma
ELLIOT ARMITAGE
Philosophy
Indefinite and Definite in Anaximander and Early Greek Poetry
DOĞA AYAR
Philosophy
A Naïve Realist Theory of Perception
NINA/ANA CARINA BACA-GARCIA
Psychology
Immune Function, Exclusion, and Threat: Neural Correlates of Social Context Processing
BRIANNA (NANA)
BRANKER-MCLEAN
Psychology
We Are Not Your Jezebels: The Impact of the Jezebel Stereotype on College Aged Black Women
ARIA BRAUNER
Philosophy
Qualitativism
BETTINA BROYLES
Religion
Indonesian and Malaysian Mak Yong: Making and Remaking Culture, Ritual, and Identity
DANIELA BUCHILLON-ALMEIDA
Psychology
Linguistic Shifts and Emotion
Regulation Across Languages: The Case of “Estar" in Spanish
LEORE SUMMER CAPURSO
Psychology
Retention of visual features in the absence of conscious awareness…? A closer look at the inattentional blindness paradigm
JEWEL ANDERSON COLITRE
Religion
The Board is Set, and the Pieces Are About to Move: Evangelical Apocalyptic Thinking, QAnon, and the Sense of an Ending
VICTORIA COLLIE
Psychology
Characterizing Eating Disorders in Treatment Seeking Older Adults
ISABELLA DANIELS
Psychology
Investigating Waldorf Education through Teachers' Perspectives: A Case Study
LUIZ FELIPE HORTA
Philosophy
Aristotle's Empeiria in Legislation
BEA SIOBHAN DESMOND
Psychology
Gender Differences in AlcoholRelated Behavior and Risk
Perception Among Cisgender and Gender Diverse Emerging Adults
LIAM DUCKWORTH
Philosophy
A Defense of the Inferential Interpretation of the Cogito
MINAL EDWARDS
Psychology
The Effects of Framing, Algorithmic Trust, and Pricing on Users' Willingness to Pay for Premium Features on Dating Apps
DELLA FELDMAN-PETERSON
Psychology
Closing the Loop: Introducing Transverse Patterning to a Transitive Inference Task
TATE JACKSON FRANCOIS
Philosophy
Korsgaardian normativity
INEZ CASTILLO GALLANT
Psychology
Insight or Inference? A Modern Look at Transitive Inference in Rats
JOE GORDON
Psychology
40 Hz Repetitive Visual Stimulation as an Intervention in Fear Extinction in Rats
LINDSEY GULBRANDSEN
Psychology
Influences of Gender Dynamics and Sexual Orientation on Alcohol Offer Acceptance in Emerging Adults
GOR HAKOBYAN
Psychology
Does Knowledge of Linguistic Diversity Shape Beliefs about the Link between Language and Reality?
ISABELLE HANSEN
Psychology
Examining the Validity and Prevalence of Mastery Avoidance in Higher Education Settings
JOJO HARTMAN
Linguistics
I Like Us but You Might Not: Local Partial Coreference in Mexican Spanish
CAMILLE ROSE HEDOUIN
Psychology
Ethnic Racial Identity Development among Transracially Adopted Individuals
CATHERINE SYDNEY HOYLE
Psychology
Peptide Power: Effects of Exendin-4 on Transitive Inference Learning in Rodents
FATUMA HUREIN HUSSEIN Psychology
Why You Actin’ Like That: Examining the Bidirectional Relationship between Acting White Accusation on Ethnic Racial Identity Development and Socialization Among Black/ African American College Students
VICTORIA HUTCHINSON Psychology
Intersecting Identities and Alcohol Harm Reduction: Gender Diversity, Race, and Protective Behavioral Strategies in Emerging Adults
SIERRA KAU ʻ IONĀLANI KENNEDY KALUA
Psychology
Communication and Affective Responsiveness: Examining the Influence of Family Functioning on Adolescent Eating Disorder Severity
KANOA DAVID LAVIGNE
Religion
Mao Dao Mao: Charisma and the Ideal Man in the Life and Thought of Mao Zedong
ROBYN LEAF
Psychology
“Society has no clue what to do with my gender”: The mediating effect of transgender/gender non-conforming pride/shame on passing beliefs and mental health outcomes
GAVIN LEONARD
Psychology
From Speech to Sip: A Linguistic Examination of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Drinking Contexts
KELSEY LEWIS
Psychology
The Effect of Light Flicker on Perceptual Awareness via Alpha Power
BEIER LI
Psychology
The role of solitary cannabis use and coping motives in depression and anxiety among emerging adults : a longitudinal study
MAEVE O'CONNELL LICHTENBERG
Linguistics
You BATcha, Minnesotans BOUGHT a TOTE BAG: Supralocal sound change, local ideology, and the indexical construction of geographical identity
ARIANNE GENEVIEVE LIN
Linguistics
Maybe Retroflex is Kinda Retro: Exploring the Status of Retroflex Sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin
MACKENZIE NOELLE MARSAW
Religion
Guiding the Children: Local Catholic Response Concerning Institutional Anti-Trans Guidelines from the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon
KALIN MATTERN
Psychology
Perceptual learning of sine-wave speech: Exploring, generalization, efficiency, and individual differences
HERA HENRY MILLER
Religion
A Funny Thing Happened the Other Day: a comparative study of stand-up comedy in times of generational trauma among American Muslims and Jews
PEYTON AMI MOINEAU
Psychology
COVID-19 Safety Precautions: SelfInterest and Communal Orientations
AIDAN MASHALLAH MOKALLA
Linguistics
Evidence of Modulated Signal Filtering: Wouldn't it be Noise?
ODENA F. NIETO
Psychology
The Effects of Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Medial Amygdala on Alcohol Drinking Mice: A Potential Role for Oxytocin Receptors
NATALIE ALEXANDRA NORMAN
Psychology
Faith and the Self
JOSHUA OGAWA
Psychology
First Impressions Matter? How Initial Exposure to a Film Sequence Shapes Subsequent Understanding of Cause and Effect
GUANGHUI PENG
Philosophy
An Investigation Into the Biological Roots of Aristotle’s Account of Courage
彭梓航
Philosophy
Mere Moral Stability or Moral Imperviousness?--- Stability of Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics
ZOË PITTENGER KYRIACOPOULOS
Linguistics
Hot /tʉ/ /go͡ʉ/: Queer Women's Participation in Back Vowel Fronting
SOFIA EMI OKI POMEROY
Psychology
Have You Tried Asking: A Protocol Design Investigating Factors of Instructor Grading Choices
JOHNNY PROTIVA
Religion
Cloistered Experimentation: The Scientific History of Religious Communities
RAVENFISH RAVEN-FISH
Psychology
Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Language Use Before and After MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD
JOSUE DAVID SANDOVAL
Linguistics
Ancestral Contact and Modern Loans: Nawat-Influenced ʃ Production of Modern Loanwords In Salvadoran Spanish
AMALIA KAUFER SHAPIRA
Psychology
Mind Over Grammar: When and How Does Generic Language Shape Essentialist Beliefs About Social Categories?
ESMÉE SILVERMAN
Religion
Anti-Zionism to Zionism in Ritual, Human Dignity, and the state of Israel.
SIGNE SLAUGHTER
Psychology
The Rhetoric of Victimhood: How the Trans “Panic” Defenses Shape Jurors’ Inferences, Attitudes, and Decision-Making
NAOMI SMITH
Linguistics
“In the most humblest way possible, it’s not me”: The role of addressee and the indexicality of creaky voice on Love Island
ROWAN SOEIRO
Psychology/Religion
Death and Divine Order: Religion and Prosocial Responsibility in Presbyterian Communities
LILLIE SPENCER
Religion
Exhausted Blossoms: Man's Search for Meaning in Uterine Landscapes
RACHEL THACKER
Psychology
Does Aspectual Framing Shape Reasoning in Educational Contexts?
TSION WARD
Psychology
Love Your Mother (Earth): EcoAnxiety and Perinatal Mental Health
LUCAS DANIEL WEISS
Philosophy
Our Nature and Persistence
KATI WOLCOTT
Psychology
Generic Language and Structural Thinking about Social Groups
SHUYU (CAROL) ZHOU
Psychology
Decoding Neural Dynamics in Inattentional Blindness: A Temporal Generalization Approach
Interdisciplinary
JAKE ABRAHAM
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science
Crimean Headlines and Scattered Truths! The American Consequences of Information Warfare in the 2022 Ukraine War
SAWYER ALLCHIN
Religion/Political Science
Modern Tibet: How Diasporic
Religious Identity Shapes Tibetan Activism
DEAN BANAS
Environmental Studies: Biology
Quantifying Historic Drought Tolerance in the White Fir (Abies concolor) x Grand fir (Abies grandis)
Hybrid Complex
MUD BENTLEY
Environmental Studies: Economics
Democratize the Discount Rate
ALYSSA BRADLEY
Environmental Studies: Economics
WARPing Environmental Preferences: Green Nudges and Rationality
ALEXANDER BRAU
Environmental Studies: Biology
Vertical Distribution of Birds and Epiphytes in the Forest Canopy
JULES CAMDEN
Neuroscience
Examining Model Robustness for Treatment Efficacy Prediction in Major Depressive Disorder
ANNA MAY CLAUER
Environmental Studies: Chemistry Combined program, Duke University
SOAP COLE
Environmental Studies: History
American Grass, Cash, and Class: Material and Cultural Racialization of Hemp Sativa and Psychoactive Indica Cannabis in the 19th Century U.S.
ELLA GRACE CROTTY
Environmental Studies: Biology
Utilizing Environmental DNA to Investigate the Effects of Hypoxia on Copepod Abundance
BETTY DEMISSU
Neuroscience
Sex Steroid Hormone Dynamics
Impact Duration of Acoustic Preferences in Female Xenopus laevis
OLIVIA DESTEFANO
Environmental Studies: Political Science
Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: The Clash of Coalitions Over the Lower Snake River Dams.
EMILIO ELIAS-MARCHEVSKY
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies: Anthropology
At the Heart of the Beat: A Critical Ethnography and Semiotics of AfroUruguayan Candombe
KIANA ALIA FIELDS
Environmental Studies: Biology
Hooked on Reed Lake: Competitive interactions between non-native pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) and native threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with consideration of barriers to establishment
CHLOÉ FLING
Religion/
Ancient Mediterranean Studies
“Your riches rot, your clothes are moth-eaten”: The Letter of James’s Use of Wisdom Literature to Spur Social Upheaval
KAYA E. GREEN
Neuroscience
Microglial dynamics and functions in the optic tectum of zebrafish larvae
AMBER HERNANDEZ
Neuroscience
10,000 Ways to Not Grow a Neuron: An Updated Procedure for Culturing Primary Neurons from Drosophila Embryos
BARRETT HEYER
Neuroscience
Model-free learning activity in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area in Rhesus macaques
GABRIEL HOWLAND
Computer Science/Theatre “Lights Are Gonna Find Me": Creating a Reactive Lighting Control Scheme
ROWAN JEFFREY
Environmental Studies: History
Jesus People and Environmentalism in 1960s and 1970s Berkeley, California
CARYS RENÉ JOHN
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science
UNDRIP Implementation in Canada: The Wet’suwet’en Case and The Limits of Indigenous Human Rights in Contemporary SettlerColonial Contexts
ROBIN MELISSA JOHNSON
Environmental Studies: Chemistry
Spatial Distribution and Mobility of Heavy Metal Pollutants in Johnson Creek, OR
ZEMIRAH KAMANYA
Neuroscience
Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of des(dimethyl)-ɑ-CPA
SURABHI MANDYAM
KANNAPPAN
Neuroscience
The Book of (Neuro)genesis: Exploring Interactions Among BMP, MAPK, and RA Signaling Pathways During Eye Development
CARD KEIRE
Environmental Studies: Chemistry
The Trees are Watching: An assessment of the potential of Juniperus occidentalis for dendrochemical analyses of environmental metal contamination
SYDNEY KIM
Neuroscience
Multicomponent Formulations of Dextromethorphan: Enhancing Antidepressant Therapeutics
WHITNEY ASEYE KUMA-PERRY
Neuroscience
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cell Cycle Kinetics in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum
JESSICA LARSEN
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science
The World City Network: Hierarchy and Gravity
MILES MCCALL
Neuroscience
Is Seeing, Perceiving? A Look at Visual Awareness Using Dichoptic Color Fusion
KENNA MCCAULEY
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies: History
“Our History, Our Way": The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in the Social Movements of the Hawaiian Renaissance
MAGGIE MIKLAS
Environmental Studies: Biology
Education’s Role in the Conservation of Southern Resident Killer Whales
ISABELLA MONTAÑO
Neuroscience
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a risk factor for Parkinson’s Disease and CPAP mitigates risk of PD: an EHR- based cohort study in military Veterans
ANGELICA NICOLACOUDIS
Neuroscience
Decoding EEG Bifurcation Dynamics Around Visual Detection Threshold in No-Report
FIONA NOBLE
Neuroscience
11-Ketotestosterone and Aggressive Behavior in Julidochromis transcriptus
RAM MADELEINE
GRETA NORDAHL
Neuroscience
The Effects of Gender & Transness on the Self- & Peer-Directed Protective Behavioral Strategies of Emerging Adults
CLIODHNA O'CONNELL
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A Discourse Analysis of Plural Voting in Northern Ireland
SOPHIA OAKLEY
Environmental Studies: History Parks, Roads, Bikes; Who Cares?
The Legacy of Elite Influence on Urban Green Space in Portland, Oregon
GWENDOLYN
MARCELENE OLSON
Neuroscience
OPC-Ya Later! Investigating the Role of Precursor Cells in Response to Neurodegenerative Injury
MAXWELL OPITZ
Neuroscience
At the Threshold of Consciousness: Investigating the Patterns of Neuronal Activity Events in an EEG No-Report Paradigm
KAHAAN PARIKH
Neuroscience
Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Basolateral Amygdala in a Modified Risky Decision Task: A Model of Gambling Disorder
LENNOX REEDER
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science Trumpism & Identity
SOFÍA ROBERSON
Environmental Studies: History
The Myth of Mining as Sustainable Development: Mining Conflict in the Andes Mountains, 1992-2018
FAITH ALEXANDRA ROCHE
Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies/ Theatre
Transgressive Rejoicing: Re-incorporating the Dionysiac into Aeschylus' Agamemnon on the Contemporary Stage
ADELA BRETAS RUETER
Art/Biology Always Already
ANAHI SANCHEZ MARCIAL
Neuroscience
Why is Fentanyl so Deadly? The Non-MOR Mediated Effects of Fentanyl at α₂-Adrenergic Receptors
ASHLEY SCHLIPP
Neuroscience
The Role of the Dorsomedial Striatum In Stable Information Seeking Behavior
CARMEN DEL SIMONS
Environmental Studies: History
“The 73' Chevy Impala of Rivers”: Ruin, Restoration, and Indigenous Futures along Johnson Creek
ROMINA SOLBERG
Environmental Studies: History
The Contestation of Nature: Indigenous Religion and Nature in the Mexican Inquisition
ANNA SPOLLEN
Environmental Studies: History
Indians At Work: The Civilian Conservation Corps “Indian Division” as Federal Reform in Depression-Era Washington State
SYDNEY JIA JIA STITT
Environmental Studies: History Tick, Tick, BOOM! The Doomsday Clock, Environmental Catastrophe, and the Cold War, 1939-1991
SOPHIA SUBRAMANIAN
Neuroscience
The Effects of Estradiol on Xenopus laevis Vocal Behavior
CECILE SZOLLAS
Environmental Studies: Biology
Lichens Across the Urban to Peri-urban Gradient: The Effects of Urbanization on Lichen Communities and their Water Relations
PRASIDDHI THAPALIYA
Environmental Studies: Political Science
Turbulent Flow: The Role of State Capacity in Transboundary Hydropolitics
DEMI UITERWYK
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science
The CFA Franc and ECOWAS: A case for economic sovereignty
MADELEINE VOTH
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Anthropology
A Restitution of Dignity: The Road to Repatriation through Comparative Perspectives of the Benin Bronzes and the Parthenon Marbles
CEDAR WILSON
Neuroscience
Exploring Individual Differences in the Information Preferences of Rats
QIAOHAN (SUSAN) XU
Neuroscience
A Computational Approach to Renal Cell Carcinoma: Single-Cell Analysis of Organoids in Drug Treatment Response
HONGYU ZHAO
Neuroscience Through the Looking Tectum: Studying Glia-Neuron Interaction in Optic Tectum
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
EMILY KARYDES
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
One Letter at a Time: Emily Dickinson and the Technologies of Voice
THOR MADSEN
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Social Emergence in Tabletop RolePlaying Games: An Analysis of the Rituals of Immersive Gameplay as a Model for the Cultural Forces Influencing Social Transformation
A Note on the Beginnings of Reed College & Commencement
In the late 1800s, the Reverend Thomas Lamb Eliot suggested to two of his parishioners, Oregon pioneers Simeon and Amanda Reed, that they use their wealth for the betterment of society. He urged them to found “a Reed Institute of lectures and arts and music and museum.” In 1908, with contributions from Simeon and Amanda’s estate after their deaths, a board of trustees led by Eliot established the Reed Institute in Portland, Oregon.
Reed College began its first classes in 1911 with 50 students—26 men and 24 women—and 15 faculty members. As an innovative experiment to restore relevancy to the liberal arts in an age dominated by science and industry, Reed sought neither the size and specialization of the university nor the intercollegiate athletics and elaborate social life that had become standard at many private colleges.
Under the inspiration and guidance of Reed’s founding president, William Trufant Foster, the college set out to build a democratic community without regard for nationality, gender, religion, race, or class. No fundamental distinctions were made between students and faculty in what was called “the quest for truth.” Students were expected to do original work in a major subject area—the senior thesis. A principle of honor governed all aspects of campus life.
Reed held its first Commencement ceremony in 1915, for which President Foster conferred degrees on the back steps of Eliot Hall. In the last few decades, the college has usually invited a notable graduate to give the Commencement address; recent alumni Commencement addresses have been given by Kraig Kraft ’00, Sasha Kramer ’99, Adonia Lugo ’05, Lisa Nakamura ’87, Michelle Nijhuis ’96, Larry Sanger ’91, Robert Smith ’89 and Igor Vamos ’90.
For over a hundred years Reed has remained steadfast in its belief in the intrinsic value of rigorous scholarship, the joy of serious intellectual pursuit, and the essential role of community in the development of knowledge.
A Note on Academic Regalia
Academic regalia worn at Commencement reveal different types of academic achievement through the use of different styles and colors of gowns and hoods. The bachelor’s gown has a long, pointed sleeve; the master’s is a long, closed sleeve with a slit at the elbow; and the doctor’s is a very full, bell-shaped sleeve with the bands matching the color of the gown opening. The hoods are lined in the official color of the institution that conferred the degree, although the bachelor’s hood is rarely used. The colored velvet binding in the hoods indicates the academic area in which the degree was earned—white for liberal arts, yellow for science, purple for law, red for theology, green for medicine, and blue for philosophy.