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Author:

Anavkar, Ishaan

Title:

The Post-WWI Partition of the Ottoman Empire: How Great Britain and France Carved Out the Modern State Order in the Fertile Crescent

Area of Honors:

History

Keywords:

Partition
Ottoman Empire
First World War
Great Britain
France
State Creation
Fertile Crescent
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq

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Thesis Supervisors:

Lior Betzalel Sternfeld, Thesis Supervisor
Cathleen Denise Cahill, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Shott, G Michael

Title:

Between the Lines: A Hip Hop Autoethnography

Area of Honors:

Communication Arts and Sciences (Berks/Lehigh)

Keywords:

Autoethnography
Hip Hop
Whiteness
Liminality
Intersectionality
Youth

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Thesis Supervisors:

Cheryl L Nicholas, Thesis Supervisor
Sandy Feinstein, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Fine, Shannon

Title:

From Modern to Contemporary: Feminism in Japanese Literature

Area of Honors:

Japanese

Keywords:

Japan
Feminism
Japanese Feminism
Hiratsuka Raicho
Seito
Kirino Natsuo
Out
Takeuchi Naoko
Sailor Moon

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Thesis Supervisors:

Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Thesis Supervisor
Jonathan Eran Abel, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Kraft, Sebastien

Title:

Sharing Destiny: The Forgotten Slaves of Mauritania

Area of Honors:

Journalism

Keywords:

Documentary
Africa
Democracy
Slavery
Politics
Mauritania
Freedom
Ethnicity
Struggle
Caste System

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Thesis Supervisors:

Maura Shea, Thesis Supervisor
Russell Frank, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Moyer, Kathryn

Title:

The Efficacy of the Opioid Epidemic’s Preventative Policies: A Comparative Study Between the Financial Relationships of Big Pharma and the Integrity of Public Health

Area of Honors:

Global and International Studies

Keywords:

Interviews
Methodology

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Thesis Supervisors:

Howard Smith, Thesis Supervisor
Jonathan Eran Abel, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bixler, Brian

Title:

Beating Vegas By Predicting The 2022 NCAA Mens Division I College Basketball Tournament Using Neural Networks

Area of Honors:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Sportsbetting
Sports
Betting
Deep Neural Network
DNN
NCAA
College
Basketball
Algorithm
Python

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Thesis Supervisors:

Jessica Maral Conway, Thesis Supervisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Datsko, Sophia

Title:

The Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation on Al-Qaeda’s Group Operational Capacity

Area of Honors:

Political Science

Keywords:

al-Qaeda
AQAP
AQIM
AQIS
terrorism
leadership decapitation
drones
United States

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Thesis Supervisors:

James A Piazza, Thesis Supervisor
Michael Barth Berkman, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Forge, Lex

Title:

Class of 18: A Feature Screenplay

Area of Honors:

Film Production

Keywords:

Screenplay
Film
Narrative
Screenwriting
Feature
Horror
Comedy
Slasher
Movie

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Thesis Supervisors:

Rod Bingaman, Thesis Supervisor
Rod Bingaman, Thesis Honors Advisor
Maura Shea, Faculty Reader

Author:

Pitts, Cass

Title:

Identifying an MNase Sensitive Particle associated with Rap1

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Chromatin
Nucleosome displacing factors
Rap1
SAGA
Budding yeast
Gene regulation

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Thesis Supervisors:

Lu Bai, Thesis Supervisor
Joseph C. Reese, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Samarth, Taran

Title:

Democracy in Diverse Communities: Group Threat, Solidarity, and Political Participation

Area of Honors:

Sociology

Keywords:

group conflict
democracy
participation
diversity
solidarity

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Thesis Supervisors:

Daniel Joseph Della Posta, Thesis Supervisor
Stacy Silver, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Petrick, Emma

Title:

Cross River Diets: Wild Meat Diversity and Human Nutrition in a Nigerian Rainforest

Area of Honors:

Anthropology

Keywords:

wild meat
bushmeat
nutrition
Cross River National Park
Nigeria
biocultural anthropology

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Thesis Supervisors:

Sagan Friant, Thesis Supervisor
Douglas Bird, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Howarth, Kate

Title:

A Woman's Touch: The Impact of Women's Participation and Positive Gender Ideology on Terrorist Organizations in Africa

Area of Honors:

International Politics

Keywords:

terrorism
women
female terrorism
female participation
gender ideology
terrorist organizations
Africa
forced recruitment
suicide bombing
ideological recruitment

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Thesis Supervisors:

James A Piazza, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew Richard Golder, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Adetiba, Kay

Title:

An Analysis of Theoretical Best Practices of Sexual Assault Prevention Campaigns in the United States and France

Area of Honors:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rape
consent
persuasion theory
media dependency theory
Rape
consent
persuasion theory
media dependency theory

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Thesis Supervisors:

Tara Lurae Traeder, Thesis Supervisor
Mary High, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Cramer, Helen

Title:

Understanding Racial Disparities in Female Body Weight

Area of Honors:

Sociology

Keywords:

racial/disparities
obesity
body weight
socioeconomic status
racial disparities
obesity
body weight
socioeconomic status

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Thesis Supervisors:

Michelle Lynn Frisco, Thesis Supervisor
Stacy Silver, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Fay, Nicolas

Title:

Of the Heron, Of the Tern: Deep Mapping Colonial Waterbirds

Area of Honors:

Professional Writing (Berks/Lehigh)

Keywords:

Great Blue Heron
Common Tern
Creative Nonfiction
Field Science
Visual Art

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Thesis Supervisors:

Sandy Feinstein, Thesis Supervisor
Sandy Feinstein, Thesis Honors Advisor
Bryan Wang, Faculty Reader

Author:

Feldman, Julia

Title:

Notifying the Local Community About the State College Food Bank's Upcoming Location Change

Area of Honors:

Advertising/Public Relations

Keywords:

public relations campaign
communication campaign
community resource
relocation
local community
State College Food Bank

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Thesis Supervisors:

Holly Overton, Thesis Supervisor
Holly Overton, Thesis Honors Advisor
Tara Danz Wyckoff, Faculty Reader

Author:

Scott, Oscar

Title:

The Effects of Firearm Availability and Racial Demographics on Fatal Police Encounters

Area of Honors:

Political Science

Keywords:

Policing
Firearms
Crime
Race

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Thesis Supervisors:

Richard B Felson, Thesis Supervisor
Sona N. Golder, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Rocker, Juntae

Title:

Military Family Dynamic and Multicultural Identity of Korean American Children

Area of Honors:

Interdisciplinary in Asian Studies and Korean

Keywords:

U.S. Military
Asian American
Korean American
Multicultural Identity
Mixed-Race

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Thesis Supervisors:

Jooyeon Rhee, Thesis Supervisor
Jooyeon Rhee, Thesis Honors Advisor
Ran Zwigenberg, Faculty Reader
Soo-Yong Byun, Faculty Reader

Author:

Dressler, Margaret

Title:

Like We Belong Nowhere

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Identity
Home
Self
Coming of Age
Rootlessness
Third Culture Kid
Nonfiction
Memoir

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Thesis Supervisors:

Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Thesis Supervisor
Claire Mary Colebrook, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hutsell, Alexander

Title:

Chemogenetically Induced Activation of Cortical Somatostatin Interneurons Results in Enhanced Pyramidal Neuron Activity in Rodent Models

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Chronic Stress
Chemogenetic Manipulation
Prelimbic Cortex
medial prefrontal cortex
Somatostatin Interneurons
Pyramidal Cells
Inhibition and Excitation in the brain

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Thesis Supervisors:

Bernhard Luscher, Thesis Supervisor
Timothy Charles Meredith, Thesis Honors Advisor