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Author:

Arnold, Victoria

Title:

An Accretion / Dilution Analysis of The Walt Disney Company's Acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

M&A
Merger
Acquisition
Disney
Fox
Finance
Film
Box Office
Antitrust

File:

Download Arnold_Victoria_FinalThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Thesis Supervisor
Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Tierney, James

Title:

Analysis of Trace Metal Contaminants in Stormwater Impacted Sediment at the Penn State Duck Pond Basin

Area of Honors:

Geosciences

Keywords:

stormwater
environmental geoscience
Penn State Duck Pond
trace metal contamination
pollution
stormwater sediments

File:

Download Tierney_Duck_Pond_Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Supervisor
Maureen Feineman, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Diwan, Ishaan

Title:

Efficient Multi-Period Trading and Learning Techniques for Portfolio Optimization

Area of Honors:

Computer Science

Keywords:

machine learning
portfolio optimization
stocks
trading
boosted decision trees
decision trees
Markowitz mean-variance portfolio theory

File:

Download Diwan_Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Mehrdad Mahdavi, Thesis Supervisor
John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Florian, Jonathan

Title:

Genetic analysis of the Drosophila ESCRT-III complex protein, VPS24, reveals requirements in lysosome homeostasis and autophagy

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Drosophila melanogaster
neurodegeneration
VPS24
ESCRT
autophagy
lysosome homeostasis

File:

Download Jonathan_Florian_Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Fumiko Kawasaki, Thesis Supervisor
Richard W Ordway, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hoy, Raymond

Title:

Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Student Pro-Sustainability Dining Habits On Penn State’s Campus

Area of Honors:

Community, Environment, and Development

Keywords:

CADM
Sustainability
Dining Habits
Students
PSU
Evolutionary Economics
Institutions
Behavior Change

File:

Download RLH_thesis_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Timothy Wayne Kelsey, Thesis Supervisor
Theodore Roberts Alter, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Deng, Jay E

Title:

Automated Penetration Testing Techniques

Area of Honors:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Cyber
Defense
Algorithms

File:

Download JayDengThesisFinal.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Bruce Einfalt, Thesis Supervisor
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Jung, In Kyo

Title:

Detection of Uncompetitive Behavior in Natural Resource Auctions Using Regression Analysis

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Regression
auction theory
New Hampshire Timber Auction

File:

Download JUNG_THESIS.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Sung Jae Jun, Thesis Supervisor
Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Conway, Caitlin

Title:

"In Law Husband and Wife are One Person, and the Husband is That Person": Marriage Laws In Eighteenth Century Fiction"

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

British
Marriage
Eighteenth Century Literature
Law

File:

Download Conway_Caitlin_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Carla J. Mulford, Thesis Supervisor
Christopher Gervais Reed, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hunsicker, Elizabeth

Title:

Perceptions of Male Elementary School Teachers: Do They Matter?

Area of Honors:

Elementary and Kindergarten Education (Berks/Lehigh)

Keywords:

gender
elementary education
male teachers
stereotypes
education

File:

Download Perceptions_of_Male_Elementary_School_Teachers_-_E._Hunsicker.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Jessica Schocker, Thesis Supervisor
Sandy Feinstein, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Worrell, Stephen

Title:

CHARACTERIZING THE ROLE OF IRE1alpha IN EARLY STAGES OF UVB INDUCED NEOPLASTIC TRANSFORMATION

Area of Honors:

Immunology and Infectious Disease

Keywords:

endoplasmic reticulum stress
skin cancer
UV radiation
Unfolded Protein Response

File:

Download thesis_StephenWorrell_final_2.0.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Adam Bleier Glick, Thesis Supervisor
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Thesis Honors Advisor