• What Are the Implications of Increasing Euroscepticism in Politically Confused France? 

  Spencer, Maddie (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  This research paper attempts to make sense of the current political situation in France by analyzing France’s interactions with the European Union, French citizens’ opinions of those interactions, and potential consequences ...

• La Censure sous le Second Empire: la Condamnation des Fleurs du Mal et l’Innocence de Madame Bovary 

  Walkley, Ethan (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  My research focused on literary censorship during the Second Empire France by examining two censorship trials: the 1856 trial of Gustave Flaubert’s realist novel Madame Bovary and the 1857 trial of Charles Baudelaire's ...

• The Challenges of Recent Migrations to Scandinavia 

  Quiroga Roldan, Andres (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Despite having nearly identical historical, ethnic, and social backgrounds, Sweden and Denmark have taken fairly different approaches to the issue of immigration over the last half-century. While Denmark surrendered to ...

• Battle of the Filter Feeders: Bacterial Transmission in the Presence of Ascidians 

  Lopes, Heather (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Marine diseases are a major cost to fisheries and aquaculture industries, and as we continuously rely on marine organisms for protein, we increase our interaction with illnesses like gastroenteritis from undercooked oysters. ...

• “It Must be Odd to be a Minority”: Multiracial Japanese Americans, Racial Segregation, and the U.S. Empire 

  Russ, Hannah Fumiko (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Multiracial Japanese families posed a problem for the U.S. government during the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Mixed Marriage policy was an attempt to reconcile the question: Who did the ...

• Spiritual Humiliation: Sectarian Torture Tactics in Assad’s Prisons 

  Shalabi, Malak (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Using an Islamic lens, this paper will explore spiritual humiliation, a method of torture used by guards in Syria’s government torture facilities to violate religious boundaries and demean the spiritual identity of detainees. ...

• Cultural Differences in Feedback Interpretation and Mindset: Implications for Intervention 

  Im, Hohjin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Growth mindset literature suggests that an emphasis the ability to improve yields positive learning outcomes for many American institutions, where a fixed mindset philosophy is common. Growth mindset interventions, however, ...

• Female Genital Cutting in Sudan 

  Jacobsen, Katherine (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Female genital cutting (FGC) is a hot topic in anthropological and public health. My paper strives to identify the culture around FGC in Sudan. I looked at the pros and cons of medicalization of FGC, and how different ...

• "L’identité et la Francophonie: Examining the Interplay of Language Attitudes and Identity Construction in Moroccan Students" 

  Horst, Martin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Today, the continuing presence of French as the language of higher education and economic opportunity in Morocco illustrates the widespread influence that France still exercises over her former protectorate. French has ...

• "It Gets Better": Towards a Deeper Analysis of Pan-Queer Identity 

  Gill, Colin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  In this thesis I interrogate the “It Gets Better” (IGB) video project by Dan Savage, using an intersectional analysis to reveal the ways in which it reinforces politics of respectability, neoliberalism, and lacks an ...

• Four Papers Exploring Victorian Scientific Culture: Mock Turtle Soup, Cosmetics, Bicycles, and Psychical Study 

  Christman, Laura (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  This collection of four papers was written for a History 498 Senior Seminar. This particular class was unusual because instead of writing one long paper we wrote four shorter papers. The subject of the class was Science ...

• Improvements to the Ion Doppler Spectrometer Diagnostic on the HIT-SI Experiments 

  Chandra, Rian (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  An Ion Doppler Spectrometer diagnostic system has been constructed to measure impurity ion temperature and velocity on the HIT-SI and HIT-SI3 spheromak devices with improved spatiotemporal resolution and lower error. ...

• Focus Structure in Modern Standard Estonian 

  Gwin, Ian Tracy (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Discourse configurational languages show a bewildering variety of word orders dictated less by word class or case than by the pragmatic roles of information in the sentence. Within the field of generative syntax Kiss (1995) ...

• Viability of Fulfilling the Nuclear-Nonproliferation Treaty in a Post-Cold War World 

  Bridston, Anna (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has an end goal of complete disarmament. Despite the creation of successful programs - such as Megatons to Megawatts between the United States and Russia - which have aimed at the gradual ...

• Seeing Red: Maoist Rumors, Hidden Transcripts, and the End of the 2014 Mount Everest Climbing Season 

  Bellows, Ian (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Himalayan adventure travel is a burgeoning industry in some mountainous regions of Nepal, but with its rapid, uneven, and largely unregulated growth have come the creation of new economic and social arrangements and renewed ...

• The Emancipation of Urban Noise: John Cage’s Music as Acoustic Ecology 

  Beausire, Jocelyn (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  The built environment frequently under-emphasizes the role of auditory perceptions in shaping experience. In an urban planning context, this disregard can impact the whole of society. Raymond Murray Schafer proposed ...

• Metabolomic Profiling of a Novel In Vitro Model of Meniscal Tears 

  Timmer, Tysen; June, Ron (2016-01-30)

  Background- The menisci act as one of the main stabilizing and load distributing structures in the knee joint. They are composed mostly of structured type 1 collagen, proteoglycans, and meniscal fibrochondrocytes and are ...

• Marine Debris: Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Sinking Plastics into the Deep Ocean 

  Corral, Heather (2017-08)

  Four to twelve million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. Although there is such a large influx of plastic entering the ocean, much of it does not remain floating at the surface. I implemented a wind-driven ...

• Climate Change Impacts on Fine Scale Patch Dynamics of Lakes and Estuaries 

  Bosquet, Benjamin (2017-08)

  Marine organisms such as phytoplankton and zooplankton are sensitive to the spatial and temporal patchiness of their ecosystems. Properties such as temperature can greatly influence their movement, growth, and survivability. ...

• Productivity of Antarctic diatom Nitzschia lecointei with the addition of betaine under different salinities 

  Castillo, Viviana (2017-07)

  In the Antarctic, psychrophilic diatoms such as Nitzschia lecointei maintain cell homeostasis under harsh conditions. These harsh conditions include salinity shifts from 35 to 212 (Krell 2006). In order to maintain homeostasis ...

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