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Thesis Board 2025-26

Congratulations, Âé¶¹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ seniors! Completing the thesis is a capstone of the Reed experience and a tremendous academic accomplishment.

Liv Luger - Psychology

Thesis: (breast) Feeding Bodies: Body Attitudes and Experiences of Postpartum Women

B Smith - Computer Science

Thesis: Real-Time Simulation of Analog Audio Effect Circuits on FPGAs Using Wave Digital Filters

Selma Uddin - Biology

Thesis: Does mutation beget mutation?

Claire Ferrance - Philosophy

Thesis: The Juche Idea

Henry Fitzgerald - Mathematics

Thesis: A Tale of Two L-Functions: Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, and the Modularity Theorem

Cooper Hammond - Neuroscience

Thesis: Division from Disposition: How Cognitive Traits Guide Beliefs about the Mind

Vaughn Zaayer - Mathematics

Thesis: Keeping the Curves: Guiding Mesh Simplification with the Gauss–Bonnet Theorem

Katie Kapustka - Art: Studio Art

Thesis: A World of Constant Change

Kenta Tsukamoto - Biology

Thesis: Expanding the Endoreduplication Network: A Systems Biology Approach in Arabidopsis thaliana

Prisha Bharadwaj - Psychology

Thesis: Are they PMSing? Effects of Ketamine on a Rodent Model of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder for Symptoms of Aggression, Anxiety and Anhedonia

Lilandra Isaacs - Physics

Thesis: Exploring Bistability in Bee Behavior: Understanding and Comparing Bistable Systems

Sarah Haselton - Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology

Thesis: Greek (?) Gods in Bactria: Changing Contexts and Transformed Meanings in Hellenistic Central Asia

Rubayat Jalal - Physics

Thesis: Unleashing Chaos: Exactly Solvable Chaos in a Time-Delayed Electronic System

Mason Ross - Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology

Thesis: Reconstructing Gods: Myths, Reality, and Perception of Ancient Polychromy

Lily Olcott - Theatre

Thesis: Alone at the Edge of the World: The Importance of Atmosphere in Directing Horror Theatre

Emma Treanor - Political Science

Thesis: The Community Engagement of Faculty in a Post-Neoliberal Context: A Case Study on the Faculty Members of Âé¶¹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³

Jameson Oates - English: Creative Writing

Thesis: Parasea

Emily Howley - Environmental Studies: History

Thesis: Building and Rebuilding Boston: The Central Artery and the Big Dig, 1930–2008

Julianna Namikas - International Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science

Thesis: Political Participation Among Youth in Japan

Simone Merani - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Thesis: When Oncogenic Signaling Persists: Evaluating Resistance to ROS1-Targeted Therapy in Ba/F3 ROS1 G2032R Models

Willow Pickett - Anthropology: Linguistic Anthropology

Thesis: Creating Access, Speaking Users: Academic Libraries and the Language Orienting Them

Michael Hubbard - Chemistry

Thesis: A Formal Divergent Total Synthesis of β-Cyclopiazonic Acid

Quinn Villalobos - Psychology

Thesis: Investigating the Involvement of the Master Clock of Circadian Rhythm in Interval Timing

Philip Dussin - Political Science

Thesis: Executive Orders and Unilateralism in the Modern Era

Theta Jane Dal Cerro - Psychology

Thesis: Evaluating the Influence of Social Context on Cannabis Consumption Using Demand Curves

Apollo Forhan - History

Thesis: Data Diplomacy: Satellites and Scientific Collaboration in the InternationalGeophysical Year (1957-1958)

Lina Eid - Art: Studio Art

Thesis: Banat El Balad

Riley Stockton - Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: History and Archaeology

Thesis: The Roman Identity Crisis: Constructing an Imperial Identity Through Greece

Solveig Gisslen - Psychology

Thesis: The ABC's of Asset Based Community Development: Through the Lens of the Community Managers Within The OnTrack Program at OHSU

Robert Bourbon - English

Thesis: Reading Poems as Animals: Towards a Positive Indeterminacy

Meredith Hastings - Environmental Studies: Biology

Thesis: Impacts of the 2020 Labor Day Fires on the Oregon Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps wrighti) and its Habitat

Sabrine C. Lyon - English

Thesis: Narrating Performance as Decolonial Archive: Hamlet, Haunting, and Surveillance in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost

Tigerlily Warner - English: Creative Writing

Thesis: Endnotes

Miranda R. Kubek - Environmental Studies: Biology

Thesis: Invisible Worlds: Microbial Community Assembly in Macroscopic Cyanobacterial Colonies

Sabine Fraley - Neuroscience

Thesis: Estrogen-Dependent Effects of Ketamine on Depressive-Like and Anxiety-like Behaviors in Regularly Cycling Female Rats

Ella Bender - Neuroscience

Thesis: Repetitive Visual Stimulation In ADHD: Light Flicker as an Effective Neuromodulation Technique to Improve Cognition

Lucy Ravenelle - English

Thesis: Life is a Cabaret: Performance and Performativity in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and its Adaptations

Millie Van Slyke - German

Thesis: Outside the Mother Tongue: Adopting the Perspective of the Language Learner in Contemporary German Multilingual Literature

Doran Penner - Mathematics/Computer Science

Thesis: Prolly Trees for State-Based CRDTs

Melody M Moreno Gonzalez - Psychology

Thesis: Exploring the Effects of Self-Efficacy on Latine Students' Belonging and Perception of Emotional and Psychological Cost.

Skyden Canfield - Economics

Thesis: The Distribution of Online Gambling Harm: Evidence from Pennsylvania Helpline Data

Jolie Jaffe - Biology

Thesis: The Effects of Traffic Noise on the Calling Patterns of the Northern Red-Legged Frog (Rana aurora)

Alex Dunn - English

Thesis: Childhood Memory as Critical Pedagogy in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Heath Nevis - Computer Science

Thesis: Attacks on sdcMicro’s Local Suppression and the Limitations of k‑Anonymity

Jonah Griffin-Stolbach - Psychology

Thesis: Integrating Psychology and Philosophy: What are Mental Disorders?

Ryan Estrin - History

Thesis: Cannibals None: George Fitzhugh, Slaveholder Modernism, and the Place of Reactionary Thought in the American Intellectual Tradition

Beau Crawford - Chemistry

Thesis: Squaring the Cycle: Synthesis and Characterization of Variations of an Iridium Catalyst for Formic Acid Dehydrogenation

Bella Kintzley - Psychology

Thesis: Elaborated Imagined Contact and Prejudice Reduction: Effects on Help-Seeking Orientation Among Undergraduates

Cameron Bryzek - Music

Thesis: Experienced Worlds: Enhancing Immersion in Narrative Video Game Environments through Musical Representation

Ray Rogers - Political Science

Thesis: A Just War: Analyzing President Bush’s Invocation of International Law Throughout the Iraq War

Katie Riley - Environmental Studies: Biology

Thesis: Rising from the Ashes: Fire Responsive Seed Germination in Mimulus guttatus

Emely Cruz - Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies: English

Thesis: "Reform the Old Materials, Make Something New": The Social and Cultural Reconfiguration of Identity in Chicanismo and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Nicole Mizuha Adams - Psychology

Thesis: Singular-They: Investigating Grammatical Prescriptivism and the Stereotype-Mitigating Potential of Gender-Neutral Pronouns

Piper Brandy - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Thesis: Kratom & CYP3A4: Solving the Structure of CYP3A4 to Understand Mitragynine Metabolism

Andreanna Gude - Art: Art History

Thesis: Shadow and Substance: Visual Distinguishment & Black American Photography

Laila Maidenberg - Art and Greek Latin and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Thesis: An Investigation of Roman Bread Stamps

Leilani Tañeza Goldberg - Comparative Literature

Thesis: Writing the Oceania of Now: Representations of Temporality in Polynesian Novels

Thalia Hart - Neuroscience

Thesis: Malaria Fighting Machine: Comparative Analysis of Ribosomal Epitopes for Cross-Stage Cross-Species Malaria Vaccine Development

Juliana Voss-Andreae - Psychology

Thesis: Set, Setting, and Predictors of Psychedelic-Induced Mystical Experiences: A Retrospective Survey Study

Acadia MacDonald - Mathematics: Statistics

Thesis: Unmasking Mental Health Trends: A Causal Analysis of State Mask Policies

Isabelle Wong - Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies: Anthropology

Thesis: How to Market the “Chinese Identity”: A Case Study on the Ethno-Corporation of Portland’s Chinatown

Joscelyn Beebe - Psychology

Thesis: Mom Was Right, It Is That Damn Phone: Decreasing Screen Time in Âé¶¹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ Students using Inoculation Theory

Dylan Bell - Political Science

Thesis: A Theory of Posture

Elena O'Grady - Mathematics

Thesis: Monotonicity Failures of Instant Runoff Elections