Past Honors Projects

Honors projects are archived in the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives of the Bowdoin College Library. As of May 2020, honors projects will also be archived in the Bowdoin Digital Commons.

Arman Ashrafi

Title: "Identification of Mutations in the WAK Locus in Arabidopsis thaliana"

Ryan Shawn Herman

Title: "Development of an Alkyne-Based Therapeutics for the Eradication of Pathogenic Bacteria Based on Their Distinctive Glycans"

Anna Kaplan

Title: "Phenylisocyanide Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to a Cobalt Catalyst for Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins"

Thomas Daniel King

Title: "Investigating the Relationship between Transvection and Pairing in Drosophila Homologous Chromosomes"

Emma Rose Laprise

Title: "Intraspecific and Interspecific Variation in Long-Range Control of Gene Expression within the Genus Drosophila"

Timothy Leo Long

Title: "Characterizing Interactions between the Retinoic Acid, Ectodysplasin, and Hedgehog Signaling Pathways during Danio rerio Odontogenesis"

Jack Ryan Mitchell

Title: "Examining the Role of GRP and LIK1 in Wall-Associated Kinase (WAK) Perception of Pectin in the Plant Cell Wall"

Emily Millicent Mumford

Title: "Synthesis of Peptoids That Alternate Side Chain Chiralities and cis- and trans- Amide Bonds"

Lauren Raechelle Nguyen

Title: "Characterization of Reactions Responsible for Aging in Wood-Based Pyrolysis Oil"

Calvin Jeiho Park

Title: "The Hedgehog and Retinoic Acid Cell Signaling Pathways Interact to Influence Early Danio rerio Odontogenesis"

Kate Ingraham Paulsen

Title: "Investigating the Potential Interaction between Two RNA-Binding Proteins, She3 and Slr1, in the Pathogenic Fungus Candida albicans"

Alexander Pio Poblete

Title: "Kinetics of Excited-State Proton Transfer in Aqueous Reverse Micelles"

Sovannarath Pong

Title: "Variable Responses to Multiple Isoforms of a Neuropeptide, C-type Allatostatin (AST-C), by the Cardiac Neuromuscular System of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus"

Patrick Walsh

Title: "Characterization of the Receptors Associated with the Differing Responses to the Neuropeptide, AST-C, by the Cardiac Ganglion of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus"

Jade Willey

Title: "Synthesis of a Phenylphosphabenzene Ligand to Improve a Cobalt Catalyst for the Dimerization of Linear α-olefins"