The senior thesis is emblematic of the kind of intellectual freedom Bard College at Simon’s Rock’s Upper College students are given. It is a year-long, self-designed scholarly project that is the capstone of a student’s work. It’s required of everyone. The thesis is not just an academic requirement for a Simon’s Rock Bachelor of Arts degree, it is work that adds to the world’s storehouse of knowledge.

At the beginning of the thesis project, a formal proposal must be submitted and approved. This collection includes senior thesis proposals beginning in academic year 1998-1999 as well as theses beginning in 2011.

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2023

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Art on D̶r̶u̶g̶s̶ Medication: An Exploration of the Effects of Psychotropic Medication on the Artist and Their Art, Patience Adamoschek

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Dusty and the Corals, Dusty Ammann

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Drought Patterns in Amhara, Ethiopia, Iman Anwarzai

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The Lumenova Project: A Novel and Exploration of Crafting Middle-Grade Fiction, Ashlyn Bagocius

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Analyzing COVID-19 with Differential Equation Model, Xiaorui Bao

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A Place Within a Place: An Introduction to Virtual Reality Technology and its Usage Within the Workforce, Alexander Baran

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Boundary: Painting A Mind Through Song, Amethyst Belrose

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Plymouth Hoe in the Rain: Costuming A Steampunk Elizabethan Fantasy, Amanda Bury

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A Synthesis and Evaluation of a Novel Drug for the Treatment of Schistosomiasis, Liam Coote

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Turtles be Dammed: A Case Study, Literature Review, and Path Forward for Painted Turtles, Olivia Dale

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Friends & Footage; The Making of "Treason", A Short Film, Erazmas De Voe

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Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá: An Exploration of the Modern American Dream through Hybrid Identity, Elizabeth Estrada

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Eukaryogenesis and the Origins of Life on Earth, Tyler Farnsworth

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Trauma-Informed Interrogations: An Argument and Case Analysis, Ghislaine Gardere

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Ethnomycology and Pathogenic Fungi, Daeja Gomez

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Gender and Humor: A Review of the Literature and A Survey Study, Yutong Emma Guo

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Math Communication (or Lack Thereof): An Exploration of the Ways We Communicate About Mathematics, Emma Hasson

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Modeling Uncertainty in Neural Decoding: A Density-based Approach to Connect Neural Activity to Behavior, Tianxiao He

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Bodies Doing Weird Things On Rock, Luke Iandoli

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The Dynamics Of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Populations: Insights from tagging, angling, and comprehensive literature review, Paul Kameen

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Traversing Scandinavia: Designing a Web Guide for Sustainable Travel, Asher Kite

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Approximately Intelligent: Planning for an Uncertain Future in Computing, June Knauth

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Born into the 21st Century: Personal and Social Psychological Reflections, Alejandra León Contreras

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Personalized Movie recommendation Based on Collaborative Filtering Model, Chunhui Liou

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Hope in a Dangerous Place: The Convergence of Race, Capitalism, and Solidarity at Greece’s Borders, Cedar Lloyd

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Investigating IQGAP1: Interactions with Actin Filament Sides, Alexandra Marcin

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Lamorian: An English Orthography, Oakley Mclamore

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Long After This: The drafting and revision of a novel, Samuel Messmer

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Using Conservation Genetics to Address the World’s Amphibian Crisis: A Case Study in Montserrat, Adelaide Mullin

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Creating an Improved Catheter Dressing Using Electrospinning, Jordan Popov

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Validation of the Alfven Wave Solar atmosphere Model (AWSoM): A Comparative Study with MESSENGER and MAVEN Solar Wind Observations, Rayta Pradata

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Notes on the Pathetic and an Index of Editing, A'ssia Rai

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Synesthesia and the Human Figure, Nora Rosenberger

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The Ecology of Resilience: Towards a Systems Approach to Translational Neuroscience, Blake Rover

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Ranks of Outer Automorphism Groups of Right-Angled Coxeter Groups, Ariel Rozen

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Ma × Mu: Calculating Composition Technique, Maya Saraya

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Design of a Polymer Dispensing Mechanical Device, Jacob Scheer

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Ups: Scenes from a Life in Sales, David Segil

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Exploring Historical and Contemporary Factors Contributing to Economic Disparities in Mexico and India, Mihir Suraparaju

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The SCA Play: a journey of homecoming through theater, Dorissa Tyndall

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Large NBA parimutuel betting market and Elo ranking system, Yiming Wang

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Emma’s Dance Thesis: A Math Project, Emma Waters

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A Table Setting For Six: Horrors and Pleasures of Clay, Natasha Wedd

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Alternative Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease Based on Biomedical Similarities, Isabel West

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Cyborg Cartographies A Dialectic Exploration and Dynamic Intervention into the Agency of Objects in the Self, Kaspar Wilder

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Research on Asset Allocation of Pension Reserve Fund, Christina Xiang

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Catheter Wound Maintenance using CHG-doped Electrospun Meshes, Justin Yun

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Toward a Future of Trauma: Redeeming Collective Memories from Colonial to Postcolonial Psyches, Zihan Zhao

2022

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On Theory and Experimentation with the Probabilistic Nature of Quantum Being, Samarth Agnihotri

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The Passage at High Tide, Khalilah Asaka

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Biopsychosocial Factors in STI Acquisition or Transmission: Development of a Digital Health Platform, Susanna Suyoun Baek Cho

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The Case For Unconditional Positive Regard in the Treatment of MAPs, Salem Bauknight

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Preliminary Studies of Herbal Medicine and Women’s Health: The Case for Reviving Traditional Herbal Remedies, Marcea Bond

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Big Brains: A Deep Dive Into Cetacean Social Cognition and Behavior, Sophie Casa

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Biochemical and Psychological Aspects of Narcolepsy: When Sleep Is Out of Control, Keni Chen

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Reimagining Trot, Jazz, and Avant-Garde Music In A More Uniquely "Korean" Way: Development And Transformation Of Modern Korean Popular Music From 1910 to 1970, Eunseo Choi

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(: C♭ :), Isabella Cho

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Berkshire County Microtransit Planning Study, Tate Coleman

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Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Injection as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy: Effectiveness and Feasibility, Bethan Cordone

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Miss Manhattan: A Psychological Reflection on the Life of Audrey Munson, Sadie Cotler

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Thinking Within the Box: A Case Study on the Engineering Design Process, Caleb Dang

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Creeping Through the Mountains: an Analysis of Appalachian Culture through the Ethnoherpetological Lens, Theodore Driscoll

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Value Trading System, Yuhao Du

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Dialectics of Space and Representation in the Production of Contemporary Society, Neehar Girimaji

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Analysis of Skin Cancer Interventions: Prevention and Diagnosis in People of Color, Abdul Haseeb Hamza

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Mutual Entrainment Within the Human Body, Hannah Hasson

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The Armchair Influencer: Social Media and Perceptions of Mental Illness, Jeri Hautzig

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Social-Emotional Learning in U.S. Primary Schools: COVID-19 and Failures within the System, Summer Heller

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A Storage System with Paxos, Yichao Hou

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An Exploration of Nail Biting and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, Skylar Karp

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Conspiracy and Confabulation: The Mask of the Translator, Elise Kelly

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THE EIGHT PILLARS OF COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION: A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL SURVEY, Chandler LaValle

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Simulation of Schrodinger's equation on Quantum Computers, YuXuan Liu

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Multi-Factor Stock Selection and Trading System, Zeqi Liu

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Podracer: High Performance and Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning, Zechu Li

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Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence through an Anthropological Lens: Introducing Humanity to A.I., Cassidy LoCascio

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On the Universe Where You’re Reading This on the Moon, DeVaune Mack

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Sentiment Analysis of the effect of Covid protection measures through Tweets, Yecheng Ma

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Writer, Reader, Author, Critic: Literature in Theory and Practice, Lilly Myers

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Taking Care of Gut Feelings: Neuro-Microbial Psychology, Nickie Nie

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Portrayals of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Contemporary Middle Grade Fiction, Moxie Rudder

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Adversarial Images in Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Armann Singh Sandhu

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Alternative Performance Metrics for Financial Machine Learning Models, Ajeya Sathyagal

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Misogyny in Twenty-Four Frames Per Second: An Analysis of Gender Disparity On & Off-Screen, Beck Selberg

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The Weight of an Opinion: A Critical Analysis of the Michigan State Supreme Court Selection Model, Kelly Ann Sheehy

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The Good-Enough Therapist: A Letter To and From a Future Therapist, Livia Shepard

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deSTIgma: A digital STI/STD test recommendation platform, Vivian Shi

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We’re All Gonna Die!!! An Environmental Perspective on Body Disposition in the United States, Lillian Steinmayer

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The Impact of Online Social Sentiment and Search Volume on Stock Market, Xinghang Sun

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Never Fall in Love at The Jersey Shore: Locating the Real in Reality TV, Maisy Swords

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A New Model for Transactions: Employing a Permissioned Blockchain to Invert the Paradigm of User Data in the Retail Cannabis Industry in the State of Massachusetts, Evan Sylbert

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U.S. Healthcare Reform: An Ideal System, Emily Van Court

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Wind Distribution Analysis and Prediction for a Risk-Aware Renewable Energy Market, Joyee Wang

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Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations in Complex Geometry, Yipeng Wang

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Keep Your Friends Close and Your Microbes Closer, Jenalyn Weekes

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Heat Equation, Ethan Xu

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Engineering a Difference: The Hows and Whys of the Difference Engine, Lior Yaron

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Against Aphasia: Conversation through the Omegle Addict, a Protest, and a Model United Nations Conference, Charlie Yates

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The Problem of Beach Litter: Psychological Analysis & Development of a Clean-Up Prototype, Quingchen Zhang

2021

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Samarth Agnihotri