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<\/a>Name: <\/strong>Andrew Lawson Carranco\nHometown:<\/strong> Laredo, Texas
\nMajor:<\/strong> History<\/p>\n
Thesis:<\/strong> “All But Forgotten: Latin American Japanese Internment in the United States During the Second World War\u201d<\/p>\n During World War II, the United States not only interned Japanese Americans but was involved in a multinational internment of Japanese and Germans across the Americas. Peru was particularly keen on sending its Japanese population. In my thesis, I explore the reasoning behind Latin American Japanese internment and the subsequent treatment of those in internment camps in the United States.<\/p>\n In other words: \u201c<\/em><\/strong>The most complex histories are sometimes in your own backyard.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis:<\/strong> “The Use of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in a Baseline Characterization of the Input Streams of Lake Auburn\u201d<\/p>\n Benthic macroinvertebrates were sampled in the four major input streams of Lake Auburn to develop a baseline characterization for future monitoring programs. Physical and chemical characteristics of streams were used to attempt to explain the biotic variability among sites.<\/p>\n In other words: “There\u2019s a lot more going on in streams than you think.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis: \u201c<\/strong>Restoring Faith in Love: An Analysis of Elizabeth from \u2018In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play\u2019 by Sarah Ruhl\u201d<\/p>\n I basically explored a character and developed how to better understand the struggle she endured from losing a child.<\/p>\n In other words: “I explored what it was like to be a black wet nurse.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thesis: <\/strong>\u201cHybridizing the Rule of Law: the Singapore Experience\u201d<\/p>\n My thesis develops a concept of legal hybridity to explain the unconventional behavior of authoritarian regimes that promote rule of law despite costly political risks. Legal hybridity can be understood in the context of a Weberian legal dialectic between formal rationality and substantive irrationality, and it can be observed in a judicial dynamic of simultaneous empowerment and containment.<\/p>\n In other words: “Authoritarian regimes may sometimes make friends with rule of law\u00a0\u2014 at least instrumentally!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis:<\/strong> \u201cDNA Vaccines, A Potential Cure for Type I Diabetes\u201d<\/p>\n Over the last decade, major advances have been made in gene therapy and the production of new forms of disease treatment utilizing DNA plasmid technology. I focused on how these \u201cDNA Vaccines\u201d can be used to effectively combat not only acute infectious disease, but also chronic illnesses. Using the most current data and experimental techniques, I proposed a theoretical DNA Vaccine that would disrupt the auto-immune mechanisms of type I diabetes, allowing the pancreas to regenerate and insulin production to resume.<\/p>\n In other words: “I injected DNA to cure diabetes!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis:<\/strong> “French Colonial Legacy\u2019s Effect on Language Ideologies in Algeria\u201d<\/p>\n In my thesis, I examine how the Darja dialect of Arabic was affected by French and French colonial rule and the emergence of a \u201cnew linguistic identity\u201d in post-colonial Algeria.<\/p>\n In other words: “I discovered it is hard to write a thesis that involves three languages without confusing your reader. Or yourself.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis: <\/strong>\u201cBose-Einstein Condensation in Novel Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices\u201d<\/p>\n A group of atoms cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero (roughly 100 nK) will occupy the lowest available energy state en masse<\/em>, and they behave as a macroscopic quantum body\u00a0\u2014 essentially they become a giant \u201csuper-atom.\u201d This phenomenon is called Bose-Einstein condensation and can be realized with a series of magnetic and optical trapping techniques. Using the ultra-cold atomic gas, we can study the physical phenomena of real atomic crystal structures.<\/p>\n In other words: “We build ‘freeze-lasers’ that create the coldest thing in the known universe (100 nK)!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis: <\/strong>\u201cSomething Sweet<\/em>, a short film\u201d<\/p>\n Something Sweet<\/em> plays off of narrative styles of the French New Wave movement. The film intercuts different points of a relationship to examine what brings the couple together and what separates them. There are poems that accompany the movie.<\/p>\n In other words: “Boy meets girl, falls in love, breaks up.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thesis: \u201c<\/strong>Music for the Movies\u201d<\/p>\n This project entails original composition of a series of orchestral movements that could be featured as the soundtrack to an unmade film.\u00a0 Each movement contains a distinct theme that evokes a specific feeling or represents a certain scene. Through love, betrayal, suspense, and in settings such as the jungle, underwater and a fantasy world, the piece will guide the listener on a journey of cinematic enchantment.<\/p>\n In other words: “Writing music inspired by John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Michael Giacchino has been one of the most invigorating experiences I have had at Bates.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis:<\/strong> \u201c’I\u2019m Not Just a Teenage Dirtbag, Baby:’ Horrific Teen Flicks and the Horrors of Teen Stardom\u201d<\/p>\n Many teen films of the 1980s and 90s may be petty high school drama and \u201coverly dramatic\u201d teen angst-filled cinema on the surface, but there is plenty of sex, drug-use, death, as well as family and mental health issues lurking in the not-so-distant background. This thesis makes the latter more transparent, creating the \u201chorrific teen flick\u201d by examining three films and arguing for the existence of an intersectional incarnation of horrific teen film characters and celebrities. Drawing on innovative horror films of the 1970s and ’80s in conjunction with feminist film theory and analysis of various forms of popular media, this project constructs a gendered, classed and raced genre and figure.<\/p>\n In other words: “Surprise! Teenagers are actually complex human beings!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis: \u201c<\/strong>Emancipation Through Mentorship: Decoding Tarantino\u2019s Image of Masculinity, Power and Race in Django Unchained<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Rhetoric is an important field of study as it concerns itself with the power of the symbolic as it is enacted in the process of negotiation in culture, civil society and history. My thesis explores the way cinematic narratives and images inform collective perceptions of race, masculinity and power. By calling critical attention to the narrative presented in Django Unchained<\/em>, I analyze how Quentin Tarantino uses his film to convey ideas of power and powerlessness through his representation of whiteness and blackness.<\/p>\n In other words: \u201c<\/em>My particular study explores <\/em>Django Unchained as a marker of masculinity and power by critiquing the relationship between black and white characters in the film and Tarantino\u2019s stylistic aesthetic.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thesis: \u201c<\/strong>The Impact of Caste and Gender in Nepal\u2019s Labor Market: A Blinder-Oaxaca Approach to Understanding Wage Discrimination\u201d (Economics)<\/p>\n “Conceptualizing the Role of \u2018Recognition\u2019 and \u2018Redistribution\u2019 in Finding Remedies for Caste Injustice in Nepal: An Individualist Approach to a Dual Perspective” (Politics)<\/p>\n In other words: \u201cIssues of caste injustice clearly exist in places like Nepal and have a devastating social and economic impact on lower caste groups \u2014 untouchables. If I were to become the next president, it would come to an abrupt end.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Jordan Buetow
\nHometown: <\/strong>Fairbanks, Alaska
\nMajor: <\/strong>Environmental Studies<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name: <\/strong>Brittney Dyana Davis
\nHometown:<\/strong> Chicago
\nMajor: <\/strong>Theater<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name: <\/strong>Aung Phone Myint
\nHometown: <\/strong>Yangon, Myanmar
\nMajor:<\/strong> Politics<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Mike Arsnow
\nHometown:<\/strong> Lynnfield, Mass.
\nMajor:<\/strong> Biochemistry<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Reilly Bergin-Pugh
\nHometown: <\/strong>New York City
\nMajor: <\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Eddie Moan
\nHometown:<\/strong> New York City
\nMajor:<\/strong> Physics<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Max Goldfarb
\nHometown:<\/strong> St. Louis
\nMajor: <\/strong>English<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> William T. Green
\nHometown: <\/strong>New Canaan, Conn.
\nMajor: <\/strong>Music Composition<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name: <\/strong>Grace Glasson
\nHometown: <\/strong>Beaufort, S.C.
\nMajor:<\/strong> Women and Gender Studies<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name: <\/strong>Mildred Aroko
\nHometown:<\/strong> Salem, Mass.
\nMajor:<\/strong> Rhetoric<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Suraj Karmacharya
\nHometown: <\/strong>Kathmandu, Nepal
\nMajor: <\/strong>Economics and Politics<\/p>\n
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