List of senior thesis topics
Kevin Adair, Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: Environmental Implications and Public Perceptions
Shadiyat Ajao, Science News and Public Discourse: The GMO Debate
Olivia Avidan, The Social Determinants of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Maine
Jeanne Barthold, Sociological Impacts of Wind Farms in Maine
Brooke Chandor, Prevention Programs: The Answer to ACL Injuries in Female Athletes?
Jonathan Eichholz, On Terroir: How The Taste of Place Made a Case For Camembert
Alex Kohn, Visual Authority and Natural Processes: A Cultural Critique of the Fetal Ultrasound
Kam Olaogun, The Influence of Technology on Track & Field and Sports Culture
Dustin Satloff, The Evolution of Sports Media and Their Symbiotic Relationship with Technology and Society
Sonia Vargas, Diversity in STEM and Higher Education in the United States
Peter Willauer, Innovative, Sustainable, and Dynamic Fish Farms In Maine: Solutions to Feeding the Future
Alexa Williams, Shark: An Investigation of Management Measures in Light of Media Impacts and Culture
About James Fleming
James Rodger Fleming is a historian of science and technology and professor of science, technology, and society at Colby
College. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected “for pioneering studies on the history of meteorology and climate change and for the advancement of historical work within meteorological societies,” and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, elected for his historical contributions. He recently held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship while a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Books include
Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010),
Globalizing Polar Science (Palgrave, 2010),
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), and
Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990). He enjoys fishing, good jazz, good barbecue, seeing students flourish, building a community of historians of the geosciences, and connecting the history of science and technology with public policy.
