Class of 2013
Victoria Feng, Architecture and Behavior at Colby: How our built environment affects the way we learn and socialize
Ben Hannon (Honors), Development of a Standardized and Functional Tactical Emergency Medical Support Training Program
Dan Hussey, High Fructose Corn Syrup: Why we consume it, and what happens to those who do.
Kelly Kneeland, Controlling the Maine Environment: Three Attempts to Alter the Natural World
Nick Kondiles, License and Regulation, Please: New Standards for the Practice of In Vitro Fertilization
Neal Kopser, Callendar’s Following
Matt Lapine, Water Quality Monitoring Technology in Maine Communities: Where Human Understanding Meets Ecological Change
Eoin McCarron (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Electromagnetic Disturbances from Natural and Nuclear Sources: History and Public Policy
Charlie Spatz (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Building with Waste: The Concrete Block in the 20th Century
Robert T. Canning (Honors), Forecasting the Future: The Early United States Weather Bureau
Jeff Carpenter, Your Brain in the Cloud: Online Learning and the Paradigm of Education
Kyle Donovan, Saving Hollywood? The Struggle to Protect Intellectual Property Rights
Katie Graichen, Defining a Place by the Sea: The Revitalization of the Portland Waterfront
Christopher J. Kasprak (Honors), Hurricanes as Social Probes: The Social, Political and Economic Impact of the Hurricanes of 1900, 1938, and 2005 (Katrina)
Thomas P. Meehan (Honors), Health Information Technology and Quality Improvement: The Use of Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality of Care in Primary Care Practices in Connecticut
Elliot Mermel, Breaching the Boundaries: The Impact of Intellectual Property Laws on Healthcare and Society
Arya Moallem, Blooming Industry, Ancient Roots: Green Buildings in Red China
Spencer Phillips, Keeping the Center Alive: Portland, Oregon and the Urban Growth Boundary
Amanda Reynolds, From Bubble to Burp: The Unlikely Technologies that made Brewing an Industry
Nicole G. Sintetos (Honors), The Sexual Brain: Essentialism in Queer Popular Science: A Study of the Science of Dr. Simon LeVay
Campbell Stephenson, Neglected Green Space: Urban Parks and City Development
Margie L. Weiner (Honors), Programmed for Success? Computers in American Public School Classrooms
Emiko L. Boezeman, From Humans to Machines: The Evolution of Japanese Communication Technologies and Their Influence on the Written Language
Noah B. Bonnheim, The Search for a Hero: The Psychological Appeal of Geoengineering
Sarah M. Carter (Honors), HAPPY PILLS: The Discovery, Development and Societal Implications of Antidepressant Technology
Stephan J. Cizmar, An Assessment of Technological Progress as a Catalyst of Economic Growth Through an Analysis of Two General Purpose Technologies: Electrification and the Internet
Marisa K. Crommett (Honors), Communicating Health Care Options: Dominican Herbal Remedies in the Dominican Republic and New York City
Beta Eaton, Lobstering in Stonington, Connecticut and Stonington, Maine: Two Cases Demonstrating Necessary Cooperation Among Scientists, Fishermen, and Policy Makers for A Sustainable Fishery
Nathan A. Eberly (Honors), Mediavision: Social Lessons Learned from Television History
Amie R. Fleming (Honors), Urban Sprawl: Critiquing the Place of Community and Environment in Suburban America
Tucker Gorman, A Student’s View of the Colby College Campus
Hana L. Haver (Honors), Genes on Trial: An Evaluation of Gene Therapy in the Media
Alexander M. Koallick, Energy, Environment, Embargo: A look at How the Oil Embargo of 1973-74 Changed American Perceptions of Environmental Protection
Mark E. McNulty, Examining and Understanding Methods to Mitigate the Effects of Agricultural Oil Shock
Erin M, Schnettler (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Tipping Point to Turning Point: Horatio Crie and the Development of a Conservation Ethic in the Maine Lobster Industry
Danielle C. Sheppard, Social Solutions for Climate Change: Cross Cultural Lessons from Denmark to the United States
Nick Bromley, Thirty Pieces of Silver: A Dystopian Science Fiction Story
Alice Evans, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine and the Western Biomedical System
Dan Opalacz and Foster Huntington, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Data Acquisition and Colby Systems Integration
Zach Rich, The Asthma Puzzle: A Comparison of Factors Contributing to Asthma in the US and China
James Westhafer, The Maturation of the Armed Sky: A Comparison of the Influences on German and American Aerial Warfare Technologies from 1914 -1945
Class of 2009
Sally Drescher (Honors), Cold War Games: The system and science of Soviet domination in international games
Caitlin Dufraine (Honors), Uncharted Dimensions of Media: A map of the social implications of geographic information systems (GIS)
Jessica Leuders-Dumont, Ocean Iron Fertilization — Is it feasible? Is it ethical? Addressing the scientific and ethical considerations of OIF in the global community
Class of 2008
Camden Bucsko, Head Injuries in Football and Protective Equipment used to Prevent Them
Maddie Given (Honors), The Ironic History of Medical Radiation: From Cancer Causing to Cancer Treatment
Kim Rudolph, What is Internet Addiction and Why is It a Problem in East Asia?
Adam Salamon, The Development of Large-Scale Beer Brewing and the Significance of Microbreweries
Class of 2007
Aaron Bradford, A Very Moral Concern: Molecular Biology and the Development of Chemotherapy
Brian W. Fulmer (Honors), Political Biology: Peter Kroptkin’s Mutual Aid and the ‘Darwinian Revolution
Tom Reznick (Senior Scholar’s Thesis), Morals and Milk: Neo-Luddism and Bovine Somatatopin, Science Technology and the Garden of Maine
Tom Testo (Honors), Last Blast: The Politics and Sponsorship of Formula One
Class of 2006
Joseph D. Berg, Eisenhower and the Fascist Interstate System
Madeline Horwitz, (Honors), Man Made Menopause: A history of the medicalization of the female body
Jakob Moe, The Peak and Plummet of the Maine Fishing Industry: How Maine was removed from the Fishing Map in the progressive Era
James Oh, Stem Cell Research: The Unspoken Benefits
Ethan Payne, Hazard or Disaster? Social Implications in Earthquakes in Developing Countries
George Anthony Williams, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
Class of 2005
Chase D. Cohen and Corwith Cramer III, (Independent Study), Throwing Things: Construction and demonstration of a Roman onager
Caroline E.V. Collins, Broadacre City: An urban plan Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford could agree upon?
Zachary S. Sager, Industrial and Wild Snow: The legacies of 10th Mountain Division soldiers David Brower and Pete Seibert
Allison Stewart, The U.S. Forest Service’s Quest for Power and Money: Implications for the American Public
Class of 2004
Lauren Abbott, Raising America’s Energy IQ: Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Consumption
Erica Ayotte, Spar and Spindle: The Effect of Lowell’s Textile Industry on Nineteenth-Century Agrarian New England
Nicholas Battista, The New Eco-Technic Paradigm Parker Thompson, Hydrogen Fuel: An Outlook on the Renewable Energy Future
Vincent Domestico, The Clash of New Military Technology with Old Ways of Fighting: The Civil War Rifle and How It Changed Warfare
Jessica Kellett, GMO Technology and Corporate Agribusiness. Why is the U.S. such a strong supporter of GMO crops and such a weak supporter of labeling GMO foods?
Brittney Lazar, The Looking Glass Media: The Media’s Construction of Identity for College Athletes as seen through the University of Notre Dame Football Program
Nina Martin, The Effects of West Nile Virus on the Environmental Movement of the North Shore of Massachusetts
Leif Pearson, A Critical Look at the Evolution and Future of Signal Transmission
Derek Snyder, Economic Transition in New England: The Case of Waterville, Maine within the Last Fifty Years
Nicholas Walendziak, Elk Ecology and Habitat Management in Eastern Tennessee
Sabina Warren, The Effects of Climate on People: An Anthropological Analysis of Ellsworth Huntington’s Theories
Marshall White, What’s for Dinner? A Brief History of Refrigeration
Class of 2003
Brock Barton, Flat Screens and Fat Kids
Jamie Lue, Digital Eyes in Sports
Mike Moran, Surveillance Nation: Technology and the Erosion of Privacy
Jeff Owen, Crea-Teens: The Use of Performance-Enhancing Supplements by High School Athletes
Class of 2002
Michael R. Pincus, The Environmentalism of Saint Francis
S. Carter Pace, The Irish Republican Army: Why They Fought the Anglo-Irish War
Russell B. MacPherson, Hazards of Technical Diving
David J. Manning, Tecological Disaster: Newfoundland’s Cod Fishery
Class of 2001
Nathan Gehlert, Creationists and Scientists: Social, Religious, and Scientific Foundations of the Genesis Debate
Fredrick Perowne, The First Spike: Forging the Canadian Nation
Kathryn Rowen, Technology, the Environment and Home Depot:How Technological Innovation is Making the Lumber and Hardware Industries more Sustainable
Class of 2000
Tom Dulong, Commercial Fishing at the Crossroads: Technology, Regulation, Conservation
Jared Lazzaro, Ships with Chips: The Effects of Electronic Navigation on Marine Transportation, 1900-2000
Melissa Shea, The Effects of Trap Limits and Vent Size Reductionson the Maine Lobster Industry
Class of 1999
Wesley Baff, Atheistic Existentialism, the Life of Goods, and the Good Life: The Impact of Technological Society on Human Self-Determination
Warren Dixon, Technological Savior? Technologies in the U.S. Meat and Agriculture Industries
Peter Downing, Finding Peace in a War against Desertification: Reconceptualizing Grassroots Participation in Dryland Management
Raji Gupta, Universal Health Care in the United States: Canada, Clinton and the Constitution
Patrick Upatham, The French Nuclear Industry
Class of 1998
Melissa Carpenter, To Clone or Not to Clone: A World Divided: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Regarding Human Cloning and the Need for Educated Public Opinion
Amy Lyons, Responsible Bioprospecting or Reprehensible Biopirating? An Examination of Bioprospecting Initiatives in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Darren Perry, The Challenger Launch Decision: An STS Perspective
Mike Truman, An STS Original: H.G. Wells and the Merging of Science and Literature
Josh Walton, The Outlook for Weather Prediction: A Chaotic Future?
Class of 1997
Dana Cease, Water Quality Issues in Central and Eastern Europe
Steve DiLella, Duck and Cover and You’ll be OK: Media Portrayals and the Social Psychology of the Bomb
Thadd Eldredge, Mathematical n-chotomies
Simone Kaplan, Star Trek and Science Fiction: Reflexive Impacts on Cultural Expectations of Technology
Jon Nykvist, Renewable Energy Economics
Class of 1996
Betsy Burleson, Be the Change That You Wish to See in the World (Video)
Lou Dagostine, Global Organized Crime, Its Present and Future Use of Technology, and How International Law Enforcement Agencies Are Trying to Stop Them
Karen Goodrich, America’s Cup Technology: History and Effects on the Sport of Sailing
Mark Johnson, The Might of the Marshes: Their Impact and Their Uncertain Future
Class of 1995
John F. Smith, Jr., Rural Medicine and Technological Change
Benjamin Waite, Nuclear Weapons and American Popular Culture, 1945-1963
Michael Yunes, Computers and the Internet: Legal and Ethical Issues
Class of 1994
Eric Burger, Technology and Art (with emphasis on postmodernist concerns): Towards Hyper-reality
Karen J. Carlson, Over the Counter Modern Technology. and Chemically Processed Nutrition Supplements
Mark Dantos, Technology and Art (with emphasis on postmodernist concerns): Towards Hyper-reality
Sean Devine, What’s NEXRad? Modernization Plans of the National Weather Service
Jan Dutton, Looking Backward to See Forward: The New Paleoclimatology
Eric Kemp, Aesthetics Meets Technology: Issues in Film Colorization
Jennifer Lock, Time for a Change in the Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology
Darrell Oakley, There Are Three Sides to Every Story: The Effect of Deforestation and Urbanization on Migratory Songbirds
Duc Buu Trac, A Brief Overview of Environmental Problems in Communist China
Class of 1993
Christopher M. Chin, The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant: Environmental Issues
Daniel W. Connolly, Nuclear Power in New England
Marshal A. Mintz, Virtual Reality: Computer Modeling and Perception
Lisa E. Prenaveau, A Comparative Study of Japanese and American Computer Manufacturing
Lee W. Robbins, III, The Genetic Revolution in Agriculture
David M. Smith, A Comparative Study of Japanese and American Auto Manufacturing
Bethany H. Tilton, Technological Advances and the Ethics of Prolonging Life
Jonathan W. Walsh, Technological Change in Baseball
Class of 1992
Walker Fenton, What’s Wrong with this Picture? Manipulation of Digital Images
David Jorgensen, Ethanol Fuel, Vodka for your Volkswagon: The Future of Biomass
Kwok Lui, Uses and Abuses of Telemarketing Technologies
Brian Meehan, The Promise and Problems of Nuclear Power
Norm Stillman, The Farrier’s Toolbox: Town and Country Veterinary Medicine
Class of 1991
Gretchen Fisher, The Development of the Sewing Machine and Its Effects on the Women Who Worked in the Garment Industry
Aaron Mosher, Conservation Awareness at Colby
Sam Sharnik, This Stuff is Getting Deep, video production
Jake Silberfarb, Maglev Trains and the Necessity for Rapid Rail Transportation in the United States
Sally White, Technological Advances in Swimming: How Far Can Technology Push the Athlete?
Class of 1990
David Coleman, A Photographic Essay of High and Low Technology in Maine Industries
Cindy Demskie, Maine: The Way Life Ought to Be? An Analysis of Technology in Maine and the Work of the Maine Science and Technology Commission, and Developing STS Internships for Colby Students
