People

Haley Andonian (Honors), From Forced to Voluntary Participation: The history of human experimentation in the United States

Steven Kohli, Death and Rebirth of the Music Monopoly: The transformation of an industry through peer-to-peer platforms

Alisha Lee, How Will Artificial Meat Impact the Environment?

Olivia Stein, Advancement of Life-saving Technologies: Constructing a society that avoids discussion of death and artificially prolongs life at all costs

Sarah Taft, Plastics: The potential in pairing STS and Environmental Studies

J.R. Farthing, Unpresidential Precedent: Historical Conflict and Cooperation Between the Media and the US Presidency

Lucas Lam, Institutionalized Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

Sophie Swetz (Honors, STS Scholar Award), America’s National Parks and the Anthropocene: Addressing the Present to Accommodate the Future in Acadia National Park

Carina Wallack (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Crops and Controversy: Industry’s Role in the GMO Debate

Katie Chow (Honors), Park Politics: Political Influences on Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) & the Creation of Central Park

Emily Glaenzer (Honors), Neuromarketing: The Neurological Reasons Behind our Choices

Thomas Kienzle, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Technology, Discovery, and the Dawn of Science Fiction

Abe Krieger (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Elections on YouTube: Messaging and Online Communication in the 2016 Presidential Nomination Process

Connor Rozinsky, How With the Help of Technological Innovation, the Marijuana Industry in Maine is Capable of Greatly Improving the State’s Economy

Sarah Jeanne Shimer (Honors), Entering Into a Dialogue with Pope Francis’ Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home

Kevin Adair, Environmental Implications and Public Perception of Nuclear Power and High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal and the Former Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Shadiyat Ajao, Science News and Public Discourse: The GMO Debate

Olivia Avidan (Honors), The Social Determinants of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Maine

Jeanne Barthold (Honors, STS Scholar Award), Sociological Impacts of Wind Farms in Maine

Brooke Chandor (Honors), 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

Sarah Barrese, “A golden age free from crime, disease, filth, and poverty”: Muckrakers and Public Health Reform in the Progressive Era

Marianne Ferguson, Three’s a Crowd: Lobstermen, Scientists, Policymakers and the Management of the Maine Lobster Industry

Peter Grayson Hamblett, The Educated Terrorist: The Formative Years and Philosophy of Ted Kaczynski

Sydney Hammond, Russian Censorship vs. Twitter: An examination of Global Policing

Monique Kelly, Watch What Whe-eat: An Analysis of the Gluten-Free Diet

Lauren Lacy, Bad Blood: Investigating the Ban on MSM Blood Donation

Madeline Wilson, Blowing in the Wind: Evaluating Community and Operator Relations in the Maine Wind Energy Industry

James Wyse, The New Space Race

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, What Is High Fructose Corn Syrup and What Does It Do? It depends on whom you ask.

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), 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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

Michael R. Pincus, The Environmentalism of Saint Francis

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

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 

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

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

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?

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 

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

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 

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

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

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

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?