Thesis Archives Search
This search engine will let you explore the over 1800 theses written in Honors at The University of Maine since the Program’s inception in 1935. You may search our thesis archives based on any of the fields listed above. If the thesis is available at the Reynolds Library (Thomson Honors Center) or Fogler Library (Special Collections), the information will appear below the bibliographic data. At last count, we had about 1800 theses in the Reynolds Library.
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Birth Order, Machiavellianism, Sex and Final Grade in Two Types of Basic Speech Communication Courses
BISPHENOL A EXPOSURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
BJT Audio Amplifier
Black Lives: Not a Single Story
Author:
Jane
Horovitz
Major: English & Journalism Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Margaret Lukens
Description of Publication:
This thesis explores depictions of Black lives in America through consideration of journalism, along with novels and plays by 20th-and 21st-century African American writers. It looks, in particular, at Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah and her famous TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story.” In the latter, she warns against telling a single story about Africans, one that often involves pain, trauma, and poverty; Adichie’s warning is also especially relevant to a critique of stereotypical conceptualizations of African American suffering. Americanah provides a new Black narrative and a new definition of Blackness, one that tells a story focused on romantic love (Black joy) more than the single story of pain or trauma (Black suffering). This thesis will demonstrate how Adichie’s novel challenges the reader to recognize that single stories of Black suffering render too narrowly the fullness of Black human experience.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/674/
Major: English & Journalism Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Margaret Lukens
Description of Publication:
This thesis explores depictions of Black lives in America through consideration of journalism, along with novels and plays by 20th-and 21st-century African American writers. It looks, in particular, at Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah and her famous TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story.” In the latter, she warns against telling a single story about Africans, one that often involves pain, trauma, and poverty; Adichie’s warning is also especially relevant to a critique of stereotypical conceptualizations of African American suffering. Americanah provides a new Black narrative and a new definition of Blackness, one that tells a story focused on romantic love (Black joy) more than the single story of pain or trauma (Black suffering). This thesis will demonstrate how Adichie’s novel challenges the reader to recognize that single stories of Black suffering render too narrowly the fullness of Black human experience.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/674/
Black Sheep Effect: Target Exculsion and Devaluation with Physiological Reactivity
Bodies, not Gods
Body Image, Self-Esteem and Gender Differences among American Adolescents
Boldness Behavior and Survival Selection of Poecilia reticulata
Brand Equity in the Maine Craft Beer Industry
Author:
Gustav
Anderson
Major: Marketing Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Dmitri Markovitch
Description of Publication:
The state of Maine ranks third for most breweries per capita in the United States. With the industry booming and new breweries entering the market consistently, branding presents itself as an opportunity for differentiation and competitive advantage. The intangible value that results from effective branding is what is commonly referred to as brand equity. Presently, there is limited research on how brand equity applies to the craft beer industry. In this study, David Aaker’s 1996 model for brand equity is used as a guide to learn how breweries and consumers understand and influence brand equity. Further, brewery and consumer perspectives are compared to discover whether or not misalignment exists. Six Maine breweries participated in this research over three months via semi-structured interviews, and a population of Maine craft beer consumers (N=100; 21-74 years of age) participated in an online survey. Preliminary results show that perceived quality and brand awareness are the most important components of brand equity and that brewery and consumer perspectives are only significantly misaligned regarding the issue of market saturation.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/642
Major: Marketing Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Dmitri Markovitch
Description of Publication:
The state of Maine ranks third for most breweries per capita in the United States. With the industry booming and new breweries entering the market consistently, branding presents itself as an opportunity for differentiation and competitive advantage. The intangible value that results from effective branding is what is commonly referred to as brand equity. Presently, there is limited research on how brand equity applies to the craft beer industry. In this study, David Aaker’s 1996 model for brand equity is used as a guide to learn how breweries and consumers understand and influence brand equity. Further, brewery and consumer perspectives are compared to discover whether or not misalignment exists. Six Maine breweries participated in this research over three months via semi-structured interviews, and a population of Maine craft beer consumers (N=100; 21-74 years of age) participated in an online survey. Preliminary results show that perceived quality and brand awareness are the most important components of brand equity and that brewery and consumer perspectives are only significantly misaligned regarding the issue of market saturation.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/642
Breaking Down “Harassment” to Characterize Trends in Human Interaction Cases in Maine’s Pinnipeds
Author:
Emma
Newcomb
Major: Marine Sciences Graduation Year: 2020 Thesis Advisor: Kristina Cammen
Description of Publication:
For hundreds of years the state of Maine has been home to pinniped populations. While these populations experienced heavy pressure from humans, they became federally protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Actin 1972. The Act ultimately included language to create the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program. This program has allowed for stranding networks to form to respond to stranded animals and collect data from these animals. Long term datasets have been produced by these stranding networks, providing a valuable resource for studying patterns and trends in marine mammal health. I utilized these datasets for my analysis of stranding trends and human interaction (HI) occurrences using data collected from stranded harbor (Phoca vitulina), harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and gray (Halichoerus grypus) seals from 2007 to 2019 in Maine. As part of this analysis, I developed a new classification scheme for defining HI, which focuses on breaking down harassment based on the type of harassment and the risks that come with it. HI, and harassment in particular, presents a multitude of problems that affect pinnipeds on both an individual and population scale, while also presenting a risk to humans who interact with these mammals. This analysis will provide insight into where and which HI is occurring in Maine, helping us inform stranding networks on where to focus effort in mitigating human interaction, as well as how strandings and human interaction impact marine mammal health and larger trends relate to global patterns.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/677/
Major: Marine Sciences Graduation Year: 2020 Thesis Advisor: Kristina Cammen
Description of Publication:
For hundreds of years the state of Maine has been home to pinniped populations. While these populations experienced heavy pressure from humans, they became federally protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Actin 1972. The Act ultimately included language to create the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program. This program has allowed for stranding networks to form to respond to stranded animals and collect data from these animals. Long term datasets have been produced by these stranding networks, providing a valuable resource for studying patterns and trends in marine mammal health. I utilized these datasets for my analysis of stranding trends and human interaction (HI) occurrences using data collected from stranded harbor (Phoca vitulina), harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and gray (Halichoerus grypus) seals from 2007 to 2019 in Maine. As part of this analysis, I developed a new classification scheme for defining HI, which focuses on breaking down harassment based on the type of harassment and the risks that come with it. HI, and harassment in particular, presents a multitude of problems that affect pinnipeds on both an individual and population scale, while also presenting a risk to humans who interact with these mammals. This analysis will provide insight into where and which HI is occurring in Maine, helping us inform stranding networks on where to focus effort in mitigating human interaction, as well as how strandings and human interaction impact marine mammal health and larger trends relate to global patterns.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/677/