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Rhiannon Joker, Anthropology

Thesis: Post-Mortem Resurrection: An Alternative, Practice-Based Examination of Research and Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and an Argument in Favor of Professional-Track Social Science Degrees

April 24, 2024 at 3 p.m. PDT (6 p.m. EDT) - via Zoom

Amy Cline, Marine and Estuarine Science-Environmental Science

Thesis: Cultivating Change:  Case Study Analysis of Agricultural Resistance in Whatcom and Skagit counties, Washington .

April 26, 2024 a 1 p.m. (Viking Union 462 A/B)

Dana Bronstein, Environmental Studies

Thesis: Coast Salish foods gathered on sea gardens and rocky intertidal beaches

April 29, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. (ES 534)

Jack McBride, Anthropology

Thesis: The Evolution of Primate Litter Size

May 1, 2024 at 1 p.m. (AH 319)

Henry Fisher, Environmental Studies

Thesis: Collective Benefits, Individualized Responsibilities: A Q Method Case Study of Local Food Consumers’ Subjectivities in Bellingham, WA

May 3, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. (ES 534)

Kara Davis, Environmental Science

Thesis: Life cycle assessment of a hemp-based thermal insulation material

May 6, 2024 at 11 a.m. (ES 534)

Brandon McWilliams, Environmental Studies

Thesis: Beyond Dystopia: The Effect of Hopeful Climate Fiction on Climate Anxiety and Environmental Self-Efficacy

May 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. (ES 534)

Nathan Avery, Chemistry

Thesis: Biophysical and Structural Characterization of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII Lipid Binding with Lipid Nanodiscs

May 6, 2024 at 3 p.m. (SL 120)

Christine Bell, Education Leadership, EdD

Thesis: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on High School Nutrition Programs in Washington State: A Phenomenological Study

May 8, 2024 at 1 p.m. (via Zoom)

Allison Teigen, Chemistry

Thesis: Deoxygenating Nitrogen Oxides Using Coordination Complexes and Anionic Activity

May 8, 2024 at 4 p.m. (SL 110)

Chloe Beck, Environmental Science

Thesis: Biodiversity of Snow Algae in the North Cascades: Comparing Distinct Microhabitats at Mount Watson.

May 9, 2024; 1:30pm (MH 17)

Kyra Rengstorf, Music

Thesis: A Well-Trained Heart: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Kodály-Inspired Secondary Choirs

May 13, 2024 at 3 p.m. (Music Library Seminar Room PA 376B)

Kyra Rengstorf, Music

Thesis: A Well-Trained Heart: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Kodály-Inspired Secondary Choirs

May 13, 2024 at 3 p.m. (Music Library Seminar Room PA 376B)

Collin Shinkle, Biology

Thesis: The Fish Bites Back: A Developmental Analysis of Feeding Biomechanics in Danionin Minnows

May 14, 2024 9 a.m. (Location TBA)

Jessica Paredes Strong, Anthropology

Thesis: An Ethnographic Study of Grace Services: Understanding Resilience at an Organizational Level

May 15, 2024; 1:30pm (Arntzen Hall 319)

Kayla Croney, Chemistry

Thesis: Revealing Binding and Unbinding Pathways of Small Molecules and Peptides to Enzymes with Enhanced Sampling Methods

May 15, 2024 at 3 p.m. (SL 120)

Aaron Gibbs, History

Amity and Commerce: The Jay Treaty and Free Trade in the Atlantic World

May 16, 2024 at 2 p.m. (BH 325)

Brian Fleming Bleed, History

Thesis: "Two Years in the Making and Ten Minutes in the Destroying.” British Communal Army Formation during the First World War

May 17, 2024 at 9 a.m. (Bond Hall 315)

Chelsea Harris, Environmental Science

Thesis: Restoring Forest Habitat Using Assisted Migration as a Climate Change Adaption

May 17, 2024 at 3 p.m. (via Zoom only)

Stefan Clarke, Chemistry

Thesis: The Study of Sizable, Disordered Proteins and Understanding Heptamutant Sortase A’s Substrate Preferences

May 20, 2024 at 3 p.m. (SL 120)

Lena Johnson, Biology

Thesis: Identifying Genome Protective RNA Interference Factors in Tetrahymena thermophila

May 21, 2024 at 4 p.m. (BI 234)

April Reed, Environmental Science

Thesis: Enhancing the federal Natural Resource Damage Assessment process through Bayesian networks: A case study on the Little Mississinewa River, Indiana

May 24, 2024 at 2 p.m. (ES 534)

Holly Suther, Marine & Estuarine Science-Environmental Science

Thesis: Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Edible Seaweeds

June 13, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. (ES 534)