ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH COMMENCEMENT MONDAY MAY 17 2021
The Program PROCESSIONAL* INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Audrey Bilger, President WELCOME Roger M. Perlmutter ’73, Chairman, Board of Trustees ALUMNI WELCOME Melissa Osborne ’13 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS INTRODUCTION Audrey Bilger, President ADDRESS Ali Nouri ’97 CONFERRING OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS Audrey Bilger, President CONFERRING OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES Audrey Bilger, President RECESSIONAL*
MARSHALS
Commencement Marshal Jeffrey Parker, George Hay Professor of Economics
Student Marshals Kristen G. Anderson, Professor of Psychology Arthur Glasfeld, Margret Geselbracht Professor of Chemistry Matt Pearson ’92, Professor of Linguistics
Faculty Marshals Sonia Sabnis, Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities Janis Shampay, Howard Vollum Professor of Biology
* Those attending in person are requested to stand for the processional and recessional. Sign language interpretation is provided by Access Services Northwest. Our bagpiper is John Goff.
Ali Nouri ’97 As the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs in the department of energy, Dr. Ali Nouri plays a key role in President Biden’s response to the global climate crisis. From 2018 to 2021, Nouri was the president of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), which focuses on global health and security risks. Under Nouri’s leadership, FAS addressed science denialism and COVID-19 misinformation by providing timely, science-based information to policymakers and to the public. Nouri served in various roles in the United States Senate between 2008 and 2018, including six years as a policy adviser on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He also served as an energy and environment adviser, a national security adviser, and a legislative director. Prior to working in the Senate, Nouri served as an adviser to the office of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, where he developed initiatives to block biotechnology from being used to produce biological weapons. Nouri earned a BA in biology from Reed College and a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University. He resides in Washington, DC, with his wife, Logan Gibson, and their two sons.
Music by Portlandia Brass Ensemble JáTtik Clark, tuba Jen Harrison, horn Lars Campbell, trombone Logan Brown, trumpet Joe Klause, trumpet PROCESSIONAL Pomp and Circumstance no. 4, op. 39 Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) Arranged for the Rose City Brass Quintet by Lars Campbell RECESSIONAL Dances from The Danserye Tylman Susato (1510/15–after 1570) Arranged and edited by John Iverson
Graduating seniors are listed alphabetically under each of Reed’s five academic divisions, followed by interdisciplinary majors that cross the divisions and master's graduates. The listing includes the academic department in which the student majored and any concentration within that major (noted by a colon). The title of the student's thesis is listed, except for students who completed one of Reed's combined degree programs in place of the thesis year at Reed.
The Arts MO ALLYN
Music Sound, Media, and Affect at Portland's Black Lives Matter Protests KIERAN ANDREWS
Theatre Approaching the Absurd: A Physical Theatre-Based Acting Methodology for Theatre of the Absurd SEBASTIAN BISHOP
Music La Orquestra Psicodélica Transcontinental: Musical Hybridity in Modern Latinx Alternative Music JUCE BRANDON
Music Mambo Mambo: How It Got On The Dance Flo’ APRIL BROWN
Art MOIRA BROWN
Art Spiral CLEMENTINE CULF
Art Walking Gardens: An Exploration of Food, Land, and Magic in a Concrete World HARRIETT NAUSICAÄ RAMONA ENRIQUEZ
Art To Speak of Forms Changed: Telling the Story of a Completely Unglamorous Transition GRETA FIEWEGER
Art I Hold Myself in My Arms: The Book Figured as an Object of Comfort EMMA GANGER-SPIVAK
Art A Poetics of Description: Alt text and The Museum
MOLLY LINDEN HERRO
Art The Pond: On the Loop and Infinity in Experimental Animation HENRY OBERHOLTZER
Music Waveform Transmissions: Minimalism and Dynamic Expression in Techno PRECIOUS ROMO
Art Framing Heroes in Crisis: Approaches to Identity in Superhero Comics MARIA SAENZ-RODRIGUEZ
Art “Atmospheric” Films: What It Means and How To Make It NICHOLAS SCHLESINGER
Art Hand Printed: A Consideration of Art and Automation CONNOR SEYMOUR
Art iMage Quest: QAnon, Network Aesthetics, and Speculative Fictions MARIA WILKERSON
Theatre “Could you ask as much from any other man?”: Religious Ritual, Musical Theater, and the Cost of Creation BRENNA WRYE-SIMPSON
Music Maurice Ravel's poetic "transposition": musical color, narrative, and form in Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
History & Social Sciences ISABEL ADESKO
History TPAJAX & PBSUCCESS: The Roots and Aftermath of CIA Intervention in Iran and Guatemala DEMETER ANDERSON
Anthropology Blossoming from the Steppe: Nationalism and Culture in Urban Kazakhstan ALYSSA ANDRICHIK
Political Science The Danger of U.S. Nuclear Security Organizational Culture & the Importance of Diverse Thought SHIR LEV BACH
History Inside, Outside, Morningside: Alaska’s Insane in Portland, Oregon, 1904-1960 MARIANA BEYER CHAPA
Political Science Explaining State Variation in Issuing of Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants in the United States PABLO BLANCO
Political Science Modernization and NAFTA: An Exploration of the Production Sharing Model TYLER BOENTE
Political Science Mutual Aid: How Theory Became Practice TESS BUCHANNAN
Anthropology Totally Tubular: Potatoes and Change in the Peruvian Andes NATHANIEL BURROWS
Anthropology Linguistic Nationalism and Breton Autonomy: A Comparative Study of Regional Movements
JANE CALDERBANK
FERNANDO FLAMENCO
Anthropology: Science, Environment, and Technology Studies Springtime Dwelling: The Poetics of Pacific Northwest Salmon
Political Science Strange Rumblings in JuárezFemicides, Cartel Violence, and Mexico's Crisis of Impunity
NICK CAMPIGLI
CHERYL FOK
History The Roman Threat: The Catholic Church in South Africa 1953-1957
Anthropology Judicial Flogging in Botswana: the Sociality, Language, and Phenomenology of Chiefly Punishment
ANDREA CAMPOS
Economics Andean Superfood Boom Goes Bust: An Economic Analysis on the Welfare Effects of the Quinoa Bust in Peru
ABBY FRIESEN-JOHNSON
Anthropology The apocalypse of reason SAM GIVENS
ALISA CHEN
Anthropology Anti-Vagrancy and the Harvesting of the West
Economics Remuneration Frustration: The Past, Present, and Future of Music Streaming Royalties
QUINN CHEN
OLIVER HILLENKAMP
Anthropology The Aesthetics of Surveillance: Tactical Interventions in Surface Matters
Anthropology All We Have is Each Other: Abolitionist Mutual Aid in Portland, OR
TOM DAVIES
MATT JARVIS
Economics Extractive and Exacting: Reshaping West Virginia's Economy for a World Without Coal
Economics Comparative Community and Economic Development: An Audit and Discussion concerning Public Investment in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon from 1980-2019
LULU DAVIS
Economics Reassessing the Measure of Income Inequality in the United States MEGAN ELEY
Anthropology The Legend of Korra: Fandoms, Queerness, and Representation ALYSSA ROSE SCHWARTZ FEIGELSON
History Sourdough Challah: How Californian Jews Reconciled Tradition and Modernity During the Immigration Period of 1849-1890
YESSICA JI
Economics How Do COVID-19 Lockdowns Affect China’s Air Pollution and its Future Path? ANNIE JIANG
History Education and Transnational Subjectivity: Chinese Students in the United States, 1945-2000 LIRUI JIAO
Economics Looking at the Relationship between Investment Fluctuations and Economic Growth Fluctuations in China since Reform on both a National and Province Level
OMAR KAZMI
THEO MATTHEE-O'BRIEN
Political Science Dissident Networks in Online Spaces: Weak-Ties & High Risk Activism
Anthropology Writing Authority: What Does That Even Mean? DREW MCGINNIS
KEVIN KURAMOTO
Political Science Pulling the Donkey's Tail: Ideological Movement Following Battleground Primaries
History Radical and Moderate Thought between the League of Coloured Peoples and the Keys PAUL MOLAMPHY
JONATHAN LEDERMAN
History Human Rights as Politics: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in Post-dictatorship Chile (1990-98)
Anthropology: Linguistic Anthropology Orisha Traditions through YouTube: Virtual Interactions in Enduring Communities
REBECCA LEWIT
BODHI MOLINARY-KOPELMAN
History Treatise on the Aesthetic and Moral Context of Landscape Gardening: Adapted to the Northeast of America; with a View to the Improvement of City Parks
Political Science What Can We Owe Each Other: Political Realism vs Moral Idealism in International Relations
MICHAEL LIGAMARI
Economics The Digitization of Music and Market Effects: Two Eras
LAUREN MONDROSKI
History Out on the Trail: Queer Representations of Wilderness, Morality, and Fantasy, 1950-1979 ANAÏS MOUTARLIER
CHLOE LOMBARDO
Sociology Does Access to Technology Disrupt How Socio-Economic Status Structures Inequalities in Engagement with Health-Related Information and Services? ANTONIA MACNAUGHTON
Sociology Table Talk: Conversations About the Sabbath, Jewish Identity, and Group Affiliation JACK MADER
History The Parallel Process, Following the Precedent: Reconstruction in Tennessee APOORVA MANGIPUDI
History El silencio de la clase media: Argentina’s Middle Class and El Proceso de Reorganización, 19761983
History Soldiers of humanity: humanitarianism & Algerian sovereignty (1954-1962) PETER MULGREW
Economics Gender and Innovation in the US Patent System SOPHIE NARANJO-RIVERA
Sociology Started from the bottom now we're here: examining representations of black masculinity in popular music ANESU NDORO
Anthropology Family Matters: Black Conservatives and Political Belonging in the Republican Party
MAX NOBEL
LUCY SAGOO
Economics Tuition Dependent: Examining the Trade-off between International and Non-White Enrollment at American Higher Education Institutions
Political Science An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Native American Occupation Movements in the United States
DYLAN PARKER
Anthropology Tiki Culture: a Semiotic Structure, Historical Genealogy, and Collective Reflection of Drinking in Colonialism MATT PASSARELLI
Economics The Capitalization of Energy Efficiency in Home Sale Prices
TABIA SCHMIDT
Anthropology Settler Colonialism and Solidarity: An Exploration of Diasporic Kashmiri Activism MAYA SEIBER
History Engendering the Popish Plot: Visions of Women’s Purity and Sin During England’s Exclusion Crisis, 1678-81 JACOB SHAW
CARMEN PEREZ
Anthropology Salvem el Cabanyal: Resistance to Gentrification and Grassroots Organizing in Valencia's Maritime District ABBIGAIL LYN PETERSON
Political Science Toxic Politics: The Feedback Effects of Living Near a Superfund Site on Political Participation and Attitudes ABHI RAJSHEKAR
Political Science Constructing Subservience: Theorizing Citizenship Under the Incidence of State-Sponsored Violence JACK READER
History A Comparison Between Mass Media Responses to Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Political Science Negro Unification: Garveyism Reified Through Duboisian Political Philosophy LEILA SHOKAT
Anthropology In Our Hands: How Biologists Negotiate Unpredictability to Make and Share Knowledge NATHAN SMITH
History The Black Death and the Catholic Church: Catastrophe and Changing Modes of Thought in Late Medieval Europe DANIEL SPERTUS
Economics The Role of the State in Funding the Arts: An Evaluation of the Portland Arts Tax TRUDY VALENTINO
Anthropology Farewell, Forget, Remember: Arab Jewish Identity in America
History How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Study the Bomb: Intersections of Research, Containment, and Deterrence at the Nevada Test Site
MAYOU ROFFÉ
ANNA VOLZ
Economics Why Didn't We Think Of That? Inclusive survey methodologies and their application towards social programs
Sociology Finding a "Match": Student Support at Liberal Arts Colleges and the Community College Transfer
SKYLAND RICE
CADEN A. WAIT
History Strange Hopes Grow in Radiant Black Earth: From Chernobyl to Chornobyl SAM WILLIAMS-BARON
Economics Hot Jobs: Employment Flows and California Wildfires VICTORIA WOLF-LLOP
Sociology Diversity Talk: Issues of Representation and Inclusivity at the Portland Art Museum MING YAN
Sociology An Analysis of the Emergence of the Alternative Pet Food Industry YUXI ZHU
Economics Female Labor Force Participation Rate in East Asian Countries
Literature & Languages DASHIELL ALLEN
Spanish From Somos to Prosa plebeya: A Discussion of Sexual Politics in Argentina BRIAN BLUM
English Stories About Storytelling: An Analysis of the Power of the Spoken Word in Beowulf, its Capabilities, and its Presentation FIONA BRACKLEY
English THIS WAS OUR FIRST ARGUMENT LINDSEY CALDERON
English The Honor Principle: Examining Revenge Tragedies of Early Modern England ALLISON DENNIS
English An American Revelation: The Need for a Historical Reckoning in Tony Kushner's Angels in America PAULINE FLEMING
English An absurd idea OWEN R. HART
Comparative Literature For Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You: An Aesthetic Escape from the Abyss of Nihilism JORDAN HENNESSEE
English "Is this love to come from out there?": Self-love as an Act of Defiance in Adrienne Kennedy's Plays ISABEL LAFKY
English Queer Wests, From Cather to Proulx
GABRIELLE LAFRATTA
ALIZA PHILLIPS
English "What is your substance, whereof are you made?": Gender, Sex, Bodies, and Love in Frankenstein and FranKISStein
Comparative Literature Between the eye and the "I"
ETHAN AUSTIN LAMBRIGHT
English The Radical Doubt of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi SOROA LEAR
Comparative Literature Assembled and Undone: Bodies Beyond Subjection MISHA LERNER
Russian Trotsky Writes the Russian Revolution: The Symbol of the Explosion in Trotsky’s My Life and The History of the Russian Revolution, and its Meta-Symbolic Significance EMMA MCNEEL
Classics: Greek and Latin Language and Literature Conversing with Mute Ash: The Capacity of Classical Reception SARA METZGER
English Woman Divided: An Analysis of Dichotomous Female Archetypes in Dickens’ Great Expectations ALEX MORGAN
Comparative Literature Mirages and Mirrors: Reflections on Femininity, Masculinity, and Adolescence in Two Mid-QingDynasty Novels KYLE NASH
Classics: History and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean De rerum repatrione, or On the Repatriation of Things FAYE PARKS
English “F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition”: The Challenge of Representing Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Bluebeard
BEN READ
Comparative Literature Toward a Poetics of Study ELLIOTT ROSENTHAL
Classics: Greek and Latin Language and Literature Agamemnon and Political Crisis in the Iliad CALEB SAUSSY
English Ars Memoria and Heteroglossia in Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies EMMA SOUDERS
Comparative Literature Memory and identity in Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a return to the native land and Discourse on colonialism ELISE TANGEDAL
English Desire! Decay! Depravity!: Expressions of Decadence in Federico Fellini's Films of the 1960s SOFIA VALENCIA
English Say Tomorrow DREW VELTROP
English Meursalt's Linguistic Metamorphoses AIDAN WALKER
English On Online Lines: The Place of the Reader in Web 1.0 Electronic Literature SARAH SHANTI SETARAM WOLFE
Comparative Literature Putting the Lai in Layered: The Relevance of Postcolonial Hybridity to the Work of Marie de France
KEZIAH WONG
Comparative Literature In Your Dreams PATRICK WOODARD
Comparative Literature “Durch's Gebirg” Unity, Fragmentation, and Stimmung in Büchner’s Lenz MOLIERE XU
Comparative Literature Metatextuality, Enchantment and Imaginative Vision in Wu Mingyi’s The Stolen Bicycle, Magician in the Skywalk and “The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up” ZACK YOUCHA
Russian On the Road to Recovery: Soviet Jewish Travelogues in a Thawing Landscape
Mathematics & Natural Sciences JACKSON S. ANDERSON
Physics Simulating Slow Light Propagation in an Electric Circuit FRANCIS BAER
Mathematics Adams Spectral Sequence Computations of BP<1> • BP<1> cooperations at Odd Primes KEES BENKENDORFER
Physics All-Orders Resummation of mMDT-Groomed Heavy Hemisphere Mass in ElectronPositron Annihilation AIDAN BERRYMAN
Chemistry Isolation of ZnuBC, a Zn(II) Transport Complex from Bacillus subtilis LENNY BLAIR
Biology Questioning Quirky Quercus: Examining Possible Oak Hybridization in Portland, OR. TYLER MICHAEL BORTEL
Physics Hydrogenic Hamiltonian Construction for Simulation on Quantum Hardware with Quantum Phase Estimation NAOMI BOSS
Mathematics: Statistics Hindsight is 2020: Evaluating a Presidential Election Forecasting Model During a Global Pandemic DELANEY L. BRUBAKER
Biology Can We Build a Framework for the Future of Sustainable Agriculture Knowledge? SOPHIA ROSE BRUNO
Biology Barren and Bored to Death: The Impacts of Genetics and Barren Environments on Asatotilapia burtoni
MITCHELL BURDORF
SIMON P. COUCH
Physics Analyzing Cosmological Evolution through n-body Simulation of Dark and Luminous Matter using ChaNGa
Mathematics: Statistics Tidy Model Stacking with R
RYEN BURRIS
Mathematics-Physics Modelling Vibration of Membranes Under Non-Uniform Tension SARAH BUTA
Chemistry Structural and Functional Exploration of the Mn(II) Transporter, “MntABC”, from Staphylococcus Aureus
EMILY CROOK
Biology Ecological Drought: Drought Ecology and Policy From The Ground Up ISADORA DEW DE CASTRO
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Validating the Retinoic Acid Responsiveness of nr6a1b and tshz1 in the Zebrafish Retina During Neurogenesis RY DENNIS
REILLY CANNON
Computer Science-Mathematics Differential Privacy: the Gap Statistic and the Mapper Algorithm
Biology Phylogeny and Selection on the Dihydroflavonol 4-Reductase Gene of Ranunculaceae
NICHOLAS CECIL
KATHERINE DESCANT
Mathematics Nets, Filters, and Convergence
Biology Cholinergic neuromodulation of the Xenopus vocal hindbrain circuit
NICK CHAIYACHAKORN
Mathematics Three Easy Pieces in Harmonic Analysis: Singular Integrals, the Hardy Space H1, and Boundedness Results
Chemistry The Effect of Sodium on Bitter Taste Receptors
SUSHRUTA CHANDRAMOULI
LIV DEPIES
Physics-Biology Fishing Forces: An Inquiry into the Role of Split Discs on Drosophila Cell Adhesion with Traction Force Microscopy
Biology Effect of Ca2+ on Synergistic Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate by a Pseudomonas and Bacillus Consortium
MAUD DIAS
ESTHER CHEN
LUKE DOMS
Physics Quantum Algorithm for Berry Phase Measurement
Mathematics A Geometric Interpretation of the Coefficients of the Standard Simplex's Ehrhart Polynomial
KYU YEON CHO
Mathematics: Statistics Integer programming methods and the fleet assignment problem EMMA COONEY
Chemistry Pipe for the Picking: Palladium Recovery and Quantification from Tailpipe Residue
KENDAL DRAGOTTO
Chemistry Exploratory Study of Portland Summer Protest Sites for Degradation Products and Secondary Pollutants of CS gas in Soil Samples and Respirator Cartridges
LIAM FARLEY
Chemistry Attempted Expression and Purification of ERα-LBD
ALFONSO GOMEZ VELASQUEZ
Physics The Modulation Tabulation
MARIE FAULKNER
CALIN GRIMM
Chemistry Here Ter B Dragons: Solubility Analysis of a Tellurium Resistance Protein in the Time of the Coronavirus
Chemistry Identifying and Quantifying Sources of Diesel Pollution in Portland, Oregon ZHENGYAO GU
BILLY FISH
Physics Tipping Points in ZeroDimensional Global Energy Balance Climate Models EVAN FRANCHERE
Mathematics Trust the Cones: Computing Diagonal Cartier Algebras of Affine Toric Varieties
Computer Science-Mathematics Selective Prediction: Training and Evaluation Methods ADDISON GUYNN
Chemistry Neutron Activation Analysis of an Insoluble Sample Containing Bismuth and Phosphorus By Liquid Scintillation Counting USMAN HAFEEZ
ALEX FU
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology An Investigation into the Mechanism of Transcription Activation of the Metalloregulator MntR LUJIA GAO
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology A Single-Step Method to Prepare Nitro Groups and Nitrate Esters using Metal Nitrates SEGOVIA MARINA GARCIA Y ATENCIO
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Cytoskeletal Regulation by the Gap Junction Forming Proteins Innexins LEO GARTNER
Chemistry Computational Investigation of Bimetallic Iridium-Ruthenium and Monometallic Iridium Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Catalysts SAM GINNETT
Physics A Random Walk through Quantum Field Theory: From the Harmonic Oscillator to Lattice QCD
Mathematics A1 Milnor Numbers OLIVIA HAGEN
Biology Proliferation in the zebrafish optic tectum as a function of visual input ALEXANDER CONFORTINI HARDY
Physics Parameter Optimization of a Passive-Error-Correcting Logical Qubit ANDREW RENE HARMAN
Biology Studying the Correlative Relationship Between Farm Practices and Mastitis Infections CASEY HARRIS
Computer Science Don’t Look Down: Interpreting Visual Information Using Celeste HANNAH HELLERSTEIN
Computer Science Where’s My Proton Pack?: Defending Against Spectre Variant 1
KAITLYN HEPP
NOAH KOSTER
Mathematics Rowmotion on Doppelgänger Pairs
Computer Science-Mathematics Neuronal Dynamics of the Action Potential: Spiking Behavior in the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model and others
DAVID HERRERO QUEVEDO
Computer Science Implementation of Local Differentially Private Protocols for Linear Queries BRENHAM HOOPER
Mathematics: Statistics Classifying Types of Young Stars Using Supervised Machine Learning
THÉO PHILIPPE LAVIER
Mathematics-Physics A First Look at Rate Induced Tipping JIARONG LI
Computer Science-Mathematics Complex Network Comparison Using Graphlets
AARON HUANG
Chemistry Kinetic Studies of TerpeneDerived Hydroxynitrates MATTHEW HWANG
Physics The Whole World and You: Toying With Physics on a Flat Earth TAYLA ISENSEE
Biology Expansion of Sex-Biased Conserved Gene Calling with Orthogroups MAXIMILIAN JENNINGS
Chemistry Lunar Volatiles: A Review and Synthesis CHUNXI JI
Computer Science-Mathematics Universal Approximation and Interpolation in Neural Networks ALEXANDER JOHN
Biology The Research into Growth Conditions Optimal for Both Bacterial and Enzymatic Activity LIZZY KNIGHT
Chemistry Quantifying the Effects of Hydrogen Bonding on the Protonolysis of Dimethyl (1,5cyclooctadiene) Platinum (II) by Trifluoroacetic Acid with Density Functional Theory
YILIN LI
Computer Science-Mathematics What If English Had No Spaces? Investigating the Challenges of NLP for Character-Based Languages MUXI LIU
Physics A Door to Quantum Gravity: The Black Hole Information Paradox YILIAN LIU
Physics Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond VIOLA LUM
Physics Reinventing the Wheel: Rotational Rigidity under Relativity SARAH KINGSLAND MAEBIUS
Mathematics: Statistics Statistical Learning Methods for Tree Classification using Remote Sensing Imagery PETER MARCUS
Mathematics Computing the Henselization of a Valued Field ADDISON MCALISTER
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology A Novel Synthetic Pathway to Nitro and Nitrate Ester Compounds Using Metal Nitrates
KIKI MCBRIDE
KACEY OTTENBACHER
Mathematics Klein Has Me in Stitches! (An Exploration of Mathematical Constructions of the Klein Quartic and Creation of Analogous Crochet Models)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Characterization of Ter C a Putative Membrane Protein
MALCOLM MCCARTHY
Physics An apparatus for measuring large scale cosmic ray anisotropy through water Cherenkov muon detection ROBERT MCCAULL
Computer Science Session Types for a Concurrent Language sNow BEN MCCORMICK
Biology DNA Barcoding of Entoloma Subgenus Leptonia: Towards a Phylogenetic Species Concept
RICHARD PHAM
Computer Science-Mathematics Graph reconfiguration in the context of permutation routing KAI PINCKARD
Computer Science Causal Relation Extraction: a Three Step Process ELI POPPELE
Computer Science Do Algorithms Dream in Electric Sleep? Using Genetic Algorithms to Train Neural Networks to Play Atari Video Games on RAM-Based Input GARRETT TOWNSEND PRICE
Chemistry Adding Nitro and Nitrate Esters to Alcohols and Phenols Using Metal Nitrates
Biology Feeling the Burn: Investigating the Impacts of Prescribed Fire on the Long Term Hydraulic Vulnerability of Trees at Sycan Marsh Preserve
ASA MCNAUGHTON
LILIAN QI
Physics Monte Carlo Particle-In-Cell Simulation of a Magnetically Shielded Grid Fusion Reactor
Computer Science On Generating Stylized Line Drawings from Polygonal Models
HANNAH MCFADDEN
WEIHANG QIN HANNAH SOPHIE ELISABETH MEIER
Biology Phytoplankton on the Go! Understanding the effect of thermal acclimation on the movement strategies of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ALAN MOORE
Mathematics Inference on Latent Structure Random Graphs: Context, Theory and Applications QUINN B. MORGAN
Physics Exploring Bistability in a Driven Time-delay System with an Electronic Circuit
Computer Science-Mathematics Raymarching Hyperbolic Geometry MATHIS RICHARDS
Biology Still got it in you?: Effects of multi-generational captivity on social and endocrinological function in male Astatotilapia burtoni DANNY RISO
Computer Science Building a Taxonomy from the Wikipedia Category Graph
MAXWELL ROSENBERG
MARGARET ANNE SLEIN
Computer Science Odd One Out: Learning Taxonomic Embeddings from WordNet
Biology Mean temperature, fluctuation magnitude, and level of biological organization affect biological responses amidst thermal variability: a meta-analysis
TYLER SALAZAR
Biology A pcaK gene knockout in Pseudomonas sp. 9.2 may inhibit the uptake of Terephthalic Acid (TPA) HENRY SCHEFFER
ASHER SMITH
Biology Size and temperature: An ecology of phytoplankton in a changing world
Biology Love in the Age of Plastics: Elucidation and Improvement of PET Biodegradation by a Bacterial Consortium
Biology Estimating Somatic Mutation Rates in Daphnia magna
ISAAC SCHUMAN
ARYEH STAHL
Biology How does the timing of spatial variation in temperature impact Chlamydomonas reinhardtii populations?
Computer Science-Mathematics A Generalized Approach to Graph De-anonymization
TAYLOR SEDOO
Mathematics Exposing Chaos: Attracting Differences
ELI SOBEL
ALEXANDER B. STRIFF
Physics Relaxation for an Open System of Interacting Spins JONATHAN TAKAGI
Chemistry Towards the Synthesis of Novel Anti-Toxoplasma Quinolones
Computer Science Evaluating Multiparty Computation Techniques for Fuzzy Matching of Voter Registration Records
HRISHEE SHASTRI
DAVID TAMAS-PARRIS
Computer Science-Mathematics Cutting the Chord: Interleaved and Demand-Aware Skip Graphs
Computer Science-Mathematics Elliptic Curves Aren't Secure? SIKE!
TIMOTHY SHINNERS
ALI TAQI
Mathematics: Statistics Modelling Mount Rainier’s Volcanic Event Sequence
Mathematics: Statistics Spectral Statistics of Random Matrices
LEILA SIEGEL-ZIGMUND
MEREDITH THEUS
Physics Measuring Carrier Lifetime in Thin-Film Solar Cells: A Comparison of Two Techniques
Biology Interactive Effects of Temperature and Bisphenol A on Phytoplankton Growth, Community Structure, and Bioremediation Capacity
JOSIE SEREBIN-STROMBERG
RUTH VALSQUIER
SENTA GISELLE WIEDERHOLT
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Optimizing HPLC-MS Conditions for Flavonoid Identification: The Path to Understanding Delphinium Flavonoid Expression in Novel Tissue Types
Biology The effects of chronic bisphenol (BPA, BPF, and BPS) exposure on endocrine- related gene expression in Daphnia magna
SOPHIA VARADY
Biology Dust, Dye, Diluent or Drugs... Who is the Real Cancer Killer? A Cellular Investigation of 24 Novel SERMs in Breast Cancer Treatment JAMES VESTO
Chemistry The Forest in the Clouds: Investigating the Fate of Atmospherically Relevant Organic Nitrate Esters with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy IAN WAHBE
Computer Science-Mathematics Improvements to the Heuristic Rural Postman Problem DANIEL WANG
Mathematics Diagrammatic Algebras to Describe the Endomorphism Algebra of $\mathfrak{gl}_n$Modules RILEY WAUGH
Mathematics Regularity Theory of Degenerate Elliptic Partial Differential Equations SHANNON WELLS-MORAN
Biology Testing Bark Uptake in S. sempervirens and P. menziesii: Does the Theory Hold Water? GRAYSON WHITE
Mathematics: Statistics A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Small Area Estimation of Forest Attributes
REBECCA XIE
Physics Turbulence and Its Affect on Star Formation in Galaxy NGC 524 MATTHEW YANCHEFF
Mathematics Statistical Inference on Brownian Motion with Drift LUCAS YONG
Computer Science-Mathematics An Exploration of Topological Quantum Computation LAURA YOSHIDA
Computer Science Insights from Applying Readability Formulas to Computer Systems Papers RODGER ZHANG
Physics Model of Length Contraction ZEHUI ZHAO
Physics Converse Symmetry Breaking in Two Models
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology & Linguistics
DANI COREA
Psychology Emotional Awareness and Emotional Tone: Temperamental Weather
JESSE ATKIN
Psychology The Effects of Political Partisanship on Selective Exposure RAINES BAKER
Psychology COVID-19 and Resilience in a Sample of Yoga Practitioners KIRA BECK
Psychology Pediatric Health Experiences and Long-Term Trust in Authority AUGUST BICKET
Linguistics A Case of Mistaken Identity: An investigation of semanticallymotivated argument marking in Meitei JAMIE BLACKWELL
Psychology The Relationship Between Authoritarian Parenting and General-Self Efficacy and WellBeing during College: The Role of SES and Perceived Normativeness ANDREA BRYANT
Linguistics Beyond they/them: A typology of nonbinary pronoun and agreement innovation
NAIM CURRIMJEE
Psychology Do plants learn? Assessing associative and non-associative learning in the Mimosa pudica plant LILI DAVIS
Psychology Cops Just Doing Their Jobs: Victim Framing of Media Representations of Police Violence NAOMI FASTOVSKY
Religion Speaking-Back: A circulatory history of Yiguandao ELISE GARRISON
Psychology Gender Identity and Belongingness on Adult MixedGender Sports Teams MAXIMILIAN HALPERIN
Psychology Psychedelic Panacea: Investigating Influence of 5-HT2A Receptor Activity on Cocaine Condition Place Preference KYLA HAYWORTH
Psychology Maternal Cocaine Addiction and the Effects on Parenting Behavior
JAGANNATH CADAMBI
Philosophy Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Kripkenstein's Skeptical Paradox
XINGANG HE
Religion Studies on Fang Yizhi: Sketches of a Chinese Intellectual in Tumultuous Time
TIFFANY CHANG
Linguistics A Mouse Bravely Dancing in the Rain: A Study of Third Tone Sandhi Production Among Asian Mandarin Heritage Speakers
URSULA HIRSCHI
Religion American Dakinis: Understanding the Encounter between Western Feminism and Tibetan Buddhism
SEBASTIAN LINCK HOGNESS
MARGARITA MELNIKOVA
Linguistics BAG/BEG/BAGEL: Beyond the West Coast?: Examining Pre-/g/ Movement and Merger in Arizona, Idaho and Utah
Philosophy That's Ancient History, been there, Done that: Moving Forward from the Problem of Dirty Hands PAUL MITCHELL
MAYA JENSEN
Psychology State-of-Emergency Studies: Sex, Drugs, and Stress in the Time of the Coronavirus MAXWELL KANTER
Psychology Exploring and Understanding K-12 Teachers’ Motivation to Innovate During COVID-19 CHRISTY LEI
Psychology Labeling emotions in a native and foreign language: An ERP study on emotion regulation in bilinguals via affect labeling TEDDY LINDBERG
Religion Religious and Racial Inheritance in White Racialist Paganism VICTORIA LIU
Psychology Examining Trajectories of Academic Motivation Across Four College Years: A Longitudinal, Mixed-Methods Approach NARA MARKOWITZ
Psychology Exploring Multilingual Clients’ Experience with Language Use In and Outside of Psychotherapy ADRIEN MATHIEUX
Psychology The Effects of Distinction and Color Congruence on Incidental Memory NALANI MCFADDEN
Linguistics Ghost Ride the Shift: African American English and Low Back Merger Shift in the East San Francisco Bay Area
Linguistics The Null Complement bǎ Construction JORDAN MOYES
Psychology Charisma and Group Membership as Predictors of Persuasion and Engagement ALEENA ORTÍZ
Religion The Transnational Eco-Religiosity of Hayao Miyazaki: The International Impact of Anime on Postmodern Religion CATHERINE ELAINE OWEN
Psychology Exploring Attitudes towards Sex Work MARIA ANTOINETTE PANOPOULOS
Psychology The Effect of Labels on Recognition of Visual Objects of Two Categories JOHN PETRINOVICH
Philosophy Justice in War: Can an Unjust War be Fought Justly? SARAH POLLOCK
Philosophy Monkeys and Morality: Narrowing the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance MADHAV VENUNARAYAN PULLE
Psychology How Appropriate is “Appropriate”? Views of Students, Faculty, and Staff on Disability Accommodations Based on Type of Disability
SAGE SCHWARTZ
JESSICA YANG
Psychology Navigating the Pandemic with ADHD: Investigating the Relationship between ADHD, Executive Function, and Physical Activity
Psychology Coping with COVID-19 at Reed: Evaluating individual and community strategies
NEMO SHEN
Linguistics Go small or go big, there is no in-between: Mandarin-English Speakers’ Grammar Preferences in Code-switching LUKE STILWELL
Psychology Investigating how consistently applied verbal labels affect flavor perception and discrimination SAVANNA SULC
Psychology Meditation’s Effect on Emotion Processing and Regulation: An ERP Study ESPEN SWANSON
Philosophy Engineering Identity: Ameliorative Social Construction of Human Kind Concepts HANNAH TUTT
Religion Faith and Prophetic Activism XIAOTIAN WANG
Linguistics Diphthongization of Shanghainese /e/ under the Influence of Language Contact with Mandarin DYLAN RANDALL WONG
Psychology Life Course Models of Child Maltreatment: Effects on General Psychopathology Outcomes in a Longitudinal Sample YUE XI
Philosophy The Epistemic Uncanny
CICI YIN
Psychology "I’m the Real Victim”: Self-Victim Framing and Perceptions of Sexual Assault
Interdisciplinary SHISHAM ADHIKARI
Mathematics-Economics Inequality in Ramsey Growth Model with Heterogeneous Rates of Return: Are rich getting higher returns on investment than poor? DEIRDRE BAKER
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science Between a Rock and a Hard Place KAYLEIGH BANGS
Philosophy-Mathematics This Thesis is Indeducible: Approaches for Justifying the Consistency of Peano Arithmetic After Gödel JOSH BRETTHAUER
Environmental Studies: Political Science All About the Green: A Narrative Policy Framework Approach to Economic vs. Environmental Tradeoffs at the Executive Level ETHAN BRISLEY
American Studies: Sociology On the Road Again: Roadtrips, Personhood, and National Identity for Young White Americans EMA LIRIA CHOMSKY
Environmental Studies: History Pigs and Plantation: US Environmental Interventions in Haiti in the Twentieth Century ROSE COLE-COHEN
Anthropology-Dance Jew~ish? Embodied Constructions of Jewishness in American Ashkenazi Zionism ASHLEE COOK
Neuroscience Incubation of Cocaine Craving Following Limited vs. Unlimited Intermittent Access Cocaine SelfAdministration in Female Rats
OLIVIA DAO
Neuroscience Optogenetic Investigation of Dopamine and Ghrelin Interactions on Feeding Behaviors NEBIYAT D. ESUBALEW
Neuroscience A Potential Role for Neurotensin in the Mouthbrooding Cichlid Astatotilpia burtoni PIXIE FREEMAN
Environmental Studies: Political Science Measuring the Efficacy of Elementary Climate Change Education ISABEL DIAS HOFF
Environmental Studies: Biology Effects of Drought, Air Pollution, and Socio-Environmental Vulnerability on Portland Green Roofs GENYUAN HU
Neuroscience Change in GFAP Expression as a Consequence of the Disconnection Between Zebrafish Retina and Optic Tectum IAN JACKSON
Computer Science-Psychology A Novel BCI System for 3D Shape Imagery Classification MYKAL KELLY
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies: Anthropology The Political Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana: Generational Perpetuation of Political Ideology JONAH KOHN
Computer Science-Neuroscience The Recursive Application of Biological and Artificial Neural Networks: Towards an Understanding of Both NATALIE A. LASKO
Anthropology-Religion 4chan and Islamophobia
JONATHAN LI
GREGORY POST
Mathematics-Economics Simulating Repeated Coalition Formation under Uncertainty
Environmental Studies: Economics Hedonic Valuation of Disappeared Streams in Portland, Oregon
EVA LICHT
Biology-Theatre Rehearsing Reality: An Investigation into Split Discs, Cell Migration, and the Power of Forum Theatre
EMMETT ISAIAH POWERS
Environmental Studies: History Unearthing the Ecosystem Concept in the Atomic Age CONNIE PULLAN
CLAUDIO MALAGRINO
Neuroscience What Makes a Matrix: a Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Extracted Neuronal ECM
Environmental Studies: Biology The Double-Edged Sword Asparagopsis: The environmental risks of Asparagopsis aquaculture associated with attempts to lower rumen methane production
ANDREY MARSAVIN
Environmental Studies: Chemistry Oxidized Nitrogen in Wildfire Smoke at Mt. Bachelor Observatory NINA AMIRA MATTHEWS
Sociology-Spanish Tearing Down the Wall: Volunteer Discourse in Relation to Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theory of the U.S.Mexico Border
LAUREN RABE
Environmental Studies: Economics Does Presentation Matter? An Analysis of Text vs. Images in a Choice Experiment of Green Roofs LUX RADETSKY
Neuroscience How Does Grammatical Gender Affect Object Concepts? A Critical Test of Alternative Mechanisms
CELIA MORELL-BORGSTROM
Environmental Studies: Biology Fire Refugia Formation in Old-Growth Forests of the west Cascades and Klamath Ecoregions from 2010-2018
BIJAY RAI
Mathematics-Economics On Track: Access to Improved Road Network and Poverty Alleviation in Mid and Far Western Nepal
NATALIE MURPHY
Environmental Studies: History Musical Memories of Nature in the Dust Bowl and Great Migration
YUFENG REN
Mathematics-Economics Casino Revenue and Life Quality in Macau
RUBY MAE NOVAK
JESSENYA LISSETTE SALINAS
Environmental Studies: Biology Remote Sensing of Tree Health Under Drought Conditions in Portland, OR
Neuroscience The Effect of Naltrexone on Low- and High-Drinkers in CueInduced Reinstatement of Alcohol
EVIAN OOSTHUIZEN
NOAH SJOBLOM
Environmental Studies: Economics Tax Swap: Replacing a State Tax on Electricity Sales with a Carbon Tax
Neuroscience A Biopsychosocial Interpretation of Addiction: A Meandering Review
ADA SPRENGELMEYER
CARTER WILLIAMS
International and Comparative Policy Studies: Political Science A Social Network Analysis of International Climate Initiatives Before and After the Paris Climate Agreement
Neuroscience Stress hormone response to environmental changes in two species of African clawed frogs
AISLIN SKYE LIGHTER STEILL
Environmental Studies: Political Science In the Red: Social vulnerability and western redcedar dieback in Portland's urban forest KAIA TUROWSKI
Environmental Studies: Political Science A Poisoned Paradise: How Businesses Behave Under California's Toxics Law, Proposition 65
OLEK WOJCIK
Mathematics-Economics Higher Education Responses to COVID-19 STELLA WROBLEWSKI
Neuroscience Isolating Potential Neural Correlates of Consciousness by Analyzing Pattern Perception Thresholds
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
JOULES VACA
Environmental Studies: Chemistry Sunny Yellow Outlook SONIA VARAH
American Studies: English Standing Up and Speaking Out: An Analysis of American Female Stand-up Comedians Confronting Social and Political Issues Through Humor MATT HAORAN WAN
Economics-Psychology Bayesian Econometric Analysis of Individual Spending, Labor Supply, and Deferred Consumption in a LaboratoryBased Token Economy CAROLINE ELIZABETH WEISS
Environmental Studies: History Radium Land: Radioactivity and Superfund in 20th Century Orange, New Jersey STERLING WHITE
Environmental Studies: Political Science Agents of Change: A Comparison of Federal Bureaucratic Behavior on Sustainability and Climate Change between the Obama and Trump Administrations
MARY LOU ANDERSON
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies A Cracker Jack of a Corporation: How Candy Covered Popcorn Influenced America LYNETTE YETTER
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Domination and Justice in the Allegorical Story “La reunión de ayer” by Adela Zamudio (18541928), Bolivia
A Note on the Beginnings of Reed College & Commencement In the late 1800s, the Reverend Thomas Lamb Eliot suggested to two of his parishioners, Oregon pioneers Simeon and Amanda Reed, that they use their wealth for the betterment of society. He urged them to found “a Reed Institute of lectures and arts and music and museum.” In 1908, with contributions from Simeon and Amanda’s estate after their deaths, a board of trustees led by Eliot established the Reed Institute in Portland, Oregon. Reed College began its first classes in 1911 with 50 students—26 men and 24 women—and 15 faculty members. As an innovative experiment to restore relevancy to the liberal arts in an age dominated by science and industry, Reed sought neither the size and specialization of the university nor the intercollegiate athletics and elaborate social life that had become standard at many private colleges. Under the inspiration and guidance of Reed’s founding president, William Trufant Foster, the college set out to build a democratic community without regard for nationality, gender, religion, race, or class. No fundamental distinctions were made between students and faculty in what was called “the quest for truth.” Students were expected to do original work in a major subject area—the senior thesis. A principle of honor governed all aspects of campus life. Reed held its first commencement ceremony in 1915, for which President Foster conferred degrees on the back steps of Eliot Hall. In the last few decades, the college has usually invited a notable graduate to give the commencement address; recent alumni commencement addresses have been given by Kathleen Saadat ’74, Igor Vamos ’90, Jennifer Ferenstein ’88, Robert Smith ’89, Larry Sanger ’91, and Michelle Nijhuis ’96. For over a hundred years Reed has remained steadfast in its belief in the intrinsic value of rigorous scholarship, the joy of serious intellectual pursuit, and the essential role of community in the development of knowledge.
A Note on Academic Regalia Academic regalia worn at commencement reveal different types of academic achievement through the use of different styles and colors of gowns and hoods. The bachelor’s gown has a long pointed sleeve; the master’s is a long closed sleeve with a slit at the elbow; and the doctor’s is a very full, bell-shaped sleeve with the bands matching the color of the gown opening. The hoods are lined in the official color of the institution that conferred the degree, although the bachelor’s hood is rarely used. The colored velvet binding in the hoods indicates the academic area in which the degree was earned—white for liberal arts, yellow for science, purple for law, red for theology, green for medicine, and blue for philosophy.