This section contains undergraduate theses by Dartmouth students. To browse theses by subject, go to Academic Departments and look under a specific department or program.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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MULTI-MODAL EMOTION APPRAISALS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, Carlos Guerrero Alvarez

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Character Relationship Prediction in Movies: Toward Emotionally-Aware Automatic Audio Descriptions, Seung Hyun Hahm

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Learning Parent Strategies: A Trajectory-Based Approach to Analyzing Parent Child Interactions with LLMs, Chelsea Joe

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Hollow Choices: The Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) and the Performance of Participation, Lena Kufferman

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A Framework for Scalable and Controlled Hallucination Data Collection, Lin Ting Liang

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Youth Activism and the City: An Urban Political Ecology of Flooding in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Nadine Lorini Formiga

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Magicicada and Mathematics: What the Parochiality of Our Explanations Means for the Indispensability Argument, Jadyn Malone

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DESIGNING ACCESSIBLE UI/UX FOR EPILEPTIC PATIENTS: A Scalable Solution for Music Therapy Delivery, Amethyst G.H. McKenzie

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Examining Intersectional Queer Biases in Large Language Models: A Combined Statistical and Visual-Qualitative Approach for Quantification and Explanation, Huu Duong (Chip) Nguyen

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Colonization-Persistence Trade-offs in the Human Microbiome, Liam F. Nokes

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Sacred Bodies and (A)historical Testimony: Han Kang's Human Acts, Jenny Yoojin Oh

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Are cycles of neural activity the algorithm of the brain?, Edwin Omondi Onyango

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Having a Cow: Exploring the Economic and Mental Health Challenges of Dairying in the Upper Valley, Ava J. Ori

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Evaluating Vision Language Model Capabilities for Time Series Interpretation: An Empirical Study with Conversation Duration and Psychological Flourishing Data from the StudentLife Dataset, Jusung Park

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Machine Verification of Correctness for a Concurrent Union-Find Object, Karun Ram

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"Beyond was Blossom and Death": Speculative Futurities, Anne Suh-Yun Rhee

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Belowground Biomass Shifts Along a Temperate Forest Edge, Lara Holbrook Roelofs

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Long-Range Transport of Canadian Wildfire Smoke: Public Health and Earth System Impacts, Erica L. Simon

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An Approach to Stylometry using Causal Language Models, Harrison F. Stropkay

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Coda: A Digital System for Generation of Piano Practice Exercises from Symbolic Music Notation, Annie Tang

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The Idea of Ethiopia: Heritage Tourism in the Land of Origins, Hosaena T. Tilahun

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Bayesian Segmentation–Driven Informative Path Planning for UAV-Based Water Orthomosaic Generation, Phuc Dai Tran

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Violent Tenderness, Aimilia Amalia Matthildi Tsopela

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Strategy in AI-Simulated Social Deduction Games: An Analysis of GPT-4 Agents in Mafia, Goutham Veeramachaneni, Weicheng Ma, and Soroush Vosoughi

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Latinos and Complicated Grief: An Analysis on the Impacts of a College Campus on Grief and Bereavement, Mark Jared Velasco Gonzalez

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Restoring the Ahupuaʻa: Community-Based Resource Management and Resilience in Kauaʻi, Jeffrey W. Walbridge Jr.

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Climate and Crop Modeling for New England Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation, Madeline K. Wolfe

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MotionTeller: Multi-modal Integration of Wearable Time-Series with LLMs for Health and Behavioral Understanding, Aiwei Zhang, Arvind Pillai, Andrew Campbell, and Nicholas C. Jacobson

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Charting Canons: Identities and Institutions behind Bestselling and Award-Winning American Fiction from 1913 to 2023., Katherine M. Arrington

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Exploring Tokenization Techniques to Optimize Patch-Based Time-Series Transformers, Gabriel L. Asher

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Building Trust: The Role of Place-based Consciousness in Vaccine Hesitancy, Ramsey W. Ash

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“I Had to Go There for My Own Safety” Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings, Elizabeth Avery Borgmann

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Welfare Maximization in the Airplane Problem, Alina Chadwick

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Loving 바리데기: A Traveler's Guide to Anthologizing the 여성 시인, Tiffany Hyunkyung Chang

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Shader-based Real-time Image Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality, Andrew Wang Chen

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What We Hear in Voices: Identifying Dimensionality in Speech Stimuli Trait Impressions, Caroline W. Conway

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Exploring Applications of AI in Developer-Side Web Accessibility Practices, Maria H. Cristoforo

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Mechanical Scanning Sonar Projections with a Monocular Camera, Xenia Dela Cueva

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An Economic Remodel: The Genesis of Modern Corporate Sustainability, Caitlin R. Doak

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Shifting Forms: Queer Placemaking Amidst Neoliberalism In New York City Through Art, Colin J. Donnelly

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The Fight for Rice: Understanding How Monte Cristi Will Respond to DR-CAFTA and Climate Change, Scarlette G. Flores

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The Impact of Maine’s Municipal Shellfish Management on Clam Harvester Motivation to Participate in Resource Conservation, Rachel Lohr Freer

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College Course Assignment: Maximality, Fairness, Scheduling, Emily Y. Gao

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Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Heat Islands and Historical Housing Discrimination In Boston, MA, Lily Gray

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Math, ChatGPT, and You: The Problem with Mathematical Accuracy in Large Language Models, Alexandre M. Hamel

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Carbon Pricing in Action: Evaluating the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Evelyn M. Hatem

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Curating Familiarity within the Unfamiliar: Exploring Non-Native Mobile App Experiences to Create Cross-Cultural Design Frameworks, Hanna Hong

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Latent Auto-recursive Composition Engine: A Generative System for Creative Expression in Human-AI Collaboration, Yenkai Huang

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RIPL: Recursive Inference for Policy Learning, Kunal Jha, Jeremy R. Manning, and Alberto Quattrini Li

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SPACE BOUNDS FOR ESTIMATING MINIMUM NORM OF SOLUTIONS IN UNDERCONSTRAINED SYSTEMS, Jeffrey Jiang

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Comedy Tonight? Maximizing Theatre Audiences Using a Game Theory Model, Emma Lavaune Johnson

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Modeling a Minority: Asian American Ivy League Students' Opinions on Affirmative Action., Deborah Y. Jung

Apocalyptic Surpluses, Hannah Kadin

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Investigating Bias in Mortgage-Rate Machine Learning Models, Will Kalikman

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INTELLIGENT MULTIPATH ROUTING: OPTIMIZING NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, Nicholas A. Krivov

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A Problem-Based Approach to Racial and Ethnic Inequities in the German Health System, Thomas C. Lane

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From History to Memory: Comparative Discourse of Proust's Le Temps Retrouvé and Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française, Jose F. Lopez Cochachi

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Impacts of Dam Construction on Hydro-Geomorphic Alteration in the Rio Coca, Richard Allen Lytle III

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Connection-Saving Gate Assignment: A Computational Approach, Rob Mailley

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Advancing Clinical Bacterial Diagnosis: Gram-Stained Whole-Slide Image Classification with Attention-Based Deep Learning, Jack McMahon

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Conserving the Public Lands: Policy and Spatial Analysis of a Bureau of Land Management Conservation Leasing Mechanism, Isaiah M. Menning

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Examining Differences in Concept Representation Across Similarity Spaces Between Humans and Large Language Models, Krishnachandra Nair

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Fiscal incentives for green growth: A mixed-methods study of the state of agroforestry and tree cover in India, Spriha Pandey

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Taming the "Dartmouth Animal", Kira Lynn Parrish-Penny

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Open Source Supply Chain Security: a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Achieving Various Security Thresholds in Build Environments, Carly Retterer

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The Dartmouth Land Ethic: Synthesizing Environmental Ethical Beliefs in Hanover and Beyond, Conor M. Roemer

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Emotional Regulation on Modulating Associations between Depression and Physical Activity as Characterized via Deep Learning, Franklin Ye Ruan

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Plant hormone signaling: the control of cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Ian A. Smith

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Zoom dysmorphia: An eye-tracking study of self-view and attention during video conferences, Kathleen H. Stimson

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“Salmon don’t have time for us to fix the climate”: The politics of climate change and dam breaching on the Lower Snake River, Zanna Stutz

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Achieving Domain-Independent Certified Robustness via Knowledge Continuity, Alan Wenyuan Sun

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Modern Bodies: Globalizing Media Cultures and the Representation of Ideal Beauty, Michelle Sun

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Land-use governance and Indigenous engagement in Arctic Alaska and Norway: successes, current gaps, and paths forward, Ningning Sun

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Staying Connected During COVID-19: Social Support for Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Conditions in Rural New England, Katherine E. Takoudes

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Data-Driven Computing Methods for Nonlinear Physics Systems with Geometric Constraints, Yunjin Tong

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Evading Antivirus Detection by Abusing File Type Identification, Chavin Udomwongsa

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Measuring Confidentiality with Multiple Observables, John J. Utley

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Whisper: Proximity-Based Authentication for Securely Sharing Secrets, Charles A. Vogel

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Implementing Selective Signature Scanning to Optimize Malware Detection, Lucas Gray Wilbur

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Investigating the Instagram Comments of Professional Soccer Players: The Impact of Social Media on Athletic Performance, Samuel Carlson Winchester

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Experimental Methods in Predicting Market Drift and other Portfolio Optimization Factors using Graph Theory, Perry Harrison Zhang

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Social Contact as a Conditional Factor on the Effects of Disclosing an Invisible Identity: The Case of Zainichi Koreans, Kai Timothy Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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(Dis)connected: Internet Access, Health Disparities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Spencer Allen

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Utilizing Natural Language Processing for Automated Clinical Text Review: Identification of Care Preference Documentation in Patients’ Discharge Summaries, Saksham Arora

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Information diffusion in online social networks: a simulation experiment, Maxwell Jacob Blum

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GeoRCF-GN: Geography-Aware State Prediction in Dynamic Networks, Barkin Cavdaroglu

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Connecting Linguistic Expressions and Pain Relief Through Transformer Model Construction and Analysis, Sarah M. Chacko

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Cyclic Mixed-Radix Dense Gray Codes, Jessica Cheng

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NOVEL GENERALIZATIONS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE MAX-k-COVERAGE PROBLEM, Luc Cote

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An Empirical Study of Locality-Sensitive Hashing to Approximate the Minimum Spanning Tree, Elizabeth Crocker

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Investigating English-Language Dialect-Adjusted Models, Samiha Datta

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Say That Again: The role of multimodal redundancy in communication and context, Brandon Javier Dormes

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Team Versus Player? A Study of Baseball Salary Arbitration and the Arbitrator Exchangeability Hypothesis, Devan Fink

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What Makes an Impartial Jury? Perceptions of Jury Impartiality and Court Legitimacy, Joshua P. Freitag

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Undoing of the Carceral School System in the South Bay, California, Lizet Garcia

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The Flow of Power: Addressing Asymmetric Flood Risk in the Upper Valley, Eric VR Hryniewicz

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Pathways to Pricelessness: How the Value of 'Priceless' Art is Socially Constructed in both Valueless and Limitless Forms, Cristina M. Javens

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Interpreting Business Strategy and Market Dynamics: A Multi-Method AI Approach, Lobna Jbeniani

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Examining How Unauthorized Asylum Seekers and Legal Immigrants Shape Canadian Welfare and Immigration Attitudes, Henry S. Jin

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The Elements of Access: Designing Equitable Public Transit to National Forests, Abigail L. Johnson