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Examining Gendered Experiences in Engineering Workshops.
No full textThis project consisted of 10 interviews with young girls who attended the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) summer engineering workshops. Participants ranged in age from 2nd to 7th graders, and were interviewed in the hopes of understanding what their experience as young girls were in those workshops, and how their engineering identity and gender identity informed that experience. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the grant requirement of the Tufts Summer Scholars Program
Practicing Solidarity.
No full textA Case Study of University Movements for Palestine in the United States and United Kingdom Submitted in partial fulfillment of the grant requirement of the Tufts Summer Scholars Program
Molecular Design of Peptides to Address Growth Deficiency in Children.
No full textAn investigation into the viability of human growth-hormone releasing-hormone (hGHRH) alkylated analogs as a means to potentially treat growth hormone deficiency. Two peptide analogs were developed to test for the influence of steric bulkiness and the influence of a positive charge in the ability in activating hGHRH's respective receptor, growth-hormone releasing-hormone receptor (GHRHR). Submitted in partial fulfillment of the grant requirement of the Tufts Summer Scholars Program
Motivations to Adopt Plant-Based Diets: Data from Adhering to Dietary Approaches for Personal Taste (ADAPT).
No full textADAPT is an online study that recruits followers of popular diets. Using data from ADAPT, this study investigated motivations to adopt a plant-based diet among vegans, whole-food plant based diet followers, vegetarians, and pescatarians. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the grant requirement of the Tufts Summer Scholars Program
Maybe it's her, maybe it's her circumstances: Influences on children's reasoning about personal and situational causes in the social world
No full textAbstract: Research has found that children use the patterns of others' behaviors to attribute them to either a personal or a situational cause. Here, we explore whether children integrate this pattern information with verbal framing (Study 1) and prior knowledge (Study 2) when reasoning about social causes, as they do when reasoning about physical causes. Across both studies, children provided explanations for and predictions about characters' behaviors, which varied by pattern to suggest either a personal or situational cause or neither. In Study 1 (n = 218 four- and six-year-olds), the verbal framing of these behaviors also varied to suggest either a personal or situational cause or neither. In Study 2 (n = 120 four-year-olds), the stereotypicality of the behaviors also varied to either align or not align with gender stereotypes. Results showed that children use verbal framing and prior knowledge jointly with pattern information to inform their social causal judgments.Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2018.Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology.Advisor: Paul Muentener.Committee: Jessica Remedios, and Kristin Shutts.Keywords: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, and Developmental psychology
Impacts of the Global Gag Rule: Evidence from Ghana
No full textAbstract: The Mexico City Policy is a restriction on family planning aid to developing countries, blocking U.S. funds to NGOs that provide abortion-related services. This policy, first announced in 1984, has since been repealed during Democratic administrations and reinstated during Republican ones. Comparing Ghanaian women who are more or less exposed to the policy when the policy is effect and not, I use a difference-in-difference analysis to identify the relative impact of the policy. I find that rural women are differentially impacted by the policy in terms of some fertility outcomes, but no significant effect is seen on maternal or child mortality. From a policy perspective, the fertility results join prior studies of the policy's potential unintended consequences, while other findings may simply highlight the difficulty of isolating differential exposure and emphasize the need for further study.Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2018.Submitted to the Dept. of Economics.Advisor: Brooke Jack.Committee: Margaret McMillan, and Gilbert Metcalf.Keywords: Economics, and Demography
Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporation Valuation
No full textAbstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the instantaneous wealth effect of mergers and acquisitions announcements on acquiring firm stockholders and bondholders. Based on a panel of 1,744 global M&A deals of 918 firms from 2016 to 2017 in the communication, technology, energy, and utility sectors, this paper finds a significant and positive hike in abnormal stock returns at the announcement month and no significant impact on bond returns. This jump in stock return is larger in the technology and communication sectors. Furthermore, there is no evidence showing that cross-border deals in the U.S can generate higher wealth. Third, this paper concludes that financial ratios have different impacts on abnormal stock returns in different industries. Finally, I find that M&A announcement increases individual bond Sharpe ratio at the announcement month.Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2018.Submitted to the Dept. of Economics.Advisor: Marcelo Bianconi.Committee: Federico Esposito, and Gilbert Metcalf.Keywords: Economics, and Finance
Boxed In: Transcultural Practice in the Works of Nineteenth-Century Haudenosaunee Artists
No full textAbstract: This thesis explores works by Haudenosaunee artists from the first half of the nineteenth century, suggesting that the study of material culture allows for alternative ways of investigating the individualized experiences of Native people. More specifically, I look at watercolors by the Tuscarora artist Dennis Cusick and silverwork from the decades before and after Cusick was alive. These objects serve as evidence of the complex histories that remain understudied, yet deserve further time and attention in service of challenging staid national narratives of Native American Indian and Euro-American encounters. In illustrating the limitations of superficial visual judgments or impressions, and identifying the power structures and histories that contribute to the specific choice of forms and materials used by Haudenosaunee artists and artisans, I demonstrate the potential of transcultural praxis as a way to bring to light suppressed or overlooked histories.Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2018.Submitted to the Dept. of Art and Art History.Advisor: Eva Hoffman.Committee: Eric Rosenberg, and William Moore.Keywords: Art history, Native American studies, and American studies
