The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
Kuo Ping Ming Hua Chang (2020)
Using schlieren optics to visualize ultrasonic standing waves in acoustic levitation
Olivia Marie Young (2020)
Using 3-D Printing Techniques for Prototyping Absorbers for Solar Air Heaters
Julia Elizabeth Huddy (2019)
Design, Construction, and Performance Testing of the RD-SAH
Sophie Dallas Kirkman (2019)
Active Reduction of Heat Losses Through the Glazing of a Solar Air Heater
Hieu Dang Minh Le (2019)
Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Localized Modes in Virbrational and Magnetic Lattices
Houssemeddine Mhiri (2019)
Bifurcation, Symmetry Breaking, and Synchronization in a Coupled-Logistic Map Circuit
Natalie Griffin Ferris (2018)
Double-Slit Interference with Partially-Coherent Light
Christopher Brandon Fritz (2017)
Nonlinear Dynamics of Pulsing Oscillators
Tyler Richey-Yowell (2017)
Characterizing Short Period Eclipsing Binaries in the Field of NGC 2362
Nicole Elizabeth Fronsdahl (2016)
Investigation of a Solar Air Heater and its Optimal Efficiency
Kyle Lewis Liss (2016)
Anharmonic Coupling in Multi-Dimensional Molecular Dynamics
Marc Julien Besson (2015)
Stability and Intrinsic Localized Mode formation on Ferromagnetic Lattices
Benjamin Joseph Kimock (2015)
A Computational Investigation of Intrinsic Localized Modes in Magnetic Sheets: the Role of Shape-dependent Demagnetizing Fields
Katherine Anne Roy (2015)
Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasound Imaging
Ryan Irwin Lane (2014)
Modeling the Evolution of the Cataclysmic Variable V723 Cassiopeia
Melia Elizabeth Bonomo (2013)
Analyzing the Singularities of Freezing Sessile Water droplets
Liam Timms (2013)
Modeling Neural Networks with Kuramoto Oscillators: Spatially Embedding Dynamically Coupled Arrays
Stuart Russell Flury (2012)
X-Ray and Optical Spectral Studies of Compton-thin Seyferts Detected by the Swift/BAT
Christine Ann Welling (2012)
Photometry of Under-Observed RR Lyrae Variable Stars: GM Orionis
Kristen Ann Recine (2011)
Modeling the Evolution of the Cataclysmic Variable V723 Cassiopeia
Daniel Harrison Barnak (2010)
Exploration of the Anode Position Parameter in a Closed Drift Hall Thruster
Zachary Lee Carson (2010)
Quantum optics: implementing Hardy's Test of Local Realism
Samuel George Wheeler (2010)
Experimental Studies of Backwards-Wave Phenomena in a Nonlinear Electrical Lattice
Ritwik Kumar Niyogi (2009)
Synchronization and Hebbian learning in a network of coupled neural phase oscillators
Ritoban Basu Thakur (2008)
Experimental Studies of Intrinsic Localized Modes: The Coupled Pendulum Array and Bi-inductance Electrical Lattices
Sean Robert Brannon (2008)
Computational Model of Magnetic Field Oscillations in a Closed Drift Hall Thruster
Kristina Teresa Johnson (2008)
Exploration of the Coupling Oscillation in a Plasma Hall Thruster
Michael Kiernan Murphy (2008)
Development of a Pulsed Femtosecond Laser Lab and Multiphoton Microscopy Proof of Concept
Edward Wayne Cramp (2007)
The Operation and Preliminary Diagnosis of a Plasma Hall Thruster
Ryan Alan Stearrett (2007)
Experimental Generation of Intrinsic Localized Modes in a Nonlinear Electrical Transmission Line
Narelle J Deatherage (2006)
Width of a Ferrofluid Finger Hysteresis and Multiple Energy Minima
Michael Gardner Deceglie (2006)
Computer Generation of Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers
Matthew Dackman (2005)
Plasma dynamics of a Hall thruster with position-variable anode
Linnea Nicole Engstrom (2005)
Circuit Implementation of the Lorenz Equations
Brandon Todd Tirrell (2005)
Design and Construction of a Solar Powered Stirling Engine
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (2004)
CCD Photometry and Analysis of the Eclipsing Binary System HH Ursae Majoris
Jonathan Sheehan Drake (2004)
A Photometric Study of Phocaea Group Asteroid 1584 Fuji
Christopher D Kerestes (2004)
Effects of Feedback on Magnetic Resonance Lines
JoEllen McBride (2004)
Characteristics of Intermediate Velocity Clouds
Christopher John Graham (2003)
Light Transmission Through a Forest Canopy
Micah Thomas McCutchan (2003)
Temperature Modeling of Hypothetical Extrasolar Jovian Satellite Systems and Documentation of Satellites' Potential to Provide Conditions Compatible with Life
Elyse Ann Rhodin (2003)
Light Transmission Through a Forest Canopy
Kelly Lynn McFarland (1998)
CCD Photometry of Three Fields in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Christie Storey Schroeder (1997)
Determination of the Percent Alpha Loss and Optimum Counting Time for the Alpha/Beta Analysis
Christopher James Boswell (1995)
The Development of a 3-D Probe and Data Acquisition System for a Pulsed Laboratory Plasma
Torrin E Koste (1995)
Simulation and 3-D Visualization of Particle Motion in Various Configurations of Electric and Magnetic Fields
Alison Sherwin Vick (1995)
Photometry and Modeling of the Eclipsing Binary Stars MN Cassiopeiae and AK Canis Minoris
Leslie Zimmerman Foor (1993)
Possible Contribution of Comets to the Water of the earth -- Both to its Oceans and its Atmosphere
Sean James La Shell (1993)
Construction and Initial Testing of a Slow Positron Beam at Dickinson College
Scott Douglas Setzler (1993)
Construction and Initial Testing of a Slow Positron Beam at Dickinson College
Richard Alan Loomis (1989)
Development and Diagnostics of the Dickinson Plasma
Phillip Michael Williams (1988)
Chaotic Motion of a Simple Mechanical System
Wesley N Cobb (1976)
Experimental Study of the Plasma Discharge Column above the Critical Field: Higher Order modes and Regions of Turbulence
Richard C Deveney (1976)
The Helical Instability and Other Oscillations in a Magnetically Confined Positive Column
Greg Ajamian (1974)
Rutherford Scattering
Larry Kovnat (1974)
Thermoluminescent Dosimetry
Larry Bustard (1973)
Experimental Study of Helical Multi-mode Instabilities in a Plasma Discharge in a Magnetic Field
Alexander Cavalli (1972)
Studies of the Helical Instability, the Ionization wave, and their Interaction in a Helium Discharge
Stephen A French (1971)
Plasma Resonance Phenomena
Peter D Schnur (1971)
Preliminary Research into Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity
Stephen G Schoggen (1970)
Beta-Gamma Directional Correlation in Rubidium 86 and Mercury 203
Kenneth L Cashdollar (1969)
Photoelectric Photometry of Variable Stars
Milton E McDonnell (1968)
The Beta Spectra of Cs137 and Zn65
Douglas W Wright (1968)
Optical Second Harmonic Generation in Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate
Edward K Shirk (1967)
Beta-Gamma Angular Correlation in Rubidium 86