| Katherine Allison
Bash Katie is a history major from Wallingford, Pa.,
and a four-year letter winner in cross country, indoor and outdoor
track and field. A team captain for all three teams, she is a
six-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree, and she was named to the
All-State Team in cross country. The title of her thesis is:
“The Quaker Peace Testimony and Quaker Arms-Bearing:
Examining the Course and Extent of Quaker Influence in Colonial
Pennsylvania.” |
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| Maxwell Magnus-Der
Berger Max is an economics and Chinese double major
from Concord, N.H. A four-year letter winner in tennis, he has been
captain for the last two years. In addition, he was named to the
2009 and 2010 NESCAC Spring All-Academic teams. The title of his
thesis in economics is: “The Earned Income Tax Credit:
Exploring the Labor Force Decision of Married Women.” The
title of his thesis in Chinese is: “Contemporary Issues in
Chinese Society: Yu Hua’s ‘I Don’t Have a Name of
my Own’ and Qiu Shanshan’s ‘Afternoon
Tea.’” |
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| Carlos Francisco Castro Soto
Reyes Carlos is a geology major from Mexico City,
Mexico. He is a letter winner in indoor and outdoor track and field
and a team captain for both teams. He is a four time member of the
NESCAC All-Academic and received All-New England honors in the
4x400-meter relay in 2007. In 2008, he was chosen to represent
Bates at the NCAA Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla. He is a
member of Sigma Xi and in 2009 received a Hughes Student-Faculty
Research Grant. In 2010, he received the Walter Anderson Award for
best undergraduate poster presentation at the Geological Society of
Maine Conference. The title of his thesis is: “Paleostress
Analysis of Mesozoic Fractures and Basalt Dikes in Tuckerman
Ravine, New Hampshire.” |
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| Brandon Stirling
Cooper Brandon is a religion major from Aspen, Colo.,
a three-year letter winner in Nordic skiing and a NESCAC
All-Academic selection. The title of his thesis is: “Gush
Emunim: Defenders of the Land: A Study of How One Religion Settler
Movement Changed Israeli Land Policy in the West Bank.”
Brandon was unable to attend the ceremony. |
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| Nicolas Gibson
DeFrancis Nicolas is a mathematics and
economics double major from Norwich, Vt., and a four-year letter
winner in indoor and outdoor track and field. He is a member of the
NESCAC All-Academic Team and earned Division III All-New England
status in the 4x400-meter relay. The title of his thesis in
mathematics is: “The Origin of Cooperation: Modeling
Behavorial Evolution of Graphs.” The title of his economics
thesis is: “Pay and Performance in the Indian Premier
League.” |
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Molly Clark
Dilworth Molly is an American cultural studies major
from Yarmouth, Maine, and a four-year letter winner in lacrosse.
She is a two-time NESCAC All-Academic awardee, and is a member of
the College Key and Phi Beta Kappa. The title of her honors thesis
is: “Pedagogy, Curriculum and English Language Learning
Programs: Investigating Discourses of Cultural Politics in a Local
High School.”
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| Danica Anne
Doroski Danica is an environmental studies
major from Wayne, Pa., and a four-year letter winner as well as a
team captain on the women’s rowing team. She is a two-time
NESCAC All-Academic honoree, and was named to the All-ECAC rowing
team this year. The title of her thesis is: “Environmental
and Regional Influences on Understory Vegetation in New
England.” Danica is the first woman to represent Bates at
four NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships, and helped the
Bobcats finish as the national runner-up this year for the second
time in a row. |
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| Katelyn Elizabeth
Drake Katelyn is an economics and sociology double
major from Hudson, Ohio. She is a four-year letter winner on the
women’s swimming and diving and lacrosse teams, and a captain
for the former. In swimming, she is a two-time Honorable Mention
All-American, a three-time All-NESCAC Team member, and the NESCAC
Four-year Senior High Point Scorer at the 2010 NESCAC Women’s
Swimming and Diving Championships. Katelyn is also a three-time
Academic All-American and a four time NESCAC All-Academic honoree.
The title of her thesis in economics is: “Is Obama Right?:
Competition in the United States Health Insurance Industry.”
The sociology thesis title is: “Mapping the Evolution of the
Media’s Perspectives of Christian Fundamentalists from 1969
to 2009.” |
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Rachel Paxton
Eades Rachel is a sociology major from Canterbury,
N.H. She is a four-year letter winner and a team captain in
women’s soccer. She is two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree,
and the female recipient of the 2010 Lindholm Scholar Athlete
Award, for the graduating athlete who has maintained the highest
cumulative grade point average. A Dana Scholar, she is also the
recipient of the Myhrman/Swett Award – given for the most
outstanding thesis in sociology. Her thesis title is:
“Structure and Agency in the Health Care Strategies of
Uninsured Working Adults.”
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Robert Sidney
Friedlander Rob is a religious studies major
from Hopkinton, N.H., and a three-year letter winner in men’s
soccer. A member of the 2009 NESCAC Fall All-Academic team, he is
also a Dana Scholar and the male recipient of the 2010 Lindholm
Scholar Athlete Award, for the graduating athlete who has
maintained the highest cumulative grade point average. Notably, in
the fall of 2008, Rob spent the semester working on Barack
Obama’s presidential campaign. He is a member of the Bates
Immigrant Rights Advocates and an English tutor at the Lewiston
Adult Learning Center. The title of his thesis is: “Competing
Views of Islam: Osama bin Laden and Khaled Abou el Fadl on What it
Means to be a Good Muslim in the Twenty-First Century.”
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Lily Horwitz
Gordon Lily is a Spanish major from
Scarsdale, N.Y. She is a four-year letter winner in women’s
indoor and outdoor track and field, and a captain for both teams. A
four time NESCAC All-Academic Team member and a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, she created and coached a track and field program for
at-risk youth at the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine
Auburn-Lewiston Clubhouse. She was also All-New England in the
pentathlon in indoor track and field. Her thesis title is:
“Promoting Positive Youth Development in At-Risk Children and
Adolescents.”
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James Constantine
Grant James is a politics major with
concentration in governance and conflict from Chevy Chase, Md. He
is a four-year letter winner in rowing, a two-time NESCAC
All-Academic honoree and a member of the inaugural NESCAC
Men’s Rowing All-Conference First Team in 2010. He was also
part of the crew that competed in the Henley Royal Regatta in 2009.
The title of his thesis is: “60 years of Insecurity: Applying
Waltzian Neorealism to Pakistan’s National Defense
Policy.”
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Jean Crocker
Gulliver Jean is a politics major from
Falmouth, Maine. A member of the NESCAC All-Academic and
All-Sportsmanship teams, she is a three-year letter winner in
women’s tennis and a team captain. The title of her thesis
is: “The Rhetoric of Climate Change and the Political Realist
Perspective: From an Environmental Problem to a National Security
Threat?”
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Connor Donovan
Hogan Connor is a French major from Stow,
Mass., and a four-year letter winner in outdoor track and field. He
is the 2007 male recipient of the Albion Morse Stevens Award, given
to the male and female students in the first-year class who have
done the best work in a foreign language. His thesis title is:
“Le jardin absolu: l’esthetique francaise a Versailles
et ‘La Princess de Cieves.’”
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Brittany Jane
Johnston Brittany is a Chinese major from
Winter Park, Colo., and a four-year letter winner in volleyball.
She is a two-time NESCAC Fall All-Academic honoree. Her thesis
title is: “Middle School Dropout Rate of Female Students in
Rural China: A Search for Evidence of Discrimination Towards
Daughters in 21st-Century China.”
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Glenn Gray
Kelly Glenn is an economics major
from Chevy Chase, Md., and a four-year letter winner in rowing. He
is a a two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree and a member of the
inaugural NESCAC Men’s Rowing All-Conference Second Team in
2010. He was also part of the crew that competed in the Henley
Royal Regatta in 2009. In 2007, he received the Hammer Award for
camaraderie, dedication and sportsmanship in rowing. His thesis
title is: “An Empirical Evaluation of Prospect Theory and
Expected Utility Theory Using High-Stakes Data from the Game Show
‘Deal or No Deal.’”
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Sarah Kristine
Kwoh Sarah is an economics major from Pittsburgh, Pa.
She is a three-year letter winner in women’s soccer and a
NESCAC All-Academic honoree. She received both the Barlow
Scholarship and the Most Dedicated Student Award during the Beijing
summer program in 2008. Her thesis title is: “What Affects
Immigrants’ Language Proficiency and Why Does Language
Proficiency Matter?”
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| Hannah Magee
Laverty Hannah is a politics major
from Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She is a four-year letter winner and a
team captain in women’s squash. Named to the 2010 NESCAC
Women’s Squash All-Conference First Team, she is also a
two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree. Her thesis title is:
“Greek Orthodoxy and National Identity: Challenges to a
European Identity.” |
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| Elizabeth Anne
Leberman Liz is a history major from Concord, N.H.
She is a four-year letter winner and a two-year team captain in
volleyball. She is a two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree and was
honored with a place on the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District Women’s Volleyball Third Team. She is both a
Barlow Fellow and a Dana Scholar. The title of her honors thesis
is: “Cultural Revival and Reclamation: Forming Regional
Identity in Post-Franco Andalusia.” |
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| Joshua Abram
Linscott Josh is a biological chemistry major from
Portland, Maine, and a three-year letter winner in baseball. A
NESCAC All-Academic honoree, he is the recipient of the 2010 David
Nash Award for Baseball and the 2010 recipient of the Biological
Chemistry Excellence in Research Award. He is also a member of the
Sigma Xi scientific research society. The title of his honors
thesis is: “Translational Regulation of an Alternative Sigma
Factor in Borrelia burgdorferi.” |
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| Peter Hill
Litwin Peter is a history major from Concord, Mass.,
and a four-year letter winner in men’s soccer. He is a
two-time NESCAC Fall All-Academic honoree. The title of his thesis
is: “Race, Military Participation and Equality: A Comparison
of African American Soldiers During the Civil War and Japanese
American Soldiers During World War II.” |
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| Alexander Donald
MacNaughton Alexander is a history major from
Scarsdale, N.Y. He is a two-year letter winner and a team captain
on the men’s swimming and diving team. A NESCAC All-Academic
honoree, he is the 2010 Bates Swimming Top Scorer over his career.
The title of his thesis is: “Churchill, the Admiralty, and
the Failed Campaigns.” |
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| Kush Mahan Kush is
a psychology major from Kalamazoo, Mich. He is a four-year letter
winner and team captain in squash. He is a two-time First Team
NESCAC All-Conference selection, the 2010 NESCAC Co-Player of the
Year. He is also a two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree. He is the
male recipient of the Bates Athletic Department 2010 Athlete of the
Year Award. The title of his thesis is: “Mindfulness and its
Psychotherapeutic Effects for the Boys Residing at Genesis.”
Kush was unable to attend the ceremony. |
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| Avery Elizabeth
Masters Avery is a Spanish and rhetoric double major
from Mill Valley, Calif., and a four-year letter winner in
volleyball. She received a Fulbright Scholarship and will teach
English in a secondary school near Madrid suburb, while researching
the relationship between identity and community involvement in
Spain. Her thesis title for rhetoric is: “Advertising Aid: A
Fantasy Theme Analysis of Charitable Rhetoric.” Her thesis
title for Spanish is: “ONG en Buenos Aires,
Argentina.” |
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| Jean Marie
McIntyre Jean is a mathematics and physics double
major from Marshfield, Mass. She is a four-year letter winner and
team captain in softball. She is a two-time NESCAC Spring
All-Academic Team member, as well as a two-time member of the
NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team. She is a four-time NFCA All-America
Scholar-Athlete. In addition, she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
the College Key, and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. The
title of her honors thesis is: “An Analysis of the Motion of
Fastpitch Softball Pitches.” |
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| Ngoc Hong Pham Ngoc
is a biological chemistry and history double major from Sharon,
Mass. She has won varsity letters in cross country and indoor and
outdoor track and field all four years, and is a six-time NESCAC
All-Academic honoree. The title of her thesis in biological
chemistry is: “The Development of a Method for the Kinetic
Analysis of EMCV 3C Protease Catalytic Activity.” The title
of her thesis in history is: “The Frankish Role at the Synod
of Whitby: The Anglo-Saxon Conversion.” |
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| Molly Emma
Radis Molly is a psychology major from Peaks Island,
Maine, and a varsity letter winner in indoor track and field,
lacrosse and soccer. A four-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree, she
was named to the 2007 All-Region All-Rookie lacrosse team and was
named Second Team All-Region in lacrosse in 2007 and 2008. She is a
member of the Bates women’s indoor track top 10 all-time
performance list in eight events. In 2008, she was Division III
All-New England in the 200 meters, the 400 and the 4x400-meter
relay. In 2010, she earned the same recognition in the 600 and
4x400. She also garnered All-ECAC honors for the 500 and 4x400. In
her spare time, Molly is a member of the Merimanders a capella
singing group. The title of her thesis is: “The Relationship
Between Physical Activity and Academic Achievement in
Children.” |
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| Sarah Bolan
Reingold Sarah is a psychology major from Oakland,
Calif., a four-year letter winner in swimming and diving and a team
captain. She is a two-time NESCAC Winter All-Academic honoree and a
two-time NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team member. She is the female
recipient of the Bates Athletic Department 2010 Senior
Sportsmanship Award. The title of her thesis is: “Exploring
Homeless Youths’ Strengths and Goals through
Photovoice.” |
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| Michael Jeremy
Reiss Michael is a psychology major from Rockville
Centre, N.Y. He is a four-year letter winner and a team captain for
the nationally ranked men's tennis team. Reiss played at or near
the top of the Bobcats' lineup throughout his four-year career. The
title of his thesis is: “Should I Eat That? Egocentric Bias
and Women’s Restrained Eating.” |
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| Nicholas Charles
Sampson Nick is an environmental studies major from
Yarmouth, Maine, and a four-year letter winner and team captain in
men’s lacrosse. He is a two-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree
and and a NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team member. The title of his
thesis is: “Valuing the Penobscot River Restoration Project:
The Design of a Benefit Transfer Using Recreation Fishing
Values.” |
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| Abigail Webb
Samuelson A sociology major from Freeport, Maine,
Abby is a four-year letter winner in women’s cross country
and Nordic skiing and a two-year team captain for both sports. She
is a four-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree and a member of the
College Key. In addition, she was named to the 2009 and 2010
Division I All-Academic Intercollegiate Ski Team. The title of her
thesis is: “The Unintended Consequences of Short Shrifting
Physical Education: A Qualitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of
Maine Physical Education Programs in Promoting Childhood Activity
and Reducing Childhood Overweight and Obesity.” |
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| Benjamin Keeler
Smeltzer Ben is a physics major from Waterbury
Center, Vt. A four-year letter winner in Nordic skiing, he is also
a two-time NESCAC Winter All-Academic honoree. He is also a notable
trombonist with the Bates Jazz Orchestra, and his band played at
the 2009 NCAA Collegiate Skiing Championships to great acclaim. The
title of his thesis is: “A Study of Individual Nuclear Spins
Associated with the Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Center.” |
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| Griffin Charles
Stabler Griffin is an economics major from Keene,
N.H. He is a letter winner in men’s cross country and indoor
and outdoor track and field. He is also a six-time NESCAC
All-Academic honoree. The title of his thesis is:
“Confronting Water Scarcity: An Examination of Price and
Non-Price Policy Effectiveness in the Southwest United
States.” |
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| Luke Collier
Strathmann Luke is an economics major from Newtown
Square, Pa. He is a four-year letter winner in men’s lacrosse
and a two-time NESCAC Spring All-Academic honoree. He received the
Barlow Enrichment Grant for independent study on the history of
surfing in Fiji. He has a job starting this summer with Industrial
Economics, Inc., doing environmental economic consulting. The title
of his thesis is: “Sin Taxes: Can Soda Taxes Serve as an
Effective Health Mechanism?” |
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| Lindsay Sanders
Thomson Lindsay is a rhetoric and religion double
major from West Hartford, Conn. She is a four-year letter winner in
rowing. A NESCAC and ECAC All-Academic honoree, she is also the
recipient of both the Enrichment Grant for Independent Research
Abroad and a Thesis Research Grant. She studied abroad in Northern
India and Nepal and is an activist for the Tibetan Freedom
Movement. Upon graduation, she will join the Teach for America
Corps in Brooklyn, N.Y. The title of her thesis for rhetoric is:
“Blogging @ Barack: The Intersection of the Public Sphere and
the Blogosphere During the 2008 Presidential Election.” The
title of her thesis for religion is: “Tracing the Path of the
Snow Lion: Tibetan Nationalism and the Dalai Lama’s
Dilemma.” She helped the Bobcats finish as the national
runner-up this year at the NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing
Championships. |
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