Since 2003, seniors have had the option of uploading their undergraduate honors thesis, two semesters worth of research, late nights, and rewrites, to the University Libraries Digital Collections website. The site, which is accessible to all, is now home to over 400 studies, including 25 produced by the Class of 2012. Among this year’s subjects:

ECONOMIC MATTERS

Do Patent Trolls Exist? Examining the Economic Impact of Non-Practicing Entities and Patent Infringement Litigation on Innovation, by Ryan P. DiStefano (Economics, International Studies)

Hysteresis in the Current Recession: Evidence and Consequences, by Daniel Paul Sulkin (CSOM Honors)

Nurse Practitioners: Limiting the Trade-Off between Quality and Cost, by Margaret Julia Connolly (Economics)

Rethinking the Phillips Curve: A Study of Recent Inflation Dynamics in the G-7, by Mark Andrew Cloutier (Economics)

SOCIAL ISSUES

Defining the Role of Caregivers in Promoting Maternal Adaptation in Unintended Pregnancies, by Christy N. Tran (A&S Honors)

Living a Legacy: Eleanor Roosevelt as a Role Model for Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter, by Ellen K. Zatkowski (A&S Honors)

A Prisoner’s Daughter: An Autoethnographic Account of the Effect of Incarceration on the Families of White Collar Offenders, by Alexandra Villamia Drimal (Sociology)

Boston: the Red Sox, the Celtics, and Race, 1945–1969, by Nicholas Mark Dow (A&S Honors)

To Teach and to Please: Reality TV as an Agent of Societal Change, by Robert J. Vogel (Communication)

Intercultural Bilingual Education among Indigenous Populations in Latin America: Policy and Practice in Peru, by Mairead McNameeKing (International Studies)

ENVIRONMENTS, PAST AND PRESENT

Josephus and His Choice: Reading the ‘Bellum Judaicum’ within the Greco-Roman Historiographic Tradition, by Adam D. Gross (Classics)

Variability of Suspended-Sediment Concentration in the Connecticut River Estuary, by Michael Vincent William Cuttler (Geology and Geophysics)

‘Better Angels’: Tea Partisanship in the New Hampshire State Legislature, by Brendan C. Benedict (Political Science)

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Crises: An Argument for Normal Accident Theory, by Margaux Salome Labaudiniere (A&S Honors)