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Chronological List of STS Honors Theses

NameTitleYear
Daisy Chung Environmental Reporting in the Automotive Industry: Reactions to Changing Institutional Pressures 2007
Tyler Drake Technology and the Evolution of Remix Culture: A Fusion of Derivative Works and Original Thought 2007
Sarah Falck The Mutual Shaping of Facebook.com: A Case Study in Socio-Technological Development 2007
Sofia Lombera The International Dimensions of Neuroethics: The Development of a New Field of Inquiry 2007
Aditya V. K. Berlia An Issue of Quality: The Indian Higher Education System and Software Engineering 2006
Ariane Cornell Sino-American Relations in Space: Competition, Cooperation, or Coopetition? 2006
Marcela M. Miyazawa Iceland's Health Sector Database: Balancing Policy with Technological Reality 2006
Jonathan Pearlstein Implementing Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care Organizations: Expectations, Perceptions and Conflicts 2006
Michael Robertson Corporate Philanthropy for Development: Case Studies in Ghana 2006
Elizabeth Scheimer Correlating Changes in Resource Use Patterns and Coral Reef Decline: Vanuatu as a New Case Study 2006
Daniel Stringer Realities of Assessment: Evaluation Issues in Community Technology Centers 2006
Priyanka Bakaya An Investigation into the Interaction of University and Industry in Bangalore's IT Sector 2005
Alejandro M. Diaz Through the Google Goggles: The Sociopolitics of Search Engine Design 2005
Sarala V. Nagala India's Night, America's Day: The Effects of Offshored Call Center Work on Indian Society 2005
Andrew J. Obara Lost Response Capacity and the Ethics of Compulsory Smallpox Vaccination of Healthcare Professionals 2005
Justin Sabet-Peyman Technology, Economic Development, and Free Society in the Persian Gulf Region 2005
Pablo Schyfter Do Artifacts Have (Sexual) Politics?: Technology, Users, and the Politics of Oral Contraception 2005
John Wartemberg Challenges Confronting Indigenous Africans Returning Home to Introduce Scientific and Technological Innovations into African Societies: Four Case Studies from Ghana 2005
Aniruddha Chatterjee The Network Form of Design Organization and the Behavior of Designers Within It 2004
Sima Gandhi The Use of Advanced Technologies in the Restoration of Art: The Case of the Leaning Tower of Pisa 2004
Camille Hearst MTV: Music Technology Views: Exploring Young African-Americans' Attitudes Towards Technology and Music-Related Technology 2004
Jeremy Marcus Preparations for a Smallpox Attack: Mass Vaccinations as a Post-Event Strategy 2004
Gina Moon Intellectual Property Protection for Traditional Knowledge: The Case of the Hoodia Gordonia 2004
Geoffrey Nuval Of Stocks, Bonds, and Blackberries… 2004
Harini P. Raghupathi Clinical Adaptations to Diagnostic Reproductive Technologies: Toward a Hegelian Synthesis on Sex-Selective Abortions in Tamil Nadu, India 2004
Rabindra Ayyan Ratan The Evolution of Rap and Roll: An analysis of rap music's technological relationships, cultural connections, and historical trends. 2004
Megan Ristau Problematic Aspects of Software Liability in an Increasingly Open Source World 2004
Catherine S. Simonsen Measuring Performance and Performativity: A Case Study of Wall Street 2004
Christen Linke Young The Regulation of Genetically Modified Food in the US and the UK: The Intersection of Policy and Public Opinion 2004
Jasmeet K. Ahuja The Creation of a Bangalore "Cluster": Path Dependence and Positive Feedback 2003
Alana Aldag The Discursive Regime of Productivity and Drug Discourse: Why Do We Promote Prozac and Ban Ecstasy? 2003
Victor M. Bennett The Orphan Drug Act of 1983: Success of Patent Based Incentive in Promoting Development of Unprofitable Drugs 2003
Susan Bobulsky Holes in the Safety Net: How Information Technology is Shaping Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Access for California's Medically Indigent 2003
Leif Granberg The Empathy Machine: How Felt Experience Shapes User Understanding on Kinetic Machines 2003
Lilly Irani A Different Voice: Women Exploring Stanford Computer Science 2003
David Kaufman Prescription for Change: The Politics of Pharmaceutical Regulation and Alternatives to Insufficient Postmarket Surveillance 2003
Melinda Munos Toward a Social Ecology of Science: How Work Environments Affect Scientists and Their Research 2003
Suzie Shin Rural Electrification in Argentina: Technology Choice and Consumer Participation 2003
David Vasen The Threat of Higher Education: the Misallocation of Educational Spending in Developing Countries 2003
Mathew Waddell Method Response Affects Reported Patient Satisfaction and Pain Disclosure in the Primary Care Setting 2003
Olivia C. Williamson Electronic Journals: Radical Transformation or Just Another Journal? 2003
Daniel Berdichevsky 2020 Visions: An Investigation of Human Identity, Nature and Bioethics in the Age of Biomedical Technology 2002
Elizabeth Chanenson Motherhood and HIV: An Ethical Analysis and Public Policy Proposal 2002
Serena A. Evans The Americanization of Jamaica Through Television Media 2002
Allison Kraus Computer Training and the Empowerment of Welfare Mothers 2002
Bradley Markham Digital Music Distribution: Threat to or Opportunity for Musical Artists? 2002
Robert-Earl Tyson Clark The Development and Adoption of 3G: An Analysis Key Role of Key Non-Technological Factors in the Development and Adoption of Third Generation Wireless Technologies Around the World 2001
Saad Khan  The Internet in Pakistan History, Status, and Obstacles to Growth 2001
Erin Anderson Bicycles for South African Women: A Case Study of Cross-Cultural Technology Transfer 2000
Parikshit Om Kundu A Brief of Haves and Have-Nots in Technology Revolutions: From the Civilizing Mission to the Modernizing Mission 2000
Gregory D. Leung New Wine, Old World: Globalization and The Traditional Tuscan Wine Industry 2000
Patricia W. Gachiengo Appropriate Technological Innovation: Case Study of the Jua Kali Manufacturing Sector in Kenya 1999
Marian Lenz Patient Behavior Theories and FitNet: Encouraging Long-Term Health Improvement Lifestyle Change Through an Internet-Based Expert System 1999
Andrew J. Blackburn Nudging Hong Kong's Entrepreneurs Toward High-Tech Innovation: A Case Study of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre Corporation 1998
Sara Farley Electronic Mass Media and Democratization: The Case of Broadcasting in Russia 1998
Rachel Thoennes Fournier Alchemical Forces Behind the Scientific Revolution: The Paraclesian Influence on Early Modern Science 1998
Andrew J. Nelson Semaphore Societies: The Role of Culture in the Development of Nineteenth Century British and American Railroad 1998
Kristine Reyes Surla Technology in Education: A Comparative Case Study of Three Elementary Schools 1998
Puneet Rishi Agarwal Solution Based Strategies: Adding Value for Success and Survival 1997
John Lawson Evolution, Not Revolution: Two Case Studies in Wireless Telecommunications 1997
Michael J. Putnam Computerization, Human Rights Advocacy and Organizational Change: A Case Study of the Czech Helsinki Committee 1997
Michael Silverton Information Superdriveway: Social Informatics of Deploying Residential Community Fiber Optic Computer Networks 1997
Anthony Small Computers and Economic Stratification: Opening the Doors and Bridging the Gaps 1997
Daniel Bressler Making Handprints in Wet Concrete: Defining Speech, Property, and Privacy on the Information Superhighway 1996
Sherwin Chen Research and Development of Genetic Information Technologies: An Examination of Central Social and Ethical Issues 1996
Colleen Chien Public Goods, Private-ization: The Implications of Private Power Development in China, India, and the Philippines for the Global Environment 1996
Hak Peng Chng Energy in China: The Crisis of History 1996
Navin P. M. Jani The Philosophical Ramifications of New Money  1996
Jennifer Lee "It's Not the End of the World": Agency and Identity in Historical (Con)Texts 1996
Vu Luu Children and Computer Networks: Analysis and Socio-Technical Provisions for the Debate Between Children's Safety and Free Speech 1996
Anoop Kumar Sinha Contemporary Communication Technology Use Among Silicon Valley Engineers 1996
Patricia Shu Ming Tan "Nice to Handle, Nice to Hold, If It's Science, Consider It Sold": The Role of Hands-On Science and Technology Centers in Public Education 1996
Sinclair Wu The Ethics of Life-Sustaining Technologies: A Comparative Study of Medical Policies in the United States and Taiwan 1996
Bijoy Goswami The Challenge of Telecommunications Liberalization: A Case Study of India 1995
Benjamin Rigby Redefining Successful Development: Deconstructing the "Korean Miracle" 1995
Christian Chabot Techno-Paradigm Shift in U. S. High Technology Industry: Analyzing Innovation, Organization and Competition 1994
Justin Shelby Kitch FUNdaMENTAL! A Creative Tool For Young Minds 1994
Heidi M. Klauser Bicycles on the Superhighway? Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Mass Customization 1994
Kristen Stromberg The Sociotechnical Shaping of International Collaboration in Scientific Research: A Case Study of the European Observatory 1994
Daniel S. Liberman The United States Government's Response to the Issue of In Vitro Fertilization 1993
Ky Ngoc Nguyen Saturn Corporation: A Values-Based Approach Extending from Manufacturing Throughout the Organization 1993
Diego A. Rodriguez Design, Craftsmanship, and the Ferrari Aesthetic  1993
Edmond Toy A Political Science: Scientific and Engineering Expertise in Congress 1993
John E. Baker The Treasury Securities Market: A New Method of Analysis 1992
John W. Bartol Exporting Hazards to the Developing World: An Analysis of Deadly Wastes, Economic Legerdemain, Political Mitigations and the Need for New Material Paradigms 1992
Erin E. McBride The Relationship between Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists: The Role of Value Added 1992
Colleen Terrell Building a New Center: Technology and the Contemporary Value Dialectic 1992
Jeffrey Michael Vierling Communitarianism in the Factory: Forming and Maintaining Cooperative Work Teams in U. S. Automobile Assembly Plants 1992
N. Duru Ahanotu Technology, Culture, and Race In American Youth Music: Another Look at the Perpetual Fad 1991
Roberto Warren Fisher The Politics, Risk Issues, and Economics of Hazardous Waste Policy: A Critical Analysis of United States Policies 1991
Samir Jain Software Developers in the Computer Industry: How Working with Computers Can Affect Elements of Identity 1991
Steven Krauss Electronic Democracy: Promises, Prospects, and Problems and Its Potential for Development at Dartmouth College 1991
Miranda Paton Novel Science and the Scientific Novel: Emile Zola's Construction of an Experimental Discipline 1991
Amy Silliman Scientific Misconduct and the Science Critic: The "Baltimore Case" Revisited 1991
Edward Tai Sun Scaling The Wall: West German Television Spillover and the Collapse of Communism in East Germany 1991
Jeffrey A. Alexander Appropriate Technology for Rural Development: A Proactive Discussion of Principles, Problems, and Prospects 1990
Ann Hironaka Normative Recycling: A Study of the Palo Alto Recycling Program 1989
Robert Miller Moses Maimonides and the Metaphysics of Medieval Medicine 1989
Erik Peter Rau Vehicles for Legitimacy? The Roles, Development, and Impact of Technical Education, Innovation, and Scientific Research in East Germany Under Walter Ulbricht, 1945-71 1989
Michael A. Sommer The Roles of the Journal of the Franklin Institute in American Scientific and Technological Growth, 1826-1851 1989
A. Maria Toyoda A Case for Treatment: Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Example of High Technology and the Health Care Market 1989
James Stephen Driscoll Organizational and Cultural Topics in Soviet Technology Practice: Perspective on the Gorbachev Reforms 1988
Jonathan Franklin "Tendrils": The Music of Fractals 1988
Jeanette Howard AIDS: Ethical Issues and Policy Concerns: Tragedy and Hope for Modern Medicine and Society 1988
Tamara J. Bryant The Use of Humor in Bankruptcy as a Safety Valve for Tension: Evidence from High Technology Firms  1987
Shelley A. Foss The Transfer of Management Technology to Developing Countries: A Case Study of Ireland  1987
Kevin Owens Development and Redevelopment on the San Francisco Waterfront, 1775-1987 1987
Benjamin Garrett Austin Lewis Terman and the Genetics of Genius: The Rise and Fall of Intelligence Testing, 1879-1940 1986
Jamie L. Shirley Medical Decision-Making in Japan: The Countervailing Influences of Cultural Inputs and Technology Transfer 1986
Victoria L. Bost New Communication Technologies: A Study of Contemporary French Telecommunications and the Corresponding American Situation  1984
Cathy David Risk and Regulation in Recombinant DNA 1984
Michael J. George Combinations of the Past: Culture and Technology in Mexico 1984
Jennie Spelman The Theory, Mechanics, and Utility of a Medical Intelligent Decision System 1984
Tom Maliska Essays in Search of Quality in Modern Culture 1983
Laura Murphy The Impacts and Future of Word-Processing at Stanford University: A Comparative Study of Centralized and Decentralized Word-Processing Systems 1983
Arlyn Purcell Frankenstein's Creature Had No Mother: Women, The Family, and Industrialism in America 1983
Thomas D. Wu The Diffusion of Home Computers: An Exploratory Study 1983
Douglas H. Ogden In Defense of a Future Steady-State  1982
Kathryn Doi Radioactive Waste Storage 1981 
Marc Louis Zafferano An Integrated Approach to Technology Assessment 1980
William Laven The Relationship Between the Development of Life-Sustaining Equipment and the Problems of Death and Dying 1978
Joseph C. Wu Development of the Cardiac Pacemaker 1978


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