Aroon tells us a bit about airline economics under potential carbon taxes, wanting to become an entrepreneur, and deciding to come to Reed because it seemed mysterious.
Reed community members can read Aroon’s thesis, “Airline Profitability & Fleet Strategies in a Carbon-Tax Environment” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Courtland talks about her thesis work on the federal law called the National American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the controversies surrounding it, and the new regulatory changes to the law that just went into effect in 2024. She also tells us how a high school teacher helped her find Reed.
Reed community members can read Courtland’s thesis, “Returning to Repatriation: An Examination of the Evolving Forces Behind the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
He Bai ’24 tells us about how she chose math and statistics as her fields at Reed, what drew her to Reed in the first place, and how the Squidward Constant came to be in her thesis.
Reed community members can read He’s thesis, “Extending Targeted Function Balancing to Models without Linear Representations,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Burn Your Draft is back from summer break! Check out this interview with Nina Gopaldas ’24, whose thesis involved translating poetry by a Russian refugee named Olga Skopichenko who lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines for a short time after World War II. Nina also tells Avis about her journey to Reed as a transfer student and about how she started college as an applied math major specializing in mathematical finance and became a comparative literature major at Reed.
Reed community members can read Nina’s thesis, “‘Take a Hundred Lines for the Memory of Those who Lived on Tubabao’: The Poetics of Exile and Displacement in Olga Skopichenko’s Verse,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
We’ve got one last interview for summer and then we take a break until school starts back up in the fall. Check in with Tina about corporate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and unwinding with rock climbing.
Reed community members can read Tina’s thesis, “ESG Beyond Investing: Spillover Effects in Sustainability Signaling,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.