Perhaps even more than course choice over the four years of undergraduate study, senior thesis research illuminates research interests of students.

A sampling of senior thesis titles collected by the Office of Sustainability and PEI:

• Elizabeth Mullen ’06: Biodynamic Farming from Rudolf Steiner to Mike Benziger: A Dynamic Revolution from the Inside-Out
  
• John Stover ’06: College Alcohol Use and the Athletic Team Environment
• Katie Andersen ’08: A Delicious Revolution: The Greening Princeton Farmers’ Market Manual
• Katie Andersen ’08: Il Gusto del Piacere e della Salute: Italian Gastronomy in Platinas De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine and in Carlo Petrinis Slow Food Movement

• Maha Qasm ’08: Drinking Water from the Sea: Can It Be Made Sustainable?

• Jennifer Palmer ’09: The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Analysis of the Changing Structure of the United States Dairy Industry

• Ruth Schwab ’09: From Wild Apples to Modern Cultivators: Chemical Profile Changes of Sugars, Acids and the Phenolics Over Selective Time
• Candice Chow ’09: Provisions for Sustainable Agriculture in the 2012 Bill: A Climate Change Perspective
• Chenchen Shen ’09: From San Francisco to New York City: An Evaluation of Residential Curbside Organic Waste Collection and Composting
• Megan Thompson ’09: The Geography of Inequality in Food Distribution and Availability

• Henry Barmeier ’10: Why is Government in the Garden? Case Studies of Resilient Co-Governance in Urban Community Gardening Programs
• Juan Pablo Candela ’10: The Industrialization of Beef Production in Columbia: Unintended Consequences of Trade Promotion Agreement with the United States
• Chandler Clay ’10: Another Dime, Another Diet: An Analysis of Development and the Associated Effects on Diet Composition Worldwide

• Maura Mathieu ’10: The Better Earth: Contextualizing Contemporary Organic Farming within China’s Dynamic Agricultural HIS
• Marci Pasenello ’10: Interest Inclusion and its Effects on Public Policymaking: A Comparative Analysis of Dietary Recommendations in Advanced Industrialized Countries
• Morgan Pecora-Saipe ’10: The Fishery-Mangrove Link: The Interaction of the Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
• NeneAcqua Umoren ’10: The Impact of Early Colonialism on Agricultural Production among the Kikuyu of Kenya, 1850 – 1925
• Britta Victor ’10: Sustaining Culture with Sustainable Stoves: The Role of Tradition in Providing Clean-Burning Stoves to Developing Countries
• Rena Chen ’11: Harvesting the Caviar of the East: Sustainable Measures and the Paradox of Consumer Ideas
• Carol Dreibelbis ’11: Not Quite) As American as Apple Pie: An Ethnographic Study of the Place of Vegan Dessert Shops in American Culture
• Colleen Driscoll ’11: The Wrath of Grapes: The Impact of Climate Change on Viticulture and the South African Wine Industry
• Cynthia Kroll ’11: Water Access in the Colonias of Laredo, Texas: Health, Representation, and Uncertainty
• Kevin McGinnis ’11: Water for All in Lima, Peru: State or Private Sector Solutions?

• Christine Badaracco ’12: Cattle Grazing and Biofuels in Kenya: Applying the Food vs. Fuel Debate To a Developing Country
• Alissa Boddie ’12: The Carnivorous Fish Farming Dilemma: A Comparison of Raising Tilapia and Barramundi in Aquaponic Systems
• Leah Cohen-Shohet ’12: The Price Device: The Transformative Impact of Moble Telephony on Agricultural Markets in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Ana Duarte Silva-Barry ’12: Political Challenges of Global Common Resource Management: A Study of Fishing Subsidy Negotiations
• Karen Krieb ’12: Can Reforestation Restore Soil Quality? The Effects of Pasture Abandonment on Soil Chemistry in the Azuero Peninsula, Panama
• Sara Nason ’12: The Effects of Elevated Soil CO2 on Plant Uptake of Metals

• James Smits ’12: An Economic Evaluation of Water Trading Markets in the Western United States
• Devika Balachandran ’14: Does Denitrification control Agricultural Hitrate Export in the Mississippi Delta?
• Katarina Hall ’14: There Must be a Catch: Resolving Inter-sectoral Conflict in the Alaskan Halibut Fishery
• Sarah Jeong ’15: Subsistence Farming with Climate Change: Sowing the Seeds of Government Programs in Limpopo, South Africa
• Jessica McLemore ’15: It Takes a Village to Feed a Child: Motives of Food Education in Japanese Elementary Schools 
• Scott Wise ’15: The Relinkage of Conservation Compliance  to Crop Insurance in the 2014 Farm Bill
• Colleen Baker ’16: Fish Forever”: The Integration of Culture in Community-Based Fisheries Management
• Stephanie Diu ’16: Trouble in paradise: The effect of glyphosate and Roundup toxicity on coral fertilization and settlement
• Kathyrn Little ’16: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the United States
• Rebecca Lowy ’16: Arsenic Adsorption on Fe-oxides mixed with Mn-oxides: Potential of Fe-Mn Nanocrystalline Coated Calcite Grains for Filtration of Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water 
• Derek Colaizzo ’17: Capsicum: From Spice to Medicine and Back