Virtual Plan Room
In the Rice-Aron Library is a room dedicated to the bound Plans of Concentration of every Marlboro student, the culmination of their academic work and a testament to their scholarly vision. If you visit Marlboro, you are invited to browse through these inspiring works, but in the meantime you will find a virtual sampling of recent Plans below. You can filter them by subject and click on individual Plans for more details, including excerpts and reflections. Filtering will also result in a list of additional matching Plan titles from previous years, at the very bottom of the page, dating back to the origin of the Plan in the 1960s.
Featured Plans
- Forms of Atrophy: The Fragments of Separate Realities
- Forming the unfathomable: Unique approaches in experimental American fiction
- Free improvisation and electronic music composition
- The whole zucchini: An engaged-Buddhist eco-theology of foodways
- (Inte)gration: connections between whiteness, deserving-ness, and belonging in the Swedish welfare state
- David Hall’s influences on video art
- It is more than just food: A practice-as-research approach to teaching experiential learning courses through the lens of food
- Intentions and Operations
- Adolescent Development and Poverty & Homelessness
- Tending to Place: Communities, lands, histories in Memphis, Northern Minnesota, Chilean Patagonia, and Northern New Mexico
- Le vent souffle où il veut: Examinations of grace and despair in the works of Robert Bresson and Simone Weil
- Slow: A study of ceramic works that engage the values of the slow food movement
- The Things I Never Said
- The ecology, conservation, and land use changes surrounding vulnerable plant mutualisms and natural community types
- Mathematical Structures: Foundations & Explorations
- Storytellers: Generationality, working-class identity, and women’s personal narrative
- Order and Intuition: An exportation of musical objectivity and subjectivity
- Brazilian Migration to Martha’s Vineyard
- Latin@s and U.S. Latin@s: An exploration of Duality
- Confronting Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- A series of investigative efforts into the syntax, semantics, and morphology of Mandarin Chinese directional constructions
- That They Can Talk: Themes of communication in wordless novels and post-apocalyptic literature
- Don’t tell me to “fuck the patriarchy”—I already am
- Inner Realities and Corporealities
- Anatomy and Art: Developing anatomical research during the Renaissance
- Exploring the simple complexities of trust
- A chamber opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Authentication: Techniques and Theory
- Visceral Experience
- The personal is the political is the psychopathological: Theories on the etiology and teleology of sex and gender
- Ruptured Reciprocity: Stories of haunting, spirits, and medical belief from Cambodians and Cambodian Americans
- An exploration of pragmatism and the meaning of wisdom in the Saṁdhinirmocana Sūtra and its relevance for contemporary Buddhist thought and practice
- A study of the filmmaking process from screenwriting through production and post-production
- : Is it me? For a moment: An inquiry into themes of identity in youth subcultures in post-war Britain
- This anaesthetic against loneliness: Theatrical methods of telling our story
- Light
- Exploring popular music paradigms across cultures, through cyberspace, and in my own practice
- BisphenolA: an endocrine disrupting chemical that alters estrogenic activities
- Western combat through history and film: An introduction to the work and artistic mission
- Engaging both the aesthetic and cognitive aspects of objects in visual space
- It’s the job that's never started as takes the longest to finish: Plants that invade and landscapes portrayed
- Visualizing Data: Maps, Graphs, and the Coffee Industry
- The De-Scribing Disaster: Representing Silence in the Wake of Violence
- Phenomenological Investigations of Expression, Perception, and the Lived Body
- Buster Keaton, A Funny Man
- “I will embrace suffering and begin to live”: A study of suffering in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Dostoevsky
- Convergence and Divergence: Finding a framework for a more equitable society
- The Dirt on Mutualism
- Pictorial Embroidery in the Early Republican Female Academy
- “The Dark Voicelessness in Which the Words Are the Deeds”: Considering Death and Grief through Reading and Writing
- Puppetry and Protest: An exploration of theater as a response to social issues stemming from the Vietnam Conflict
- The Precious and Bitter Remains: A Conversation between Possessions, Space, and Desire
- Happy End: Bertolt Brecht in Performance and Translation
- The One Constant Thing: The Role of the Body in Cognition
- A study of the vocal communication of whales and its role in speciation, as well as a body of artwork exploring fantastical narrative by using constructed habitats and animal and human subjects
- Incorporating Bibliotherapy into Higher Education Settings: A literature review, research study, collaboration, and literary essay
- Enough for All: Feeding the human population by preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of the land community
- War Stories: Exploring the Progression of Tim O'Brien and the Gendered Nature of War Literature and Film
- Layers of Legality: Interactions between State Law, International Law, and Shariah
- An Examination of Contemporary Unchurched Spirituality in Theory and Dance
- The Keeping House: Poems, Short Fiction, and an Essay on the Travel Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
- Raise the Rafters: A Study of Harmony Through Architecture, Music, and Craft Theory
- Symbiosis: Forging Relationships in a Fragmented Landscape
- On Authorship and Materiality: Inquiries Into Art’s Ability to Function Beyond the Structure of the “Artist” and the “Object”
- Plants and Cancer: A study of the diverse pharmacological activities of compounds derived from plants, especially hops (Humulus lupulus L.) and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.), with a focus on anticancer activity
- Humanity at the Crossroads: An Overview of Contemporary Trends and Future Energy Sources
- Through the Dharma: Explorations of Form and Emptiness in Ceramics and Buddhist Studies
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention through Western and Eastern Lenses: The Biology of HPV, Vaccine Acceptance in China, and Dietary Therapy
- Cocoons: Transformation through Fantasy
- The Family of Abraham: An Exploration of Familial Relationships and Ethical Dilemmas in the Biblical Story of Abraham.
- Rooted: Exploring Ecological Citizenship, Reinvigorating a Vital Relation to the Land
- An Exploration of Problems in Human Reproductive Health and Changes in Fertility
- A Wild Door: Human Experiences of Nonhuman Animality
- The Indigestible Narratives of the American Past
- Three Landscapes: Building America After World War II
- Foxholes, Flowers, and The European War
- The Image of Memory: Structure, Desire, and Identity in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and other selected works
- Towards a Radical Tenderness: A Call for Inclusivity within the Trans Movement
- Changing the Narrative: A case study of contemporary activism in Boston’s Chinatown
- Connection and Design: The World Through Science and Art
- Rent Seeking and Economic Methodology
- Uncovering Selfhood: Acquisition of Knowledge of the Self for Women in Victorian Literature and History
- Reflections on the Nature of Survival: the Role of Facilitation in the Conservation of Sonoran Desert Foundation Species
- Frames of Reference: An Examination of the Adaptive Nature of Animation
- Another Version of the Truth: An Expedition into Theatrical Adaptation and Immersion
- Thoughtful Zymurgy: A Holistic Study of the Art and Practice of Brewing Beer
- “I Have Wreathed Round the Wounds the Best of Healing Wreaths”: Ritual and Religious Healing in Early Modern Europe and Present Day Peru
- Using Paint: Abstraction of Realism and Representation in Works by Robert Ryman and Susan Rothenberg
- There’s Nothing Like a Broadway Show: An examination of musical theater in American culture
- Avenues of Change: A Study of Development and Social Change with a Focus on Organizational Strategies and Structures
- Empowerment Through Education: A Study of Sexuality Education and How it Relates to Social Inequality
- Global Food Institutions and Effectiveness: Institutional Structure, Economics, and Politics
- The Brutality of Fiction: A Plan in Playwriting and Sculpture
- Knowing Childbirth: A Plan of Concentration in Medical Anthropology
- Move Me: A Plan of Concentration in Dance and Poetry
- Donna Leathrum, Now I Know
- Ugly Modernity: Governance, Violence, and the Money Economy in Mexico
- The Shoulders of a Giant: Freud’s Followers, Critics, and the Future of Psychoanalysis
- Religion and Identity: An Analysis of the Relationship between Christianity and Adolescent Identity Development in the U.S.
- Observations & Interpretations: Solar Physics and the Quantum Foundations
- El Oro y La Plata no Se Pueden Comer: Mining Impacts, Policy and Resistance in Latin America
- Danced Topographies: A Study of Dynamic Relationships between Place and Movement through Choreography and Sociology
- Pity for the Wild: The Corrupted World of Tennessee Williams
- Long From Home Lost: A Cross Study in Film and Ancient Greek Based Around Homer’s Odyssey
- An Introduction to the Physics of Wind Turbines
- Performing the Object: An Interdisciplinary Study of Conceptual and Performance Artists 1965 – 1975 and Contemporary Performance Practices
- My Secret Is Not Different than My Lament: Engaging with the Ineffable Through Music
- Solar Energy and the Future of Photovoltaics
- Mysterious Mortalities: A Study of White Nose Syndrome and G. destructans from a Molecular Biology Perspective
- Pragmatism for Philosophy, Economics, and Environmental Policy
- Plan Columbia: From Language Teaching to the Ironies of Progress
- Reassessing Socialist Realism and the Lie
- Molding Women: Beauty Ideals, Self-Image, and Body Work in American Culture
- Words Slightly Overlapping: Explorations in Contemporary Theater and Biochemistry
- Computerized Mathematics and the Mathematics of Computation
- Implications of Apathy: The Politics of Desire
- Fragments of Empire: Effects of Japanese Imperialism in Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam