Past Senior Theses

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Explore an archive of Past Senior Theses by students in the Honors Program.

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

Studying Fluorescence from Nano crystals with Varying Geometry and Composition
Expectancies and Realities of Childbirth: A Psychological Measure Development Study
An Anatomy of Failure: Investigating the Reasons behind Failed Attempts to Decrypt the Voynich Manuscript through an Examination of the Decipherment of Linear B and of the Partial Decryption of Kryptos
Do 14-3-3 Proteins Interact with the F-box Stress Induced Protein Family in Arabidopsis thaliana?
The Bowing Behavior of Strings with Non-Uniform Mass Density
Assessing HADDOCK’s Protein-Ligand Ensemble Docking Capabilities through Urokinase Inhibitors
Doing Well by Doing Good (?): Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility through an Examination of Social Purpose Corporations and Stakeholder and Neoliberal Theories
Computational Protein-Ligand Docking: Assessing HADDOCK’s Role in the Development of Highly Specific Drug Compounds
An Inquiry into the Impact of Regime Change on International Climate Coalition Stability
Moses Maimonides’s Twelfth-Century Critique of the Philosophical Sciences: A presentation on philosophical method, the nature of concepts, and a medieval thinker’s love of God
Increasing the Presence of Climate Change: Hurricane Harvey as a Visual and Rhetorical Communication Device
Keeping it Cool in Chile: An In-Situ Study of Snow Impurities in the Chilean Andes
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Between Persecution and Non-interference in Southeast Asia
The Legend of Okei: How a Young, Faceless Nursemaid became the Face of the Japanese American Population of California
Being Yellow On and Off Screen: How the Asian Pacific Islander Experience is Influenced by the Model Minority Myth in Television and Film
Of Queens, Incubi, and Whispers from Hell: Joan of Arc and the Battle Between Orthopraxy and Theoretical Doctrine in Fifteenth Century France
Quantum Computing. It’s here ... and it’s not ...
The Imprint of Language in Herodotus: How the ancient Greeks imagined language, culture, custom, and ethnicity
Rockets, Robots, and Radical Work spaces: Flexibility and Discrimination in Women’s White-Collar Narratives
Visualizing the interactions between F-BOX STRESS INDUCED proteins and 14-3-3 proteins in the 26S proteasome system of plants
Waning Freedom in The Land of The Free: Neoliberal Penalty, Mass Incarceration, and the Politics of Crime Prediction
Frames of Mind: Targeting Compassionate Emotions in Environmentally Concerned People to Motivate Them to Take Action against Climate Change
A Meta-Analysis of F-BOX Gene Expression Under Abiotic Stress In Arabidopsis Thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana Autopolyploids Display Increased Salt Tolerance

2016-17

2015-16

2014-15

Dum conderet urbem: Poetic Portraits of Aeneas as Political Commentaries on Augustus, Alicia Matz
Insights into the evolution of the Great Plains grassland ecosystem over the last 5 million years from paleotemperature and paleovegetation records, Anne Fetrow
Playing with Death: The Potential for Violent Video Games to Induce Mortality Salience, Beth Anderson
Politics of Sport in the English Renaissance Letters of Transgression in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, William Rathje
Growing up on the spectrum: How High-functioning Young Adults with Autism Transition to Independence, Brittany Walker
Dramaturgy and Collaboration: A Case Study, Loring Brock
The Lost Conjunction of Race: Missed Opportunities to Discuss Mixed-Race Identity in Popular Social and Feminist Histories of the 20th Century, CaroLea, Casas
The Cost of Having a Sexually Selected Trait: Testing hypotheses with male fiddler crabs (Uca pugilator) bearing large major claws, Corinne Straube
The Reproductive and Neurophysiological Effects of Chronic Plastic Ingestion in Northern Fulmars (Fulmaris glacialis) and Sooty Shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), Emilie Kurth
beirut, with love; a play by, Andrew Lutfala
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Muon g− 2 Experiment at Fermilab, Audrey Kvam
The Veil of Neutrality: Religious Rights in European Union Countries, Emma Spalding
Indigent Defense As Illusion: The Myth of ‘Fair Trial’ in a Neoliberal State, Emma Wilson
RNAi-mediated Gene Knockout of the Tomato Phytochromes PHYE and PHYF, Grete Slaugh
Thiourea-Based Organocatalysts: Synthesis and Application to the Transformation of Carboxylic Acids to Amides, Jack Elders
Identity and Place in the Music of Benny Moré (1919-1963), Kelton Mock
France’s Nuclear Identity: An exploration of grandeur, sustainability and political power relationships, Laura Leach
“There is No Difference:” Neoliberalism and Latin American (Police) State Legitimacy, Max Estevao
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England: Representations of Gender, Influence, and Power, Nichole Lindquist-Kleissler
Plato Reconsidered: The Cognitive Science of Mathematics, Peter Moberly
The Obesity Epidemic in Latino Youth: A Local Perspective to a National Phenomenon, Sierra Grunwald
Investigating the Effects of Bisphenol A on Sustained Movement in the Pond Snail Helisoma trivolvis, Skyler R. Tetreau

2013-14

2012-13

2011-12

Anticipatory Testosterone response to Competition in Female Collegiate Endurance Athletes, Rebecca Adams
Recruitment, Regulation, & Restructuring: Cellular & molecular processes that underlie memory formation, Westley Dang
Some Comfort to the Order of Things: A Journey through the Terrain of Silence, Grief, and Nature, Laura Derr
Starve the Beast: An Empirical Evaluation of State Tax Revenues and Expenditures, Alec DiMario
ROK and Rac mediation of PRL-1 over-expression in the wings of Drosophila melanogaster, Rosemary Dinkins
Nation-State Building and Ethnic Minority Oppression: Turkey, Bulgaria, and Sri Lanka, William Engell
Death Hilarious: Dark Comedy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Megan Fries
The Impending Electrification of the American Transportation Industry - a.k.a., - The Electric Car, George Funk
Angry Youth: Patriotic Education and the New Chinese Nationalism, Rachael Gary
Nuclear Fallout: Responses to Proliferation from North Korean Sanctions to the India Nuclear Deal, William Gent
Silencing Sacagawea: Eva Emery Dye & the Origin of an American Myth (1902-1905), Tedra Hamel
[Breaking] the back of words: Dimensions of Gothic Unspeakability in Poe, Faulkner, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Elizabeth Kirsch
Color polymorphism in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus, Mary Krauszer
Reclaiming Aztlan: Pre-Columbian Imagery and the Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Chicano Murals, Kelsey Mahler
Destroying The Path to Knowledge and the False University: Democratic Participation and Identity Assertion in Chicano Education and Mural Movements, Jennifer Miller
Hyperthyroidism Changes Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity, Charles Nguyen
Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror: How the Supreme Court is Undermining Presidential Power and American Sovereignty, Amanda Nicol
Understanding Flowering Pathways: Flowering Locus C expression in synthetic Arabidopsis allopolyploids, Gerad Thornton
The Successes and Failures of Political, Social, and Economic Strategies to Combat Human Trafficking, Tristan Zielinski
(de)Constructing the Real American, or What Vitamins, a Prayer, and 24-Inch Pylons Can Teach Us About American Identity in the 1980s, Michael Leveton