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Honors Theses from 2018
Korean American Studies: Then and Now, Ashley Chong
Food, Power, and Hierarchy: A Case Study of King Louis XIV in France, Sophie Churchill
Las ratas callejeras, Taylor Claman
Silence in the Stars, Taylor Claman
Non-Rational Persons and the Original Position: A Rawlsian Defense of Animal Citizenship, Michael Corazza
Bike Veil Bride, Asa Crowe
Poker Cards for the Color Blind, Xindi Dai
Well, What Are You?, Andrew Donlan
A Prescription to Remedy Global Agricultural Antibiotic Resistance: An Integrated Approach, Valerie Drake
Wood is Soft, Youtian Duan
Memories, Bonnie Duong
The Internal Working Model and Sexual Satisfaction: A Self-Determination Approach, Sadie Elbert
final, final frontier, Aimee Fredericksen
Green Roof Policy Optimization Algorithms and Microsimulations Benefits and Downsides of Green Roof Incentives and Mandates in San Francisco, Harrison Freund
Narrative Skills in School-Age Children who are Hard of Hearing, Kathryn Gabel
Opposing Tyranny: White Resistance against the Rhodesian Front (1965-1977), Rebekah Gansemer
Pseudoarchaeology: Archaeology's Long-Lost Cousin?, Rebekah Gansemer
Characterization of a ULK1 Agonist, Michael Garneau
Crack in the System: The Racially Motivated Intentions and Consequences of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Caroline Garske
CAFE Standards and the Federal Gas Tax: Impact on Private Transit CO2 Emissions, Emily Giovannetti
The Effect of Recent Experience on Template Formation during Categorical Visual Search, Kenneth Eduardo Granillo-Velasquez
What is it Made of?, Yuyang Guo
Gender and an All-Girls Book Club: Navigating Conversation Centered on Gender with Fifth Grade Girls, Anna Haller
Overexpression of Sponge BHLH MRNA In Xenopus Laevis Disrupts Inner Ear Neurosensory Development, Jessica Halyko
Identifying and Quantifying Hidden Hearing Loss, Emily Hanson
Sewing and Reminiscence, Yukun Hao
Using Reducing Agent TCEP to Alter the Rate of Mucocilliary Transport, Kieran Hartley
Incorporating Technology into Analytical Chemistry, Neal Hausmann
Neighborhood Effects on Anxiety and Depression, Hallee Haygood
Morning in the Agora (בקר בהרחוב), Leon Hedstrom
Underwater Soldier, Ana J. Hosier
Finding Gravitationally Lensed Systems in the VLA Stripe 82 Survey, Jacob Isbell
Entrepreneurship through the Centuries: A comparison of William the Conqueror and Jeff Bezos, Mollie Jackowski
Sens et saveur: L'art de traduire dans un cadre multilingue, Claire Jacobson
Aphasia Reading Club Outcomes: Acquisition and Use of Metacognitive Reading Strategies, Jessica Janota
Effects of Pak Kinase Inhibition on Emergence of Vemurafenib Resistance in Melanoma, Brooke Jennings
Relations Among Parents' Mind-Mindedness and Depression in Infancy, and Children's Attachment Security at Age 2, Adrienne Jensen
Perspectives of the Clean Water Rule and an Alternative Policy, Katelyn Kelley and Kelsey A. Hopkins
Liberation at Gunpoint: Deconstructing Politicized Representations of Afghan Women, Lina S. Khodor
Extracellular Adenosine Protects Microglia-like Cells During Simulated Ischemia, Anya Kim
From Akrasia to Quality of Will: A Critical Examination of Accounts of Moral Responsibility and Ignorance, John Kirchner
Investigating Vegetative Phase Change in Maize, Michael Kline
Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Promotes Multiple Myeloma Development in Black/6 Mice, Sandeep Kowkuntla
Learning as Anamnesis in Augustine’s De Magistro, Evan Kramer
Rimetongue: Part I, Dylan Larino
Population Structuring and Phylogenetic Inference in a Species of Tropical Fly Using Double Digest Rad Markers, Dacia Lipkea
Genetic Control of Inner Ear Development in Xenopus Laevis, Madeline Lorentzen
Optimization of growth temperature for the production of cellulase in Myceliophthora thermophila, Daning Lu
Integration and Automation Software for Testing of RIME and REASON Instruments, Zachary Luppen, Craig Kletzing, and Donald Kirchner
Role of Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements in Genome Evolution of Potamopyrgus antipodarum, Emily Lyon
Assessing Breast and Cervical Cancer in India: A Literature Review, Rachel Maggi
An Exploration of Alternative Anesthesia in the Difficult-to-Anesthetize New Zealand Freshwater Snail Potamopyrgus Antipodarum, Richard Magnuson
A Comparison of Head-Mounted Displays vs. Large-Screen Displays for an Interactive Pedestrian Simulator, Sophia Mallaro
Challenging Corrections: Empowering LGBTQ Folx, Alexandrea Martin
Indispensability Arguments for Non-Existents., Jason Messerschmitt
Determinants of Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, Nathan Kilian Micatka
1965 Communist Purge in Indonesia: U.S. Foreign Relations in Indonesia, Brian Miner
Defining the “Comfort Women” Phenomenon: Prostitution to Sexual Enslavement, Mickayla Molnar
Overtones, Kassandra Morlan
EQE Measurements in Mid-Infrared Superlattice Structures, Andrew Muellerleile
Contextually Cued Visual Sequences of Attention, William Narhi
The Effects of Vocal Effort on Bilabial Contact Pressure and Intraoral Air Pressure, and Their Durations, Danielle Nauman
The role of surface completion on the convexity context effect, Sarah Nguyen
Social Media Fitness Influencers: Innovators and Motivators, Morgan Noonan
Incremental Processing in a Non-Speech Domain, Kathleen Peters
Sleep Quality, Anxiety and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Humans, Melissa Rader
The Generation of Three Novel Aspirin Co-Crystals, Olivia Ray
Killing Machines: A Moral Analysis of Autonomous Weapons Systems, Anne Ringelestein
Investigating the Construction of an Animated 3D Model Using Stereo Photogrammetry, Jiancheng Rong
Connecting Gerald Finzi to the English Musical Renaissance: A Comparative Study of Early 20th Century British Song, Benjamin Ross
The Effect of Career Preparationand Perceived Proactivity on Anticipated Person-Environment Fit, Amy Schembari
The Guidance of Visual Attention Through Learned Feature Probabilities, Eli Schmidt
Multi-Parented End-Effectors in Optimization-Based Prediction of Posture and Anthropometry, Anna Seydel
Neuropsychological and Morphometric Correlates of Decision Making with the Coin Flip Task, Ashten Sherman
Framing Expectations: The Effects of Transient Degraded Speech Conditions on Competition in Spoken Word Recognition, Victoria Shihadah
Sharp Power: China’s Solution to Maintaining the Legitimacy of its Non-Interference Policy, Senéad Short
Diakonoi, Nevi'im, and Other Illustrious Women: Understanding the Role of Women in the Early Church, Spencer Silver
The Effects of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Depression Symptomatalogy on Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Adults, Neevetha Sivagurunathan and Molly A. Nikolas
The Minority Population, madeline smith
Mass Action Modeling of Catalysis Through Reaction Flux Estimation, Ethan Stancliffe
Integrating Ecology and Cancer: Investigations in a Prostate Cancer Cell Model, Samantha Swartz
Examining Risk Factors for Anxiety and Negative College Adjustment in First-Year College Students, Blake Termini
Inferring the Components of Residual Switch Costs, Daniel Thayer
Evaluation of Ultra-Wideband Position Localization for an Indoor Office Environment, Jake Uribe
Morocco & The United States: A Shared History, Daniel Valentin
A Study on Infertility Disclosure and Social Support: Communication Variance Between Familial Dyads, Emily VanWiel
Daedalus (A screenplay), John Ver Mulm
Lumen Prints as Gradient, Lindley Warren
Mother, Momma, Leah Waughtal
A Feminist Exploration of Violence: How Language and Identity Shape Perceptions, Mckinna Wilts
Colorism in the Music Industry and the Women It Privileges, Aja Witt
Media Co-optation of the Take A Knee Movement: Pre and Post-Trump, Aja Witt
Rhythmic Collage, Jasmine Woolery
An Outsider Emergency Kit, Yijie Wu
Globalized Fandom: the Ou Mei Tong Ren Culture in China, Yijie Wu