The Senior Honors Thesis gives you the opportunity to build on the knowledge acquired in your major (or minor) and to explore in depth an issue, question, or creative challenge of special interest to you.
Your research project can be presented in these formats:
- A written thesis
- A play
- A musical recital
- An artistic presentation
You will present your project before your faculty committee and other students.
Objective
Your project will demonstrate your:
- Understanding of the tools (methods, theories, and models) of your discipline and your ability to use these tools;
- Ability to develop an informed, well-reasoned, and creative response to a question or problem; and
- Ability to effectively communicate the results of the project, both orally and in writing.
Class of 2023
Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Excellence
- Paloma Alvarado, “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors”
- Manuela Paki Amouzou, “The Effect of Weight Bias on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease”
- Sam Lipert, “A Reform of Treatment: An Analysis of the American Asylum”
- Charles Skutt, “Use of EEG-Based Machine Learning to Predict Music-Related Brain Activity”
Theses
Name | Thesis | Thesis Director |
Paloma Alvarado | Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors | Professor Kevin Arrington |
Trigg Anderson | Algorithms and Other Tools for Fair Districting | Dr. Will Briggs |
Manuela Paki Amouzou | The Effect of Weight Bias on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease | Dr. Tonya Price |
Emily Bray | The Effect of Joint Tissue Flossing Versus Soft Tissue Flossing on Overall Performance in the Lower Extremities | Dr. Jill Lucas |
Noah Bullock | How Automation is Making a Positive Impact on the Fast Food Industry | Dr. John Angelis |
Jessica Cochrane | Unlawful, Unjust, and Unchanged; A Thesis of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Criminal Sentencing | Dr. Jeremy Langett |
Alana Compton | Mind Over Matter: The Role of Resilience, Crime Victimization, and Age at the Time of Victimization on Psychological Health | Dr. Alisha Marciano |
Olivia Croft | Rural Appalachia and the Opioid Epidemic: Overcoming Current Barriers with New Solutions | Professor Kristin Shargots |
Claire Galloway | Self-Selected Pacing Strategy and Lactate Response in Individual Medley Time Trials | Dr. Sean Collins |
Maxwell Garcia | Immunomodulatory Effects of Glycerolic Echinacea Purpurea Stem and Leaf Extract on RAW 264.7 Murine Macrophages” | Dr. David Freier |
Amelia Hagen | Why Philosophy Matters in the Face of Climate Change | Dr. Devon Brickhouse-Bryson |
Dylan Haley | Silk Production in Mature and Penultimate Female Dolomedes scriptus | Dr. Kari Benson |
Alyson Haslet | An Exploration of How Sexual Assault is Portrayed in the Media | Dr. Ghislaine Lewis |
Anne Kelly | Understanding Veillonella atypica as a Potential Metabolic Mediator in Diabetic Exercise Resistance | Dr. Jamie Brooks |
Haleigh Kozlowksi | The Relationship Between Blood Lactate and Heart Rate Responses to an Established Biking Protocol in Female Distance Athletes vs. Sedentary Females | Dr. Wendy Williamson |
Kaitlyn Langford | Teaching Through the Lens of a Senior Vocal Recital | Dr. Cynthia B. Ramsey |
Josephine LaPrad | An Analysis of Sediment Collected by Pogonomyrmex salinus from the Jurassic Sundance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming | Dr. Brooke Haiar |
Sam Lipert | A Reform of Treatment: An Analysis of the American Asylum | Dr. Lisa Crutchfield |
Carl McAninch | Analyzing and Computing Solution for Dots and Boxes Game | Dr. Randy Ribler |
Sarah McCollum | Forest of Claytor Nature Center as a Carbon Offset; Assessing the Sequestration Potential and Socioeconomic Implications | Dr. Laura Henry-Stone |
Madison Miller | Simply Add Women and Stir?: The Efficacy and Ethics of Gender Quotas in Helping Women Achieve Executive Political Office | Dr. Dan Lang |
Patrick Moore | A Comparison of External Loads in Division III Men’s Lacrosse Between High Competition Matches and Low Competition Matches | Dr. Sean Collins |
Sarah Mroczkowksi | Nature and Nurture: How they Play a Role in Serial Killers and their Victims (1970-1999) | Dr. Christine Terry |
Ernest Murphy | Locomotor Biomechanics in Stream Gobies, Rhinogobius sp.: Functional Performance of Waterfall-Climbing Behavior | Dr. Takashi Maie |
Genevieve Neuwirth | Qualitative Analysis of Elf Bar E-Liquids and their Effect on Phenotypic Characteristics of Arabidopsis Thaliana | Dr. Erin Friedman |
Sydney Nolley | The Deconstruction of The VRA: Assessing Voting Practices and Legislation Moving Forward | Dr. Daniel G Lang |
Rebecca Owens | History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but Often Rhymes: An Analysis and Extension of Models Influencing Special Education | Dr. Lucinda Spaulding |
Kessa Romero | The Effect of Social Influence, Patient Type, and Treatment Type on Ethical Medical Decision | Dr. Virginia Cylke |
Taylor Rowder | Education Via Social Media to Increase Vaccination Rates among 18-29 Year-Olds. | Professor Susan Braud |
Travis Shumate | Baseball Eclipsed: No Longer America’s Pastime | Dr. Stefan Nicovich |
Dylan Shuster | A Functional Comparison of Murine Bone Marrow Derived Macrophages to RAW 264.7 and J774A.1 Cells | Dr. David Freier |
Amelia Simmons | A Quantitative Analysis of Gender Inequality on Efforts to Reduce Human Trafficking in Countries | Dr. Sabita Manian |
Charles Skutt | Use of EEG-Based Machine Learning to Predict Music-Related Brain Activity | Dr. David Freier |
Frederick Smallshaw | “The Colours of Rethoryk”: The Medieval World’s Influence on Red and White Color Symbolism in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” | Dr. N. Scott Amos |
Sydni Spradlin | Perceived Effectiveness of Mental Health Rehabilitation on Recidivism | Dr. Alicia Marciano |
Gillian Trost | Reparations for the Wrongly Convicted | Dr. Laura Kicklighter |
Sophia Tully | Beyond Rationality: Reconciling Non-Ideal Agency and Epistemology in the Community | Dr. Devon Brickhouse-Bryson |
Arran Walton | Money Laundering in the Global Art Market | Dr. Stefan Nicovich |