Honors Theses from 2024
Honors Theses from 2023
Young Women's Diagnostic Experiences in an RVU-Driven Healthcare Market, Elizabeth Annette Dell
Characterizing Environmental Regulation of Type I DNA Methyltransferase hsdM1 (HP0463) in Helicobacter pylori, Erin Ramsey
Honors Theses from 2022
The Effect of High School Racial Demographics on Cultural Competence in College Students, Lauren Grob
“A Sea of White Faces”: How Courtroom Portraits Undermine Justice in Virginia, Lauren Miller
The Architecture of Clothing: Notions of Public and Private Space, Savannah Orsak
Within-host Model of Poliovirus Control by Defective Interfering Particles and Interferon, Wei Wang
Honors Theses from 2021
Small Town Happenings: Local News Values and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Newspapers, Dana Armstrong
Performing Generational Trauma: Quan Chau's The Specter, Quan Chau
SCOPE: Building and Testing an Integrated Manual-Automated Event Extraction Tool for Online Text-Based Media Sources, Matthew Crittenden
Designing and Constructing a Library of Well-characterized Mycobacterium smegmatis Promoters, Xiangyi Fang
Honors Theses from 2020
Gait Characterization Using Computer Vision Video Analysis, Martha T. Gizaw
"The Most Eloquent Dissents:" Writ Writing at Parchman Penitentiary, Aleyah Gowell
Material Affection: An Exploration of Materiality in the Anthropocene, Ella Kasten
Modeling Hybrid Novel Traits: A case study in complex petal pigment patterning in hybrid Mimulus, Xingyu Zheng
Honors Theses from 2019
The Genetic Basis Underlying the Evolution of Commensal Microbes to Opportunistic Pathogens, Maliha Ahmad
Identity in Flux: Gender Norms and the English Language in Today’s Ukraine, Melanie Carter
The New Covenant: Welfare Reform and American Exceptionalism, Villemaire Choo
Meridian, Benjamin Fox
Calculating a Drought Vulnerability Index for South Africa based on Social and Biophysical Characteristics, Mollie Gaines
Creation and Characterization of Synthetic Biological Tools for Modular Genetic Circuit Design, Ethan Jones
The use of foundational mathematical modeling techniques to inform understanding & design of complex biological systems, Callan Monette
Modelling Deer-Vehicle Collisions on Virginia Roads, Yorick Oden-Plants
Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Lower York River Estuary, Joshua Sacks, Mark J. Brush, and Iris C. Anderson
A stage-structured oyster population model for reef restoration, Rachel Wilson
A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Perceptions of Drivers in Kenyan Health Care Quality, Rebecca Youngerman
Honors Theses from 2018
Quantitative Approaches in Bioengineering, Kalen Clifton
"Istwa Sa A Pa Senp": Body, Land, And Family In Haitian Afrofuturist Fiction, Sora Edwards-Thro
Diatomaceous Solar Cells, Jesse Granger
Imagining Oppression in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Heather Thompson Lawrence
Honors Theses from 2017
Empirical Measures of Collective Capacity: A Social Network Approach, Matthew Anthony Adan
The Efficacy and Safety of Six-Weeks of Pre-Workout Supplementation in Resistance Trained Rats, Justin P. Canakis
Interactions between Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Regime Switching Process, Zihao Chen
Operating Under Uncertainty: The Public and Private Funding of Domestic Violence Service Providers in Virginia, Jenifer N. Hartley
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Reimagining Urban Place and Governance in Semarang, Indonesia, Emmaleah K. Jones
Chilling the Right to a Jury Trial: The Unconstitutionality of Jury Costs, Stephanie E. Levin
Mathematical Studies of Optimal Economic Growth Model with Monetary Policy, Xiang Liu
Natural Debts, Natural Dangers: An Ideology of Nation-State and Subject in an Immunology Text, Quinn Monette
Honors Theses from 2016
Molded from Clay: The Portrayal of Jews through the Golem in Yudel Rosenberg’s The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague and Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem, Reynolds Nelson Hahamovitch
Why We Need Asian Pacific Islander American Studies, Jin Ho
Understanding North Korea in the Korean Diaspora: Teaching North Korea to American Students, So Dam Hong
Breastfeeding Initiation Among Women Who Have Experience with Incarceration, Natalie R. Libster
Memory, Narrative, and Identity Shifts in Modern Ireland, Erik David Nelson
Animating Animals: Exploring Modes of Animal Representation in Classic Animated Children’s Films, Meagan Phillips
Reconstructing a National Silhouette: Avant-Garde Fashion and Perceptions of the Japanese Body, Jon Dominick Querolo
Antifascist Graffiti: Crime or Contribution?, Jillian Margaret Sequeira
What is your present religion, if any? None, not Nun., Ming Siegel
Species Invasion in a Network Population Model, Ryan Clive Yan
Arthur Matsu's College Years: Historicizing His 1920s Experiences, Benming Zhang
Honors Theses from 2015
Spatial Patterns of Municipal Annexation and the Impact on the Cost of Police Services, Kyle B. DeMaria
Modeling the Effect of Cooperativity on Ligand-Driven Fluctuations of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors, Jeffrey Y. Liu
Evidence Uptake among International Nutrition Actors: A Case Study in Uganda, Emily Mahoney
“The Borehole Has Given Us a Chance:” Health, Hygiene, and Human Development in Karamoja, Uganda, Laura E. Pugh
Balancing the Scales: Examining relationships between Maternal Agency and Child Nutrition in Differing Developing World Contexts, Alison C. Roberts
An Analysis of State and Nationwide Legislation on Women’s Healthcare Access in Virginia, Lillian Singer
3D Printing, Jackson B. Stone
The Erosion of Brianzolo: The Impact of Standard Italian on a Dialect and a Cultural Identity, Regina Casey Thompson
Assessing the Role of Maternal and Community Capabilities in Preventing Childhood Diarrhea, Stephanie E. Wraith
Honors Theses from 2014
A Summary of Virginia High School English Teachers’ Cultural and Linguistic Classroom Experiences: Learning about Learning and Talking about Talking, Rachel E. Brooks
¿Quién amuralla una voz?: Poetry, Resistance, and Memory within Franco’s Prisons, Crosby D. Enright
Blurred Lines: Exploring Poetic and Musical Subjectivity in Verlaine and Debussy's "Romances sans paroles", Emily Eyestone
Towards an Understanding of Race and Academic Achievement in the Lives of African American Students, Mary E. Grech
Land Use Impacts on Selenium Accumulation in Vegetation and Soil, Sharon E. Hartzell
Taking the Aid Debate to the Sub-National Level: Impact and Allocation of Foreign Health Aid in Malawi, Robert Marty
Remembrance, Reflection, Reconciliation: The Performance of Collective Memory in Civil War Commemoration, Kathryn L. McLane
Diffusion of Revocation: The Movement Away from the Common Core State Standards, Ashley N. Napier
Association between invasive lionfish and native fish species in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean, Erin T. Spencer
Honors Theses from 2013
Divine on Display: The Śiva Nataraja Bronze in an American Museum, Nina Cavazos
State Education Leadership and Exit Examination Policy: A Study of Centralization and Partisanship, Avery Danforth Newton
Paradise Lost: A Vulnerability Analysis of Vernazza, Italy After the 2011 Natural Disaster, Huan Song
Honors Theses from 2012
The Opportunity Gap in the Age of Accountability: Experiences of Students from One Urban District, Danielle Greene
Deference or Defiance: State Court Treatment of Blaine Amendments, Ani-Rae Lovell
Meta-analysis of Extinction Selectivity in Fossil Marine Bivalves and Gastropods, Emily Orzechowski
Close to Home: The Use of an Area-Based Socioeconomic Measure as an Indicator of Chlamydia Risk in Virginia, Sarah Eileen Salino
Honors Theses from 2011
Remas(k)ulating the American Man: Fear and Masculinity in the Post-9/11 American Superhero Film, Carolyn P. Fisher
The DREAM Act: Extending Citizenship to the 1.5 Generation and Consequences for American Democracy, Emily Gottschalk-Marconi
Manufacturing a Renaissance, Heart Hettinger
Bridging the Achievement Gap: An Exploratory Study of a Virginia School, William B. Morris III
Pitch, Frequency and Duration:Using Phonetic Correlates to Determine the Word-Level Stress Pattern of Tunisian Arabic, Erica Lauren Shifflett
Modeling synaptic facilitation and depression in thalamocortical relay cells, Olivia J. Walch
Honors Theses from 2010
The Revolution Will Be Recognized: Black South African Women's Fight Against Patriarchy and Apartheid, Candace Lillie Bond
Chinese Environmental Policy: The New Ministry, Christine P. Dang
An Urban Morphology of Fresno, California: Its Structure and Growth, Christopher Silveira
Honors Theses from 2009
Comprehensive Discursive Organizing: Rethinking Political Representation and Community Organizing through a Discursive Lens, Nicholas James Belanger
Persistence of Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Acclimation to Simulated High Altitude, Reina L. Chamberlain
Looking Backwards and Forwards: Developing the Archaic and the Modern in Philippine Sustainable Design, Clarissa Isabelle L. Delgado
Engaging Local Ideas about Healthy Eating to Combat Protein-Energy Malnutrition in West Africa: The Centrality of Mothers to Kwashiorkor Prevention in Ghana, E Allison Honenberger
Phylogenetic relationships and morphological changes in Venericardia on the Gulf Coastal Plain during the Paleogene, Kate McClure
Honors Theses from 2008
Simultaneous Presence and Absence: Representation of the Holocaust at the Jewish Museum Munich, Emily Geizhals
From Brown v. Board to Parents v. Seattle: The Future and Constitutionality of Desegregation in American Public Schools, Jeree Harris
Community Supported Agriculture as Revitalization: Reconnecting the Farm and the Dinner Table, Jordan P. Howell
From Shadwell to Monticello: The Material Culture of Slavery, 1760-1774, Sarah E. Thomas
Honors Theses from 2007
Reinventing Soviet visual memory :a case study of Marina Goldovskaia's documentary Solovki power, Erin Rebecca Alpert
Honors Theses from 1991
Universities under fire :the strategic management of budgetary retrenchment, A. Eric Kauders Jr.
Honors Theses from 1988
Did you say "utter nonsense?" : an examination of the linguisitic theories of F. de Saussure and Noam Chomsky, R.G. Herndon Jr.
