Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Submissions from 2010
The Changes in Irish Dance Since Riverdance, Angelika Masero
Voluntary Exercise in Phosphorylase Kinase Deficient Mice, Ashley M. Mefford
The Future of the Gender Wage Gap in the American Workforce, Molly K. Merrick
Synthetic Study of para-Substituted 5,6-Fused Ring Pyridazines, Justin Mobley
Forum Theatre Empowering Students to Speak, Act, and Know, Kaitlen M. Osburn
On-Metal Synthesis of Some Rhenium Complexes, Chad L. Phillips
"Is Kentucky a Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett
Adsorption Efficiency and Partitioning Capabilty of Surfactant Monolayers on Gold, Carrie Jo M. Pruitt
Scaling of Feeding Performance in Panther Grouper, Cromileptes altivelis, Candace R. Read
The Running: Live At Mercy Lounge, Caitlin Richard
Adapting to Aging in Place: An Assessment of Residential Living Facility Resident's Frequency of Physical Activty, Maggie L. Roe
Cognitive Processes of Surrealist Poetry in Light of Hegel & Insomniac Trials, Edward T. Rogers
Derivatives of the Dedekind Zeta Function Attached to a Complex Quadratic Field Extention, Nathan Salazar
Tops Off to Dancing: An Exotic Form of Nightlife, Jessica Sanspree
A Speech-Language Pathologiest Perspective on the Referral and Assessment of Bilingual Children whose Primary Language is not English, Kathleen M. Schulte
The Corporeal Idea, Brian A. Shaw
Henry Hardin Cherry: The Early Period of a Life's Work, Kevin T. Smiley
The Effect of a Three Point Sensory Diet on Vocal and Verbal Behavior in a Non-Verbal Child on the Autism Scale, Chelsey Danielle Smith
Assessment of the 'Accounting Cycle': Test Tools for the Accounting Professor, Nicole M. Swanson
Institutional Inconsistencies and Microentreneurial Intent to Quite a Buisness: Street Vendors in Vietnam, Mai N. Tran
Raising a Ghost Town, Bethany Truax
The Relationship between Economic Freedom and Economic Growth: The Transistion Process in Vietnam and China, Hanh T. Vu
Constructing a Flash Flood Climatology of the Appalachian Mountains: Comparison of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia Summer Time Rain Events, Jane Marie Wix
Hopelessly Disadvantaged Like You: A Comparative Study of Disadvantaged Youth in Mobile and Medellin, Colleen Elizabeth Wynn
Submissions from 2009
The Effect of Breeding Herd Parity Structure on Genetic Improvement of the Sow Herd, Caitlyn E. Abell
Quality Instruction Creates Higher Student Learning, Kelly Jan Austin
Where do they go when they die?, Meridith L. Bartley
Los Immigrantes: In-depth Reporting and Anonymous Source Analysis, Ashley Belcher
The Hands Beneath the Blood, Kasey Bell
Development of a Carbon-Carbon Sandwich Composite with a Cellulose, Matt Brown
A Comparison of Cationic Surfactant Immobilized Ion Exchange Membranes in Their Application for Use in Extraction of 4-Nitophenol, Robert Derrek Brown
Quantifying Network Reliability Through Finding An Upper Bound For Graph Integrity Using Graph Coloring, Ian Burchett
Teenage Mothers: Adolescent Pregnancy in the Southern United States, Julie Kish Byrd-Jenkins
Don't give Grandma an ipod for Christmas: An Expository Study Examining the Consumer Behavior of Senior Citizens in the Digital Music Indistry, Joshua T. Coleman
The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay, Brandon Colvin
Effects of Drought the Lipid Content in Fundulus Catenatus, Angelena Edwards
Isolation of a 3-Methylindole-Producing Bacterium from a Swine Waste Lagoon, Michelle L. Fusting
Vietnamese Water Puppet Theatre: A Look Through The Ages, Derek Gaboriault
Once was Lost, or Turtles all the way down, Evan Gribbins
Quantum Dot Immuno-Conjugates Allow for Reliable Photo-Stable Detection of Intracellular Stages of Toxoplasma Gondii, Natalia Barahona Guerrero
The Influence of Spatial Scale on Landcover and Avian Community Relationships within the Upper Green River Watershed, KY, Cabrina L. Hamilton
Why Has the United States Never Ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women?, Hannah Elizabeth Kington
Curing Nature-Deficit Disorder: How Environmental Education Helps Kids Learn, Jamie Leigh Langley
Reactions of Cisplatin Analogs with Selenomethionine, Rebekkah Lively
The Planning of In-game Sponsored Events and Promotional Activities in Professional Sports, Rachel McKee
Online Tutoring: Creation of a Free Tutoring Service for Trigonometry Students, Stephanie A. Micallef
Chasms in Care: Implications of a disparate system on childhood obesity, Sara Dianne Miller
The New Campaign: Social Networking Sites in the 2008 Presidential Election, Ashley Payne
Characteristics of Chinese International Studies in a USA University that Effect Cultural Adjustment, Angel M. Piper
The FBI’S Response to Civil Right Crimes during Mississippi Freedom Summer, Michelle Lee Reynolds
Scaling of Feesing Behavior and Performance in the Goliath Grouper, Epinephelus itajara, Michelle Riggs
Edward I and the Appropriation of Arthurian Legend, Rachealle Marie Sanford
Communion in the South Union: An Archaeological Analysis of a Shaker Colony, Daniel Tallent
Modeling Thip;ate Enzyme Chemistry with Cysteine at a High pH, Emily Michelle Turner
Sythesis of carporide Derivatives for Sodium-Proton Exchange Inhibition, Jacob Adam Vervynckt
Streaming Fish Sampling: Abundance versus Biomass Measurements and Determining a Minimum Number of years to Sample, Sarah B. Vied
"Survival with Honor": The Battle between the Flesh and the Spirit in the Dramas of Tennessee Williams, Kirby Watkins
The Impacts of Global Warming on Appalachian Wildflower Phenologies, Rachel D. Wigginton
An Investigation of the Intersection between Art and Activism, Emily Wilcox
Blueprints Worth Writing About, Christina Yiannakos
Submissions from 2008
Use of Origanum vulgare Essential Oil to Combat Human Pathogenic Yeasts, Amber Adams
Art as Propaganda in Revolutionary America and France: A Comparative Analysis, Megan Blair
Endurance, Jeremiah Bush
The Monumental Ally: Chief Justice John Marshall and the Protection of the United States Constitution, Mattea C. Carver
How Do Characteristics of Organizational Budgetary Systems Affect Employee Attitudes and Behaviors?, Holly Coover
A Journey Into the Land of No Return: Death Attitudes and Perceptions of Death and Afterlife in Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Leah Whitehead Craig
But Never of the Now: Creatively Nonfiction Women, Tiffany Renee Davidson
Script to Screen: "Wicked like the Chaff", Robert J. Deignan
The Journey, A suite in five movements for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and percussion, Erin Goad
Reversing Underachievement: A Practical Guide for Parents, Alex J. Hargrove
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, Andrea Lauren Heming
Barriers to Breast Cancer Prevention, Detection and treatment among Middle Eastern Women, Senida Husic
Development and Recycling of Novel Arsenic Removal Technology, Morgan Jones
The Economic Impact of the Kentucky Green River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), Lorie B. Owen
Ella and Henry: A Standards Based Unit and Accompanying Novel, Virginia Harris Prather
Morphology of the inner and peripheral ear of the loricariid catfish Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps K., Brian David Rodgers
Re-Writing the Test, Ron Ryne
Biomechanical Modeling of Forelimb Adduction in the Eastern Mole, Scalopusaquaticus, Mark Sandefur
Science and Social Studies: The Forgotten Content, Samantha Slaughter
Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala: Implications of the Hague Convention, Kathleen Smallwood
A Boy From Decatur: A Posthumous Memoir, Lindsey B. Thurman
An Analysis of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra in A Minor, Megan Diann Wheat
Submissions from 2007
Crunching Numbers: A Critical Look at Annual Reports, Stephanie Caron
A Deeper Look Into the World of Costuming, Laura Mae Franzini
Back-up Server for Computer Science Department, Victoria Gaylord
A Great Song and Dance: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky' Middle School Classrooms, Adriane Hardin
Getting A Job: How Effective are Broadcasting Internships?, Erica L. Hardy
Five Words When Ten Seem Necessary: a Memoir in Brevities, Rebecca Hazelwood
Arab Siege of Egyptian Babylon : a Classic Study in Islamic Expansion of the 7th Century, Paul Mitchell Love Jr.
Writing the World: Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood’s Literary Contributions to Ecofeminism, Melissa Messer
Synthesizing Gauguin: A Comparative Look at Cultural Contexts And Gauguin’s Tahitian Paintings, Joanna Miller
Thugs and Drugs: The Terrorists and Drug Networks of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Ian Nash
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Jennifer Pickett
DesiTV - The Indian TV, Saurin Shah
What ARE We Fighting For? An Analysis of the Sociopolitical Non-fiction of Herbert George Wells, Jason Edward Sloan
A History of Maintenance: Implementing MP2, Julie Thomas
Zeno of Elea: Where Space, Time, Physics, and Philosophy Converge An Everyman’s Introduction to an Unsung Hero of Philosophy, William Turner
Designing excellence: Creation of a production system and visual identity for Areté, the Honors College newsletter, Kathryn Wilson