Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Submissions from 2011
A Turn of the Century Lady, Grace Delahanty
The Formation History Of Layered Chondrules In Acfer-139 (CR2), Matt Downen
Masculinity in Musicals: A Comparison Between the 1950s and Present Day, Emily M. Eisenbrey
Assessing Social Benefits of Domestic Rainwater Harvesting in Southern Kenya, Lindsey M. Filiatreau
A Comparative Analysis Of Judicial Selection Methods In Tennessee And Kentucky: Appointed V. Elected, Eileen M. Forsythe
Promoting Unity Through Propaganda: How the British Government Utilized Posters During the Second World War, Elizabeth Tate Goins
Using the Web Wisely: Assisting the Nonprofit Sector with Internet Use, Lesley N. Greenwell
Social Media For Social Good: A Guide To New Media For College Activists, Charles Harris
The Effects Of Housing And Childcare On Academic Persistence: Perceptions Of Scholar House Residents, Jessica Hawkins
Chemistry - ACS Certification, Daniel Hinson
Citizen Journalism: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges, Wally Hughes
Avian Abundance and Diversity in CREP and Fescue Fields in the Summer and Winter Related to Vegetation Structure in the Upper Green River Watershed, KY, Thomas A. Hulsey
A Series of Un-breathable Events: The Clean Air Act and the Transformation of Environmentalism in American Society, Chelsea Kasten
Youth and Legends: A Short Story Collection, Jennifer Kiefer
The Casualty of Home, Molly Koeneman
The History Of Zoological Gardens And The State, Federal And International Laws That Govern Them, Morgan Maxwell
DNA Sequence Variation in the Wingless Gene Product in Buckeye Butterflies (Genus Junonia), Bonnie McCullagh
PCR Amplification Of Trypanosoma Cruzi - Specific DNA from Raccoon Blood Samples, Colin Moss
The Proliferation Of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Depends On Thioredoxin 1 Protein In A Model Of Pulmonary Hypertension, Viktoria Nelin
The Federal IMD Exemption and Cost-Shifting, Todd Rainey
Reactions With Platinum (ll) Complexes And Selenium-Containing Amino Acids, Stephanie Robey
Exploring the Relationship between Facebook, Face-to-Face and Intercultural Communication, Rebecca Schaefer
Helping Those Who Are Dedicated To Helping Others: A Campaign For The IRHDR, Tracy Leigh Scherzer
Implementation Of An Inexpensive 3d Scanner, Robert Michael Sivley
Assessment Of Prenatal Care And Perinatal Outcomes In Kasigau, Kenya, Allison Smith
Estriatus, Nate Spicer
We Can Grow It: Reporting on Women in Agriculture in India, Belize and the U.S., Colleen Stewart
Lessons From Gilead: Producing a Student-Directed Musical at Western Kentucky University, Stephen G. Tabor
Effective and Affordable Novel Arsenic Removal Technology, Benadin Varajic
Making WKU a Fair Trade University, Matthew John Vaughan
The Culture of Skydiving, Steven Wade
Screening RNAi Transformants Of Chlamydomonas For Reduced Expression Of The Photoreceptor Cryptochrome, Jeremy Webb
The Effect of Music on the Social Behavior of a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rachel Weinzapfel
Prescribed Fire Effects on the Summer and Fall Herbs of Mesic Deciduous Forests, Margaret Wilder
Health Care In America: How To Fix Costs and Employer Provided Insurance Through Consumer Driven Health Care, Jonathan Williams
Predictability Time of Chaotic Cosmologies, John Max Wilson
Changes In Newspaper Portrayals Of Women, 1900-1960, Laurel Wilson
Examining Type Ia Supernova Progenitors from Local Event Rates, Schuyler Wolff
Submissions from 2010
Search for Advocacy: A measure of local attentiveness to homelessness, Courtney L. Aldrich
Incorporation of Europium (III) coordination compounds into silica microspheres, Johnathan Nathanael Brantly
Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown
Learning to Talk to an Other: Stories and Thoughts on Community Organizing in a Divided Nation, Greg James Capillo
Counting the Number of Locally Convex Topologies on a Totally Ordered Finiate Set, Thomas Tyler Clark
Social Information Processing: The effect of Affective ties on children's social goals, Amanda C. Drake
The Efficacy of Chemistry Outreach Programs on Middle School Students, Erica M. Dumeyer
Costume Design and Dramaturgical Analysis of The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca, Geneva ged
To Live and Die in Dixie: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Nationalism, Jacob A. Glover
Sensitivity of Planetary Boundary Layer to Varying Volumetric Soil Moisture: A Mesoscale Models Comparision, Asrid Suarez Gonzalez
Servant Leadership and Sir Winston Churchill, Benjamin Hardy
Roads to the Great Eucatastrophie: The Christian Mythology of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Laura Ann Hess
Preservation and Renovation of Historical Downtown Bowling Green: The Galloway Resort, Brandy Nicole Hill
Reliability of a Lunar Excavator, Amanda Michelle Huff
Management Training: An Assessment of Undergraduate Education Programs in Preparing Teachers for Classroom Management, Matthew Jenkins
Integrating Counselor Teambuilding and Leadership Training into the Annual Honors Freshman Orientation Retreat, Alexandria L. Kerns
Guns and Porn: A Look at the Semantic Effects of the Relationship Between Aggression and Sexuality, Niki J. Kersey
What Appeals to the WKU Honors Student? A Promotion Mix Designed to Intrigue, Brittany T. Kittleman
The Israeli Armored Paradigm in the Yom Kippur War: An Evaluation, Joseph C. Leonhardt
J. Graham Brown School, Jessie Magee
Mean Girls: A Reflection of Middle School Relational Aggression, Kerry Jean Markham
Molecular Tools for Understanding the Population Genetic Effects of Habitat Restoration on Butterflies, Joseph R. Marquardt
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 Activity, Maggie L. Roe
Cognitive Processes of Surrealist Poetry in Light of Hegel & Insomniac Trials, Edward Rogers
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 Microentrepreneurial Intent to Quit a Business: 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