Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
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
Analysis of Gene Expression in Mouse Brains During Toxoplasma gondii Infection, Yi Zhou
Submissions from 2006
Belly Dance as a Means of Dance Therapy for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Nadia De Leon
Diet Affects Immunologically Relevant Gene Expression in Brains of Toxoplasma gondii Infected, Lydia Kullman
Relationships between Achievement, Academic Self-Concept, and Perceived Parental Relationships among College Students of Varying Ability Levels, Melinda Lalonde
Use of Lolium multiflorum for Remediation of Phosphorus from Poultry-Litter-Contaminated Media, Daniel L Starnes
Assessing Wavelength Discrimination Abilities in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Using Appetitive Choice Discrimination Learning, Tim Thornberry
Identifying Exclusion Genes of Bacteriophage HK239, Ali Wright
Submissions from 2005
Idealized Images in Magazine Advertising and Their Effect on Male Body Satisfaction, Amy L. Baird
The National Weather Service's Polygon Method: Warning Dissemination of the Future, Crystal L. Bergman
The Greening of the Dhamma: Engaged Buddhist Environmentalism in the United States and Thailand, Hilary Bogert
The Furniture Industry: United States Manufacture vs. Chinese Importers, Emily Burnley
Channel 12: The NEXT Frontier, Ameerah Cetawayo
Molecular Mechanics Analysis of Platinum Compounds Chelated to Methionine Residues, Donald James Chapman
Brownfield Development: A New Approach to an Old Problem, Jennifer Corum
Truth or Dare, Cle'shea Crain
Facilitative Government and the Autonomy-Supportive Society, Daniel Anthony DeCaro
Grappling with Scholarship on Pro Wrestling: Comparative Media Studies Inside the Ring., Sam Ford
Does genertic variation support geographical and morphological patterns? A phylogentic interpretation of Mentha longifolia (Lamiaceae) using molecular data, Kate L. Hertwick
Moral Developmental Consistency: Investigating the Role of Academic Major, Grace Livingston
The Unbroken Circle, Priscilla Osborne
Phylogenetics of Rubus ursinus and R. macraai (Rosaceae): Evidence of hybrid origin, Brittany Sutherland
Train Up A Child In The Way He Should Go: The Jehovah's Witness' Supreme Court Cases of the Early 1940s, Kimberly A. Tharpe
Self Definition, Erin Westfall
Death, Decay, and Moribund, Virginia Zorn
Submissions from 2004
The Effect of the Dietary Polyphenols Quercetin and Resveratrol on Wound Healing in Bovine Corneal Endothelial Cells in Vitro, Amie E. Abell
Zebrafish cone contributions and ERG waveforms as impacted by CNQX, Margaret G. Au
Cincinnati's German Community: Mid-1800s to World War I, Tiffany Best
The Exploitation of Women In Mexico's Maquiladoras, Jennifer Gibbs
Coming Out: An Analysis According to Gender, Sarah Lawrence
Teaching Fractions, Natalie Miles
The Faces of Persuastion [sic], Melissa Dawn Vincent
Submissions from 2003
Holistic, Preventative, and Alternative Medicine as Incorporated in Today's U.S. Medical School and Medical Practices, Marcelle Beall
Privacy or Police Powers, Raegan Gibson
Charting the Bird Populations of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kristen Jones
Opening Our Eyes to Mind Blindness Within the Home, Melissa C. Jones
Communication Within the Church: Characteristics of the Post-modern Church, Natalie King
Interactive Lego Robots Learning in a Controlled Environment, Jonathan McGehee
The Use of First-Person Narrators in the Poetry of Rita Dove, Laura Phy
Vietnamese in Bowling Green: An American Story, Nathaniel Walker
Submissions from 2002
Dante's Thomistic Vision: The Commedia, Frank Muller
Chimes In April, Samuel Stinson
Life Under the Third Reich as Seen Through the Eyes of Women Who Lived It, Amanda Stout
Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Germany During the Early Eight Century, Joel S. Thomas
An Investigation of Factors that Influence how Students Decide on a Major at Western Kentucky University, Cinnamon C. White
Orwell's Prophecy, David M. White
The L&N's Battalion: The Story of the 728th Railway Operating Battalion, sponsored by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company during the Second World War, David Matthew Wilkins
The Office of the United States Trade Representative, Phillip J. Winniger
Crisis Management at Western Kentucky University, Jeana LeAnn Woods
Submissions from 2001
Helping At-Risk Students Add Up: Motivational Lessons for Students in High School Mathematics, Karen Beckner
Nursing Considerations in the Assessment of an Autistic Child, Leanna Walker
Margery Kempe and Perfectionism, Howell Williams
Submissions from 2000
The Impact of Elevated Environmental Temperature on Cytokine Synthesis and Nitric Oxide Production During Experimental Chagas' Disease, L. Curtis Cary
The Golden Fields of Santo Domingo: A Historical Analysis of America's Obsession with the Dominican Republic During the Nineteenth century, Dennis W. Pennington
Submissions from 1999
Breaking the Rules: A Rebuttal of Normal-Tension Glaucoma, David Brey
Effects of Subcultivation on Cryopreservation on the Surface Expression of NA+, KT- atpase of Bovine Corneal Epithelium, Leslie Dossett
Breathing Zen: Thomas Merton's Search for 'The Death of Self', Angela Fairbanks
Black Enfranchisement in Kentucky: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Gail Joyce Guiling
Carothers McCaslin's Progeny Tracing the Theme of Redemption Chronologically Through the Multiracial McCaslins, Christine Reiss
In Search of a New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon
The Emotional Consequences of Victimization, Kim Van Zee
Submissions from 1998
Autosomal Recessive Forms of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, David N. Catlett