Honors Theses from 2024
Unplugging and Reconnecting: Mindfulness as a Mediator for the Effects of Technoference on Relationship Flourishing, Naomi Inman, Chelom E. Leavitt, Sarah Coyne, and David Nelson
Honors Theses from 2023
Design and Implementation of a Software System for Measuring Cookstove Emissions in Peru, Cody Arvonen
RACIAL EMPATHY GAP IN THE WORKPLACE: THE EXISTENCE OF AND CONSEQUENCES FOR RACIAL WORKPLACE DISPARITY THROUGH LACK OF EMPATHY, Kathleen Bahr
THE DIALECTIC OF HUMAN LIBERTY IN THOMAS CARLYLE'S PAST AND PRESENT AND J.S. MILL'S ON LIBERTY, Kyle Belanger
Coming and Going to Zion: Conceptualizing Emigrant Motives of British Latter-day Saints, 1840-60, Samuel Benson
A Catholic Reads the Book of Mormon: Folk Carvings of Roman Śledź, Candace Brown
Captain George Cannon: One Man's Role in the Conquest of Sugar in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Leah Brown
Cognitive Effects of Grammatical Gender in L2 Spanish Acquisition: A Study Among Latter-Day Saint Returned Missionaries, Hannah Cagle
The Dark Is Not My Enemy: The Personal Essay as a Form to Explore Trauma and Memory, Raistlyn Camphuysen
KOREAN POP IDOLS: THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIMELIGHT, Ashley Chase
Semantic Memory and Decision-Making: An fMRI Study Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation, Morgan Chase
EFFECTS OF THE KETOGENIC DIET ON SPATIAL MEMORY AND LONG-TERM POTENTIATION IN THE CA1 REGION OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS IN YOUNG RODENTS, Jed Christensen
Affichage: Posters as a Powerful Tool of Protest, Politics, and Propaganda in France, Brigit Cooper
THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF EMERSON'S IDEAS ON AMERICAN MANAGEMENT LITERATURE FROM THE LENS OF DALE CARNEGIE’S HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, Taylor M. Dalton
Made in His Image: How Christian God Image Influences Interpersonal Judgments of Severe Mental Illness, Austin Davis
HARD TO BE WON: A THEATRICAL INTERPRETATION OF ELIZABETH KECKLY’S “BEHIND THE SCENES, OR THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE AND FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE”, Selah DeGering
The War on Gender Equality: A Comparative Study Between Feminism and Anti-Feminism in South Korea and the United States, Ashley DiPenti
Bookbinding in the Middle Ages: Presenting Book History in a University Setting, Louisa Eastley
Elevating the Silicon Slopes, Joseph Evans
Off the Books: Making A Space for BIPOC Representation in Young Adult Publishing, Elisha Fernandez
Duverger's Law and Polarization in a Ranked Choice Citizen-Candidate Model, Bryan Frandsen
THE POLITICS OF DACA: EXPLAINING VARIATION IN REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR DACA, Diana Gonzales
Trapped by the Past: A History and Translation of an Equatoguinean Poet, Paul A. Guajardo
Women and Gender in Mountaineering and Climbing, Natalie Gunn
Crossword: Trauma and the Re-Creation of Self, Lydia Hall
“Early COVID” Changes in Parenting, Education, and Work on Parental Stress: A Gendered Comparison of Canadian Parents, Holly Harris
Investigations into u'-band Photometry of the Haumea System, Seneca Heilesen
Comparing Multiple Sclerosis Age of Onset in American American and European Cohorts via Polygenic Risk Scores, Amy Arabel Hernandez
A Qualitative Case Study Examining Discrepancy Between Prospective Outcome Using ROM and Narrative Client Retrospective View, Jarom J. R. Hickenlooper
An Evaluation of EPA Communication on Climate Change From 1997 to 2022, Adam Johnson
Accessible Methods, Novel Arrangement: Developing Self-Centering Composite Structural Frame Systems for Highly Resilient Buildings, Emma Rae Kratz-Bailey
Christianity on Homebrew: Alessandro Valignano, Indigenization, and Japan's Hidden Christians, Brayden Lane
IS COSTCO WORTH INCENTIVIZING? AN ANALYSIS FROM THE CITY’S PERSPECTIVE., McCord Lethco
An Analysis of Float Serves in Women's Collegiate Volleyball, Emily Logan
SIDE-CHANNEL LEAKAGE FROM THE ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD ON FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS, Kaden Makechnie-Hardy
CREATING THE LISTENER LANGUAGE: A CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE WITH SEMANTIC RHYTHMS AND TONES, Dallyn H. McCracken
Creating Habitat Suitability Models for Restoration of Sesbania tomentosa and Chenopodium oahuense on Molokai, Hawaii, Bronwyn Meldrum
What's Gonna Happen With Us? How Friendship Networks Change After Marriage, Madeleine Meldrum
Analysis of Electromyographic Effects of Peripheral Sensory Stimulation on Essential Tremor in Tremor Suppression Study, Christian Jakob Metzner
Mujeres Latinas en Acción: Pragmatic Feminism and the Longevity of Grassroots Organizations, Lindsey Meza
BRAZILI(AMERIC)AN: PERCEPTION, PRESERVATION, AND TRANSMISSION OF IDENTITY AMONG 1ST GENERATION BRAZILIANS LIVING IN UTAH AND SALT LAKE VALLEYS, Elisabeth Morris
Vanguards of Change in the "Georgia of the North": Youth Activism in the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955, A Digital History Project, Emily Peterson
Vanguards of Change in the "Georgia of the North": Youth Activism in the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955, A Digital History Project, Emily Peterson
Identifying and Knocking Out Deep Brain Photoreceptors in the Larval Zebrafish Optic Tectum, Allison Pickens
Creating a Homophone-Based Chinese Language Censorship Evasion Tool, Emily Quan
DIGITAL HABITS OF GEN Z: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON WHY AND HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS USE INSTAGRAM, Josie Rackley
Repertoire for a Graduate Tenor Trombone Audition, an Annotated List of Trombone Solos for a Master's Program Audition, Ashley Rands
The Criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation in Ohio: A Social and Political Analysis, Madsyn Selph
Extra, Extra, Read All About It: An Analysis of News Platform Preferences, Gabrielle Shiozawa
Utah's Inland Port: The Future of Logistics in the Intermountain Region or Gambling With Taxpayer Money, Austin Simonson
THE IDEAL SPANISH CANDIDATE: THE EFFECTS OF GENDER ON THE ELECTABILITY OF RELIGIOUS CANDIDATES, Arabella Smith
STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MINDFULNESS INTERVENTIONS IN THE ESL CLASSROOM, Lauren Smith
Political Propaganda In Young Adult Fiction, Jordan Spriggs
The "Missionary Voice": Bona Fide Sociolect or Figment of the Mormon Linguistic Imagination?, Joshua Stevenson
Islamophobia: The Effect of Personal Interaction and the Media on Arab Prejudice in Spain, Isabelle Stoddard
ADAPTING THE AUXIN INDUCIBLE DEGRON (AID) SYSTEM TO DANIO RERIO, Benjamin Stubblefield
What's the Password? Account Sharing in the Context of Passwordless Authentication, Daniel Taylor
ANALYZING ONLINE MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR HACKTIVIST GROUP ORGANIZATION AND PROLIFERATION, Quincy Taylor
THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF THIN-SHELL CONCRETE DOME STRUCTURES, Daira Sofia Velasco Vega
Qosqo: A Documentary Approach to the Preservation of Andean Culture, Emma Volz
Hosts: Relic, Gesture, Site, and Connection in an Art Installation, Gabriella Warnick
Understanding the Causal Relationship Between State-Level Childcare Tax Credits and Female Labor Participation, Emma K. Webster
Songs on the Road: A Novel, Lane Welch
Cloning a Fusion Gene for the Identification of the Proteins Contained in Ubiquitin-Rich Condensates, Grace M. Whitehead
Comparison of the Unweighted Log-Rank and Weighted Prentice-Modified Wilcoxon Tests with Left-Truncated Data, Ellen Wight
Turn Towards Each Other: Emotional Connection as a Catalyst for Marital Satisfaction, Especially During Times of Conflict, Brooke W. Williams
CONCENTRATING E. COLI AT INITIAL LOW CONCENTRATIONS BY CENTRIFUGATION WITH PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE, PLASMA, AND SIMULATED BLOOD SUSPENSIONS, Sarah Williams
PARTY CONTACTING, GROUP IDENTITY, AND COVID-19: AN ANALYSIS OF ASIAN AMERICAN VOTER TURNOUT, Suzy Yi
Honors Theses from 2022
Reservoir Computing Solutions for Streamflow Modeling and Prediction in Real World Scenarios, Paden Allsup
An Examination of the Associations Between Relationship Education, Trust, Communication, Relationship Satisfaction, and Sexual Satisfaction, Samantha Baker
What if I Liked it Better Before? An Analysis of Consumer Reactance to Brand Logo Redesigns, Lauren Bushnell
Qualitative Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteriophage KaOmega, Emilee Carr
Outvoice: Bringing Transparency to Healthcare, Autumn Clark
Religiousness and Risky Behaviors Mediated by Moral Attitudes, Benjamin Curth
From the Headlines: A Textual Analysis of Social Polarization and Discord in Times of Pandemic Across a Century in the United States, Alexa DeMarco
“The Only Story I’ll Be Able to Tell”: An Analysis of Shame and Queer Identity in Gothic American Campus Novels, Aubrey Dickens
The Role of Latter-day Saint Resentment in Utah's Culture War, Jessica Dofelmire
Divine Intervention? The Association Between Spirituality and Eating Disorder Recovery, Haley Graver
Pixels & the Polls: The impact of female role models in television media on the perceived electability of women, Amy Griffin
Motives for Repression of Chinese Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Case Study of Xinjiang and Tibet, Haley Grizzell
The Effect of Mobile Voting Units on Voter Turnout: An Ada County, Idaho Case Study, Tayzlie T. Haack and Tayzlie Tripple Haack
Brigham Young University Police and the Campus Community, Martha J. Harris
"More Than Conquerors" The Evangelical Kingdom Model at Work in One of America's Protestant Megachurches, Kaylin Hill
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, NATURAL RIGHTS, AND THE FATE OF LIBERALISM, Landon Hooley
Gender-Related Language Trends in Online Written News: Comparative Corpus Analysis of Prescribed vs. Actual Usage, Brooke James
"I Don't Believe One-half of It Myself": The Role of Folk Groups in Supernatural Legend Interpretation, Melanie Kimball
Variability in Variables: An Analysis of Variable Use in A Middle School Mathematics Textbook, Annalisa G. Lavin
Deep-Brain Shape Features Differentially Relate to Social Outcomes in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury, Braydon Lee
Peer Counseling as a Possible Solution: Students Helping Students Move Toward Mental Health, Katherine Leonard
Examining Limbic Sexual Dimorphisms in Schizophrenia, Kennedy S. Madrid
Mapping Auditory and Vestibular Response Neurons in the Optic Tectum of Larval Zebrafish, Erika Marks and Arminda Suli
The Effect of Economic Shocks on Religious Freedom Violations: Evidence From Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan, Rachel Miner
FOOD SECURITY: A Study of the History of Nutritional Insecurity and Implications of Development in the Rural Sierra and Selva Regions of Peru, Jane Morrissey
Psychological Sense of Community in Gateway Communities, Jaimi Mueller
“I—I Can’t Talk About Things”: The Tragedy of Post-WWII Civilian Masculinity in Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, Rebekah Olsen