Honors Theses from 2023
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
Impact of Care For Life- Mozambique's Cyclone Recovery Program, Anna Osguthorpe
Mechanical Actuation via Resorbable Materials, Bethany Parkinson
A Valley Lost to Time, Washington C. Pearce
The Investment Gap: An Exploration of Why So Few Women Study Finance at Brigham Young University, Elizabeth Anne Pearson
Barriers to Mental Health Help-Seeking among the Latinx Population in the United States: Primary Care, Family Influences, and Cultural Stigmas, Taylor Percival
Sequencing the Guts out of COVID-19; The Evolution Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic, Madelyn Purnell
Angel Babies Ascending to Heaven a Family Saga of Death Across Cultures, Heidi Riboldi
Inclusion and Deliberative Dialogues: Exploring Outcomes of Transformative Experiences for Adolescents, Hadley Robertson
Implementing a High-Performance Quantum Computing Emulator, Reece Robertson
Finding Patterns in the Inertia of the Distance Squared Matrix of Unicyclic Graphs, Kellon Sandall, Mark Kempton, and Christian Howell
A Descriptive Analysis of Severe Maternal Morbidities In Southern Arizona, Joseph Sherman
Missionaries and Manipulation: Exploring Vulnerabilities and Safeguards for Young Missionaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rachel Sowa Ray
The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Military Populations, Mason Stewart
Exploring Melatonin as a Treatment for Oral Ulcers, William H. Sutherland
Main and Interactive Effects of Mental Health, Parent Ethnic Socialization, Discrimination on BIPOC Teens' Ethnic Identity, Emily Takamasa, Ashley M. Fraser, and Adam Rogers
The Importance of Quality of Life in Weight Loss Programs, Brooke Taylor
Wild Ixalan: A Creative Case Study on Mythology, Magic, and More, Lincoln Teichert
The Effect of CSR on Attitudes Towards Outward and Inward FDI: A Cross-National Comparison of Citizen Perceptions in the United States And Kenya, Lindsey Walker
Prescriptive Lists: A Taxonomy of Lists Used in Prescriptive Discourse, Kelsie Westphal
Rosal de María by Soror Maria do Céu: A Pedagogical Edition and Literary Analysis, Bailey Willden
A New Age of Film Music: Emotional Responses to Midi Mockups Versus Orchestral Recordings, Amberlee Woodhouse
Mindful Musicians: Trait Mindfulness, Deliberate Practice, Anxiety and Depression in College Musicians, Sally S. Wynn
The Regulation of ATG9A-Mediated Aggrephagy by an ULK1-Independent ATG13-ATG101 Complex, Joshua Youngs
Honors Theses from 2021
The Political Nature of Tourism: How A Country's Political Factors Influence Tourist's Willingness to Travel, Camilla Alarcon
Effects of Catharanthine on Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens and Ethanol Consumption, Emily Baldwin
Censorship and the Satanic Verses: Policing Blasphemy in a Secular World, Alixa Brobbey
Intermountain West Lichen DNA Reference Library, Brian Colgrove
Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups Are Under-Represented and Under-Reported in Guideline-Informing Heart Failure Clinical Trials, Gerardo Gamino
Effects of Actual and Perceived Air Pollution on U.S. Twitter Sentiment, George R. Garcia III
Social Determinants of Health Screening and Preventive Care: A Survey to Assist in Linking Patients to Community Resources in Payson, Utah, Gabriel Ghanadan
Left out: An fMRI study exploring handedness-based exclusion in memory research, Loriana Goulding
The Man in the Tree: The Fantastic as a Bridge Between the Ideal and the Real, Weber Griffiths
Realium: Building the Future of Real Estate on the Blockchain, Demitri Haddad
Impacts of Manipulating Photoperiod on Circadian Rhythms of Agave Photosynthesis, Robert Hadfield
Environmental Determinism and Professional Football, Hunter Hallows
Initial Effects of Subchapter V of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy During COVID-19, Denise Han
Decision Based Learning Course Design & Implementation for Introductory Statistics, Austin Heath
Identifying and Knocking Out Non-Visual Opsins in the Optic Tectum of Zebrafish Larvae, Sarah Jarrett
The Communicative Effects of Anonymity Online: A Natural Language Analysis of the Faceless, Caleb Johnson
Exploring Differences Of Age And Gender On Perceived Experience Of Active Participation Cybersecurity Learning, James Lakko
Exploration of Fluorinated α,β-Dehydroamino Acids and their Structure, Austin LeSueur
Telsam-Target Protein Fusions Can Form Diffraction-Quality Crystals Without Direct Inter-Polymer Contacts, Moriah Longhurst
The U.S.-Mexico Border and Housing Prices: Understanding the Impact of Border Fencing on Property Values, Mary Jane MacArthur
A Moment of Sanity: Ciceronian Rhetoric in Don Quijote's Arms and Letters Speech, Trevor Mathews