Honors Theses from 2025
Humans Rule? Implications of religious undergraduates’ changing environmental perceptions, J. Robert Nielson
Listening to Life in a Noisy World: The Pitfalls and Promise of Urban Acoustic Ecology, Leah O'Barr
Exploring the Effects of Red-Light Camera System Policy on Intersection-Related Crashes, Nicholas O'Connor
IMPROVEMENT OF A NOVEL MOTORIZED QUINOA WASHER FOR SINGLE-FAMILY FARMERS, Brooklyn Olson
FEMALE RELIGIOSITY IN THE UNITED FARM WORKERS MOVEMENT, Keylla Ortega
Adding Virtue: The Leadership of Elaine Dalton, Olivia Osguthorpe
Stuck in Enilikos: Growing Up in Young Adult and Middle Grade Literature, Aubrey Parry
The Readable Scriptures: Creating a Dyslexia-Friendly Book of Mormon, Elijah Pearce
Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering Design Validation of a Fetal Activity Monitor, Hector Andres Pena Vega
Measuring Support for Democracy Through Public Understanding: A Conjoint Survey Approach, Kendra Pinegar
Who's on the Phone: Effectiveness of Cloned Vishing Messages, Katherine A. Rackliffe
Exploring the Figured Worlds and Identity of Religious Women in Mathematics-Related Majors, Rachel K. Reynolds
Implementing Exercise is Medicine at BYU, Destiny Rose H. Romero
Untying the Knot: All of Us Strangers and the Transgressive Encounter, Luka Romney
Bile Acid Effects on Accumbal Cholinergic Interneuron Firing Rates, Isabella A. Roque, Shimran S. Sharma, and Jordan T. Yorgason
Sisyphus Smiles: Essays On Living Well in the Face of Absurdity, Brooke N. Smith
A Missionary's Memoirs: Mongolia Revisited, Isaac Smith
Impact of Late Universe Constraints on Early Universe Measurements of Hubble, Garrett D. Suggs
Environmental Justice: Healing Environmental and Societal Wounds in The Overstory and Torto Arado, Marcia Tagg
Regulation of Cell Cycle Proteins at the Extremes of Copy Number Variation in Cancer, Hannah Tran
SIMULATING AND DESIGNING PYRO FX TO COMMUNICATE A HOSTILE AND MAGICAL ENVIRONMENT, Rebekah L. Tran
Picture This: An Event Designed to Increase Awareness of and Empathy for Individuals Who Experience Scrupulosity, Savannah M. Travis
Snow Surfacing Optimized for an Animated Short Film Pipeline, Kristen Whitehouse
The Play's the Thing: Using Game-Based Learning to Teach Romeo and Juliet and Critical Media Literacy as an Aspect of Civic Engagment, Lucy A. Winkel
Mystical Epistemologies: Understanding Divine Love Through Ibn 'Arabi and Thomas Aquinas, Janai Wright
Honors Theses from 2024
EFFECT OF EVENING VS. MORNING EXERCISE ON THE APPETITE HORMONES, Penny Akre
Development and Demonstration of an Apparatus for Assessing Frost-Heave Susceptibility of Soil, Becca Apgar and W. S. Guthrie
Relations Among Academic Program Elements and Students' Sense of Belonging, Rosemary Ashby
THE NORDSTJÄRNA PROJECT: RECOVERING VOICES OF SWEDISH MIGRATION, Benjamin Austin
Music Is My Language: Analyzing Autism Acceptance Within Communities, Cielo Bake
Analyzing the Relationship between Tree Canopy Coverage and Snowpack in the Great Salt Lake Watershed, Kyle J. Bird
Challenging the Master Narrative of Holocaust Victimhood: Examining the Holocaust Through a Gendered Lens, Annabella Blowers
Automate to Create: Simplifying Workflows in Small Film Productions, Adam Bonny
Just “Getting By” – Understanding Resource Deficits and Barriers to Medical Interpretation from the Perspectives of Spanish-Speaking Patients and Emergency Department Nurses, Magdalena Scribner Briggs
USING LEAN SIX SIGMA METHODOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE AT A LOCAL HEALTH CENTER, Marshall S. Butler
Explainable AI Using Assumption-Alignment Tracking on Multiple Algorithms, Darien Campbell
Ecological Validity of Simulated Ethical Situations in Therapy Part 2, Melissa Chavez
Recommendations for Adapting Religious Materials for People With Aphasia, Allison Dahl
CROSS-NATIONAL PREVALENCE AND LEGALITY OF CONSANGUINITY & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE SECURITY, Emma Dart
The Role of Age, Sex, and mGluR5 Receptors in Hippocampal Depotentiation in Mice, Michael Dew
Are Women The Silver Bullet? Understanding Women’s Perceptions Of Gun Reform And Red Flag Laws In The United States, Emmeline Farwell
Occupational Prestige Among East, Southeast, And Mixed Asian Groups: Exploring Heterogeneity Within The Model Minority Narrative, Kyli Fox Soug
HATTIE’S ECHO!: A DRAMATURGICAL EXPERIMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXT IN THEATRE, Belle Frahm
FAMILY TIES: HOW FAMILIES OF ORIGIN AND PROCREATION INFLUENCE WOMEN’S MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION, Becca Goldrup
Power and Participation: Women's Participation in the Arab Spring and its Impact on Women's Empowerment, Mary Harris
Nothing About Us Without Us: A Folkloristic Approach to Creating Neurodivergent-Friendly Pedagogies for Secondary Classrooms, Brittney Hatchett
What the Eye Doesn't See: The Power of Non-Ocularcentric Engagement in Museum Learning, Sophie J. Houghton
TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES: FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CHOICE OF COLLEGE MAJOR, Ashley Hunsaker
Identifying Highly Responsive Locations For Spinal Motion Tracking Sensors, Tyler Hutchinson
Elucidating the Role of Aging in Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Cascade in Transthyretin Amyloidosis, Chad Hyer
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
RAPID DISCOVERY OF HOUSE-KEEPING GENES IN THE BACTERIUM KUSHNERIA, USING A SLALOM-LIBRARY-BASED CRISPRI FORWARD GENETIC SCREEN, Andrew Jenkins
MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE SURFACE FEATURES AND COGNITION IN AGING AMYLOID-POSITIVE INDIVIDUALS, Jacob Johnston
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: CREATING EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FOR LATER DIAGNOSED AUTISTIC WOMEN, Naomi Julian
Exploring Seizure Signal Processing and Methods to Characterize Seizure-like Activity in Mouse Brains, Benjamin Kearsley
Economic Impact Considerations for Sustainable Design Engineering as Derived from the Literature, K. Joshua Kelley, Christopher A. Mattson, Nile Hatch, and John L. Salmon
Blue Moon: Exploring the Complexities of Human Love Through a Werewolf Romance Novel, Kayla LaFroth
Isothiocyanates in the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Chick Embryos, Katrina Lantz
Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Hispanic Immigrant Vaccination, Ruth Larson
Trust in Information, Preparation, and Resource Adequacy in Coastal Louisiana, Elizabeth Long-Meek, Michael R. Cope, Scott Sanders, and Carol Ward
Strategy in Action: The Creation of the Codex, Joshua Lucas
Partisanship, Security, and Global Status: Anatomy of Taiwan’s March 19 Shooting Conspiracy Theories, William Martindale
Detecting Multiple Paternity in Mule Deer using Kinship Values, Madeline K. Martin, Brock McMillan, Paul Frandsen, Sydney Lamb, and Randy Larsen
A WEE BIT OF CLEANUP: UPDATING SCOTTISH LOCALITY PAGES ON THE FAMILYSEARCH RESEARCH WIKI, Garrett Mast
How Fundamental Epistemic Limitation Impacts My Human Experience, Matthew McNairy
Using Supervised Learning to Predict the Band Rank of Braids, Juliana Moraes
IMPROVING HUMAN RECOGNITION OF DEEPFAKES, Jeremy Mumford
Religious Liberty: Natural Rights or the Politics of Conscience, Madeline Nielsen
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease remote patient monitoring using spirometry: a systematic review, Joseph Nielson
The Implementation of Transformative Learning Theory and Immersion, Kelsi Niepraschk
COMPOSING PEDAGOGICALLY-INFORMED CHORAL LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENT MALES, Rachel Olson
Exploring How Sino-Business Culture Informs United States Business Negotiation Practice, Chase Peterson
EFFECTS OF ENZYMATIC AND CHEMICAL BISULFITE CONVERSION ON CELL-FREE DNA FRAGMENTATION, Caroline G. Ploeger
A Comparison of Ptychography Programs for Lens-less Imaging with a High Harmonic Generation Source, Aaron Redd
EXPLORING THE BORDER IDENTITY OF THE RESIDENTS OF AMBOS NOGALES: A PILOT STUDY, Emily Rodriguez
Navigating Narrative and Identity: Producing Promposal, Lauren Schmalz
EYE FOR AN EYE: RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IN THE HORNET'S NEST, Amelia Scott
Silicates as an Explanation for Discrepancies in Atmospheric Modeling of L-Type Brown Dwarfs, Zacory Shakespear
Using Deep Learning Techniques to Find the 4D Slice Genus of a Knot, Dylan Skinner
Validating the Sexual Anxiety Inventory, Allie Smith
VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES (VTS) IN THE CLINIC: HOW THE HUMANITIES AFFECT THE WAY WE MAKE VISUAL DIAGNOSES WITHIN MEDICINE, Mitchell Smith
Leaving Home: Loss and Restoration in Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" and "Housekeeping", Zachary Stevenson
Normative Truth Under Metamodernism, Sam Taylor
International Asylum Law in the U.S. Supreme Court, Lorin Utsch
Exploring Extended Reality in an Aqueous Processing Test Bed for Nuclear Material, Sam Wald
An Information Geometric Analysis of a Shallow-Water Waveguide Using VGS Parametrization, Michelle Wang
The Institutionalization of Jazz Pedagogy as Observed in the Greater Salt Lake Area of Utah, Jens Watts
Tractor Beams and Disease: Probing Repeat RNA Structure through Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy, Joshua Webster-Ford
Exploring the Mechanism of Increased Survival in RB1-mutant Glioblastoma Multiforme, Lucia Wesemann
ON SENSIBLE LIMITS OF LOVE: IMPLICATIONS OF MORAL FAILURE IN LOVING RELATIONSHIPS, Macy West
Facebook Complaints on Dating by Gender, Whitley Williams
THE BELONGING PROCESS: HOW LOW-INCOME, BIPOC & FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS ON BYU CAMPUS EXPERIENCE BELONGING, Josephine Zenger
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