Honors Theses from 2022
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
"To Hold the World Together": A Uinta Basin Homesteading History, 1905-1930, Casey McClellan
Lymphocyte Proteomics for Monitoring Long Term Immune System Dynamics, Michaela McCown
A Social Media Misinformation Label and the Postrhetorical Presidency, Ethan McGinty
Light and Truth: Measuring Unseen Harm in Individuals and Communities, Hannah Pfost
A Language Analysis of the London, Harrow Obituary From 1940 to 1950, Michaela Rappleyea
Is Thinness Truly Next To Godliness?: Examining Moral Judgements Against Women with Larger Bodies in a Latter-day Saint Population, Sydney Rasmussen
Connected: A Return to Ecological Awareness in Traditional and Modern Media, Jacob Reese
Preventing Alzheimer's: Effects of Second Language Acquisition in Older Populations, Joshua Rhead
Musical “Conquest”: The Spanish Use of Music in the Spiritual Conquest of the Nahua Peoples of Sixteenth-Century Mexico, John Richardson
Computational Development of a Miniature Quantum Dot Spectrometer for Use in Space, Joseph Richardson
Who Uses Multi-Factor Authentication?, Leah Roberts
Landscapes of Medical Culture From the Amazonia of Ecuador, Savannah Sorensen
Validity of intrinsic foot muscle size measured by ultrasound and MRI, Dallin Swanson
What is Literary? Teaching Diverse, Literary Young Adult Novels in the Secondary Classroom, Kathryn Taylor
Risk Management and the Collegiate Real Estate Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic, John Spencer Tippets
Educational Intervention on Rheumatic Heart Disease in Samoa, Linda Loyda Ida Tovar
Automated Cyber Ranges: Design Features, Architectures, Scenarios and Impacts, Dezhang Wen
The Impact of Emergency Response Trainees During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2016, Abbey Whitcomb
On the Relationship of Diabetes and Sleep Apnea: Evolution and Epigenetics, Nancy Wilson
A Fret Flow Cytometry-Based Screening Assay for Multiplex Analysis of Metabolites in T. brucei, Ronald A. Zegarra
Honors Theses from 2020
Community Level Perspectives on Informal Alcohol: Understanding the Role of Traditional Brewers in Dowa District, Malawi, Brian Allen and Jeff Glenn Dr.
Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Review of Current Mental Health Practices and Recommendations for Improvement, Caleb Andreason
Low-Cost Diagnostics: Using Paper as a Material and Pens as an Instrument, Annie Armitstead
Increasing Isolation Between Closely Spaced X-Band Planar Transmit/Receive Antennas, Jacob Bartschi
Learning Outlines and Teacher Training: A Difference-in-Differences Evaluation of Pratham Government Partnerships in India, Victoria Beecroft
Validating the Collegiate Optimism Orientation Test and Exploring its Correlation to GPA and Mental Health Among College Students, Emilia Bingham
Impartiality: A Comparison of Legal Processes in the United States and Italy, Robert Borden
Adaptations: The Graphic Novel and Shakespeare's Hamlet, Candice Boren
The Legacy of Jazz Poetry in Contemporary Rap: Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, and Kendrick Lamar, Madison Brasher
Machine Learning for Effective Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, Brennon Brimhall
Parent Perspectives on Accessing Resources for Children With Developmental Delays and Their Younger Siblings, Claire Chelladurai
Who Owns the Bard?: P. T. Barnum, Charles Dickens, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Showdown of 1847, Abigail Clayton
Cancer Mortality Risk, Fine Particulate Air Pollution, and Smoking in a Large, Representative Cohort of US Adults, Nathan Coleman
An Actuarial Approach to Personal Injury Protection Severity, Jason Colgrove
Contradictory Selves: An Investigation of Identity Performance in a Dance Leisure Space, Bayleigh Cragun
Predictors of Psychosocial and Physiological Distress in Colorectal Cancer Patients, Hyrum Eddington
Building an Ins-1 cDNA Library for a Genome-Wide CRISPR-Cas9 Screen, Idongesit Ekpo
What Role Should Philosophy Play in the Public Sphere? The intrinsic value of public philosophy, Jonathan Engle
Human Health and Economic Costs of Air Pollution in Utah: An Expert Assessment, Isabella Errigo
Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Dynamics In Inhomogeneous Interstellar Media, Jacob Fields
The Face of God: Imaginary space in Pickle Green, Taylor Flickinger
Reciprocal Empathy: Reversing Antipathy Towards Immigrants in Emotion and Votes, Amanda Gach
Evaluation and Improvement of a Novel Method for Rapid Promoter Characterization in a Zebrafish Model, Hunter Giles
The Whole Truth: The Denominational Press Versus The Secular Press, Jennifer Goldsberry
Asian Values and Democratic Viability: A Study of the Effects of Political Values on Thai Support for Democracy, Marisa Gonzalez-Mabbutt
Journey into the Self: Essays on Biculturalism, Heidi Moe Graviet