Honors Theses from 2021
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
Women in the Early Mongol Empire: Female Types in The Secret History of the Mongols, Aspen Greaves
Wind Turbines and Housing Prices: Valuing the Impact of Wind Farms on Transactions, Nathan Guzman
The Full Forecast: A Gender and Racial Analysis of Broadcast TV Weathercasters, Danielle Wardinsky Hallows
Symposium of Laughter: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and Sociability in George Knapton's Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti, Meredith Hanna
From Mercy Seat to Judgment Seat: A Source-Critical Examination of Priestly Adjudication in the Pentateuch, Tyler Harris
Forgetting the Mine Wars: Erasing Insurrection in West Virginia History, Samuel Heywood
Seeking the Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority, Power, and Presence in Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Mother's Milk, Kaitlin Hoelzer
A Brief Overview of Burst Suppression: Causes and Effects on Mortality in Critical Illness, Jake Hogan, Haoqi Sun, Hassan Aboul Nour, Stephen Piccolo, Jacob Crandall, Steven Peck, and M Brandon Westover
Novel Methods For Composites Recycling Via Pyrolysis, Matt Jacobs
“Women Thus Educated”: Transnational Influences on Women’s Arguments for Female Education in Seventeenth-Century England, Miranda Jessop
Does Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection Maintain Gonopodial Asymmetry in a Livebearing Fish?, Mary-Elise Johnson
An Analysis of Intercultural Research From 2000-2019., Isabelle Kramer
Stadium Apartments: A Mixed-Use Development Proposal, Connor Lee Wen
Using Group Affinity to Predict Community Formation in Social Networks, Joseph Leung
Trends in Hospital Prices: Evidence From Hospital Chargemasters, Ulysse G. McCann III
The Effects of Latent Infections and Atmospheric Pollutant Levels on Memory Search Reaction Times, Bowman McCullough
Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Regency of Carnaro, Patrick Merkle
Barriers to Prenatal Care for Hispanic Immigrants in Utah County, Maren Monson
The Effects of Inter-Industry Mergers and Acquisitions on the Long-Term Volatility of Equity Returns, Collin Myers
Karl G. Maeser: The Mormon Pestalozzian, Renae Myers
Using Logical Specifications for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning, Kolby Nottingham
Examining Vergil's Understanding of Homer through Nausicaa and Dido, Rebekah Pimentel
Preventative Force and the Rules of Proportionality, Jacob Price
A Descriptive Study of Male Victims of Sexual Assault Seen for a Sexual Assault Forensic Medical Examination, Madeleine Prince
Student Identity and Inclusion: A Model for Sense of Belonging at Brigham Young University, Jose Rodriguez
Rising Action: The Effect of Narrative Transportation on Consumer Purchase Behavior, Bryan Samuelsen
An Analysis of Opiate Prescription for Chronic Degenerative Disease and Other Pain Syndromes, Catherine Sawyer
Differences in Immigrant Education by Destination Country: An Analysis of Turkish Immigrants' Perception of and Performance in Math and Science, Lisa Turley Smith
Predictors of Client Distress at a University Counseling Center, Erin Solomon, Stevan Lars Nielsen, and Sam Hardy
A New Oral Poetry: Improvisation and Performance in Robert Lowell's Poetry Readings, Madelyn Taylor
Analysis of Feature Extraction in Knee Cartilage Semantic Segmentation Convolutional Neural Networks, Logan Thorneloe
Biological Pretreatment of Biomass for Enhanced Biogas Production, Skylar F. Van Horne
The effects of COVID-19 preoccupation on business activity: A bounded rationality perspective, James White
Power Struggles: Sovereignty and the Nonhuman in South Africa, Taelin Wilford
Honors Theses from 2019
Computational Regiospecific Analysis of Brain Lipidomic Profiles, Austin Ahlstrom
Investigating the Impact of Taper and Aspect Ratio on a Stalling Wing Using a Corrected Vortex Lattice Method, Ryan Anderson
Media and the Formation of Scottish Parliament, Emily Ashcraft
Seeing the World Through Humility-tinted Lenses: Exploring Social Cognitive Explanations for Outcomes of Humility, Chayce Baldwin
Father of Man: An Exploration of the Afterlife in Cinema, Theodore Barrett Burgin
Steering System for SAE Baja, Dallin Colgrove
Europe's (Lack of) Welfare Chauvinism: Evidence from Surveys and Spending, Ethan Davis
Evaluating the Impact of Federal R&D Spending on Patent Registration: A Nasa Case Study, Jack Davis
Identity and Political Realignment Among Hispanic Voters, Tyler Durfee
Let Us Reason Together: Female Voices in Religious Deliberation, Rachel Finlayson
Co-parental Conflict and Maternal Gatekeeping: The Effects on Parental Media Monitoring Behaviors, Erin Fitzgerald
Further Understanding of Bacteriophages That Infect the Bacterial Family Enterobacteriaceae, Paul Flake
An Integrated Model of Ethical Capital and Relational Wealth of the Firm, Bradley Goronson
Implementation of augmented reality in SAE Mini Baja, Brady S. Hales
I Hear Dead People: Addressing the Discord Between Museum Culture and Contemporary Classical Music, Christian Hales
Epistasis in Alzheimer’s Disease: Interactions Between CLU-MS4A4E and WWC1-TLN2, Omoremi Hamblin
"Where Was I?": Linguistic Reprocessing in Distracted Reading, Katrina Hillam
ЛОЛ—Comparing Expressions of Humor Used in Memes by Russian and English Speakers, Teya Jensen
Games and Social Organization Among Korean Students, Jordan Jones
Computational Modelling of Peptides Containing Non-Standard Amino Acids, David W. Kastner
Legal Supremacy: The Translation Between Tsarist and Communist Constitutions and Criminal Codes, Jennifer Kimball
Oxytocin Receptor Genotype and Serotonin Transporter Genotype as Mediators of Social Behavior: A Rhesus Macaque Model, Ryno Kruger
Emergent Properties of the Transport of Sand, Eric Lenhart
Pages of the Revolution: Symbolism in Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's O Nome das Coisas, Madalyn Alice Harper Lyman