Honors Theses from 2021
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
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