Honors Theses from 2020
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
Genetics Beyond the Classroom: An analysis of undergraduate students’ understanding of genetics and attitudes towards clinical genetics, Jessica McClintock
Computationally Modeling the Trophic Cascade in Yellowstone National Park, Emily Menden
Quality of Hispanic Oral Health in the U.S.: Perceptions of Dentists and a Call for Improvement, Mitchell Merrill
Dialect and Employability: Human Resource Managers' Perceptions of African American English, Kimberly Michelsen
Extending the Bandwidth of Intensity-based Sound Power Estimates, Michael C. Mortenson
On the Persecution of the Salvadoran People, Jacob Newman
Sex Differences in Ethanol Modulation of Dopamine Release in the Mesolimbic Reward System, Mandy Parsons
China's Maritime Grand Strategy, Sarah Quan
The Battle of the Sexes: Montagu v. Swift, Madison Savoie
The Effects of Multi-Tiered Systems of Language Support on Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, and Writing in Second and Third Grade Students in India, Brenna Scadden Nelson
The Price of Public Land: An Analysis of Visitor Responsiveness to National Park Entrance Fees, Emily Claire Schill
Midwifery and Society: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USSR From 1920-1950, Melissa Scott
Irregular Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Adaptive Physical-Layer Security, Hunter Searle, Marco A. C. Gomes, Joao P. Vilela, and Willie K. Harrison
Doxastic Voluntarism and Religious Diversity, Naomi Smith
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Arab Women Refugees: Yazidi Minority in Northern Iraq, Amanda Solomon
“The Right Use of Reason”: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Moral Education in Peter Parley’s Annual, Taylor Topham
Preserving the Trauma Narrative of The Hunger Games: as based in the novels, the films, and morality, Rio Turnbull
Dynamic Coalescence as a Mathematical Model of Leadership and Empirical Evidence of the Value of Strategic Sacrifice, Jacob D. Valentine
An Event-Related Potential Study of Inhibition to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Hanel Watkins
Functional Implications of NLRP1 Variants for Autoimmune Disease, Laura J. Westhoff
Using Electropalatography to Analyze Intra-Speaker Variability in German Second Language Fricative Production, Elizabeth D. Young
Honors Theses from 2018
Strategic Implications of Blockchain, William R. Adams
Design for Maintainability in Developing Communities—A Case Study on the Uros Islands, Thomas Barlow
Effectiveness of Different Regime Types in Preserving Common Resources: Evidence from a Lab Experiment, David Bates
Uncertainty in Optical Particulate Counting Sensors, Jared Todd Blanchard
Sacred Sounds: A Compassionate Listening Guide to Musical Worship, Madison Blonquist
Public Art and Alberta's Regionalism, Amanda Buessecker
The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case for Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain, Jonathan Chichoni and Scott Webb Dr.
Student Perspectives on Working in Interdisciplinary Teams to Implement mHealth, Elina Chun
Landscape Foundations: A Practical & Technical Guide to Landscape Maintenance, Marco Crosland
College Students’ Understandings of, Perceptions Towards, and Usage of Canned Foods Based on Exposure to Canned Foods During Childhood, Robert H. Drury, Lora Beth Brown, Pauline Williams, Dennis Eggett, and Rickelle Richards
Examining Multimorbidities Using Association Rule Learning, Kaylee Dudley
User Attitudes About DUO Two-Factor Authentication at BYU, Jonathan Dutson
Otherwise Known as Attempting Christianity, Rebecca Evans
Nonlinear Optical Characterization of Solids, Alex Farnsworth
FROST450, a Novel Microtubule Targeting Agent: Resistance and Cross-Resistance in an Ovarian Cancer Cell Line, Jonathan Chancellor Fox
Identifying the 5’End of the CAMTA1 Genes in Zebrafish, Morgan Fronk