Honors Theses from 2026
Here-, There-, and Every Where-: Exploring the Role of Pronominal Adverbs in Legal Language, David Chandler
Honors Theses from 2025
The Blue Division in the Soviet Union: Cultural Exchange through the Lens of Art, Abigail Beus
Full Halls, Hull Hearts: Increasing Engagement and Personal Connection in Classical Music Audiences, Katherine E. Christensen
The Effects of Social Learning on Second Language Acquisition and Memory: an fNIRS Study, Siena Christensen
SEEING THE STORM: LEVERAGING MULTIMODAL LLMS FOR DISASTER SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO FILTERING, Holden Clark
Supporting Student Mothers: A Study of Well-Being, Challenges, and Resource Accessibility at Brigham Young University, Sophia Claire Cranney
Delaunay Keyer for Colorspace-Local Matte Extraction and Spill Suppression, Isaac J. Criddle
Delaying Marriage and Its Impact on Future Income: A Historical Econometric Analysis (1900-1940), Britton Davis
DETERMINING THE INFLUENCE OF HABITAT COMPLEXITY ON FISH DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN HAWAIIAN CORAL REEFS, Gabrielle Reece DeMarco
“It Is Now in Flames, but It Will Never Burn Down”: A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Resilience in the Yugoslav Wars, Sarah Denton
ConnectHer: Connecting Women in the BYU Marriott School to the Workplace and to Each Other’s Success (With a Ten-Step Job Search Guide), Hope Detweiler
Patterns and Continuity: Documenting African American History in Carbon County, Utah, and The Roots of Racial Terror Lynchings in American Society, Michael L. B. Forvil
Machine Learning for Time Series Prediction in Psychotherapy, Ian Goodwin
Examining Merger Wave Activity in Periods of Heightened Commodity Price Volatility and Trading Volume, Cole T. Grizzell
Do ESGs Do Any Good? The Problem of Aggregation in Corporate Social Responsibility Literature, Gloriana Guillermo
The Efficient Judges Hypothesis: Testing the Role of Public Sentiment in ALJ Decisions, James Hamilton
Intermittent Pneumatic Compression and Heart Rate Variability, Bethany Elisabeth Hartwell
Strivers, Ambivalence, and the Implications of Wholeheartedness, Kaia K. Hathaway
How Length of Residence Moderates the Relationship Between Time and Community Satisfaction in Rural Utah, Anna Jacob
Hoping for a Better World: Utopian Performatives in Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California", Lily Jensen
The Pressures Experienced by First-Generation Students with Afro-Diasporic Migrant Parents in the University Setting, Bryanna M. Larnyoh
Rheumatic Heart Disease in Primary Aged Children in Samoa, Kallysta Lindquist
Connecting with Our Creator: How Experiences in Nature Enable Closeness with God, Elsa Longhurst
Humans Rule? Implications of religious undergraduates’ changing environmental perceptions, J. Robert Nielson
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
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
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
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