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Explore an archive of Past Senior Theses by students in the Honors Program.

  • Teaching Spirituals: A Digital Resource
  • Those Who Stay: U.S. Immigration Policies and the Impact of Migration on the Communities of Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Turning Back the Republican Reversal: A Search for Environmental Protection Support within the Republican Party
  • Gather Apart: Ethics of Religion, Reading, and Social Bonds
  • The Weight of Impossibility Using Fairy Tales to Re-imagine the Feminist Subject
  • A Role for Phytochrome F in Tomato Development
  • Like, Follow, & Elect: Instagram as a tool to Increase U.S. Female Political Representation
  • Is This Election for Sale? From Money to Mobilization in the 2018 Midterm Election
  • Beavers Buffering Blazes: The Potential Role of Castor canadensis in Mitigating Wildfire Impacts on Stream Ecosystems
  • Anxieties of Masculinity and Manly Education in Xenophon’s Lakedaimonion Politeia
  • The Half Life of Environmental Racism: Reproductive Justice and Nuclear Technology on Indigenous Lands
  • Neoliberal Development: Capability Deprivation and Barriers for Positive Mental Health
  • Developing a non-isotopic assay for detecting interstrand crosslinks in plasmid-sized duplex DNA
  • The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
  • Mindful of a Profit? A Critical Analysis of Meditation Apps in the Context of Neoliberalism and Western
    Constructions of Religion
  • In Defense of Behavioral Economics: A Pragmatic Response to Neoliberal Economic Conditions
  • Serious Fun: Amateur and Professional Voices in 21st-Century Chamber Music
  • Exploring Transmedia Through Practical Application: Part 1
  • Antifungal Capabilities of the Sceloporus virgatus Cloacal Microbiome
  • HADDOCK – A Tool for Drug Development: Identifying Protein Conformational Features Limiting Docking Success of Aldose Reductase Ensembles
  • I see Genocide: The Struggles of the Ponca Nation to reclaim their City from pollution
  • Reconciling Shifting Models for Truth and Reconciliation: Global Agency in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Genomics: Not Actually the Pits; a Genomic Analysis of Agarolytic Bacteria
  • Man vs. Machine: An Inquiry into the Nuances of Human and Machine Translation of Mandarin Chinese to English
  • Transgressive Toys: A Semantic Analysis of ἄθυρμα in Archaic and Classical Greek
  • Epistemic Injustice and Suicidality
  • Markov Chain Theory for Undergraduates
  • The Case of Cultural Humility: Improving Communication Between Racially Non-Concordant Patients and Providers
  • Mitigated and Unmitigated Agency and Communion
  • aight, so how we talkin? The Effects of Linguistic Standardization in the Classroom
  • An April Anarchy: Non-realist dramaturgical approaches to Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning
  • The Impact of Transboundary Water Management on Human Security in Low-Income States
  • The Convergence of Religious and Gender Identity in Women's Substantive Political Representation
  • The Alliance of Patreon and You Tube: Not simply "Like, Share and Subscribe" 
  • Digital Education, Access, and Visitor Engagement in the Art Museum
  • Algae as Human Food
  • Metaphors and Mind: An ERP Study of How the Brain Processes Metaphors
  • Studying Fluorescence from Nano crystals with Varying Geometry and Composition
  • Expectancies and Realities of Childbirth: A Psychological Measure Development Study
  • An Anatomy of Failure: Investigating the Reasons behind Failed Attempts to Decrypt the Voynich Manuscript through an Examination of the Decipherment of Linear B and of the Partial Decryption of Kryptos
  • Do 14-3-3 Proteins Interact with the F-box Stress Induced Protein Family in Arabidopsis thaliana?
  • The Bowing Behavior of Strings with Non-Uniform Mass Density
  • Assessing HADDOCK’s Protein-Ligand Ensemble Docking Capabilities through Urokinase Inhibitors
  • Doing Well by Doing Good (?): Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility through an Examination of Social Purpose Corporations and Stakeholder and Neoliberal Theories
  • Computational Protein-Ligand Docking: Assessing HADDOCK’s Role in the Development of Highly Specific Drug Compounds
  • An Inquiry into the Impact of Regime Change on International Climate Coalition Stability
  • Moses Maimonides’s Twelfth-Century Critique of the Philosophical Sciences: A presentation on philosophical method, the nature of concepts, and a medieval thinker’s love of God
  • Increasing the Presence of Climate Change: Hurricane Harvey as a Visual and Rhetorical Communication Device
  • Keeping it Cool in Chile: An In-Situ Study of Snow Impurities in the Chilean Andes
  • The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Between Persecution and Non-interference in Southeast Asia
  • The Legend of Okei: How a Young, Faceless Nursemaid became the Face of the Japanese American Population of California
  • Being Yellow On and Off Screen: How the Asian Pacific Islander Experience is Influenced by the Model Minority Myth in Television and Film
  • Of Queens, Incubi, and Whispers from Hell: Joan of Arc and the Battle Between Orthopraxy and Theoretical Doctrine in Fifteenth Century France
  • Quantum Computing. It’s here ... and it’s not ...
  • The Imprint of Language in Herodotus: How the ancient Greeks imagined language, culture, custom, and ethnicity
  • Rockets, Robots, and Radical Work spaces: Flexibility and Discrimination in Women’s White-Collar Narratives
  • Visualizing the interactions between F-BOX STRESS INDUCED proteins and 14-3-3 proteins in the 26S proteasome system of plants
  • Waning Freedom in The Land of The Free: Neoliberal Penalty, Mass Incarceration, and the Politics of Crime Prediction
  • Frames of Mind: Targeting Compassionate Emotions in Environmentally Concerned People to Motivate Them to Take Action against Climate Change
  • A Meta-Analysis of F-BOX Gene Expression Under Abiotic Stress In Arabidopsis Thaliana
  • Arabidopsis thaliana Autopolyploids Display Increased Salt Tolerance
  • The Socratic Method: Seeking Millennial Truth in Golden Age Athens
  • Parkinson's Disease: Finding a Cure. Recognizing predictive factors and proposing preventative treatments
  • Soundscape Composition: Music as Environmental Activism
  • Evolvability: What Is It and How Do We Get It?
  • The Effect of Redox Environment on Function of the Drosophila PRL protein, 
  • Profit Over People: Disposable Life and Neoliberal Capitalism in Two Novels of the Central American Diaspora, The Tattooed Soldier and The Ordinary Seaman
  • Appropriate Technology and the Imagined Global South: Discourse and Dissonance in Betafo, Madagascar
  • Understanding the Impact of Attachment Style on Stress in Pediatric Health Populations
  • Transgender and Genderqueer Mental Health and Community Relationships
  • Breaking the Cycle of Poverty of Native American Communities through Education
  • Synthesis of Bifunctional Thiourea Organocatalysts for Direct Amide Formation
  • Gravitational Boundary Conditions and Wave Refraction: Applying Techniques of Classical Electromagnetism to Gravitational Waves
  • Clad in Steel: the Development of Plate Armor in the Middle Ages
  • It's a Bug's Life: Chemical Weapons, Agricultural Revolution, and the War on Insects
  • "Asia is One": Curating the Far East in American Asian Art Museums from the Early 20th Century to the Present
  • Smoke, Steam, and Suffering: Religious Influences on Narratives of the Steam Engine and Opium in China, 1840-1860
  • Becoming a Transformational Leader: The Role of Follower Autonomy
  • Community Solar: Making Renewable Energy Accessible and Affordable
  • The New Frontier of Ethics: Examining Government Regulations, Relationships Transfers, and Ethical Issues of Online Marketing
  • Translational Research and Bioethics
  • Joseph Joachim: Collaborator, Composer, Interpreter and Inspirer
  • César Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major: The Significance of a Neglected Composer’s Influence on the Violin Repertory
  • Mobile Medical Care for the Rural Homeless: A Review of Relevant Literature and Recommendations to the Tacoma-Pierce County Medical Reserve Corps
  • Creating Cities: Political Capacity and Urbanization in China and Vietnam
  • Evaluation of Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Populations Inside and Outside of the East Harbor Conch and Lobster Reserve in the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Holy Imitation: Imitatio Christi and the Gendered Identities of Francis and Clare of Assisi
  • Bioaccumulative and Toxic Effects of Ingested Clean and PBT-Saturated Microplastics on Oryzias latipes (Japanese Medaka Fish): Method Development towards Physiological and Chemical Analysis
  • Like Butterflies: A Novella Examining Questions of Evil and Memory
  • Confronting the Past: Corruption in Post-Communist Hungary and Romania
  • Les Fleurs du Bien: The Language of Flowers in Contemporary France
  • Fighting Political Wills: Factors of Success and Failure of Public Housing in Hong Kong and New York City
  • The effect of music on isokinetic peak torque during performance in female collegiate a­thletes
  • Time of day effect on isokinetic peak torque during knee flexion and extension
  • The Perfected Otherness: The Shift From Swish to Icon in Representations of Andy Warhol
  • Healing Powers; An Examination of Medical Ethics, Benevolent Lies, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • China’s ineffective water pollution policy: an issue of enforcement
  • Incentivizing Live Kidney Donations: Economic Models for Policy Enhancements
  • Dum conderet urbem: Poetic Portraits of Aeneas as Political Commentaries on Augustus, Alicia Matz
  • Insights into the evolution of the Great Plains grassland ecosystem over the last 5 million years from paleotemperature and paleovegetation records, Anne Fetrow
  • Playing with Death: The Potential for Violent Video Games to Induce Mortality Salience, Beth Anderson
  • Politics of Sport in the English Renaissance Letters of Transgression in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, William Rathje
  • Growing up on the spectrum: How High-functioning Young Adults with Autism Transition to Independence, Brittany Walker
  • Dramaturgy and Collaboration: A Case Study, Loring Brock
  • The Lost Conjunction of Race: Missed Opportunities to Discuss Mixed-Race Identity in Popular Social and Feminist Histories of the 20th Century, CaroLea, Casas
  • The Cost of Having a Sexually Selected Trait: Testing hypotheses with male fiddler crabs (Uca pugilator) bearing large major claws, Corinne Straube
  • The Reproductive and Neurophysiological Effects of Chronic Plastic Ingestion in Northern Fulmars (Fulmaris glacialis) and Sooty Shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), Emilie Kurth
  • beirut, with love; a play by, Andrew Lutfala
  • Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Muon g− 2 Experiment at Fermilab, Audrey Kvam
  • The Veil of Neutrality: Religious Rights in European Union Countries, Emma Spalding
  • Indigent Defense As Illusion: The Myth of ‘Fair Trial’ in a Neoliberal State, Emma Wilson
  • RNAi-mediated Gene Knockout of the Tomato Phytochromes PHYE and PHYF, Grete Slaugh
  • Thiourea-Based Organocatalysts: Synthesis and Application to the Transformation of Carboxylic Acids to Amides, Jack Elders
  • Identity and Place in the Music of Benny Moré (1919-1963), Kelton Mock
  • France’s Nuclear Identity: An exploration of grandeur, sustainability and political power relationships, Laura Leach
  • “There is No Difference:” Neoliberalism and Latin American (Police) State Legitimacy, Max Estevao
  • Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England: Representations of Gender, Influence, and Power, Nichole Lindquist-Kleissler
  • Plato Reconsidered: The Cognitive Science of Mathematics, Peter Moberly
  • The Obesity Epidemic in Latino Youth: A Local Perspective to a National Phenomenon, Sierra Grunwald
  • Investigating the Effects of Bisphenol A on Sustained Movement in the Pond Snail Helisoma trivolvis, Skyler R. Tetreau
  • Losing Lop Nor: Chinese Water and Land-use Policy in the Tarim Basin, Philip Brenfleck
  • A Killer and a Gentleman: How the Indian Built the American in the Nineteenth Century, Raven Briggs
  • Cicero's Changing Definition of Friendship, Madison Brown-Moffitt
  • Cold War Rhetoric and the Black Panther Party, Jana Cary-Alvarez
  • Propaganda and the Reign of Augustus, Katrina Eller
  • Bad Blood: Controversies Over Race and Sexuality in Blood Transfusion, Meg Gilbertson
  • Warrior Women in Japanese History, Ev Grier
  • The IPE of Cyber Security, Kennedy Holt
  • Remembrance: A Study on Two Houses of Memory, Shannon Kilgore
  • Peace in the Middle East, U.S. Aid, the BDS Movement, and the Two State Solution, Casey Kroleczk
  • The Feasibility of Large-Scale Urban DRT in Tacoma, Nathan Pastor
  • How Combat Doctors Change Medicine, Veronica Sagert
  • Machiavelli to Mussolini, Evan Arkin
  • Read the Eddas of Iceland: The Intertextual Reception of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature in teh World of William Blake, Shelby Cauley
  • Optimal Foraging in the Intertidal: The Relationship Between the Glaucous-Winged Gull and Its Prey, Grace Ferrera
  • Choices in an Interdependent Economic Environment: Inequity Aversion and Bargaining Games, Andrew Galbraith
  • The New Master: Power and Wealth in Edward P. Jones' the Known World and Short Stories, Chloe Hunt
  • Cross-cultural Perception of Pain, Annika LaVoie
  • Beyond Hippies and Rabbit Food: The Social Effects of Vegetarianian and Veganism, Anna Lindquist
  • Receiving the King: Pageantry and Politics in the First Royal Progress of Henry VII, Erin Lindsey
  • Determining Activity of Wnt Pathway Genes During Zebrafish Oocyte Maturation, Nathan Pincus
  • The Sunk Costs of Development: Bargaining in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project, Sohan Punatar
  • Moving Toward Zero: Reducing the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile and Implications on Global Stockpiles, Lauren Raemhild
  • Peruvian Cocaine: A Cycle of Economic Instability, Gillian Schroff
  • Deathwatch: A Gothic Fantasy Novel, Ariana Scott-Zechlin
  • Methods of Resistance in NeoPagan Culture, Rebecca Short
  • What the Eyes Reveal: A Study of Emotion Recognition and Callous Personality Traits, Hilary Tighe
  • Where's My Ferry? Support Vector Machines for Modeling Ferry Tardiness, Kyle Wenholz
  • Anticipatory Testosterone response to Competition in Female Collegiate Endurance Athletes, Rebecca Adams
  • Recruitment, Regulation, & Restructuring: Cellular & molecular processes that underlie memory formation, Westley Dang
  • Some Comfort to the Order of Things: A Journey through the Terrain of Silence, Grief, and Nature, Laura Derr
  • Starve the Beast: An Empirical Evaluation of State Tax Revenues and Expenditures, Alec DiMario
  • ROK and Rac mediation of PRL-1 over-expression in the wings of Drosophila melanogaster, Rosemary Dinkins
  • Nation-State Building and Ethnic Minority Oppression: Turkey, Bulgaria, and Sri Lanka, William Engell
  • Death Hilarious: Dark Comedy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Megan Fries
  • The Impending Electrification of the American Transportation Industry - a.k.a., - The Electric Car, George Funk
  • Angry Youth: Patriotic Education and the New Chinese Nationalism, Rachael Gary
  • Nuclear Fallout: Responses to Proliferation from North Korean Sanctions to the India Nuclear Deal, William Gent
  • Silencing Sacagawea: Eva Emery Dye & the Origin of an American Myth (1902-1905), Tedra Hamel
  • [Breaking] the back of words: Dimensions of Gothic Unspeakability in Poe, Faulkner, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Elizabeth Kirsch
  • Color polymorphism in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus, Mary Krauszer
  • Reclaiming Aztlan: Pre-Columbian Imagery and the Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Chicano Murals, Kelsey Mahler
  • Destroying The Path to Knowledge and the False University: Democratic Participation and Identity Assertion in Chicano Education and Mural Movements, Jennifer Miller
  • Hyperthyroidism Changes Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity, Charles Nguyen
  • Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror: How the Supreme Court is Undermining Presidential Power and American Sovereignty, Amanda Nicol
  • Understanding Flowering Pathways: Flowering Locus C expression in synthetic Arabidopsis allopolyploids, Gerad Thornton
  • The Successes and Failures of Political, Social, and Economic Strategies to Combat Human Trafficking, Tristan Zielinski
  • (de)Constructing the Real American, or What Vitamins, a Prayer, and 24-Inch Pylons Can Teach Us About American Identity in the 1980s, Michael Leveton
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