Honors Theses from 2020
From Pleasure to Pain: Eroticism, Struggle and Gender in Jesús F. Contreras's Malgré Tout, Isla Marie Stewart
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN): An Anthropogenic Challenge for Urban Lizard Behavior and Physiology, Laura A. Taylor
The Computer-Aided Die Study (CADS): A Tool for Conducting Numismatic Die Studies with Computer Vision and Hierarchical Clustering, Zachary McCord Taylor
Reorienting the Orient: An Examination of Asian Influence on the Intercultural Theatre, Leah Woehr
Red-Lavender Colorblindness: Institutionalized Oppression and American Gay Life, Brooke Yung
Submissions from 2019
A Twelfth-Century Service for Enclosing an Anchorite or Anchoress: Introduction, Latin Text, and Translation, Luke Ayers and Victoria Bahr
Ethos of the Underground: Precarious Communities in San Antonio DIY Music, Noelle C. Barrera
Royal Tombs at Ur Research Project, Raquel Belden
Understanding Poetry: 5th Grade Introduction to Writing Poetry, Samantha Bos and Jackie Jaramillo
Jane Austen's Artful Buildings: Embodying the Bildungsroman, Natalie Carrier
5th Grade Adaptation, Michael Carroll
Innovative Empires, Marisa C. Cavin
High School Physics Electricity Unit, Beverly Chatfield
Red Card: The European Refugee Crisis, Isabel Chiriboga
AP Studio Art - Beginning the Sustained Investigation, Hannah Cone
Exploring the Female Perspective: Culturally Sensitive Models for the Effective Use of Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural Tanzania, Caroline Crain
Conscious or Unconscious: The Role of Education in Consciousness Raising among Chilean Youth, Samsara Davalos Reyes
Multi-Color Diffusion Simulation of Dye Over Folded Fabrics, Horst R. Evans
“Call It What You Want”: The Impact of Fan Characteristics on Political Views, Christopher R. Fanick
AP Physics: Modeling with Computer Simulations, Maxwell Vincent Fazio
Convolution Acceleration: Query Based Filter Pruning with ALSH, Arthur Feeney
Together Here: Immersive Theatre, Audience, and Space, Holly J. Gabelmann
It’s a Dog’s Life: Dog Transformations in Two Examples of Modern Russian Literature, Alexandra Jane Gass
Follow Me to Pre-K: Students Learning to Interact in Their New Environment, Emily Hall
La frontera y la comunicación: How Language Influences Our Identity, Josie Hammons and Claudia Fernanda Ramirez
"The Supremacy of Human Rights Everywhere": The Struggle against Jim Crow during World War II, Thomas Harvell-DeGolier
Targeting Methionine-Terminated Peptides and Proteins Using Cucurbit[8]uril, Zoheb Hirani
Slutty Embellishments: Elizabethan Fashion and Projections of Decadence in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Brian Holmes
you tried to explain something to me, Brian Holmes
The Ecology of Dynamic Body Color in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis, Daisy M. Horr
Sharing Stories: An Introduction to Literary Writing and Analysis (9th grade), Talia Howard
Untold Stories of American History, Sarah Hudson and Zachary Wilson
Weaving the Threads of the Global Tapestry, Melendy Jacobie and Gretchen Wickes
Culture and Identity in Novels Centered Around Women of Color, Blake R. Keeling
Customizable Data Visualization of Wnt Signaling, Morgan Lee King
Organ-izing the Human Body System [7th Grade], Aly Kirchhof
Mirage: A New Package for the Simulation of Gravitationally Microlensed Quasars, Jordan D. Koeller
Video Game AI Algorithms, Bowen Li
Short Term Load Forecasting Using Recurrent and Feedforward Neural Networks, Andrew K. Loder
The Heliand's Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman?, Isaak Loewen
HIV Resistance Prediction using Feed Forward Neural Networks and Sequence Expansion Methodologies, Christopher S. Luikart
What Causes Revolt? [7th grade Texas History], Grace Marengo Sanchez
Introduction to IB Language and Literature: Storytellers and the Single Story, Savannah McDonough and Megan Day
The Story of Periodicity: An Exploration of Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon for Chemistry and English, Elizabeth Muire and Kay Newsome
Investigating Atoms and the Periodic Table, Yvette Muniz
Democracy Revoked: How Foreign Relations and Domestic Opinion Led to the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II, Clarisse Nakayama
Immodest Empowerment: Disjunction Between the Development Agenda and Lived Experiences of "Women's Land Rights" in Southeastern Gujarat, Nhi Hoang Thuc Nguyen
Flour and Fractions (Making Fractions Fun in 4th Grade), Elle V. Norman
Virtuous Disassembly: Material and Ethical Practice of a Global Electronic Waste Regime, Michael A. Paniagua Jr.
Greek Mythology: Understanding the Allusions, Heather M. Patillo
Use It and Lose It? Behavioral and Energetic Influences on Lizard Tail Autotomy, Amy A. Payne
Humanity Betrayed: The Clinton Administration's Failure to Intervene in the Rwandan Genocide, Julianna Rak
"What Shall We Call Thee Then?": Defining Femininity Outside the Male Heteronormative World in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis", Kristina Reinis
Maternal Condition Effects Methylation Status of Infants, Heather E. Rizzo
Creating Change: The Civil Rights Movement, Melissa Robertson
Thinking Geographically Mapping Portfolio, Dalynn Robinson and Blake R. Keeling
KDM1A Inhibition Enhances Chemotherapy Response in Glioblastoma, Moraima Rodriguez Guerrero
Survey Says: Graphing and Data Analysis (3rd grade), Shayna Rosenthal and Courtney Gold
Community Helpers (Pre-Kindergarten), Michele Saenz and Leslie Davenport
Highly...Logical: Remedial Pre-Algebra (Grade 9), Andrew Sanchez and Amy R. Thomson
U.S. History Westward Expansion - Gilded Age: Developments of Power, Anthony Sanchez
Fiction/ Nonfiction Writing, Grades 1-2, Lisa Schmidt and Samara Sance
Geomechanical Analysis of Sedimentary Layering as a Structural Control on Fault Propagation, Curtis K. Segarra
Our Roots, Our Branches: Listening and Writing to Tell a School's Story, Michael Shay
First Week Intro: Growth and Vulnerability (10th grade AP World History and English II), Ileana Sherry
Richard Rolle: Revisions Made to Reflect the Spiritual Growth of a Specific Reader, Claire Siewert
The Eyes of Texas: Forced Sterilization in the Lone Star State, Kathleen D. Stansbury
Sequence-Selective Recognition of Methionine-Terminated Peptides by Cucurbit[8]uril, Hailey F. Taylor
The Farcical Suicide: Stoicism and the Satyricon, Carl Teegerstrom
Security Protocol Analysis and Blockchains, Benjamin T. Temple
Disabling Architecture: Aesthetics and Accessibility at Trinity University, Catherine R. Terrace
Religious Addiction, Adam Chiang Toler
AP United States History: Period 4 (1800-1848), Kelsey Toms
Gender in Children’s Picture Books: A 21st Century Update, Marisa B. Trevino
Ancient Shipsheds, Peyton Tvrdy
Exploration and Colonization (and Organization!), Samantha Vogel and Monica N.C. Mendiola
Ancient Civilizations: Create Your Own, Waynne Warren
Early Civilizations: Create Your Own, Waynne Warren
Looking Up! What is our place in the universe? - An Astronomy UbD for 8th Grade, Miguel Angel Webber
Evaluating Functions and their Domain and Range - 8th/9th grade Algebra, Melanie R. Webb
Inclusive Practices in Texas Music Education: Perspectives from the Field, Anastasia White
The Untold Stories Project, Zachary Wilson and Sarah Hudson
Topic Clustering of Data Science and Analytics Job Descriptions, Kayako Yamakoshi
Red-Lavender Colorblindness: Institutionalized Oppression and Gay Life in America, Brooke Yung
Submissions from 2018
Automated Farm Tunnels: Scaled Prototype, Axel Anderson, Bryan Granizo, and Samuel Studebaker
Is Being Narcissistic an Academic Advantage for College Students?, Kelsi Ballard
Addition and Subtraction Review with a Purpose, Samantha Bos and Jackie Jaramillo
RFID Controlled Door Lock, Brayden Burns, Daniel Dahlinger, Brian Guenther, and Trevor Johnson
A Localized Sourcing Model for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Claire H. Burrus
Indivisible, Julia Camp
Writing- Our First Grade Community, Jeanine Capitani and Harliv Kaur
Jaina Figures and the Figuration of Maya Social Roles: A Study of SAMA Object 64.289.94, Natalie Carrier
Epic Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters (grade 9), Marisa C. Cavin
Videogame Play and the Ethics of Imagining, Daniel Conrad
Multipurpose Iron Man Glove & Moveable Platform, Destinee Davis, João Marques, and Thomas Plantin
Poiesis: Bringing Our Stories Into Being Through Poetry, Emily B. Delgado and Regina M. Valdez
Using Chemical Modification to Probe for Reactive Ligating Histidines in Copper-Containing Proteins, Taylor Devlin
Tu día en la escuela (Your day at school), Merida Elizondo and Kara Hargrove
Variable Input Pressure Regulator, Sean Farrell, Dupri Grimes, William McElvogue, and Nathan Richter