Honors Theses from 2016
Somatic Mutations in Mice and the Disposable Soma Theory of Aging, Rodney Kennedy Jr
A Translation of Two Stories of Khakim Nazir, Miraziz Khidoyatov
Improved Prediction of Mouse Pathways Related to Bone Maintenance Through Machine Learning Utilizing Diverse Genomic Data, Jacob Mayne Luber
“King? Well I didn’t vote for you!”: The Necessity of Narrative Distance and Political Awareness in Arthurian Adaptation, Mallory Mazzarella
Freakish, Feathery, and Foreign: Language of Otherness in the Squire’s Tale, Laurel Meister
¿Quieres Ir Conmigo? (6th-7th grade - Spanish), Jaclyn K. Metcalf
Heart Beat Monitor, Ivan Mireles and Sneha Pottian
Cellular Metabolism: AP Biology, Tiffany Montoya
Culture and Carbon and Cremation, Oh My!, Andrea N. Nebhut
Imagination Station: Teaching 2nd Graders to Publish Fictional Stories Using Story Elements, Elle V. Norman
Immigrating With God: Religious Coping Among Central American Asylum Seekers, Aubrey G. Parke
Improvisation: Skills for Theatre and Life, William A. Parker
Mi heroe, Carol Passant
Nietzsche on Language and Our Pursuit of Truth, Le Quyen Pham
Objectual Attitudes and Intentional Objects: A Theory of Incomplete Objects, Le Quyen Vu Pham
Finding Their Voice: Women Musicians of Baroque Italy, Faith Poynor
Kerouac’s Noble Savage: The Tragic Fate of the Primitive Man Trapped Within Modernity, Megan Reynolds
Social Madness in Beat Generation Writing, Megan Reynolds
Campus Cruiser, Mikey Robison and Todd Edwards
Weather or Not We Should Go Outside [3rd grade], Stephen R. Sackett
Multithreaded Collision Detection with Akka's Actor Library in Scala, Bryan Schrock
Greek Tragedies: Oedipus the King and Antigone (Grade 10), Amy R. Thomson and Heather M. Patillo
Varied Approaches to Shape, Marie-Claire A. Valdez
“Capturing a Character”: A unit for teaching 2nd-grade students how to understand literary characters, Samantha S. Voris and Stephanie M. Wilson
"Glued to the Sofa": Exploring Guilt and Television Binge-Watching Behaviors, Charles N. Wagner
Flannery O'Connor's Theology of a Disabled Woman's Body, Mariah Wahl
Linear Relationships (Algebra) (8th-9th grade), Melanie R. Webb and Nicole D. LeGrone
Chemistry of Uniqueness and Value: An Introductory First-Year Chemistry Investigation for High School Sophomores, Katelin A. Whittaker
Place Value: Representing And Comparing Numbers (1st grade), Marian R. Zelaya and Leah Sanchez
Submissions from 2015
STAAR EOC Expository Essay [9th-12th grade], J. Kat Aylesworth
The Art of the Non-Royal Classic Maya: An Analysis of SAMA Object #72.42.109(19), Bridget Bey
Addition and Subtraction with Decimals Review [6th grade], Samantha Bos
Artist as Chemist [10th grade], Bonnie Brawner
Los impactos de los seres vivos en el medioambiente (The Impact of Human Beings in the Environment) [2nd grade], Graceanne S. Brim
Heart of Darkness: A Critical Approach to Marlow's Character, Sherry Brown
Microbe Hunters: Pioneers of the Microscopic World [7th grade], Joy Brush and Jaime Jaen
Inventing my Grandfather, Heather Bush
The War on Drugs: An Audience Study of the Netflix Original Series Narcos, Maria Alejandra Cano
A World on Fire: The Age of Revolutions [10th grade], Marisa C. Cavin
The Birth of the Federation: Origins of the Russian Struggle for Democracy, Nikita V. Chirkov
What makes a lizard invasive? Behavioral and neural correlates of invasion success, Lauren M. Davis
Personal Narrative Genre Study [4th grade], Emily B. Delgado
Mind[set]fulness: How Can I Control My Brain?, Abbey M. Drake
Why does Matter Matter?, Carrie Duesing and Carolyn Martin
Casas del Mundo [8th-9th grade], Merida Elizondo
Locating Camera Position in 3-D Space from Distinct Features of Architecture on 2-D Image, Yiran Fan
Story Elements for Kindergarten, Renee D. Faulk
Are corridors effective? A genetic study of Texas Spiny Lizard populations in urban parks of San Antonio, Alyssa A. Fink
A More Robust Corpus of Büchi Automata, Corey S. Fisher
Torque and Rotational Motion (11th grade), Connor Gorman and Leslie Salazar
City-Foundation in Vergil's Aeneid, David Harris
Resource value as a mediating factor of aggression during within-sex competition between female Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), Jessica M. Heppard
Sky Patterns [2nd grade], Analeasa Holmes and Rachel Capetillo
Does Structural Alignment Help Children Ignore Irrelevant Events?, Tyler James Howard
Sectionalism Before the Civil War: Justified or Not?, Elizabeth A. Hunt
The Basics: Geometric Structure, Danielle Kendrick
Antiaromatic Dianions, Kelsey E. Kirkman
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Fossilized Angiosperm Resins from International Sources, Allison J. Levy
Modeling Escherichia coli Chemotaxis, Lu Liu
Why Do I Need Math? [7th grade], Dory Lopez
It’s All Greek to Me [6th grade], Grace R. Marengo Sanchez and Alex Karamol
The American Empire: Age of Imperialism (America Journey) [7th grade], Mark A. McCullough
Phase Diagrams for Three-Body and Four-Body Systems in One Dimension, Connor D. Morehead
¡Mantente en forma! [10th grade], Leah A. Morton-Gittens
Why Can't I Have Everything I Want? [2nd grade], Elle V. Norman
How Taste and Sight Impact Brand Loyalty in Sensory Marketing, Emmanuella Oduguwa
Playbuilding: Devised Theatre in the Classroom, William A. Parker
Cuerpo sano, mente sana: Healthy Living ¡en español! [8th-10th grade], Shannon Probe
Where I Live (2nd grade), Lauren E. Pum Ms and Leslie D. Montoya Mrs
Constructing the Imaginative Bridge: Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives, Megan Reynolds
Bullydozing with Kevin Henkes [2nd grade], Kendra E S Salas
Exploring Quadratic Functions through Angry Birds [8th grade], Amber M. Sanchez
Clear-Cut and Clearly Drawn: Analyzing Portrayals of the GDR in Modern German Comics, Elena Souris
Controls on Carbonate Factory Type (Abiotic, Microbial, Skeletal) on the Hongyan Margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China, Leanne M. Stepchinski
Uplift rate of marine terraces and anticlinal growth along the North Canterbury fold and thrust belt, New Zealand, Mary Kate Stewart
Understanding U.S. Coins to Spend and Save (1st grade), Jordan E. Taylor, Eloisa Perez, and Rebecca Zelaya
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, Amy R. Thomson and Heather M. Patillo
Top Secret: Understanding Characters! [3rd grade], Renee E. Ulrich
Effective Arguments: Julius Caesar and Current Opinion Pieces [10th Grade], Valerie E. Vied
Show Me Your Expertise: 4th Grade Expository Writing Unit, Anne Waidelich
The Rhenish Chronicles and Christian Martyr Philosophy: Jewish Origins and Cultural Re-Appropriation, David Warga
Reconstruction: Could you do it better?, Waynne Warren
Politics, Power, and Influence: How to Create Your Own State., Waynne Warren and Tyler R. Woolsey
Data Displays [6th grade], Melanie R. Webb
AP Chemistry: Bonding + Periodic Table Review + Extension [11th-12th grade], Katelin A. Whittaker
Atoms and Elements [6th grade], Jennifer J. Wray
Submissions from 2014
Geometric Reasoning, Claire B. Baxter
Making Sense of Mina: Stoker's Vampirization of the Victorian Woman in Dracula, Kathryn Boyd
Effects of Mode of Cedar (Juniperus ashei) Removal on Grassland Species Composition in the Texas Hill Country, Cade C. Bradshaw
Personal Cultural Identity and Literature, Sherry Brown
Analysis of Social Dominance in the Green Anole, Jordan McKenzie Bush
Animal Needs and Habitats, Erin E. Clay
Image-Making in Cnut’s Reign: A Discussion on Nationality, Ethnicity, and Identity for the Conquering King, Christine Crowe
The influence of ocean chemistry and syndepositional faulting on the termination of the southwest Yangtze Platform Guizhou Province, south China, Erich Dezoeten
Forensic Chemistry, Carrie Duesing and Bonnie Brawner
Literature and the Reign of Cnut, Kathryn Funderburg
Physical Geography [9th grade], Meghan Harrington and Kyle Anderson
Two Hands, Samuel Milton Jensen
English II Persuasive Essay [10th grade], Brianna Johnson