Honors Theses from 2026
Finishing Freedom: The Role of the Reader in Toni Morrison’s Paradise, Evelyn Bell
Artificial Light at Night Alters Transcription of Neuroprotective Genes in the Green Anole Lizard, Alessandra Giorgia Ceccarelli
Final Rope Walker Design Report, Gregory Cole, Pascale Easterday, and Noelle Poquiz
Mechatronics Rope-Walker Project, Tudor Constantinescu, Mario Andres Ulloa Avila, and Issarakvong Un
The Single-Prolonged Stress Model of PTSD Induces Stress-Resilient and Susceptible Phenotypes That Influence Aversive Learning, Natalie Elizabeth Cornejo
Characterizing Sediment Sources of Jurassic Strata in the Western Sierran Foothills, Ca: Age and Hf Data From Detrital Zircon of the Colfax Formation, Lucas McLay Craig
HiDiNet-T: A Transformer Modeling for High-Dimensional Survival Analysis, Aashish Dhanani
Structural Investigation of Essential Splicing Protein Dib1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Cyanidioschyzon merolae, Bryce Davidson Dye
When Bards are Barred: The Poet-Lawreate and Advocacy Beyond the Law, Isabel Elsisi
Measure Theory, Probability, and the Structure of Economic Models, Grace Etzel
Investigating Plasmon Enhanced FRET Using DNA Complexes, Alec Ewe
Characterization of a Magnetless Faraday Rotator: Oblique Incidence Angle and Varying Wavelength, Isabel Garcia
Climbing Robot Design, Cali Good, Dawson Durr, and Matthew Miller
Plasmonic Sensing of PFOA on a Gold Nanograting, Sierra Goode
Run From Water: Neighborhood-Level Versus Household-Level Flood-Preventive Infrastructure in Harris County, Texas, Brianna Skye Heuiser
Can Increasing Youth Sports Participation Increase Mental Health? A Colorado Case Study, Conor Kaczmarczyk
Hijra Subjectivity, Gender Affirmative Care, And the Will to Verify: A Case Study in Confirmation Desire, Lara Lashus
Viscosity and Nano-Crystallinity of Flow-Banded Rhyolite: A Micro-Raman Approach, Charles Long
HR Is Not Your Friend: Grasping the Impact of Representations of Human Resource Practitioners in Workplace Comedies, Monica Martinez
Examining Phenotypes Induced by Retinitis Pigmentosa Missense Mutations, Cadence Johanna McCammack
Oil and the Macroeconomy: A Theory of Sticky Oil Production, Sean McDermott
Mechatronics Undercling Report, Pierce McNiven
Do Cash Transfer Programs Work? Evidence from Peru’s Juntos Program on Child Outcomes, Alexander Ostrom
Eros, again, is Looking at me Meltingly: The Role of Vision in Archaic Lyric and Hellenistic Epigram, Ruth Patterson
The P-Adic Numbers and Zeta-Functions, Maria Francesca Perez
Militancy or Righteous Anger?: The Protest Paradigm and Black Athlete Activism, Thomas Melina Raab
3D Photogrammetric Outcrop Modeling of a Fault Tip Damage Zone: Implications for Fracture Development and Connectivity, Isabella Rueda
Queer Coding in Supernatural Teen Television, Camille Semmes
Model Theory in Quantum Foundations, Nicholas Stipanovic
Creation of a Biological Reporter for Synapse Formation, Gary Zeyuan Sun
Comparing Potential Soil Organic Carbon Storage Based on Dominant Vegetation Types in Central Texas Riparian Grasslands with Loss on Ignition, Renee Trombley
Building a Time-correlated Single Photon Counting Scheme for Quantifying Plasmon Enhanced Energy Transfer, Addison Wilberg
Submissions from 2025
EDUC 3410/ENVI 3410: The Natural Environment and Well-Being, Laura van Zandt Allen and Courtney Crim
Building Athletic Community: Environmental Graphic Design, Michaela Bosco
The Social Construction of Biomedical Risk: A Content Analysis of NIH Grants for Transgender People Living with HIV/AIDS, Giovanna Campolo
Polymerization Kinetics and Polymer Characterization by Fluorogenic Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), Nicholas L. Cipolla
Dynamic Vehicle Selection and Adaptive Aggregation for Asynchronous Federated Learning enabled VANET, Hugh Coleman
A Polarizing Saint: Mohawk Resistance to the Iconography of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Parras Dumlao
Bioengineering Selective Synaptic Destruction: An Approach with a Chimeric Protein with Binding and Repulsion Properties, Amanda Flanagan
A Deep Dive Into Integrals: From Riemann, Stieltjes, Lebesgue to Henstock–Kurzweil, Sydney C. Johnston
From Stability to Turbulence: A Mechanical and Experimental Study of Taylor-Couette Flow., Marco Jonsson
Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Consumer Reponse to Scope of Practice Expansion, Benjamin Kim
Invisible Infrastructure: Metal Artifacts at Trinity University’s Walking Trail Site, Adam Kingery
Innovation and Genre in Nonnus’s Dionysiaca, Arianna Loewen
Subcontracted Detention Centers: Potential Oversights in Migrant Detention Regulation and Human Rights Enforcement, Caia Marcee
Optimization of Soft-Sphere N-body Simulation through choice of Programming Language and Priority Queue, John McMahon
The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence AndThe Importance Of Media Literacy: Decoding AI-Generated News, Chris Medeiros
“La violencia no es solo matar a otro”: representaciones de violencia en el cine latinoamericano sobre la migración, Abigail Lynn Power
The Ethics and Legality of Artificial Intelligence Artwork: A Vulnerability Theory Analysis, Gayatri Rajamony
A Modern Approach to Searching for Late-time X-Ray Emission in Type Ib/c Supernovae, Jake Ridenbaugh
An Unexpected Link Between Fig4 and the Cell Wall Integrity Pathway, Anirudan Sivaprakash
Balancing Noise and Nurture: Stress and Mental Health in Captive Squirrel Monkeys at the San Antonio Zoo, Jasmin A. Sudds
Do Sports Events Affect Public Education? Evidence from Omaha, Nebraska, Wes Wasserburger
Non-Identity-Based Support For LGBTQ+ Youth, Katherine Willcockson
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Central and Peripheral Routes of Oxytocin Administration Differentially Affect Oxycodone Conditioned Place Preference, Paige Catherine Bensing
Temperature Controlled Box, Dennis Butts, Gabriel Alford, John Hawes, and Holden Soderstrom
Cofinal Types and Bounding Numbers: A Literature Review, Spencer Chapman
Optimizing X-ray Flux Measurements of Quadruply Lensed Quasars, Elizabeth Coughlin
GEOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF TRACE ELEMENT MOBILIZATION AND ATTENUATION IN A CRUDE-OIL CONTAMINATED AQUIFER, Audrey Madison Davis
Lyrical Lwas: Poetry Based Around Haitian Vodou, Parras Dumlao
Biochemical and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomal Protein Dib1, Richard Paul Dunn, Jr.
Just the perfect touch of rebellion: Young adult dystopian film and political participation among Gen Z, Sarah Fisher
Insights in Physical and Digital Prototypes for Parallelism Education, Jackson Froehlich
Multi-Modal EEG NEO-FFI with Trained Attention Layer (MENTAL) for Mental Disorder Prediction, Garrett Greiner
THE TOWER’S LONG SHADOW: THE ROLE OF THE TRANSLATOR PROTAGONIST IN ANN PATCHETT’S BEL CANTO AND R.F. KUANG’S BABEL, Amberle Heuiser
Computer Modeling of Normal Fault-Related Damage Zones: Implications for Estimating Geothermal Energy Potential, Audrey Jennings
Revolutionary Rhetoric, Jaida Johnson
Happiness: It Starts With You and Your Mind, Alyssa LaGrone
Understanding the Link Between Ultraluminous X-ray Sources and Star Formation Rate, Sebastian Barahona Lara
Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot, Cora Lewis, Zachary Moyer, Aakriti Acharya, and Reece Colson
Carl Schmitt’s Loneliness and Hannah Arendt’s Action, J. LYNNE NELSON
The Banality of Thinking: The Criticism of Hannah Arendt’s "Eichmann in Jerusalem", J. LYNNE NELSON
Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: An Introduction, Brooke Porter
Fermi Observations of Galactic Globular Clusters, Madison Reich
The 1530s: Surveying England's Decade of Change through Wills from Somerset, Nelson Rose
DIGITIZING THE DUMP : AN ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS THROUGH DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS, CLAIRE SAMMONS
Composition Operators on a Hilbert Subspace of a Banach Algebra, Hugo Sanchez
Remote Controlled Skid-Steer, Levi Schaider, Glory Burgin, and Harrison Fentress
Measuring the Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Near Surfaces, Victoria Torres
DEVELOPING A BIOBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT FOR COMMON MARMOSETS (CALLITHRIX JACCHUS), Ashwini Vivek
Students with Vision and Hearing Loss, Karen A. Waldron, Michael Steer, and Dolly Bhargava
Neighborhood Accessibility: A Comparative Analysis, Katherine Willcockson
Honors Theses from 2023
Healing the Harm: Why Restorative Justice is the Solution to Campus Sexual Misconduct, Cathryn Barcus-Schafer
Passive Education, Passive Users: A Research-Informed Elementary Curriculum for Media Literacy, Surveillance, and Technology Engagement, Jocelyn Elizabeth Brooks
Examining the Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Ethnic Identity of Venezuelan Immigrants, Sabrina Estefany Cuauro Cuauro
Where Did All This STEM From?: Investigating the Support of STEM Fields for High School Girls in the 2010s, Audrey Davis
The Political Nature of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, Cole Aiden Mize Delay
Archival Search for X-ray Emission From Type Ib/c Supernovae, Michael Dixon
Investigating Behavioral Patterns in Birds with Wing Weaponry and Skeletal Weaponization in Two Zenaida Doves, Maia Dykstra
Using DNA as Scaffolding for the Study of FRET Enhancement by Surface Plasmons on Gold Nanogratings, Evan Thomas Engelhaupt
Successful Sports Philanthropy Communication Strategies: A Focus on Major League Soccer’s (MLS) Promotion of the Safe Places to Play Initiative, Ysabella Ferruzzi