This collection includes college honors projects completed by University of Louisville College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate students who were approved to graduate either summa cum laude or magna cum laude from December 2012 forward. It also includes retrospective honors theses from years prior, with permission of the authors.

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Theses from 2023

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Impact of lyophilization on porcine hemoglobin properties., Mustafa Almosawi

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An emergentist critique of the contract theory of the state of nature, with a consideration on two types of polity and their origins., Ryan A. Apperson

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The philosophy of activism and its paradox., Omar Arar

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Understanding the role of emotion regulation tendencies in the momentary associations between negative affect and eating disorder behaviors., Coby D. Banet

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Other Bodies: Deconstructing visual binaries by subverting visual representations of the Other., Amaiya L. Crawford

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The lost cause and the commonwealth: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and forging civil war memory in Kentucky., Emma Donaghy

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Understanding the Evolution of Enforcement Systems in Resource Dilemmas, Devin M. Flener

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Osteoimmunology and the reconstruction of host immunological status in treponemal infection: effect of activated immune cells by oral pathogens and Treponema pallidum on osteoclastogenesis., Michayla Gatsos

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Histological evaluation of offspring kidneys following prenatal vaping exposure., Lucas Georges

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Does using clicker questions before instruction improve students' conceptual understanding., Edward "Walker" Goshorn

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Immobilization and its effects on functional recovery after spinal cord injury., William H. Gregory

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The effects of prescribed fire on ant community composition in a temperate deciduous forest., Emma Jones

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Diversification and convergence following the transition from saltwater to freshwater in stingrays., Autumn D. Magnuson

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Azanyl carbamates: Synthesis, characterization and chemistry., Maunil Mullick

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Interpreting San Cecilio: Ritual and discourse in a Granadan celebration., Martha M. Popescu

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The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a Gama and galaxy zoo study on void galaxy morphology., Lori E. Porter

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Impacts of bacterial evolution on host lethality in drosophila, Andrew Preston

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Impacts of dietary restriction on a Drosophila model of Werner syndrome, Eileen Sember

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The emerging oral pathogen, Filifactor alocis, modulates antimicrobial responses in primed human neutrophils., Ian J. Snider

Theses from 2022

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Linguistic and cultural training for immigration attorneys representing undocumented Oaxacan immigrants in the United States., Alexis Faith Ecarma

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The purpose of Hell: control of communities through apocalyptic literature., Madison S Fogle

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Multi-decadal analysis of remotely sensed vegetation change in Berea College Forest - seasonality of forest patterns using remote sensing., Jacob Foushee

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Influences of Drosophila circadian clock on sugar-mediated physiological changes, Erica E Hassoun

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Eco-friendly yet unsustainable: the impact of eco-tourism on the sustainable development of Martha's Vineyard., Delaney Henson

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The madwoman in the refrigerator and A Song of Ice and Fire., Alex Herm

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Creolization and Romanity: the continuities and changes of Roman Egypt., Travis M. Kaelin

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Aha! Examining insight in exploratory learning versus traditional instruction., Olivia Kaiser

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Functional characterization of a putative alternative oxidase in Sporisorium reilianum f. sp. zeae., Emma A Lamb

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The interaction of spaced retrieval practice and element interactivity., Cameron K. Mattingly

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An evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination rates of the patients at the Kentucky Racing Health Services Center., Aditya Mehta

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Exercise dependence, affect, and eating disorder symptoms after treatment discharge., Samantha M. Minrath

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How and why do great powers weaponize bordering diasporas in foreign policy., Matthew A. Payne

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Inducing cognitive reflection and its impact on contradictory beliefs., Margaret Powers

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Evaluating sex-dependent changes in the gut microbiome caused by Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) exposure., Zayna Qaissi

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The impact of political systems on addiction policy in industrialized democracies., Lexi Renee Raikes

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Recipe for good: analyzing the authenticity of CSR commitments among the leadership of a parent company to global restaurant brands., Lauren E. Reuss

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Examining body trust and body listening in sexual and gender minorities., Emma G. Roberts

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Nitrogen availability in dune systems and Its effect on root fungal endophyte communities., Haley E. Sage

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Greetings from Eureka!: a story quartet and critical afterword., Roman Sauls

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Using fluorescent microscopy to follow mitochondrial Inheritance through tagged alternative oxidase in sporisorium reilianum., Luke Schroeder

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Prescribed burning and land functions in the mixed-land use management of the Berea College Forest., Hinzee Smith

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Adjusting for speaking rate when perceiving speech in background noise., Dawson C Stephens

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The yellow figment of East Asian American women: a case study of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings., Lily Zhen-Ling Stewart

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The effect of object contact on pre-reaching infants' causal perception., Mallory L. Thompson

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Early mathematical abilities of 48-month-old children with Williams syndrome., Jenna N. Tinnell

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Reconsidering scales and the binary in forensic anthropology: a critical analysis of morphoscopic data utilized in sex estimation standards., Bailey N. Watson

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The Great Resignation: a content analysis of news sources' portrayals of the COVID-19 labor shortage., Mackenzie Williams

Theses from 2021

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Þorn: A novel excerpt exploring giantesses, their relation to women's bodily expectations, and patriarchal control in the literature of early modern Britain and contemporary America., Brady P Alexander

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Oriented external electric field (OEEF) tuning of unsubstituted azoheteroarene photoswitching performance., Irma Avdic

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Assessing universal basic income proposals: a comprehensive analysis of established studies., Zachary Paul Baker

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The influence of gender on interruptions in the U.S. Courts of Appeals., Molly Grace Baldock

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Positive rhetoric, prejudiced policy: the contradiction of Islamophobia in American government after 9-11., Molly Bilz

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The impact of religion on gender, sexuality, and abortion politics: a comparative study of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland., Sabrina L. Collins

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A network investigation of eating disorder symptoms and risk factors before and after a prevention program in adolescent girls., Jordan E. Drake

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Functionality of red blood cells after cryo-preservation., Charles Andrew Elder

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Madwomen and mad women: an analysis of the use of female insanity and anger in narrative fiction, from vilification to validation., Lindsay Haralu

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Software validation and data quality monitoring of the KLM detector at Belle II., Dustyn Hofer

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Land lines: modes of communication in Kentucky's queer past and present., Emma R. Johansen

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Nonprofit social media internships: a handbook, Allison LaRoy

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The relations between maternal language input and language development for children with Williams syndrome., Katarina L. Mayer

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"I love judges, and I love courts:" Chief Justice William H. Taft and reform in the federal judiciary., Alexandra M. Michalak

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The idea of wilderness and United States land use policy: American Transcendentalism, preservation, and conservation, 1835-1914., Arabella A Paulovich

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"At the peril of our lives": race, citizenship, and Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever epidemic., Abigail Posey

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Implementing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system in Microbotryum., Stevana Reese Schauer

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The effect of parent interaction on pre-reaching infants’ visual attention during an object manipulation task., Jalena N. Slaton

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Colombia's judicial reform: what now?, Maya Smith

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The relationship between mothers’ negative emotional symptoms and mother-infant interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic., Kolbie A Vincent

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“Attracted by the light but repelled by the heat”: the final years of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) and the turn to the New Communist Movement in the South., Hannah C. White

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Early communication abilities of 24-month-old children with Williams syndrome as measured by the Communication Complexity Scale., Sean B. Woods

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Host community diversity interacts with soil biota and water availability to predict foliar pathogen damage and diversity on tallgrass prairie plants., Aspen J. Workman

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The dangers posed by open-flame cooking: the case of Chiapas, Mexico., Holly Renee Zoeller

Theses from 2020

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The politics of unionization: the impact of politics on the strength of Kentucky coal miners’ unions., Bayley Hope Amburgey

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Experimenting with adulthood: liminal play in young adult literature., Kylee Auten

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Telemedicine in pediatric speech therapy: characteristics of child, mother, and speech-language pathologist vocal interaction., Abigail L Betts

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The lotus, the orchid, and the dragon: an examination of One Country, Two Systems and its trajectory in Xi Jinping’s China., Eric M. Bush

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Effectiveness, equity, and ethics of Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Services Program., Anna J Carter

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From Valladolid to Venezuela : the legacy of Las Casas, Vitoria, and Sepúlveda in the current Venezuelan crisis., C. Evan Clark

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Identifying phenotypic effects in Sporisorium reilianum and Ustilago maydis lacking the alternative oxidase gene., Caroline D. Culver

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Spatiotemporal analysis of traffic crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists in Jefferson County, Kentucky., Joseph M. Garcia

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Screen usage relates to neuroanatomy underlying reward processing., Lucus Kiger Hodge

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Voices of the unheard: Using photography to understand youths' perceptions of problems in their neighborhoods., Erica Ann Lush

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Phytochemical content and anti-breast cancer activity of Kentucky native plants., Nicole A. McGrath

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Interaction design for retention., Susan H. Pallmann

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Musicians’ hairstyles: a glimpse into the meanings and messages of funk, punk, and rap hair from the 1970s to 1990s in the USA and France., Carolle Pinkerton

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In vitro immune activation by Treponema pallidum and the effect on osteoclastogenesis: first experimental step towards an integration between osteoimmunology and paleopathology., Emily Ann Rich

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Cardiomyocyte morphology following severe spinal cord contusion in rodents., Addison D. Riney

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How to fight like a poet: the socially engaged poetics of anti-colonialism in Appalachia., Grace A Rogers

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Filifactor alocis: resilience and manipulation against neutrophil effector functions in a dysbiotic oral environment., Max N. Rogers

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Olfactory tissue investment in tropical rainforest ants scales with body size., Heather Evon Short

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Race relations during the 1937 flood: confronting polite racism, identity, and collective memory in Louisville., Elizabeth J. Standridge

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Universalism and the paradox of redistribution: the case of Norway., Madison Swingholm

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The dimensions of secession in California., Jared J Thomas

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Reclaiming images of Black women: an investigation of Black womanhood in visual communication, Taylor Simone Thomas

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On the advantages of the disabled in space., Samantha R. Timmers

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Public history as social justice: how Japanese Americans won redress with the help of history packaged for the public., Sara N. Ulanoski

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The effects of PPAL-1 in Arabidopsis gamete development., Amanda White

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Assessing conduct disturbance and fly ash exposure in children., Jillian G. Winn