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.
Theses from 2013
The effects of gender on anxiety sensitivity in relation to interoceptive task performances : an exploratory study., Brittany Deanne Miller
Effects of short term high fat diet on obesity and perivascular adipose structure and function in mice : role of aldose reductase, and aldehyde metabolizing enzyme., Daniel Alan Murphy
The effect of inversion on infant attention disengagement from faces., Jessica Pence
Homological algebra : Tor functors, Betti numbers, and free resolutions., Ian Philipp
Sinusoidal endothelial cell-derived extracellular matrix regulates basal and stimulated macrophage activation., Lauren G. Poole
Targeting the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome to induce mitotic arrest in ovarian cancer., Douglas John Saforo
The investigation of protonation of [Mo2(NTo)2(S2P(OEt)2)2(SO)(SBn)(O2CMe)]., Adria Schwarber
Female political leadership in the Southern Cone : roles and perceptions of women in formal politics., Rosslyn Elliott Steinmetz
A comparative analysis of drug-trafficking trends in the Middle East/Central Asia and East/Southeast Asia., Benjamin M. Weyman
From colonialism to neoliberalism : modernity and the state production of a Bedouin-Transjordanian national identity., Amanda M. Yee
Assessing the role of transnational networks of support in color revolutions : successes and failures in Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia., Michael C. Zeller
Theses from 2012
Does inconsistent-handedness lead to a better memory or does a better memory lead to inconsistent-handedness?, Emily K. Carris
Institutionalism to contextualism : modifying the institutional theory of art into a historical/cultural contextualist account., Stephanie Ann Coffman
Examining effects of picture content on false recognition in consistent and inconsistent handers., Rosanna G. Scott
Theses from 2010
A body evolved : the UN Security Council and its role in international politics., Matthew Brandon Davis
