Honors Theses
Honors Theses is the collection of undergraduate research final theses written by Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College seniors.
Honors Theses from 2022
Adopting Lactobacillus and Organic Acids as Alternative Treatments to Necrotic Enteritis, Javad A'arabi
Development and Prototyping of Motion Capture Hand Cluster using 3D Printing, Griffin Adcock
An Analysis of County Level Energy Burdens in Mississippi, Nirmal Bhatt
Effect of Declaw Bans on Shelter Cat Populations, Lauren Bowles
The Price on Our Tap: A Policy and Quantitative Analysis of County-Level Water Affordability in Alabama, Mayukh Datta
In Other Words, Socialized Medicine: Journal of the American Medical Association Versus the International Labour Organization, Tanner DeYoung
Investigating Differing COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes Within Families, Sarah Dulaney
Sentiment trends in political tweets: a case study of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madeline Enlow
The Flaming Cross: The Methodist Church in Mississippi During the Civil Rights Era, Jonathan Franz
Alternative Inhibitors of Canonical Wnt Signaling, Abigail Grant
“Being a Chi O to a Fraternity Boy is the Greatest Thing That Could Happen”: Reputation, Heterosocialization, and Status Among Sorority Women, Anne Elizabeth Harrington
Extinguish the Spark: Mass Protests as a Determinant of Journalist Killings, 1992 - 2020, Ryan Jarrat
Speech Therapy for ASD: Funding Curriculum, Potential for Success, Lillian McElreath
Masked Up and Feeling Down: The Association Between Mental Health and Preventative Regulation During the Covid Pandemic, Mary Margaret Mitchell
“Fragrantasia: 24 Ekphrastic Poems about Scent”, Maeve Rigney
Comparison of PLGA and PCL Ratios in Kartogenin-Containing Nano-Scaffolds Produced Via the Electrospinning Process, John Graham Roberson
Reestablishing a New Normal: Addressing the Social Injustices at the Heart of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic and Examining the Role of Feutin-A as a Potential Therapy, Christopher Robinson
Independent Investigations of the Relationships Between Altruistic Behavior and Empathy With Depression, Colton Watson
Honors Theses from 2021
The Narrative of Salvation and Ritual Re-Presentation in Piers Plowman, Dylan Bufkin
Examining the Role of Wnt Signaling in Vascular Calcification, Kaylee Bundy
Loss, Reckless Behavior, and Jane Austen’s Realism in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, Lindsey Downs
The Indirect Effect of Childhood Trauma on Body Mass Index Through Exercise Frequency, Andreana Durham
Development of a Novel Chemical Timer, Mitchell Harvey
Transit-Oriented Inclusionary Mixed-Use Development, Sarah Hoing
Neurodiversity and Online Communities: Why They Matter, Laura Ingouf
“As a father you shall be to me”: Examining the Anglo-Saxon Oath in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Brady Kruse
Healing Hands: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Germanic Understanding of Medicine and Monarchy, Elizabeth Lucas
The Comparison of Data Collection Methods in Evaluating Drivers’ Responses to Speed Message Signs, Abigail Musser
Potential of Biochar for the Removal of Waterborne Microbial Contaminants, Shankia Musser
Using Spectral Graph Theory to Analyze Gene Expression Networks, Chuyen Nguyen
Measuring Immigrant Integration in the United States South, Ashton Porter
The Modulation of Interleukin-4-Induced Immune Responses by Prostaglandin D2 and Its Glyceryl Ester, Hannah Scheaffer
Terror Tactics: Vehicular attacks in Israel, Garrett Smith
Is it Harder to Run for Office As a Republican Woman? Attitudes Among Republican Voters Towards Women Candidates, Georgiana Swan
Bio-printed, bio-functionalized PLGA-KGN scaffolds as an augmentation to microfracture, James D. Warren
Honors Theses from 2020
The Design and Development of a Monochrome Volumetric Display Using Laser Diodes and a Rotating Helix Structure, Seth Barger
The Conservative Case for Climate Change Belief: Effects of Theme and Source Characteristics, Alicia Brown
Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity: Case Studies of Filipino Immigrant Families in Mississippi, Joy Cariño
Understanding Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Sarah Claxton
A Novel Analysis of Angles-only Initial Orbit Determination Conundrum, Ryan Cobb
Motion Elicits Emotion, Emma Denson
Novel Automated Drill Apparatus for Accessing Equine Hoof Wall, Wellesley Dittmar
An examination of the use of additive manufacturing for small satellite technologies, Jacob Easley
Romance, War, and Narrative Ethics in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair and Ian McEwan's Atonement, Avery Ferguson
Process Simulation for Styrene Prodcution from Toluene and Methanol, Deonante Frazier
Identifying Drought Stress Tolerance Characteristics in Brassica carinata Lines at Germination, Sarah Frey
The Effects of Trans-nonachlor on Hepatic Lipid Metabolism in Immortalized Rat Hepatoma Cells vs. Rat Primary Hepatocytes, Lucie Henein
The Effect of Family Structure and Mental Health on Childhood Bullying Behaviors, Kierstynn Hunter
Examining the Intentional Use of Rhetoric in Legal Argumentation to Advocate for Foster Care Reform, Marisa Laudadio
"He's going to play": The Influence of Timing in Return-to-Play Decisions, Seth Lenoir
A New Look at Northern Influence on Tolkien's Elves, Samuel Lucas
Documented: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of ICE Raids of Mississippi Poultry Plants, Ben Mackin
Effects of TCDD on B Cell Populations in Various Anatomic Locations in EAE, Amye McDonald
A Genetic Analysis of the Invasive Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the Cayman Islands, Blaklie Mitchell
The New Künstlerroman by Women Writers, Hannah Phillips
Straddling the Color Line: The Parallels of Passing as a Motif from William Wells Brown to Nella Larsen, Claire Schwartz
Language Endangerment in an Urbanizing Tanzania, David Sides
Identification of Plant Gene Families Using Machine Learning of Sequence Similarity, Motif Conservation and Evolutionary Distances, James Stevens
Colorblind Racism in White Women's Education Activision in the South, Emily Tingle
Honors Theses from 2019
The Antifungal Occidiofungin Disrupts Morphological Switching in the Polymorphic Fungus Candida albicans, Aaron Albee
Becoming Inhuman, Becoming Monstrous: Representation and Sacrifice in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Lauren Beukes's Broken Monsters, Anna Catherine Bills
The Read Scare: Reading Stereotype Threat in College Aged Males, Rachel A. Booth
Academically Productive Classroom Discourse, Elizabeth Burford
Gentry's Mississippi: The Southern Gothic in Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe, Gentry Burkes
A Critique of Environmental Rhetoric Used During World Environment Day, William Calderon
Evaluating the Impacts of Undergraduate Research Programs at Mississippi State University for Developing Science Professionals, Isabella JoAnn Durham
Exploring and improving the uses of near-term quantum annealers, Nic Ezzell
Golf Glove Data-based Swing Classification through Machine Learning, Jackson D. Fletcher
Towards a Metaethics Grounded in a Simplified Process Metaphysics, Benjamin Kromann
Model Validation of the Thermospheric Neutral Mass Densit, Martin Geary McCandless
Corporate Equity Performance and Changes in Firm Characteristics, Cole McLemore
Investigation of Radiation Effects on Tungsten and Numerical methods to Determine Indentation Modulus, Erin M. O'Quinn
The BCL11A Gene and the 3D Printing of an Adjustable Hyperextension Orthotic Knee Brace for Patients with Hypotonia, Reilly Reeves
Neuroscience and You: A look into societal interaction with neuroscience both internally and online, Ciarra Smith
Intervention and Self-Efficacy in Computing, Liane Solomon
Citizen trust of the police in the United States: How bad is it, and what can we do to fix it, Mariah K. Warner
Proteogenomic mapping of Gossypium mustelinum Leaf, Heather Leanne White
The Cinderella Tale: Oral, Literary, and Film Traditions, Olivia Camille Williams
Honors Theses from 2018
Rise of Spiritually Aware Healthcare Professionals: Importance of Servant Leadership in Educating Future Healthcare Porfessionals, Hamsini Balaji
Evaluation of a natural challenge model of zebrafish with Influenza A virus, Kelvin Blade
Gene Expression Changes by Neuroprotectant Novel Antidotes to Organophosphates, Meghan L. Brino
On the feasibility of using genetic algorithms to optimize the structure of small multilayer perceptrons, Nicholas Dinep-Schneider
The Proto-Romantic Politics of Reading: The Aesthetic Presence of Dante in the Cockney School, Meredith Hilliard
Developing a Python-based Workflow to Modernize User Interaction with Legacy Programs, Robert H. Hunter
"Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again:" Burke's Perspective by Incongruity and the Shifting Image of the Handmaid, Morgan Hydrick
KOH Treated Biochar: An Improved Material for the Removal of Aqueous Contaminants, Cody Layne
A mathematical model for inhibitor drugs in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Richard Young Leonard III
Young Churchill: The Development of Greatness, Kennedy Moehrs
Critias of Athens and the Sisyphus Fragment, Sarah Adison Phillips
Remittances and entrepreneurship: An analysis of the developing world, Steven Weirich
Yellow Jack's Wrath: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic and Public Health in Mississippi, Kyle Winston
What does China's Belt and Road Initiative mean to the U.S.?, Feifei Zeng
Honors Theses from 2017
The impact social withdrawal in depression has on social functioning, Clayton H. Allred
Decoding the contents of working memory using EEG provides evidence for the sensory recruitment hypothesis, Allison L. Bruning