Final theses produced by undergraduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.
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
Designing an Urban Funeral Home in Downton Jackson, Matthew Murphy
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
An Analysis of the Undergraduate Economics Degree, Ivanna 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
Image Denoising Methods Based on Partial Differential Equations and Non-Local Means Filter, Ben Spencer
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
Exploring the Intracellular Functions of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Neuronal and Glial Cells, Jewellian V. Welcher
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
Use of Nanotechnology and Phytochemical Approaches to Investigate Boar Spermatozoa, Robyn E. Hadden
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
A Topological Analysis of Gene Co-Expression Networks from Brain Data, Mary Lee
"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
Reducing social demands in child eyewitness memory using robot interviewers, A. Zachary Buchanan
Characterization of pyridostatin and its interactions with c-MYC g-quadruplexes, Zachary G. Cuny
Suicidality and depression of those raised in kincare, Theresa Fitchie
Acceptance of marginalized couples, Shaquela Hargrove
Factors impacting retention among African American students at Mississippi State University, Ariel Johnson
The seventh party system? Social homophily and the reemergence of culturally-based political coalitions, Tony Laudadio
Media multitasking in relation to cognition and socioemotional well-being: A literature review, Kaitlyn May
Corporate social responsibility and effective tax rates: Higher ratings, lower rates, Zane D. Parker III
The in vitro effects of glucosamine on equine and canine platelet aggregation and thromboxane synthesis, Gabrielle Rands
The Effects of Media Multitasking on Congitive Control, Seth Thomas
The impact of public defense spending and caseload on jury trial rates, Holly Travis
Honors Theses from 2016
Impact of single amino acid mutations in the rhomboid protease Pcp1p on Pcp1p catalytic activity, cellular respiration, mitochondrial morphology, and mitochondrial DNA maintenance, Andries Pieter Both
