Undergraduate Honors theses and exemplary Senior Capstone Projects.
Theses/Capstones from 2023
SEC Proposed Regulations on Climate Related Disclosures and Climate Related Risks, Paloma Alvarado
The Effect of Joint Versus Soft Tissue Flossing on Overall Performance in the Lower Extremities, Emily Bray
How Automation is Making a Positive Impact on the Fast Food Industry, Noah Bullock
Unlawful, Unjust, and Unchanged; A Thesis of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Criminal Sentencing, Jessica Cochrane
Mind Over Matter: The Role of Resilience, Crime Victimization, and Age at the Time of Victimization on Psychological Health, Alana Compton
Rural Appalachia and the Opioid Epidemic: Overcoming Current Barriers with New Solutions, Olivia Croft
Self-Selected Pacing Strategy and Lactate Response in Individual Medley Time Trials, Claire Galloway
Immunomodulatory Effects of Glycerol Echinacea purpurea Stem and Leaf Extract on RAW 264.7 Murine Macrophages, Maxwell D. Garcia
Silk Production in Mature and Penultimate Female Dolomedes scriptus, Dylan J. Haley
As Seen On TV: An exploration of how sexual assault is portrayed in young adult television, Alyson Haslet
Understanding Veillonella atypica as a potential metabolic mediator in diabetic exercise, Anne Kelly
The relationship between blood lactate and heart rate responses to an established biking protocol in female distance runners and sedentary females, Haleigh Kozlowski
Creation, Understanding, and Reflection in a Senior Vocal Performance Half Recital, Kaitlyn Langford
An Analysis of Sediment Collected by Pogonomyrmex salinus from the Jurassic Sundance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Josephine H. LaPrad
A Reform of Treatment: An Analysis of the American Asylum Movement, Sam Lipert
Analyzing and Computing Complete Solution for Dots and Boxes Game, Carl McAninch
The Forest of Claytor Nature Center as a Carbon Offset; Assessing the Sequestration Potential and Socioeconomic Implications, Sarah McCollum
A Comparison of External Loads in Division III Men's Lacrosse Between High Competition Matches and Low Competition Matches, Patrick Moore
Nature and Nurture: How they play a role in Serial Killers and their Victims (1970-1999), Sarah Mroczkowski
Locomotor Biomechanics in Stream Gobies, Rhinogobius sp.: Functional Performance of Waterfall-Climbing Behavior, Ernest Murphy
Qualitative Chemical Analysis of Elf Bar E-Liquids and their Effect on Phenotypic Characteristics of Arabidopsis Thaliana, Genevieve Neuwirth
History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but Often Rhymes: An Analysis and Extension of Models Influencing Special Education, Rebecca Owens
The Effect of Weight Bias on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease, Manuela Paki Amouzou
The Effect of Social Influence, Patient Type, and Treatment Type on Ethical Medical Decision Making, Kessa Romero
Inflammatory Comparison of RAW 264.7 Cells, J774A.1 Cells, and Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages, Dylan Shuster
A Quantitative Analysis of Gender Inequality on Efforts to Reduce Human Trafficking in Countries, Amelia Simmons
Use of EEG-Based Machine Learning to Predict Music-Related Brain Activity, Charles Skutt
The Colours of Rethoryk: The Medieval World’s Influence on Red and White Color Symbolism in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Frederick W. Smallshaw
Perceived Effectiveness of Mental Health Rehabilitation on Recidivism, Sydni Spradlin
Beyond Rationality: Reconciling Non-Ideal Agency and Epistemology in the Community, Sophie Tully
Money Laundering in the Global Art Market, Arran Walton
Theses/Capstones from 2022
Emotion and The Visual Arts, Hailey Bayne
That’s Not What I Heard: A Study on University Communications and Marketing Strategies Regarding COVID-19 Policies., Hannah M. Belayachi
An Anti-Racist Introductory Seminar Outline to Combat the Interconnectedness of Medical Racism and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Rates Among Black Women in the United States., Alexandra Boatwright
Acute response of a lower extremity mobility routine on AROM, sprint time, and vertical jump height in flexible and nonflexible adults., Flinn Christian
The Relationship between Urban Heat Islands and Redline Districts, Emily Cornwell
The Effect of COVID-19 on Exercise Performance, Elizabeth Crockett
Predictors of Roommate Friendship Score: Personality Traits, Conflict Management Score, Parenting Styles, and more., Cassidy A. Davis
Cellular Automata: The Mathematical Theory Behind the Spread of COVID-19 and Prediction of Future Spread, Alison Drumheller
Using Small Molecules to Combat Staph Infections, Anthony Ferris
The Plant and the Pathogen: Elucidating the Relationship between Root-Knot Nematodes, pH Levels, and Arabidopsis thaliana Development, Rachel Garnett
What’s in a Vote? Voter Choice in the 2008 through 2020 Presidential Elections, Matthew Gillett
Effects of Precipitation on Groundwater Level in an Urban Watershed, Andrew Golladay
Transgender Athlete Policy Analysis of the National Governing Bodies of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Dara Gregory
A common garden experiment suggests local adaptation in stomata size but not stomata density in Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Alyssa Gundel
Functional Comparison of RAW 264.7 Cells and Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages (BMDM), Quinn Harker
The Effect of Race and Gender in the Stigmatization of Mental Illness, Kate Hines
Dementia Classification through Textual Analysis with Machine Learning Algorithms, Joseph Hurowitz
Attitudes Toward Obesity in Undergraduate and Graduate Students Intending to Enter the Healthcare Field, Sloane E. Kelly
The Benefits of Reading for Pleasure, and How to Instill a Lifelong Love of Reading in Students, Anna-Catherine Kueng
The effects of wearing a sports mask compared to a standard surgical face mask during the Forestry 5 Minute Submaximal Step Test, Christian Kumar
Effects of Exercise on Fear Behavior in Zebrafish, Tyler Kuni
The Shadow Pandemic: A Rise in Domestic Violence During COVID-19 Lockdowns, Megan L. Leggett
An Investigation of the Natural History and Coloniality of Mecynogea lemniscata, Kassidy McCall
Understanding the Effects of Therapeutic Horseback Riding on Functional and Behavioral Outcome in Autistic Children and Adolescents, Leigh-Anne McCormick
When Helping Becomes Hurting: Compassion Fatigue in Pediatric Nurses, Annabelle Nagy
Exploring Crypsis in Dolomedes, Joshua Nichols
The Effects of Communication Differences on Listeners’ Attitudes of Warmth and Competence, Credibility, Intelligences, and Social Distance, Rebecca D. Parks
Comparison of training load between NCAA DIII tennis resistance training, practices, and matches, Lauren Pascadlo
The Effect of Quantitative Easing on the U.S. Stock Market and Wealth Inequality, Griffin Phillips
Nefariously Selling Muscle by the Supplement Industry, Nick Prechel
Humanizing the Intensive Care Unit with Animal-Assisted Therapy, Amanda Pugh
Finding Friends in the age of Algorithms, Keegan H. Pursley
Baseball Eclipsed: No Longer America’s Pastime, Travis Shumate
Mapping the Impact of A Trailway System on the Amount of Trash Present Within Two, Lillian Smith
Reparations for the Wrongly Convicted, Gillian Trost
How do Business Cycles, Sex, and Race Affect College Major Choice?, Matthew Varsi
Impacts of Biased Scientific COVID-19 News Reporting on Mortality Salience, Jena Wilkinson
Effect of SARS-Cov-2 Vaccine Misinformation on Conspiracy Belief and Anxiety, William Alexandr Yeager
Theses/Capstones from 2021
Characterization of the Sneathia amnii Cytotoxin and its Potential Role in Health Disparities Affecting Women of African Ancestry, Ivypel Amankwa-Asare
The Significance and Validity of Domestic Altar Spaces, Destiny M. Barktyoumb
Feeling Smarter: The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Situational Academic Stressors on Resilience, Coping, and Well-Being, Jenna Bohrer
Statistical Analysis of 2017-18 Premier League Match Statistics Using a Regression Analysis in R, Bergen Campbell
Whore, Horror, and History: How Monstrous Women in Horror are Defined by the Monsters Before Them, Mattox Cash
How to Get Away with Murder: The Effectiveness of Blood Detectors on Surfaces Cleaned of Blood, Grace Cavanaugh
Evaluating the Historical Accuracy of Blackwork Embroidery with Fractal Analysis, Rhiannon Cire
Does Body Positivity Yield Positive Attitudes? The Effects of Female Empowerment in Advertisements on Consumer Perceptions, Allyssa Compton
The Continuity of Teaching: The Pedagogic Importance of Ivan Galamian and Dorothy Delay, Colin Coviello
The impact of Oxygen Exposure and pH on Growth and Biofilm Formation Ability of Veillonella atypica, in Relation to Human Health, Ellen Druebbisch
Overcoming Barriers to Symptom Management at the End of Life, Laura Elphee
Music Therapy as an Alternative to Pharmacological Intervention in the Treatment of Patients with Anxiety and Depression., Oluwateniola Emmanuel
Financial Implications of COVID-19 on the European Football Transfer Market, Jared Gilbert
Effects of a Gliadin Digest on the Inflammatory Response in RAW 264.7 Macrophages, Kristen Harkins
Understanding American Republicanism: An Analysis of the Influence of Modern and Ancient Thinkers on the Founding, Jenna Lopez
Shakespearean Gender Performance on the Page and on the Stage, Elizabeth Martin
The Realignment of 1860 and the Birth of the Republican Party, Julia Melone
Unpredictability and Modular Variations of the Collatz Conjecture, Geoffrey Murphy
Multi-Elemental Analysis of Natural Honey in Central Virginia via Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (MP-AES), Laurel Nicks
Utilizing CRISPR- Cas9 to explore the effects of downregulating targeted genes in Arabidopsis thaliana., Sena Nomura
Polarization in the American Elites and Electorate: Are We More Polarized Now Than Ever?, Lilla Oliver
Theses/Capstones from 2020
Efficacy of a Motivational Video on Heart Rate, RPE, and Total Work Performed During Stationary Cycling, Hannah Angelella
Predicting Academic Dishonesty Using Personality, Impulsiveness, Morality, and Somatic Faking, Lauren Barbee
The Importance of River Influx and Pump Storage Operation on Water Quality in a Storage Reservoir, Ethan Batchelor
The Effectiveness of the European Union’s Environmental Policies, Wendolyn Borkoski
Efficiency Analysis of Harvesting Solar Energy to Perform Mechanical Work, Haden S. Bragg
How Parents Interact with their Children in Literature and How it Affects the Child’s Development, Trinity Byerly
The Relationship between Urbanization in the Blackwater Creek Watershed and Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediment, Hannah Chapman
Water Quality Degradation from Dam Removal: Impact on an Urban River System in Central Virginia, Wrenn Cleary