Undergraduate Honors theses and exemplary Senior Capstone Projects.
Theses/Capstones from 2022
Determining Carrier Concentration of Si-doped GaN using DC Hall Effect, Austin James Allison, Dylan C. Barnwell, and Jose Rivera Colon
Calculation of the Fundamental Electric Charge with a Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus, Noah Fuge D'Antonio
Predictors of Roommate Friendship Score: Personality Traits, Conflict Management Score, Parenting Styles, and more., Cassidy A. Davis
Ultrafast Dynamics of IR125 and IR144 Using Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy, Ryan J. Debord
Ferroelectric analysis of Barium Titanate using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy, Nick V. Drda and Rami Alshoroogi
Millikan Oil Drop Experiment, Iran Gandarilla
The Shadow Pandemic: A Rise in Domestic Violence During COVID-19 Lockdowns, Megan L. Leggett
Determination of the Charge of an Electron, Samuel G. Privett
Finding Friends in the age of Algorithms, Keegan H. Pursley
Revisiting the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment, Anna Smith
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
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
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
Assessment of the Environmental and Economic Impacts of Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Evan Cobey
Creating Worlds of Endless Variety: An Evaluation of Procedural Content Generation in Gaming, David Cole
The Benefit of Neonatal Intensive Care Units Providing a Specialized Program for Newborns in Drug Withdraw, Jessie Creekmore
A Seasonal Crime?: A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Criminal Charges in the City of Lynchburg and Seasons of the Year with Reference to Gender and Race, Caitlin Ann Ann Dorsch
The Impact of Religiosity and Personality on Resilience and Coping Strategies, Leah Eldred
Effects of Nicotine on Contextual Fear Conditioning in Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Brianna Fann
Catalan Artist Pierre Daura as Exile, Refugee, Naturalized American Citizen, Teresa Gunter
Predicting the Federal Funds Rate, Danielle Herzberg
Visualization of Musical Instruments through MIDI Interface, John Jaminet
Media Content Analysis of Governmental Impact on Terrorist Reporting, Maggie Kaliszak
Analysis of the Evolution of the Hominin Jaw & Dentition, Matthew Koelbel
The Impact of the Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado on Education Funding and Car Crash Fatality Rates, Lauren McDonald
The Role of Guaranteed Sexual Education in Argentina and its Influence in the #AbortoLegalYa Movement, Shannon McGovern
The Effect of Information Interventions on Retention among University of Lynchburg Students, Sara Mills
Proceeding Without Consent: The Ethics of Disregarding Patient Preference for Paternalistic Reasons, Nicholas Munsey
A Search for Aristotelian Political Friendship in Thomas Jefferson’s Ideal American Regime, Christopher Hiatt O'Connor
Effectiveness of Plyometric Drills on Peak, Average and End Anaerobic Power in Trained and Untrained Individuals, Erik Oehler
A Comparative Study of the Spin Rates of Golf Balls, Carter W. Old
The Acute Effects of Blood Flow Restriction During Exercise, Madison Rechenberg
Dose response effect of Mycobacterium smegmatis-derived lipomannan in RAW 264.7 murine macrophages, Cassandra Robertson
How User-Friendly Operating Systems and Interfaces Make Technology Harder for Everyone, Cameron Short
Pioneering Feminism: How Early American Female Authors' Heroines Defy Gender Norms, Julie Short
Youth Tackle Football: A Parent's Decision, Steven Smallshaw
How Health and Physical Education Teachers Feel About the Virginia Communications and Literacy Assessment, TC Thacker
The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Acute State Anxiety, Kathryn Vest
The Need for Change in Emergency Medical Approach When Caring for Individuals with Autism, Hannah Watkins
The Impact of Temporary Gender Embodiment on the Accuracy of Personality Judgment: Drag Performance as a Lens, Adele Weaver
The Effect of Competition in the Sports Market on the Popularity of Baseball, Noah Winslow
Daenerys Targaryen: Mad or Madly Ended? A Feminist Analysis of Her Downfall, Barbara Yauss
Theses/Capstones from 2019
What are the consequences of the rise of the “black dollar movement, and what does it implicate for black businesses owners in the South?, D'Andria Alston-Thomas
Mathematical Models: the Lanchester Equations and the Zombie Apocalypse, Hailey Bauer
The Effects of Cognitive Stimulation of Instagram on Anxiety, Fear of Missing Out, Memory, and Self-Esteem, Anna Destino
Are they Young, or are they Different? A Comparative Study of Voting Millennials and Baby Boomers, Benjamin Jones
The Effects of Common Treatment Modalities on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), Jessica Koontz
Feeding Biomechanics in Esox lucius.: Prey Capture Kinematics and Performance, David Lagueux
“Navigating the Impact of Trauma in the Classroom: An Analysis of the Trauma-Informed Care in Three Alternative Public Schools”, Hanna McWilliams
Socioeconomic Influences of Property Crime Rates: A Study in Virginia’s Counties, Mary Passley
Autonomous Watercraft Simulation and Programming, Nicholas J. Savino
Exploration of Prostate Cancer Cells: The Significance of Active HERV, Dakota Shepherd
Police Officers Killed or Assaulted in the Line of Duty from 1998 to 2015, Kacie Smith
Manipulated Memories: Post-War Confederate and Jacobite Memory through Art of the Homefront, William Tharp
Los peligros de echar una mano económica: México, el FMI, y el Banco Mundial, Hannah Wolf
Theses/Capstones from 2018
Evaluating Effects of Gene Mutations and Light Intensity on Arabidopsis thaliana Development, CarolAnne Bekus
Analysis of 2016-17 Major League Soccer Season Data Using Poisson Regression with R, ian d. campbell
Effects of Daily Forced Exercise on Anxiety of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Living in Impoverished Environments, Meagan Collins
Examining Manganese Oxidation in Bacteria through Bioinformatics and Environmental Sampling, T'onna Collins
The Immediate Effects of Abdominal and Core Exercise on Balance for College-Aged Dancers, Katharine Cusack
A Socioeconomic Valuation of Urban Wetland Ecosystems and Policy Recommendation for College Lake, Michael Dunmyer
Running performance and mental toughness in task vs. time-oriented exercise bouts., Logan Evans
Creating a Predictive Model for Flowering of Virginia Orchid, Cypripedium pubescens, Emily Horton
Predictors of sleep quality: Depression, anxiety, and sleep self-efficacy, Rayanna Johnson
Monetary Policy Implications of Cash, Other Money Supplies, and Cryptocurrencies in Singapore: A Growing Cashless Society., Sarah Kesler
The Effects of Exposure of Political Affiliation and Race on Perceptions of White Privilege and Anti-black Discrimination, Hannah Knechel
Analysis of GDP using Linear Regression, Ryan Mayolo
The Effects of Inhibiting PI3K on Tumor Suppressor Gene p53 and Cell Proliferation, Kelsi Peters
That’s Not Funny: The Effect of Exposure to Sexist or Feminist Humor on Rape Myth Acceptance, Gina Romano
Quantifying Nitric Oxide Production in Platelets using a Griess Reagent System, Chelsea Shultis
Theses/Capstones from 2017
Policy Liberalism in the American States, William J. Browning
An Analysis of the Sex Offender Registry: Compliant and Non Compliant Sex Offenders, Jordan Cindrick
Social Services in Campbell County: The Issues and Concerns with Labeling and Its Impacts on Funding and Equality, Lindsey Lewis 7908671
Displays of Power in English Tudor Painting, Laura Meisner
TJUKURPA: Contempory Australian Aboriginal Paintings from The Central Desert, Shelby K. Miller, Casey Altamuro, Kimber Butler, Isabella Hudson, and Hunter Moore
GROWING PAINS: AN HONORS THESIS OF CREATIVE WRITING, Angelica L. Santiago Gonzalez
The Intersection of Politics and Theology: Reading Augustine in Light of Augustine, Landon P. Wilcox
Theses/Capstones from 2016
THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL: POETRY DEDICATED TO EXPLORING SOCIAL STEREOTYPES SURROUNDING MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE MISFIT, Sarah Grace Bryant
Comparative Study of British-Argentine Relations and Chinese-Argentine Relations: A Look at Core-Periphery Models, Maggie Flynn
SETTING THE NETS, April Elizabeth Love
Emotional Responses and Coping Strategies Associated with Cyber Victimization via Social Media, Amanda G. Mayhew