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Honors theses from 2020
Analysis of the soil lead contamination issue of South Chattanooga, Tesros Cherian
Politicized prayer: how thoughts and prayers hinder gun legislation, Hope Cody
Complex conversations: a creative exploration into language used over direct messages on social media platforms, Arden Craft
Helios and Tenasi results for the workshop for integrated propeller prediction, Aaron Crawford
Canopy openness as a predictor of growth for Castanea dentata seedlings in the Cumberland Uplands of Tennessee, Hannah Crawford
Sexual health assessments in nursing practice: quantitative analysis of nurses’ behaviors and perceptions, Allison Culp
Augmented Reality in a Dynamic Drone Based Environment, Christopher Davis
African spirituality as female empowerment in the works of Yvonne Vera and Toni Morrison, Annie Dockery
Designing a social media site to connect ill students to their classmates: ClassmateConnect, Lauren Dray
Prevailing facets of Spanish colonialism: the roots of exploitation and inequality in Latin America, Camden Eckler
The rise of the postmodern presidency: the evolution of rhetoric and media usage in presidential election campaigns, Logan Garrett
Fatty acid mediated alterations in biofilm formation with Vibrio cholerae, Isabel Gray
North and South Korea: division by constructions, Hannah Horton
A look into the impacts of tele-optometry expansion, Anna Hulsey
Boundary, costs and trade-offs in reserve design systems, Justus Hurd
A retrospective investigation of racial-ethnic socialization, Adeola Ijiyode
Reconciling Flourishing Egoism with Common Morality, Mark Lamb
Synthesizing and modeling the optical properties of silica aerogel, Hannah Margavio
Reframing severed representations: from biography towards a psychoanalytical reading of Caravaggio’s self-portraiture, Alyson McGowan
Mutually exclusive: a survey of ethical decision making in technology, Connor McPherson
Development of an auto-bioluminescent lung cell line for evaluation of in vitro effects of e-cigarette compounds on normal cell proliferation, Olivia Morrison
Improving engineering education through cyber-physical systems: instrumentation and control of a unit operations laboratory, Shelby Musselman
Job crafting: who and where?, Mia Myers
Mindful yoga as a means of reducing college student stress, Jaylee K. Oliver
Applying deep learning for cell detection in time-lapse microscopic images, Jay Patel
Empathy, perceived similarity, and online aggression, Olivette Petersen
George Berkeley's idealism: an examination of the idealist metaphysics and its connection to philosophy of mind, Joshua L. Powell
Mathematical modeling of a variable mass rocket’s dynamics using the differential transform method, Ashwyn Sam
Envisioning success: an in depth look at the relationship between episodic future thinking and academic goal achievement, Braden Sanford
Gender, intertextuality & market demands: publishing children's picture books, Mackenzie Scott
A meta-analysis of the human uses of pteridophytic species in Tennessee, Diana Sevier
Starting a residential real estate business, Caelan Shurina
Molecular dynamics simulations of apolipoprotein A1 in ionic liquids, Benjamin Smith
College student perceptions of system-culpability in the frequency of wrongful convictions: gauging the importance of respondent characteristics, Merideth Smith
Byron and Don Juan: a case study and queer reading of the closeted libertine, Caitlin Stanfield
Entre países, Jared Steiman
Phospholipid remodeling via exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acid uptake modulates stress resistance in Vibrio cholerae, William Strike
Meta-analysis of biological research literature, Evan Suggs
Living document: an exploration of “self” through lyric & hybrid forms, Shannon Sweeney
The effects of harmful male body representation: uncovered through the lens of podcasting, Madelynne Thompson
The underground and cultural legitimacy: the divide in the american comics history, Preston Trammell
A contribution to the macrofungi of Cloudland Canyon State Park, Peyden Valentine
Global privacy concerns of facial recognition big data, Myranda Westbrook
Envisioning success: a naturalistic investigation into prospective memory performance, reminder use, and memory strategies in an academic context, John Whittemore
HPLC detection of organic gunshot residues with silicone wristbands, Yelyzaveta Zuy
Honors theses from 2019
Exploring the potential for rare and common Borodinia species to acclimate to change, Garrett Allen
Active colloid behavior exhibiting soft-sphere characteristics for non-Newtonian solvent, Courtney Baier
Edge effects and diversity of understory and canopy cloud forest beetles, Mallory Barbier
The effect of soil saturation on the heat transfer rate in a controlled environment for application to ground source heat pumps, William Barnard
The state of financial literacy in Tennessee: do students need higher quality financial education?, Jordan Barnes
Technology in theatre: breaking the fourth wall, Samantha Burns
Let’s talk about sex: an analysis of the gaps in effective sex education in the United States and a proposed solution, Mackenzie Butera
Plein air painting in an anthropocentric era, Emily Marie Charles
On colorfastness and soil remediation, Alea Coble
Oddities and evens: pares y nones, Tanesha Colquitt
A proposal and potential use-case for the transition from Gig City to Smart City, Andrew Cox
The effects of animal-assisted therapy on participation in rehabilitation in a patient post-stroke: a case study, Chloe Cross
Redemption or contamination: reviewing the illness narratives of the chronically sick and their support systems, Allison R. Dearing
Sustainable reuse: the adaptive reuse of the Chattanooga Choo Choo into the Chattanooga Market using LEED, Ashley DeGennaro
Preparation of organometallic cobalt(III) complexes containing bidentate chiral amine ligands as potential transfer hydrogenation catalysts, Luccas C. Do Carmo
Influence of environmental conditions on fatty acid-induced changes in Vibrio cholerae persistence and pathogenicity, Abigail Doyle
A net-zero framework for farms: a business plan, Lauren Dunn
Students’ willingness to extend civil liberties to disliked groups, NinaSimone Edwards
The Vietnam War at home and abroad: soldiers, military leadership, and the antiwar movement, Mason E. Fox
More than remembering: how memoirists recall and write the past, Faith Garner
The analysis of Erlanger Hospital’s suture inventory management operations, Amanda George
Synthesizing multifunctional iron oxide nanodrugs and developing a model for their size analysis using dynamic light scattering, Olivia George
Oil preference in ants and arthropod diversity in urban environments, Itzel Guzman-Hernandez
Financial reporting of cryptocurrency, Andrew Hartley
Experiences of adult children with previously incarcerated parents: a qualitative study, Opeletia Helton
Computational simulation of the PAW-04 nozzle configuration, Juan Hernandez
Lipid modification in Aeromonas salmonicida through exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acid incorporation, Rachel Hofer
Creating characterization through the use of setting and counterpoint characterization, Caroline Taylor Hood
Policy analysis of Tennessee's 51-to-life law: juvenile sentencing reform, Natalie P. Hurst
Virtual existence and its ambiguities: how postphenomenology of technology clarifies our situation in a digital world., David Karlo King II
Is Bitcoin Reminiscent of Past Bubbles?, Jessica L. Leath
Theoretical studies of naphthoquinone reactivity toward amines, Kevin Lee
The need to believe: belief in science & religious belief examined as more general components of positive psychological functioning, Jordan Madrigal
An analysis of the effects between prison documentaries and popularity among viewers, Dominique Malone
Increasing Quechuan identification through language Acquisition, Emily McAndrew
Justice according to Reinhold Niebuhr and Gustavo Gutiérrez, Rebecca L. Miller
Is it too late for the Federal Government to reverse course on how we legally recognize gender?, Stephanie Poget
Relations between subclinical narcissism, effortful control, and well-being in emerging adulthood, Beth M. Rachlin
Designing a general education course on the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, Vincent Rollins
The legal status of personhood in the wake of genetic editing, Tessa C. Ross
The effect of therapy dogs on preoperative anxiety, Morgan Royer
Evaluation of different research methodologies for acoustic monitoring of anuran populations, Richard Alexander Schwartz
The craft of felt sense: writing sentences to create singular effects, Jacquelyn Leigh Muncy Scott
Relaciones de la familia: un proyecto americano, Jadyn Snakenberg
Federal Open Market Committee communication: a text mining analysis, Jonathan Stegmann
“Liberation from what?”: French Muslim women’s bodies as a site of national boundaries and identity, Mae H. Stuart
Feminine agency and masculine authority: women's quest for autonomy in monastic life, Kathryn Temple-Council
Relations between self-regulation, divergent thinking, and perceived stress in emerging adults, Haven Wright
Analysis and proposed improvement of Hamilton County VW eLab equipment, Hiroshi Yanagida