Students with a high academic record entering their senior year—above a 3.5 GPA—can pursue Honors by completing significant or original work in their major. These projects are some of the finest work Ursinus students have completed, often leading to work in graduate school or by future Ursinus students. Students who complete a project of remarkable discipline and originality can earn Distinguished Honors.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Yellow Belly Anthology: Micro-Films About Humans at Their Least Impressive, Tommy Armstrong
Differences in Glucose Uptake by [psi-] and [PSI+] Cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Samantha Beck
The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Rise, America’s Balance, and Latin America’s Struggle, Garrett Bullock
Redox Properties of the de Novo Designed Due Ferri Single-Chain (G4DFsc) Model Protein, Kailyn Cohen
Communal Reciprocity in the Andes: An Ethnohistorical Approach to the Relationship Between Ayni and Food Production, Catherine Curran
Decision-making, Beliefs, and Personality: Actively Open Minds Versus Cognitive Misers, Nicole Dalasio
Does Using wee-1.3 as a Secondary Suppressor Restore Wildtype Timing of Meiosis and Oocyte Maturation in pam-1 C. elegans Mutants?, Caprice Eisele
GFAP Expression of Radial Glial Cells of the Regenerating Spinal Cord of Axolotls, Erin Fowler
The Meritocratic Fallacy of Higher Education in America, Amanda Galczyk
Piety and Mayhem: How Extremist Groups Misuse Religious Doctrine to Condone Violence and Achieve Political Goals, Noah Garber
The Case of Kashmir: Ethnic Mobilization and Insurgency, Kayla Hofmann
Toward the Development of a Carbon Nanotube Drug Delivery System for Clarithromycin, Broderick Johnson
Health Care Access for Children in Latinx Immigrant Families in the Greater Philadelphia Area, Sophia King
Working Memory and Attention Deficits During a Letter Number Sequencing Task Post-Concussion, Shannon Kiss
Characterizing the Interaction of MAGUK Scaffold Protein PSD-95 With Synaptic Adhesion Protein Slitrk2, Connor Loomis
Effects of a High Fat Diet on Cardiac Function, Jacob Menzer
Currency Internationalization: The Case of the RMB, Daniel Powell
Measuring Ex Vivo Muscle Contraction Forces in Mus musculus, Oniel Salik
Shattering Glass Ceilings: Where are all of the Women in Finance?, Rebecca Schubach
Examining Permeability and Contractility of Skeletal Muscle in Castrated Male Mice, Evan Scott
La Maladie féminine: Genre, hérédité et milieu dans trois romans d’Émile Zola, Emily Shiplett
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Alters the Number, Not Distribution, of Corridor Cells at Embryonic Day 13.5, Avery Sicher
The Comparison of Endothelial Permeability at 48 Hours Post Skeletal Muscle Injury in Male and Female Mice at Various Ages, Sabrina Tusavitz
Investigating the Cellular Control and Biological Consequences of Prion Formation in Yeast, Richard Wike
The Transition of Guanyin: Reinterpreting Queerness and Buddha Nature in Medieval East Asia, Robert Wilf
Stock Market Drivers: Corporate Share Repurchases, Parker Wolf
Is Tuition Free College the Golden Ticket? A Time Series Analysis of Germany’s Higher Education Policy, 1990-2017, Hannah Wolfram
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Effect of Plant Biodiversity on Insect Pests in a Forage Agroecosystem, Gabriella R. Altmire
Politics, Protest and Patience: Gendered Rights and Human Security in India and South Korea, Anika Backelin-Harrison
The Effects of Circuit Training and Mediterranean Diet on Superoxide Dismutase Levels, Clara Baker
The Relationship Between Racial Color Blindness and Sexual Orientation Blindness Attitudes and Quantity and Quality of Patient Care, Alexa Beacham
Soil Health in Organic and Conventional Vegetable Systems Under Different Tillage Regimes, Kirk R. Cherneskie
Oral Argument Tactics on the Supreme Court Bench: A Comparative Analysis of Verbal Tools Used by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch, Corinne Cichowicz
Mediations and Motivations of Attachment-Dependent Self-Recovery Post-Dissolution, Morgan A. Cope
The Effect of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Skeletal Muscle Permeability in Mice, Maxwell L. Coulter
Towards the Rational Design of Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET)-based Fluorescent Probes, Julia Dorsheimer
Early Post-Partum Changes in the Murine Heart, Matthew Douglas
Bringing Business Back to the Ballpark, David Drea
Rewriting Women: A Feminist Examination of Lolita's and Pride and Prejudice's Costume and Revisionist Adaptations, Courtney A. DuChene Ms.
Facile Conversion of Hydroxyfluorophores to Aminofluorophores via Smiles Rearrangement, Omar Elghawy
Comparison of the Effects of Cryotherapy and Thermotherapy on Permeability After Skeletal Muscle Injury, Brittany Gasser
The Montessori Method: Redefining the Child, Indira Joell
The Effects of Bisphenol A Structural Analogs on the Metastasis and Cathepsin Activity of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Jake C. Lachowicz
A Sample of Understudied Works in Aberdeen MS 123, Bailey Ludwig
Postpartum Changes in the Contractility and Morphology of the Murine Heart, Katherine A. Madden
Strict Restraints: Abstinence's Gender Problems in Measure for Measure, Joseph Makuc
Goblin: Microaffirmations, a Theory of Communication, Haunt Pitcher
A Novel Survival Analysis Method for an Outcome of Time to Consecutive Events, Faraha Rathod
Examining the Efficacy of a New Diet Scoring System for Tracking a Mediterranean Diet Intervention, Emily Reeve
The Effect of Foreign Aid on Political Violence: Learning From Case Studies of Nigeria and Sierra Leone, Charlotte Rohrer
Improving Processing and Coating Protocol to Promote Crystal Formation and Optical Function in Thin GeSbSeTe Films, Brittani Schnable
Liberation in Southern Africa: Comparing Democratic Consolidation in South Africa and Zimbabwe, John J. Solomon
The Far Right in Europe: The Effects of the Migrant Crisis on European Enlargement, Gregory Stryker
Women's Rights and Representation in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey: The Patriarchal Domination of Religious Interpretations, Roumaissaa Tailassane
Can Host-Plant Resistance Lead to a Secondary Pest Outbreak Due to Competitive Release?, Carter Usowski
Hook-up Culture and Attitude Shifts: The Role of Self-Concept Clarity and Sociosexual Orientation, Marisa Waite
Rape Culture: Tools of Oppression, William Wehrs
Hans Asperger: Held oder Bösewicht, Sarah Wonsidler
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning Assessment of Neuroscience Concepts in Undergraduates, Sarah Wonsidler
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning Assessment of Neuroscience Concepts in Undergraduates, Noah C. Yeagley
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Prion Protein Aggregation in Yeast: Molecular and Cellular Implications, Benjamin T. Allwein
Processing and Properties of GeSeSbTe Chalcogenide Thin-Films for Optical Applications, Quentin D. Altemose
Aiding to Repair: An Analysis on the Impact of Foreign Aid in Rwanda After the 1994 Genocide, Mary Atta-Dakwa
Identification and Phenotypic Analysis of the lz5 Suppressor of the pam-1 Mutation in C. elegans, Dorothy A. Benton
Identité Voilée: Le Républicanisme et la Femme Franco-musulmane, Helen Brabant-Bleakley
Veiled Identity: Republicanism and the Franco-Muslim Woman, Helen Brabant-Bleakley
Living in the Liminal: Representation of Transgender and Nonbinary Identity in 'Steven Universe', Mads Bradley
Where Trying to Conceive Becomes a Community Effort: A Digital Ethnography of Online Infertility Forums, Megan Burns
Furs: Functionality, Fashion, and Franchise, Jenna Q. Detweiler
Examining Alumni Perceptions of Social and Cultural Capital Accumulation Through Ursinus’s Summer Fellows Program, Sydney Dickson
Assessing Sox2 Expression in the Spinal Cord of Ambystoma mexicanum During Single and Multiple Regeneration Periods, Adam G. Dykie
Evidence of Next-Nearest-Neighbor Electronic Coupling in a Series of Cyano-Bridged trans-Fe(II)-Pt(IV)-M(II) (M=Fe, Ru) Asymmetric Trimers, Michael C. Esposito
The Effects of Age on Spinal Cord Regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum, William A. Foss
Millennial Culture and Epistemology: Exploring the Meaning-making Discourse of an Emerging Generation, Sophia Driscoll Gamber
Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Nation: The Theology of White Supremacy in Liberal White American Christianity, Sophia Driscoll Gamber
Maybe She Found Me in a Poem, Robin Gow
The Bird That Flew Backwards, Robin Gow
You, Me, and the Reaper: Meditations on Death, Albert Hahn
Los Matices Varios del Feminismo en las Comunidades Indígenas de América Latina: Yorkín, Costa Rica y Santa Anita, Guatemala, Roseangela G. Hartford
Getting Bi: Perceptions of Bisexuality Amongst Young Adults, Emily Jolly
Exploring the Role of Slitrk2 in Embryonic Neurogenesis, Jordyn S. Karliner
In the Shadow of Japanese Identity, Rosendo Lopez-Duran
The Effects of Multiple Pregnancies on the Reversibility of Cardiac Hypertrophy in the Murine Heart, Robert C. McNamara
The Feasibility of the Mediterranean Diet, Alexandra Puryear
The Effects of Wls Deletion in Macrophages on Muscle Repair, Patrick Rafferty
Academia’s Past Boundaries in the Present Future, Elijah Sloat
Riot Grrrl and Girl Zines: Intersectional Feminist Art in Action, Paige Szmodis
From Democrats to "Deplorables": The Trumpization of the Republican Party, Lily Talerman
Rethinking Privacy: An Examination of the Fourth Amendment and Communications Technology, Callie K. Terris
Understanding the Function of the Chaperone Protein Zuo1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Thomas Tessitore
Better Aims for English: An Inquiry Into What it Means to Teach English in a Democratic Society, Kara E. Travis
Modeling Coupled Binuclear Copper Enzymes With de Novo Designed Due Ferri Single-Chain Protein Variants, Brian Van Dyke
Morphology and Contractility of the Murine Heart: Are Changes in Pregnancy-Induced Cardiac Function Exacerbated After Two Pregnancies?, Rachel M. Weil
What About Moral Motherhood? An Exploration Into the Maternal Body as an Object and Subject, Haley Zorger
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Identification of the lz5 Suppressor of pam-1 in C. elegans, Robin Alsher
A Cellular and Molecular Characterization of the Microglial Cell Population in Ambystoma mexicanum, Dylan T. Ammons
Pyrazine- and Bipyrazine-modified Iron(II) Complexes for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Allison Arinaga
Identifying an Intracellular Binding Partner for the Synaptic Adhesion Protein Slitrk2, Usman M. Baqai
