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 2021
Sunk or Dunk?: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Sunk Cost Fallacy in Professional Basketball, Hailey DiCicco
Neuroliberalism and Beyond, Neve Durrwachter
Historiography of the Crusades in Timelines: Big Data, Textual Analysis, and Data Visualization, Matthew Furgele
Tools for Change: Theatre for Social Justice in Communities of Marginalized Youth, Myla Haan
Simulating Many Body Localization With Rydberg Atoms, Alicia Handian
Differences in Endurance Exercise Capacity and Metabolic Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice, Lola Holcomb
Estimating White-Tailed Deer Abundance in Urban Freshwater Tidal Marsh Habitat, Ian Johnson
Subspecies and Sequence of Exon 10 of the AHR Locus in Three Mid-Atlantic Populations of Fundulus heteroclitus, Matthew Kenwood
The Phenomenon of Sexual Violence During Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century: Entering the Era of Survivors as Agents of Peace, Shayna Kushner
Phenotypic Observations of Cytoskeletal Genes in C. elegans Compared to pam-1 Mutants, Shira Levin
Cool Japan and the Hallyu Wave: The Effect of Popular Culture Exports on National Image and Soft Power, Gillianne Lux
Differences in Male and Female Ex Vivo Contractile Forces and Fatigue Post-Injury in Mus musculus, Emily Megill
The Combined Effects of Thermal and Salinity Stress on the Species of Coral, Astrangia poculata, Hannah Merges
Cultural Empowerment in the Classroom: What Role Does Private Culture Have in Public Education?, Autumn Murphy
Single-Neutron States in 51Ti via Neutron Transfer Reaction to 50Ti, Jessica Nebel-Crosson
The Effect of Exercise Training on Glucose Homeostasis and Insulin Signaling in Type 1 Diabetic Female Mice, Caitlin O'Neill
Skorupskian Allyship: Human Rights Reconstructed Through Efficacious Enforcement and Social Relativism, Chase Opperman
Measurement of Hydrolytic Activity of DFsc Proteins Using 4-Methylumbelliferyl Phosphate and Bis(4-nitrophenyl) Phosphate, Joseph Pantel
The Curriculum of Change: Aims and Methods of a Social Justice Education, Thea Pastras
Do Students Buy Attention-Grabbing Stocks? A Field Experiment, George Psaradakis
How True is Causal Closure?, Paul Ravelli
Analysis of Plasma Cholesterol Levels With a High Fat Diet Induced-Obesity Mouse Model, Vikki Rueda-Juarez
Tuning Photo-Sensitive Intramolecular Electron Transfers in Rhenium Coordination Compounds, Nicole Schmalbach
Intellectual Access and Spirituality: The Twin Urgencies of Responsible American Education, Matthew Schmitz
Investigating the Interaction Between PSD-95 and Synaptic Adhesion Protein Slitrk2, Aliyah Stephens
A World With no Porpoise: Why the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society May be the Last Hope for the Vaquita, Ellie Templeton
Development of a Single-walled Nanotube Drug Delivery System for Clarithromycin, Christina Wentz
Victimes ou Criminelles: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Sex Work Policy in France, Carver Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
To Whom Consent May Concern: Understanding Consent Legally, Institutionally, and Culturally, Kiley Addis
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
