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 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
Examination of Neurocorrelates of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Young Adults, Jillian S. Casarella
The Arab League and the Role of Regional Institutions in Democratization, Katerina Dee
La Création du Monde : Voix Féminines et Identités Transnationales Dans la Littérature Beur et la Littérature Pied Noir, Michael C. Esposito
Ecocriticism, Geopolitics, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Lauren T. Geiger
Vascular Effects of Four-Week Functional and Resistance Exercise Training Programs, Allyson K. Getty
Migration and Injustice in the Neoliberal Era: A Comparative Analysis of Migratory Laws and Sweatshop Labor Conditions in Argentina and the United States, Kelly L. Johnson
Faces Bright With Relief: Essays on Growing Up, Mara C. Koren
Persistent Neurobehavioral Traits in a Mouse Model of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure, Jill M. Lawrence
Pearl of Africa: Condemnation and Celebration in Uganda, Marcella AM McGill
My Body, Not My Say: How Roe v. Wade Endangers Women's Autonomy, Kisha K. Patel
Microwave Assisted Dipole-Dipole Transitions, Jacob T. Paul
Biophysical Characterization and Catalytic Reactivity of Rubrerythrin and Symerythrin Model Proteins, Jenna Pellegrino
Vascular Health and Fitness Levels in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity, Avery N. Perez
Examination of Neurocorrelates of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Young Adults, Rachel J. Raucci
Planting the Seeds of Security: The Influence of Agricultural Products on Food Security Levels in U.S. Counties, Vanessa R. Scalora
Female Moments / Male Structures: The Representation of Women in Romantic Comedies, Jordan A. Scharaga
Identification of the lz4 Suppressor of pam-1 and its Role in Polarity Establishment in Single-cell C. elegans Embryos, Dylan Stephens
Examining the Phagocytic Activity of HIV-1 Tat Exposed Microglia: Possible Chemokine Receptor Activation, Joshua T. Straka
Self-Concept Clarity as a Moderator of the Associations Between Self-Change and Adjustment, Samantha Straughn
A Defense of a Change in the Legal Standard of Rape From Consent to Coercion, Michelle L. Thiry
"A jail you could not see”: New Approaches to Identity in Carson McCullers, Brian Thomas
The Effects of Multiple Pregnancies on the Murine Heart, Marcus J. Wagner
Investigating How Corridor Cell Migration is Influenced by GABA, Samantha White
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Using a Genetic Algorithm to Optimize an Electric Field Ionization Pulse, Tamas Budner
Effects of Reduced Intracellular Dopamine on Apoptosis in the Dopaminergic Neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans, Bryan P. Carter
Finding Freedom: An Autoethnography on Relational Bullying, Kristen N. Costello
The Role of Slitrk1 in Sensory Neuron Development, Marilyn M. Day
