The Undergraduate Honors Theses are administered by the Honors College and are subject to their policies and procedures. Any requested changes to theses should be directed to them.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Linzee Mitchell, Food as a Literary Device in the Hunger Games: World Building, Characterization, and Plot Momentum
Seth Morelock, East Tennessee Spatial and Temporal Species-Specific Bat Activity Patterns
Bailey Norris, Racially Segregated Housing and Its Impact on Urban America
Rebeca Ortiz, Visual Development of The Night Sky Circus
McKenzie Peters, Nicotinamide Riboside and Beta-hydroxybutyrate Activate Parallel Pathways for C. elegans Lifespan Extension
Bailey Robinson, Erwin's Second Story: Founding A Community Theatre
Bryson Senter and Bryson Elliott Senter, Branding Strategies in Non-Profit Organizations
Cosette Simmons, “The Escapades of Cat & Dog” The Process of Creating a Children’s Book from Start to Finish
Mason Stanley, A Tri-culture Model for Examining Polymicrobial Interactions
Jacob Q. Stewart, Navigating Through Narratives: The Development of Opening Cinematics
Brett Strother, Say His Name: Othello, Paul Robeson, and Racism in America
Hannah Taylor, RADIC Voice Authentication: Replay Attack Detection using Image Classification for Voice Authentication Systems
Emily Thompson, Parents’ adverse childhood experiences in relation to parent-child emotion socialization
Nathan Alan Turner, Justification and Compliance: Public Health Ethics in a Post-COVID America
Nikki VanDusen, You Don't Know What You Don't Know: A Collection of Challenge and Acceptance from Women Owned Small Businesses in Johnson City, Tennessee
Ashley Skye Vanover, Meredith K. Ginley, and Shelby Whalan, Nonmedical Stimulant Use in an Undergraduate College Student Sample: Demographics, Academics, Stress, and Other Substance Use
Claire Webb, Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: World Building in YA Literature
Billie Williams, A Director's Take on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Kurtis Woodward, Designing and Creating a Prototype Board Game
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
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Allen Archer, Randy Wykoff, and Megan Quinn, COVID-19 IN TENNESSEE: LESSONS LEARNED AND A TOOL FOR THE FUTURE
Pamela Avendano, LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY ON CARDIAC SYSTOLIC FUNCTION AND HYPERTROPHY FOLLOWING CHRONIC SYMPATHETIC STIMULATION
Ethan Becker, Genetic Characterization of a Klebsiella pneumoniae Secreted Anti-Microbial Protein
Elizabeth Bond, Extraction and partial purification of an antibiotic-like compound from the soil bacterium Rhodococcus strain KCHXC3
Mackenzie Boughner, Understanding Appalachian Deaths of Despair Through a Perspective of Marxism and Intersectionality
emily brown and Julia Dodd, The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Academic Performance and Student Self-Perception
Dawson Brown-Ezell, The Short- and long-term Effects on The Microbiome of Infants Who Are Exposed to Opioids in Utero
Ashlyn Cobble, An Assessment Evaluating the Possible Participation of a Virtual Nutrition Education Program for Older Adults
Josh T. Cutright, Friedel-Crafts alkylation of benzene with a superacid catalyst
Andrew J. Davis, Paige R. Mullins, and Kimberly A. Sell, The Effects of the Transition from Pre-nursing to Nursing on Mental Health
Connor Day, The Relationship Between Twitter Mentions & Stock Volatility During Trading Hours
Azayzel DeRegis, A Survey to Highlight Areas of Focus for Patient Care in Settings Utilizing Medical Interpretation
Jessica Dolinger, Review of Effective Injury Preventing and Performance Enhancing Strategies for Runners
Amanda Dunker, My Perception of Reality Expressed through the Arts
Mason Frye, Exploring Inventory Management's Effects on a Company's Profitability
Ethan Galloway, Nitrogen Doping of Electrochemically Activate Carbon Screen-Printed Electrodes
Ellen Gaskill, W Andrew Clark, Kristy L. Thomas, Amy Wahlquist, and Michelle E. Johnson, Comparison of Short Chain Volatile Fatty Acids in the Breastmilk of Normal and Overweight/Obese Mothers
Emma Marie Gilbert, An Analysis of and Guide to Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small Quartet as Compared to the Established Young Adult Fantasy Canon
Zachary Harris, Coal, Land, and Ideology: Inventions of Appalachia in the Mind of the American Ruling Class
Robert Jackson Hester, Teachers’ Unions and School Choice: A Binary Regression Analysis on the Impact Teachers’ Unions have on State-Level School Choice Legislation
Will Holcombe, Contributing Factors To Drug Abuse In The Appalachian Region
Abigail Hubbard, Detecting The Intensity of Denial-of-Service Cyber Attacks using Supervised Machine Learning
Gracie Leamon, Gastrointestinal Alterations in Two Mouse Models Associated with Social Behavior Deficits
willow lewis, Michelle E. Johnson, William A. Clark, and Amy Wahlquist, The Fecal Fermentation Profile of Infants with Different Feeding Modalities
