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Honors College Theses, 2011-2012
CAS = College of Arts & Sciences; CALS = College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; CEMS = College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences; CESS - College of Education and Social Services; BSAD = School of Business Administration; CNHS = College of Nursing and Health Sciences; and RSENR = Rubenstain School of Environmental and Natural Resources.
| Student | Thesis/Project Title |
|---|---|
| Olivia Amter - CAS | An Open-Door Policy for a Changing Argentina: Passing the National Immigration Law |
| Emily Andersen - CALS | The Impact of Social Isolation on the Anxiolytic Effects of Voluntary Exercise in C57 Mice |
| Mary Jane Anderson - RSENR | Safe Space and a Sense of Place: A Plan for Fostering an Inclusive Community at the University of Vermont's GreenHouse Residential Learning Community |
| Krist Aploks - CAS | Thyroid Hormone Receptor Protein Complex Formation Mediating Thyroid Hormone Control of Gene Expression and the Effects of the Endocrine Disruptor Bisphenol A on Nuclear Protein Recruitment (pdf) |
| Colin Arisman - RSENR | A Preliminary Study of Scaling Ip Agroecology in the Intag Region of Ecuador |
| Meghan Arpino - RSENR | Parental Awareness and Environmental Health Resources: Lead and Phthalates |
| Ayah Badran - RSENR | How Do Students Use Science in Making Environmental Decisions? A Study of High School and Undergraduate Students in New York and New Jersey |
| Justin Baldassare - CAS | Free Migrants and Unfree Immigration: The Italian-Language Press in the United States and the Immigrant Quota System |
| Sarah Benner - CNHS | Best Practices for Developing a Smoking Cessation Curriculum for Young, Pregnant and Post-Partum Women and Implementing an Institutional Smoke-Free Policy |
| Kira Benson - CALS | Dose Dependent Effects of Mitochondrial Targeted Nitroxides on Malignant Mesothelioma Cells |
| Samuel Bevet - CAS | The Ethics of Humane Meat Production (pdf) |
| Emily Bird - CALS | The Socioeconomic Impact of Hydroelectric Dams on Developing Communities A Case Study of the Chalillo Dam and the Communities of the Macal River Valley Cayo District, Belize, Central America (pdf) |
| Natalie Bishop - CAS | Grassroots Neighborhood Leaders in Vermont: A Qualitative Analysis of the Rewards, Challenges, and Goals in Community Development (pdf) |
| Evan Border - CAS | Quantum Nanofluidics in Helium-4 (pdf) |
| Rebecca Bostock-Holtzman - CAS | Time and Space in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: How Setting in the Novel Affects Action and Characterization |
| Hannah Brown - CAS | A Collaboration of Media to Produce a Performance Arts Piece Portraying a Girl's Exploration into the 'Real World' |
| Samuel Brown - CEMS | "Do You Want to Chat?" A Study of Implicit Information Exchanged During Chat Sessions |
| Madeline Brumberg - RSENR | The Neighborhood Driveway: Integrating Stormwater Management, Community and Green Infrastructure in South Burlington (pdf) |
| Jessica Bullock - CAS | Reconstructing the Perception of Slavery: Toni Morrison's Mission in her Companion Novels Paradise and A Mercy |
| Marie Burenko - CALS | Effects of Aliskiren on Adipocyte Proliferation, Blood Glucose, and Insulin Levels (pdf) |
| Caitlin Campbell - CAS | Livestock Depredation by Large Carnivores: An Analysis of Human-wildlife Conflict in Ehi-rovipuka, Namibia |
| Molly Campbell - CAS | Speaking White: Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and the Connections Between Race, Language, and Political Power |
| Paul Chambers - CAS | Cultivating "Happy Campers": An Exploration of Alloparenting and Childhood Socialization in a Summer Camp Setting (pdf) |
| Nicholas Cheney - CEMS | Investigations into Morphological Scaffolding (pdf) |
| Sara Cleaver - CAS | What's the Catch? An Analysis of Seafood Sustainability at the University of Vermont (pdf) |
| Brent Cohen - CAS | Moral Realism Without Ultimate Values |
| Kelsey Cook - CAS | An Inquiry into the Boundaries Between Species and their Hybrids: The Case of Polypodium x incognitum (pdf) |
| Suven Cooper - CAS | A Retrospective Exploration of Whether CPR Causes Neck Injuries in Infant Deaths (pdf) |
| Elise Corriveau - CNHS | Female Adolescent Refugees: Views of Health |
| Amanda Crisafulli - CAS | Environmentalism and Animism in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" (pdf) |
| Emily Demicco - CAS | Domestic Servitude in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Britain |
| Meagan DiVito - CALS | Evaluating the Physical Activity Levels of Head Start Children Using the CATCH Curriculum (pdf) |
| Nicholas Dove - RSENR | Structural Complexity Enhancement Increases Fungi Diversity in Northern Hardwood Forests (pdf) |
| Patrick Dowd - CAS | Cocktail (pdf) |
| Laura Duane - CAS | Borders and Breach in Postcolonial and Dystopian Fiction (pdf) |
| Angela Dunkling - CAS | The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Grass Tolerance to Drought (pdf) |
| Chelsea Emond - CAS | Parential Psychological Control, Personality, and Responses to Stress in Emerging Adulthood |
| Catherine Evans - CESS | The Achilles Kids Virtual Marathon Program and Its Impact on Children With Disabilities (pdf) |
| Ann Fiedler - CEMS | Restitution of Golf Balls at Varying Ball Types |
| Chelsea Fifield - CESS | The Tipping Point: The Interface of Intimate Partner Violence and Restorative Justice (pdf) |
| Kalle Fjeld - CAS | A Cinematic Perspective on the Children of North African Immigrants in France: Interpreting the Immigrant Experience through the Film Lens |
| Elizabeth Fortier - CAS | The Bonds of Blood: An Analysis of The Family Structure in Vampire Fiction (pdf) |
| Morgan Frank - CEMS | Enumerating Costas Latin Squares (pdf) |
| Alyssa Frediani - RSENR | The Nesting Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey (pdf) |
| Andrew Friedland - CAS | Never Again: An Original One Act |
| Andrew Fuhrmann - CEMS | Effect of Acoustic Forcing on Aerodynamic Particle Removal from a Surface |
| Kate Fulop - CAS | Costume Design and Construction for "The Good Woman of Setzuan" (pdf) |
| Anya Gedrath-Smith - CAS | Time for Tea: The Sustainable Development of Tea Tourism in Nepal (pdf) |
| Madison Gilmore - CAS | UVM Out-O-Doors: The History of Vermont's Outing Club (pdf) |
| Jamie Gilroy - CAS | Genetic and environmental factors affecting invasibility in Tribolium castaneum (pdf) |
| Brianna Goddard - CAS | Subjective Well-Being Predictors in the College to Career Transition |
| Kelley Groll - CNHS | The Relationship between Social Support, Exercise Outcome Expectations, and Physical Activity in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis (pdf) |
| Paul Gross - CAS | How Plural is Autonomy Really? |
| Kelsey Haist - CALS | Development of a Novel Assay for Comprehensive Measurement of Replicative and Transcriptional RNA Species Generated by Arenaviruses |
| Nash Hall - CAS | Assessing the Influence of the Vermont Current Use Program on Mitigating Current and Future Development Pressure on Forested Surface Water in the Winooski and Missisquoi Watersheds (pdf) |
| Kelly Halloran - RSENR | Estimation of population size and density of Thornicroft's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti) through the computer-aided photo-identification of individuals (pdf) |
| Dylan Harry - CAS | A Field Investigation of Trends in Northeastern Forest Health over the Past 25 years |
| Kathleen Hartin - CAS | Eyo Matamanai Alakuwa: The Social Implications of Conservation-induced Displacement for the Maasai Women of Engare Sero, Northern Tanzania (pdf) |
| Max Harwood - CAS | Hot Hands: A Story About Jazz and the People Who Made It |
| Kristin Heller - BSAD | Testing the Signals that Job Seekers' Receive From a Recruiting Organization's Community Involvement and Pro-Environmental Practices (pdf) |
| Peter Helm - CAS | Comparing the Effects of Social and Existential Isolation |
| Eirka Hesterberg - CALS | Nutrition in the Backcountry |
| Zachary Hirsch - CAS | Did Borders Really Leave Church Street? The Politics of Discursive Othering on Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace |
| Jordan Humble - CAS | Determination of the Role of the Retromer Subunit VPS26c in Arabidopsis Root Hairs |
| Katherine Ida - CAS | The Quest for a Cultural Identity: Quest Narratives and Hero Archetypes within Italian-American, Irish-American and African-American Literature |
| Sophia Isaak - CAS | Animal Kingdom and Other Stories |
| Erin Jackson - CAS | Demographic Analysis of Thyroid Cancer Incidence in Vermont |
| Cassandra Jenis - CAS | Shameless - An Exploration of Female Sexuality |
| Emily Jessep - CAS | Darker Shades of Green: The Dilemmas of Green Consumerism (pdf) |
| Jennifer Kaulius - CALS | Engaging in the Process of Policy Reform in the Downtown District of Rutland, Vermont: The Case of Land Value Taxation (pdf) |
| Henry Kellogg - CAS | The End of Protest: The Revolutionary Lives of Bernadine Dohrn and Ulrike Meinhof (pdf) |
| Mary Kenah - CAS | Before Bowers: New York v. Uplinger, the Supreme Court, and the Coalescence of Anti-Gay Doctrine in the 1980s |
| Emily Kokoll - CAS | Designs to Die By: Headstones and Mortuary Art in New England, 1670 to 1839 (pdf) |
| Alyssa Kropp - CALS | Evaluating the Impact of International Service-Learning Relationships: Studying Community Partnerships of Stakeholders in St. Lucia |
| Joseph Labrum IV - CAS | Phylogeography of Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata): Inferring the History of an Agricultural Pest |
| Anh-Thu Nogoc Lam - CAS | The Role of Tyrosine 504 Phosphorylation on the Regulation of Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 1 |
| Michele Langone - CALS | Multifunctional Gardens to Bring Beauty and Sustainablility to UVM's Campus (pdf) |
| Tabatha Leahy - CAS | The Relationship between Self-reported Physical Activity and Academic Success in Undergraduate Students (pdf) |
| Jenna LeMieux - CNHS | A Pilot Study of the Lived Experience of Residing in a US Nursing Home |
| Caleb Liberman - CAS | The Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury on Bladder Function |
| Carolyn Lieberman - CAS | Fractal Etudes for Solo Piano |
| Katherine Lord - RSENR | Beaver Foraging in Northern Vermont: A Field Test of Central Place Foraging Theory |
| Meghan Magee - CAS | An Objection to Utilitarianism: Exploring How We Determine Moral Permissibility (pdf) |
| Margaux McConn - CAS | Competition Between Thick Filament Proteins, MyBP-C and Flightin, for Myosin Binding Site in Drosophila Transgenic Lines |
| Catherine McGoldrick - RSENR | Post-Relocation Analysis of Runoff at the Intervale Compost Facility, Burlington, VT (pdf) |
| Lauren McGurrin - CAS | Concepts and Critics of McKibben: Living in a Changing World |
| Kristina Miele - CEMS | Detecting Partially Damaged Gusset Plate Connections Through Vibration-Based Detection Methods |
| Kathryn Miller - CESS | Catch Them Before They Fall: Elementary Mathematics Instruction Within an RTI Framework (pdf) |
| Samantha Morgan - CAS | The Meat of the Matter: Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Ethics and the Food Choices of Environmental Studies Majors at the University of Vermont |
| Allison Morse - CEMS | Combinatorial Game Theory |
| Celeste Morton - CAS | A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Prostitutes Place in Cinema |
| Sarah Moylan - CALS | A Plan for Sheep at the University of Vermont Miller Farm |
| Luke Neill - CAS | The Role of C/EBPb in the Regulation of Cytokine Production by Interleukin 6 in CD-4 T Cells |
| Douglas Nelson III - CAS | Back to the Future of Britain: Alfred Thayer Mahan, His Vision, and Its Popularity on Both Sides of the Atlantic 1890-1898 |
| Marley Nordmeyer - CNHS | The Expression of Mental State Terms: A Comparison of Children with ASD and Typically Developing Children Engaged in Play (pdf) |
| Samantha Ogilvie - CALS | Potential Interaction Between RNA Processing Proteins Through RRM Binding |
| Elyse Ogletree - CAS | The Impact of Sibling Relationships on the Socialization of Relationally Aggressive Behaviors in College Students |
| Rachel Park - CAS | Galen and William Harvey: A Comparative Analysis of the Theories of the Circulatory System |
| Caitlin Patterson - CEMS | Instrument Response Comparisons with a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer and a Perspective on Vehicle Emission Testing Procedures |
| Clara Pedley - CALS | Analyzing Participant Satisfaction with the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese (pdf) |
| Steven Philbin - CAS | Tau Isoform-Specific Effect on the Mechanical Rigidity of Microtubules |
| Kelsey Preston - CALS | Is FoxM1 the Therapeutic Target of Thiostrepton in Malignant Mesolthelioma? |
| Chelsea Purinton - CNHS | Family-Centered Nursing Interventions for Healthy Siblings of Children with Chronic Illness (pdf) |
| Meagan Quinlan - CAS | Utilizing the Structure of cGMP-dependent Protein Kinase as a Potential Pharmaceutical Target |
| Miranda Redmond - CAS | Characterization of the Interaction Between CrkL and ESDN |
| Katharine Rifken - CAS | The Effects of Exercise on a Set-Shift Task in Female Ovariectomized and Non-Ovariectomized Rats (pdf) |
| Ariel Robbins - CAS | Frenchwomen and the Vichy Ideal: Daily Life, Choice and Social Power under German Occupation in World War II |
| Hannah Rosenberg - CAS | Nathaniel Hawthorne's Political Life |
| Elizabeth Sander - CAS | Sampling Effects and the Estimation of Biodiversity Using Hill Numbers |
| Morgan Saunders - CAS | The Judicial Transformation of Political Immigration Questions |
| Andrew Schlesinger - RSENR | Initiating Cherry Hill, New Jersey's Transition to Sustainable Suburbia: A Proposal for Willowdale Permaculture Community Garden |
| Rachel Schneider - CESS | Sharing the Same Stage: Positive Youth Development in Vermont's Adolescents |
| Jeffrey Schumann - CAS | Wild America: An Ecocritical Approach to Jack Kerouac and Henry David Thoreau |
| Emily Smith - CAS | Dynamic Analysis of Radio Pulsar B1237+25's Emission and Polarization Modes |
| Brittany Smith - BSAD | Factors That Influence Taxpayer Compliance When Reporting Gambling Income |
| Todd Stanley - CALS | Evaluating the Nutritional Status of the Thru-Hiking Community |
| Christopher Stecyk - CAS | The Effect of Cyclophosphamide on Taste Signaling in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract |
| Caitlan Stephens - RSENR | "Things need to change around here": The Diversification of a Small Farm in Northwest New Jersey (pdf) |
| Robyn Suarez - CAS | Sociolinguistics: Spoken and Signed |
| Megan Taylor - CALS | Bicycling Lifestyles of Women in Burlington: A Study of Gender and the Bicycle as an Agent for Mobility |
| Mateus Teixeira - CAS | Development of Geometric Models for Four-Component Pulsars J0815+0939 and J0631+1036 |
| Meret Thali - CAS | Not Quite The Happy Ending Audiences Want: Broadway and Race Relations in the United States, 1890-1957 (pdf) |
| Meghan Thompson - CEMS | Alternate Engineered Log Jam Designs and Their Impact on Channel Morphology: A Series of Flume Experiments |
| Connor Tobin - CEMS | Geometry Analysis of Articular Joints (pdf) |
| Brienne Toomey - CAS | Digging Up the Dirt: Exposing the Barriers and Challenges of Community Gardening (pdf) |
| Austin Underwood - CAS | Augmented Storytelling |
| Gianna Vannelli - CALS | Correlation Between Breath-methane Levels and the Quantity and Structure of Methanogens in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract |
| Grace Weaver - CAS | Thin-Skinned (pdf) |
| Henry Webb - CAS | Meanings of Landscape and Place (pdf) |
| Julia Wejchert - CAS | The Second Sex & the News Media: How Media Treatment of Female Politicians in America Affects Perceptions of the Public |
| Dylan White - CALS | The Effects of the Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Quorum-sensing Molecule 3-oxo-C12-homoserine Lactone on Clinical Candida Albicans Biofilm Development |
| Maria White - CAS | Burlington, Vermont as a Fair Trade Town: A case study in the growth of the Fair Trade Towns Campaign (pdf) |
| Danielle Winkler - BSAD | Exploring Order Effects in Online Product Reviews (pdf) |
| Ellen Winston - RSENR/td> | A South Burlington Farm-to-School Program's Seasonal Spotlight: The Quest to Attain Food Literacy (pdf) |
| Evan Yandell - CAS | Exploring Methods for Evolving Modularity in Artificial Neural Networks |
| Anna Yatzor - CAS | Assessing the Effect of Emission Reduction Programs on Nitrate Export Trends Over an Eight Year Period at Two Headwater Tributaries of Brush Brook in Vermont |
| Mara Zocco - CAS | Pon di Gullyside: The Politics of Space, Violence, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Jamaica |
| Abigail Zuckerman - CAS | Awareness and Advocacy towards Instituting Bias-Free Policing Criteria in Vermont: A cross county comparison of Addison and Franklin Counties, Vermont (pdf) |
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