Honors Theses
The Honors Program is rooted in the Catholic Marianist tradition, encouraging social responsibility and ethical sensitivity with its many leadership and service opportunities.
Honors theses are as diverse and ambitious as creating solar-powered, easy-to-use equipment to sterilize medical devices; writing a novel or series of short stories; pursuing neuroscience research to better understand Alzheimer's disease; and publishing a book based on branding elements designed specifically for several organizations.
For theses dated prior to 2014, contact the University Archives and Special Collections at archives@udayton.edu.
Submissions from 2021
No Room for Racism: A Critical Analysis on Corporate Social Responsibility and Racial Justice Advocacy in the English Premier League, Nicholas A. Kerver
An Examination of the Themes of Invisibility and Hypervisibility in Black Women’s Experiences within the Prison System, Sarah N. Kuhns
The Relationship between Classroom Variables and Academic Achievement across the Preschool Year, Olivia M. LeBlanc
The Cantor Set, Trees, and Compact Metric Spaces, Wyatt N. Lee
The Expanding Role of Analytics in Operations, Lauren E. Luechtefeld
Construction of a Man Nationalism, Identity, Vercingetorix and the Gauls, Martin B. McKew
Making Culture-Centered Music Therapists: Resources for Working with Latinx Young Adults, Michaela A. Miller
Development of Nucleic Acid Aptamers to Inhibit Bacterial Efflux Pumps, Emilie A. Moses
The Solubilizing of Recombinant Influenza Polymerase Acidic Protein, Quinn D. Murray
Hedge Fund Performance with the Treynor-Black Model, Gurkamal S. Pannu
The Genetic Interaction between the Axial Patterning Gene dve and Dpp Signaling in the Developing Drosophila Eye, Katherine M. Perry
An Exploration of the Widely Observed Mechanisms Permitting Freeze Tolerance & the Potential of Cope’s Gray Treefrog, Dryophytes chrysoscelis, Samuel A. Ripley
A Study on Formal Verification for JavaScript Software, Zachary S. Rowland
Why Searle's Objection to Twin Earth is Problematic, Paul F. Scheeler
Analysis of the Evolutaion of Scope Management and Needs Identification in Agile Methodologies, Nolan B. Scott
Investigating the Role of Microtubule Binding Protein, NAT9, in the Drosophila Eye Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Emily E. Snider
The Multi-Sensory Design of a Synesthete's Everyday Experience, Madeline M. Spicer
Sustainable Stories: Linking Graphic Design and the Environment to Inform, Educate, and Inspire, Shannon M. Stanforth
Dialectical Reasoning and Developing Responsive Models Toward Political Ecology, Dawson J. Vandervort
The Communal Integration of Nutrition-Related Cultural Assets of the Latinx Population in the Greater Dayton Area, Hannah G. Waters
Isolating and Manipulating Microorganisms using Ureolysis for Creating Extraterrestrial Microbial Biotechnology Systems, Nina M. Wendel
Submissions from 2020
The Role of Follower Characteristics in Ratings of Leadership Style: A Meta-Analytic Review, Reda Aldahan
A Language of Silence: Analyzing the Effects of Sexist Language on Women’s Classroom Experiences, Emily Battaglia
Metal Layer Architectures for 2D TMD Heterostructures, Anna K. Benton
Understanding Chemolithotrophic Reduction Mechanisms from the Dark Marine Biosphere, Anna Gwendolyn Blair
Capes and Catechesis: The Use of Comic Books to Catechize Catholic Youths, Lindsey Bronder
Machine Learning for Cyberattack Detection, Kayla Chisholm
Industry 4.0 in the Retail Sector: Sustainability of Food Retail with a Focus on Food Insecurity in Dayton, OH, Katrina Alexis Coleman
Inhibition of Bacterial Efflux Pumps Via Plant Derived Compounds, Ethan James Dawson
The Development of a SCFA Analysis Method and the Examination of Factors Affecting Listeria Pathogenesis, Ashton Dix
Liquid-Liquid Equilibria Studies of Potential Organic Solvents as Ethanol Extractants from Aqueous Solutions, Grace Docken
Compost Amendments on Urban Soils vs. Water Retention, Anna Louise Drew
The Eastern Europe Britain Wanted: Serbian Independence as recorded in British Newspapers, 1867, Sarah H. Eyer
Investigating the Role of the ETC in Listeria monocytogenes during Ethanol Exposure, Amanda Fawcett
Direct and Indirect Effects of Additional Sodium on Grasshopper Growth and Development, Mark Ghastine
The Effects of Technology on Student Interest in STEAM Education, Paige Elizabeth Innes
Finding the switches that activate animal genes through a combined in silico and in vivo approach, Chad M. Jaenke
Design of an Enhanced Cellular Model for the Assessment and Tracking of Nanomaterials, Maggie Jewett
Combating Antibiotic Resistance Using Plant-Derived Compounds, Emily Jones
Barriers of Low Health Literacy in Achieving Informed Consent, Wyatt Kaiser
Upper Extremity Motion Assessments in Virtual Reality Environments, Lanna Nicole Klausing
Toward a PA-Inhibitor Complex Crystal System: Influenza Polymerase Acidic Protein Fusion Constructs and Protein Expression, Rebecca Kramb
Effects of Ischemic Preconditioning on Maximal Exercise and Metaboreflex Activation, Serafino LaGalbo
A Sibling Comparison Study of the Effects of Parenting Behaviors on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, John P. Leibold
The influence of riparian invasion by the terrestrial shrub Lonicera maackii on aquatic macroinvertebrates in temperate forest headwater streams, Michelle N. Little
Effect of Airfoil-Preserved Undulations on Wing Performance and Wingtip Vortex, Faith A. Loughnane
Millions Displaced Tomorrow: A New Framework for Climate Migrants, Connor J. Lynch
Queer Borders and Belongings: Reparative Storytelling from El Paso, Mary McLoughlin
Designing Fictional Spaces: Questionable Architecture that Supports Sustainable Design, Noël J. Michel
The Tolerance of Shewanella woodyi for Electric Potentials and Heavy Metals as Biofilms, Christopher Thomas Mortensen
Effects of Oxygen Levels and Short Chain Fatty Acid Exposure on Antibiotic Susceptibility in Listeria monocytogenes, Samantha Neanover
Angry Tweets and Interest Groups, Sean Newhouse
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Drugs on the Drosophila Glioma Model Involving the Pi3K; EGFR Pathway, Patricia Katherine Parker
Novel Zinc Porphyrin and Bacteriophage PEV2 Combination Therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms, Erin Elise Pellot
Donald Trump’s ‘Presidential’ Rhetoric for the Wall: The Mobilization of ‘Crisis’ Rhetoric on Behalf of a Campaign Promise, Nicole Perkins
The Turn from Radicalism: Self-Regulation of the American Labor Movement, 1909-1919, Ryan Harrison Reed
Mortgage Discrimination and District Manipulation: Deterrents to Minority Mobility, Megan M. Rice
Where You Are and What You Know: Impact of Location and Education on Individual Engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Emily V. Sandstrom
Multi-modal Data Analysis and Fusion for Classification in 2D/3D Sensing, Jonathan P. Schierl
Weaponization of The Socialist Label in Modern American Politics, Matthew Schubert
“You Don’t Understand… It’s Not About Virginity”: Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board, Joshua A. Segalewitz
Patience, Young Grasshopper: Analyzing the Fungal Components of the Grasshopper Gut Microbiome, Staci Seitz
Plant Extracts and Efflux Pump Inhibition, Henry Shay
Synthesis of Peraza Crown Macrocycles, Alexis R. Smith
The Effects of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Cognitive Function and Exercise Hyperemia in Isocapnic Hypoxia, Jenna N. Sorensen
Racial Disenfranchisement and Its Impact on Political Participation in the United States, Cierra Dei Stewart
Youth Sport Concussion Management, Cordell J. Stover
Confederate Continuation: The Visual Rhetoric of Confederate Monuments in Postmodernity, Ethan Andrew Swierczewski
Discovering Glioma Inhibitors via Chemical-Genetic Screens in Drosophila Cancer Models, Jordan Terschluse
Agency Among Linguistically Diverse Students: A Comparative Study of Adolescent English Language Learners in Chile and the United States, Kristen Travers
Traditional Funk: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Practical Study of Funk Music in Dayton, Ohio, Caleb G. Vanden Eynden
Newspapers in the Transformative 1960s at the University of Dayton, Brendan Zdunek
Submissions from 2019
Interrelationship of Forms: Research into the Juxtaposition of Material, Color, and Texture, Emily Bartolone
Modulation of Listeria monocytogenes Carbon Metabolism by Short Chain Fatty Acids, Diksha Bedi
The Commodification of Education And the Threat to Public Schools, Macey Berkley
Where do we put our flesh? Intersecting Feminism with Art and Contemporary Printmaking, Claire Bowman
Perceiving Place: A Social Design Case Study, Mary Anne Brinkman
Computer-Assisted Graphic Correlation of Ordovician Conodonts and Graptolites from the Argentine Precordillera and Western Newfoundland using Constrained Optimization (CONOP9), Andrea Marie Bryan
Nitrate Contaminant Tracing in Surface and Groundwater in the Great Miami River Watershed: Environmental Isotope Approach, Rachel Kristine Buzeta
Intentionally So: Morality in Children’s Literature, Anna Edwards
Energy Analysis and Orbit Simulation of Actuating CubeSat Solar Arrays, Justin T. Ehren
Generation of Silver Nanoparticle Pharmacokinetic Profiles in a Lung Model, Rachel Galaska
The Prickly Problem of Pears Potential Effects of Native Orthopteran Herbivory on an Invasive Woody Plant, Kaitlin Gawkins
The Number of Fixed Points of AND-OR Networks with Chain Topology, Lauren Geiser
Poverty Redemption: Why Those Affected Stay Affected, Claudia M. Hampel
Pathogenic Differences in Listeria monocytogenes 10403s and Cardiotropic Strains Grown under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions, Alexander Hayes
Drosophila Tumor Mosaic Models to Study Intercellular Interaction, Minh T.D. Ho
The Melody of Spatial Memory, Victoria Lynne Karpuszka
Cortisol Regulation of Aquaglyceroporin HC-3 Protein Expression in the Erythrocytes of the Freeze Tolerant Tree Frog Dryophytes chrysoscelis, Maria P. LaBello
Misreading the Hybrid Face: The Alienation of Performed and Authentic Self in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker, William E. Landers
Analysis and Review of the Effects of Bacterial Competition on Efflux Pump Inhibition, Robert Leszcynski
Tracking Disparate Colony Morphological Trends with Thermus scotoductus, Matthew P. Leverick
Boron Dipyrromethenes: Synthesis and Computational Analysis, Eduardo Rivé Lockwood
The Effects of Sublethal Antibiotics on Listeria monocytogenes, Marlena Rae Merling
