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 2020
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
Towards a Pre-Processing Algorithm for Automated Arrhythmia Detection, Sarah Miller
Breaking Down Barriers to Sustainable Eating at the University of Dayton, Lauren Murray
Maternal Depression, Child Temperament, and Risk for Depression in Adolescence A Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis, Karina Palermo
Topology of Fractals, Amelia Pompilio
Establishing the Effect of Ethanol on Listeria Infection, Ryan Evan Restrepo
Pretrial Publicity and Juror DecisionMaking: Effects of Inadmissible Evidence and Coverage of Its Exclusion from Trial, Rebecca Rhein
Secondary Trauma in Children Services Workers: Is the Opioid Crisis a Contributing Factor?, Rebecca L. Richardson
Flourishing the Urban Environment: How Urban Gardens Affect Pollinators, Emily Ann Rickert
The Effect of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Exercise Hyperemia in Multiple Sclerosis, Jane E. Rosmarin
Mortality in the 21st Century: A Cycle of Short Stories on Death and the Afterlife, Rose A. Rucoba
The Effects of L. rhamnosus Consumption on Male Long Evans Rat Anxiety-like Behavior, Amanda Marie Schleper
Leaving a Legacy: Empowering Students to Give Back, Eric Schutter
The Laggard Leader: A Historiography of the Origins of Wage and Income Inequality in the United States, 1973-84, Nathan Sikora
Global and Gene-Specific Regulation in Freeze-Tolerant Anuran Dryophytes chrysoscelis, Elizabeth Claire Sinnathamby
The Vascular Flora of Bill Yeck Park: Supporting the Conservation of Local Biodiversity, Taylor Sparbanie
Identifying Natural Inhibitors of Bacterial Efflux Pumps, Marrisa Therriault
In the Face of AntimicrobialsFactors Contributing to Listeria monocytogenes Survival and Development of Resistance, Andrea M. Vietti
Integrating International Students into the Campus Community at UD, Natalie Weikert
Propionate Enhances the Antimicrobial Defenses in Macrophages Against Listeria monocytogenes, John Weis
Music Therapists’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards Sustainability: Instruments, Sarah Whitehouse
Developing a Model for Clinical Song Analysis, or Why Music Therapists Still Need Music Theory and Musicology, Lesley Wray
Disclosing Virtue, Michael Zahorec
Submissions from 2018
Changes in Herbaceous Plant Diversity in an Old-Growth Ohio Forest Before and After Emerald Ash Borer Invasion, Taylor Melissa Buskey
Physiological and Psychological Effects of Being Weighed in Female Participants, Julia Carroccio
Fault Lines: Geopolitical Rivalry in the East China Sea, Nicholas A. Dalton
Determining the Role of Fatty Acid Composition in Antibiotic Resistance, Andrew Deak
The Application of Neurologically-Controlled Robotics to Actuated Feeding Arms, Timothy Dombrowski
Mentoring Strategies for the Support of High School Students Experiencing Anxiety and Depression: A Case-Study of Two Catholic High Schools, Karin E. Forsthoefel
Development of an Evidence-Based Strength Training Program for Individuals with Dementia Participating in Adult Day Services, Jaclyn Franz
Chronic Administration of Probiotic L. rhamnosus Increases Anxiety-like Behavior in Group-housed Male Long Evans Rats, Parker Maddison Griff
The Influence of Self-Enhancement And Stress on Weight Gain: A Biopsychosocial Approach, Olivia G. Grondalski
Aircraft Generator Design and Analysis, David Gross
Murky Water, Fluid, and The Borderlands of Language: An Exploration of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Julia K. Hall
Lending Club’s Note Trading Platform Facade: An Examination of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending Secondary Market Inefficiency, Stephen Harvey
The Impact of the 515nm Effect on 1O2 Quenching in Photosynthesis: Model System Studies Using β-Carotene–Acid Complexes, Lauren A. Hoody
Differences in the Development of Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Offspring of Depressed Mothers, Hannah Jackson
The Other Woman: Mate Poaching Across the Menstrual Cycle, Margaret M. Jaeger
