Starting in the 2015-2016 academic year, the Honors Thesis Program became part of the All College Thesis Program. This collection contains abstracts for all CSB/SJU honors theses, 2016-2019. The full text is included if student authors have given permission for their work to be made publicly available online. For theses completed before 2016, visit the Honors Theses collection. For theses completed after 2019, visit the CSBSJU Distinguished Thesis collection.

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Submissions from 2019

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(Thesis) Angular Dependence of Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity in Indium Tin Oxide, Bryan J. Crossman

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(Thesis) No Victory Without Movement: The Crimean Crisis In The Context of Russian Military Strategy, Daniel Eggert

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(Thesis) Political Stability in Contemporary Monarchies: The Case of Oman, Jordan Gemilere

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(Thesis) Beyond the Blue: Cyanotype's Qualities of Light, Time, and Space, Alexus Jungles

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(Thesis) The Political Economy of Automation: Its Effects on Workers Past, Present, and Future, Brendan Klein

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(Article) The Kaleidoscopic Turn: Henry James and Edith Wharton on the Problem of Modernity, Madeline A. Krumel

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(Thesis) Reducing Memory Access Latencies using Data Compression in Sparse, Iterative Linear Solvers, Neil Lindquist

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(Thesis) Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Targeting LRRC15 in Endometrial Cancer, Christopher Pathoulas

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(Thesis) Quantification of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound, Joseph Pathoulas

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(Thesis) Investigating TRAIL Sensitivity in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer, Nicholas Pathoulas

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(Thesis) The effects of guided imagery as mental practice during the learning of a novel psychomotor skill, Justine Revermann

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(Thesis) Beliefs and Practices of High School Science Teachers on the Integration of Technology-Based Assessments in the Classroom, Hannah Weis

Submissions from 2018

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(Thesis) Shifting Bilateralism: Understanding Change in the US-Japan Alliance During the Cold and Gulf War, Grant Anderla

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(Thesis) Efficacy of technology-based and in-person health education for behavior change in college-aged women, Madeline Bremel

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(Thesis) Arousal Reappraisal and Interoceptive Awareness: How Awareness of Bodily Changes Facilitates Heightened Performance and Ability to Reappraise, Wyndham Chalmers

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(Thesis) Poison Pills: How Subtle Differences in Processes, Public Opinion, and Leadership Doomed the American Health Care Act and Passed the Affordable Care Act, Zachary Eichten

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(Thesis) The Voting Behavior of Labor Union Members in the 2016 Presidential Election, Daniel J. Gillis

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(Thesis) War Lust and Unshaven, Unkempt Individuals Examining the CSB|SJU Campus, Catholicism, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement from 1965-1968, Stephanie Haeg

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(Thesis) Innovation, Culture and the Path to Postmodernism: Finland vs. Denmark, Jayme Harlander

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(Thesis) Logged on for Democracy: The Relationship between Digital Media and Offline Political Participation over Time, Meredith Grace Jarchow

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(Thesis) Nevertheless, She Legislated: A Study of Women Representing Women in Congress, Meghan Mullon

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(Thesis) AI-Human Collaboration Via EEG, Adam Noack

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(Thesis) Making Scientific Applications Portable: Software Containers and Package Managers, Curtis Noecker

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(Thesis) Home on the Market Range: an evaluation of cultural and economic barriers to large-scale bison farming, Skylar Peyton

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(Thesis) The Path Toward Religious and Cultural Inclusivity: The Need for Critical Inquiry, Nina Marie Ricci

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(Thesis) The Algorithmic Composition of Classical Music through Data Mining, Tom Donald Richmond and Imad Rahal

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(Thesis) The Influence of a Positive or Negative Mindset on Affect and Heart Rate Variability, Alexa Ronayne

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(Musical Composition) Missa Gloriæ Patris (Score Sample), Alexander Seefeldt

Submissions from 2017

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(Thesis) Hibernator and non-hibernator responses to acute changes in water intake, Sydni S. Andruskiewicz

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(Thesis) Let Your Light Shine: A Holistic Reflection on the Individual in a Community, Nicole C. Argudin

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(Thesis) Sublime Memories: Bones as a medium for cyanotype printing and indigo dying; The strength derived from connection to the environment; And the power of the color blue, Alexis R. Bernstein

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(Thesis) Three-Player GEN on Groups, Jon Blomquist

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(Thesis) Pattern Avoidance, Emma Christensen

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(Thesis) Cycles of Growth and Decay, and Changing the Beautiful to the Grotesque: Installation Through the Lens of Printmaking, Madeline R. Cochran

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(Thesis) Students’ Attachment Styles to their Professors: Patterns of Achievement, Curiosity, Exploration, Self-criticism, Self-reassurance, and Autonomy, Lian H. Conrad

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(Thesis) Preserving Dignity in the Long Term Care of Actively Dying Residents, Libby-Rose Cronican

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(Thesis) Body Composition, Bone Mineral Density and Visceral Adipose Tissue in NCAA Division I Collegiate Female Equestrian Athletes, Olivia Dengel, Christiana J. Raymond, Jonathan M. Oliver, Tyler A. Bosch, and Donald R. Dengel

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(Thesis) The Role of NGOs in International Climate Governance: A Case Study of Indian NGOs, Lucas J. Giese

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(Thesis) Who Wants to Join? Variation and Strength in Social Networks, Timothy D. Immelman

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(Thesis) The relationship between sex and territorial behavior in the San Cristóbal lava lizard (Microlophus bivittatus), Meghan N. Koenig

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(Thesis) High Performance Techniques Applied in Partial Differential Equations Library, Shilei Lin

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(Thesis) Escherichia coli as a Water Quality Indicator Organism: A Case for Responsive, Science-Based Policy, Sarah M. McLarnan

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(Thesis) Domestic Violence Against Women in Peru: An Analysis of Individual, Cultural, and Structural Factors, Hanna M. Pioske

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(Thesis) Consumer Gasoline Prices in 2014: What Caused the Decline?, Travis A. Spillum

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(Thesis) The Effects of Historical Trauma and Gender on National Identity within the Hmong Diaspora, Kalia Vang

Submissions from 2016

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(Thesis) Generalized Eulerian Numbers and Multiplex Juggling Sequences, Esther M. Banaian

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(Thesis) Are forgiving people less likely to experience cognitive dissonance?, Jordan A. Barthel

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(Thesis) Religiosity and Prayer In Relation to Health and Life Satisfaction In Older Adults, Victoria L. Beach

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(Thesis) The Level of Relational Self-Construal Moderates the Relationship between Disclosure and Well-Being, Stephanie Besst

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(Thesis) Performance Portable High Performance Conjugate Gradients Benchmark, Zachary Bookey

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(Thesis) Spectrophotometric Analysis of Urinary Iodine in 18-22 Year-Old Women in Central Minnesota, Haley Chatelaine

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(Thesis) Similar Conflicts, Different Policies: An Analysis of the Executive Decision-Making Processes in Mexico and El Salvador toward their Drug Cartel Conflicts, Jake Patrick Collins

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(Thesis) HPC Made Easy: Using Docker to Distribute and Test Trilinos, Sean J. Deal

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(Thesis) Sex, milk, and cookies: Tackling sexual health promotion on a Catholic college campus, Mary Franz

(Thesis) Elasticities of Married Women’s Labor Supply 2007-2014, Jaquelin Galindo

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(Thesis) The Community: A Novella on Homelessness, Benjamin Gooley

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(Thesis) Adaptive Evolution in Escherichia coli via Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Samuel E. Hager

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(Thesis) Understanding Religious Leaders’ Motivations for and Perceptions of Interfaith Collaboration, Michelle Hansmann

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(Thesis) Agricultural Policy Reform: An Argument for a Soil Erosion Tax, Alex M. Ingulsrud

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(Thesis) Blood, Sweat, and Social Control: A Comparative Study of Virginian and Jamaican Slavery, 1740-1820, Paul T. Knaak

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(Thesis) Facebook: The Alienation from Oneself, Kaitlin F. Knapp

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(Thesis) Facing Our Future: An Examination of Age and Gender in Margaret Atwood's The Stone Mattress, Makenzie Krause

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(Thesis) Finding the Cosmic Shadows on The NOvA Far Detector and Calculating Neutrino Oscillations with Sterile Neutrinos, Bryan Lee Linehan

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(Thesis) Pulse and Orbital Periods of ASAS182612, Ariel F. Lusty

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(Thesis) Retrival of Atmospheric Aerosol Size Distributions Using Stochastic Particle Swarm Optimization, Benjamin D. Nault-Maurer

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(Thesis) Factors Affecting Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) Nestling Resting Metabolic Rate, Brooke M. Piepenburg

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(Thesis) The Women of Cheboksary, Emily C. Schoenbeck

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(Thesis) An Analysis of Bacterial Contamination of Chicken Eggs and Antimicrobial Resistance, Holly Spitzer

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(Thesis) Effect of bisphenol-A on neurodevelopment in Drosophila melanogaster larvae, Alexandra M. Streifel

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(Thesis) Relational-Interdependence and Life Transitions in College: Study Abroad, First-Year, and International Students, Shelby R. Weisen

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(Thesis) Interfaith Youth Core: Theology and Religious Commitment in One of America’s Most Prominent Youth Interfaith Organizations, Megan A. Weiss

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(Thesis) The Consequences of Failing: A Memoir, Olivia M. Zajac