The CSB and SJU Distinguished Thesis collection contains theses completed from 2020 to present. Earlier theses are available in separate collections as follows. The Honors Theses collection contains abstracts for all CSB and SJU honors theses from 1992-2015. The full text is included if student authors have given permission for their work to be made publicly available online. Starting in the 2015-2016 academic year, the Honors Thesis Program became part of the All College Thesis Program. Theses completed from 2016-2019 are included in the All College Thesis Program collection.

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Submissions from 2024

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(Thesis) Representations of Gender in Math-Related Films, Jacob Gathje

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(Thesis) Using Student Interests to Explore Inclusion in Undergraduate Chemistry, Sonja Hoversten

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(Thesis) The Association Between Student-Mentor Relationships and College Student's' Motivation and Academic Success, Emma Smith

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(Thesis) A McEliece Cryptosystem, Using Permutation Error-Correcting Codes, Fiona Smith

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(Thesis) Abetting Assimilation: Competing Narratives in Sister Inez Hilger’s Together with the Ainu: A Vanishing People, Mark Spangler

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(Thesis) Income Differences Among Nations: Measuring the Effects of Human Capital on Total Factor Productivity (TFP), Ashley Tarrolly

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(Thesis) Human Rights Abuses in Post Conflict Societies & Subsequent Case Study on Guatemala, Morgan Van Beck

Submissions from 2023

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(Thesis) Optimizing Greenhouses: A Comparative Analysis of CSB+SJU Greenhouses, Jervon Sands

Submissions from 2022

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(Artwork) Constructed environment; Grasping Nature, Olivia Henson

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(Thesis) Effect of Endurance Exercise Training and High-Fat Diet on Muscle Fiber Type and Aerobic Performance in Tibialis anterior of Mice, Sara Kelly

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(Thesis) Crafting Affect through Memory: Venezuelan Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion in Chile, Erin Long

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(Thesis) The Sanctuary Campus: Establishing Safe Spaces of Higher Education for Undocumented and DACA-Status Students, Lizbet Martinez-Port

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(Thesis) The Influence of Emotions and Beliefs on the Comprehension of Texts About Climate Change, Carly Mastrian

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(Thesis) Provably Weak Instances of PLWE Revisited, Again, Katherine Mendel

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(Thesis) SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors Repurposed for HIV-1 Protease Binding, Jacob Minkkinen

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(Thesis) Two Methods of Forecasting the Spread of Disease Using R0 Coefficient and Gradient-Descent, Dinh Song An Nguyen

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(Thesis) The development of inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 ORF8, My Thanh Thao Nguyen

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(Paper) Now, Immemorial, William Nicolay

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(Thesis) No Happy Endings: Anna May Wong’s American Film Roles from 1931-1942, Kayla G. O'Leary

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(Thesis) Privatizing Retirement: The Case of the Female Chilean Worker, Teresa A. Renier

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(Thesis) Rethinking Public Health Risk Mitigation Strategies: Recognizing the Biosocial Nature of COVID-19, Grace Savard

Submissions from 2021

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(Thesis) The Impact of Club Involvement on the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Social Networks, Daniel Bachmeier

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(Thesis) Concern for COVID-19 Related to the Big Five Personality Dimensions and Collegiate Hardiness, Emily Jeannette Booth

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(Thesis) Single-cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-seq) Exploratory Analyses to Investigate Aging-dependent Changes and Regional Heterogeneity in Glial Cells, Valerie N. Doze

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(Thesis) The Influence of Personality on Presidential Leadership Style (with a Case Study of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States), Anne Marie Griebie

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(Thesis) Estimating the Heat Equation using Neural Networks, Nathan Jordre

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(Thesis) Using Program Sythesis to Teach Testing in Introductory CS Classes, Li Mengzhen

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(Thesis) Effect of the Mississippi River on Property Values in Anoka County: A Hedonic Price Analysis, Vince Parisi

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(Thesis) Collaboration Among NGOs in Central Minnesota, Brigid Smith

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(Thesis) Games on Dihedral Groups, Emily Twardy

Submissions from 2020

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(Thesis) Implementation Considerations for Mitigating Bias in Supervised Machine Learning, Bardia Bijani Aval

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(Thesis) Modulation of Parasympathetic Reactivation Post-Exercise via Slow Breathing, Brent Burg

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(Thesis) Catholicism and Politics in a Fallen World: Understanding Human Imperfection as Relates to Political Institutions, George J. Doyle

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(Thesis) The Effect of a Positive and Negative Mindset on Affect, Happiness, and Heart Rate Variability, Kori L. Friedges

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(Thesis) The Impact of Nutrition Education on Serving Size Comprehension in College-Age Female Students, Carisa Hilton

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(Thesis) “Thus seyden sadde folk”: Chaucer’s Oxford Clerk on Theological Controversy in the 14th Century, Molly Kluever

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(Thesis) Drought in Temperate Mesic Regions Leads to Micro-density Anomalies in White Pine, Elise Miller

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(Thesis) Impacts of Media Communication to Motivate State Level Policy Action: The Case of the Colorado River Basin, Abigail Rader