Honors Capstones from 2010
Plankton Community Respiration and Productivity for the Louisiana Offshore Ecosystem, July 2007 Results, Brandon Michael Boyd
Identification of Yeasts from the Gut of Cotinis nitida using ITS and LSU rRNA D1/D2 Gene Sequences, Kevin Campbell
The DedA Protein Family in Selected Bacterial Species, James Cox
The Effects of Media on Collegiate Worldview and Engagement, Micaela deGruy
Development and application of a pexophagy sensor in Caenorhabditis elegans, Jamie Dolezal
Increasing Lipoxygenase Solubility through Fusion of Highly Acidic Peptides, Rachel Fabacher
The Rainbow Family of Living Light: Anarchy, Individuality and Communitas in a Contemporary Alternative Culture, Joseph Falcon-Freeman
“Hydraulic Fracturing Efficiency in the Olmos Sand Formation”, Lauren N. Fogarty
Mothers’ Speech to Infants With and Without Down syndrome, Christina M. Gary
The Role of Norms in UN Peacekeeping Operations: European Union Member States and Collective Identity Formation, Sarah Gates
A GENDERED PROFESSION Chaucer‟s Prioress as a Satirical Representation of Medieval Female Monasticism, Laura Godfrey
Using the Stimulus Equivalence Paradigm to Teach Coin Discrimination to Visually Impaired Children, Nicole Hanney
Semi-classical approaches to below threshold harmonics, James A. Hostetter
Models for Interpreting Consumption and Identity: The Case of House X from Minoan Kommos, Rachel Hungerford
The Cytotoxicity of Nitrite and Nitrate in E. coli, Aaron P. Landry
Embodying the Current Middle Ages: Gender and Performance in the Society for Creative Anachronism, Chelsea Lewis
The Moroccan Struggle for Media Development, Margaret Looney
Item Analysis of the Grammar Subtests of the CDI: Words & Sentences for African American Children, Zainab Maqsood
Unfurling, Alyssa Matthews
Third-Wave Feminism in Select Young Adult Literature, Colleen McKinney
DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN TAX CREDIT: A PRIMER, Emily J. Meyers
AUDITOR SWTICHING AND AN ANALYSIS OF 2008 AUDITOR SWITCHES, Sarah Adele Miller
Lessons Learned from Nature: The Sweet Way to Preserve Cells, Shhyam Moorthy
The Interface between Politics and Higher Education, Alyson Neel
Groupthink Theory and the Great Crash of 1929, Paige E. Nichols
MAKING TRIFLES OF TERRORS, Ellen Ogden
White College Student’s Attitudes toward the Use of Torture, Abigail Omojola
Social Networking: A Tool or aggregator of the news?, Madeline Peters
HATCHABILITY OF END-OF-LAY BROILER BREEDER EGGS AS INFLUENCED BY COOLING DURING INCUBATION, James Rabalais
REGULATION OF INTEGRIN αIIbβ3 LIGAND BINDING AND SIGNALING BY THE METAL ION BINDING SITES IN THE β I DOMAIN, Joel Raborn
Interactions of the High Mobility Group Box Homolog 2 with distorted duplex DNA, Wedad Rahman
Dresden and the Ethics of Strategic Bombing in World War II, Michael J. Richard
EFFECTS OF PASTURE VS. HOUSE FARROWING SYSTEMS IN LOUISIANA ON PRODUCTION TRAITS AND MOTHERING ABILITIES OF SOWS, Elizabeth Roeling
Baton Rouge Intermodal Transit Facility, Michael Rongey
The Relation between Two Caregiver Questionnaires about Children’s Early Literacy Experiences, Amy L. Sewell
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of and Child Preference for Forward and Backward Chaining, Sarah K. Slocum
A Discrete Nonlinear Model of Resonant Scattering, Katherine Hollister Smith
Sea of Broken Things, Laura Elizabeth Smith
The Young Adult Speaks for Herself: My Reading of Modern Criticism and The Twilight Saga, Elizabeth Spence
Reforming Indigent Defense for Capital Defendants in Louisiana, Jessica L. Swiney
Ideology and Pragmatism: The Prussian Landwehr and the State, 1813-1819, Wade Trosclair
honors thesis, Mary Grace Verges
L’IMMIGRATION AUX ETATS-UNIS ET EN FRANCE: Discours Politiques et Realités sociales, Katelyn Wannage
Butte Mine Revitalization Masterplan, Garrett Wolf
Fleshing Out the Spirit of Contention: Conflicting Preventative Approaches to the AIDS Pandemic in Africa and the Promise of a Scientific Narrative, Rachel Zimmerman
Honors Capstones from 2009
Recent Kremlin Aggression: The Bear is Back; But is Russia Ready to Be a Superpower Again?, Blythe Erin Adams
Functional Morphology of the Superficial Branchial Musculature of the Dogfish Shark, Squalus acanthias, Roy Andermann
Abundant Life Cancer Center, Marylyn Arnot
Hydration changes of DNA binding by Klentaq and Klenow measured by Osmotic Stress, John Tod Baker
The STORM 2.0 Project Next Generation Hurricane Data Collection, Santhana Krishnan Balaji
PetarXiv: an Archive for Scientific Simulations in PetaShare, Tyler Barker
―[Gliding] all revealed‖: The Making and Breaking of Myths in Shirley, Sarah Honorè Berard
Oxidative Stress Induced HU Protein Expression in Deinococcus radiodurans, Cara Bevinetto
A Longitudinal Study of LMX and Stress: Is the In-Group Burning Out?, Brett Bloemer
The In Vitro Characterization of Chitosan-PLGA Nanoparticle/Plasmid DNA Complexes, Hali Bordelon
Is Pay For Time Not Worked Due to a Hurricane a Best Practice?, Laura Dugan Bowie
Tokai to Kamioka: A 2nd Generation Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment, Jessica Danielle Brinson
A Holistic Study of Equatorial Guinea’s President and the Factors that Have Influenced His Policies and Actions, Carly Jade Burt
“thefts & lies”, Joseph Calvasina
SITE-SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID MODIFICATIONS FOR USE WITH CHEMICAL CAGES, John P. Casey Jr
U.S. Perceptions of China in the Context of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Madeline Leigh Casey
The United Arab Emirates Political Stability and Economic Growth, William Chandler
Co-Evolution of Super Massive Black Holes and their Surrounding Galactic Bulges, Joseph Chatelain
Rescuing Minute-like Phenotypes Due to RNAi-mediated Knockdown of Nopp140 by Deletion of p53 in Drosophila melanogaster, Renford Cindass Jr
Mechanical Optimization of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blades, Alexander Laurence Combe
On Shaky Ground: The Political Impact of Natural Disasters in Central America, Davis B. Courtney
On the Development of Democracy in Japan: from Samurai to Civil Society, Hamilton Tyler D’Aquilla
ADHESION OF JURKAT CELLS IN DEFINED MEDIA AND SUBSTRATES, Sarah De Leo
Numerical Implementation of Prandtl’s Lifting-Line Theory and Modeling of Aircraft Take-Off Phase for Wing Optimization, John William Dykes
Impedance Spectroscopy of Zebrafish Sperm, Robert Egnatchik
THE TWO-SUM OF RIBBON GRAPHS AND THE BOLLOBA ́S-RIORDAN-TUTTE POLYNOMIAL, Brittan Farmer
Assessing Preschoolers’ Preferences for the Opportunity to Choose Tasks or Reinforcers, Katherine A. Fenerty
Investigation of Protozoan Epibionts on Deep-Sea Nematodes, Alicia Leigh Gabriele
Food Entrainment of Circadian Gene Expression Altered in PPARα-/- Brown Fat and Heart, Brian Chun Kim Goh
Breaking the Spell: Developing a new generation of porphyrins for treating cerebral tumors, Ryan Harrison Gray
EFFECTS ON HATCHABILITY DUE TO PRE-INCUBATION WARMING OF END OF LAY BROILER BREEDER EGGS, William Andrew Greenwald
The Reverse Watermelon: A Comparative View of the Environment and the Green Movement in the German Democratic Republic, Rachel Guillory
Cytokine Production during Microsporidia Infection of Macrophages, Anne Hotard
Cytokine Production during Microsporidia Infection of Macrophages, Anne Louise Hotard
Volunteerism and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Post-Katrina Louisiana, Lindsay Elizabeth Jarrell
Conservation genetics of Boelen‟s python (Morelia boeleni) from New Guinea: reduced genetic diversity and divergence of captive and wild animals, Joshua Lee Jordan
On the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Choice-Making and Differential Consequences with Typically-Developing Children, William J. Jung III
Effects of Dichotic Interaural Intensity Difference Training on Children with Auditory Processing Deficits, Kaylah Lynn Lalonde
The Role of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act in the Real Estate Crisis, Sarah Maheu
From a Feudal Electorate to Nation State: Secularization and Reformation in Bavaria, 1700-1825, Christopher David Mapes
An Investigation of the Temperaments of Nonprofit Organization Managers, Angélique Joy Marcantel
THE IDEOLOGY OF BOUNDARIES, Caitlin Martin
American as Apple Pie: Identity and Fear in Catherine Butterfield’s The Sleeper, Kathleen McMurray
Investigating the role for attention in the irrelevant speech task, Laura Elaine Miller
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Margaret Ellen Monk
Eastern Mediterranean pore waters: clues into the geochemical pathways from evaporated seawater to basinal brines, Jessica A. Mumphrey
Sending Talent Instead of Money, Emily C. Plauche’
Touch-screen SD Card Text Reader, Samia Rahman
Exchange of the Changing Women in Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Samantha Jo Richardson
A POLITICAL CONSTRUCT OF EMPATHY: FROM EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS TO POLITICAL MANIFESTATIONS, John Westly Risher
All Too Human: Exploring Nietzsche in Four Short Stories, Jason Liban Rose