Honors Capstones from 2009
Purification and Thermodynamic Analysis of The Stability of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase in the Presence of Efavirenz, Chantal A. SanMiguel
An Analysis of Society’s Reaction to Whistleblowing from the 1920s – 1990s, Rachel Elizabeth Scott
“In the System:” A Qualitative Study of African-American Women’s Foster Care Stories, Meghan Spell
Apologia for the "Lusus Nature": Subverting Victorian Gender Ideology in Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Laura Springer
The Relationship Between Eyewitness Identification Accuracy and Memory for Contextual Details, Suzette C. Tassin
The American Health Insurance System: What Went Wrong and How We May Fix It, Joseph Maxfield Vincent
Intelligent-navigating, Maze-mapping, and Maze-solving Robot Equipped with Sensors, Compass, and GPS System, Yunan Yuan
Honors Capstones from 2008
Responses of the Sea Catfish, Ariopsis felis, to Chemical Defenses from the Sea Hare, Aplysia californica, Sheybani Arman
FEASIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, John David Barreca
Survey of the Art Presenting Organizations of Acadiana, Charles Robert Briley III
PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHM, Elena Caraba
THE CREATION OF WEALTH FOR COMPANY STAKEHOLDERS THROUGH MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR IN LEVERAGED BUYOUTS, Joshua P. Clayton
A Critical Exegesis and Interpretation of the Work of Austin Farrer, Wesley Dalton
The English Identity Quest of the “Glorious Revolution”, Mark Thomas Duggan
The Only Thing I Ever Got From You, Janet Edwards
Concepts of the Natural and Their Application to American Bellydance, Ashley Eldringhoff
The Sustenance of Sound: A short story sequence, Allison Rae Eskind
Modeling Electric Fields in Microfluidic Devices, Micah Fincher
Wavelets as a Tool for Musical Analysis, Daniel Guillot
Hatchability of End of Lay Egg Production Broiler Breeder Eggs as Influenced by Prestorage Warming, Kyle Homan
The Development of Intentionality, Vocabulary, and Grammar in a Child with Autism, Heidi Huckabee
THE CHINESE SCRAMBLE IN EAST AFRICA: THE GROWING INTEREST OF CHINA IN UGANDA, KENYA, AND TANZANIA, Ara Jannie Jo
“Solidarity and Solidarność: A Search for the Person in Community”, Elizabeth Mary Johnson
Projecting or Perceiving Values? The Blackburn-McDowell Debate, David Judd
Micro Air Vehicle (MAV): Numerical Optimization of a Coaxial Rotor Blade Design, Jeffrey A. Kornuta
Dialogue in Three Prose Tracts of John Milton, Lora Catherine Lamb
ROCKING THE VOTE: An analysis of what makes the Millennial generation vote and the correlation of civic engagement to empathy, Gabrielle Michelle Martinez
LA INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA: EL CAMINO PARA EL DESARROLLO O LA VIA DE LA DEPENDENCIA, Joseph R. Martin
A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTHURIAN BRITAIN: 410-597, Joseph Preston Milano
ON THE RATIONAL CONCEIVABILITY OF MIRACLES, Martha Mary Morangé
A Quest for Style — The Poetic Development of William Ernest Henley, Michael Whitney Mundt
A Modern New Life, Charles Nicholls
Empirical Study on Greedy Algorithms for Learning Decomposable Markov Networks, Kyle Jonah Nunez
Toxic Gene Expression in Escherichia coli Using trpL as a Repressor, Ian Primm
The Power of Language: In Politics, Genocide, and Politicide, Heather Rademacher
Characterization of a non-cytoplasmically localized Dps protein from Deinococcus radiodurans, Brian Reon
Xylose-fermenting yeast species found in the wood of southeast Louisiana, Claire Reuter
Distinguishing among recollection, familiarity, and uncertainty: Categorizing the subjective basis for memory retrieval, Leigh Grace Rougeou
The Influence of Radiographic Expertise on Visual Memory and Attention, Emily A. Smitherman
Free Press v. Fair Trials: A Comparative Study of Media Law and Ethics in the United States and Great Britain, Alison Spindler
Fear and Loathing in Contemporary British Art: A Critical Analysis of the Banksy Phenomenon, Courtney Spring
SYNTHESIS OF A DIRHODIUM TETRAPHOSPHINE CATALYST AND THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS H2/CO RATIOS ON THE CATALYST, Christina Joanne Sweeney
China’s Evolving Preoccupation With Stability and its Role as the Primary Catalyst of the Post-Mao Legal Reforms, Reid Tepfer
POLYPHASIC TAXONOMY OF A GROUP OF GLOBALLY DISPERSED, DESICCATION-RESISTANT STRAINS OF THE MICROVIRGA/BALNEIMONAS CLUSTER, Bradley Tolar
An Analysis and Upgrade of the Finance Department Operations in LSU’s Student Government, Sabina Tungaraza
A Juxtaposition of Current Federal Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Elizabeth Weiner
CARBON, NITROGEN, SODIUM AND PHOSPHOROUS CONCENTRATIONS AND RATIOS IN SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA (LOISER) FROM SITES OF VARIOUS FRESHWATER AND NUTRIENT INPUTS IN COASTAL LOUISIANA WETLANDS, Margaret Frances Williamson
Honors Capstones from 2007
“The Little Black Dress of Scandals”: The Significance of the Profumo Affair, Leslie Bourgeois
The Effects of Television, Music, and Silence Conditions on Performance on Reading Comprehension and Math Word Problem Tests: A Developmental Study, Kimberly Broussard
The Effect of a “Don’t Know” Option on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy in Lineups, Matthew Calamia
Applying Model-View-Controller to an Embedded System Simulation, Joseph Dominic Cali
Feminism Divided: Feminists for Life of America and the National Organization for Women, Monique Daley
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF HURRICANE RITA ON THE FOOD SUPPLY AND FOOD AVAILABILITY IN WOMEN LIVING IN RURAL SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, Natalie Kristine Davis
Designing a Simulated Testing System for Embedded Systems Development, Abhishek Debchoudry
Understanding Louisiana Patent Production and the Role of Knowledge Stocks on Economic Growth, Cynthia Ann Dubois
Analysis of the TFC6 Promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Transcriptional Regulation Through TF IIIC Binding at ETC6, Daniel Edwards
The Lotus Flower, Julie Gerdes
Trauma, Myth, and History in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, Alex Hargroder
A Comparison of Print and Broadcast News, Amanda Ferren Johnson
An Analysis of Ludwig Feuerbach‟s Criticisms of Judeo-Christian Views of Nature in The Essence of Christianity, David Johnston
When in Rome An examination of Women and Political Rhetoric, Christina Grace Juneau
Controversy No Matter the Colors: The Confederate Battle Flag and Southern Identity, Matthew C. Juneau
In Black and White: The effect of race on listener judgments of Cajun and Creole French, Alison Landry
Performance Appraisal and the Balanced Scorecard, Farrar Langlois
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: English Translation of Édouard Glissant’s Introduction à une poétique du divers, Julee Rebecca LaPorte
Bionic Architectural Design: Assembly, Symbiosis, & Repetition, Henry Louth
An Overview of Central Bank Inflation Targeting: Theory and Experience, Andrew Midgett
THE PURIFICATION OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI UREASE β SUBUNIT PROTEIN AND DNA FOR VACCINE PRODUCTION, Alyson Moll
Viscosity and gravity effects on the kinetics of E. coli alkaline phosphatase, Sujatha Muralidharan
The Future of Viewer Control on Television Advertising, Sally O’Rourke
Public Discourse in the Lincoln Douglas Debates, Jessica Kernan Perez
THE BRITISH WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT: A STONE’S THROW FROM THE VOTE, Sarah Perkins
NOVEL SYNTHESIS OF XANTHENE AND BENZOXANTHENE DYES, Corin Michelle Schowalter
Conferred immunity against the H1N1 Type A influenza virus in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney cells via cecropin B transfection therapy., Tomasz P. Stryjewski
Video Game Addiction: Truth or Fiction, Lyles Thibodeaux-Harmony
Bacteria Homolog of Frataxin, CyaY, and Its Role in the Interaction with the ISC system, Simon Yeung
A SINE-based dichotomous key for primate identification, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman
Honors Capstones from 2006
Immanuel Kant & Bernard Williams: Discovering the Foundations of Morality, Jonathan Comish
Traces, Paulette Guerin
Implementation of Supreme Court Policy: School Prayer in Louisiana Secondary Schools, Adelaida M. Hernandez
The Need for New Priorities: The National Organization for Women and College Campuses, Katherine May
Life and the Death Penalty: Passing Life Without Parole Legislation in Texas, Future Implications, and an Examination of Texas’ Death Row, Adam Chase Parker
CALCIUM INTAKE, BONE MINERAL DENSITY, AND PERCENT BODY FAT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Beth Peterson
THE DOUBLE THREAT OF TERRORISM: TERRORISM’S EFFECT ON RESTRICTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY GOVERNMENTS, Christen Tave Romero
Honors Capstones from 2005
Diversity and the Effects on Accounting Students’ Ethical Awareness, Sanaz Shelia Aghazadeh
Do Humans Perceive Sexual Words as Threatening?, Donice Meriwether Alverson-Banks
Viral Marketing: What It is and Where It is Going, Laura Ashley Aucion
Characterization of the Domain-Domain Interactions and DNA Binding in the Saccharomyces cervisiae HMCB protein, HMO1, Kevin Thomas Bauerle
Adult demographic composition in the Poole-Rose Ossuary, Kirsten Marie Brown
Product Placement and Traditional TV Commercials: A Comparison of the Efficacy of Two Marketing Techniques, Jennifer Lynn Byrd
Another Test of the News: How the Early American Press Reported the French Revolution, Jacquelyn Cole
Attribution Processes of Stability, Controllability, and Responsibility in Impoverished Parents of Children With and Without Behavior Disorders, Jane G. Cranford
Stella, Elizabeth, and the Dark Lady: The Character of the Beloved Mistress in Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences, Claire Dawkins
Microfluidics Fabrication and Testing for a Novel BioMEMS Cell Counting Device, Marly N. Dows
An Analysis of the Integrity of Students Planning to Enter the Accounting Profession, Bonnie Dye
HIV/AIDS and the Economy in Southern Africa, Kathrin Gerner