Honors Capstones from 2023
Retrofitting Existing Distillation Columns for Improved Energy Efficiency and Increased Capacity, Justin Nijoka
Investigating the Role of the Drosophila melanogaster BEAF Protein in Mediating Long Distance Chromatin Looping, Oluwatobi Ojemakinde
Genomic Scale Analyses Support the Placement of Red Pandas (Ailurus styani) but Reveal Conflict Within Mustelidae, Shelby Oliveaux
Decomposition Rates of Spartina alterniflora (Smooth Cordgrass) in Coastal Louisiana Brackish Marshes Influenced by a Freshwater Siphon, Aine O’Nuanain
Leukocytes Manipulation by Staphylococcus aureus Superantigen-Like 4, Tanisha M. Patel
The Effects of Earthquakes on Light Scattering in LIGO’s Gravitational Wave Detector, Ashley Patron
Contemporary Environmental Art: The Multidimensional Relationship Between Black Communities and the American Landscape, Sophia Perkins
Contemporary Environmental Art: The Multidimensional Relationship Between Black Communities and the American Landscape, Sophia S. Perkins
A Study of How African Americans Perceive Cultural Appropriation By Whites In The Media, Fredlicia Phillips
Assessing the Application of Heat Map Technology in Microscopic Analysis of Saw Marks on Bone, Ian Plunkett
What Makes a Thread of Difference?, Ashlyn Puckett
Celluloid Bylines: Portraits and Analyses of the Journalist and Journalism on Film, Domenic Purdy
From NAFTA to the USMCA: How does protectionist American economic policy impact Mexico’s foreign car production?, Samantha Raeder
Optimizing microfluidic chips for endangered species sperm cell research, Elizabeth Reich
“The Seed of Envy meets Paradise Lost”, Christian Rios Prado
Synthesis of Tunable, Micron-sized, Polyethylene Particles as Models for Microplastics, Ruby Roberg
Religion and Dress Code among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Women in the Middle East and North Africa, Hannah Rodrigue
Party Capability and the Decisions of the South African Constitutional Court, Isabella Rovere
Proposal to Add Human Trafficking Prevention Education Measures in the LADOC, Lauren Shaw
Chemical-Free Photocatalytic Water Treatment, Ella Sheets
Effect of NADPH Oxidase on the Microbial and Chemical Contamination of Water, Grace Sheets
Lipid Oxidative Damage in Mitochondria from Artemia franciscana embryos: Anoxic Challenge followed by Normoxic Recoveries of Increasing Duration, Samantha Shirmer
Perspectives from a Collaborator: An Oboe Recital, Lauren M. Smith
The Effect of Salt Stress on Root Development in Plants, August Steinkamp
Conducting Enchantment: Organized Sound and Ritual Spaces in Modern and Ancient Worlds, Haley Stuckey
Siamese OOD, Haron Temam
Immune Responses to Viral Infection (Rhinovirus) in Children with underlying Medical Needs, Ngan Tran
Effects of Clozapine and Olanzapine Administration on Sucrose Preference in Female Mice, Brittany White
Do Callous-Unemotional Traits Change the Association between Environmental Stressors and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents, Isabelle Whitfield
I Don’t Belong Here Impostor Syndrome: Genuine Success or Dumb Luck?, Ilai Wright
The Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Students with Disabilities at Louisiana State University, Brooke Wrzyszczynski
Honors Capstones from 2022
Illusory Effects on Stepping Over Obstacles After Lower Extremity Muscle Fatigue, Abayomi Gideon Adeyemo
The Effects of Dietary Interventions on Adverse Outcomes in Obese, Preeclamptic-like BPH/5 Female Mice, Morgan Alston
Preferences, Expectations, and Experiences of Online Therapy among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emma Armstrong
Challenging the Canon; Teaching the Literary Canon in the High School Classroom, Abigail Baumgartner
Trump’s Trade War: An Economic and Diplomatic Analysis from a Louisianan’s Perspective, Logan P. Berthelot
Adaptive Reuse A Brief Introduction + Critique of Academic Methods, Nicholas Bertucci
Passive Air Samplers for Community Monitoring of Air Toxics Following Hurricane Ida in Terrebonne Parish, Sarah Besson
Louisiana Social Studies: A look into the culture, history and business of our state, Ava Borksey
GL(1|1) Graph Connections, Andrea Bourque
An Analysis of Post-Ferguson Black Law Enforcement Work Experiences, Abigail Bowers
GOD GUN!: A Half-Written Play, Devising an Original Theatrical Work Via Improvisation, Sophia Brazda
Opers on the Projective Line, Wronskian Relations, and the Bethe Ansatz, Ty J. Brinson
BELA Real Estate Company, Dallin G. Broussard
Phylogenetic placement of owl monkey, genus Aotus, using Alu retrotransposons, Morgan Brown
The Effects of Poverty on the Quality of Education Received by Louisiana Students, Madison Brzezinski
Psychological Well-Being in the Years after a Flood and During a Pandemic, Angelina Cantelli
Trophic relationships between tadpoles and other aquatic organisms in sub-tropical ponds, Kira Cates
Examining the symbioses between bioluminescent Vibrio species and ponyfishes in the Indian Ocean and between Vibrio species and Crassostrea virginica in the Gulf of Mexico, Alexandra Chauvin
Elemental Analysis of Mangrove Unslipped Pottery from The Paynes Creek Salt Works Using a Portable XRF Machine, Brigid Clarey
María dos Prazeres as a Metaphor: A Discourse on Gender and the Spanish Nation, Paola Colmenares
Hurricane Girls, Kallie Comardelle
Skin decision: Northern fowl mite infection alters diversity of the skin microbiome in European Starling nestlings differentially with age, Kaitlin Couvillion
ATTITUDES, PURCHASES, AND USAGE OF LINGERIE AMONG COLLEGE WOMEN: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION, Madison Craig
A Sleeping Giant: Finding An Endogenous Solution for the U.S. Public Pension Underfunding Crisis, Caroline Crawford
Examining the Relationship Between Health-Related Fitness and Motor Competence in College-Aged Students, Michael Crick
UX/U-Eye: Designing Graphical User Interfaces for Exclusive Eye Gaze Control, Timothy Curol
The History and Continuing Impacts of Press Staff and Media Relations in Congress, Madelyn Cutrone
Influence of CAVs On Driver’s Decisions in Various Roadway Scenarios, Nathalie Joy Taboga Dante
LED Enhancements to the MIMIR Animatronic Figure, Collin J. DeVillier
Democracy’s Effect on Attributes of Transnational Terrorism, Alice Epley
Title IX: A Discovery of its Failure to Protect Students From Sexual Harassment and Assault, Delaney Ferrer
Measuring the Effect of Bipartisan Support for Foreign Policy Initiatives in the Senate on U.S. Policy Success, Emily Fitkin
Conformational Change and the Effects of a Substrate Mimetic on 5-Lipoxygenase, Mathes Akers Prometheus Forge
“The Lord Is the Maker of Them All” Black Membership in White Baptist Churches in Antebellum Louisiana, Alison Foster
Thermal Simulation of Additive Manufacturing from G-Code, Noah Foster
“You Can’t Wash Your Hands in a House Without Running Water”: Pandemic Precautionary Behaviors in the Wake of Hurricane Laura, Cécile Girard
Visible Light Illuminated Tin Oxide-Gold Nanoparticle Schottky Junctions for H2O2 Generation in Water, Sarah Glass
The Effects of Sub-Chronic Olanzapine Treatment on Sucrose Preference in Mice, Mia Goodson
Sex Differences in Expression of the Oxytocin Receptor in Adipose Tissue of Mice, Lindsey R. Hall
Evaluation of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Tumor Matrix, Alejandra Ham
Estradiol and predator cues affect behavior and brain responses of captive female house sparrows, Courtney Harding
The Effects of Negative Life Events on Pessimistic Future Outlook: Mediating Effects of Anxiety and Behavior, Kia Harris
Effects of Pine Straw as a Dietary Supplement for Internal Parasite Control in Pasture Raised Meat Goats, Landry M. Higgins
Generative Adversarial Networks Take on Hand Drawn Sketches: An Application to Louisiana Culture and Mardi Gras Fashion, Stephanie Hines
Gone with the Wedding: The Historical Evolution of Southern Plantation Weddings and Subsequent Cultural Implications, Madeline May Holmes
Expression and Purification of Tag-Free Chlamydia trachomatis Scc4 for Improved NMR Structural Studies, Peter Howard
The Effect of Telework Conditions and Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors on Work- Family Outcomes, Tiffany Huynh
Changes in Girls’ Educational Opportunities in Former Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) States Since Independence (1960), Claire Inderkummen
Simulation and Visualization Tool for Short-term Process Scheduling, Martin Ivanchev
Politics & Marriage: The Generational Gap in Marriage Priorities and Political Ambition Among Black Women in Politics, Torri A. Jackson
Evaluating the Viscoelastic Properties of Alligator Skin Gelatin, Alligel, Compared to Mammalian and Fish Gelatins, Sarah E. Jimenez
“Understanding Russian and Soviet National Identity through Soviet War Literature”, Mackenzie A. Jones
Design Report of the 2022 High Voltage Battery Pack and System for FSAE TigerRacing Electric Vehicle, Clay Knight
WHOLE BLOOD TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS OF INSULIN SENSITIVE AND INSULIN DYSREGULATED MARES, Sarah Lackey
The Effect of Channel Stability on Fish Condition and Diet In Thompson Creek, LA, Alexia LaGrone
Business Plan for Frugal Foodie, Connor Landry
Observing and Exploring Intrinsic Characteristics of Type Ia Supernova, Connor Langevin