Students who fulfill all the requirements of the Honors College, including successfully completing a senior thesis or project, earn the special distinction of graduating as an Honors College Scholar. This distinction is noted on student transcripts and the designation of Honors College Scholar is conferred at UVM's commencement ceremony.
The following is a collection of theses submitted by Honors College Scholars.
Theses from 2015
Grace, Play, and the Body in the Writings of Albert Camus, Derek Neal, Romance Languages and Linguistics
Creating a resilient food system in Vermont: Gleaning, community engagement, and the importance of embracing complexity, Esther A. Nemethy, Anthropology
Differentiating the Roles of Redox-Active Cysteine Residues in Plasmodium falciparum Thioredoxin Reductase by using a "Seleno Effect", John P. O'Keefe, Biochemistry
The Definition and Determination of Death, Brittney Jean Palermo, Philosophy
Gender Differences in Snowboarding: An Empirical Analysis, Hailey Ronconi, School of Business
Service Providers’ Perceptions of Refugees’ Needs, Services and Service Delivery Barriers in Burlington, Vermont, Samantha M. Sawyer, Global Studies
Knowledge Retention over a Two Year Period Following Completion of an Online Course on The Science of Energy Balance, Allison Schrenzel, Nutrition and Food Sciences
Behind the Lines: The Partitions of British India and Mandatory Palestine, 1937-1948, Jessica Solodkin, History
Assessing Music Listening Habits in a Media Rich Society, Carolyn Spinelli, Community Development and Applied Economics
Detailed Analysis of Structures in the Foot Wall of the Champlain Thrust at Lone Rock Point, Burlington, Vermont, Christina Marie Strathearn, Geology
An Agent Based Model of the Diel Vertical Migration Patterns of Mysis diluviana, Nicholas J. Strayer, Jason D. Stockwell, Brian P. O'Malley, and Sture Hansson, Mathematics and Statistics
Quantification of Criteria and Air Toxic Pollutants in Biodiesel Exhaust using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Flora Kathleen Su, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Exploring the Evolution of Modularity in Gene Regulatory Networks, Mariko L. Totten, Computer Science
Lifetime Estrogen Exposure, COMT Genotype, and Cognition in Postmenopausal Women, Jennifer Alice Trimble, Biology
American Food Aid: Disruption and Development in Haiti, Kaitlyn Vitez, Anthropology
Parenting as a Mediator of the Link between Parental Depressive Symptoms and Child Depressive Symptoms, Abigail Waite, Department of Psychological Science
A Computational Approach for Identifying Plant-Based Foods for Addressing Vitamin Deficiency Diseases, Christina Yu and Indra Neil Sarkar, Biochemistry
Theses from 2014
Eating in Crisis: Culturally Appropriate Food and the Local Food Movement in the Lives of Domestic Violence Survivors, Rachel A. Aronson, Anthropology
Plant-Derived Bioactive Lipids Impacts Glucose Homeostasis and Energy Metabolism in Mice, Pamela L. Bay, Shae Rowlandson, Jana Kraft, Mina Peshavaria, and Thomas Jetton, Animal Science; Medicine
Anglo or Apeman? Transatlantic Caricature and the New Irish Race, 1861-1872, Rob Benner, History
Using Crowdsourcing to Discover Correlational Relationships, Alex Berger, Computer Science
Queen City Stories, Charles Tanner Bowden, English
Changing Actors and Discourse: An Analysis of Ten Years of Media Coverage In Vermont’s Wind Power Debate, Neil E. Brandt, Environmental Studies
“It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”: MTV, Postmodern Theory, and Generational Shifts in the United States, Marissa A. Bucci, Individually Designed-American Studies
The Impact a Final Four Appearance has on the Number of Applications and Average SAT Scores at a University, Sandro Carissimo, School of Business Administration