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 2014
Instructions for uploading to Scholarworks, Brit Chase, Honors College
Evaluating Workplace Democracy in Mondragon, Anders Asa Christiansen, Political Science
Electrical Characterization of Deuterium-Doped Gallium Antimonide Grown on Silicon Substrates, Justin T. Dao, Electrical Engineering
Knights & Neighves, Laura N. Davenport, Film & Television Studies
Why Does Modern Science Need a Father?: French Cartesianism and the Performance of the Scientific Subject, Daniel M. Davis, History
Using Backpropagation Neural Networks for the Prediction of Residual Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils, Luke Detwiler, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Statistical Analysis and Graphic Representation of the Correlation of Bach and Chopin Preludes, Stephanie M. Donato, Department of Mathematics
Belle Femme: An Interpretation of a Play to Raise Awareness for Violence Against Women, Kelsey L. Giustra, Theatre
The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf, Environmental Studies
The Demise of the Citizen-Soldier and its Implications for the Role of the American Army, John S. Hart, History
Poetry as a Complex System, Bronwen E. Hudson, European Studies
“Dual Track Advocacy:” Legal Strategies, Political Strategies and Their Intersection in the Marriage Equality Movement, Alexander Wade Jones, Political Science
Exploring the Laffer Curve: Behavioral Responses to Taxation, Samuel B. Kazman, Economics
THE DUCHESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LOUISA LANE DREW, Rivka Kelly, Theatre
EFFECT OF HEXAGONALITY PERCENT ON THERMAL CONDUCTIVTY IN SILICON STRUCTURES., Samuel P. Kessler, Mechanical Engineering
Functional Data Analysis With Application to United States Weather Data, Katherine S. King, Mathematics and Statistics
Explaining Hospital Length of Stay of Patients Admitted with Seasonal Influenza Infection, Anna B. Lidofsky, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Capsaicin-Induced Ca2+ Influx and Constriction of the Middle Meningeal Artery, Inessa Manuelyan, Arsalan U. Syed, Masayo Koide, Bo Shui, Michael I. Kotlikoff, and George C. Wellman, Pharmacology
Determining Shared Working Memory Systems for Rhythmic Incongruities in Music and Language using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Jackson T. Mathews, Neuroscience
Le Devoir du journaliste : François Mauriac, Albert Camus et la Libération de la France, Andrew D. McCue, French
The Relationship between Landscape, Tree and Bird Biodiversity throughout Vermont, Juliana M. Morris, Mathematics and Statistics
A Susceptible, Infected, Recovered Chagas Disease Model with Multiple Households Analyzed in Parallel, Trevon George Noiva, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Messaging in Scalaness: A Programming Language for Wireless Sensor Networks, Rebecca C. Norton, Computer Science
Quantitative determination of fatty acids in the University of Vermont's CREAM herd followed over the course of six months, John F. O'Day III, Animal Science
Periodic Nulls in Pulsars B0751+32 and B0525+21, Daniel Jerome Orfeo, Physics