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 2024
The Torrijos-Carter Treaties: Panamanian Sovereignty and United States Neocolonialism in Cold War Panama, Emma C. Regan, History Department
Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies Exotoxin and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Staphylococcus aureus from Maine Dairy Farms, Elisabeth Roadcap, Anne Lichtenwalner, Brenda Kennedy-Wade, Gloria Adjapong, Ashma Chakrawarti, Felipe Machado de Sant' Anna, and John W. Barlow, Animal and Veterinary Sciences
The Impact of Female Role Models on the Retention of Women in Computer Science, Anja Bella Laetitia Samsom, Computer Science
"Teaching for Equity": Examining How Northeastern Educators Integrate and Affirm the Cultural Assets of Their Students, Sarah Sarrouf, College of Education and Social Services (CESS)
Exploring US National and Vermont Emergency Medical Services: Slower and Lower Rural Care, Brandon S. Schoenfeld, Department of Geography and Geosciences
The Effect of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Bosnian Households, Tin Skoric, Economics
Student attitudes about cultural humility within nursing curriculum: A survey of undergraduate nursing students at a Northeastern University, Kacia Smith, College of Nursing
Discussing the influence of racial/ethnic college identity groups on Asian transracial, transnational adoptee racial/ethnic identity development, Sophia Y. Stampalia, School of Nursing
CEO Compensation and Performance in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Sam Thompson, Finance
Small but Mighty: Utilization of Macroinvertebrates as Indicator Species of Stream Health Across Different Land Use Areas in Vermont, Maya Thomson, Biology
Comparing Ambient Air Quality Emission Concentrations to Emission Densities from On-Road Vehicle Pollution, Niki Tier, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transcriptomic Dysregulation in Rodent Models of ADHD and Substance Use Suggests Shared Neural Mechanisms, Sarah Van Horn, Heather Driscoll, and Donna Toufexis, Neuroscience
The Unique Associations Between ADHD Symptoms and Children’s School Readiness in a Preschool Sample, Greta Vecsey, Psychological Science
Racially Polarized Voting Analysis: Ecological Inference Applied to the 2022 Midterms in Georgia, Hannah E. Warn, Mathematics
First Meals and Last Meals: Vehicles of Food Meaning, Sophie E. Warth, Anthropology
Evaluating the Impact of Climatic Factors on Tick-Borne Pathogen Prevalence: Insights from Ixodes scapularis and its Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti Pathogens, Joseph D. Webb, Biology
Change in the Abundance of Coral Across the Hawaiian Archipelago During 2000–2017 in Relation to Thermal Stress, Emma Wetsel, Rubenstein
Collective Nostalgia’s Effect on Consumer Behavior, Jasper Williams, Grossman School of Business
The Effects of Microtiming Deviations and Quantization on the Perception of Musical Groove, Emilia Winquist, Mathematics and Statistics
Multiphase Modeling & Locating Oxygen Gas in a High Test Peroxide Satellite Propellant Tank, Elizabeth Gilbert Zheng, Mechanical Engineering
Assessing the Contribution of Liver 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-CoA Synthase 2 (HMGCS2) to Dietary Medium-Chain Triglyceride-Induced Ketone Body Production, Kaitlyn A. Zoller, Madeleine M. Mank MPH, V. Amanda Fastiggi BS, and Matthew E. Poynter PhD, Department of Medicine
Theses from 2023
Assessment of Differences in Performance of Two Lake Trout Stocking Strategies in Lake Champlain Using Lipid Analysis, Jack B. Baker, Matthew Futia, and J. Ellen Marsden, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Science Communication and Social Media: Audience Reactions to Mpox on YouTube, Zoë Bui Barton, English
Spatial and Working Memory in Mice post Traumatic Brain Injury, Sarah Baumann, Biology
Why are Young Adults Using E-cigarettes? A Survey of Vermont Undergraduate Students, Max Gunnar Behrens, Psychological Science