The Honors Thesis is the culmination of the Honors Program, and for many students, the most significant single academic endeavor of their college career. Students complete the four-credit-hour thesis project over at least two semesters, usually their last two semesters before graduation. Students work closely with a thesis committee to plan and conduct the thesis project. The thesis topic and academic credit can be in one’s major or another area of study and must include some original research or scholarly contribution. In addition to allowing students to pursue individual academic interests, the thesis project is excellent preparation for students planning to pursue graduate studies.
Theses from 2018
Nature in a Sense: A Look at Wordsworth, Other Authors, and the Bible, Hope Wakeling
Dysregulation of Human Phase I Enzymes in APAP Overdose Subjects with Low ALT Levels, Aaron Woodall
Bruised but Unbroken: Cultural Responses to the Irish Troubles, Cassandra Young
Theses from 2017
Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Quantum Computing, Emily Alderson
The Kodály Method and the Levels of Biblical Learning: Teaching Theology and Hymns to Children, Kimberley Attaway
Exploring Paul as the Anti-Jonah in Acts, Collin Battaglia
Procedural Generation: An Algorithmic Analysis of Video Game Design and Level Creation, Logan Bond
Averting a New Nuclear Arms Race, Michael Anthony Calhoun
Sustaining O-gah-pah: An Analysis of Quapaw Language Loss and Preservation, Robert DeSoto
A Survey of a Rural Southwest Arkansas Baptist Church on Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Church, Elizabeth Fast
On the Verbless or Nominal Clause in Biblical Hebrew: A Synthesis of Andersen and Joüon/Muraoka, Libby Hillard
Hyperconnectivity, Transhumanism, and Chesterton’s “Want of Wonder”, Joanna Horton
Stacking Atomically Thin Materials, Hamilton Johnson
The Exoneration of Job: A Discussion of the Joban and Yahwistic Speeches, Robert Edwin "Mack" McGehee III
Health Care Delivery for the U.S. Hispanic Minority Can Be Improved, Samantha Pascoe
The Right Type of Diet: A Thesis on the potential relations between your blood type and the way you eat, Drake Puryear
Finding Christ in Cinema: Examining Secular Film Theologically, Evan Wheatley
La Bete Noire et le Beau, Hannah Wright
Theses from 2016
Joik as the Golden Thread of Sami Revitalization, Tori Bateman
Simultaneous Determination of BPA and BPS Using UV/Vis Spectrophotometry and HPLC, Jean Eudes Benecyo
Mind the Gap: Examining the Gap between the United States Education System and the Top Education Systems in the World, Kaitlyn Clark
It's How You Say It: A Study of Social Perceptions of Speech Rate and Accent, Leslie Colbert
Creating Color: Unearthing the Chemistry of Ceramic Glazes, Jessica Mariah Hargis
Discovering New Antibiotics: Bacterial Extracts Separated by Thin-Layer Chromatography Inhibit the Growth of Staphylococcus, Heidi Hughes
The Blessings of Being God's People: Election in the Book of Isaiah, Adam Jones
Sex Trafficking: A Cumulative Study, Annie McMurray
Life is Suffering: Buddhism as a Potential Obstacle to Crisis and Trauma Intervention, Elizabeth Peevy
Sealing Practices: Impressions of the Past and Their Contemporary Significance, Lana Grace Rose
Physical Comedy: From Stage to Screen, Kathleen Suit
Making Meyers Clear: An Exploration of the Chemistry and Art of Ceramic Glazes, Sara Catherine Williams
Theses from 2015
Thrilling Monotony: A Summer of Alzheimer's Research, Baronger Dowell Bieger
Studying the Effects of Theraflu on the Growth of Selenastrum Capricornutum, Hannah Gray Boren
Brands Crossing Borders: Cross-cultural Issues in Brand Localization in and from China, Molly Catherine Bowman
Expression Analysis of a Glucose Oxidase Transgene in Tobacco, Jordan Burt
Bringing BPA to Light: Determination of Bisphenol A in Thermal Receipt Paper Water Samples and Lake Water Samples Using Fluorescence Spectrophotometry, Bailey Chitwood
The Effect of Cannabinoids on Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells, Haley Dahl
Content and Character: Modeling Christian Communication After Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Sophie DeMuth
Effects of Modern History on Welsh Theology Post-1904, Hannah Diaz
Uncovering the Truth About Argentina's Dirty War, Macy Fouse
Dissolving the Conflict: Why the Church Should Be More Open to Evolution, Kyle Hargis
Beauty is Born of the Rain: Walter Inglis Anderson's Art and Isolation, Chloe Evelyn Huff
Toward an Islamic Modernity: Ataturk, Erdogan, & Gulen, Kevin Jackson
The Limbgate Visions: A Novel, Sean Jackson
Natural Language Processing for Foreign Language Learning, Jacob Kausler
Gap Closure to Complete the Genome Assembly for Staphylococcus agnetis, Joseph A. Koon II
Handedness: Does it matter?, Jessie Little
Interaction of Disease, Drugs, and Disposition in Ewing's Sarcoma Patients, Madeline Martin
Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia as a Possible Source for Ajulemic Acid Binding, Brian Christopher Monk
The Cost of being a Summer Camp Counselor, Emily Payne
Story-Based Spiritual Formation for College Students, Anna Sikes
The Efficacy of EMDR: A Meta-analysis of EMDR as Clinical Treatment, Allison Smith
Using Golden Gate Assembly to Rapidly Create Genetic Constructs for Transgenic Plants and Promoter Analysis, Jonathan Smith
In the Flesh: Fiction as an "Incarnational Art", Marissa Thornberry
Identification of Bacterial Species Using Colony PCR, Kaiti Walker
Understanding a Possible Wonder Drug: A Radial Diffusion Assay for the Rapid Evaluation of Antimicrobial Peptides, Dustin Walter
A Comparison of How the United States and England Educators Teach Reading, Katy Wood
Theses from 2014
Intergenerational Worship: Exploring Various Cultural Worship Environments and their Effects on the Church, T.J. Bailey
Protective Effects of Aqueous Extract of Terminalia arjuna bark Against Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity, Sarah Elizabeth Bishop
Shakespeare: The Mirror of the Human Soul, Sarah Lynnette Davis
Freeflight: Conveying Christian Redemption in Realistic Literature, Anna English
Interwoven, Ellen Eubanks
Ajulemic Acid Induces Cell Death in Retinoblastoma Cells, Emily A. Evans
Women and Watchmen: Opening Alan Moore's Refrigerator, Sally Ferguson
Show Me a Story: The Creative Process of Communicating Truth through a Picture Book, Katie Hopmann
Evolution of Fashion: Clothing of Upper Class American Women from 1865 to 1920, Lacey Johnson
The Effects of Physical Activity and Movement on Learning, Alexandria Lemos
PUREnovation, Inc, Alex Nelson
Faithless Israel, Faithful Gentiles: Ethnic Irony in Jonah and Matthew, Christopher L. Redmon
Caring for Cancer, Jason Monroe Stevenson
The Call of the Sidhe: Poetic and Mythological Influences in Ireland's Struggle for Freedom, Anna Wakeling
The Relationship Between Natural Law and Mosaic Law in Philo: His On Rewards and Punishments as a Case Study, Clark Whitney
Economic Leapovers, William Hunter Wolf
Theses from 2013
Networking and Revolution: How Social Media Has Shaped the Arab Spring, Stacy Beck
Effects of Antidepressant Metabolites on the Fresh Water Algae, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, Adam Curlin
"This Frightful World" by Alexander Blok translated by Jason Curlin, Jason Curlin
Neuroplasticity and Speech-Language Pathology: What it Means for Language Development and How to Apply it to Therapy, Kiley Gamble
Using Spheroids and a Bioluminescent Mouse Model to Determine the Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Ewing's Scarcoma, Drake Hardy
Going Mad: A Comprehensive Study of the Mad Scene in Gaetano Donizetti's Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rachel Nicole Harris
Erased, Raley Howard
Psychological Techniques in Jury Consulting, McCrae Jones
The Influence of a Coiled-coil Isoleucine Zipper on the Trimerization and Endosomolytic Activity of the E5-TAT-mCherry Protein, Valerie Nickel
Theses from 2012
Medical Illustration, Dusty Barnette
Function, Fulfillment, and Chaos in the Meta-Narrative of Scripture: A Biblical Theology, Kimberly Carlton
Bailing Out America: An Honors Thesis Addressing the Bailout and Financial Crisis of 2008, Reuben Cash
Computational Docking Simulations of Nitroanisole and Nitrophenol with CYP2E1, Kasa B. Cooper, Martin "Marty" D. Perry Jr., and Grover P. Miller
Understanding the Hurting: A Look Into the Lives of Families Battling Ewing's Sarcoma, Abigail Dekle
Freedom of Speech vs. The Right to Privacy: Problems with the English Super Injunction, Nicci Fillinger
Establishing a Mouse Model for the Study of Podocyte Regeneration after Injury, John A. Gomez
At the Crossroads of Biblical Studies and Linguistics: An Exegesis of Genesis 10:1-11 :9, Trevor Huxham
The Power of Design in Nazi Anti-Bolshevik Propaganda, 1937-1943, Grace Janzen
MalumGhat a Little Joy, Joy Kelly
The Life and Legacy of Judge Richard S. Arnold, John Jacob Lively
Stop and Serve, Nathan J. Peace
The Year of Jubilee is at Hand: A Call for Social Justice, Jesse Pruett
The Making of a War Memoir, Mary Smethers
Against All Odds, Britta Stamps