Seniors in EKU's Honors Program participate in a faculty mentored process that demonstrates the students' ability to locate, evaluate, analyze and synthesize information, in an ethical manner, in order to produce meaningful scholarship. The Honors Senior Thesis, typically a capstone paper or creative project, is the culmination of this process.
Honors Theses from 2012
Typography and Art: The Research and Process of Creating Art with Typographic Elements, Brittany N. Laakkonen
Empirically Validated Autism Interventions for Children, Suzanna E. Lagerroos
Climbing Mountains: How One Community is Beating the Odds, Donald Paul Lashbrook III
The Middle Ground: Code-Switching, Patricia M. Logsdon
You Are What You Do, Allison K. Maggard
Event Perception: The Impact of Temporal Gaps on Segmentation and Memory, Bailee C. Mayfield
The Synthesis of Some Novel Group VII Furanyl Organometallic Complexes, Michael G. Mazzotta
The impact of Language Proficiency on Reading and Comprehension of Deaf Students., Edward Mbengwa
Synthesis of Branched Hydrocarbons Used for Identification of the Fischer-Tropsch Products, Alexander H. Montavon
Demilitarization of Chemical Munitions in the United States: Incineration versus Neutralization, Megan F. Moore
Accounting, Cheating, and an Increased Need for Ethics Education, Ashley R. Morris
The Historical and Continuing Impacts of the Lock System In the Kentucky River, Tyler Newman
In For The Long Haul: Measuring the Effectiveness of FEMA's Long Term Disaster Recovery Funding, Miles Owen
Video Game Violence and Addiction, Douglas K. Peterson
Christianity in Contrast: Contrasting Social Practices between Christians and the Roman Empire, Eric Powell
Digital Books for the Deaf, Bethany R. Prall
Traveling Artists: The Influence of Location on Artwork, Amber Raap
The Boston Marathon: A Historical Analysis through the Examination of Qualifying Standards, Financial Impacts, and Social Influences, Joshua W. Reed
Fashion of the Tudors: How 16th Century Trends Adapt to the 21st Century Runway, Rebecca C. Reynolds
Reproductive Habitat Requirements of the Federally Threatened Blackside Dace (Chrosomus cumberlandensis), Avery E. Scherer
Inter-Individual Spacing Patterns in Mantled Howlers (Alouatta paliatta), Brian D. Schultz
Staying Connected for Honors: Facebook, YouTube and Online Newsletter, Shreedip Sigdel
Judicial Restraint v. Political Activism: Landmark Cases that Changed the Courts, Alexandra J. Sipes
Does Sex Matter? A Look at Middle and High School Science Classrooms, Kaitlin Staverman
The Unrealistic Image of Teachers in Popular Media, Megan R. Steele
Religion's Place in a Secular School, Matthew J. Stegman
Design for Humanity; Creating Awareness of the Need for Innovative Solutions and Challenging Designers to Take Action, Kelsey D. Stillwell
Bluegill Response to Supplemental Feeding and Patch Richness in Recreational Fishing Ponds, Andrew J. Stump
A Drunkard's Burden: Existential Thought in the Prose of Charles Bukowski, Christopher W. Thurman
Food: Friend or Enemy?, Meaghan Tingle
The Influence of Religion on ESL Teaching and Learning, Hannah M. Trivitt
Proteomic Identification of Carbonylated Proteins in Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury, Jordan S. VanZant
Lady Gaga: Born this Way but Not Cared For this Way, Nicholas Wade
Nature versus Technology: Nature-Deficit Disorder in Children, Amanda K. Webber
The Educational Cornerstone of Children in Foster Care, Jessica M. Whalen
U.N. Peacekeeping: The Establishment of Electoral Processes-Success or Blunder?, James A. Wilson
Charter Schools: Challenging the Monopoly of Public Education, Nakeisha S. Wilson
Honors Theses from 2011
Magic and Witchcraft in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, China J. Hepburn