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Honors Theses are submitted to the University of Richmond in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the distinction of Honors within particular disciplines. The nature of each thesis depends upon the norms of the particular academic discipline and/or department. Most are open access; some have been embargoed or are restricted indefinitely per the request of the author. If you are an author and would like to change the availability of your work, please contact scholarshiprepository@richmond.edu

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Theses from 2021

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Adhering Homogeneous Molecular Electrocatalysts Entrapped in Micelles to Electrode Surfaces, Emily Kuhlmann

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The Intracellular Journey and Life of Sodalis glossinidius, Katrina Kuhn

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The Commercialization of Crime Solving: ethical implication of forensic genetic genealogy, Hannah Lee

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Investigation of the Effects of Curcumin on Woodsmoke-Induced Inflammation, Melissa Lewis

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When They Lost Their Words: The Impact of Microaggressions and Exclusion on Chinese International Students’ Linguistic Capacity and Leadership Emergence, Kexin Li

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Due Sistemi Universitari a confronto: L’Università degli Studi di Verona e la University of Richmond, Madison London

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“There Is No More Sacred Place:” Healing and Faith in Chaplaincy and Religious Hospitals, Annalise Mangone

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The Effects of Mental Illness Mindsets on Stigma and Support for those with Mental Illness, Allison R. Margolis

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Committee Organization in the Virginia General Assembly, Genevieve Markee

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Associations between college students’ social media use and psychological well-being during COVID-19: is gender a moderator?, Allyson R. Marrinan

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TRAK proteins encode distinct MIRO-dependent and MIRO-independent mechanisms for associating with the mitochondrial outer membrane, Lili Mitchell

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Would you follow the leader or follow the money?, Mekenzie Montgomery

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A Differential Equations Model of Circulatory System Hemodynamics, Allison Newman

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Autistic Personality Traits and Processing of Ironic Language, Jaclyn Opie

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Cosmological Inflation in N-Dimensional Gaussian Random Fields with Algorithmic Data Compression, Connor A. Painter

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The Importance of Leaders in the Time of COVID-19, Lindsay Pett

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Determining Genetic Continuity in East Asians, Eberardo B. Raymundo

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An Introduction to Obstacle Problems, Calvin Reedy

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Virtue, Agency, and the Silence of Reasons, Abhi Kalpeshkumar Ruparelia

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Discovering the wire: Dominance effects in the processing of polysemes in sentences, Gwynna Ryan

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Fact-Checking of Claims from the English Wikipedia Using Evidence in the Wild, Aalok Sathe

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Detecting Arginine Methylation of Yeast RNA Helicase Ded1 in vivo, Amanda M. Schmitt

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How Does Transplantation Influence the Identity of Patients with End Stage Organ Disease?, Sydney Shah

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Interactive Neuroscience: Designing and Implementing Web-Based Simulations to Teach Cognitive Neuroscience Concepts in an Online Classroom A Pilot Study, Kendall Stewart

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Access Alone: The Unintentionality of the Diversification of Higher Education, Katherine Szeluga

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Does Duration Matter?: Assessing the Role of Duration in Adverse Childhood Experiences, Miranda Thompson

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Doing Good Better: The ‘Do Good’ App, Emily Trumble

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The Case for the Moral Rationale of Diversity, Will Walker Jr.

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Characterizing Heme-Induced Genes of Sodalis glossinidius, Katie Wall

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Neurobiological Comparisons of Wild and Laboratory Rats (Rattus norvegicus): Considerations for Translational Biomedical Research, Sally Watanabe

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Synthesizing Bis(phosphino)pyrrole Ligands and Their Complexes, Sophie Weinberg

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Determining the mutagenic potential of 8-oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine via the investigation of enzyme kinetics with Klen-Taq polymerase, Julia Wilcox

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Using an Intersectionality Framework to Examine Disparities in the Steps to Kidney Transplantation in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease, Kacy Workman

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Empire on Trial: The Rise and Fall of Republican Resistance in Early Augustan Rome, Spencer Yacos

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Direct Allylation of Ketones with Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate and Triethylamine, Hanyu Zhong

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Synthesis of Modulators of the MEMO1 Protein- Phenazine Derivatives, Ruoxi Lucy Zhou

Theses from 2020

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Associations Between Hookup Culture and Social Group, Ross Abrash

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An In-Silico Analysis of the Binding Affinities of HIV and HCV Protease Inhibitor Drugs to the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease, Justin Airas

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Xenophobic Rhetoric and Anti-Asian Prejudice and Discrimination during COVID-19, Eliz Akin

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Academics, Social Life, Sleep: Choose Two. An Exploratory Analysis of How the Prior Night’s Sleep Affects Task Performance and Attention Allocation., Kira Bartnick

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How to be a Good Believer: A Multifaceted Defense of Christian Belief, Cameron Bonsell

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The Long Arm of Medicine: Creation of the Turkish Medical Infrastructure, Legitimacy, Governmentality, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Eric Bossert

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Aldol Condensations and Nitrile Aldol Reactions Mediated by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Samuel R. Bottum

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Studies into the importance of Arg675 toward the mutagenic potential of 8-oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine with Klen-Taq polymerase, Claire Brown

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Learning to Check Yourself: Improving Civic Engagement Through Duties, Better Voting Practices, and Combatting Group Loyalty, Katherine Brumund

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Convergence of glandular trichome morphology and chemistry in two montane monkeyflower (Mimulus, Phrymaceae) species, Sofía Bustamante Eguiguren

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Governance in a Multiethnic Republic: Nationalist Rule and Response in Xinjiang and the Frontier, 1933-1935, Bryan C. Carapucci

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Evaluating a Culprit: A Review of the Biochemical Mechanisms of Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance, Callie Cinque

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A Hero No More?: Traces of the Byronic Hero in 19th-Century British Novels, Sydney Collins

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Gratitude, Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth among Kidney Transplant Recipients, Lillie Credle

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Differential gene expression in Ephydatia muelleri during intracellular symbiosis with Chlorella, Madeleine Delbeau

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Lifting Depression: The Impact of Contingency Training on Neurobiological Markers of Emotional Resilience, Ana Deutsch

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Nanoparticles as Alternative Ceramic Glaze Colorants, Nathan Dinh

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Cortical-Hippocampal Involvement in Problem-solving: Use of the Raccoon (procyon lotor) as a Model Organism, Jack Henry Drake

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Wood Smoke Induced Lung Inflammation via the NFκB Pathway: Characterization and Treatment with 2'-Hydroxy-4'-methoxyacetophenone in Human Monocytes, Rhiannon Edwards

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Speech, Silence, and Song: Investigating Language and Power in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Emilie Erbland

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LA LETTERATURA DELLA MIGRAZIONE E LA CREAZIONE DI UN MONDO TRANSNAZIONALE: Il caso albanese attraverso Non c’è dolcezz a di Anilda Ibrahimi & Una traduzione delle pagine 3-75 di Non c’è dolcezza di Anilda Ibrahimi, Rosemarie Ferraro

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A License to Kill: The Institutional Failure of the Legal System to Hold Police Accountable, Eliana R. Fleischer

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The Impact of Inclusive Pedagogy on Achievement and Sense of Belonging Among College Students, Taylor Frost

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The Relationship Between Nature, Media Use and Psychosocial Well Being in a College Population, Eve Gilles

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The impact of curcumin on neurodegeneration & neuroinflammation in a Drosophila melanogaster model of human Machado-Joseph Disease, Lizzie Godschall

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Crossing Cultures: The Negotiation of Gender and Racial Norms from New England to Cherokee Country, Alexis Hills

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The Raccoon Project: Exploring Optimal Neural Functions in a Novel Model Species, Bilal Hindi

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A Twisted Skein of Desire: Confession, Gaze, and Time in Andre Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name, Anthony Isenhour

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Investigating conditional mutations in MTR4: an RNA helicase associated with the nuclear exosome, Anthony Isenhour

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Follow the Leader or Follow the Strategy? The role of perceived legitimacy in evaluating leader effectiveness, Samantha M. Jaeger

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Perceptions of Consistency in the Attitudes of Another, Kevin R. Kennedy

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Profitability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Alexander Kirk

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The Electoral College: Size Really Does Matter, Alexander Kirk

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The Effect of President Trump’s Company-Specific Tweets on Company’s Stocks, Justin Kleczka

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Race vs. Skin Tone IAT: Comparing Measures of Implicit Racial Bias by Racial Ethnic Group, Neelamberi Klein

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Un vrai centriste? Les politiques d’Emmanuel Macron au 21ème siècle, Alexandra Kohnert

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“And so they abandoned it and went to Cyprus”: The Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus and Expressions of Military and Economic Power, 1291-1306, Mike Laposata

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The Influence of Flooding on Macroinvertebrate Diversity of the James River Rock Pools, Meghan Leber

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Moral Responsibility in Volitional Necessities, Krishna Lohiya

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Netflix and Kill: A look at the cultural fascination with infamous killers, Grace Lynch

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes, Adrian D. Matthews

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Storytelling for Fundraising: Assessing the Impact of Personal Stories on Donation Behavior, Kate A. McCarthy

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Estimating Value-at-Risk of an Unconventional Portfolio, Elizabeth N. Mejía-Ricart

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Tuition Resets: An Economic Analysis, Claire Mendelson

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Connectivity of Coloring Graphs, Rachel Morris

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“Smile For Me, Sweetie!”: An Analysis of Contemporary Gender Based Violence and Discrimination in The Bahamas, Jennifer Munnings

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Four Forms of Morality: How 19th-century Female Novelists Engaged Enlightenment Ideals, Griffin Myers

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The Paradox of Anxiety: Anxiety Mindset and Its Implication for Well-Being and Social Activism, Emma Nash

Competing Conceptions of Humanitarianism: Enemy Civilians and Ottoman-American Diplomacy in the Great War, 1914-1918, Nadia Neman

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Troping for Justice and Joy: A Feminist Rhetorical Study of Women’s Reproductive Health, Claire E. Noppenberger

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Liking and Listening: Impression Formation and Information Processing in Presidential Debates, Lauren Haviland O'Brien

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Design of New Ruthenium Complexes for Photoactivated Chemotherapy, Lindsey Paul

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A Flow Chemistry Implementation of the “Gupton Vinylogous Amide Chemistry” for High-yield, Regiospecific Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Polysubstituted Pyrroles, Carlos J. Perez Mandry

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Identification of Ded1 Suppressors Using Genomic Sequencing, Jennifer Piciw

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The Crowbar Sabotaged the Machine: Effects of Verb Intentionality and Syntactic Structure on Fixation Times During Reading, Michael Pittman

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Biasing Medial Axis Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees with Safe Hyperspheres, David Qin

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The Effects of Sod2 Antioxidant on Autophagy and Disease Progression in a Drosophila model of Macho-Joseph Disease, Henna Ragoowansi

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Isofunctional Clustering and Mechanistic Characterization of the Arsenate Reductase Superfamily Reveals Nine Clusters, Mikaela Rosen

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The Effects of Depressive Symptoms on Social Media Use Mediated by FoMO, Alexis Russell

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Le prix pour devenir médecin Une analyse comparative des frais de scolarité actuels associés à la formation des médecins en Suisse et aux États-Unis, Jack Dillon Scheutzow

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Universities and Carbon Neutrality: Motivation to Act and How to Create a Domino Effect, Jason Schwartz

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So What: The Justification of Morality in Christine Korsgaard’s The Sources Of Normativity, Julian Scott

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Application of β-chloroenals: one-pot syntheses to create highly variable, functional, and biologically interesting molecules, Julia Powell Siewert

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Synthesis of 2-Methylfurans Through Alkylation-Cyclization-Aromatization Reactions, Danielle Sklar