This year’s Honors College student winners by category include:
Category: Apparel/Textiles/Interior Design/Visual Arts
Beyond the Ride: The Impact of Design on the Disney World Guest Experience
Mamie Patton, Maggie Reaves (non-Honors), Drew Daniel and Kelly Bell (non-Honors)
Mentor: Dr. Laurl Self
Breaking Barriers Without Breaking History: ADA Compliance in Historic Buildings
Allison Byron, Abigail Spates(non-Honors), Taylor Stinson (non-Honors) and Anna Bounds (non-Honors)
Mentor: Dr. Laurl Self
CrossingPoints Collage
Morgan Burnham
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Minicucci
Evaluating Mobile 3D Modeling Applications for Museum Object Digitization: A Beta Test Using a Judith Leiber Minaudière from The Fashion Archive Collection
Alison Byron
Mentors: Kristin Maki, Dr. Marcy L. Koontz
Category: Business/Accounting/Finance/Management/Economics
Challenging Chronic Absenteeism
John Harris
Mentor: Dr. Robert Hammond
The Everdeen Paradox: When You Have to Conform to Be Independent
Emma Cabage, Joe Clark
Mentor: Dr. Louis Marino
Neural Networks for Establishing Loss Reserves
Caleb Eynon
Mentor: Dr. Kenny Wunder
Category: Communication Studies/University Libraries
Communication of Neutrality
Stephen Frank
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Pyle
Music for the Soul
Jada Ceasar
Mentor: Professor Gray Lloyd
Multiple brand personality disorder? Understanding ‘Big Five’ versus Aaker’s brand personality traits in influencer advertising via direct and indirect personality associations
Madeline Yob
Mentors: Dr. Jameson Hayes and Dr. Steven Holiday
Category: Engineering/Computer Science
Optimizing Mixing Conditions for Non-Aqueous Emulsions as Magnetorheological Fluid Additives: Impact on Flow Characteristics
Sarah Mitchell
Mentor: Dr. Amanda Koh
Designing the fluorinated superfine-activated carbon absorptive membrane for selective removal of long- and short-chain PFAS
Kiley Rousselle
Mentors: Dr. Milad Esfahani
Category: Health Science/ Human Performance/Nursing/Nutrition
Barriers to Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adult Survivors of Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma
Leah Dorsey
Mentor: Dr. Belinda Mandrell
Body Image, College Transitions, Perceptions of the Self: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Student Health and Wellbeing Concerning Body Image
Quinten Rostron, Dyvia Huitron (non-Honors), Weston Poff
Mentor: Dr. Ruperto Perez
Synthesis and Characterization of Naringenin-Iron Complex Nanoparticles for Overcoming Neuronal Damage
Gabrielle Kowkabany
Mentor: Dr. Yuping Bao
Identifying barriers and facilitators for successful breastfeeding support groups
Emma Taylor, Ella Baggett (non-Honors), Brianna Mills (non-Honors)
Mentor: Dr. Jen Nickelson
Category: Humanities
Reframing Freedom: The Evolution of Queer Cinema in the United States and Spain
Isabelle Cahill, Emma Day
Mentor: Dr. Ana Corbalán
Papal Politics and Public Opinion in 17th-Century Rome
Katie Graebner
Mentor: Dr. Fabio Battista
Health Kills: The Fact & Fiction of Spanish Healthcare Strikes
Madison Rogers
Mentor: Dr. Ana Corbalán
Category: Interdisciplinary Studies
The Implementation of Research PACS for Enhanced Medical Image Archival
Hannah Gardner
Mentor: Mr. Rishi Deshpande
Harmony for Health: Exploring Choral Participation as a Mental Health Intervention through the Social Ecological Model
Kyla Collins
Mentor: Dr. Morgan Luttig
Constructing Programming languages in Python utilizing indigenous syllabics
Alexis Aguillon
Mentor: Gregory Drowning Bear
Category: Life Sciences
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Dietary Choice and Water Consumption in Drosophila melanogaster
Megan Lawson, Allison John, Katie Traeger (non-Honors)
Mentor: Dr. Laura K. Reed
The Role of Tudor in Immunosenescence in Drosophila melanogaster
Ellie Gardner
Mentor: Dr. Stanislava Chtarbanova
Transcriptomics analysis of coxsackievirus B3 infection in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived brain-like endothelial cells
Taryn Keyzer
Mentor: Dr. R. Nathan Correll
Category: Performing Arts
Paper Trails
Emily Rabbideau, Sophia Rabbideau, Natalie Lutman
Mentor: Rebecca Salzer
Concerts for Joy: Examining the Impact of Community Outreach on Music Students and Audiences
Luke Turner
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Chance
Category: Physical Science/Mathematics
Investigation of the DNA Binding Activity of Light-Activated Ruthenium-Ligand Complexes as Anticancer Agents
Elena Kuehner
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Papish
Computational Mechanistic Study of the Divergent Synthesis of Functionalized 1,2,4-Triazoles and 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles via [3+2] Annulation
Richard Kulbacki
Mentor: Dr. David A. Dixon
Category: Social Sciences/Education/Human Development
Understanding the Determinants of Re-enfranchisement: An Analysis of Former Voters in Alabama
Eli Moore
Mentor: Dr. Richard Fording
Securitization of Allies
Jack Gibby
Mentor: Dr. Alessandro del Ponte
Congratulations to all winners. For a full list of winners, please click here.