Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences

Sophia Gibson

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title:  Moral Distress, Burnout, and Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals

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Nikki Gross

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Living Reproductive Politics: Legislating the Female Body in the Modern and Historical United States

Syndey Nichols

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Functions of Feeling: Affect and Photography in the American South, 1950s-70s

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Thomas Long

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Forever

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Justin Nogy

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Tattoo Ritual: Significance and Stigmatization in Ancient and Modern Tattoo Practice

Jessie Agcaoili

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effects of the Deletion of the Cytoplasmic Domain of the  Robo3 Gene in Drosophila

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Walker Bartels

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title:  Multi-Electrode Arrays of In Vitro Neuronal Cultures Infected with Human Herpesvirus 6

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Sadie Beeman

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Identifying Middle Molecules in Urine Using Capillary Electrophoresis

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Adriana Beruvides

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effect of larval rearing environment on female Bicyclus mate choice

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Phoebe Bruffett

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Examining the Invasion of Brush Honeysuckle Through a  Phylogenetic Analysis

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Mallory Caldwell

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Role of a predicted flavodoxin (MA1799) in the transfer of electrons to Nitrogenase

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Rylee Cook

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Exploring Nitrogen Fixation in Methanosarcina acetivorans

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Zoe Dean

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effect of the Obese Tumor Microenvironment on the Metastic Potential of ANGPTL4-overexpressing Xenografts from Black and White Women

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Elizabeth Dominguez

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Identifying and Quantifying Cytopatmic effects from Human Herpesvirus 6 Infections on Differentiated Human Neural Stem Cells

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Duru Erkan

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Quantification of Dental Fissures Through Occlusal Topography Analysis

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Kristen Gates

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Advancing the Chemical Characterization of the Secreted Fraction of Pseudomonas Protegens PBL3 to Enable Biopesticide Development

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Jaren Hernandez

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Evaluation of Selected Feed Additives for Protection Against Lameness and Improving the Wellbeing of Broilers in a Lameness Challenge Model

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Salem Jackson

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Determining the Shelf Life of Peptide Seed Treatment

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Madison Jennings

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Synchronization of Nocturnal Pollinator Behavior and Apple Flower Nectar Production

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Caroline Johnson

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Examining Differences in Social Perceptions Between Women Using Hormonal Contraceptives and Naturally Cycling Women

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Ashton Jones

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effects of Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Perceptions of Social Stress in Women

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Gopi Lukhi

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Design and Characterization of a Novel Fibroblast Growth Factor Dimer Variant

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Kristen Malir

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Investigating the Potential Role for the Nervous system in Controlling Regeneration in Nematostella vectensis

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Brooke Martin

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effects of Time Restricted Feeding on Glucose and Insulin Levels for Reducing Type 2 Diabetes Risk

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Regan Massey

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Elevated Levels of External Cysteine Inhibit Nitrogen Fixation by the Methanogenic Archaeon Methanosarcine acetivorans

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Davin Means

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Label-free and quantitative monitoring of cellular metabolism in glioblastoma using optical metabolic imaging

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Sophie Meyers

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Comorbidities Associated with Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Diease:  A Claims-Data Analysis

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Conor Moriarty

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Examining Moth relationships between frequency of visits using AI to examine the relationship between nocturnal moth pollination with flowering apple trees; the role of moth behavior, family classification, time and frequency of visits to apple tree pollination

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John Odom

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Utilization of the Fundamental Attribution Error with Increased Immune System Inflammation

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Morgan Pelley

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Influence of temperature and body size on food consumption in prairie lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus)

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Anna Richardson

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: How Flow Regimes Affect Predator-Prey Relationships in Stream Darter Species

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Hannah Ringgold

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: Viral Production and Transmission Rates - A Comparison between Sulfolobus Spindle-Shaped Viruses (SSV):  SSV8 and SSV9

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Amy Schexnayder

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Seasonality of Orthohantavirus seroprevalence in Northwest Arkansas

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Rachel Siebenmorgen

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Structural formation and functionality of the Linker Region of SpoIIE protein in Clostridium difficile

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Swetha Sirigineedi

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effect of a Health Educational Program on Sleep Related Health Outcomes

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Taryn Tibbs

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effect of larval experience on learning mate preference in Bicyclus anynana

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Jarrod Varnell

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: CRISPR-Cas9 identification of a gene influencing Innate female mate-choice in Bicyclus anynana

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Mary Claire Walker

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Monkeypox Virus Hosts and Transmission Pathways: A Systematic Review of a Zoonotic Pathogen

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Troy Warfield

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Life after Death: Does Carcass Biodiversity Scale with Carcass Body Size?

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Breanna Williams

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effects of a Leucine Supplementation on Mitochondrial Markers in Pre-Cachectic Female Mice

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Kathleen Woods

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Temperature and LPS dependent modulation of cytokine expression in murine macrophages

Liam Alderson

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Purification and Characterization of a Cysteine-free Hyperstable Human Fibroblast Growth Factor

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Mia Alshami

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and in vitro Biological Assessment of trans-Platinum (II) Thionate Complexes as Potent Anticancer Agents

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Josie Carson

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: Determining the Full-Length Structure of Collagenase H using Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering 

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Meghana Chithirala

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Identifying Cellular Proteins that Determine the Activation State of the Proapoptotic Protein Bax

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Samantha Doehring

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Identifying Cellular Proteins that Determine the Activation State of the Proapoptotic Protein Bax

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Brett Haley

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Characterization of FGF1/2 Heterodimer with Mutation R136E

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Chloe Hutchison

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Characterization of a Protein-Small Molecule Interaction Between Microtubvies and Novel Ruthenium-Polypyridyl Complexes

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Mandeep Kaur

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Design for the Efficient Production and Purification of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2

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Suraj Kolluru

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Overexpression and Purification of Anginex:  An Inhibitor of Tumor Metastisis

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Olivia Mayer

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Use of Proline as Cryoprotectant

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Bilal Momand

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Synthesis and Electrochemical Deposition of Ruthenium-Terpyridine Compounds

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Matthew Nelson

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: An Examination of Quantum Mechanics in Biochemistry and their Effects in the Thermodynamics of Photosynthesis

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Anders Nowell

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Regulation of the Reaction Between Cytochrome c and Cytochrome c Oxidase in the Mitochondria

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Sara Ottinger

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Studying the Lysine Acetylation of Aconitase Isozymes in E. coli

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Dania Rahal

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Translation of HDAC6 PET Imaging using [18F]EKZ-001-CGMP Production and Measurement of HDAC6 Torget Occupancy in NHPS - O Review

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Devin Sha

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Characterizing Small Molecule Effects on Effector Protein-Protein Interactions

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Madison Shields

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Hyper Stable Variants of FGF-1-FGF-2 Dimer

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William Strickland

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Spike Protein Structural Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Studied Using Molecular Dynamics

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Amanda Tomanek

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Investigation of the Binding Domain Interfaces of the C-terminus of the Albino3 Insertase and the 43kDa Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle Subunit via Single Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer

Lily Arbuckle

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Future is Female?  Evaluating the Utility of Female Professional Networking Organizations

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Sarah Boll

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: College Students Utilizing Dating Apps During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tyler Ford

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Can Violent Political Rhetoric Influence Hate Crime Rates?  Analyzing the Trump Effect

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Sydney Gaughan

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Print News Media and Prisoner Reentry:  An Exploratory Study of Local Newspapers in 2018

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Megan Greenslade

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Impacts of Post-Incarceration Programming for Women's and Local Communities

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Emory Kincaid

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Unemployment and the United States Incarcerated Population: Analyzing the Relationship Between Incarceration and Employment

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Sophia Woods

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: An Exploration of Immigrant-Related Factors and the Likelihood of Victimization in the United States

Jillian Brugger

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Supporting Belizean Non-Profits through Grant Writing Proposals in the Agricultural and Educational Sectors

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Griffin Fulton

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Risk Preferences, Time Preferences, and Vaping

Aura Comer

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: #MeToo:  The Literary and Social Impact of Sexual Violence Narratives

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Madelyn Dumas

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Hounds of Eden

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Meghan Fleming

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: An Exploration of Mary Shelley and Jane Austen in the Political Romanticism Movement

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Ellen Marie Gray

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Where are They Now?

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Caroline Jennings

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Stop and Smell the Fractals:  An Exploration into Math, Poetry, and Everything in Between

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Landon McKay

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Biting Time:  Stories Reflecting a Changing Horror Genre

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Olivia Schaap

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: An Exploration of Personal Bias

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Trevor Speight

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: On the Way Down

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Katelynn Tyner

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Attention, Reflection, and Contemplation:  Approaching the Divine through Romantic Poiesis

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Gabrielle Vatthanatham

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Memory Hunger:  An Analysis on the Existential Implications of the Glorification of Paris in the Works of Lost Generation Writers

William Hadley

Geography

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Dust Bowl Wind Patterns in the US Great Plains -- a Potential Analog for Medieval Megadrought

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Camden Rainwater

Geology

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Demotechnic Index of Nations (1980-2018)

Mary Claire Durr

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Womanless Weddings and Beauty-less Pageants:  A History of Rural Drag in Arkansas

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Alison Fong

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Disruptions and Continuity in the Singaporean Chinese Community:  Social Networks, Collaborationist, and the Black Market under the British and Japanese Administrations, 1819-1960

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Michael Fuhrman

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Building with Stories:  Collecting Narratives and Understanding Cultural Realities for Vietnamese Buddhist Populations in Fort Smith, Arkansas

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Georgiana Powell

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Tale of Two Libraries:  A History of the Public Library Systems of Atlanta, GA and Baltimore, MD and How LIbraries Across America Adapt to thier Communities

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Emily Snyder

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Political Power of Museums: A Case Study on the Spanish Colonial Arts Society and Museum

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Jack West

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Plastic Makes Perfect:  An Analysis of Plastic Surgery as a Rehabilitation In Early to Late 20th Century Prison Populations

Fernanda Alcantara

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Their Pain is Our Pain: The Intersectionality of Identity Formation, Socioeconomic Status and Transgenerational Trauma in Latine Youth

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Josephine Drydale

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Work of La Via Campesina Regarding the Intersection of Land Occupation and Food Sovereignty

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Henry Forteith

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The International Perception of the Irish Republican Army and Chechan Insurgency

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Sydney Golding

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Last Leg:  A Social Sustainability Assessment of Ovine Agriculture

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Sol Halle

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Reinventing our understanding of the Left-Right political dichotomy: the case of Argentina

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Avery Hasten

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: International Actors: Investigating Celebrities as Human Rights Actors

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Amy McCampbell

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Social Media’s Effect on Youth-Organized Political Activism and its Relation to International Organizations’ Involvements for Intergenerational Unity Initiatives

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Cecily Monson

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effects of the Francoist Dictatorship on Contemporary Spanish Society and Government and the Subsequent Effects on U.S.-Spain Diplomatic Relations from 1975-Present

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Tylor Rea-Garibay

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Premature Assimilation of Hong Kong

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Sara Rulli

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Two Sides to the Story: Mutual Aggression Post-Cold War

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Mary Kathryn Strickland

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Single Family Working Together”: Evaluating Community Partnership Strategies within the Disaster Management Initiatives of Caritas Internationalis in Southeast Asia

Elizabeth Petrie

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The News and Social Media Algorithms: An Evaluation of Serendipity in the Infosphere

Rachel McCann

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: 3-Uniform 4-Path Decompositions of Complete 3-Uniform Hypergraphs

Christopher Mason Bennett

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Ethics of Masking During a Pandemic

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Alex Siebenmorgen

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Down the Misinformation Rabbit Hole:  Falling or Jumping in?

Chloe Benton

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Chandra Spectral Constraints of the Low-metallicity Collision Ring Cartwheel Galaxy

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Sabrina Jones

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Scale-Free Behavioral Dynamics Directly Linked with Scale-Free Cortical Dynamics

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Ashley Lieber

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Monitoring the M-dwarf Host Stars of TESS Exoplanet Candidates: Stellar Flares and Habitability

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Luke Long

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Ongoing calculus in cerebral cortex

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Alex Siebenmorgen

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Emergent Spectra of Young X-Ray Emitting Populations Across Environments

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Cory Stephenson

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Functionality of Novel 2D Material SN3P2

Teia Anderson

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Police Use of Deadly Force:  An Examination of How Interactions Regarding Police as a Minor Affects Adult Opinion on Police Regulation Legislation

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Frances Delacey

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial Election and the Impact of Gender Perceptions Towards High-Profile Conservative Women

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Ramsey Ghaleb

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: Framing the Science Behind the Headlines: Combatting Anti-Vaxxers through Narrative

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Zachary Hogue

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: The Unitary Executive Theory

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Jason Neeley

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Determinants of Public Corruption in Arkansas and the Nation

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Zoe Patrick

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Eradicating Global Poverty: Who is the answer?

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Daniella Ruiz Cantu

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Black Occularity, the White Gaze, and Color-Blindness in Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton

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Emily Schlichtig

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Gateway to Housing Discrimination: A St. Louis Case Study to Identify Home Loan Denial Rates among Black and White Citizens

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Mackenzie Selby

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Consequences of Partisan Monopolies in American Samoa

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Jack Switzer

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Relationship Between COVID Policies and Student Growth in the Nine Largest Arkansas Public School Districts During the 2020-2021 Academic Year

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Amelia Ver Woert

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Ideological Preferences of Supreme Court Justices: The Shift Throughout the Term

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Beck Williams

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Understanding and Improving the System:  The Effects of Weighting on the Accuracy of Political Polling in Arkansas

Cara Bascom

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Prospective Person Memory in the Case of Missing Persons:  A Coffee Shop Study

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Carroll Bentley

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Differential Neural Correlates Underlying Different Cognitive Control Strategies and Their Relationship With the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale

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Jasmine Blake

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Association between Adolescent Dating Violence and Internalizing Symptoms: Insecure Attachment Style as a Moderator

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Madelynn Fancher

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Influence of Facial Exposure Duration on Confidence in Eyewitness Identity

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Hannah Frala

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Scrolling Through Instagram to Change How You Feel: How People Use Social Media to Regulate Their Emotions

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Ryan Harra

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of a Peer-Based Mentorship Program in Reducing Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Among College Students

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Katelynn Kallodaychsak

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Examining the Relations Among Stress, Depression, and Moral Descision-Making

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Mallory MacDonald

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effectiveness of Affective based Intervention depending on Personal Relevance to a Conspirancy Belief

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Lucinda Prettyman

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: The Effect of Pet Ownership and Interaction on Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Noah Ross

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Relationship Between Pet and Human Separation Anxiety on Owners' Anxiety and Physical Health

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Brynn Schuetter

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Diagnostic Featural Detection or Filler Siphoning: A Red Box Study

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Danielle Shaver

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: It's Not You, It's Me:  Contextualizing Relationship Conflict, Self-Criticism, and Emotion Regulation

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Whitney Skaggs

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Examining the Effects of Different Coping Styles on Dependent Stress Generation

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Karli Spann

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Adolescent Dating Violence: Attachment Styles and Parents' Unhealthy Marital Relationship as Possible Predictors

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Abigail Vance

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on Negative State Dependent Bias

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Trinity Walker

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Theory of Mind: Temporary superpower or coincidence?

Hannah Baker

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Effects of Experiences on the Personal Reclamation of Slurs Within the College-Aged LGBTQ+ Community at the University of Arkansas

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Rheanna Morgan

Summa Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Retrospective Study of the Relationship Between Gender Perception and Female Students' Academic Success in STEM Majors

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Claire Tiffin

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Mixed Method Research Study that Explores If and How Nonprofits are Successfully Using Social Media to Fundraise 

Ashley Jordan Smith

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: A Content Analysis of the Equal Rights Amendment

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Chloe Hawkins

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: The History of the Death Penalty and an Analysis on the Effectiveness of Capital Punishment

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Christina Varghese

Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Perceived COVID-19 Threat Across the Intersections of Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender

Andrew Elkins

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis Title: Historical Underpinnings and Consequent Effects of Labor Exploitation of Mexican and Central Americans in the United States

Henry Aggus

Summer Graduate

Thesis Title: The Show Must Go On:  Repercussions of SARS-CoV-2 on Amateur and Professional Theaters in Northwest Arkansas