Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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Speaking of Stress: Predictors and Consequences of Stress Mindset in College Students
(2021-05)This paper focuses on the relevance of stress mindsets to college students. Stress mindsets describe the intuitive beliefs that people hold about the nature of stress as either enhancing or debilitating. In two studies, ... -
L’Expérience Royale d’Henry Christophe en Haïti
(2021-04-27)Henry Christophe, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the self-proclaimed “First Monarch in the New World, Defender of Faith, Founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry”, founded the Kingdom of Haiti in April ... -
An Analysis of French and English Indo-Caribbean Literary Depictions of Indentured Servitude and Its Associated Neurological Implications
(2021-04-23)The Indo-Caribbean diaspora is largely unstudied in current scientific literature. However, 300,000 Americans and 2,500,000 people worldwide currently make up this demographic. Indo-Caribbeans are descendants of indentured ... -
The Dangerous Popess: Pope Joan, the Exclusion Crisis, and Restoration Theater
(2021-04-22)As a tale of subversive female power and disguise, the myth of Pope Joan has captured the attention of many throughout the ages. The early modern period saw much debate about the reality of Pope Joan as Protestants realized ... -
Global Equity Challenges in COVID-19 Vaccine Purchasing
(2021-04-21)A rush to preemptively secure COVID-19 vaccines resulted in high income countries hoarding an excess supply while low- and middle-income countries are prevented from equitable access. Previous work on equity in vaccine purchasing ... -
Schur Polynomials and Crystal Graphs
(2021-04-19)The Casselman-Shalika formula connects special values of p-adic Whittaker functions to characters of Schur polynomials in type A. We study the structure of the expansion of these Whittaker functions in order to derive new ... -
Blurring Contagion in the Information Age: How COVID-19 Troubles the Boundaries of the Biomedical and Socioinformatic
(2021-04-19)This project reexamines contagion in the time of the internet through utilizing COVID-19 as a case study. I first look at the biomedical implications of the term contagion through a historical lens and then track its leakage ... -
Solitons for the Closed G2 Laplacian Flow
(2021-04-19)Geometric flows are partial differential equations on smooth manifolds which describe the time evolution of some geometric structure on the manifold, such as a Riemannian metric. In the setting of G2 geometry, which is specific ... -
Implementing Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions
(2021-04-19)An implementation in Macaulay2 of the Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions explicitly defined in Minimal resolutions of monomial ideals. Intuition, explanation is given for the theoretical as well as the applied math, and any ... -
Chasing Dreams or Avoiding Ruin: Neural Activation to Goal Priming in Low-Income vs. Control Adolescents
(2021-04-09)Goals are central to our identities. An important process related to goals is self-regulation: the process of pursuing goals despite internal and external forces that might disrupt it. Adolescents have been shown to struggle ... -
Reconsidering Occupy Oakland and Its Horizons: Media Misframing, Decolonizing Fractures, and Enduring Resistance Hub
(2021-04)Reconsidering Occupy Oakland and Its Horizons is an archival study of the creation, reception, evolution, and remembrance of Occupy Oakland using a feminist lens. I investigate how Occupy Oakland’s radically democratic ... -
Usos de SER/ESTAR en los foros de discusión lingüística: la pragmática de la interacción entre aspecto verbal y clases semánticas
(2021-04)Este estudio es la culminación de muchos años de curiosidad sobre cómo el español que aprendí, estudié y desarrollé durante mi proceso de adquisición se encontraba con usos y ejemplos que no solo eran sorprendentes en términos ... -
Loving Leadership, Joyful Submission: The Dismantling of Female Ordination in the Southern Baptist Denomination
(2021-03-29)In this paper, I explore how members of the Southern Baptist (SB) denomination developed their arguments, tactics, and rhetoric to stall integration during the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and how these SBs later refined ... -
Hispanic Families’ Utilization of Social Benefits: A Regional Analysis
(2021-02-16)The connection between race and social benefits is so strong that many times the issue of social benefits is seen as a racial versus a social issue. I hypothesize that Hispanic families in new destination locations which ... -
How Testing Serves African Americans in Epidemics, Past and Present: Applying Lessons from Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in the United States
(2021-02-12)Rather than lacking the resources, knowledge or empirical evidence to successfully address testing inequities in the African American community, the U.S. lacks the imagination and commitment to directly confronting structural ... -
Farmworker Perceptions of Work Safety, Work Hours, and Living Conditions
(2021-02-10)Farmworkers are integral to the functioning of society in the US. Farmworkers are invisible heroes, and they deserve their voices to be heard, their experiences to be shared, and their perspectives to be intentionally ... -
Organizing Online - Political Participation and Hobbyism on Reddit
(2021-02)Over the last decade, social media has transformed many aspects of society, including how citizens participate in politics. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are famous for promoting conflict, driving polarization, ... -
911, Is There an Emergency? The Effects of Gentrification on 911 Calls in Durham, NC
(2021-02)In recent years, urbanization in the United States has led to the displacement of low-income, minority communities for middle and high-income individuals, a process termed gentrification. Scholars debate the benefits and ... -
Gender Pay Inequality in Professional Sports: How Policy Shapes A Consistent Divide
(2021-02)This research analyzes whether there is a role for policy to ensure gender pay equality in professional American sports. In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex ... -
Coming Home to Bull City: A Program Evaluation of Durham’s Local Reentry Council
(2021-01-19)Since the 1970s, the U.S. has seen a 500% increase in its total incarcerated population. Not only are people formally incarcerated, but as of 2016, there were about 6.6 million individuals under any kind of criminal supervision, ...
