2015–2016 Honors Senior Theses

Listed below are Honors Program students’ theses from the 2015–2016 academic year.

• “No Road Between the Shining Sun,” Theresa Bailey
• “ISIS: Battling an ‘Intellectual Contagion,’” Joseph Bencomo
• “A Joint Time-Frequency FPGA Implementation for Room Response Characterization,” Joe Boesso
• “Regional Uptake of Carbon Bioxide Over Agricultural Landscapes Compared with Landscape Pigmentation Determined by Satellite,” Angie Bouche
• “An Analysis of the Economic Impact on Olympic Games Host Cities,” Katherine Boukidis
• “Project Brimstone,” Nina Cammarata
• “Does Connexin Mimetic Peptide Affect Immune Response Following Traumautic Brain Injury?” James Coy-Dibley
• “Space & Choreography: Specific Choreographic Challenges of Dance in Connection to Landscape,” Emily Creek
• “The Art of Parcorgi,” Heather Dove
• “Mapping All the Matter in the Universe with Weak Gravitational Lensing,” Spencer Everett
• “Exploring Globalization in Modern Drama: Poverty Normalization in Behind the Beautiful Forevers and the World of Extreme Happiness,” Dylan Farhoome
• “Subaltern Studies: A Critical Investigation,” Alec Fiorini
• “Play4learn: A Journey from Soteria,” Yuan Gao
• “Analog Synthesis: Moog to Me,” Matthew Garvin
• “Anterograde,” Adriana Gogolin
• “Epic Videogame,” Zac Gross
• “Residential Segregation and Health Disparities in Chicago: Examining the Role of Neighborhood Context in Shaping Health,” Realino Gurdiel
• “Disappearing Palestine: The Consequences of Israeli Tourism,” Areej Hamdan
• “Antitrust and Hospital Consolidation: An Evaluation of Costs and Benefits,” Alexandra Hofert
• “Politicians Behaving Badly: Perceived Immorality of Same-and Opposing Party Politicians,” Gabrielle Iverson
• “Environmental Literacy and Awareness of Honors Program Students,” Olivia Johnson
• “Profane Exploitation: Modern Japan’s Treatment of Nature,” Elam Jones
• “Building the Caliphate,” Alex Kfoury
• “Physical Activity in Adolescents: Learning and Personality,” Deena Kishawi
• “Shopping for Sustainability: Whole Foods Market and the Contradictions of Corporate Organics,” Zoe Krey
• “The Relationship Between Diet and Sexual Activity,” Ashleigh Krider
• “Mashrou' Leila: Navigating Western Approaches to ‘Arab’ Indie Pop,” Elise Manchester
• “Vanishing Perspectives: Presenting Lost History,” Yasmin Mitchell
• ”Identity & Inclusion: A Study of Second General Asian American Students at DePaul,” Xuan Mo
• “Computationally Testing the Moral Political Models of George Lakoff,” Jordan Myers
• “Unfair Play: Tax Application in Professional Sports,” Brenna Nolan
• ”Women in Computing: Exploring the Gender Gap,” Marissa Pauly
• “A Place of My Own: Making Space for Experience of Chronic Illness in Modern Literature,” Megan Pietz
• ”Lego’s Innovative Brand Community: A Model Dissected,” Kristina Pouliot
• “Plan for a Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement at DePaul University,” David Purucker
• “Organized Nowhere: Brutalist Experiments and LeCorbusier in a Postwar Britain, 1945–1975,” Courtney Schum
• “Social Impact Investment: The Answer to Development for the Millennial Age?,” Emily Snider
• “The Use of Bassoon in Russian Orchestral Music,” Cynthia Stacy
• “Collective Awe and Prosocial Behavior,” Brigid Stegemoeller
• “Discourse and Materiality: An Ecocritical Reading of Walt Whitman,” Adam Syvertsen
• “A Broader Look at Why American Schools are Failing,” Jill Theile
• “What Happens Abroad, Stays Abroad: The Difference Between Sex Work on Military Bases and Sex Work at Home,” Alyce Thompson
• “Political Marketing in the Digital Era”, Thao Ton
• “NAFTA & NAALC: The Effects on Mexican Labor and their Response,” Cynthia Toscano
• “The Cultural Relevance of American FDI into Ireland,” Bridget Troy
• “Incarceration, Isolation & Economics in Chicago,” Katherine Wiese