Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
The Chancellor’s Honors Program (CHP) is the University of Tennessee’s largest university-wide honors program. Founded in 1985, CHP membership is approximately 5-10% of undergraduate students. Admission to the program is highly selective and usually occurs when students matriculate from high school. The typical entering Chancellor’s Honors student has excelled in a rigorous high school curriculum and demonstrated exceptional leadership potential.
In recognition of their specialized course work, faculty-mentored independent scholarship, international & intercultural learning, and exceptional academic performance, Chancellor’s Honors students earn an honors designation on their transcript and are bestowed an honors medallion.
For questions or comments concerning the Honors Thesis Project collection, please contact honors@utk.edu
Projects from 2007
The Responsibilities of Propofol-Induced Sedation during Endoscopes in relation to BIS Monitored Anesthesia Depth, Douglas David Wellons
Images of Women in Hispanic Literature, Emily Blair Whelchel
The Prince and the Master, Stephen Bradley Williams
The Interaction of Acoustic Phonons and Photons in the Solid State, Ian Douglas Winters
Jane Austen and Female Voice, Corey Megan Wise
Developing a Phylogenetic trace of M. Marinum Strah in comparison to M Accrens, Andrew Peter Wong
Healthcare and Title I Schools, Steven Han-Chiu Yau
Science Made Simple: the Literary Approach to Scientific Investigation, Ashley Jean Yeager
Projects from 2006
Exploring the role of solo, in drosophila females, Jessica Michelle Adams
Team Strategy Project, United, Kalilah Ingrid Allen
Generation of Crz-MCD8-GFP Transgenic Fly Strain for the Use of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a Reporter Protein in the Analysis of Corazonin-Expressing Neurons (Crz), Mitchell Ryan Allgyer
Faith-Based Initiatives and Their Relation to Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc., Jerome Victor Ambrosia
Analysis of large Solar Particles Events with Extraction of Doses Per Energy Contribution with Implications for Space Radiation Shielding, Caleb Deen Bastian
The Effect of Increasing A Rider's Weight on A Horse's Stride, Kathleen M. Benton
No Title, Manjit Singh Bhatti
Analysis of the Boonstra Lithics Collection, Rachael Cloud Bible
Communicating at Work: Effective Practices in Non-Profits, Lauren D. Binkley
Your Baby and You: Nutrition for Two, Sara Elizabeth Bliss and Ashley Paige Duhl
Optical Orientation of Lutetium Oxyorthosicilcate, Lee J. Brogan
Do Gamers Get the Grades? A Study of University of Tennessee Students, their GPAs, and gaming behavior, Virginia Catherine Brooks
Testing FGLK Regions in PrSSU, Christopher Michael Browne
Perceptions of Comfort: Anticipation, Engagement, Reflection A Center for Reptiles and Amphibians at the Knoxville Zoo, Robert Wendel Bundy
IEEE Robot Design, Brian Scott Burress, Justin Wayne King, and Andrew Northam Wooster
SunTrust: A Case Study, Christopher Andrew Call
Temporary Stronghold, Valerie L. Campbell
The Sociological and Political Aspects of Working at Sarah Moore Green, Jennifer Dawn Cavanaugh
Advocacy Issues in Gifted Education, Aaron Joseph Chapman
A Tutor's Handbook, James Clark
International Marketplace:The differences and implications between Western European and U.S.markets, Kimberly Ellen Cochran
Identification of CHD2 Nuclear Localization Signals, Alisha Gail Coffey
Genotypic diversity mediates the distribution of an ecosystem engineer, Kerri Margaret Crawford
The State of Executive Compensation, Yazan Ramadan Damiri
Viral Chemokine, VCXCL-2 From Human Cytomegalovirus, Sheetal Jay Dedania
No Title, Dominick Anthony DeSalvo
Your Baby and You: Nutrition for Two, Ashley Paige Duhl
DENSO Design Project: Instrumal Cluster Free Cleaner, Russell Brandon Dunlap
Identification and Comparison of the Pollinators for the Purple-fringed Orchids Platanthera psycodes and P.grandiflora, John Richard Evans
The Pivotal Roles of Henry Dundas and William Pitt in the British Cabinet Fiasco of 1800, Jordan Scott Ferrell
Construction of CheA4 Mutant in Azospirillum brasilense, Jennifer Anita Folda
Can Freakonomics Be Right? The Importance of Early Reading, Susan P. Folk
The Structure of Matricially Quasinormal Tuples , Katherine Collier Frederick
Childhood Victimization and the Black Post-Traumatic Culture: A Life Course Perspective, Megan Lynette Frederick
Tennessee Municipalities and EPA Phase II Regulations: A Survey of Current Funding Mechanisms, Kristopher Donald Frye
No Title, Adam Blair Fuller
Speleothem deposits in a proterozoic paleokarst, mesoproterozoic dismal lakes group, Arctic Canada., James F. Glover
Response-to-Intervention: A Future Educator’s Review of the Process , Margaret Pamela Gordon
Abraham Lincoln and the Northern Civil War Press, Christina Michelle Haines
The Welfare of a State vs. Due Process: The Kelo Case, Megan Brittney Hall
The history and culture of food, Jennifer Marie Ham
Microwave Synthesis of Ortho-Bromo-Vioxix, Sarah Elizabeth Hammond
Challenge X--Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, Kevin C. Hansom
CO2 Shadow Prices in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry: Calculating the Costs of Reducing CO2 Emissions, Eric Harkness
Process Redesign and Technology Integration in Museum Exhibitions: Designing the Appalachian Experience exhibit at the Oak Ridge Children's Museum., Richard Andrew Hohenbrink
Sarbanes-Oxley:The Effect on Small Cap Companies Listing on Foreign Exchanges, Ashley Elizabeth Holland
Ideology vs.Practice in Argentina's Dirty War Repression, Keith Hollingshead-Cook
Old Hickory Nature Trail, Davidson County, TN, Lindsey Elaine Houchens
Holiday by Philip Barry, Lauren M. Houston
Reel War, Charles Joseph Hubbard
The Effects of Globalization on Chinese Government, Haley T. Hubbard
Exploring the Possibility of A Business Survey Course for Pre-Professional Students, Patrick Alan Hunter
What are the "Best" Saying About Ethics? A Study of Corporate Codes of Ethics, William Clayton Irby
No Title, Nathan Kenneth Jansen
Public Subsidization of Professional Sports Stadiums: Does it Pay Off?, Ryan Matthew Jones
Minimal Truth, Moral Conflict and Metaethical Relativism, Paul Julian
The Complexities of Privacy Concerns in the EU and US, Pre and Post Twenty-First Century Terrorist Acts in the Digital Age: What Does the Future Hold?, John Ahmad Karbaf
Comparison of caffeine-inducibility of 0.8-kb and 0.2-kb upstream DNA of the Cyp6a8 gene in male Drosophila melanogaster, Lauren Kylie Keller
Implementation of Biomaterials for the Encapsulation of Sensors, Katherine Rebekah Kesler, William Shriver Dabbs, and David Andrew Holmes
Planning Ahead: A Project to Enable Students to Purchase Real Estate During Undergraduate Years, Thomas Paul King
Stock Options as Compensation: Good,Bad or Indifferent? , William Henry Kittrell
Maritime Terrorism in Southeast Asia, Lara E. Kuhnert
Cover to Cover: A guide for Those who wish to create a student magazine, Laura Jennifer Lacy
No Title, Seth Douglas Lawson
Genomic Characterization of Bovine Beta-Defensias, Stavely Michael Legett
Functional Analysis of CHES1 During Mouse Development, Lesley R. Littrell-Starnes
Load Balancing for High Availability, Matthew Graham Lopez
Racial Recidivism in Peru: A Forsaken Truth, Matthew L. Lorenz
Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Death Penalty, and Rationales for Punishment, Rahiim Manji
September 11th in Contemporary Literature, Rachel L. Matthews
The Effect of SOX on a Corporation, Sara Marie Merkord
Cancer formation and the spindle assembly checkpoint, Heather Nicole Mitchell
Comic Short Story, Eric McMillan Moore
"No Joke": A Creative Exhibition, Matthew David Morris
Structuring the Collapse: Semantics, Sampling, and Divorce in The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg, Benjamin Oyler
Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Apple Juice as Affected by Cranberry Juice Concentration and Holding Temperature, Ashley Shancy Pedigo
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment, Brett T. Penley
An individual-based model of the social spider Anelosimus studiosus, Alex Perkins
Analysis of psToc 34 of the Translocon at the Outer Envelope Membrane of Chloroplasts, Wesley Scott Phillips
Biocompatible Microelectromechanical Sensor Array for Orthopaedic Use, Emily Pritchard
HIV/AIDS Education at Union County High School, Lisa Ardath Qualman
The Mathematics Behind Neural Networks Used to Predict Charpy Toughness of Metals, Stacey Lora Raden
No Title, Erin Danon Raines
Evaluating Sexual Assault Awareness and Attitudes, Rachel Lynn Raines
Path Integral Ground State Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations for a Double Well Potential Surface, Britni Jantha Ratliff
The Development of Beauty and Beast Through 31 Revisions of the Tale, Beth Ellen Reith
Film and Adolescent Therapy: The Portrayal and Popularization of Psychiatry in Film, Lindsay Anne Renfro
No Title, Sara Jane Robinson
Ninjas with Agendas: Discovering the Agenda Behind the Masks, Justin Rubenstein
Far From the Tree, Jennifer Marie Ruth
No Title, Derek Ryan Sanders