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 2006
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
Implicitly Explicit: A Case for a constitutional right to privacy, Amanda Gale Sanford
Mutual Funds- A look into Information Available to the Average Investor, Brandon Lewis Scarbro
The Role of Gender in Politics: What it Takes for a Woman to Succeed at the National Level, Heather Ann Scarbrough
The Battle for the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War of 1973: A Battle Analysis, Benjamin Stanley Scott
Adding to MySQL , Joel Benjamin Seligstein
Research into Entrepreneurship and How-To Kit for Starting a Business, Katie Nicole Siegal
Hospital Industry Drivers and the Knoxville Hospital Industry in the year 2020, Ryan Parks Smitherman
Smokey's Last Ride: A Small Scale Approach to Alternative Fuels, Christopher L. Stewart
Changing Votes through Changing Minds, Julia Anne Stoll
United States Oil Dependency and Foreign Policy, Lauren Sutterfield
Aquaporins and Aquaglyceroporins:Observing the relationship between structure and function, Jennifer Courtney Szeto
The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce and the Effects of Optimism and Marital Expectations on Relationship Satisfaction, Jamie Rechelle Thomas
Southwest Airlines Corporation: A Domestic Industry Analysis & Recommendation for Expansion, Joel LaSharon Thomas
The Stage Door Canteen:"Nothing is too good for the boys!", Kathleen Winter Thomforde
A Study of the Application of Strategic Planning to the Marketing of a Philanthropic Event, Lee Ann Thompson
Establishing a Commission on Civic Education in the State of Tennessee, Bradford Allen Vaughan
A Mutagenic Approach to Test a Structural Model for the Self-Association of Human Plasma Vitronectin, Kevin C. Walters
The Psychological Effects of Experiencing Pediatric Oncology, Mary Frances Wedekind
"Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Its Impact on Corporate America", Megan Carol Welch
Monitoring Pre-Literacy Acquisition in Children with Hearing Impairment through the Use of Curriculum-Based Measures, Krystal Leigh Werfel
Beet Armyworm(Spodoptera exigua)DNA Detection in the Diet of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats(Tadarida brasiliensis), Walter Richard Whitworth
No Title, Blan Clark Williams
No Title, Christopher Edward Williams
The Emergence of Neoliberalism and Free Trade in the Developing World, Ryan Matthew Womack
Making of the Band, Andrea Renee Woods
Fueling the Fire: The Backdraft of the French Riot of 2005, Sarah L. Woolard
The Neutralization of Bioterrorism Agents: Bacillus cereus Spore Survival on Stainless Steel Surfaces in the Presence of Household Sanitizers, Adam Clayton Wright
China, Oil, and the World, Michael Scott Wyckoff
Finding A Voice: The Woman's Suffrage Movement in the South, Cynthia J. Yarbrough
Study of Cellular Genes Involved in Reovirus Infection, Jonathan David York
Submissions from 2005
Finding Golem, Elizabeth Abbot
Molecular and Cellular Approaches for Evaluation of Ligand Binging to Vitronectin, Abdelhamid Mohamed Alsharif
A Study of Birth order Relative to Decisions Made by Teams in a Business Simulation Course, Alicia J. Arnold
What Difference Does Difference Make?, Kertyssa Delynn Austin
Effect of Genetic Ablation of Covazonin-Expressing Neuvons on Ovarian Diapause of Prosophila Melanogaster, Holly Colleen Avens
Singing Shakespeare: Music inspired by the Master of Words , Elizabeth Asher Bannister
Testing Working Memory: An Experimental and Analytical Approach, Nicholas Duane Bennett
No Title, Sarah Elizabeth Blair
Vietnam: Reality and Remembrance the Role of Popular Culture in Defining American History, Christopher John Brady
Paris: La Capitale de la Mode du Monde, Emily Diane Buckley
Magpie Literary Magazine, Katharine A. Burnett and Jay Edward Tucker
Playing the Odds (Lottery Scholarship), Joseph Walker Caldwell