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-designated diploma and are bestowed an honors medallion.
For questions or comments concerning the Honors Thesis Project collection, please contact honors@utk.edu
Projects from 2004
Experimental Analysis of a Fluidized Bed Reactor, David Lloyd McCollum
Morphological Scoring of Dental Casts Using the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System, Jared Anton McCoy
Runner's Market - Integrated Marketing Communication: Creative and Media Strategies, Karen Ilene McNeany
Promoting American Competitiveness through International Tax Reform: A Discussion of Proposals to Replace the Extraterrestrial Income Exclusion, David Meriwether
Barriers to the Procurement of Prenatal Care, Stephanie Jean Messer
Friends in the Bedroom: Amirus Curiae Briefs at the United States Supreme Court and their influence in the Lawrence v. Texas Sodomy Case, Matthew Robert Mills
Forgotten but not Gone: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen, Kristen Alexandra Molt
Rejection and Current Reactions: Previous Experience As Open Wound or Protective Scab?, Nicole Monique Mondie
The Influence of Parental Background and Maternal Smoking on Infant Processing Speed, Merril Cherie Moore
No Title, Brent Ashley Mundie
A Comparative Study of Factors Influencing Industrial Development, Abigail Tyson Neff
No Title, Melissa Ann Newman
Pedometer Estimated Step Rates and Energy Expenditure, Jennifer Lee Oliver
Equine Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment- Manufacturing Manual, Adam Benjamin Prater
Segway Remote Rider, Matthew Duane Price
Making Connections: Non-Profits and Their Role in a Civil Society, Anna Odile Priddy
Divided History, Unified Present: The Politics of Memory in Germany and the Memorialization of the Former East, Erin Elizabeth Read
Studios for Dance, Music, and Cinematography, Jennifer Renee Reasons
Images of Women in "Soviet Life", Valerie Shannon Rhodes
Exploring New Urbanism: An Examination of New Developments done the old way, Kevin Marshall Rice
The Formulation and Development of 'GranSticks', a Granola-Based Cookie Stick for use in Frozen Dairy Novelties, Allison Elizabeth Ricks
The Global Expansion of Glory Foods - Destination: United Kingdom, Ryan Cato Robertson
Common Sense with Uncommon Results: An Application of Graham-Buffett Value Investing Principles, Daniel Blake Ruble
Tennessee Drive- Everything Knoxville, Herbert Dexter Sarten
International and Improvisatory Music, Jamison Sevits
No Title, Van Austin Shaver
Determining Relationships Between Pathogen Indicator Concentrations, Hydrologic Variables, and Land Use Classification in Stock Creek, LaTeresa Naomi Shearill
A Meditational Analysis of Marital Quality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Conflict and Support, Skye Suzanne Shelton
Localization of Nitric Oxide Producing Cells in the Inferior Colliculous of Mouse Brain, Jay Gordon Shires
Impact of Prior Clinical Experience on Attitudes and Expectations of First-Year Graduate Students in Clinical Practicum, Megan Celine Skinner
Determining Limitations in the Ability of the ABAQUS Commercial Finite Element Analysis Program to Accurately Predict Piezoelectric Strain Behavior in Actuation Devices, Christina Marie Spencer
The Meaning of Mystery: The Religious Debate Between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy, Rebecca Ramage Thomas
Cogeneration Design Study for a Pilot Travel Center, Timothy Ray Thomas
Recent Propaganda: Artist's Statement, John Paul Truex
Surviving Campaigns: How to Make the Book, Allison Marie Vandergriff
Enron: Where Are They Now?, Aaron Montgomery Vickers
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Equine Lower Limbs - Assembly and Users Manual, Sarah Marie West
How to Live With Your Teenager: A parent education program for Fulton High School parents, Elizabeth Grace White
General Curvilinear Coordinate Transformation and Visualization for Plasma Equilibria, Katherine Fiona White
Methamphetamine in Tennessee, Matthew Stuart Whittaker
No Title, Elizabeth Rebecca Wilson
Finite Element Analysis of Microchip Cooling, Drew Emerson Winder
Optimal Control of Transition Time in Solid-State Lasers, John Tyler Workman
No Title, Elizabeth Ann Wortman
Narrative Structure and Mindfulness, Meredith Ann Yeager
Neuropsychology and Personality, Kyle Mathew Young
Solaris: A Look at the Interior, Meredith Elaine Young
Projects from 2003
A Study of UT Student's Views on Local Stores, Lauren Elizabeth Abbott
Determining an Efficient Means of Producing Anabaseine and One of its Derivatives, George Andrew Adams
An Evolving Career: the Physician Assistant, Dorothy E. Allen
The Intermittence of Nessity: Jewish Moneylending in Quattrocento Florence, Nicholas Garrett Allmon
Unraveling the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: An Examination of the Requirements and Implications, Amanda Sue Ayres
Conflict, Cohesion, and Child Perceptions: A Moderational model, Randy Douglas Bird
Over-Expression, Purification, and Characterization of the Human Endotoxin Receptor CD14 in Escherichia coli, James Ward Boulie
Studied ways to encourage agriculture students to study abroad, Kathryn Amanda Brown
The Fallibility of Eyewitness Testimony: An Examination of memory and Its Role in Inaccurate Testimony, Tiffany Dawn Bryan
Predicting the Number of Fuel Failures Using Chiron, Christina Erin Campbell
Hearing the Call to Serve: My Experience with Service Learning, Rebekah Ann Capps
Materials Property Evaluation of a Molecular Composite, Evyn Catherine Childress
Effectiveness of the Erotic Appeal, Alicia Danielle Christman
Genetic Analysis of the Skin Disorder Weber-Cockayne Type Epidermolysis Simplex, Patrick Wade Clark
Left Behind: An investigation of changing friendships for adolescents involved in dating relationships, Amy Elizabeth Claxton
Pre-Health Students' Guide to Success: A Student's Perspective, Elizabeth Denby Close and Larissa Nicole Gardner
AU 311.14: Disagreement and Disassociation, William Martin Coffelt
The Role of the State and the Individual in Eugenics and Modern Genetics, Melinda Faye Coker
Production of a Narrative Movie - "One Night Stan", Charlie Jameson Corts
Risk Benefit Analysis of Nationwide Smallpox Vaccinations, Corey James Cudzilo
Total Quality Management in Today's Market, Ashlee Benae Davidson
Linking of Injury: A Case Study of a Division I Soccer Player, Lauran Joy Dempsey
Biomass and Root Mass , Caroline Marie Devan
Analysis of Biceps Tenodesis With Interference Screw Fixation, John Wesley Doty
No Title, Kathryn Marie Fesler
FPGA Illuminate: A Web-based Demonstration and Testing Application for Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Scott Edward Fields
KCH board game, Susannah Ruth Finley
Vivari Induction of Expression of Cuplea 8 in Drosophila Melanogaster Larvai, Katherine Elizabeth Fleming
Storage, Erin Denise Geller
Functional Analysis of Bub 1, Amanda Cormine Gentry
No Title, Danielle Pamela Gros
The Making and Meaning of Nobody's Cowboy, Ward Edward Guenther
Creation and Interpretation in Music, Lindsay K. Hagaman
TQM & The Malcolm Baldrige Award, Kenneth McKay Hamburg
Dutch Resistance to the Nazis during World War Two, Leslie Ann Hamilton
The Shape of a Semester: Exploring a Photographer's Intuition, Grace Harrington
Understanding the Teaching of Reading: Observing Best Practices, Kerri Elizabeth Heinrich
Legacy of Jay, Drew Holcomb
The Jaybird Songs: A Memoir, Hampton Andrew Holcomb
Quantification and Standardization of Pattern Properties for control of the Lost Foam Metal Casting Process, Maurice I. Iwunze
The Effect of DDT on the Cytochrome P450 gene, Cyp6a8, of Drosophila Melanogaster, Erin Winn Jackson
The Ethics and Legality of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide, Julia Amanda Jackson
Is knowledge of science associated with higher skepticism of pseudoscientific claims?, Robert Matthew Johnson
Class II Molecules of the Major Histocompatibility Complex, Abbey Elizabeth Jones
Study and Analysis of Dual-Energy X-Ray Data, Chris Robert Kammerud
The Voice of Christina Knowles, Christine Irene Knowles
The Creation of a Tennessee Lottery, Michael Aaron Lay
The Physics of Intelligence: Genetic Programming as a Case Study, James Robert LePage
Some Equivalence Classes of Polygonal 7-Chains, Paul Wayne Lewis
Helical Tomotherapy Qualitative dose Delivery Verification, Bart Daniel Lynch
Is Eminem Evil? The Effects of Music and Trait Aggression on State Hostility, Omar Bradley McCarty
Unjust Wars Fought Justly?, David Alan McNamara
From Africans in America to African-American, Tammra Sharee Mitchell