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 2001
Life Quest, Brett Hardin Franks
Cloning: Adult vs. Embryonic Cells and Techniques Employed, Rebecca Ruth Frazor
Getting with the Program: Incorporating Gender Issues into Exercise Adherence Theory , Lori Jean Funderburg
Losing the Ground Beneath: A Manuscript of Short Fiction, Matthew James Gilchrist
The State of EPSDT and Behavioral Healthcare for Children Served by Tenncare, Lee Daniel Goan
How the Human Body is Affected by Exposure to Microgravity During a Long-Term Space Mission, Spencer Eugene Godwin
Final Things to Know about a Big University: A Guide for Graduating Seniors, Paige Harris
Swim Search: An Online Sports Management Information Retrieval System, Kevin Erich Heinrich
Marketing Opportunity Analysis and Short Term Marketing Strategy for Profesor's Restaurant, Michael Whitehead Helton
An Analysis of Population Structuring in the Eastern Red Bat (Lasiuras Borealis) Using the Mitochondrial D-loop, Julie Rose Hermann
Simulated SCN: Biological Modeling with Neural Networks, Mark Eric Hixson
Apathy and Suggestions to Counteract Apathy, Kristin Kelley Hobbs
Synthesis of a Radioiodinated Celecoxib Derivative, John F. Holbrook
Exploratory Report on Ethics Instruction in the College of Business Administration, Melissa Sung-Ling Hsieh
Mirrors, Windows, and Human Emotion: Transcending the Subject through Photography, Rebecca Leigh Husband
Academic Self-Confidence Scale: A Psychological Study in Two Parts, Holly Kristine Jones
Technology in Positron Emission Tomography, Cindy Lee Jones-Shields
The Vascular Research Experience, Frances Glasgow Kirkland
Decoder Assisted Channel Estimation and Frame Synchronization, Edward Brent Laird
A War of Words: America's Domestic and Foreign Propaganda Efforts in World War II, Laura Clarkson Lefler
Erroyo, A New Way to Learn, Darren Emil Lifferth
German Catholic Experience During the First World War: a review of polemical rhetoric concerning German culture's relation to Catholicism, Michael Allen Livingston
Final Things to Know about a Big University: A Guide for Graduating Seniors, Jennifer Keely Madron
Schumpeterian Dynamics, Johnathan Patrick McKernan
Comparison of State Tax Structures to Determine Successful Models, Robin Elisa Miller
First Year Finance 101: A Comprehensive Guide to Financial Responsibility for College Students, April Michelle Moore
Morality in the American West: The Origins of Evil in Stephen King's The Stand and Desperation, Stuart Allen Morris
Population Analysis of a Female Sterile Mutation, fs (100c) in Drosophila Melanogaster, Megan Nicole Mowery
Health Information for Adolescents on the Internet, Jennifer Erin Nalle
Delta Gamma: My Sorority's Impact on my Life, Katharine Michal Newman
Interactive Learning Applications in Chemical Engineering, Jacob Aaron Noe
Pd-103 Radioactive Stent Dosimetry, Dana Marie Overman
Study of four commercial brands of Ice Cream, April Rae Parker
Criteria for Designing Testability in Software Systems, Andrew Kinoshita Peterson
Chatting in Languages Class: A Proposal for Implementation of Computer-Mediated Communication in the high-school foreign-language curriculum, Amy Lee Prichard
Developing a Software Tool for Creating Interactive Electronic Forms Using the Spreadsheet Paradigm, David Robert Resseguie
Purification and Analysis of an 18KD Outer Membrane Protein of Mannheimia (Pasteurella) Haemolytica, Jennifer Lynn Ridley
Surviving Campaigns: The Fine Art of Teamwork, Travis Rucker
Materials Management at St. Mary's Hospital, Lance Walter Saunders
And He Walked With God, Chad Scruggs
Christian Response to Human Cloning, Zachary Altman Smith
The effect of ionizing radiation on human brain, David Spence
The Good War v The Bad War: An Analysis of Combat Veterans' Experience in World War II and Vietnam by Removing Social Stigma, Shelley R. Stafford
Competitive Intelligence: Is My company at Risk?, William Andrew Staszewski
Chattanooga: A Reinvented City, Abby Elizabeth Stettler
Existential Authenticity and SSRI Drug Therapy, Scott Andrew Swan
Sleep Deprivation (The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Salivary Immunoglobulin A, Kelley Leigh Thompson
Analysis of Power Generation System Utilizing a Salt Gradient Solar Pond, Charlotte Elizabeth Walker
Financial Management Handbook, Ulises Walker
Homecoming: A University of Tennessee Tradition, Marcy Jean Walrond
Interactions Between DPAT ad Optic Chiasm Stimulation in Resetting Circadian Clock Phase , Valerie Nicole Watson
Fallen World Ethics and Third World Politics, Andrew Martin Webb
Modeling of a Two-Dimensional Airfoil Using Boundary Element Method, Brent Derek Weinberg
What Factors were most Important in the Decision of Freshman Honors Students to Attend The University of Tennessee, Tom Paul Whittingham
Holston Hills Country Club and The Honors Course: A Case Study in East Tennessee Golf Architecture, Keith Lee Williams
Tritium Removal by Membrane Separation, Courtney Georgette Woods
Projects from 2000
Infrastructure Development Research In the Third World: A Methodology, Jason B. Abbott
An Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics, Douglas Wayne Adkisson
University of Tennessee Student Athletic Ticket Distribution, Amy M. Akard
Mink Stole My Heart, Anna Laura Baldree
Real Engineers Don't Write… Or Do They? Improving the Written Communication Skills of Engineering Students, Julie Marin Blair
pigeonforge.com, Jessica B. Bookstaff
Transformative Technology & the Creative Process: Employing a Website as a Vehicle for Literary Work, Baer William Bradford
Mexico's Transition to Neo-liberalism, Richard Jeremy Brame
The Effects of Logging on the Hydrologic Properties of Small Watersheds, Preston Edward Breeding
Stormwater and Drainage Design for the Site Development of Malcolm Martin Park and Beardsley Community Farm, Lee Davis Bryant
A University Honor Code, Joseph Caldwell
A University Honor Code: A Study of Academic Integrity, Honor Codes, their Effects on College Campuses, and possible implementation at the University of Tennessee, Joseph Michael Caldwell
A Student Vision for the Future of the University of Tennessee, Will Carver
Determining the Effects of St. John's Wort on Porcine Granulosa Cells, Peggy Shirley Chen
Educating Christians About Judaism, Margaret cock
Ethnic Marketing's Impact on the Reaction of the Media and Ethnic Communities to Corporate Racial Discrimination Allegations, Monica Takise Collins
La Tonte, Ashley Marie Connell
No Title, Trina Evyan Dorrah
African American English as a Linguistic System, Ashley N. Dowdy
Estes Kefauver and Frank G. Clement: A power struggle for preeminence in Tennessee Democratic Politics, William Kevin Dunlap
A Look at the Declining Membership of Tennessee Association of Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors, Inc., Virginia W. Eckert
The Forgotten 'Singles Tax': The Treatment of Single Individuals in the Income Tax, Jason Michael Fletcher
Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation of a Gas Stripping Tower, Timothy David Francis
No Title, Robika Latrice Garner
Fear and Aggression in the Desert Spider Agelenopsis aperta, Alan Jeffrey Greene
A Woman's Legacy: An Analysis of Feminist Themes in the Work of Louisa May Alcott, Jessica Brook Greene
Essay on Conflict Mediation at UTK, Elizabeth Guenther
Sing a Song of Sixpence: Mother Goose Rhymes as Political Satire in Tudor England, Jennifer Claire Hamilton
Website for East Tennessee International Commerce Council, Serenity Ann Heegel
Root Rot, Kelly Erin Hitzing
The Evolution and Future of the Individual Tax System, Kristofer Kent Hoffman
Media Epistemology and American Politics: A Comparative Study of Academic and Industry Perspectives, Fletcher Beaumont Howard
The Space Between: Women and the Language of Opposites in George MacDonald's Short Fiction, Sarah Lauren Jennings
Wolves in Western Literature, Lisa Jesse
The Transition of a Black Family: the progression of race, migration, and elevation within a black family, Stephani Lynn Johnson
Use of X-ray Diffraction in the Determination of the Crystal Structure of (Co(C5H5))3(CO)2 and [Zr6I12B(CH3OH)6], Jamie Nicole Jones
CobWeb: Exploring the need for style guidelines to improve communication on the World Wide Web, Alison Haynes Joyner
Women in the Law, Amanda Elizabeth Kelley
Real Reflections: Learning About Real Estate, William Kirkland
Real Reflections: Learning About Real Estate, William C. Kirkland
Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Case of Pakistan, Nida Kirmani
No Title, Anna Katherine Klimas
A Brief History of Cryptography, William August Kotas
Geologic mapping in search of proposed seismogenic basement faults near Mascot, Tennessee, Amy Michelle Kwiatkowski