Honors

Thesis Archive

 

Thesis Archive

Below is the list of all past Honors theses. Please note that not all theses may be housed in the library. Just because a title appears on this list does not mean that a copy is available.

Use your browser's search function (Ctrl + F for Internet Explorer) to locate majors or students of interest. Theses below are organized by department and then the student's last and first names.

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Alumnus: Benson, David Frederick
Thesis Title: A Prediction Model of Successful Total Quality Management Programs
Advisor: Swain, Monte Ray
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Cornelsen, Michael E
Thesis Title: The AEGON Group's Crown Jewel: A Case Study on the Integration of World Financial Group
Advisor: Hatch, Nile Wade
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Daley, Matthew N
Thesis Title: Identity Fraud: Definitions and Solutions
Advisor: Romney, Marshall B
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Dalton, Michael Curtis
Thesis Title: Total Quality Mangement in Long-term Care: A Thorough Analysis
Advisor: Stocks, Kevin D
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Detling, Shannon Brae
Thesis Title: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Impact on Auditor Switching and Quality of Audit Effort
Advisor: Burton, Fielding Greg
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Gamett, James B
Thesis Title: Measures that Improve the Learning Process: SOAIS Junior Core-Group Work
Advisor: Swain, Monte Ray
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Heywood, David Bruce
Thesis Title: IPO and SEO Waves in Healthcare Real Estate Investment Trusts
Advisor: Brau, James C
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Hyatt, Alan Preston
Thesis Title: The Conscious Alignment of Strategy and Culture and its Effect on Project Work: A Case Study of Three IT Departments Following a Transition in Leadership
Advisor: Thompson, Michael P
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Jackson, Todd Lincoln
Thesis Title: Examination of AP-4 as a Transcriptional Activator of the Col 11a2 Chondrocyte-Specific Enhancer Elements
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Lark, Jeffrey Martin
Thesis Title: The Impact of the New Accounting Rules (FAS 158) on Financial Statement Analyses
Advisor: Paik, Gyung Hyun
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Larson, Charlotte Hoopes
Thesis Title: The Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Merger: A Case Study in Business Communication
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Lau, Jeremy L
Thesis Title: Educating the Modern Human Resources Professional: What MBA Programs Are Doing to Meet the Human Resource Needs of Today's Multinational Companies
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2006

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Alumnus: Lawson, Craig A
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Low Enrollment of Women in the Graduate Program of Accountancy at BYU
Advisor: Glover, Steven M
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Lewis, Lee W
Thesis Title: The Pragmatic and Ethical Barriers to Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: The Nike Case
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Olsen, Gary
Thesis Title: The Realization Gap: A Study of the Responsibilities of Preventing and Detecting Fraud
Advisor: Albrecht, William Steve
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Sin, Joseph Hon Fu
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Estrogen Receptor Meditated Transcriptional Repression
Advisor: Lin, Chin Yo
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Sorensen, Paul James
Thesis Title: Financial Reporting and Risk Transparency in Derivatives Instruments
Advisor: Radebaugh, Lee Howard
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Tayler, William
Thesis Title: Linking Strategy to Budget: Factors Affecting the Success of Performance-Based Budgeting at Brigham Young University
Advisor: Krumwiede, Kip Ryan
Major: Accounting: Professional Accounting Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Warr, John N
Thesis Title: Concerns With Current Microcredit Implementation
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Accounting
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Wilde, Jaron H
Thesis Title: The Value to Foreign Companies to List on US Stock Markets
Advisor: Johnson, Peter Matthew
Major: Accounting: Tax Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Williams, Braden Mern
Thesis Title: Are Bonus Depreciation Tax Incentives Correlated with Increased Investment in Capital Assets?
Advisor: Pinegar, J Michael
Major: Accounting: Tax Emphasis
Department: Accountancy, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Larsen, Jessica Hess
Thesis Title: Survey of Mycorrhizal Colonization in Native, Open-pollinated and Introduced, Hybrid Maize in Villages of Chiquimula, Guatemala
Advisor: Jolley, Von Dale
Major: Agronomy: Crop and Soil Science Emphasis
Department: Agronomy and Horticulture
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Skousen, Daniel Harvey
Thesis Title: A Study of the Iron-stress Response Mechanism in Black-eyed Pea
Advisor: Jolley, Von Dale
Major: Agronomy: Agribusiness-Production Emphasis
Department: Agronomy and Horticulture
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Waters, Jennifer L
Thesis Title: Characterization of Variation and Genetic Map Construction for a Pathogenic Fungus, Ustilago bullata
Advisor: Stevens, Mikel Ross
Major: Plant Genetics and Breeding
Department: Agronomy and Horticulture
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Abbott, Ellen Marie
Thesis Title: An Arctic Atlas: Cognitive Mapping and Navigating Space in Coldfoot, Alaska
Advisor: Hartley, Julie R
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Diaz, Yvette
Thesis Title: Within and Between Boundaries: The Transculturation of Eight Women of Spanish-speaking Origin in Utah
Advisor: England, J Lynn
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Eliason, David Andrew
Thesis Title: The Long-term Implications of Maternal Separation and Subsequent Tactile Stimulation Deprivation in the Rat Neonate Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Response to Stress
Advisor: Rhees, Reuben Ward
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Gashler, Daniel Josef
Thesis Title: A Test for Celtic and Slavic Cultural Contact
Advisor: Whipple, Walter
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Gilroy-Barney, Erika Cher
Thesis Title: Women's Domestic Roles: Constancy Amidst Social Change in India
Advisor: Shuler, David A
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Harris, Rachel Marie
Thesis Title: Collecting, Protecting, and Sharing the Past: The History of the Terrence and Jean Reidhead Collection
Advisor: Allison, James R
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Hayes, Sophie
Thesis Title: Choosing Love: Negotiating Motivation and Identity in Northwestern Namibia
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Johnson, Kelly Elizabeth
Thesis Title: A Bajan Festival: The National Implications of Crop Over
Advisor: Hartley, Julie R
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Krauel, Elise Christiana
Thesis Title: New Light on the Dark Side of Vesuvius: the Production and Use of Glass in the Late Antiquity
Advisor: Bartlett, Jaime Lyn
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Krauel, Madeleine Johanna
Thesis Title: Change through Service: Volunteer Experience in Mukono, Uganda
Advisor: Hartley, Julie R
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Matos, Adriana Faye
Thesis Title: Maternal Grief and the Vulnerable Infant in Asante, Ghana
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Monson, Colby Drew
Thesis Title: Possession and Exorcism in Southern India: A Medical Anthropological Approach
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Myres, Joel E
Thesis Title: Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Quechua Villages and Interpretation of Distribution
Advisor: Matheny, Ray T
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Nash, Robert Bruce
Thesis Title: Cultural Transition Assessment in the Eastern Great Basin: An Analysis of Side-notched Projectile Points
Advisor: Janetski, Joel C
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Nelson, Zachary N
Thesis Title: Altar de Sacrificios Revisited: A Modern Translation of Ancient Writings
Advisor: Houston, Stephen D
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Okura, Eve Kiyomi
Thesis Title: Na Wahi Pana O Hawai'i: Sacred Place Names of Hawai'I
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Rode, Steven Shem
Thesis Title: If We Don't Eat Milpa, We Will Die: The Cultural Basis of Medical Health in Nahuala
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Saberon, Shelby Hoffman
Thesis Title: An Obsidian Workshop at Hacienda Metapec, Teotihuacan
Advisor: Clark, John Edward
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Spencer, Natalie C
Thesis Title: Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Patrilineality's Effects on Women in a Tongan Market
Advisor: Hartley, Julie R
Major: Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Vance, Jean Marie
Thesis Title: Nabataean Frescos in Hellenistic Jordan and Surrounding Areas
Advisor: Johnson, David J
Major: Anthropology: Archaeology Emphasis
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Walters, Kimberly
Thesis Title: The Omayova and the Onongo: Gendered Spirit Possession in Otutati, Namibia
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: Anthropology
Department: Anthropology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: DeLong, Elise Solveig
Thesis Title: Norwegian Landscape Painting
Advisor: Haltern, Hagen G
Major: Art: Painting Emphasis
Department: Art
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Judd, Corey
Thesis Title: Genetic Finger PRINTS
Advisor: Kimball, Wilford Wayne
Major: Art: Printmaking Emphasis
Department: Art
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Ramachandran, Sylvia
Thesis Title: Majolica: A Tradition of Transformation
Advisor: Christensen, Brian D
Major: Art
Department: Art
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Anderson, Ian Scott
Thesis Title: A Gospel for Saints and Sinners: A Defense of the Writings of Endo Shusaku
Advisor: Gessel, Van C
Major: Japanese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Arp, Nathan J
Thesis Title: The Significance of the Early Chinese Temple as Demonstrated in the Poetry of the Shijing
Advisor: Honey, David Brian
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Brandon, Simeon S
Thesis Title: The Creation of Kokin Wakashuu Jodoushi Index
Advisor: Warnick, J Paul
Major: Japanese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Clayton, Whitney Kipp
Thesis Title: One China, Three Perspectives: A Comparative Study of Taiwan, China, and the Hong Kong's High School History Textbooks
Advisor: Honey, David Brian
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Eyre, Alma S
Thesis Title: Heian Period Japan as a Role-Playing Game
Advisor: Stoneman, Jack Chris
Major: Japanese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Gong, Gloria J
Thesis Title: China's Environmental Policy and International Climate Change Treaty Compliance
Advisor: Bryner, Gary C
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Inouye, Karin M
Thesis Title: Ying
Advisor: Crowe, Christopher E
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Isom, John Michael
Thesis Title: Classic Chinese Fiction: Building a 21st Century Bridge for Ancient Chinese Literature
Advisor: Williams, Gary S
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: James, Brian Gleason
Thesis Title: The Effects of Kanji Study on Listening Skills of Nonnative Japanese Language Learners
Advisor: Watabe, Masakazu
Major: Japanese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: McKay, Trever B
Thesis Title: A Failure to Save: The Christian Element in Early Modern Chinese Fiction
Advisor: Williams, Gary S
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Pearson, Jared K
Thesis Title: Influenza A Virus M2 Protein Selectivity and Permeability of Ammonium Ions at Varying pH
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Japanese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2005

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Alumnus: Porter, Glen T
Thesis Title: The Three Gorges: A Perspective on Relocation
Advisor: Honey, David Brian
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Worden, William Lamont
Thesis Title: Analysis of China's Attempt to Integrate Western and Chinese Medicine
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: Chinese
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Chamala, Srikar
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Selective Pressure on Three Mitochondrial Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms is Consistent with Their Influence on Metabolic Efficiency in Pima Indians
Advisor: McClellan, David A
Major: Bioinformatics
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Hassell, Elizabeth Mary Anna
Thesis Title: Male and Female Brachyraphis Rhabdophora Show Different Ontogenetic Morphological Responses to Predator Regime
Advisor: Belk, Mark C
Major: Integrative Biology
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Judson, Sarah Walker
Thesis Title: Altitudinal and Seasonal Survey of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera in American Fork Canyon, Utah
Advisor: Nelson, Riley
Major: Integrative Biology
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Qutob, Nouar Mohammad
Thesis Title: Evolutionary History and the Influence of Natural Selection of the Beta-Globin Alleles in the Arab World
Advisor: McClellan, David A
Major: Bioinformatics
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Richards, Elliott G
Thesis Title: A Genetic Linkage Study of Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate in Consanguineous Pakistani Families
Advisor: Wilcox, Edward R
Major: Bioinformatics
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Robinson, Quincy Mark
Thesis Title: Staged Ukrainian Dance in Canada and Ukraine: A Comparison of Directors' Views in Both Countries
Advisor: West, Colleen N
Major: Integrative Biology
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Wallace, Jason G
Thesis Title: Hydrocarbon Profiles Related to Aggression in the Pavement Ant (Tetramorium caespitum)
Advisor: Peck, Steven L
Major: Integrative Biology
Department: Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Burnham, Jeffrey Scott
Thesis Title: Soil Crusts and Cheatgrass Invasion in Different Vascular Plant Communities in Utah's West Desert
Advisor: Anderson, Val Jo
Major: Botany
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Cox, Emily Ann
Thesis Title: An Expanded Illustrated Histology Manual
Advisor: Heckmann, Richard A
Major: Botany: Botany Premed-Predental Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Davis, Kimberly
Thesis Title: Ethnobotanical and Ecological Based Approaches for Anticancer Drug Discovery Using Sonoran Desert Plants
Advisor: Cates, Rex G
Major: Botany
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Dunn, Anna Elizabeth
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Seven Herbs Used by Pioneer and Modern Lay Midwives with a View toward the Pharmacological Effectiveness of Those Herbs
Advisor: Cates, Rex G
Major: Plant Genetics and Breeding
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Huish, Katherine Holt
Thesis Title: Ethnobotanical Research in Tonga: In-Depth Study of the Traditional Treatments for Infection.
Advisor: Cates, Rex G
Major: Botany
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Huish, Ryan D
Thesis Title: Antimicrobial Activity of Ethnobotanically-Selected Tongan Plants
Advisor: Cates, Rex G
Major: Botany
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Johnson, Lindsay Ann
Thesis Title: The Production and Cytological Characterization of an Oat Haploid from a Synthetic Oat Variety
Advisor: Jellen, Eric Nathan
Major: Plant Genetics and Breeding
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Lucas, Richard William
Thesis Title: Feeding Dominance of Resident Birds at Feeders in Gambel Oak Stands in Suburban Northern Utah
Advisor: Jellen, Eric Nathan
Major: Wildlife and Range Resources: Premedical-Predental Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: McKee, Janna Free
Thesis Title: A Study of the Characteristics of Coarse Woody Debris in Both an Old Growth and a Clearcut Site Influenced by Marine Processes
Advisor: Brotherson, Jack D
Major: Conservation Biology: Resource Conservation Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Noall, Elizabeth Esther
Thesis Title: Temperature Effects on Reprodcution in the Kachina Daisy (Erigeron kachinensis, Welsh & Moore)
Advisor: Woolstenhulme, Loreen Allphin
Major: Conservation Biology: Wildlife Biology Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Parkinson, Susan Eldredge
Thesis Title: The Role of Transgenic Research in Understanding Zein Proteins
Advisor: Coleman, Craig Eliot
Major: Botany
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Royall, Marnie Lynn
Thesis Title: Physical Changes in Phosphatidylcholine Vesicles: A Flourescent Probe Study
Advisor: Bell, John D
Major: Conservation Biology: Premedical-Predental Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Walker, Ruth A
Thesis Title: Second season residual effects on five perrenial rangeland grasses to two rates and two dormant season herbicide application times
Advisor: Anderson, Val Jo
Major: Range Science: Production-Agribusiness Emphasis
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Whipple, Clinton Jeremy
Thesis Title: Creation of a Mutant Gamma-Zein and Its Expression in Transgenic Tobacco to Elucidate the Role of Gamma-Zein in Protein Body Formation in Maize
Advisor: Coleman, Craig Eliot
Major: Plant Genetics and Breeding
Department: Botany and Range Science
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Bobincheck, Lyn Beckstead
Thesis Title: Evaluation of Pesticide Groundwater Contamination at a Former Pesticide Formulation Facility
Advisor: Wilding, Wade Vincent
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Dadson, Andrew Ebo
Thesis Title: Supercritical Water Oxidation
Advisor: Oscarson, John L
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Fiet, Kyle James
Thesis Title: Measurement of Semi-Volatile Particulate Air Pollution The RAMS
Advisor: Eatough, Delbert J
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Frankman, Allyson White
Thesis Title: The Transformation of a Nuclear Wasteland: Proposal to Clean up the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine.
Advisor: Baxter, Larry Lin
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: George, Gavin Dean
Thesis Title: Computer Modeling of Biomass to Determine Proximate Compositions
Advisor: Baxter, Larry Lin
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Hatch, Nicole Lynell
Thesis Title: Cyclooxygenase -1 and 2 Selectivity of Aspirin, Ketoprofen and Carprofen: Determination Using a Canine Whole Blood Assay
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Larsen, Charles D
Thesis Title: Thermodynamic and kinetic studies of the interaction of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and adenosine 5'-diphosphate with Mg2+,Ca2+,Sr2+,and Mn2+ from 22 to 90 C
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Martin, Cody Loomis
Thesis Title: Gene Transfection with Applied Ultrasound and Nanoemulsion Contrast Agents
Advisor: Pitt, William G
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Merrell, Christine
Thesis Title: Graft Polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide on a Polypropylene Surface
Advisor: Pitt, William G
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Nemirovskaya, Maria
Thesis Title: Combinatorial approach to computation of Jones polynomial of torus link.
Advisor: Humphries, Stephen P
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Price, Nathan Daniel
Thesis Title: Ultrasonic Enhancement of Antibiotic Action against Staphylococcus epidermidis
Advisor: Pitt, William G
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Reuel, Nigel F
Thesis Title: Development of the MD Ring: A Micro-Passive Glucose Sensor for Diabetics
Advisor: Solen, Kenneth A
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Ross, Steven Aaron
Thesis Title: Multivariate Factor Analysis of a Rocky Mountain Lichen Data Set
Advisor: Mangelson, Nolan F
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Williams, Nathan W
Thesis Title: Attempts at Atomizing a 30 m3 Environmental Chamber
Advisor: Eatough, Delbert J
Major: Chemical Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Arnquist, Sarah Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Participation of the Sodium Pump in Mouse Labor
Advisor: Graves, Steven William
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Benjamin, Natalia Alvarez
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Several Theoretical Methods to Predict Conformational Energies of Bicyclic Diazapyranose Analogues
Advisor: Shirts, Randall Brent
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Biggs, Katherine Nicole
Thesis Title: Analysis of the Phospholipid and Lovastatin Metabolite Profiles in the Livers of Rats with Steatosis or Steatohepatitis and Treated with Lovastatin
Advisor: Wood, Steven Glen
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Boyle, Scott N
Thesis Title: The Synthesis of Analogues of Kifunensine and I-Deoxymannojirimycin
Advisor: Berges, David A
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Brosnahan, David Daniel
Thesis Title: Phosphate and Ferritin Iron Deposition
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Brown, Rebecca A
Thesis Title: Evaluation of an Extended Sheath-Flow Nozzle for Supercritical Fluid/Supersonic Jet Spectreoscopy
Advisor: Goates, Steven R
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Buskirk, Allen Rowdon
Thesis Title: Synthesis of 3'-C-(N-hydroxycarboxamido) Cytidine
Advisor: Robins, Morris J
Major: Honors Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Cannon, Jonathan G
Thesis Title: Structural Elucidation of Biologically Active Compounds from Astragalus danicus
Advisor: Owen, Noel L
Major: Honors Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Carlson, Eric David
Thesis Title: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Liquid-Liquid Interface of a Partially Miscible Mixture
Advisor: Rowley, Richard L
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2003

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Alumnus: Chipman, Gregory Carl
Thesis Title: In vivo expression of cyclooxygenases and nucleobindin and analysis of the cyclooxygense/nucleobindin interaction
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Crawford, Kyrsten Ann
Thesis Title: Effects of Protein Ratio and Concentration on Nitrogenase Catalyzed Substrate Reduction Using Nitrogen and Acetylene as Substrates
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Dalton, Louisa W
Thesis Title: The Detection and Cloning of a COX-1-like DNA Fragment
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Donaldson, Marcus H
Thesis Title: Specific Heat of 6LiF and Comparison with TiB2 for Use in a Neutron Spectrometer
Advisor: Woodfield, Brian F
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Draper, Melissa
Thesis Title: Solvent Bonding of Polymeric Microdevices for Chemical Analysis
Advisor: Woolley, Adam T
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Driscoll, Susanna Geary
Thesis Title: The Effects of T-stem-loop Stability and 5' Leader Length on 3' tRNase Cleavage Efficiency
Advisor: Kaspar, Roger Louis
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Ellison, Jason Mark
Thesis Title: Exploring the Effects of Prostratin on Early Gene Expression
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Evanson, Nathan Kent
Thesis Title: Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Chicken and Mammalian Cyclooxgenase 2
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Gurney, Craig W
Thesis Title: Inhibition of Cyclooxygenases by Acetaminophen-like Compounds and Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Hammond, Benjamin P
Thesis Title: Regulation of Interleukin-1beta (IL-1b) Processing In Vitro Using Human Monocyte Translation Extracts
Advisor: Kaspar, Roger Louis
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Harbertson, Bryce Alan
Thesis Title: The Synthesis, Light Reactivity, and Folic Acid Coupling of A2-DA-7 and the Biological Evaluation of A2H and A2M
Advisor: Vollmer-Snarr, Heidi Rebecca
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Holladay, Nathan B
Thesis Title: Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics of an Ion Channel with Bulk Aqueous NaCl in a Slab Geometry
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Hurt, Darrell Eugene
Thesis Title: The Accuracy of Molecular Mechanics Methods in Determining the Structure and Energetics of Guest-Host Interactions of 18-Crown-6 with the Alkaline Earth Ions (Mg, Ca, Ba, Ra)
Advisor: Shirts, Randall Brent
Major: Honors Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Jensen, James D
Thesis Title: Nuclear Localization of GDF5 is Mediated by a Bipartite Nuclear Localization Signal
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Jensen, Katie L
Thesis Title: Synthesis of Cationic Steroid-Derived Antibiotics for Use in Electron Microscopy Studies
Advisor: Savage, Paul Bennett
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Johnson, Joseph
Thesis Title: Non-Redox Iron Release Kinetics of Horse Spleen Ferritin
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Honors Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Lowery, Thomas J
Thesis Title: Spectroscopic and Kinetic Characteristics of the Nitrogenase Iron Protein
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: MacDonald, Orlan Kenneth
Thesis Title: Identification of the regulatory elements responsible for the control of pre-mRNA splicing of intron-1 in chicken COX-2
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Matheson, Sannali
Thesis Title: Metabolic Adaption of Oats to Climatic Temperature
Advisor: Hansen, Lee Duane
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Mayhew, Maurine
Thesis Title: Spectroscopic Analysis of Collisional Energy Transfers Between Vibrationally Excited 1,2,4-Triflurobenzene and CO2
Advisor: Sevy, Eric T
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Merkley, Eric D
Thesis Title: Differential Scanning Calorimetry Studies of Ferritin
Advisor: Woolley, Earl M
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Mills, Jad Allen
Thesis Title: Chemical Analysis of the AP20187 Synthetic Dimerizer
Advisor: Burnett, Sandra Hale
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Munyan, Jason Walter
Thesis Title: Electrically Actuated, Pressure-Driven Microfluidic Pumps
Advisor: Woolley, Adam T
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Nelson, Erik R
Thesis Title: Synthesis of Azacrown Ethers with 5-Carboxy-8-Hydroxyquinoline Sidearms in Determining Cellular Concentrations of Mg(II)
Advisor: Savage, Paul Bennett
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Norcross, David Copeland
Thesis Title: Redox Properties of ApoFerritin
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Orton, Andrew W
Thesis Title: Spectroscopic Determination of Mobile Phase Pressure Profiles in Solvating Gas Chromatography
Advisor: Goates, Steven R
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Parent, Alexander A
Thesis Title: Stereo-Selective Photochemical [2+2] Cycloaddition: p-p Interactions or Radical Stabilization
Advisor: Fleming, Steven A
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Parent, Ephraim Edward
Thesis Title: Irradiation of (Z,Z)-Diisopropylbis (1-phenyl-1-propenoxy)silane
Advisor: Fleming, Steven A
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Peacock, Justin Gregory
Thesis Title: Functionalization of Silicon Wafers for Future Bioapplications
Advisor: Linford, Matthew R
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Price, Joshua L
Thesis Title: Thermodynamics of Aqueous L-Valine and L-2-Amino-N-Butanoic Acid
Advisor: Woolley, Earl M
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Puett, Heather Anne
Thesis Title: Stereocontrol of the [2+2] Photocycloaddition of Benzaldehyde and Styrene via Pi-Pi Stacking
Advisor: Fleming, Steven A
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Rampton, Marcus James
Thesis Title: The Effect of Cyclooxygenase-2 Selective Drugs on Canine Cyclooxygenase-3
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Rand, Timothy Aaron
Thesis Title: Phosducin-like Protein Amplifies Angiotensin Type I Receptor Activation of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway
Advisor: Willardson, Barry M
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Rawlings, Julia Ann
Thesis Title: The History of Death and Disease in Nauvoo, Illinois from 1837?1869
Advisor: Black, Susan E
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Richardson, Tom C
Thesis Title: Molecular Modeling Study of Inhibitors of Human COX-1 and COX-2 Enzymes
Advisor: Zimmerman, S Scott
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Ririe, Daniel D
Thesis Title: A Study of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) As Markers in a Linkage Map of Peromyscus Using Two Inbred Strains
Advisor: Rogers, Duke S
Major: Honors Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Roberts, Daniel Ray
Thesis Title: Analysis of Intron-1 Retaining Prostaglandin G/H Synthase-1 Expression in Rat Brain and Spleen
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Robertson, Philip M
Thesis Title: Identification of Potential Cellular Receptors for CEF-10, an Immediate-Early Growth Factor Related to Human Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CTGF)
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Rogers, Craig G
Thesis Title: Creation of a Temperature Sensitive Mutation in the Mammalian cdc34 Gene
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Spackman, Christy Camille
Thesis Title: Perinatal Hypothalamic Androgen Metabolism and Developmental Brain Calbindin Steady State mRNA Level
Advisor: Lephart, Edwin D
Major: Honors Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Thalman, Ryan Miller
Thesis Title: Water Dependence on the Kinetics of the HO2 + NO Reaction
Advisor: Hansen, Jaron C
Major: Chemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Turner, Michael J
Thesis Title: Splice Variants of Murine COX-2 mRNA in J774.2 Monocyte/Macrophage Cells
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Welch, John S
Thesis Title: Phase Coherence During Time Dependent Energy Absorption in Both Classical and Quantum Coupled Oscillators and Applications to Multi-Photon Processors
Advisor: Shirts, Randall Brent
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Westover, Emily Janeen
Thesis Title: Determination of Protein Interactions with the Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Using the Yeast Two-Hybrid System
Advisor: Elton, Terry S
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Westover, Kenneth Dale
Thesis Title: Kinetic Studies of Rab Escort Protein in the Lipid Modification of Rab Protein
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Wheeler, Justin C
Thesis Title: "Cough it Up": Anthropological Perspectives on Respiratory Infections in Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuac?n
Advisor: Page, Randy M
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2007

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Alumnus: White, David William
Thesis Title: Inhibition of Phosducin-like Protein Catalyzed G Protein ?? Dimer Assembly Affects the Translation of Nascent G? and G?
Advisor: Willardson, Barry M
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Willis, David M
Thesis Title: The Compass and The Square: Noah's Ark, The Golden Section, Facsimiles Two and Three, and The Temple
Advisor: Baker, LeGrand L
Major: Molecular Biology: Chemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Wilson, Joel E
Thesis Title: Expression, Activity and Inhibition of Canine Cyclooxygenase
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Biochemistry
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Wilson, Phillip E
Thesis Title: Mechanistic Analysis of Nitrogenase Kinetics
Advisor: Watt, Gerald D
Major: Honors Biochemistry: Biochemistry Emphasis
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Adair, Joel C
Thesis Title: Resolving Problems in Engineering Ethics: Precept and Example
Advisor: Benzley, Steven Edward
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Bailey, Jonathan Douglas
Thesis Title: Simulation of Groundwater Flow in the Vicinity of Trojan Corporation Near Mapleton and Spanish Fork, Utah Using GMS and Femwater
Advisor: Downs, Wayne
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Brimhall, Jeffrey Todd
Thesis Title: Torsional Behavior of a Graphite/Epoxy Isotruss
Advisor: Jensen, David W
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Gilson, Bradley Scott
Thesis Title: Riverton Elementary School: Using Grease Interceptors Under Low Flow Conditions, A Case Study
Advisor: Borup, Michael Brett
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Hereth, William Richard
Thesis Title: Development of Algorithms and Computer Program for Automated Estimation of Stopped Delay at Signalized Intersections using Digitized Still Image Analysis
Advisor: Saito, Mitsuru
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Price, Krey H
Thesis Title: Evaporation Losses in the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Advisor: Miller, A Woodruff
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Seaman, Shedly
Thesis Title: Denver & Rio Grande and Union Pacific Underpass Structural Design
Advisor: Jones, Norman L
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Walters, Matthew Carl
Thesis Title: Structural Design Summary of the Provo Park Hotel Pool Egress
Advisor: Goodwin, Reese J
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Weaver, Thomas J
Thesis Title: Manufacturing Composite Isotruss Structures
Advisor: Jensen, David W
Major: Civil Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Bradshaw, Heather
Thesis Title: Dress and Ornament in the Works of Jane Austen
Advisor: Hinckley, Jane Kathleen Gardner
Major: Fashion Merchandising
Department: Clothing and Textiles
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Berrett, Wendy Anne Evans
Thesis Title: Responsiveness of Hispanic Preschoolers to Phonemic Awareness Activities in Spanish
Advisor: Culatta, Barbara
Major: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Department: Communication Disorders, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Buck, Holly
Thesis Title: Production of Digitally Recorded Mandarin Chinese Speech Audiometry Materials
Advisor: Harris, Richard W
Major: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Department: Communication Disorders, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Hansen, Margaret M
Thesis Title: The Relationship Between Likeability, Emotional Dissemblance, and Language Impairment
Advisor: Fujiki, Martin
Major: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Department: Communication Disorders, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Nohr, Petrea Edna
Thesis Title: An Evaluation of a 3-D Magnetic Tracking System for Measuring Tongue Movements
Advisor: Dromey, Christopher D
Major: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Department: Communication Disorders, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Taketa, Kathryn
Thesis Title: The Role of Interleukin-6 Regulation of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein in Cortisol and DHEA Secretion from Bovine Adrenal Tissue and Human Adrenal Tumor H295R Cells
Advisor: Judd, Allan M
Major: Speech-Language Pathology
Department: Communication Disorders, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Allen, Alexis L
Thesis Title: Behind the Broadway Buzz: An Analysis of the Communications Campaigns of Broadway Musicals
Advisor: Jones, Megan Sanborn
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Anderson, Rachel Sarah
Thesis Title: Socially Interactive Technologies and Teenage Behavior
Advisor: Thomsen, Steven Riley
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Billings, Anne Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Stories on Screen: The Myth-telling Function of Television and Movies
Advisor: Christensen, Bruce L
Major: Honors Communications: Communication Studies Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Bradshaw, Marin Turley
Thesis Title: Film Classification Systems as Indicators of Cultural Values: An Exploratory Cross-National Study
Advisor: Hawkins, Eliza Ann Tanner
Major: Communications: Communications Studies Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Cantrell, Tania H
Thesis Title: Who Am I? A Study of the Transition from Individual to Organizational Identity within the Merger of the Brigham Young University's Communication Media
Advisor: Hammond, Scott Carlson
Major: Communication Studies
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Clawson, Ashton Suzanne
Thesis Title: Reporter's Privilege and Professionalism: The Ethical and Professional Ramifications of Using Confidential Sources in News Gathering
Advisor: Carter, Edward L
Major: Communications: Print Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Cook, Joshua Reid
Thesis Title: The Process and Problems Associated with Democratizing Insult Laws Redefining Turkishness
Advisor: Palmer, Allen W
Major: Communications: Communications Studies Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Cooley, Gina Cheyenne
Thesis Title: News Photos on the Web: A Content Analysis of Lead Photographic Newspaper Web Sites
Advisor: Randle, Quint Bryce
Major: Communications: Print Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Cragun, Amy
Thesis Title: From Competitors to Cohorts: The Convergence of Print and Broadcast Media
Advisor: Porter, William C
Major: Journalism
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Douglas, Dianna Michelle
Thesis Title: At Least Two Years of America; An Adoption Story from India
Advisor: Hammond, Scott Carlson
Major: Communications: Print Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Duffin, Karen
Thesis Title: Self-study Assessment of the Brigham Young University Student Association
Advisor: Scharman, Janet S
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Evans, Katie
Thesis Title: The No Comment Theory: Analyzing the Impact
Advisor: Plowman, Kenneth Dean
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Flint, Jeffrey Allen
Thesis Title: Helping NAO Mean "NGO": An Updated Guide to Philanthropic and Social Movements in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Advisor: Nelson, Jack Adolph
Major: Communication Studies
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Gong, Walter Abraham
Thesis Title: Popping the Undergraduate News Bubble: Factors Influencing Current Events Knowledge Among College Students
Advisor: Rawlins, Bradley Lane
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Hall, R Trevor
Thesis Title: Communications Education: A Systems Approach
Advisor: Rush, J R
Major: Broadcast Communication
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Harris, Stephanie Ann
Thesis Title: BYU-Hawaii Public Relations Campaign
Advisor: Wilson, Laurie J
Major: Public Relations
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Isaacson, Bryce Fletcher
Thesis Title: Conflict in Children's Television in the 2006-2007 Season
Advisor: Callister, Mark Alden
Major: Communications: Advertising Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Knorpp, Daniel Stewart
Thesis Title: Diffusion of Innovations and Organ Donation Promotion
Advisor: Stout, Daniel A
Major: Communications: Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Komm, Chantelle Marie
Thesis Title: Legislating Culture: Threats to French-Language Radio Regulation in Quebec
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Communications: Broadcast Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Mock, Derek R
Thesis Title: "That Thy Days May Be Prolonged": A Survey of Attempts and Life-Threatening Circumstances in the Life of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Advisor: Manscill, Craig K
Major: Communications: Communications Studies Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Parkinson, Rachel Renee
Thesis Title: Transformation of the Storyteller's Identity and Role Through the American Storytelling Movement
Advisor: Broadway, Marsha D
Major: Communications: Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Peterson, Emily Carole
Thesis Title: Adolescents' Attention to Traditional and Graphic Warning Labels: An Eye-Tracking Approach
Advisor: Thomsen, Steven Riley
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Plocher, John M
Thesis Title: The Effect of Neural Synaptic Transmission on Brain Performance
Advisor: Allen, Mark Douglas
Major: Communications: Advertising and Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Sanford, Tamara Lyn Cebedo
Thesis Title: Darfur and the Media: Framing and Its Effects
Advisor: Wakefield, Robert Irwin
Major: Communications: Broadcast Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Smith, Stephanie Blackner
Thesis Title: The Public Relations Failures in Hispanic Immigration Reform
Advisor: Long, Richard Kenneth
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Sonne, Katherine Claire
Thesis Title: 'A Prettyish Kind of a Little Wilderness': The Social Role of Gardens in Selected Works by Jane Austen
Advisor: Soper, Kerry David
Major: Communications: Broadcast Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Stitt, Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Do Pinhao a Araucaria: From the Pine Nut to the Araucaria-Profiles of the Early Members of the LDS Church in Curitiba, Brazil
Advisor: Campbell, Joel Jay
Major: Communications: Print Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Stock, Jonathan Browning
Thesis Title: The Daily Universe Readership Study
Advisor: Kagel, Richard I
Major: Communications: Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Stoker, Megan Elizabeth
Thesis Title: A Crisis in Loyalty: A Reconciliation of Private and Public Loyalties in Public Relations
Advisor: Stoker, Kevin Lamonte
Major: Communications: Public Relations Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Walton, Jeremy M
Thesis Title: AdForTries.Com: A Business Plan and Experience Write-Up
Advisor: McKinlay, Douglas R
Major: Communications: Advertising Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Walton, Stephanie C
Thesis Title: Elderly Characters in Italian Television Advertising: A Content Analysis of Their Portrayal
Advisor: Robinson, Thomas Eugene
Major: Communications: Advertising and Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Webber, Jared
Thesis Title: Public Relations Firms and the Internet: Looking at How PR Agencies Present Themselves on the Net
Advisor: Thomsen, Steven Riley
Major: Public Relations
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Westover, Michael Lea
Thesis Title: The Effects of Endorser Weight on Purchase Intent and Brand Belief
Advisor: Randle, Quint Bryce
Major: Communications: Advertising and Marketing Communications Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Widdison, Marissa A
Thesis Title: Brigham Young University Compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act
Advisor: Campbell, Joel Jay
Major: Communications: Print Journalism Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Wilson, Tiffany K
Thesis Title: Organizational Communication: An Observation and Discussion of the Individualistic and Collectivist Values that Exist within the Team Structure.
Advisor: Hammond, Scott Carlson
Major: Communications: Communications Studies Emphasis
Department: Communications, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Cook, Douglas Evan
Thesis Title: CourseStream: Streaming Media for Classroom Use
Advisor: Clement, Mark Joel
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Draper, Geoffrey Michael
Thesis Title: Automatic Extrusion of Three-Dimensional Buildings From Overhead Terrain Photography
Advisor: Egbert, Parris
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Ellison, David D
Thesis Title: SimSeq: A Simulator that Utilizes Phylogenetic Topology while Preserving the Dynamic Flow of DNA Variation
Advisor: McClellan, David A
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2004

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Alumnus: Frost, Andrew
Thesis Title: Isaiah on the Web
Advisor: Ludlow, Victor L
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Fulda, Nancy Ellen
Thesis Title: Multiagent Coordination in Cooperative Q-learning Systems
Advisor: Peterson, Todd S
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Hansen, Bruce
Thesis Title: Dostoevsky's Theodicy
Advisor: Browning, Gary L
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Hymas, Rock Dean
Thesis Title: The Lambda-Q' Calculus as a model for Programming a Quantum Computer
Advisor: Ventura, Dan Aaron
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Maxwell, Matthew S
Thesis Title: Model-Based Autonomous Control of Piute Dam
Advisor: Warnick, Sean C
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Packard, David Michael
Thesis Title: Implementing Consensus Trees in BYU's Open Source Phylogenetic Inference Package: PSODA
Advisor: Clement, Mark Joel
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Pickens, Jeremy
Thesis Title: SISI : an internet implementation of the ELIZA specification - Viennese responses to high German phrases
Advisor: Whitehurst, R Alan
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Rees, Karl Thomas
Thesis Title: The Course of Memory: Li-Young Lee and the American Tradition
Advisor: Lawrence, Keith
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Serr, David Jerry
Thesis Title: Compilers for Networking
Advisor: Cornell, Aurel
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Teichert, Adam Richard
Thesis Title: Psodascript: Applying Advanced Language Constructs to Open-Source Phylogenetic Search
Advisor: Snell, Quinn O
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Van Den Akker, Ty Leonard
Thesis Title: The YGuard Access Control Model: Set-Based Access Control to Computing Resources
Advisor: Snell, Quinn O
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Wilde, Jason
Thesis Title: Giving Father the "Final Say": A Study of Implemented Patriarchy in an LDS Sample
Advisor: Holman, Thomas B
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Xia, Qing
Thesis Title: Background Color Selection Based on Color Information from User Images
Advisor: Morse, Bryan Stuart
Major: Computer Science
Department: Computer Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Myers, Marianne
Thesis Title: Breath of Life: An Original Music-Dance Collaboration and Its Documentation
Advisor: Black, Catherine H
Major: Dance: Modern Dance Emphasis
Department: Dance, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Uharriet, Jennifer Marie
Thesis Title: From Gumboots and Greek Letters: Preserving African American Heritage Through Stepping
Advisor: Phillips, Rebecca W
Major: Dance: Composite Dance Emphasis
Department: Dance, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Adams, John
Thesis Title: Book Cover Illustration of the Classics
Advisor: Barrett, Robert T
Major: Design
Department: Design
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Andelin, Lee Michael
Thesis Title: Where Are They All Going?: An Economic Study of Immigrant Destination Communities
Advisor: Timothy, Darren Paul
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Argyle, Daniel W
Thesis Title: Student Achievement in Charter Schools: A Cross State Analysis
Advisor: Price, Joseph Pratt
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Baird, Matthew D
Thesis Title: Educating the Undocumented Students: A Historical and Economic Inquiry into why the Children of Illegal Immigrants in the United States must be Educated
Advisor: Eide, Eric Raymond
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Bean, Wade O
Thesis Title: Market Structure Facing the Rural Chilean Artisans
Advisor: Gardner, Delworth
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Benzley, Layne
Thesis Title: Do Hispanic Patients Really Choose Physicians of Their Own Race?
Advisor: Thurston, Norman K
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Bettinger, Eric Perry
Thesis Title: Modeling the Cyclical Behavior of Prices: Evidence from 10 Industralized Countries
Advisor: Spencer, David Eugene
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bishop, Mark Leon
Thesis Title: Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Advisor: Waehrer, Keith
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Boyer, Brian Howard
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Least Median Squares and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models
Advisor: McDonald, James B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Chipman, Katherine Jeane
Thesis Title: Lost in Translations: Defining U.S. Foreign Policy in China
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Christensen, Garret Smyth
Thesis Title: Economic Analysis of Everest Expeditions
Advisor: Showalter, Mark H
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Christensen, Gavin Taylor
Thesis Title: Pirates of the High Seas? An Analysis of Market Concentration in the World Bulk Chemical Tanker Market
Advisor: Carson, Scott Alan
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: DeLong, Julia E
Thesis Title: Family Matters: Income Distribution Effects of Changing Household Structure
Advisor: Pope, Clayne L
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Driggs, Joseph Shad
Thesis Title: Silver Inflation in Spain, 1500-1650: A New Analysis of the Inflation Believed Caused by Silver Imports from America
Advisor: Wimmer, Larry T
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Dubravac, Shawn G
Thesis Title: Monetary Policy: A VAR Look at Its Effects on United States Stock Exchanges
Advisor: Mackay, Bret P
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Edwards, Kristen Barnes
Thesis Title: Was Welfare Ended As We Know It? A Study of the Effectiveness of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
Advisor: Showalter, Mark H
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Fielding, Michael Delynn
Thesis Title: Network Effects and Network Externalities
Advisor: Kearl, J R
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Fordham, Andrea Marie
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Workers' Compensation Using Data on Individuals
Advisor: Cardon, James Harold
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Gee, Matthew Merrill
Thesis Title: Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution
Advisor: Pope, Clive Arden
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Gordhamer, Joseph Lee
Thesis Title: Market Power, Rent Seeking, Entry, and Mergers: A Three Stage Game Approach to Analyzing the Effects of Horizontal Mergers
Advisor: Lambson, Val Eugene
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Gross, Joseph Brian
Thesis Title: Privatization of Agriculture in Post-Soviet Russia: A Model of Transition
Advisor: Bryson, Phillip James
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Gubler, Zack J
Thesis Title: Slouching towards free trade : an econometric inquiry into the determinants of trade protection across U.S. industries
Advisor: Bradford, Scott C
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Hall, Jonathan Daines
Thesis Title: Adverse Selection in the Market for Health Insurance
Advisor: Showalter, Mark H
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Hansen, David John
Thesis Title: The Fiji Distance Learning Program: Issues and Potential for Developing Countries
Advisor: Meek, Christopher B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Hansen, Derek Lloyd
Thesis Title: A Test of Transitivity
Advisor: Ransom, Michael R
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Hawkins, Richard John
Thesis Title: Maya Language Loss in Guatamala: A Regression and GIS Analysis of the 1994 Language Survey
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Heaton, Paul Scott
Thesis Title: An Empirical comparison of the Full and Simplified White Tests for Heteroskedasticity
Advisor: Butler, Richard John
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Hilbig, Todd C
Thesis Title: Moral Hazard in Health Care, the Overlooked Explanation for Productivity Slowdown: An Economic Analysis
Advisor: Gardner, Delworth
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Holmstead, Zachary Dee
Thesis Title: Are New York City Employers More Willing to Trade Productivity for Good Looks Than Those in Denver? An Analysis of Weight Discrimination and Geography
Advisor: Butler, Richard John
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Howard, Heather Fay Wynder
Thesis Title: How Much Does Air Pollution Really Cost?
Advisor: Pope, Clive Arden
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Howard, Monica Nelson
Thesis Title: The Effect of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Within the Female Labor Market
Advisor: Thurston, Norman K
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Keele, Robert T
Thesis Title: Peace in Unity: 19th Century Irenic Motivations in European Unification
Advisor: McFarland, Robert B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Kern, David A
Thesis Title: American Economic Freedom in the Early Twentieth Century
Advisor: Wimmer, Larry T
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Killingbeck, Seth A
Thesis Title: The Marginal Utility of Student Writing
Advisor: Hansen, Kristine
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Kim, Dong-Jin
Thesis Title: The Economic Reforms in North Korea: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
Advisor: Phillips, Kerk Layne
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Kirwan, Barrett Edward
Thesis Title: Borrowing Constraints: A Panel Study
Advisor: Spencer, David Eugene
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Lunt, John Larry
Thesis Title: Ukrainian Economics: The Transition from Communism to Capitalism
Advisor: Phillips, Kerk Layne
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Mahoney, Madeleine Victoria
Thesis Title: Technology in Education: Revolution Realized?
Advisor: Bush, Michael Douglas
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Mangum, Jonathan G
Thesis Title: Furthering the Development of the Godfrey Model of Economic Self-Reliance
Advisor: Godfrey, Paul C
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Matthews, Daniel P
Thesis Title: An Examination of the Effect of Brigham Young University's Single-Student Housing Policies on Local Condominium Values
Advisor: Slade, Barrett A
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: McCall, Kaeli Joy
Thesis Title: Effect of Electoral System on Minor Party Participation: A Case Study of New Zealand
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: McIntyre, Frank L
Thesis Title: 30,000 Regressions on Trade: A Sensitivity Analysis
Advisor: Phillips, Kerk Layne
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Mehan, Rahul Dev
Thesis Title: The Sheep, The Shepherd, and the Pre-Med Game: An Econometric Model of Medical School Admissions and an Evaluation of BYU Pre-Med Committee's Ranking System
Advisor: Cardon, James Harold
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Mumford, Kevin Jay
Thesis Title: An Economic Analysis of Air Pollution Abatement
Advisor: Pope, Clive Arden
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Palmer, Christopher John
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Returns to Higher Education in Armenia
Advisor: McIntyre, Frank L
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Pocock, Mark Lester
Thesis Title: Using Order Statistics to Estimate Salary Distributions for University Professors
Advisor: McDonald, James B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Rees, Christopher J
Thesis Title: Nondemocratic Consolidation: Rational Choice in Regime Choice
Advisor: Damron, Daniel Edwards
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Rugh, Jacob S
Thesis Title: Segregation and Public School Performance: Central City High Schools in California
Advisor: Eide, Eric Raymond
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Sine, Jared Franklin
Thesis Title: The Cosmetic Mystery: An Explanation of the Anomalous Growth of Cosmetic Surgery from 1995 to 2001
Advisor: Mackay, Bret P
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Smith, Isaac H
Thesis Title: A Missionary's Memoirs: Mongolia Revisited
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Snow, Richard F
Thesis Title: Mobility in Early Korea
Advisor: Phillips, Kerk Layne
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Stock, Karl John
Thesis Title: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of the Global Population Debate
Advisor: Phillips, Kerk Layne
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Stoker, Bradley L
Thesis Title: The Medicalization of America: Determinants of US Health Care Expenditures, 1948-91
Advisor: Gardner, Delworth
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Strum, Brad Everett
Thesis Title: An Examination of Alternative Decomposition Techniques of the Unemployment Rate
Advisor: Spencer, David Eugene
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Tanner, Jeffery Clark
Thesis Title: Economic Yields to Time in a Microfinance Bank: An Econometric Analysis
Advisor: Woller, Gary Michael
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Taylor, Tyson Earl
Thesis Title: Origins of Economic Education at Brigham Young University
Advisor: Wimmer, Larry T
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2005

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Alumnus: Toler, Theron L
Thesis Title: The FCS and the USDA: The Informational Efficiency of the Federal Farm System Bond Market
Advisor: Jensen, Farrell E
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Turley, Robert S
Thesis Title: Econometric Estimation Using the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Distribution
Advisor: McDonald, James B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Turley, Ty Wayne
Thesis Title: Solaris and Its Hypotexts: Adaptation "Through the Hands" of Andrei Tarkovsky
Advisor: Solovieva, Raissa Vulfovna
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Ward, Aaron W
Thesis Title: Political, Economic and Infrastructure Related Obstacles to Growth in Ukraine's Agricultural Sector: Impediments to Free Markets and Assistance from Multi-National Farm Equipment Corporations
Advisor: Gardner, Delworth
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Wardle, David Lynn
Thesis Title: Divorce among Retirement-Aged Adults: The Apparent Absence of an Empty Nest Effect
Advisor: Wilson, Sven Eric
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Washburn, Jefferson R
Thesis Title: Causes of the Great Inflation
Advisor: Spencer, David Eugene
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Watson, Derrill D
Thesis Title: A Comparison Forecasting Performance: Programs, Parameters and Performance (a contiuation of work by Dimitrios D. Thomakos and John B. Guerard Jr. using monetary and stock market data)
Advisor: McDonald, James B
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Wilson, Eric McKinley
Thesis Title: The Risk of Risk Aversion
Advisor: Eide, Eric Raymond
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Woo, Shuei Chen Valerie
Thesis Title: Impact and Efficiency of FINCA's Microfinance Programs
Advisor: McIntyre, Frank L
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Wright, Joel D
Thesis Title: The Welfare Cost of Brazilian Inflation
Advisor: Spencer, David Eugene
Major: Honors Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Yoder, John F
Thesis Title: The Analysis of NAFTA's Effects on the US and Mexican Apparel Trade
Advisor: Bradford, Scott C
Major: Economics
Department: Economics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Anderson, Jeremy
Thesis Title: Transient Response Compensation Method Using a Nonlinear Element
Advisor: Comer, Donald Thomas
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Brown, Charles G
Thesis Title: A Field-wise Wind Estimation Algorithm for the NASA Scatterometer
Advisor: Long, David G
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Bullough, Benjamin Lynn
Thesis Title: Analysis of Field Programmable Gate Array Implementations of Constant Coefficient Finite Impulse Response Filters.
Advisor: Wirthlin, Michael Joseph
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Collins, Nathan Andrew
Thesis Title: Techniques for Single-Event Upset Mitigation for FPGA Block Memory (BRAM)
Advisor: Wirthlin, Michael Joseph
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Evans, David Keith
Thesis Title: The Elimination of Stalls Using a Multi-threaded CPU Architecture
Advisor: Wilde, Doran Kenneth
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Geiger, Rachel Lynn
Thesis Title: A Study of Coordinated Robot Control: Robot Soccer
Advisor: Archibald, James K
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2003

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Alumnus: Goodson, Bradford J
Thesis Title: Characterization of Metal-2 in the BYU NMOS Process
Advisor: Salmon, Linton
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Haslam, Bryan T
Thesis Title: A Microfluidic Setup for Microcantilever-Based Chemical and Biological Sensors
Advisor: Nordin, Greg
Major: Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Lalande, Kevin Myles
Thesis Title: Applying Genetic Algorithms to Strategic Analysis
Advisor: Nelson, Brent Edwin
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: McKell, Sean Lynn
Thesis Title: Fuzzy Logic Control of an Inverted Pendulum
Advisor: Comer, David John
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering: Computer Emphasis
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Merrell, Brian L
Thesis Title: GPS Accuracy Improvements through Multiple Satellite Triangulations
Advisor: Long, David G
Major: Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Nelson, Reed A
Thesis Title: Control Architectures for Dynamically Interacting Robots in a Competitive Environment
Advisor: Archibald, James K
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Oborn, Patrick
Thesis Title: Digital to Analog Converter Design Using Modified Resistor String Architecture
Advisor: Comer, Donald Thomas
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Oliphant, Travis Elgin
Thesis Title: Resonant Tunneling of Gaussian Beams
Advisor: Selfridge, Richard H
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering: Electronics Emphasis
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Pyper, Edward A
Thesis Title: A Wireless mimo Channel Probing Approach for Arbitrary Antenna Arrays
Advisor: Jeffs, Brian D
Major: Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Stacey, William C
Thesis Title: A Flexible Ribbon Cable for Attachment to the Utah Intracortical Electrode Array
Advisor: Salmon, Linton
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering: Electronics Emphasis
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Summers, David
Thesis Title: Using Control Bits Generated by the Compiler to Simplify Processor Design
Advisor: Archibald, James K
Major: Honors Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Waugh, Caleb Joseph
Thesis Title: A Data Manipulation and Control System for Variform 3D ?
Advisor: Todd, Robert H
Major: Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Wheeler, Michael Bryan
Thesis Title: Palimpsest Multispectral Imaging: Enhancement of a Vatican Library Palimpsest (VAT. GR. 2005)
Advisor: Ware, Gene A
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Wilding, Daniel R
Thesis Title: FOUR DIMENSIONAL DATA NAVIGATION
Advisor: Burton, Robert Preece
Major: Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Woodbury, Brandon Brent
Thesis Title: MRI for the Masses: The Design of a Low-Cost MRI Console
Advisor: Oliphant, Travis Elgin
Major: Electrical Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2004

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Alumnus: Charlton, Heather
Thesis Title: Training Volunteer Tutors to Read Books with Young Children: One Effective Approach
Advisor: Morrison, Timothy G
Major: Elementary Education: Professional Elementary Education Emphasis
Department: Elementary Education
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Lords, Dawn Chadwell
Thesis Title: Mathematics Beliefs of BYU Elementary Education Faculty, BYU Elementary Education Students, and Teachers and Administration in One Partnership School: A Pilot Study
Advisor: Smith, Stephanie Zeyer
Major: Elementary Education: Professional Elementary Education Emphasis
Department: Elementary Education
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Mitchell, Amy Wengreen
Thesis Title: An Active Approach to Social Studies Education in the Elementary School
Advisor: Erickson, Lynnette B
Major: Elementary Education: Professional Elementary Education Emphasis
Department: Elementary Education
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Nielsen, Katie F
Thesis Title: Understanding the Hungarian National Music Curriculum and Implications for Adoption by American Schools
Advisor: Jaccard, Jerry L
Major: Elementary Education: Professional Elementary Education Emphasis
Department: Elementary Education
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Orme, Michelle Pendergrass
Thesis Title: Effects of Mathematical Vocabulary Instruction on Fourth Grade Students
Advisor: Monroe, Eula
Major: Elementary Education: Professional Elementary Education Emphasis
Department: Elementary Education
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Allen, Joshua
Thesis Title: The Father Stories
Advisor: Young, Margaret Blair
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Anderson, Jessica Griffin
Thesis Title: A Taste of Roald Dahl: Characterization by Mouth
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Anderson, Kirk Jared
Thesis Title: Enclosed
Advisor: Tuttle, Stephen B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Anderson, Leland Marshall
Thesis Title: LDS Doctrinal Insights into Pedagogical Research about Effective Praise
Advisor: Young, K Richard
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Arnell, Brian
Thesis Title: The Himba of Namibia: An Analysis of Oral Literature
Advisor: Lundquist, M Suzanne
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Barker, Jana
Thesis Title: Hermits and Heroes: Examining Mujo and Ubi Sunt in Hojoki and Beowulf
Advisor: Stoneman, Jack Chris
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Bascom, Benjamin D
Thesis Title: Technologies of Confession: Racialized Modernities in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Advisor: Matthews, Kristin L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Beahm, Brittany
Thesis Title: Verbal Rope Tricks: An Analysis of Character Development Through Rhetoric in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Advisor: Burton, Gideon Omer
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Bennion, Anna Katharine
Thesis Title: Fidelity and Film Adaptation: Jane Eyre: A Screenplay
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Bennion, Elizabeth
Thesis Title: King Lear: An Analysis of Four Films and Their Treatment of Edgar
Advisor: Young, Bruce Wilson
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bentley, Melissa Kay
Thesis Title: The Friberg Code: A Novel
Advisor: Neilsen, David W
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Berry, Jennifer L
Thesis Title: Zero Tolerance
Advisor: Crowe, Christopher E
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Bezzant, Kirsten M
Thesis Title: Emmy
Advisor: Crowe, Christopher E
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Black, Nathan J
Thesis Title: Him I Love Who Desires the Impossible: Ahab's Quest and Salvation
Advisor: Tanner, Stephen L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Blake, Jennie Holman
Thesis Title: Politics in Poetry: A Rhetorical Analysis of Adrienne Rich
Advisor: Harris, Claudia W
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Blake, Richard
Thesis Title: The New Language Policy in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Analysis and Implications for the Bantu Languages
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Blood, Dena Sarene
Thesis Title: Conversational Dynamics in the Discourse of Lydgate and Rosamond
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Bocchino, Maria L
Thesis Title: The Development of the Salt Lake Community College Concurrent Enrollment Handbook: A Learning Log
Advisor: Whitley, Colleen L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Bowen, Jeremy D
Thesis Title: Simply Complicated: A Critical Analysis of the Plain Language Movement in a Legal Context
Advisor: Hatch, Gary Layne
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Bragonje, John
Thesis Title: Cognitive Science as Literary Metacriticism: A Case Study of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"
Advisor: Paxman, David B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Brinton, Christine
Thesis Title: Rhinoceros in the Room
Advisor: Samuelsen, Eric Roy
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Brown, Leigh Lauren
Thesis Title: Avoiding Web Wiles: Ethics and Instructions for Web Site Owners
Advisor: Dant, Doris Ross
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Brown, Mary Kaye
Thesis Title: ESL Teacher and Learner Judgments Regarding Learning Styles
Advisor: Scott, Mary Lee
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Brunson, Samuel David
Thesis Title: Post-Consumer Mythologies
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Burton, Sarah Benson
Thesis Title: Shakespeare, Truth, and Ethics: A Study of Three Major Characters from Othello and Henry V
Advisor: Christiansen, Nancy L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Busby, Elizabeth Katheryne Muir
Thesis Title: Life Expectant: Personal Essays
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Buskirk, Liesl Marie
Thesis Title: Belonging: The Nature and Nurture of Community
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Caffee, Elise Nicole
Thesis Title: Web Savvy: Creating a Magazine Using Project Management Tools
Advisor: Paul, Danette
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Castellano, Nicholas Aaron
Thesis Title: Coming to Terms with Scriptural Authority: Understanding John Milton's Views on the Liberty of Speech and the Press in Areopagitica
Advisor: Duerden, Richard Y
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Chai, Nathan Keonaona
Thesis Title: The Reasonable People: A Collection of Short Stories
Advisor: Larsen, Lance Eric
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Charles, Cristie Cowles
Thesis Title: Illuminations into High-School: A Socio-Cultural Study of Muriel Rukeyser's "Poem out of Childhood" and High School in the 1930s
Advisor: Muhlestein, Daniel K
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Christensen, Jacquelyn Youd
Thesis Title: Retaining in Remembrance the Captivity: A Comparison of American Puritan and Nephite Accounts of Captivity
Advisor: Woodger, Mary Jane
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Clark, Gina
Thesis Title: Cowgirl Takes Tea at the Fleur de Lis and Other Poems
Advisor: Larsen, Lance Eric
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Clements, Elisa
Thesis Title: Metatheatrical Gender: The Empowerment of Female Roles in Renaissance Theater
Advisor: Burton, Gideon Omer
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Collis, Steven Timothy
Thesis Title: Finding America
Advisor: Hughes, Dean Thomas
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Coltrin, David William
Thesis Title: Strokes of Grace: Literary Paintings in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction
Advisor: Howe, Susan
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Colvin, Angela
Thesis Title: Biting the Apple, Healing the Garden: Chretien's Enide As Eve
Advisor: Petersen, Zina Nibley
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Cowley, Andrea Lyn
Thesis Title: Redeeming Women through Eve: Lizzie and Laura As Female Redeemers in Christian Rossetti's Goblin Market
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Curtis, Erin Steck
Thesis Title: Preserving the Authentic Voice: A Guide to Editing Oral History
Advisor: Norton, Don Evan
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Curtis, Robert Whiting
Thesis Title: The Raven and the Mockingbird: American Periodical Literature and the Rise of the "Outsider" Poets, Whitman and Poe
Advisor: Cutler, Edward Smith
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Cutler, John A
Thesis Title: Lamanite
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Dattilo, Amberly Draper
Thesis Title: Treatment of Gender in Adolescent Fantasy Literature: An Analysis of J. K. Rowling and Robin McKinley
Advisor: Nelson, Joyce
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Daugherty, Sara Jo
Thesis Title: Cultivating Language: The Climb Toward Intimacy
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Davis, Amanda Leigh
Thesis Title: The Prosthetic Aesthetic: A Phenomenological Impulse
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Davis, Emily
Thesis Title: To England and Back Again: A Collection of Essays and Short Stories
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Dickson, Vernon Guy
Thesis Title: Shakespeare's Use of Imitation in King Lear: An Argument for Applied Learning
Advisor: Christiansen, Nancy L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Dinger, Matthew S
Thesis Title: The Ways of White Folks: Anglo-American Influences on the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Dinsmoor, Anna Lina
Thesis Title: True Musick, Ture Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology Embodied in the Religious Works of John Donne
Advisor: Green, Jon D
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Draper, Lisa
Thesis Title: BYU Study Abroad: Nanjing, China
Advisor: Christensen, Matthew B
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Drew, Kate E
Thesis Title: Family Relationships in King Lear: An Examination Through the Sources
Advisor: Christiansen, Nancy L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Dunster, Jeffrey Lowell
Thesis Title: Developing Multimedia with Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: History of Civilization CD-ROM
Advisor: Thomas, Paul Roger
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Durrett, Brandon Edward
Thesis Title: The Poe Canon: A Reexamination of Texts Questionably Attributed to E. A. Poe Using Stylometric "Wordprint" Analysis
Advisor: Perry, Dennis Ralph
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Eastley, Aaron Christopher
Thesis Title: Guyana Stories
Advisor: Norris, G Leslie
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Ellsworth, Elise Anna
Thesis Title: Reinterpreting "Best Interest": An Ethnography of a Guardian ad Litem
Advisor: Zimmerman, Beverly B
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Essuman, Mary Adjowa
Thesis Title: Reflections in Water
Advisor: Madden III, Patrick Charles
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Evans, Stephen Douglas
Thesis Title: A Rhetorical Analysis of Antione Albalat's La formation du Style
Advisor: Burton, Gideon Omer
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Eves, Rosalyn M
Thesis Title: A More Perfect Union: Androgynous Marriage in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Finlinson, Kate Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Fixed Between the Wax and Wane: Backlash Politics and Autobiography Constructing Myth
Advisor: Matthews, Kristin L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Fischer, Jeanne
Thesis Title: Creating Engaging Characters
Advisor: Tourney, Leonard Don
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Fisher, Katherine E
Thesis Title: Newtonian Remnants in Wyndham Lewis's Vorticism
Advisor: Wickman, Matthew Farr
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Fletcher, Julie
Thesis Title: They Can Only Come to Morning Through the Shadows:The Myth of Death and Resurrection in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Frandsen, Naomi
Thesis Title: The Mormon Answer to the Woman Question: Rhetorical Cummunity in the Woman's Exponent 1872-1895
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Frandsen, Rosalynde
Thesis Title: The Borderline Between Oneself and the Other: Bakhtinian Implications for Composition Pedagogy
Advisor: Hassett, Michael Joseph
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Franklin, Joseph Clark
Thesis Title: The Placenta in my Living Room and other College Epiphanies
Advisor: Madden III, Patrick Charles
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Fulkerson, Noah Kekaula
Thesis Title: Surviving the Canon: Film, Poetry, and Memory of the Vietnam War
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Furr, Nathan R
Thesis Title: Jerusalem's Wall
Advisor: Larsen, Lance Eric
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Garrard-Willis, Janet Lynn
Thesis Title: Patterns of My Soul: Flesh and Spirit
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Gerhart, Sarah Hatch
Thesis Title: Book of Mormon Poetry in Translation: No Man Knoweth Our Language
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Gibson, Brian
Thesis Title: A Mormon Mother: A Play in Four Acts: Adapted from the book A Mormon Mother: The Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
Advisor: Slover, Timothy Wood
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Goodsell, Todd H
Thesis Title: "A Conflict of Sensations Without Name": Richard Wagner?s Influence on C. S. Lewis as Evidenced by Elements of Der Ring Des Nibelungen Found in The Magician?s Nephew
Advisor: Young, Bruce Wilson
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Goodwin, Scott D
Thesis Title: Marxist Showdown: An Ideological Metacriticism of High Noon
Advisor: Muhlestein, Daniel K
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Green, Spencer Lincoln
Thesis Title: Eva
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Grover, Stephen David
Thesis Title: To Point B
Advisor: Madden III, Patrick Charles
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Gruver, Catharine Christine V
Thesis Title: Changing Her Image: The Portrayal of Women in Contemporary Fantasy
Advisor: Taylor, Sally T
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Gustafson, Melissa Brown
Thesis Title: Mommy, Where Do Daddies Come From?:--Jim Borgman, Cartoon Caption 1994--The Media's Portrayal of World War II Fathers
Advisor: Grandstaff, Mark R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Hall, Neldon P
Thesis Title: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Resistance to Nihilism and Other Ideologies
Advisor: Lawrence, Keith
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Hanrahan, Jennifer Kruse
Thesis Title: Revitalizing Contemporary Creative Writing Pedagogy by Applying Classical Rhetoric
Advisor: Burton, Gideon Omer
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Hansen, Jennifer
Thesis Title: Family Theory: a Literary Tool
Advisor: Paxman, David B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Hansen, Michael D
Thesis Title: The Ethics of Group Interaction in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: A Levinasian Reading
Advisor: Snyder, Phillip A
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Harmon, Jesika Jean
Thesis Title: The World War II Years of Ralph J. Henderson: Auto-Biographical Excerpts
Advisor: Thayer, Douglas H
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Haslam Meier, Jennifer Suzanne
Thesis Title: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop and Its Relationship to Epic Literature
Advisor: Tanner, Stephen L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Hedengren, Mary L
Thesis Title: John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down as Effective Literary Propaganda
Advisor: Hansen, Kelsey Robin
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Helquist, Melissa
Thesis Title: UVSC's Fledgling OWL: The Pedagogy and Development of an Online Writing Lab
Advisor: Zimmerman, Beverly B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Hendricks, Hilary Marja
Thesis Title: A Critical Transition: Improving First-Year Composition for Students of Advanced Placement English
Advisor: Hansen, Kristine
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Holbrook, Kathleen
Thesis Title: Procreative Power: Lawrence's Prescription for Love on the Rocks
Advisor: Harris, Claudia W
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Howey, Kimberly K
Thesis Title: Manyone. the Merging Paradox in May Swenson's Life and Poetry
Advisor: Howe, Susan
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Hurd, Danielle Jean
Thesis Title: Jose Vital Branco Malhoa: Redefining Romanticism and Realism in Portuguese Art
Advisor: Magleby, Mark Allen
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Husberg, Christopher Bradley
Thesis Title: From "Through a Glass in a Dark Manner" to "Caught Up to the Third Heaven:" Dante's Neologisms in Paradiso
Advisor: Sowell, Madison U
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Hynynen, LiIna Maaria
Thesis Title: An Observational Study of Behaviors and Beliefs Associated with Buruli Ulcer in the Ga District, Ghana, West Africa
Advisor: Geo-JaJa, MacLeans A
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Inouye, Benjamin Liao
Thesis Title: Growing Up Backwards and Forwards
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Isaacson, Wendi W
Thesis Title: The Personal Aubiography of Lorna Hurd Nield: The Voice from "Grandmother's Old Fashioned Garden"
Advisor: Snyder, Phillip A
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Jackson, Christine Taylor
Thesis Title: The Media's Perspective on the Intifada: A Look at Three Papers
Advisor: Palmer, Allen W
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Johnson, Benjamin F
Thesis Title: Allusions of Alienation in Tennyson?s "Lucretius"
Advisor: Talbot, John Christopher
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Johnson, Rebecca Louise
Thesis Title: Determinism and Free Will in Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book
Advisor: Cowles, David L
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Johnson, Sean Matthew
Thesis Title: A Light in the Window of the Girl You Loved as a Boy
Advisor: Howe, Susan
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Johnson, Shannon
Thesis Title: It's a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird: The Depiction of Law and Lawyers in Adolescent Literature
Advisor: Crisler, Jesse S
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Johnson, Shannon Olena
Thesis Title: Emily Dickinson: Transcendental Trinitarian
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Johnson, Thomas Henry
Thesis Title: Barth and Scheherazade: Reinventing Self
Advisor: Snyder, Phillip A
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Johnson, Vilja Olivia
Thesis Title: Political Use of Western Tropes in Shane and Live Free or Die Hard
Advisor: Cutchins, Dennis Ray
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Jones, Amy Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Laman: A Novel
Advisor: Tourney, Leonard Don
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Jorgensen, Melissa M
Thesis Title: Deception and Integrity: A Study fo Russian Folklore
Advisor: Duerden, Richard Y
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Kearl, Jocelyn
Thesis Title: A Distinctive Women's Identity: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Dues Rex Judaeorum
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Keeley, Shannon
Thesis Title: Fresh Fish Fried to Bits
Advisor: Plummer, Louise
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Klein, Kevin M
Thesis Title: Three Poets Diverged from Similitude: A Comparison of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Leslie Norris
Advisor: Norris, G Leslie
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Knight, Eleanor
Thesis Title: Words to Take Home: A Journal From Zanzibar
Advisor: Black, Hal Lunt
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Kopp, Melissa Ann
Thesis Title: Textual Variation in the "Monk's Tale"
Advisor: Thomas, Paul Roger
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Larsen, Jacquelynne Suzanne
Thesis Title: Challenging Historical Fiction: A Comparison of two women Authors in the 1820's
Advisor: Perry, Dennis Ralph
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Lay, Celina Marie
Thesis Title: Beliefs in Conflict: Narratives of Student Teaching
Advisor: Pinnegar, Stefinee E
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Leavitt, Loralee Bassett
Thesis Title: Si Manus Tua Scandalizat: A Creative Story
Advisor: Taylor, Sally T
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Leishman, Todd Richard
Thesis Title: Un Conjunto de Unicos: An Essay Exploring Relationships between Individuality and Community in the Context of Language
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Lewis, Andrea
Thesis Title: Consciousness at the Back of Things: Hope in Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts
Advisor: Fox, C. Jay
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Lewis, Dallin G
Thesis Title: Industry and Dwelling in James Thomson's The Seasons
Advisor: Wickman, Matthew Farr
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Lichfield, Michael D
Thesis Title: Rethinking Fools in Austen and Dostoevsky: Hetty Bates and General Ivolgin
Advisor: Browning, Gary L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Lindquist, Danille Christensen
Thesis Title: Permission to Be Real: Elouise Bell and the Personal Narrative
Advisor: Lundquist, M Suzanne
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Lindquist, Jason H
Thesis Title: "A crooked, broken, scattered, and imperfect language" : the gospel and deconstruction
Advisor: Duerden, Richard Y
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Lindsay, Nathan Kirk
Thesis Title: The Book of Mormon: A Handbook of Hope for the Apocalypse
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Macdonald, Dusten M
Thesis Title: Calorimetric Investigation of the Complexation of Didodecylcalix[4]-crown-6 with Alkali Metal Cations in Acetonitrile
Advisor: Lamb, John David
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Mason, Jeanna B
Thesis Title: Redeeming the Beauty, Redeeming the Beast: A Search for Meaning in an Old Tale
Advisor: Thursby, Jacqueline Schuster
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Matthews, Heidi Leann
Thesis Title: The Refinement Process:A Collection of Short Stories and Personal Essays
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: McClellan, Richard Dean
Thesis Title: Louis A. Bertrand: One of the Most Singular and Romantic Figures of the Age
Advisor: Cannon, Donald Q
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: McCrea, Laura Mariann
Thesis Title: Readability of LDS Church Leadership Manuals as Determined by Readability Formulas and Phrase Readability Analysis
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: McKenna, Brenda Williams
Thesis Title: Making Sense
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: McLaughlin, Amy Elisabeth
Thesis Title: A Believing People: LDS Conversion Narratives from the Amazon
Advisor: Eliason, Eric Alden
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: McMurray, Joy Elizabeth Fisher
Thesis Title: Images of Womanhood in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: McNey, Katherine A
Thesis Title: Influence and Ideal: The Perception, Permutation, and Propagation of the Literary and Cultural Patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: McRae, Bonnie J
Thesis Title: Victorian Gender Ideology in Hard Times, Vanity Fair, the Mill on the Floss, and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Melton, James Howard
Thesis Title: Stories of Ashes and Mud
Advisor: Young, Margaret Blair
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Miller, Joseph M
Thesis Title: Body, Mind & Spirit: A Summary
Advisor: Adams, Linda Hunter
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Minson, Melynn
Thesis Title: Feeling the Weather
Advisor: Beecher, Maureen U
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Moffat, Kael Dennis
Thesis Title: Thinking on "dimme shadowes": Amelia Lanyer and 17th Century English Print Culture
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Monroe, Marcee
Thesis Title: The Magical Realism of Ana Castillo: Contrite Faith and a Broken Monologue
Advisor: Eddy, Shauna L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Monson, Heather Barlow
Thesis Title: The Archetypal Journey in Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy
Advisor: Adams, Linda Hunter
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Monson, Marianne
Thesis Title: A Woman's Quiet Surrender in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley
Advisor: Best, Brian S
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Munk, Cynthia
Thesis Title: Kicking Hamlet into the Abyss: A Deconstruction of Theological Meaning and Binary Oppositions in Hamlet
Advisor: Cowles, David L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Murdock, Anna Marie
Thesis Title: Imitating God: The Purpose of Art According to Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Browning
Advisor: Cowles, David L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Murdock, Shannon E
Thesis Title: Chiastic Inclusio in the Pentateuch: The Covenantal Ring
Advisor: Baker, Roger C
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Nielson, Tara
Thesis Title: Christopher Columbus in the Twenty-First Century: Dominican Student and Teacher Perspectives at the Elementary, Secondary, and University Levels
Advisor: Weatherford, Douglas J
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Olson, Sarah L
Thesis Title: One New Teacher
Advisor: Dean, Deborah Marquiss
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2003

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Alumnus: Perkes, Joshua K
Thesis Title: Matthias and the Land of Blue Stones
Advisor: Plummer, Louise
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Pettit, Autumn
Thesis Title: The Empty Space and Other Stories
Advisor: Thayer, Douglas H
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Quinn, Natalie
Thesis Title: Notate Bene and Insight: A Student Editor's Notes and Reflections Regarding Brigham Young University's Honors Program Publications
Advisor: Gardner, Marvin Kent
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Raddon, Rebecca
Thesis Title: A Slipping-Down Life: A Comparative Analysis of the Novel and Film Adaptation
Advisor: Cutchins, Dennis Ray
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Rawlings, Marja-Liisa
Thesis Title: Web Site as a Resource for Teaching Grammar and Usage in Secondary Schools
Advisor: Grierson, Sirpa T
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Reese, Andrea Miki
Thesis Title: Using Instructional Design Theory to Create a Student Editing Handbook
Advisor: Zimmerman, Beverly B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Rich, Sarita Clara
Thesis Title: "Dangerous Conceits": Perverse Alchemical Transmutations in William Shakespeare's Othello
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Roberg, Alison Stone
Thesis Title: Reluctant Saints: Essays
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Robison, Lana
Thesis Title: The Power of Personal Narratives: A South African Experience
Advisor: Wilson, William A
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Ross, Elisabeth Louise
Thesis Title: Tell Them of Us
Advisor: Madden III, Patrick Charles
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Rowberry, Ryan M
Thesis Title: The Anglo-Saxon Axe: An Introductory Study
Advisor: Chapman, Don William
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Rowberry, Shauntelle S
Thesis Title: The Saints of Southern India
Advisor: Muhlestein, Daniel K
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Rytting, Elizabeth Jane
Thesis Title: Places to Go, People to Be: Silvi and Bruno as Post Structuralist Experiment
Advisor: Cowles, David L
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Sanders, Katherine E
Thesis Title: Katherine's Picture Show: Essays
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Sanderson, Brandon W
Thesis Title: Dragonsteel
Advisor: Thursby, Jacqueline Schuster
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Scott, Amy Lee
Thesis Title: Revisionist Hi/Story: A creative non-fiction project in lyric essays
Advisor: Madden III, Patrick Charles
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Shaw, Marc Edward
Thesis Title: Wake: A Contemporary Mormon Play
Advisor: Slover, Timothy Wood
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Skaggs, Rachel A
Thesis Title: The Island of Moons
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Skinner, Kelli Ann
Thesis Title: Food in the Grapes of Wrath: A Search for Human Understanding.
Advisor: Rudy, Jill Terry
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Smith, Colin B
Thesis Title: Rainbow Nation's Ubuntu: Discovering Distinctness as a Spectrum in Three South African Novels
Advisor: Eastley, Aaron Christopher
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2005

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Alumnus: Smith, Daniel James
Thesis Title: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, and Racism
Advisor: Cracroft, Richard H
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Smith, Willis J
Thesis Title: Scottish Enlightened Conscience: Witherspoon, Madison and the Initial Draft of the First Amendment
Advisor: Hatch, Gary Layne
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Spencer, Kerry Lynn Clift
Thesis Title: Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Alchemy and Arthurian Legend
Advisor: Petersen, Zina Nibley
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Spencer, Shelley M
Thesis Title: In the Process of Time
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Stanger, Andrew Jack
Thesis Title: A City Upon a Hill: The Biblical Typology of Early American Nationalism
Advisor: Lambert, Neal E
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Stankiewicz, David James
Thesis Title: The Language and the Law: Internet Trademark Law Online
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Stevens, Nicole
Thesis Title: A Study of Phytoliths Extracted from Food Residues Taken from a Bronze-Age Pot
Advisor: Ball, Terry Briggs
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Stodtmeister, Ryan R
Thesis Title: Authenticating the Genre: Recovering the Ideological Roots of Detective Fiction in Paul Auster's City of Glass
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Straubhaar, Kristy
Thesis Title: "The Fayre Madyn of Astolaf" of Malory and Tennyson: A Jungian Analysis and Implications for Group Psychotherapy
Advisor: Petersen, Zina Nibley
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Stringham, Marci
Thesis Title: A Handbook for LDS Undergraduates Interested in Pursuing a Legal Career
Advisor: Hassett, Michael Joseph
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Swift, Jeffrey C
Thesis Title: The Horror of War: Tolkien's Realistic Representation of Battle in The Lord of the Rings
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Taylor, Douglas M
Thesis Title: Inspiring a Nation: A Rhetorical Analysis of President Bush's Response to September 11
Advisor: Hatch, Gary Layne
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Tennison, Erin Jane
Thesis Title: Perfect Delilah Dee: A Young Adult Novel
Advisor: Crowe, Christopher E
Major: English Teaching
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Tobler, Ryan Gregg
Thesis Title: The Good Minister: Emerson, Hedge, and Transcendental Religion
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Ure, Daniel S
Thesis Title: Virtue and Freedom: Virtue and Human Nature in the Context of Tocqueville's Democracy in America and in The Federalist Papers
Advisor: Hancock, Ralph C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Wagstaff, Stillman C
Thesis Title: The Impulse Tragic
Advisor: Johnson, Kimberly
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Webb, Philip Roland
Thesis Title: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Bombing of Dresden: A Multiplicity of Historical Narratives
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Wells, Daniel Andrew
Thesis Title: Deeper into Chaos: A Fantasy Novella
Advisor: Walker, Steven C
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Wessman, Robert Edward
Thesis Title: Conducting Needs Assesment and Creating a Strategic Plan for the Norma I. Love Foundation in La Mosquitia, Honduras
Advisor: Zimmerman, Beverly B
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: White, Joshua J
Thesis Title: Excursions into Prose: Three Personal Essays and a Short Story
Advisor: Jorgensen, Bruce Wayne
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Whitley, Edward Keyes
Thesis Title: Postmodernism and the Beatles' "White Album"
Advisor: Snyder, Phillip A
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Whitt, Karen Pearson
Thesis Title: Discoveries
Advisor: Santiago, Tessa Meyer
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Wilcox, Miranda
Thesis Title: Old English Elegiac Imagery in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Advisor: Petersen, Zina Nibley
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Wilde, Mary Elizabeth Illions
Thesis Title: Rebirth, Individuation, and Illumination: A Mythic/Archetypal Approach to Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
Advisor: Harris, Claudia W
Major: Honors English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Wirkus, Jessie Leatham
Thesis Title: The Curves and Shifting Points of Technology: Newton, Thomson, and Wordsworth
Advisor: Wickman, Matthew Farr
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Wright, Christian C
Thesis Title: Tornado and Other Stories
Advisor: Bennion, John Serge
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Young, Cecily Michelle
Thesis Title: Redefining Gender Roles: The Poetry and Life of Christina Rossetti
Advisor: Cowles, David L
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Zvirzdin, Jamie Ann
Thesis Title: Bridging the Gap: The Persuasive Verbal Art of C. S. Lewis and Neal A. Maxwell
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: English
Department: English, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Blanchard, Scott G
Thesis Title: Optimal Release Parameters for the Javelin Throw in Competition
Advisor: Hunter, Iain
Major: Exercise Sciences: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Buys, Michael Jacob
Thesis Title: Neuromuscular Characteristics Before and After Taper in Male Collegiate Swimmers
Advisor: Parcell, Allen Clive
Major: Physical Education: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Craven, Katherine L
Thesis Title: Cultural and Western Influences on the Nutrition Transition in Thailand
Advisor: Hawks, Steven Ralph
Major: Exercise Sciences: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Didenhover, Breanne Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Improving Nutrition Education in Mozambique: An Internship Experience
Advisor: Dixon, Joan
Major: Exercise Sciences: Fitness and Wellness Management Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Greenhalgh, Heidi
Thesis Title: Effects of Biofeedback Training on the Treatment of Panic Disorder
Advisor: Maughan, Michael L
Major: Physical Education: Physical Therapy Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Gustafson, Rebecca L
Thesis Title: Review-to-Date of the Tsunami Relief Efforts in Khao Lak, Thailand, and a Critique of the Effectiveness as per Personal Interviews with Health Care Personnel and Tsunami Survivors
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: Exercise Sciences: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Guymon, Rachel Leona
Thesis Title: Flexibility: A Comparison of Technique
Advisor: Hager, Ronald Lee
Major: Physical Education: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Johnson, April Dawn
Thesis Title: The Worth of the Soul as Portrayed in Children's Literature
Advisor: Lockhart, Barbara D
Major: Exercise Science
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Knight, Sheldon Merrill
Thesis Title: The Effect of Diathermy and Stretch on the Flexibility of the Hamstring in Population Over 30 Years of Age
Advisor: Feland, Brent
Major: Physical Education: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Miner, Stephanie
Thesis Title: Intramural Athletes and Their Psychological Response to Athletic Injury
Advisor: Kaiser, David Allen
Major: Exercise Sciences: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Nielson, Heather Melody
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Various Contraction Intensities in Contract-Relax Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching of the Hamstring Muscle Group
Advisor: Feland, Brent
Major: Physical Education: Physical Therapy Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Vance, Julienne Baughman
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Topics Discussed by Physical Educators on USPE-L Listserv
Advisor: Pennington, Todd R
Major: Physical Education: Public School Teaching K-12 Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: West, Jeremiah N
Thesis Title: Cation Effect on Anion Separations by Aza-Crown Ligands in Liquid Membranes
Advisor: Lamb, John David
Major: Exercise Sciences: Exercise Science Emphasis
Department: Exercise Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Baldwin, Nancy G
Thesis Title: Conceptual and Empirical Similarities between Measures of Childhood Socialization and Common Personality Factors
Advisor: Draper, Thomas William
Major: Family Sciences: Human Development Emphasis
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Blanchard, Victoria Lael
Thesis Title: Family Love
Advisor: Day, Randal D
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Breinholt, Elizabeth
Thesis Title: We Need More Evidence: Application Flaws of the Uniform Child Custody and Jurisdiction Enforcement Act in California
Advisor: Walker, Laura Padilla
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Bryner, Karen
Thesis Title: A Descriptive Study of the Family Environments Which Promote Early Literacy in Beginning Kindergarten Students
Advisor: Reutzel, D Ray
Major: Family Sciences: Early Childhood Education Emphasis
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bulloch, E Chrissy
Thesis Title: Maternal and Paternal Warmth and Involvement in Relation to Hope in Romanian Adolescents
Advisor: Bean, Roy A
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Cannon, Andrew G
Thesis Title: The Barabian Words: A Novel
Advisor: Draper, Thomas William
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Clark, Renee Caroline
Thesis Title: Marital Interaction and Self-Deception: Transforming Interpretations of Marital Research
Advisor: Olson, Terrance D
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Gordon, Katherine Ruth
Thesis Title: 3-and 5-Month Olds' Discrimination of Affect in Music
Advisor: Flom, Ross A
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Griffith, Amy Lynn
Thesis Title: Maternal Perceptions Of Child Behavior And Peer Contacts: Differential Findings For Aggressive And Withdrawn Children In A Russian Sample
Advisor: Nelson, David A
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Hall, Laura Grace
Thesis Title: Gender Attitudes and Family Discipline: A Review of Literature
Advisor: Ingoldsby, Bron
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Holmes, Erin Kramer
Thesis Title: Uniting Men's Work as Husbands and Fathers: How Men's Marital Intimacy Affects Their Generative Development
Advisor: Hawkins, Alan J
Major: Family Science
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Labrum, Robert
Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of Contingency Reinforcement in Teaching Language through Highlighting
Advisor: McKee, Trevor R
Major: Family Sciences: Human Development Emphasis
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Lindsay, Shalissa Joy
Thesis Title: Hope Differences: Gender and Goal Orientation
Advisor: Scoresby, A Lynn
Major: Family Sciences: Human Development Emphasis
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: McDowell, Joy Noelle
Thesis Title: Coercive and Controlling Parenting Linked to Child Aggression in a Beijing Sample: Uncovering the Relative Importance of Mothers and Fathers in a Chinese Context
Advisor: Nelson, David A
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Olsen, Lori Ann
Thesis Title: Personal Growth of Service-Learning Participants in an International Setting: An Explanatory Setting
Advisor: Nelson, David A
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Peterson, America J
Thesis Title: The Book of Mormon Diglot reader with Marginal Glosses: A Tool for Helping Spanish Speakers Read the Book of Mormon in English
Advisor: Graham, Charles Ray
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Seiter, Liann Nicole
Thesis Title: Arranged Marriages in India: A Conversation with Rural Women About Their Beliefs, Perceptions, and Feelings
Advisor: Rowley, Maxine Lewis
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Thorpe, Matthew Patrick
Thesis Title: Father and Mother Involvement Independently Predict Variation in Two Risk Factors for Adolescent Obesity: Physical Activity and Family Dinner
Advisor: Day, Randal D
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Welty, Tadlee J
Thesis Title: Where the Prophets Lead Us in Marriage: A Review of Literature
Advisor: Judd, Daniel K
Major: Family Science
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Williams, Auburn Diane
Thesis Title: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Self-Chosen Exposure to Sexually Oriented Material and Beliefs and Attitudes About Intimacy.
Advisor: Draper, Thomas William
Major: Marriage, Family, and Human Development
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Winkel, Vicki Leigh
Thesis Title: A Search for Protein Binding Sites in an Enhancer Element of the Col 11a2 Gene
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Family Sciences: Human Development Emphasis
Department: Family Life, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Disparte, Suzanne Mali Sitthichai
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the BYU Southeast Asia Volunteers Program: History, Reflection, and Recommendations for the Future
Advisor: Miller, John Scott
Major: Music Dance Theatre
Department: Fine Arts and Communications, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Ferguson, Afton Noel
Thesis Title: Just say, "Yes!"
Advisor: Harrop-Purser, Laurie Cheri
Major: Music Dance Theatre
Department: Fine Arts and Communications, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Free, Melanie
Thesis Title: Dictionary Use and Learning French Vocabulary While Reading: A Comparison of On-line and Traditional Print Dictionaries
Advisor: Bush, Michael Douglas
Major: Honors French
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Harker, Emilie Maria
Thesis Title: Du Griot a l'Ecreivain dans la Litterature Africaine
Advisor: Thompson, Chantal P
Major: French Teaching
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Kolbaba, Bethany A
Thesis Title: The Healer's Touch: The Role of the Woman in Healing Africa's Woes
Advisor: Thompson, Chantal P
Major: Honors French
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: McKnight, David
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Contemporary Italian Environmental Movement: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Advisor: Klein, Ilona
Major: Honors Italian
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Osguthorpe, Aaron Grant
Thesis Title: Remnants of Italian Fascism in Non-Catholic Religious Community Bilateral Agreements
Advisor: Gedicks, Frederick M
Major: Honors Italian
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Preston, Lara M
Thesis Title: Preparatory Tutorial for the French OPI
Advisor: Thompson, Chantal P
Major: Honors French
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Sherinian, Aaron Hess
Thesis Title: Quaestio Linguae 1995: The Use of English Words in Modern Italian
Advisor: Noble, Cinzia D
Major: Honors Italian
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Smith, Jennifer Lynnette
Thesis Title: GEvTerm Food Termbase: The Foundations in French & English
Advisor: Melby, Alan K
Major: French Studies
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Syphus, Christian
Thesis Title: La Loi Toubon: French Language Legislation--Its Impact and Implications for France
Advisor: Hurlbut, Jesse D
Major: French
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Taylor, Emily
Thesis Title: Pride as Discussed by Male and Female Troubadours
Advisor: Unlandt, Nicolaas
Major: French
Department: French and Italian, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Finlay, Alana G
Thesis Title: Aging in the United States and its Accompanying Policies
Advisor: Shumway, J Matthew
Major: Geography: Global Studies Emphasis
Department: Geography, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Nielson, Samuel P
Thesis Title: Recognition or Rejection? The Rights and Status of Muslim Minorities in Three Western European States
Advisor: Emmett, Chad F
Major: Geography: Global Studies Emphasis
Department: Geography, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Pickell, Vaughn Robert
Thesis Title: Historical Evolution of Latin American City Structure: Costa Rican Cities as Test Cases
Advisor: Otterstrom, Samuel M
Major: Planning and Resource Management
Department: Geography, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Allen, Tara Laine
Thesis Title: Using Thermodynamic Modeling to Predict Fractional Crystallization Paths of Andesite to Trachydacite
Advisor: Christiansen, Eric H
Major: Geology
Department: Geological Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Call, Lisa
Thesis Title: Devitrification Structures in a Rhyolitic Glass from the Tushar Range, Utah
Advisor: Myers, Merlin G
Major: Geology: Environmental Geology Emphasis
Department: Geological Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Jordan, Benjamin R
Thesis Title: The Nature and Formation of Carbonate Nodules at Blue Lake Warm Spring, Tooele County, Utah
Advisor: Christiansen, Eric H
Major: Geology
Department: Geological Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Lyman, Jeanette
Thesis Title: The Effects of Impoundment and Irrigation on Water Quality of the Sevier River, Utah
Advisor: Nelson, Stephen Tracy
Major: Geology: Environmental Geology Emphasis
Department: Geological Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Robeck, Eric Dean
Thesis Title: Three-dimensional Model of Structural Geology of the Wasatch Range
Advisor: Harris, Ronald Albert
Major: Honors Geology
Department: Geological Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Allen, Julie Kalani Smith
Thesis Title: Inszenierungen einer Frau: die Rollen, Werke und Einschatzungen der Franziska Grafin zu Reventlow
Advisor: Plummer, Thomas G.
Major: Honors German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Anderson, Amanda J
Thesis Title: Building a "New Germany:" Clara Brockmann's and Helene von Falkenhausen's Call for the Immigration of German Women to Africa
Advisor: Kelling, Hans-Wilhelm
Major: German: Literature Emphasis
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Dunn, Brian K
Thesis Title: Bound Poets: The Influence of Medieval Society on German Poets of the High Middle Ages
Advisor: Evelein, Johannes F
Major: Honors German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Freeman, Shirley Wilcox
Thesis Title: A Path through the Whirlwind: Literary Analyses of Chaos and Order in Revolution
Advisor: Solovieva, Raissa Vulfovna
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Geary, Michael John
Thesis Title: Klarheit und Ambivalenz: The Development of Lyric voices in Bertolt Brecht's Poems about Love
Advisor: Lyon, James K
Major: Honors German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Green, Kristin Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Maria M?ller: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on the German Resistance
Advisor: McFarland, Robert B
Major: German: Literature Emphasis
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Hall, Karen
Thesis Title: Stowe and Turgener: Literature As a Catalyst for Emancipation in the United States and Russia
Advisor: Bohac, Rodney Dean
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Hansen, Shane
Thesis Title: Development and Freedom in the Russian Transition
Advisor: Bryson, Phillip James
Major: Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2003

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Alumnus: Huntington, Joel Douglas
Thesis Title: Expressionism and National Socialism: A Response to the Causal Question with an Examination of Kurt Heynicke
Advisor: Evelein, Johannes F
Major: Honors German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Jarvis, Jakob N
Thesis Title: Mission Propaganda: A Study of Form, Colonial Attitudes, and Feminism in Maria Theresia Led?chowska's Newspaper Publication
Advisor: Brewer, Cindy P
Major: German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2007

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Alumnus: Jensen, Camille
Thesis Title: Der lange Weg zu sich selbst: Christa Wolf's Remedy for the Identity Crises in East Germany
Advisor: Keele, Alan F
Major: German Teaching
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Lammers, Dawn Michele
Thesis Title: Women's Human Rights Organizations in Ukraine
Advisor: Hawkins, Darren Greg
Major: Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Landon, Angella
Thesis Title: Listening to the Silences of Paul Celan's Works
Advisor: Lyon, James K
Major: German Teaching
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Layton, Melissa Anne
Thesis Title: The Nationalist Factor in Communism: A Relationship Analysis between the Former Soviet Union and the Former Yugoslavia
Advisor: Jackson, Richard H
Major: Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Parke, Mathew
Thesis Title: The Polyphonic Voice of the Family in Dostoevsky's Kpynmax Pomamax
Advisor: Rogers, Thomas F
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Reed, Sarah Clement
Thesis Title: Iconography of Gender Roles: Finding the French Revolution in the Magic Flute
Advisor: McFarland, Robert B
Major: German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2003

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Alumnus: Reneau, Daniel Parker
Thesis Title: The Russian Economy: A Battle for Privatization
Advisor: Browning, Gary L
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Smith, Nathan M
Thesis Title: Von Notgedrungenen Taten: Wilhelm Tell and The Enduring Influence of Kantian Ethics on Friedrich Schiller
Advisor: Kelling, Hans-Wilhelm
Major: German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Sprague, Jared M
Thesis Title: Pagan Saints: Russia's Multi-Faceted Paganism
Advisor: Solovieva, Raissa Vulfovna
Major: Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Stoner, Grady S
Thesis Title: Corruption in Russian Business and Putin?s Attempts at Economic Revival
Advisor: Lundberg, Grant H
Major: Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Straubhaar, Joseph Christian
Thesis Title: Journeys of the Psyche: Hadewijch's Visions and Stanzaic Poetry as Opposite-Gendered Jungian Processes of Individuation
Advisor: James, Michelle Stott
Major: German: Literature Emphasis
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Thompson, Tyler D
Thesis Title: Ukrainian Adolescents Consumption of American Popular Culture
Advisor: Hart, David Kay
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Westerberg, Tyler Jason
Thesis Title: Himba Ethnobiology
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: German
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Weyland, Bradley J
Thesis Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A Screenplay Adaption in Russian
Advisor: Browning, Gary L
Major: Honors Russian
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: White, Brittany Rebecca
Thesis Title: Karoline von Gunderrode: A Musical Tribute to the German Authoress and Her Efforts to Transcend Mortality
Advisor: Brewer, Cindy P
Major: German: Literature Emphasis
Department: Germanic and Slavic Languages, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Oliphant, Gwendolyn Berwick
Thesis Title: An Overview of Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Containment Strategies Along the United States-Mexico Border
Advisor: Neiger, Brad Lee
Major: Public Health
Department: Health Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Smith, Steffanie
Thesis Title: An Historical Analysis of the Tobacco Industry's Influence in America
Advisor: Lindsay, Gordon B
Major: Health Sciences: Community Health Emphasis
Department: Health Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Strasburger, Valerie Vee
Thesis Title: Distribution of Health Care Services & Access to Them as a Function of Population in Southeast Alaska
Advisor: Fugal, Stephanie Ann
Major: Health Sciences: Community Health Emphasis
Department: Health Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Andersen, Aaron W
Thesis Title: Bringing the Cold War to Life in the High School History Classroom
Advisor: Johns, Andrew L
Major: History Teaching
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Ashton, Kristine Annette
Thesis Title: Perpetuated Inferiority : A Comparative Analysis of the Freedman's and McGuffey Readers
Advisor: Richards, Mary Stovall
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Ashton, Scott D
Thesis Title: Decolonization Factors : Zionist Factions during the Mandate Period
Advisor: Green, Arnold H
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Benson, Evva Courtney
Thesis Title: And Know the Place for the First Time: The 1851 Ecclesiastical Census of England and Wales and Early LDS Branch Records
Advisor: Pratt, David H
Major: Family History - Genealogy
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Billings, Amy Reynolds
Thesis Title: Martha Jane Knowlton Coray: A Case Study for Women's Participation in the Development of Utah
Advisor: Derr, Jill Mulvay
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Bradshaw, Gilbert J
Thesis Title: Alcohol, Drugs, Gangs, and Education: The Decline of Youth Involvement in the Charismatic Catholic Church as Illustrated in an Indigenous Guatemalan Community
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Bryner, Elizabeth Prete
Thesis Title: The Political Character of the Illinois Press as a Factor in Mormon Persecution, 1839-1844
Advisor: Cannon, Donald Q
Major: History Teaching
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bush, Christopher F
Thesis Title: Private Trials, Collective Tragedy: The Cattle and Milk Shortages in the Iaroslavl Region After the Great Patriotic War
Advisor: Bohac, Rodney Dean
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Call, Steven Elliott
Thesis Title: The Utah State Medical Examiner System: A History and Analysis of Its Effectiveness
Advisor: Cannon, Brian Q
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Carruth, Michael Washburn
Thesis Title: Politics of Aztlan, The Ideology of Roldolfo "Corky" Gonzales and the Chicano Movement
Advisor: Garcia, Ignacio Molina
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Cherry, Caryn Mouritsen
Thesis Title: Moving Panamanian History into the 21st Century: Putting the Belsario Porras Collection On-line
Advisor: Pearcy, Thomas L
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Clayton, Blake Carman
Thesis Title: Making Sport of a Nation: The Politicization of Bullfighting in Napoleonic Spain
Advisor: Brown, Kendall W
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Coltrin, Christopher J
Thesis Title: The Doctrine of Pre-existence: The Early Christian Teaching of Origen compared with the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Advisor: Brown, S Kent
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Fairbanks, Gregory Tanner
Thesis Title: The Reaction of Catholics in Cologne to the Persecution by the Third Reich and Its Aftermath
Advisor: Tobler, Douglas F
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Felt, David J
Thesis Title: Mathematics and Authority in Early China
Advisor: Farmer, John M
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Gleave, Aaron N
Thesis Title: Whirlwinds of Transition: A Study of Chinese Propaganda From 1973-1983
Advisor: Murdock, Michael Glen
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Gleave, Alisha M
Thesis Title: A Vision of Cooperation
Advisor: Murdock, Michael Glen
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Graney, Pamela Kathleen
Thesis Title: The Dao and the State: Politics in Early Chinese Daoism
Advisor: Farmer, John M
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Harris, Amy B
Thesis Title: Todmorden and Its Saints
Advisor: Pratt, David H
Major: Family History - Genealogy
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Harrison, Leland Grant
Thesis Title: Scandanavian Fisherman on Utah Lake
Advisor: Cannon, Brian Q
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Holland, David
Thesis Title: Centripetal Force: The Constitutional Thought of Benjamin Franklin, 1751-1787
Advisor: York, Neil Longley
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Holmes, Megan
Thesis Title: Memoirs of a Helper: Hungarian Resistance During World War II
Advisor: Lyon, James K
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Hughes, Karen Jane
Thesis Title: Scientific Superstitions: The Rationale for Anglo-Saxon Harvest Rituals
Advisor: Cooper, Glen Michael
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Keele, Kristopher S
Thesis Title: Saint Bernard de Clairvaux et les troubadours: aspects communs entre deux lyrismes medievaux
Advisor: Unlandt, Nicolaas
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: King, Farina Noelani
Thesis Title: Les Metisses on Two Sides of the Atlantic: The Role of Indigenous Women as Bridges for French Traders in Senegambia and the Great Lakes Region of North America
Advisor: Thompson, Chantal P
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: King, Jonathan R
Thesis Title: The Campaign of Arequipa: The Question of Arequipa During the War of the Pacific, 1883
Advisor: Brown, Kendall W
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Larsen, Douglas Paul
Thesis Title: Intervention, Mormons, and the Orozco Revolution
Advisor: Miller, Shawn William
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Lassen, Stephanie Diane
Thesis Title: Holocaust Narratives in France: Au Revoir Les Enfants and Train de Vie: Ambiguity and Appropriation of Guilt
Advisor: Choate, Mark Irvan
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Leavitt, Greg L
Thesis Title: Historical Redemption: Richard Nixon and China
Advisor: Daynes, John Gary
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Luschin, Christoph
Thesis Title: Professor Dr. Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth's (1841-1932) Contribution to the Establishment of Numismatics as an Auxiliary Discipline of History
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Madsen, Troy Edward
Thesis Title: Medicine and the Mines: The Company Doctor as a Stabilizing Force within the Eastern Utah Coal Camps
Advisor: Alexander, Thomas Glen
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Marcum, Adele M
Thesis Title: A Noble Heritage: The German-American Experience in Milwaukee
Advisor: Wright, Raymond Sanford
Major: Family History - Genealogy
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: May, Michael Perry
Thesis Title: Building a Bastion of Democracy: A Study into the Intrepid Design, Development, and Procurement of the B-17 Flying Fortress
Advisor: Grandstaff, Mark R
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Merrill, Amy R
Thesis Title: Maoism Ending Maoism: The Language of Legitamacy in the Nanjing Incident
Advisor: Murdock, Michael Glen
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Morrison, Matthew James
Thesis Title: A Preliminary Discussion of Women's Roles in the History of Utopian Thought
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Nance, Jason Paul
Thesis Title: Channel One: Impacting the Classroom
Advisor: Kokol, Martin Lawrence
Major: History Teaching
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Olson, Charles C
Thesis Title: The Great Debate: Clement Attlee v. Winston Churchill and the Changing of the Guard in British Imperial Policy
Advisor: Cooper, Glen Michael
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Packer, Michael D
Thesis Title: Forgotten Battles of the Civil War: Victories Over Disease in Nashville, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana
Advisor: Richards, A Legrand
Major: History Teaching
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Palmer, Ngaio J
Thesis Title: Information, Dissemination, and Control: The Government Lithographic Press of Calcutta, 1823-1840
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Peacock, Courtney Lyn Jensen
Thesis Title: A New Israel: The Tetragrammaton and English Protestantism
Advisor: Peacock, Martha Lynne
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Perry, Michael F
Thesis Title: "Good and Great": A Biography of Harvey Fletcher
Advisor: Cannon, Brian Q
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Ray, Daren E
Thesis Title: The Christian Watoro of Fuladoyo: Competing Ideologies on the Swahili Coast
Advisor: Mason, Matthew E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Remington, Darren Brandon
Thesis Title: The Role of Leadership in the Huk Rebellion: Luis Taruc, Edward Lansdale, and Ramon Magsaysay
Advisor: Bohac, Rodney Dean
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Romney, Alexander Clark
Thesis Title: Psychological Contracts: An Investigation of Contract Fulfillment and Team Performance
Advisor: Bingham, John Byron
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Scribner, Craig Douglas
Thesis Title: To Air is Human: Oppressive Conditions in Huancavelica's Mercury Mine from 1600-1616 and Efforts to Remedy Them
Advisor: Brown, Kendall W
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Simpson, William
Thesis Title: Examining the Implications of Internal Revenue Service Procedure 75-50: A Critique of the Notion of a Federal Secular Threat
Advisor: Daynes, John Gary
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Slauson, Carolyn A
Thesis Title: The Pitt Rivers Museum: The Evolutionary Theory of Pitt Rivers and Edward B. Tylor
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Smith, Ardis Kay
Thesis Title: Adult and Child Kin Relationships in Eighteenth-Century England
Advisor: Harris, Amy B
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Snow, Michael Adam
Thesis Title: Twentieth-Century European Policies Regarding Women in Combat
Advisor: Hudson, Valerie M
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Sorensen, Anne R
Thesis Title: Theodore Roosevelt, the Balance of Power, and the Russo-Japanese War
Advisor: Grandstaff, Mark R
Major: Honors History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Stohlton, Brett B
Thesis Title: Winter Campaigning, Total War, and the Battle of the Washita
Advisor: Gowans, Frederick R
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Swinton, Daniel Cheever
Thesis Title: The Implications of Title IX on Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at Brigham Young University
Advisor: Kimball, Richard Ian
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Taber, Robert Douglass
Thesis Title: "To Strengthen the Colonies": French Labor Policy, Indentured Servants, and African Slaves in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Advisor: Rushforth, Brett H
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Tarkington, Margaret Christine
Thesis Title: The Campaign and the Kingdom: The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
Advisor: Cannon, Brian Q
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Taylor, Laura Ann
Thesis Title: The LDS Church and Female Athletes: Trends and Issues in LDS Women's Sports From Title IX to the 21st Century
Advisor: DeSchweinitz, Rebecca Lyn
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2009

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Alumnus: Thomas, Scott K
Thesis Title: Migration, Resistance, & Counter-Hegemony: Mormonism's Final Attempt at Securing the Kingdom
Advisor: Underwood, Grant Revon
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Thurston, Patrick James
Thesis Title: Economics and the Development of Chile's Jewish Community, 1930-1950
Advisor: Pearcy, Thomas L
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Troger, Mark P
Thesis Title: Revolutionary Creations: Memory and Political Sentiment in Rural Zanzibar
Advisor: Daynes, John Gary
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Ward, Heather Pabst
Thesis Title: Are They Our Enemies? Delta Interaction with the Japanese American Internment Camp at Topaz
Advisor: Embry, Jessie Louise
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Westover, Tara
Thesis Title: Macaulay and the Age of Reform: 1823-1833
Advisor: Hodson, Christopher G
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2008

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Alumnus: Whiteley, Jason Ray
Thesis Title: The Controversy Surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Religion
Advisor: Cannon, Brian Q
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Young, John D
Thesis Title: Crucifix and Torah: The Role of Religious Memory in Medieval Christian Persecution of Jews
Advisor: Pixton, Paul B
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Zirkle, Alexandera K
Thesis Title: The Politics of Literature: Israel from the Palmach to the New Wave
Advisor: Kerry, Paul E
Major: History
Department: History, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Allen, Rebecca A
Thesis Title: The Pompeian Building Complex of 55 b.c.
Advisor: Macfarlane, Roger
Major: Classical Studies: Latin Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Ancell, Matthew Garry
Thesis Title: Blood and Water: Unity in the Gospel of John
Advisor: Benfell, Stan
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Anderson, Kyle David
Thesis Title: Dante, Love and Virgil's Bees
Advisor: Benfell, Stan
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Baird, Bret
Thesis Title: Developing Creativity in Business: Lessons and Applications from the Humanities
Advisor: Green, Jon D
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bassett, Andrea
Thesis Title: Monstrous Order: A Study of Monstrosity in Two Plays by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Advisor: Ancell, Matthew Garry
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Beckstrand, Verena B
Thesis Title: The Personal Essay as a Means for Individual and Societal Cathartic Progression: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez: An Autobiography and Nephi's First and Secon
Advisor: Phillips, Michael D
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Bennett, Rebecca
Thesis Title: Horatian Reminiscences in Tennyson's "Buonaparte"?
Advisor: Talbot, John Christopher
Major: Humanities: Classical Studies Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Benzley, Caroline Hinckley
Thesis Title: The Puritan and Mormon Jeremiads
Advisor: Britsch, Todd A
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Bernotski, Jared Dennis
Thesis Title: Orpheus Versus the Sirens: A Christian Meditation on Classical Myth
Advisor: Duckwitz, Norbert H O
Major: Humanities: Comparative Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Black, Jennifer Brynn
Thesis Title: Influences and Evidences of Renaissance Humanism in Josquin Desprez' Ave Maria,...virgo serena
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Blankinship, Kevin Mark
Thesis Title: The Spirit of Brasil in Orfeu Negro: A Case Study in Filmic Adaptation
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Bowen, Brigham John
Thesis Title: Arthur Miller's The Crucible 1953-2000: A Reception History
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Bowman, Julie Diana
Thesis Title: All the Ways Children Can Be
Advisor: Norris, G Leslie
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Comparative Literature Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Boyer, Melissa L
Thesis Title: Orientalism in Victorian Art
Advisor: Bassett, Arthur Ray
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Bybee, John Eric
Thesis Title: Truth, Justice, and the Guatemalan Way: Customary Law and Lynching in a Mayan Town
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: Humanities: History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Call, Jeremy P
Thesis Title: Holy Ground: An Interpretive Study of the Salt Lake Temple Landscape
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Campbell, Jody Lynn
Thesis Title: Petrarch and Shakespeare and the Rhetorical Flexibility of the Sonnet
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Charles, David Pence
Thesis Title: European LDS Missionaries in the Middle East, 1884-1909
Advisor: Toronto, James Albert
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Ciccotti, Eliza A
Thesis Title: Magna Mater: Cult and Temple Through the Rule of Augustus
Advisor: Macfarlane, Roger
Major: Classical Studies: Classical Civilization Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Cox, Mary Elisabeth
Thesis Title: Augustin Kraemer and Die Samoa Inseln : Deciphering a Samoan Mystery
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Criddle, Evan James
Thesis Title: The Divine Impulse in Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
Advisor: Rogers, Thomas F
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Crockett, Allison Briggs
Thesis Title: Emotional Extravagance in the Lyric Poetry of Emily Bront? and Ram?n de Campoamor
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Darrington, Joel W
Thesis Title: The "Sideward Glance": Double-Voiced Discourse in The Tempest
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-History Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Deverich, Julia K
Thesis Title: Gulliver Snip and the Clipper Ship: Restoring a World of Imagination
Advisor: Barton, Garold C
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: DeWitt, Brandon D
Thesis Title: Villainy, Debauchery, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Slightly Redeemed Villians and Their Rehabilitation in Collective Memory
Advisor: Soper, Kerry David
Major: Humanities: Art History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Draper, Dustin James
Thesis Title: The Narratological Structure of the Rabinal Achi
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2009

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Alumnus: Dye, Brigham R
Thesis Title: Thinking Through the First Year: A Resource Book for Academic Mentors of First-Year BYU Students
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Humanities: Philosophy Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Englis, April Whitacre
Thesis Title: Born Too Soon? Issues of Racial Otherness in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Philosophy Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Flosi, Justin Anthony
Thesis Title: Antonin Artaud and the Living Tradition of Aristotelian Mimesis
Advisor: Sondrup, Steven P
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Gallacher, Mackenna Anne
Thesis Title: Dramatic Manipulations of Joan of Arc in German and English Literature
Advisor: Kelling, Hans-Wilhelm
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Galli, Rachel Vella
Thesis Title: Giotto's Art: Bridging the Distance to God
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Humanities: Music Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Geary, Julia Sidsel
Thesis Title: William Rossetti as the Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Member
Advisor: Bassett, Arthur Ray
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Gheem, Julie H
Thesis Title: Rhapsody in Blue: A Pivotal Pseudo-Union of Cabaret and Concert Hall
Advisor: Green, Jon D
Major: Humanities: Philosophy Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Gordhamer, Anna Larsen
Thesis Title: The Gawain-Poet's Manipulative Strategy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Grilley, Jessica N
Thesis Title: Songs of War: Musical Images in Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!" and Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Advisor: Christenson, Allen J
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Grover, Rachel Ann Seely
Thesis Title: "Christ Is Literally in No Man's Land": Passion and Resurrection Motifs in First World War Memorials, with Particular Attention to Strachan's Spirit Triumphant and Spencer's Resurrection of the Soldiers
Advisor: Tate, George S
Major: Humanities: Art History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Haight, Iantha M
Thesis Title: Slave Women in Euripidies: Struggling for Identity and Power in a Hostile World
Advisor: Duckwitz, Norbert H O
Major: Classical Studies: Classics Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Hancock, John C
Thesis Title: The Nexus in the Eye: Physical and Spiritual Vision in Dante's Divina Commedia
Advisor: Benfell, Stan
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Hansen, Marlene Renee
Thesis Title: An Ecological Ethic in "Anna Karenina"
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Heaton, Camille
Thesis Title: Case Studies of Sustainable Architecture in Utah
Advisor: Viehweg, Ross G
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Philosophy Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Hill, Joseph Bennion
Thesis Title: People of Word, Song, and Money: The Evolution of Senegalese Griots and Their Art
Advisor: Phillips, Michael D
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Philosophy Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Hoggan, Rachel Tate
Thesis Title: Teaching Acceptance in Middle School: A Young Adult Literature Unit
Advisor: Grierson, Sirpa T
Major: Humanities-English Teaching Composite
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Horrocks, Jamie
Thesis Title: Madness as Personal Metaphor: Literary Allusions to Insanity in the Poetry of John Clare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Arthur Symons
Advisor: Bassett, Arthur Ray
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Hoyt, Maggie Sharon
Thesis Title: Exploring the Empathic Experience: A Production Guide to Sophocles' Ajax
Advisor: Peek, Cecilia M
Major: Classical Studies: Classics Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Hunter, Karsen Lyn
Thesis Title: The Love of Labor: A Critical Interpretation of Mahonri Young's "The Pavers"
Advisor: Phillips, Michael D
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Hyatt, Brittany Hodges
Thesis Title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: An Evaluative Study in Public Moral Education
Advisor: Richards, A Legrand
Major: Humanities-English Teaching Composite
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Jackson, Mariah
Thesis Title: Kandinsky's Culture and Society Today: Dealing with Abstraction in Art
Advisor: Green, Jon D
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Johnson, Peter E
Thesis Title: The Impartial Spectator in Tom Jones
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Jones, Ryan Merrill
Thesis Title: Epicurean Tendencies in Lucian
Advisor: Tueller, Michael A
Major: Classical Studies: Greek Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Jones, Thora Lisa
Thesis Title: A Translation and Commentary of Jean Charles Simonde de Sismondi's De la Litterature du Midi de l'Europe
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Jones, Whitney August
Thesis Title: A Wife's Lament: Paradigms of Loss and Captivity in Homer's Iliad
Advisor: Peek, Cecilia M
Major: Classical Studies: Classics Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Kearl, Anna Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Korean Women in the Workforce
Advisor: Grant, Bruce Kent
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Knoles, Cathryn Amanda
Thesis Title: Programme Music in the Works of Henriette Reni?
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Lambert, Kelsey Draper
Thesis Title: A Voice for Modernism in Elsa Bienenfeld's Music Reviews
Advisor: McFarland, Robert B
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Larsen, Anna Siebach
Thesis Title: Reading Ritual: Allegory and Truth in Piers Plowman B
Advisor: Benfell, Stan
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Larson, Clayton Glade
Thesis Title: The Rattle and the Rosary: An Ethnographic and Historical Investigation of Shamanism and Catholicism Among the Wet'suwet'en
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: Humanities: History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Lowe, Mejken
Thesis Title: Adam Mickiewicz: The Inspired Nationalist
Advisor: Whipple, Walter
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-History Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Lyman, Cray Eugene
Thesis Title: Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty: An Important Perspective on Art and the Subjective Experience
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: MacDonald, Damon M
Thesis Title: A Pragmatic Exploitation of Chinese Questions and Possible Computure Applications
Advisor: Bourgerie, Dana Scott
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Foreign Literature Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Margetts, Angela Dawn Lowe
Thesis Title: Walt Whitman, Winslow Homer, and the Civil War
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: McFarland, Mary Ann
Thesis Title: The Importance of Setting in the Marble Faun
Advisor: Davis, Norma S
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-History Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Mecham, R Quinn
Thesis Title: Reflections on a Changing Regime: Looking Back at the Bourguiba Era through the Lens of the Francophone Tunisian Novel
Advisor: Green, Arnold H
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Mehner, Shannon E
Thesis Title: The Representation of Female Identity in Works by British Women Writers of the First World War
Advisor: Tate, George S
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Milner, Emily Bishop
Thesis Title: A Translation and Commentary of Manuel Ca?ete's Prologo de las Obras Completas de D. Angel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: Honors Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Murphy, Melanie Norene
Thesis Title: Inspirations; A Walking Tour of Selected Works of Art on the Brigham Young University Campus
Advisor: Bassett, Arthur Ray
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Philosophy Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Nielson, Natalie Thompson
Thesis Title: Redefining Self, Redefining the Consumptive Relationship: Food and Identity in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Julia Jacquette's Food for Thought
Advisor: Phillips, Michael D
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Nielson, Rex P
Thesis Title: Poetry of the River Tiete
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Nordstrom, Steven S
Thesis Title: Finding Aid for the Heriette Renie' (1875-1956) and Francoise Des Varennes (1919-) Papers
Advisor: Day, David A
Major: Humanities: Music Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Pearson, Shersti Nicole
Thesis Title: Building an Honors Community: The Development of the Newsletter Notate Bene and an Analysis of Its Future
Advisor: Miller, John Scott
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Pepper, Kevin P
Thesis Title: Blindness in The Odyssey: Punishment and Prevention
Advisor: Duckwitz, Norbert H O
Major: Humanities: History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Pulham, Kathryn Emily Worlton
Thesis Title: The lost generation's edenic redemption : regeneration of paradise in The Sun also Rises and This Side of Paradise
Advisor: Call, Michael J
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Pulsipher, Katherine
Thesis Title: "What You Want Wid [Porgy and] Bess?": Trevor Nunn's Musical Theatre Adaptation of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's Opera and the Search for Authenticity
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Rasmussen, James Peter
Thesis Title: Four Poems, Four Voices: Fragmented Authorship in Fernando Pessoa
Advisor: Sondrup, Steven P
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Redfern, Rachel Yvette
Thesis Title: Vernon Lee and the Past: Art as a Psychological Catalyst for the Supernatural in Lee's Short Stories
Advisor: Sederholm, Carl
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Richardson, Melvin Kent
Thesis Title: Tolstoy and Levin: Fellow Travelers on the Road to Life and Truth
Advisor: Browning, Gary L
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-Foreign Literature Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Roberts, Jeff P
Thesis Title: Another Pane in the Crystal Palace
Advisor: Bassett, Arthur Ray
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Spencer, Diedra
Thesis Title: The Purchase of a Sponge Cake: The Continuity of Humor in Selected Writings of Jane Austen
Advisor: Hinckley, Jane Kathleen Gardner
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Stoneman, Jack Chris
Thesis Title: Veiled Voices: Responses to World War II in the Works of Richard Strauss and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
Advisor: Gessel, Van C
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Vigil, Jennifer Marie
Thesis Title: Career, Education, Home and Family: Decision-making Among LDS Women
Advisor: Ballif-Spanvill, Bonnie
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Walch, Kaylynn R
Thesis Title: Playing the Shadow: Part I A Novel
Advisor: Soper, Kerry David
Major: Humanities: Art History Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Webb, Jennifer Lee Jones
Thesis Title: Understanding Dario's Metapoetics: An Approach to Four Poems
Advisor: Laraway, David Phillip
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Wheeler, Kara McCall
Thesis Title: Reviving the Arts Turned Red: A Collection of the Life Histories of Six Cambodian Khmer Rouge Survivors
Advisor: Rudy, Jill Terry
Major: Humanities: Foreign Literature Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Wilson, Amy Elisabeth Johnson
Thesis Title: Transculturation and the Preservation of Cultural Memory through Ritual and the Arts in Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" and Cristine Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban"
Advisor: Handley, George Browning
Major: Honors Humanities: Humanities-English Composite Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Wilson, Todd C
Thesis Title: An Illustration of the Need for Situational Responsiveness in Technology-Related Evaluations
Advisor: Williams, David Dwayne
Major: Comparative Literature
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Woodbury, Rachelle Helene
Thesis Title: Henry David Thoreau?Perpetuating the Myth of Paradoxical Nature in Contemporary Environmentalism
Advisor: Soper, Kerry David
Major: Humanities: English Emphasis
Department: Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Deverich, Carolyn A
Thesis Title: Digging in the Past: The American Adventures of Ellen McDowell Deverich
Advisor: York, Neil Longley
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Dixon, Inga Claire
Thesis Title: Threads of Tradition and Innovation: Utah Quilts and the Quilt Revival
Advisor: Wardle, Marian E
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Dolman, Bethany Alice
Thesis Title: A Journey Home: Transnational Dominican American Identity in Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"
Advisor: Hickman, Trenton L
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2003

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Alumnus: Gibson, Jamie Diane
Thesis Title: Recessive Distrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Oral History Video Archive
Advisor: Rudy, Jill Terry
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Harmon, Neal Stoker
Thesis Title: The Planning and Design of a Computer Program to Teach Spanish Through The Book of Mormon
Advisor: Green, Edward E
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Heiselt, Elizabeth Anne
Thesis Title: Expanding Imagined America: Images of the Chinese in Jack London's and Frank Norris's Short Stories and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Advisor: Beus, Yifen
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Heyman, Heather
Thesis Title: Viewing an Era: How Dorothea Lange's Depression Photographs Have Become an Iconic Symbol of the American Great Depression
Advisor: Christenson, Allen J
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Hutchison, Melissa Anne
Thesis Title: A Rhetorical Analysis of Thomas Jefferson's Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Advisor: Peer, Larry H
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Lindsay, Christopher Aldrich
Thesis Title: President George W. Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative: Using More Than Faith to Solve America's Worst Social Problems
Advisor: Holland, Matthew S
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Lindsay, Peter V
Thesis Title: Greatness in the Great Depression
Advisor: Wimmer, Larry T
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Nance, Joseph Robin
Thesis Title: Reeducation: The Democratization of Italian Prisoners of War Detained in Utah During World War II
Advisor: Choate, Mark Irvan
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Nielsen, Kent E
Thesis Title: Joseph Smith?Doctrinal Contributions
Advisor: Brinley, Douglas E
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Norton, Bryan
Thesis Title: The Myth of the City: San Francisco As an American Urban Legend
Advisor: Fox, Frank W
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Rowan, Robert Chad
Thesis Title: Mexicans and the American Dream
Advisor: York, Neil Longley
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Self, Stephanie Michelle
Thesis Title: The Gilded - Age and the Image of Women Reading.
Advisor: Hamilton, Charles Mark
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Smith, Angela Marie
Thesis Title: Aiding in the Transition: High School and College Writing Instruction and the Improvement of First-Year Writing Courses
Advisor: Hansen, Kristine
Major: American Studies
Department: Humanities, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Evanson, Blaine H
Thesis Title: The Sophie Digital Library of Early Women's Research: A Blueprint for Mentored Undergraduate Online Research
Advisor: James, Michelle Stott
Major: Information Systems
Department: Information Systems, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Given, Nathan Gilbert
Thesis Title: The BYU Book Exchange: The Creation and Implementation of a ColdFusion Web Application
Advisor: Hale, Karl Joseph
Major: Information Systems
Department: Information Systems, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Hays, Robert James
Thesis Title: Honors Capstone Project
Advisor: Hansen, Gary W
Major: Information Systems
Department: Information Systems, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Read, Aaron Stevens
Thesis Title: Understanding the Facilitators of Technical Knowledge Sharing
Advisor: Dean, Douglas L
Major: Information Systems
Department: Information Systems, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Ackerson, Catharine
Thesis Title: An Ideal and a Threat: The Androgynous Woman and Her Fate in Wilmelm Meister's Lehrjahre
Advisor: Brewer, Cindy P
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Ahrens, Jennifer Lyn
Thesis Title: Child Rights in Brazil
Advisor: Hawkins, Darren Greg
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Andersen, Joseph C
Thesis Title: Chinese Energy Security Policy
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Anderson, Mindy J
Thesis Title: The Ritual Use of Music in Ancient Israelite Worship
Advisor: Ricks, Stephen David
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Baik, Howard
Thesis Title: Understanding Abortion in China's Cultural and Societal Context
Advisor: Bowen, Donna Lee
Major: Asian Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Bailey, Diane S
Thesis Title: Fran?ois Mitterrand's Foreign Policy Reactions to Human Rights Abuses in Chad, Zaire, and Rwanda
Advisor: Hudson, Valerie M
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Benson, Joseph P
Thesis Title: Chinggis Khan in the 20th Century: A Case Study on the Effects of Communism on Mongolian Culture
Advisor: Hyer, Paul V
Major: Asian Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2002

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Alumnus: Bodily, Rachel A
Thesis Title: Commissioning the Truth: Determinations of Amnesty in Chile and South Africa
Advisor: Hawkins, Darren Greg
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Bragonje, Sarah Louise Taylor
Thesis Title: Scotland's Sex Trafficking: Solutions Through Legislative Reform
Advisor: Damron, Daniel Edwards
Major: Middle East Studies / Arabic
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Brinton, Carl Hjalmar
Thesis Title: The States of Concern to the International Community (SOCIC) Scale
Advisor: Hudson, Valerie M
Major: Asian Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Brown, Genevieve
Thesis Title: Gender and Economic Choices: A Look at Households in Comedero, Mexico
Advisor: Cornwall, Marie
Major: International Studies: Development Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Bruschke, Craig
Thesis Title: From Economic Protectionism to Economic Liberalism in Latin America: Historical Developments and Future Implications
Advisor: Hollist, W Ladd
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Calabro, David M
Thesis Title: The Delawares before, during, and after the 1831 Visit of Mormon Missionaries
Advisor: Bennett, Richard Edmond
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Christensen, Andrew Scott
Thesis Title: New Voices in the North: Post-National Identity in Denmark
Advisor: Oscarson, Christopher P
Major: European Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Clark, Logan R
Thesis Title: Waging the Moral Equivalent of War: The Political Conditions for Alternative Fuel Reform in the United States and Brazil
Advisor: Hawkins, Kirk Andrew
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Culmer, David Hamilton
Thesis Title: Black America in the the Shadow of Conscienceless Capitalism
Advisor: England, J Lynn
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Dickamore, Jeffrey H
Thesis Title: A Fading History
Advisor: Sprenger, Anca
Major: European Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Dincheva, Maria Argirova
Thesis Title: Analysis of the Effectiveness of NGO's and Government Policies in Creating Democracy
Advisor: Griffin, John Richard
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Dolson, David Mark
Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of Political Assassination As a Means of Changing Government Policy
Advisor: Taylor, Stan A
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Eichelberger, Jonathan Dean
Thesis Title: Ethnic Change in Slovakia Between 1921 and 2004
Advisor: Otterstrom, Samuel M
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Evans, Jeremy O
Thesis Title: Through the Glass Darkly: Comparing and Contrasting the Views of Kenneth Waltz and the Inspired LDS Sources on War
Advisor: Taylor, Stan A
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Evans, Laurie Anne
Thesis Title: Fragile Families in Less-Developed Countries: A Comparison of the Outcomes of Marriages and Informal Unions in the Dominican Republic
Advisor: Wilson, Sven Eric
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Fetters, Holly M
Thesis Title: The Effects of Political Corruption and Its Impact on Human Development: A Comparison of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Fitzgerald, Joseph Hal
Thesis Title: Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth
Advisor: Nielson, Daniel L
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Ford, Adam
Thesis Title: Religious freedom through Russian history : the plight of Russian protestants
Advisor: Durham, W Cole
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Frandsen, Maraly Soophy Ledezma
Thesis Title: Bridging the BYU Administration - International Student Experience Gap
Advisor: Otterstrom, Samuel M
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Fry, James David
Thesis Title: Towards Neorealism: Theoretical Shifts in the Post-Cold War World and British Polity
Advisor: Bradshaw, Robert Paul
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Garcia, David Ian
Thesis Title: Mobilization of Former Guerilla Parties in El Salvador and Guatemala
Advisor: Hawkins, Kirk Andrew
Major: Latin American Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Gilchrist, James Duncan
Thesis Title: Moses Maimonides: A Study of How Islamic Society and Religion Helped to Produce the Most Influential Jewish Philosopher of the Middle Ages
Advisor: Cooper, Glen Michael
Major: Middle East Studies / Arabic
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Griffiths, Stephen Robert
Thesis Title: Management Control of Foreign Exchange Fluctuations in U.S. Multinational Corporations: A Thailand Case Study
Advisor: Swain, Monte Ray
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Hendrick, Rijen B
Thesis Title: The Asylum 'Problem' in the United Kingdom: Fact or Fiction?
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Holliday, Ross Samuel
Thesis Title: A Leadership Conversation
Advisor: Stout, Daniel A
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Hopkin, Shon David
Thesis Title: Daniel's Image and Influence in Antiquity
Advisor: Ricks, Stephen David
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Hynynen, Suvi Catriona
Thesis Title: The Road of Rhetoric: The Discourse and Development of International Law on Child Soldiers
Advisor: Hawkins, Darren Greg
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Jackson, Alicia Marie
Thesis Title: Strengthening Healthcare Systems in Developing Countries: Humanitarian Aid Relief Team in Ghana
Advisor: Geo-JaJa, MacLeans A
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Janis, Daron Layne
Thesis Title: A Virtual Passover
Advisor: Ludlow, Victor L
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Keller, John S
Thesis Title: Nutraceutical Multilevel Marketing Companies In China: Past Obstacles Become Future Opportunities
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Kemeny, Sarah E
Thesis Title: An Introduction to the Leaders and Journals of the Allgemeine ?sterreichische Frauenverein (A?FV), or General Austrian Women's Organization: 1893?1910
Advisor: Brewer, Cindy P
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Leeper, Sarah Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Protoindustrialization in Russia: The Lace Making Industry in Podol'skii and Serpukhovskii Counties
Advisor: Bohac, Rodney Dean
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Losee, Chad Isaac
Thesis Title: Trustees as Agents: Prosecutor Behavior at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Advisor: Hawkins, Darren Greg
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: McMurrin, Megan
Thesis Title: Writings in the Walls: The Hidden MTC
Advisor: Thursby, Jacqueline Schuster
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Mitchell, Joseph Paul
Thesis Title: Reality and Perceptions in Japanese Politics: The Rural Vote's New Relevance in the LDP
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Morgan, Brian
Thesis Title: The Effects of Inflation on Business in Brazil
Advisor: Radebaugh, Lee Howard
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Nielson, Elijah Kimball
Thesis Title: Fostering a Child's Cultural Identity: A Study of Korean Heritage Camp Participants
Advisor: Roby, Jini L
Major: Asian Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Orozco, Angel G
Thesis Title: De Tal Palo, Tal Astilla: Educational Attainment of Mexican Parents and Its Effect on Their Children
Advisor: Lyon, Thomas E
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Ostler, Laura Rae
Thesis Title: The Journals of Reba Booth, First LDS Sister Missionary to the Middle East
Advisor: Toronto, James Albert
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Paksima, Sarah Merie
Thesis Title: Reproductive Health Education in the Heshemite Kingdom of Jordan: Institutional and Social Barriers Among National, International, and Non-governmental Organizations
Advisor: Hawks, Steven Ralph
Major: International Studies: Development Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Paul, Jeffrey D
Thesis Title: Struggles of a Developing Nation: Case Study?Nicaragua
Advisor: Lyon, Thomas E
Major: Latin American Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Paz, Javier Heraldo
Thesis Title: Land Conflicts and Pragmatic Idealism
Advisor: Emmett, Chad F
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Peters, Benjamin John Paulsen
Thesis Title: A "Land Wherein Thou Art a Stranger": Notes on Ukranian National Identity
Advisor: Durham, W Cole
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Richardson, Michele Nicole
Thesis Title: Ethnic Change in Slovakia Between 1773 and 1910
Advisor: Otterstrom, Samuel M
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Roark, Faith D
Thesis Title: International Migration and Cumulative Causation: A Historical, Theoretical, and Ethnographic Account of Migration from a Rural Mexican Community
Advisor: Morgan, Charles
Major: Latin American Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2009

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Alumnus: Rogers, James K
Thesis Title: The Importance of the Middle Class in Political Stability and the Strength of Democracies
Advisor: Hawkins, Kirk Andrew
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Schill, Ryan
Thesis Title: Micro-Technology Selection, Transfer, and Implementation: HS Potential Role in Micro-Creit Lending for Enterprise Development in Developing Countries.
Advisor: Schill, Ronald Lynn
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Schmidt, Rachel Unity
Thesis Title: A Translation of Liana Badr, an Interview with Liana Badr, and a Comparison of Palestinian and Egyptian Feminist Literature
Advisor: Belnap, Robert Kirk
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Scoville, Ryan Matthew
Thesis Title: The Impact of Political Opportunity Structure on Anti-US Military Base Movement Outcomes: Case Studies on Okinawa and the Phillipines
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Snow, Paul G
Thesis Title: How American is the American Pastime? A Study of Baseball's Diffusion From North America and its Relevance in International Relations
Advisor: Hawkins, Kirk Andrew
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Spackman, Neal Alexander
Thesis Title: We Shall Laugh: A Translation of Short Stories by Zakaria Tamer
Advisor: Parkinson, Dilworth B
Major: Middle East Studies / Arabic
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Stefanova, Katina Todorova
Thesis Title: On the Way to Economic Development or Dependency: Analysis of Bulgaria's Post-Communist Economic Restructuring and Integration in the International Political Economy
Advisor: Nielson, Daniel L
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Stevens, Sarah Kuo Moyer
Thesis Title: Two Publishable Articles-- The Origins of the Korean Language: Evidence of Creolization and The Not-So-Literal Meaning of the Notion "Literal"
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: International Studies: International Law and Diplomacy Emphasis
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Stradling, Jonathan Gary
Thesis Title: Contradicting the Popular Will: A Comparative Study of Democratic Reversals
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Sweeny, Matthew Sorensen
Thesis Title: Decollectivization and Privatization in China: A Case Study of the Jiangsu Province
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Tadje, Jared
Thesis Title: Genetic Comparison of Bonneville Cutthroat, Bear River Cutthroat, and Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Populations Using Mitochondrial Regions CYTB, ND1, and ND2
Advisor: Evans, R Paul
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Toone, Jordan
Thesis Title: Legitimacy and Notables in Ottoman Jerusalem: A Case Study of Bayt al-Dajani Using Waqfs and Marriage Records
Advisor: Green, Arnold H
Major: Near Eastern Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Tree, Timothy
Thesis Title: Confronting the Past: Japan and Its Legal and Moral Responsibilities Towards Asian Comfort Women
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Tsaturyan, Sevak
Thesis Title: Impact of Corruption in a Developing Economy
Advisor: Bryson, Phillip James
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Walters, Austin C
Thesis Title: Reading Between the Lines: Media and the Russo-Georgian Conflict
Advisor: Findley, Michael G
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Weeks, Samuel Phillip
Thesis Title: Romanian Peasant Rebellion: The Susman Group
Advisor: Sprenger, Anca
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Welch, Nathan Robert
Thesis Title: Cytotoxicity in Atriplex confertifolia: Isolation and Dose Response of Anticancer Compounds in a Plant Indigenous to Western North America
Advisor: Booth, Gary M
Major: Latin American Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Whitton, Matthew D
Thesis Title: The Viability of a Democratic Palestine: Measuring Democracy's Potential Through the Experiences of Palestinian Christians
Advisor: Emmett, Chad F
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Wigginton, James Leroy
Thesis Title: Arab Patriarchy, Islam, and the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Advisor: Bowen, Donna Lee
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Wood, Heather Jacques
Thesis Title: Shaping Public Space: Examining the Mus?e d'Orsay and Modern Louvre
Advisor: Lee, Daryl Patrick
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Wright, Brooke M
Thesis Title: Ann Tizia Leitich: New Voice, New Woman; Packaging America for Vienna
Advisor: McFarland, Robert B
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Young, Timothy M
Thesis Title: Investing in Korean Peace A Call for Pacifying North Korea with Capitalist Diplomacy.
Advisor: Peterson, Mark Arlen
Major: Asian Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Yrungaray, Benjamin A
Thesis Title: Basque Nationalism and Benedict Anderson's magined Communities
Advisor: Palmer, Allen W
Major: International Studies
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Zvirzdin, Andrew J
Thesis Title: Referendums on Europe: Outsourcing the EU Debate
Advisor: Jacoby, Wade Anthony
Major: International Relations
Department: International and Area Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Hancock, Adam I
Thesis Title: Centripetal Forces Influencing Kurdish Separatism in Northern Iraqi Kurdistan
Advisor: Emmett, Chad F
Major: International Relations
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Humpherys, David B
Thesis Title: Reaching a Compromise on Jerusalem
Advisor: Ringer, Jeffrey F
Major: International Relations
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: MacLean, Matthew E
Thesis Title: Opinion Maker or Opinion Puppet: Evolution of U.S. War Coverage from Viet Nam to the Persian Gulf
Advisor: Lyon, Thomas E
Major: International Relations
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Mattoon, Sunny Minell
Thesis Title: The Ova-Himba: A Study of Their Natural Resources
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: International Relations
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Peterson, Leeann Wilma
Thesis Title: Woman as Object of Desire in Three Films by Luis Brunuel
Advisor: Ashworth, Peter P
Major: European Studies
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Scribner, Robbyn Thompson
Thesis Title: The "Humbler Bee": Emily Dickinson's Response to the Attraction of Europe
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: European Studies
Department: Kennedy Center for International Studies
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Barker, Eric M
Thesis Title: Testing for the Presence of Hydrocarbon Biodegradation in a Hypersaline Aqueous Environment at Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake
Advisor: Harker, Alan R
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Benson, Lisa Joann
Thesis Title: Landmark-Based Morphometric Analysis of Phenotypic Plasticity and Hatchery-Induced Morphology in Juvenile June Sucker
Advisor: Belk, Mark C
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Condon, Jacob M
Thesis Title: The Effects of Stage of Reproduction on Survival of the Livebearing, Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Advisor: Belk, Mark C
Major: Zoology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Ellis, Mark Benjamin
Thesis Title: Collection of Primary War Narratives and Inquiry into the Transitional Effects of World War II in French Military and Civilians
Advisor: Olivier, Marc Louis
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Finlay, James B
Thesis Title: Phylogeography of Cambarus tenebrosus: A Facultative Cave-Dwelling Freshwater Crayfish Species
Advisor: Crandall, Keith Alan
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Funk, Christopher C
Thesis Title: A Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Habromys (Rodentia: Muridae)
Advisor: Rogers, Duke S
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Hansen, Jason Lindsay
Thesis Title: Claaseenia sabulosa: Genetic Evidence of Past Geological Change in the Great Basin
Advisor: Shiozawa, Dennis Kenji
Major: Zoology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Henderson, Stephanie Diane
Thesis Title: Preparations, Uses and Cytotoxicity of Traditional Medicinal Plants of Ghana and the Ashanti Culture of Breast Disease
Advisor: Booth, Gary M
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Kendall, Jed James
Thesis Title: Wnt5a Signals through Multiple Pathways
Advisor: Barrow, Jeffery Richard
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Leyn, Jennifer Eileen
Thesis Title: The Sickness Was Too Strong: Medical Choice in a Guatemalan Town
Advisor: Hawkins, John P
Major: Molecular Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Loveless, Amanda Kathleen
Thesis Title: The Use of Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis to Characterize the Diets of American Black Bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Utah
Advisor: Hatch, Kent Allen
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Nichols, Brandt Alan
Thesis Title: Phosphorus, Zinc, and Manganese Interactions in Hydroponically Grown Maize
Advisor: Jolley, Von Dale
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Poole, Aaron Tanner
Thesis Title: The Binding of Secretory Phospholipase A2 to Human Erythrocytes Treated With Ionomycin
Advisor: Judd, Allan M
Major: Zoology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Roney, Hillary Christine
Thesis Title: Competitive Exclusion of Cyanobacteria in the Great Salt Lake
Advisor: Booth, Gary M
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Smith, Andrea
Thesis Title: Scope for Growth with Size in Tellina Tenuis
Advisor: Rader, Russell Ben
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Steenhoek, Marilyn A
Thesis Title: The Story of Hominin Evolution Told by the Dentition
Advisor: Jeffery, Duane E
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Tait, Mark A
Thesis Title: Testing and Analysis of MyoD as a Possible Transcriptional Repressor Protein of Col11a2
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Tolman, Jessica Rene Redd
Thesis Title: Biochemical Responses to Phytoestrogen and Selenium Diets in Noble Rats Relating to Reduced Prostate Cancer Risks
Advisor: Christensen, Merrill J
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Wilkinson, Stephen Eugene
Thesis Title: Perceptions of Childbirth Among Women in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Zollinger, Bryant R
Thesis Title: AER Removal in Embryonic Limb Development
Advisor: Barrow, Jeffery Richard
Major: Biology
Department: Life Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Adams, Rebecca J
Thesis Title: Cataloging Semantic Variation in the Swiss German Dialect
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Bernardo, Vincent Francis
Thesis Title: English Pronunciation Lessons for Brazilians: Learning American English Vowel and Consonant Sounds
Advisor: Henrichsen, Lynn E
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Crawford, John Daniel
Thesis Title: Consonantal Correspondence Sets between the Semitic and Egyptian Branches of the Afro-Asiatic Language Family
Advisor: Gee, John L
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: David, Nicholas E
Thesis Title: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Writing Ability of International ESL Students Enrolled in ELang 105, a First-Year Writing Course for ESL Students
Advisor: Strong-Krause, Diane
Major: English Language
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Egbert, Jesse A
Thesis Title: Intergenerational Language Attitudes and Vitality: The Navajo Language Shift
Advisor: Baker, Wendy
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Gibbons, Garrett Wesley
Thesis Title: Finding a Narrative in Gibraltar: Creation of a Short Documentary Film about Language, Politics, and Identity
Advisor: Bush, Michael Douglas
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Grover, Andrew S
Thesis Title: The Rock Between Two Hard Places: Bilingual Identity Crisis in Gibraltar
Advisor: Turley, Jeffrey Scott
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Hill, Garth N
Thesis Title: Semantic Correspondences Between the Hebrew Old Testament and the Book of Mormon
Advisor: Ricks, Stephen David
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Jennings, Nathan Richard
Thesis Title: A Discourse Analysis of Written Testimony in Three American Christian Sects
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Johnston, Rachel H
Thesis Title: The Advantage of Kanji in Short-term Japanese Vocabulary Learning
Advisor: Watabe, Masakazu
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Klemetz Aceves, Carina Leticia
Thesis Title: Applying and Evaluating the ASTM Standard Guide to Quality Assurance in Translation
Advisor: Melby, Alan K
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Morales, Haley Jo
Thesis Title: A Re-examination of the Afro-Asiatic Roots of English Words in Noah Webster's 1844 Dictionary
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Morris, Katherine L
Thesis Title: American Attitudes Toward Six Varieties of English in the United States and Britain
Advisor: Baker, Wendy
Major: English Language
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Pearson, Steven John
Thesis Title: An Investigation into the Perceptual Processes Guiding Phonemic Restoration
Advisor: Baker, Wendy
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Pritchett, Hannah
Thesis Title: Reduplication in Indonesian and Malaysian: A Comparative Corpus Study
Advisor: Parkinson, Dilworth B
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Riding, David R
Thesis Title: The Effects of Pitch and Intonation on Male Vocal Attractiveness
Advisor: Brown, Bruce L
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Robinson, Austin A
Thesis Title: Posttranslational Modification of an Intron-1 Retaining Cyclooxygenase-1 Splice Variant in Rat Spleen
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Ross, Eve Alexandra
Thesis Title: Similarity and Contiguity of Form and Meaning: A Paradigm for Grammatical Gender Change in Romance Languages
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Rytting, Anton
Thesis Title: Semantic Class Disambiguation in Natural Language Soar
Advisor: Lonsdale, Deryle W
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Sarver, Daniel Alan
Thesis Title: The Transferability of Utah English Features: Second Dialect (D2) Acquisition in Utah
Advisor: Baker, Wendy
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Shakespear, Jennifer Ellen
Thesis Title: A T-unit Analysis of Dialogue: Wuthering Heights
Advisor: Hallen, Cynthia Leah
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Shaw, Erin Margaret
Thesis Title: Gender Differences in General Conference
Advisor: Davies, Mark Edward
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Smith, David Mathias
Thesis Title: Cross-cultural Communication in Medical Care: An Anlysis of Facilities in Utah Valley
Advisor: Eggington, William G
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Snyder, Curtis Warren
Thesis Title: Examining Phonetic Differences in Loanwords from Guaran? into Spanish: A Study of Phonological Adaptation
Advisor: Fails, Willis Clark
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Sorenson, Kimberly
Thesis Title: Dyeing to Spin
Advisor: Hartley, William G
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Stocking, Michelle Joy
Thesis Title: Hero or Villain?: The Effect of the Media on Children's Perceptions of Several Varieties of English
Advisor: Baker, Wendy
Major: English Language
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Taylor, Keegan R
Thesis Title: The Linguistics and English Language Department: A History Through Personal Interviews
Advisor: Thorne, Melvin Jay
Major: English Language
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: White, Jennifer Eschler
Thesis Title: The Effects of Standard Arabic Exposure in Early Childhood
Advisor: Belnap, Robert Kirk
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Witesman, Owen F
Thesis Title: The Parson's Family [Papin Perhe], by Minna Canth: A Translation
Advisor: Larson, Ralph Vernon
Major: Linguistics
Department: Linguistics and English Language, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Alton, Alexander C
Thesis Title: Personality Traits and Competitiveness among Entrepreneurship Students: Preliminary Findings
Advisor: Dishman, Paul Lake
Major: Management: Strategy emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Anderson, Dallin Stratford
Thesis Title: Spiritual Principles of Family Finances: Family Home Evening Lessons Designed to Help Families with their Finances
Advisor: Sudweeks, Bryan Lorin
Major: Management: Corporate Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Beahm, Corey P
Thesis Title: The eCANDLE Project: An Indepth Study into the Opportunities and Challenges of Utilizing Educational Technology in Developing Countries
Advisor: Liddle, Stephen Wallace
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Beecher, Matthew Julian
Thesis Title: Strategic Philanthropy: The Evolution and Survival of Business Social Responsibility Programs
Advisor: Stoddard, Ted Dee
Major: Management: Organizational Behavior Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Bernhisel, Marc Preston
Thesis Title: An Empirical Experiment on Service Recovery Design
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: International Co-emphasis in Finance
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2003

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Alumnus: Brough, Aaron R
Thesis Title: The Art of Profitable Service Recovery: A Strategic Model
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: DeGraff, Jonathan E
Thesis Title: Improving Employee Attitudes Through HR Programs and Recognition Practices
Advisor: Cherrington, David J
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Douglas, Patrick V
Thesis Title: Measuring Reprehensibility: Removing the Air of Ambiguity from Punitive Damages Awards
Advisor: Dalebout, Richard S
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Finlay, Ian Edwin Robert
Thesis Title: The Effects of Differentiation on Perfect Competition: A Strategic Approach
Advisor: Hatch, Nile Wade
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Flaig, Jason Eugene
Thesis Title: Where Do I Put This Can? A Comparative Analysis of Recycling in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Provo, Utah
Advisor: Facer, Rex L
Major: Management: Management Information Systems Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Fletcher, Daniel Wendell
Thesis Title: Is there Antitrust Inside Intel? Looking into the Allegations Against the Premier Chip Maker
Advisor: Couch, Robert Brinton
Major: Management: Financial Services Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Fletcher, James Chipman
Thesis Title: Credit Derivatives: A Guide to Credit Risk Management and Its Implications for the Future
Advisor: Boyer, Brian Howard
Major: Management: Corporate Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Fulda, Fabian
Thesis Title: Truth and Conviction: a Television Documentary about the Helmuth H?bner Group and their Resistance to the Nazi Regime
Advisor: Whitaker, Matthew Milton
Major: Management: Marketing Management Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Fund, Bret R
Thesis Title: Value Creation through Corporate Acquisition: Studying the Influences of Transaction Size and Frequency
Advisor: Sanders, William Gerry
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Goh, Junhan
Thesis Title: Developing Relational Trust in Advanced Supplier Networks
Advisor: Hatch, Nile Wade
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Gomez, Jose Edgar
Thesis Title: A Study of the Software Industry in Northern Mexico (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon)
Advisor: Jackson, Robert B
Major: Management: Management Information Systems Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Graziano, Tanya Laurie
Thesis Title: A Measurement of Risk Bearing as a Result of Consolidation
Advisor: Hansen, Mark Hillam
Major: Management: Marketing Management Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Gubler, Wendy Kay
Thesis Title: Service Recovery in Russia and China
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: Operations Management Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Harris, Peter Christopher
Thesis Title: Microfranchising Effectiveness: A Statistical Analysis
Advisor: Jensen, Robert J
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Harris, Stephen Lloyd
Thesis Title: Knowledge Management: Toward a Research Agenda
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Hawkins, Matthew J
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Low Income Housing
Advisor: Wright, N Dale
Major: Management: Financial Services Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Hilton, John L
Thesis Title: Teaching Leadership Skills to High School Students
Advisor: Richardson, Matthew O
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Holland, Adam S
Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of Factors that Affect Satisfaction and Loyalty in Business to Business Relationships
Advisor: DeTienne, Kristen B
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Hulet, Kendall Clair
Thesis Title: The Effects of Store Appearance on Price Dispersion in Online and Offline Markets
Advisor: Sampson, Scott E
Major: Management: Management Information Systems Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Jackson, Klarissa M
Thesis Title: Establishing Successful Microfranchises
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: Corporate Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Khona, Kevin Ramesh
Thesis Title: Realizing Liquidation Value: A Trading Strategy for Canadian Unit Trusts
Advisor: Smith, Andrew Kim
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Khona, Kristina
Thesis Title: An Environmental Analysis of BYU/Provo/Orem Market for the Utah Symphony
Advisor: Geurts, Michael D
Major: Management: International Co-emphasis in Marketing
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Little, Rebecca Deeanne
Thesis Title: USAID Involvement In International Microfinance Growth
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: Management: Entrepreneurship Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Ludwig, Brian Robert
Thesis Title: Development of a Methodology for Business Process Innovation
Advisor: Kirkham, Kate L
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Mabey, Jared M
Thesis Title: Mission Drifts in Microcredit: The Drift Away from the Poorest of the Poor; and the Drift from Providing Social Benefits
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: Management: Management Information Systems Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Marriott, Daniel Foote
Thesis Title: Powerful Presenters: A Study on Personality-based Presenting and Common Characteristics of Successful Presenters
Advisor: Perry, Devern J
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: McFadden, Anna Janell
Thesis Title: Demystifying the Enigma of Six Sigma: Understanding How Business Size, Type, Management, and the Focus of Improvement Impact the Success of Six Sigma Programs
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Nguyen, Thanh Hoai
Thesis Title: Vietnam Entrepreneurship: Difference in Cultural Tendencies Between Entrepreneurs and Non-Entrepreneurs
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: Entrepreneurship Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: O'Banion, Melbourne
Thesis Title: Why Adam-ondi-ahman: A Close Reading of Daniel 7:9-14
Advisor: Parry, Donald W
Major: Management: Financial Services Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2004

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Alumnus: Pacini, Joseph Metcalfe
Thesis Title: Business Optics: The Pedagogical Process of How to Take an Idea to Market
Advisor: Cherrington, Jay Owen
Major: Management: International Co-emphasis in Marketing
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Quigley, Sean Nathan
Thesis Title: Designing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) System to Assess the Impact of Development Activities: The Case of CHOICE Humanitarian in Bolivia
Advisor: Dearden, Kirk
Major: Management: Entrepreneurship Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Ramahlo, Justin
Thesis Title: Coalitional Game Theory and Corporate Valuation
Advisor: Hatch, Nile Wade
Major: Management: Corporate Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Rodgriguez, Rudy Rafael
Thesis Title: Increased Type II Collagen Degradation in Articular Cartilage from Col11a1 Mutant Mice
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Management: Management Information Systems Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Schroeder, Marcus Heath
Thesis Title: Patients Delay Medical Treatment in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Shumway, Preston W
Thesis Title: Photochemistry and Thermal Chemistry of Nitroso Groups and Alkenes
Advisor: Fleming, Steven A
Major: Management: Public and Not-for-Profit Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Skender, Igor
Thesis Title: A Look at Success as a Process: Reflections of a Strategy Student
Advisor: Bischoff, Sheri Joy
Major: Management: International Co-emphasis in Marketing
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: Springman, Julie Anne
Thesis Title: Chariots of Opportunity
Advisor: Dalebout, Richard S
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Stagg, Jonathan C
Thesis Title: Business Plan for King's Heroes Foundation
Advisor: Heaton, Hal B
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Tanner, Chandler Hinkins
Thesis Title: Understanding the Distribution and Expected Full Cost of Fringe Credit
Advisor: Swain, Monte Ray
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Tanner, Skyler M
Thesis Title: The Impact of Business Management Education in Professional Fields: Satisfaction, Profitability, and Responsibility
Advisor: Holmes, Andrew L
Major: Management: Entrepreneurship Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Wagstaff, Wendell Devin
Thesis Title: An Exploratory Study of the Entrepreneurship Mentoring in South America
Advisor: Seawright, Kristie K
Major: Management: General Business Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Woolley, Kristopher Louis
Thesis Title: Economic Reform in Argentina: Objectives and Tests of Macroeconomic Stability
Advisor: Radebaugh, Lee Howard
Major: Management: Finance Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Zackrison, John W
Thesis Title: Academic and Practical Entrepreneurship
Advisor: Hunt, H Keith
Major: Management: Marketing Management Emphasis
Department: Management, Marriott School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Johnson, Christine
Thesis Title: Linguistic Invention in Mathematical Communication Among Practicing Elementary School Teachers
Advisor: Walter, Janet Guymon
Major: Mathematics Education
Department: Mathematics Education, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Peters, Kourtney Libbie Lambert
Thesis Title: Using Intuition to Teach Probability: A Case Study
Advisor: Speiser, Robert David
Major: Mathematics Education
Department: Mathematics Education, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Allred, Micah S
Thesis Title: Regulated Fractional Brownian Motion With Applications to Option Pricing
Advisor: Clark, David A
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Bates, Brandon James
Thesis Title: Risk Aversion in CEO Compensation
Advisor: Butler, Richard John
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Bradshaw, Robert William
Thesis Title: Concealing Complex Policies with Hidden Credentials
Advisor: Seamons, Kent Eldon
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Cahill, Earl Jeremiah
Thesis Title: A Refutation of Thomas Morris' Two-Minds Model of the Incarnation
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Carey, Michael A
Thesis Title: The Reality of Aether
Advisor: Grandy, David Alan
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Carlile, Kerri Lee Huebner
Thesis Title: World War II in Leningrad, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine: Hitler as a Conquerer and a Savior
Advisor: Brown, Newel Anthony
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Christensen, Quinten K
Thesis Title: Numerically Modeling Membrane Vibrations in a Small Scale Pump
Advisor: Grant, Christopher P
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Christenson, Vonn Robert
Thesis Title: Email Survey of Pre-Service University Mathematics Education Programs in Japan
Advisor: Peterson, Blake Ellis
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Dennis, Morgan A
Thesis Title: Balzac and a Christian Narrative Model: A Message for Modern France
Advisor: Sprenger, Scott M
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Dewitt, Meghan M
Thesis Title: Finding a Galois Representation Corresponding to a Hecke Eigenclass
Advisor: Doud, Darrin M
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Dimond, Diana Marie
Thesis Title: The Minimum Path to Connect Three Equidistant Points in Hyperbolic Space
Advisor: Dorff, Michael John
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Durrant, Jacob Devin
Thesis Title: An Encompassing Three-Barrier Two-Site Analysis of Gramicidin Conductance Based on Previously Published Conductance Data
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Furuto, Linda Hui Lin
Thesis Title: Cultural Mathematics and Classroom Mathematics: A Guide for Preservice Teachers
Advisor: Peterson, Blake Ellis
Major: Mathematics Education
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Grigg, Nathan B
Thesis Title: Factorization of Tropical Polynomials in One and Several Variables
Advisor: Jarvis, Tyler J
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Hill, Simon Lee
Thesis Title: On the Nature of the Function n - N(n) and F(n) - n
Advisor: Clark, David A
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Howes, Russell E
Thesis Title: Application and Properties of Dynamical Structure Functions
Advisor: Warnick, Sean C
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Huber, Leslie
Thesis Title: Effects of Mathematical Vocabulary Instruction on Pre-Algebra Students
Advisor: Monroe, Eula
Major: Mathematics Education
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1998

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Alumnus: Jenkins, Paul M
Thesis Title: Odd Perfect Numbers Have A Prime Factor Exceeding 10 to the Seventh
Advisor: Clark, David A
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Jeppesen, David N
Thesis Title: Japanese Culture and the Disappearance of the Traditional Japanese House
Advisor: Butler, Lee A
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Jones, Cree Lane
Thesis Title: An Application of Symmetries to the Study of Quantum Spin Systems on Finite Graphs
Advisor: Glasgow, Scott Alan
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2006

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Alumnus: Jones, Jaylan S
Thesis Title: Non-Polar Solvent Effects on Radical Reactions
Advisor: Sevy, Eric T
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Layton, Eric C
Thesis Title: Interactive Mathematical Symbolic Computation: Steps in the Development of a Computer Algebra Package
Advisor: Grant, Christopher P
Major: Honors Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Melo, Heather Aurora Florence de
Thesis Title: Proving Minimality of a Network by Trajectory Mapping
Advisor: Lawlor, Gary Reid
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Tay, Julian Boon Kai
Thesis Title: Tropical Derivatives and Duallity
Advisor: Jarvis, Tyler J
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Tucker, Janessa Kathleen
Thesis Title: Godel's Incompleteness Theorem for the Math Student
Advisor: Lamoreaux, Jack W
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Walton, David Brian
Thesis Title: Decomposing the Regular Representation of Dn
Advisor: Humphries, Stephen P
Major: Honors Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Whitehead, Jared P
Thesis Title: Topological Bifurcations of Julia Sets
Advisor: Bakker, Lennard Frank
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Wright, Ian Joseph
Thesis Title: Examining the Relationship between Expected Market Returns and Political Variables Using Generalized Method of Moments Procedures
Advisor: Vorkink, Keith P
Major: Mathematics
Department: Mathematics, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Baker, Justin J
Thesis Title: Effect of Water Concentration During Polymerization of a Hydrogel on Swelling and Mechanical Properties
Advisor: Pitt, William G
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Black, M Dean
Thesis Title: The New Language Policy in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Analysis and Implications for the Bantu Languages
Advisor: Parkinson, Alan Roger
Major: Honors Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Bromley, Susan Candland
Thesis Title: Strain in Polysilicon Microbeams: The Relationship Between Beam Geometry and the Strain at Failure
Advisor: Howell, Larry L
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Brown, Daniel
Thesis Title: Testing Performance Characteristics of Layered Compliant Centrifugal Clutches
Advisor: Todd, Robert H
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Clark, Jonathan E
Thesis Title: A Solution to the Degree of Freedom Constraint Problem in Vector-Loop Tolerance Analysis
Advisor: Chase, Kenneth W
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Dunn, Dale
Thesis Title: Identifying Dynamic Behavior of Passively Damped Flat Composite Beams
Advisor: Eastman, Paul F
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Frischknecht, Adam C
Thesis Title: Effects of Contact Force on Electrical Contact Resistance in Micro-Machined Contacts
Advisor: Jensen, Brian D
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Frischknecht, Bart D
Thesis Title: New Constant-Force Compliant Mechanisms
Advisor: Howell, Larry L
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Giullian, Nicole Christina
Thesis Title: PACE Global Vehicle Collaboration Capstone Project
Advisor: Jensen, C Gregory
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Gouff, Noel Edward
Thesis Title: The Capstone Design Method Applied to the Development of a Small Municipal Water Purification System
Advisor: Todd, Robert H
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Hosford, Andrew T
Thesis Title: Mesh Deformation Approach for Aerodynamic Optimization Using a Genetic Algorithm
Advisor: Gorrell, Steven E
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Hyatt, Brian Edward
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Materials for a Reusable, Aqueous Buffer Filtration Device
Advisor: Eastman, Paul F
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Jubber, Bradley Gary
Thesis Title: Accurate Volume Instrumentation Hardware Intended for Convoluted Shapes
Advisor: Todd, Robert H
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Kellogg, Michael Irwin
Thesis Title: The Effect of the Duct Area to Rocket Area Ratio and Rocket Expansion on Ejector-Rocket Performance
Advisor: Daines, Russell Lewis
Major: Honors Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Larson, Bradley Jared
Thesis Title: Structuring Ladder Logic Programs
Advisor: Sorensen, Carl D
Major: Honors Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Lyon, Mark Edward
Thesis Title: Applications of Microstructure-Sensitive Design in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Adams, R Brent
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: McCammon, Jason B
Thesis Title: Investigating Trends in Specific Energy and Rate of Penetration While Drilling at Ultra-High Rotary Speeds
Advisor: Tree, Dale R
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Merten, Gregory Dale
Thesis Title: Design of Independent Anchoring System for Neutrally Bouyant Autonomous Submarine
Advisor: Mortensen, Kay S
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Nichol, Jamie
Thesis Title: Biomimetic Foot Design for Improved Biped Stability
Advisor: Eastman, Paul F
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Parkinson, Matthew Bryce
Thesis Title: Compliant Mechanisms: An Optimization-Based Approach to Their Design
Advisor: Cox, Jordan J
Major: Honors Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Richards, David Thomas
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Error in Conventional Torsion Equations when Used for Short I-Beams
Advisor: Blotter, Jonathan D
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Schwendiman, Kevin A
Thesis Title: The Effects of Tool and Temperature Parameters on Grain Growth in Friction Stir Welded 7050 and 7475 Aluminum
Advisor: Nelson, Tracy W
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Vincent, Raymond
Thesis Title: Design of the Mechanism to Lift the Target Area of the Automated Tank Target Lifter
Advisor: Eastman, Paul F
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Warnick, David R
Thesis Title: Process and Hardware Design for Variable Polyurethane Seal Diameters
Advisor: Nelson, Tracy W
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Westover, Tyler Lott
Thesis Title: An Experimental Study of Thermal Transport in Electro-Osmotic Flow
Advisor: Maynes, Daniel
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Wieland, Rose Anne
Thesis Title: Mechanical Engineering Capstone Team Formation and the FIRO-B
Advisor: Sorensen, Carl D
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Wilkinson, Samuel Thomas
Thesis Title: Communication Breakdown: What Role Did Miscommunication Play in Contributing to the Accidents of Three Mile Island, the Challenger, and the Columbia?
Advisor: Magleby, Spencer P
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Aamodt, Heather M
Thesis Title: Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Ally or Enemy?
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Ahlstrom, Jon D
Thesis Title: The Anti-Genotoxic Effects of Quercetin, Garlic Powder, Ellagic Acid, and Benzyl Isothiocyanate on DNA Damage Caused by Benzo[a]pyrene in HepG2 Cells as Measured by the Alkaline Comet Assay
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Bodily, Jason Matthew
Thesis Title: The Activity of Prostratin on Viral Replication in Cell Culture
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Honors Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Brown, Kristen Ann
Thesis Title: A Morphometric and Typological Study of Variation Phytoliths between parts of Domesticated Oats (Avena sativa)
Advisor: Ball, Terry Briggs
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Burgon, Trever B
Thesis Title: Follicular Dendritic Cells as Reservoirs of Diverse and Infectious HIV: A Phylogenic Analysis of HIV Quasi-Species
Advisor: Burton, Gregory F
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Carpenter, Ken
Thesis Title: Identifying Chemopreventative Plant Extracts
Advisor: Murray, Byron
Major: Microbiology: Premedical-Predental Microbiology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Cherry, William Brett
Thesis Title: The Ability of Prostratin to Inhibit Experimentally Induced Papillomas in New Zealand White Rabbits
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Honors Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Cole, Devon Clay
Thesis Title: Follicular Dendritic Cells (FDCs) and Sparing of CD4+ T cells from HIV/CD62L Triggered Apoptosis
Advisor: Burton, Gregory F
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Dewitt, Kimberly Nicole
Thesis Title: The Value of the Protection Telomeres Afford and the Maintenance of Telomeres in Many Transformed Cells
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Dukes, Jonathan W
Thesis Title: A Comparison of the World Health Organization and American Diabetes Association Guidelines for Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Advisor: Evans, R Paul
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2003

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Alumnus: Edmondson, Andrew Charles
Thesis Title: Characterization of Mitochondiral Recombination and Repair Proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana
Advisor: Nielsen, Brent Lynn
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Fenn, Jerry Daniel
Thesis Title: A Mitochondrial Genome Phylogeny of Orthoptera (Insecta) and Approaches to Maximizing Phylogenetic Signal Found within Mitochondrial Genome Data
Advisor: Whiting, Michael F
Major: Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Gill, Anne Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Construction and Characterization of Phob Plasmids
Advisor: McCleary, William R
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2004

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Alumnus: Green, Brad Russell
Thesis Title: A Comparison of the Antioxidant Capacities of Green Tea, White Tea, EGC, and ECG to EGCG by the TOSC Assay
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Harris, Jason
Thesis Title: Y-Chromosome Genetic Markers as Keys in Peruvian Population Studies
Advisor: Woodward, Scott
Major: Honors Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Higginbotham, Lisa A
Thesis Title: Transgenic Rescue of Disproportionate Micromelia (Dmm) Mice
Advisor: Seegmiller, Robert E
Major: Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Houtz, Stephanie
Thesis Title: Infection of Organotypic Skin (Raft) Cultures by Listeria monocytogenes
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Kitchen, Loranna Kearsley
Thesis Title: Educational Technology: Research Study of an Interactive CD-Rom for Teaching and Learning Organic Reactions
Advisor: Williams, David Dwayne
Major: Biology Composite Teaching
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Ladle, Brian H
Thesis Title: Cancer-Specific Overexpression of the Death Promoter Protein Bax Using the Human Thymidine Kinase 1 Promoter
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology: Molecular Biology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Lloyd, Michael John
Thesis Title: Follicular Dendritic Cells (FDC), CD4+ T Cell Apoptosis, and HIV Pathogenesis
Advisor: Burton, Gregory F
Major: Microbiology: Premedical-Predental Microbiology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Lu, Jennifer Kristi
Thesis Title: Guest-Host Dye Systems for Liquid Crystal Electro-Optical Device Applications
Advisor: Savage, Paul Bennett
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: McCammon, Heather Ann
Thesis Title: Description of Paternal Lineages in Modern Peru Based on Y-Chromosome Haplotypes
Advisor: Woodward, Scott
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Merkley, Mark A
Thesis Title: Bacteria as Bioindicators: Bioassessment in the Bonneville Basin of Utah
Advisor: Rader, Russell Ben
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Miller, Dylan Vance
Thesis Title: An Assessment of Abnormal Pap Test Follow-Up Among Patients Served by Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
Advisor: Wright, Donald N
Major: Honors Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Moulton, Josiah
Thesis Title: A Lipidomic Analysis of Mammary Fat Pad and Subcutaneous Tumors in Mice
Advisor: Linford, Matthew R
Major: Clinical Laboratory Science
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2009

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Alumnus: Nimtz, Jared
Thesis Title: Elucidating the Mechanism of Thymidine Kinase Control: Antisense Regulation of Cellular TK Levels
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Honors Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Orme, Jacob Jennings
Thesis Title: Strategic Isolation of a Putative COX Enzyme
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Perry, Anthony Steele
Thesis Title: Determination of GLUT4 Expression in Response to 5'-AMP-activated Protein Kinase
Advisor: Winder, William W
Major: Microbiology: Molecular Biology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Peterson, Ryan Brent
Thesis Title: The Implications of Global Subtype Diversity of HIV-1 for Vaccine Development
Advisor: Crandall, Keith Alan
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Price, Brenda Lewis
Thesis Title: Evaluation of DNA Damage Caused by 11H-Benzo[a] carbazole Using The Comet Assay
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Honors Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Price, Paul A
Thesis Title: Cellular Localization and Relational Analysis of PhoU in Escherichia coli
Advisor: McCleary, William R
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Ricks, Jonathan Daniel
Thesis Title: MicroRNA as a Putative Regulating Factor of Translation Inhibition of Cyclooxygenase-1 in MEG-01 Cells
Advisor: Simmons, Daniel L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Runyan, Christopher Michael
Thesis Title: Ultrasound Increases Outer Membrane Permeability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli
Advisor: Pitt, William G
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Sorensen, Amy
Thesis Title: The Main Electron Source for Electron Transport in Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum
Advisor: Jensen, James B
Major: Microbiology: Molecular Biology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Standage, Stephen Wade
Thesis Title: A Comparison of the Oxyradical Scavenging Capacities of Various Antioxidants Utilizing the TOSC Assay
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Stubblefield, Joshua D
Thesis Title: Activated Sodium Bentonite: A High Affinity Sorbent of Aflatoxin B1 and Cholera Toxin
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology: Premedical-Predental Microbiology Emphasis
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Swapp, Ryan E
Thesis Title: The Genetic Characterization of Modern Peruvian "Others"
Advisor: Woodward, Scott
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Taylor, Mark A
Thesis Title: The PAS Domain of PhoR in E. coli: A Deletion Analysis
Advisor: McCleary, William R
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Timme, David William
Thesis Title: Identification of Potential Transcription Factors Acting on the B/C Enhancer Region of Col11a2
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Turley, Richard
Thesis Title: Down-regulation of HIV-1 Receptors and Inhibition of HIV-1 Entry by Prostratin
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Welling, John Daniel
Thesis Title: Development of a Novel Human Vestibular Schwannoma Xenograft Model in SCID Mice
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Wheeler, Whitney Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Options for Medical Care of Parasitic Diseases in Ashanti-Mampong, Ghana, West Africa
Advisor: Jensen, James B
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Williams, Jason
Thesis Title: The JAK/STAT Pathway Utilized by Adrenal Cells in Response to IL-6 Stimulation
Advisor: Judd, Allan M
Major: Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Williams, Jon N
Thesis Title: Mapping of Microcin Plasmid pMccC38 with Restriction Endonucleases
Advisor: Leavitt, Ronald W
Major: Honors Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Yoder, Rebecca Alyson Crook
Thesis Title: The Effects of Prostratin on PKC Isoform Levels in Various Cell Lines
Advisor: Robison, Richard A
Major: Honors Microbiology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Young, Daniel Owen
Thesis Title: A Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Speckled Dace,Rhinichthys Osculus(Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from Four Western States Based on the Cytochrome B Gene
Advisor: Shiozawa, Dennis Kenji
Major: Molecular Biology
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Ashby, Bonnie Marie
Thesis Title: My Subject is War: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem as an Intersection of Historical, Musical, and Literary Perspectives
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Astin, Kaylie Katharine
Thesis Title: Literary and Musical Nuances in Several Settings of Paul Verlaine's "Mandoline"
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Beesley, Wilford
Thesis Title: The Creation and Production of the Demo Album Simple Understandings: A Written Log
Advisor: Simpson, Ronald
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Black, Sara Lynne
Thesis Title: The Music and Personalities of Three Late Romantic Composers
Advisor: Johnson, Steven P
Major: Performance: Strings Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Bowen, Nathan Scott
Thesis Title: Am I Am
Advisor: Boren, Murray Eddington
Major: Music Composition
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Call, Jennifer Lee
Thesis Title: "I Had Walked the Damascus Road, Seen the Light, Repented of Past Transgressions . . . and Switched to Viola." An Annotated Index of the Letters of William Primrose
Advisor: Bigelow, Anny Claudine
Major: Music Education: K-12 Instrumental Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2006

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Alumnus: Chapman, Juliana Marie
Thesis Title: The Musical Characteristics of the Scottish Folk Ballad
Advisor: Jaccard, Jerry L
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Crandell, Adam Ray
Thesis Title: The Symbolism of Bells: Its Development in Christianity Through the Thirteenth Century
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music Composition
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Dehdari, Carolyn E C
Thesis Title: Vilma Weber von Webenau: Die Marienlieder, Sommerlieder f?r Streichquartett und eine Sprechstimme
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Eldredge, Ruth D
Thesis Title: The Organ Toccatas of Carlos Seixas: A Critical Edition
Advisor: Bush, Douglas E
Major: Music Performance: Organ Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Flowers, Michelle Clements
Thesis Title: The Flame and the Arrow: A Final Farwell to the Golden Age of Hollywood
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music Performance: Brass Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Francom, Stacey Elise
Thesis Title: Bluegrass Bass Fiddle Solos
Advisor: Hansen, H Eric
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Gardner, John Wallace
Thesis Title: The Effects of Live Harp Music on Caloric Intake, Weight Gain, and Length of Stay of Infants in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit
Advisor: Pratt, Rosalie Rebollo
Major: Performance and Pedagogy: Instrumental Performance and Pedagogy Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Hall, Brian D
Thesis Title: New Jazz Conceptions: Bill Evans's Unique Mark on "Blue in Green"
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Jazz Studies
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Hansen, Joseph S
Thesis Title: Learning the Alto Trombone: An Analysis of Pedagogical Materials Culminating in a Performance of Three Major Original Works
Advisor: Kimball, Wilford W
Major: Music Education: K-12 Instrumental Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Harris, Sharon J
Thesis Title: "It Could Be Witnessed Only in Italy": Love as War in Verdi and Boito's Otello
Advisor: Parry, Joseph Douglas
Major: Music Education: K-12 Choral Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Jessop, Christopher G
Thesis Title: With Singing Unto Zion: The Definition, History and Prupose of Covenant Music
Advisor: Bush, Douglas E
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Kinder, Dorian Martha
Thesis Title: Three Trumpet Symphonies by Johann Christian Hertel: A Critical Edition
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music Education: Elementary Music Specialist Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Longhurst, Maren Lynne
Thesis Title: New Forms of Travel or Refitting Old Ships? Analysis of the First Movement of Schoenberg's Fourth String Quartet
Advisor: Johnson, Steven P
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Matthews, Brandon S
Thesis Title: The Romantic Piano Repertory and Its Stylistic Diversity
Advisor: Durham, Thomas L
Major: Performance: Piano Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Maxfield, Andrew Jonathan
Thesis Title: Peacemakers
Advisor: Asplund, Christian T
Major: Media Music Studies
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Moeller, John Douglas
Thesis Title: Remorse: Composition for Musicians and Electro-Acoustic Music in Surround Sound
Advisor: Ricks, Stephen David
Major: Music Composition
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Moore, Andrew K
Thesis Title: Infrared Spectrascopic Studies of Solid Wood
Advisor: Owen, Noel L
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Nichol, Sarah C Wrathall
Thesis Title: Arvo Part's Six Versions of Fratres: An Analysis and Comparison
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music Education: K-12 Instrumental Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Nielson, Marilyn Marie
Thesis Title: Voices in the Wind's Singing: Three Original Art Songs with Text by T.S. Eliot
Advisor: Boren, Murray Eddington
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Olson, Kiersten
Thesis Title: Form and Thematic Development in the First Movement of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Advisor: Johnson, Steven P
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Petersen, Ellinor Felicia
Thesis Title: Making Un-Sense of the Play: The Development of a Theory Through the Development and Production of The Exchange
Advisor: Asplund, Christian T
Major: Music Composition
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Pfeifer, Rachel E
Thesis Title: Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Combination of Music Theater Genres into One Influential Broadway Musical
Advisor: Bounous, Barry Urban
Major: Honors Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Schmidt, Bradley A
Thesis Title: This Word Unsaid
Advisor: Hicks, Michael D
Major: Music Composition
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Shirts, Peter B
Thesis Title: Culmination Music Recital: Clarinet, Voice, and Composition
Advisor: Hinckley, Jaren Smith
Major: Music Education: K-12 Instrumental Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Talbot, Amanda M
Thesis Title: Three String Quintets by Paul Wranitzky: A Critical Edition
Advisor: Powley, Harrison
Major: Music
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Wells, Paul Daniel
Thesis Title: The Viola Collections of St. Petersburg and the Primrose International Viola Archive: A Comparative Analysis
Advisor: Bigelow, Anny Claudine
Major: Music Education: K-12 Instrumental Emphasis
Department: Music, School of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Barron, Daniel S
Thesis Title: Gender Differences in Visual Information Processing
Advisor: Brown, Bruce L
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Beckham, Austin Patrick
Thesis Title: Mormonism & Entrepreneurship: An Explorative Study
Advisor: Rhoads, Gary K
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Bennion, Douglas Martin
Thesis Title: TRPV1 Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus
Advisor: Edwards, Jeff Glen
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Chen, Reuben Kuan-Chun
Thesis Title: Research on Transcriptional Mechanisms in the COL11A2 Gene
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Deardeuff, Michael
Thesis Title: Utilizing Reconstructive Neurosurgery as a Treatment for Parkinson?s Disease
Advisor: Porter, James Paul
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Frandsen, Paul Evans
Thesis Title: Role of Coricotropin-Releasing-Hormone and Angiotensn II in Weight Regulation
Advisor: Porter, James Paul
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Grams, Raymond William
Thesis Title: Molecular Adaptation and Characterization of Tumor Necrosis Factor
Advisor: McClellan, David A
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Harker, Dustin Brook
Thesis Title: Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibits Arachidonic Acid Liberation in Adrenal Zona Glomerulosa Cells
Advisor: Judd, Allan M
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Jones, Marc D
Thesis Title: Effects of the Neurosteroid Pregnenolone Sulfate on Hippocampal Physiology
Advisor: Steffensen, Scott C
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: McMurtrey, Richard J
Thesis Title: The Effects of Harmony and Dissonance with Two-Toned Narrow- and Wide-Range Frequencies on Auditory-Evoked Potentials with Theories on the Mechanisms of Tone Perception
Advisor: Fleming, Steven A
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Morgan, Madison
Thesis Title: Strengthening Healthcare Systems in Developing Countries: The Case of Cameroon
Advisor: Geo-JaJa, MacLeans A
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Ong, Jacob Cheung-Ka
Thesis Title: Correlating Increased Number of CAG Repeats with Increased Severity of Symptoms During the Early Stages of Huntington's Disease
Advisor: Lephart, Edwin D
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Plowman, Robert A
Thesis Title: Strength in Numbers: A Detailed History of the Growth of the LDS Church in Ribeir?o Preto, Brazil
Advisor: Grover, Mark LeRoy
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Porter, Sonny R
Thesis Title: Promoting Recovery Through Intensive Rehabilitation in Patients with Long-standing Spinal Cord Injuries
Advisor: Sudweeks, Sterling N
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Robison, Reid Justin
Thesis Title: The Effect of Chronic ICV Infusion on Angiotensin II on Food Intake, Weight Gain, and Hypothalamic Expression of CRH and POMC in Young Rats
Advisor: Porter, James Paul
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Smith, Spencer C
Thesis Title: HIV/AIDS and Healthcare Workers in South Africa: A Look at How HIV/AIDS Affects the Lives of Healthcare Workers in East London, South Africa
Advisor: Campbell, Lora Jean
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Stevenson, Edward K
Thesis Title: Myelin Basic Protein and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Antibodies in Autism
Advisor: Bigler, Erin David
Major: Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience Center
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Abbott, Kimberly Ann Flinders
Thesis Title: An Innovative Community Health Nursing Program for Disadvantaged Women
Advisor: Baldwin, Joan H
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Allen Maycock, Chloe Andrea
Thesis Title: Nursing Curricula Changes: Reflections of Shifts in Health Care Delivery
Advisor: Conger, Cynthia O'Neill
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Buzbee, Heather Merie
Thesis Title: Nursing Practice in Tucum?n, Argentina as Seen by an American Nursing Student: Their Words; My Thoughts
Advisor: Coverston, Catherine
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Bylund, Kristen M
Thesis Title: Iron Deficiency Anemia among Argentine Youth: Supplementation from Soup Kitchens and the Home
Advisor: Maughan, Erin D
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: De Agostini, Whitney O'Reilly
Thesis Title: Sleep Deprivation and Subsequent Nursing Errors in the Hospital Setting
Advisor: Coverston, Catherine
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Hallam, Megan
Thesis Title: Parental Perceptions of Raising a Child with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Advisor: Mandleco, Barbara L
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Hazard, Cambria Sue Jones
Thesis Title: Hispanic Immigrant Childbearing Women: Improving Perinatal Outcomes
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Hickok, Lindsay McPhie
Thesis Title: Becoming Mothers and Fathers
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Hocking, Sarah Langren
Thesis Title: Understanding Factors that Influence the Quality of Life of Young Adults with Chronic Pain
Advisor: Lassetter, Jane H
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Jones, Trista G
Thesis Title: Overcoming Barriers to Malnutrition in Tucuman, Argentina
Advisor: Maughan, Erin D
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Kartchner, Robin
Thesis Title: Giving Birth: Voices of Chinese Women
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Mann, Denise H
Thesis Title: Decreasing Nursing Student Anxiety Through Mentored Learning
Advisor: Palmer, Sheri P
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Matsuura, Terumi
Thesis Title: First-Time Mothers' Views of Breastfeeding Support from Nurses
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Melven, Kristi L
Thesis Title: Skin-to-Skin Contact in the Neonatal Period: A Review of the Literature and Project Intervention
Advisor: Coverston, Catherine
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Sears, Emily
Thesis Title: A Comparision of Growth Rates in Premature Infants in Tucamon, Argentina and the United States: A Secondary Data Analysis
Advisor: Abegglen, JoAnn
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2006

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Alumnus: Serr, Jenna Elaine
Thesis Title: Caregiver Burden and Depression in Parents Caring for a Child with a Disability
Advisor: Mandleco, Barbara L
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2005

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Alumnus: Tovar, Ethel Kokob
Thesis Title: Women's Perspectives Nine Months After Giving Birth
Advisor: Callister, Lynn Clark
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Warthen, Krista Marie
Thesis Title: The Role of the Nurse Related to Alternative Methods of Healing
Advisor: Memmott, Rae Jeanne
Major: Nursing
Department: Nursing, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Bentley, Jessica M
Thesis Title: Ascorbic Acid: A Potent Antioxidant
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Nutritional Science
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Blanch, Lauri Ellen
Thesis Title: Nutritional Assessment of a Maya Village
Advisor: Shuler, David A
Major: Molecular Biology: Nutritional Science Emphasis
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Cook, David M
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Gastrointestinal Parasite Prevalence among Schoolchildren in the Palajunoj Valley of Guatemala
Advisor: Booth, Gary M
Major: Nutritional Science
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Griffiths, Andrea Moreho
Thesis Title: Comparison of Mineral Contents of Organically and Conventionally Grown Red Potatoes (Solanum Tuberosum) Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
Advisor: Christensen, Merrill J
Major: Nutritional Science
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Aho, Zachary J
Thesis Title: Improving Sales Performance Through Selection: Creating Structured Interview Guides
Advisor: Swenson, Michael Joseph
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Badger, William Taylor
Thesis Title: Twilight of the Gods: Polish Folk Sculpture Since the Fall of Communism
Advisor: Whipple, Walter
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Barber, David L
Thesis Title: The Justification of Religious Belief: A Wittgensteinian Approach
Advisor: Arts, Michael
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Barnhill, Michael C
Thesis Title: Transcendent Religious Experience: What It Is and How It Leads to Belief
Advisor: Faulconer, James E
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Benson, Brett
Thesis Title: Rule of Law and Individualism In Plato's Political Philosophy
Advisor: Reynolds, Noel B
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Bruening, Ari D
Thesis Title: Divine Foreknowledge, Human Freedom, and Changing the Past: An LDS Perspective
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Cranney, Carl J
Thesis Title: Fool's Gold
Advisor: Packard, Dennis J
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Durham, Michael
Thesis Title: Reasoning Toward Morality: Kant's Ethics of the Unconditioned
Advisor: Carter, Codell
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1997

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Alumnus: Foote, Therese
Thesis Title: Faith as Experiment: A Study in Mormon Scripture
Advisor: Faulconer, James E
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Gibson, James Brinley
Thesis Title: Kant on the Nature of Geometry
Advisor: Arts, Michael
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Hopkins, L Shane
Thesis Title: Assessing the Arguments in "The Mormon Concept of God"
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Huff, Benjamin I
Thesis Title: The Contingency of Omnipotence in Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Hughes, Derrick Cutler
Thesis Title: Becoming Human: Michael Oakeshott on a University Education
Advisor: Rasmussen, Dennis F
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Jeffries, Royden Allen
Thesis Title: Stepping up to the Challenge: Concerning God's Materiality
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Jensen, David Allen
Thesis Title: Stich on Rationality, Charity and Cognitive Diversity
Advisor: Carter, Codell
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Kenny, D P
Thesis Title: J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: American Constitutional Government
Advisor: Wilkins, Richard G
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Kirk, Daniel Nicholas
Thesis Title: The Early Islamic Contributions to the Doctrine of Divine Embodiment
Advisor: Peterson, Daniel Carl
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2007

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Alumnus: Phipps, Jason Mark
Thesis Title: Psychological Egoism and the Life Worth Living
Advisor: Anderson, Travis T
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Pixton, Clayton Daniel
Thesis Title: The Extremity of Agentive Theory and Some Possible Moderating Principles
Advisor: Wrathall, Mark A
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Porter, Scott Alan
Thesis Title: The Process Behind "Rupert," A Student Produced 3-D Animation
Advisor: Adams, R Brent
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Poulsen, Jacob M
Thesis Title: Mormonism and God's Timelessness
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Rather, John D
Thesis Title: Augustine's Theory of Language: Its Integration with His Ontological Thought
Advisor: Siebach, James Leslie
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Ray, Daniel Bradshaw
Thesis Title: They Tried to Make Us into Medicine Men: A New Perspective on the Miracles of Alvan Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions
Advisor: Brown, Kendall W
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Stanfill, Vanessa Ann
Thesis Title: Incompleteness Illuminated: Teaching Incompleteness in Finite Set Theory
Advisor: Packard, Dennis J
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Stoehr, Tyler Steven
Thesis Title: Aristotle's Vision of God: Moving Beyond the Unmoved Mover
Advisor: Graham, Daniel W
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Tabatabaei, Behzad
Thesis Title: The Hellenization of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A Study in Abandonment of an Anthropomorphic God
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Honors Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2000

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Alumnus: Taylor, David S
Thesis Title: The Role of Phonological Processing in Lexical Access in Reading Spanish and Chinese
Advisor: Allen, Mark Douglas
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Walker, Christopher J
Thesis Title: Gender Issues in Argentine Entrepeneurship: "La Clave Es Participar Para Cambiar Algunas Cosas"
Advisor: Shumway, Jeffrey Merrill
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: West, John A
Thesis Title: When the Understanding Steps Aside: Kierkegaard and the Leap of Faith
Advisor: Paulsen, David L
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: White, Justin Fred
Thesis Title: Approaching the Sacred Text: Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur on Scriptural Hermeneutics
Advisor: Faulconer, James E
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2008

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Alumnus: Wilcox, Rachel Kimball
Thesis Title: A Philosophy of Storytelling
Advisor: Packard, Dennis J
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Wood, Daniel Kent
Thesis Title: Neuro-Existentialism: The Existential Significance of the Material Body
Advisor: Wrathall, Mark A
Major: Philosophy
Department: Philosophy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Shelley, Bryce Reid
Thesis Title: The Relation of Dance and Culture in Hungary, Israel, and Ukraine with a CD Media Archive Containing Pictures and Video Clips of Costumes and Dances from Around the World
Advisor: Davis, Susanne Johnson
Major: Teaching Physical Science
Department: Physical and Mathematical Sciences, College of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Argyle, Bronson S
Thesis Title: DFA Analysis of Financial Data
Advisor: Hart, Gus Lewis Warren
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2008

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Alumnus: Bennett, Jonathan
Thesis Title: Discrepency between Theory and Experiment of Aspect Ratio Measurements in Non-neurtral Electron Plasmas
Advisor: Mason, Grant W
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Brimhall, Nicole
Thesis Title: Thorium-based Mirrors in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Brown, David W
Thesis Title: The Relationship Between Water Contact Angle and Adhesion Peel Force in UV-Treated OTS Multilayers
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Bylund, Kevin Charles
Thesis Title: Mechanical Attachment of Carbon Nanotubes to Atomic Force Microscopy Tips Using Transition Metals
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Call, Jay M
Thesis Title: Gravitational Collapse in 2+1 Dimensions with a Dilation Coupled to a Cosmological Constant
Advisor: Hirschmann, Eric W
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Campbell, Jacob J
Thesis Title: Chaos in the Post-Newtonian Gravitational Three-Body Problem
Advisor: Neilsen, David W
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Cardall, Taylor Young
Thesis Title: Exploitation of Interfacial Tension As a Noninvasive Diagnostic Method for Canned Food Products
Advisor: Jones, Steven E
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Choi, Joseph S
Thesis Title: In Situ Ellipsometry of Surfaces in an Ultrahigh Vacuum Thin Film Deposition Chamber
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Conover, Paul N
Thesis Title: The Key Role of the Council on Foreign Relations in U.S. Policy with Vietnam, 1940-1963
Advisor: Marlow, H Carleton
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Cox, Jordan M
Thesis Title: A Case Study: Analysis of a Blocked Field Goal Using Photogrammetry Calibrated with Coplanar Points
Advisor: Peatross, Justin Bruce
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Curzon, Joel M
Thesis Title: An Evaluation of the Supreme Court Decision in Wickard vs. Filburn in Light of the Original Intent of the Commerce Clause and Early Precedent
Advisor: Bryner, Gary C
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Davis, Andrew J
Thesis Title: A CCD Photometric Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 188
Advisor: Hintz, Eric George Bow
Major: Physics--Astronomy
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Davis, Brian S
Thesis Title: Nanoshaving and Nanografting of Water-Soluble Polymers on Glass Surfaces
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Despain, Kate Marie
Thesis Title: Helium Abundance Effects on LBV Stellar Models
Advisor: Hintz, Eric George Bow
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Evans, William Ray
Thesis Title: Determining Optical Constants for ThO₂ Thin Films Sputtered Under Different Bias Voltages from 1.2 to 6.5 eV by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Physics--Astronomy
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Eyring II, Nicholas J
Thesis Title: Tools Used in the Development and Support of an Anti-Oxidant Bio-Photonic Scanner
Advisor: Bergeson, Scott D
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Fairbanks, Teresa Griffin
Thesis Title: The Characteristic Frequency of Formamidinium--Induced Current Noise in Gramicidin Channels: Voltage and Concentration Dependence
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Frandsen, Brigham R
Thesis Title: Free Electron Acceleration by a Laser: Exploration of Evanescent Waves
Advisor: Peatross, Justin Bruce
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Fugal, Jacob P
Thesis Title: Characteristics of a Slitless Spectroscopic Near-Infrared Emission-Line Galaxy Survey
Advisor: Moody, Joseph Ward
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Garvin, Matthew Bodell
Thesis Title: V927 Herculis: [Delta] Scuti or [Gamma] Doradus?
Advisor: Hintz, Eric George Bow
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: George, Renee Elizabeth
Thesis Title: High Order Basis Functions on Wires
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Computer Science Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Gifford, Dawn K
Thesis Title: Comparison of ORPA Suprathermal Electron and OPA Solar Wind Proton Data from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter
Advisor: Merrill, John J
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Gray, Steven Ryan
Thesis Title: A Variable Star Search in NGC 6866
Advisor: Hintz, Eric George Bow
Major: Physics--Astronomy
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Grigg, Amy Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Oxidation Effects on the Optical Constants of Heavy Metals in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Hicken, Malcolm Stuart
Thesis Title: Solving Quantum Ground States Using an Efficient Short-Time Numerical Approximation
Advisor: Berrondo, Manuel
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Hollingshaus, Scott Matthias
Thesis Title: Relative Binding Affinity of Non-Occupied and Single-Ion-Occupied Acetylcholinesterase with Acetylcholine
Advisor: Lewis, James P
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Housley, Matthew L
Thesis Title: Direct CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Nitride AFM Probes
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Hutchison, Mark Andrew
Thesis Title: Computational Analysis of the Relative Decay Constants for 7Be, 7Be+, and 7Be++
Advisor: Peterson, Bryan G
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Jackson, Jacqualine D
Thesis Title: Determining the Refractive Index of Scandium Oxide in the EUV using Kramers-Kronig on Thin-Film Transmission Data
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Johnson, Angela Jan
Thesis Title: Calculations of the Calcium 4s4p1P1E Radiative Lifetime via Molecular Spectroscopy of the Diatomic B13U+ State
Advisor: Bergeson, Scott D
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Computer Science Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Johnson, Jedediah Edward Jensen
Thesis Title: Thorium Based Mirrors for High Reflectivity in the EUV
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Johnson, Zerubbabel Ariel
Thesis Title: The Simulation of a Quantum Computer on a Classical Computer
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Jones, Samuel Timothy
Thesis Title: Physical Analysis of Olmec Artifacts
Advisor: Jones, Steven E
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Kowallis, Karl William
Thesis Title: Developing Finite Element Meshes for the Acoustic Simulation of Jet Engines
Advisor: Sommerfeldt, Scott D
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Kraczek, Brent Evan
Thesis Title: Study of Quantum Computation through Simulation of Shor's Algorithm on a Classical Computer
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Larsen, Mitchell W
Thesis Title: Construction of Optical Components by Ultrastructure Processing
Advisor: Knight, Kenneth Lloyd
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Lee, Stephen W
Thesis Title: Design and Construction of a Hemispherical Boom that Acquires Acoustical Sound Power Levels and Directivity Patterns
Advisor: Sommerfeldt, Scott D
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Leishman, Eric S
Thesis Title: Quantum Mechanics of Rigid Boxes with Voids
Advisor: Evenson, William
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1998

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Alumnus: Lunt, Shannon
Thesis Title: The Use of Genetic Algorithms in Multilayer Mirror Optimization
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Madsen, Rebecca Diane
Thesis Title: Investigating Dialogue Managers: Building and Comparing FSA Models to BDI Architectures, and the Advantages to Modeling Human Cognition in Dialogue
Advisor: Lonsdale, Deryle W
Major: Applied Physics: Computer Science Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Martin, Mary Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Determining Spin Wave Stiffness in a Colossal Magnetoresistive Thin Film
Advisor: Hess, Bret C
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1999

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Alumnus: McClure, Philip Kraus
Thesis Title: Ligand Binding to CD1D: Importance of Alpha-Galactosylceramide Configuration
Advisor: Savage, Paul Bennett
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: McElroy, Kaylee
Thesis Title: Adhesion Measurements Between Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Dioxide
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Menscher, Damian Paul
Thesis Title: Modeling the Quantum Computer on the Classical Computer
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1997

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Alumnus: Mills, Cynthia Elizabeth
Thesis Title: Multi-Angle Reflectance Measurements in the EUV
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Monson, Ryan Douglas
Thesis Title: Growth and Characterization Of a Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystal Monolayer
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Muhlestein, Joseph Boone
Thesis Title: Optical Constants for Y2O3 in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Advisor: Turley, Robert Steven
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Nelson, David Arlo
Thesis Title: Parenting Practices and Children's Social Competence in Contemporary Russia: An Exploratory Study
Advisor: Hart, Craig H
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1975

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Alumnus: Nelson, Karl D
Thesis Title: Thermoacoustic Cooling
Advisor: Nelson, H Mark
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Nelson, Philip Mark
Thesis Title: Effects of Fluorination on Gramicidin A Conductance: Analysis of Data Using 3B25 Model, Symbolic Math Software and Statistical Computations
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Ning, Simeon A
Thesis Title: Creation of an Intermediate Environment and Utilizing Switchable Microwave Absorbent Material to Aid in Performing Work on Mars
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Perry, Scott Evans
Thesis Title: Design, Construction, and Testing for an External-Beam PIXE System for Coin and Manuscript Analysis at Brigham Young University
Advisor: Rees, Lawrence B
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Peterson, David M
Thesis Title: Quan'da'ry: The Story - Creating and Modifying Games for Use in Education
Advisor: Gibbons, Andrew S
Major: Physics Teaching
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Pinoli, Mario Luca
Thesis Title: Molecular Modeling of the ?-helix of Poly-L-Glutamine
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Rockwood, Troy Dean
Thesis Title: A Classical Model of an Atom in a Strong Laser Field
Advisor: Peatross, Justin Bruce
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Sandberg, Richard L
Thesis Title: Optical Applications of Uranium Thin-Film Compounds for the Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Region
Advisor: Allred, David D
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Skeen, Michael McBride
Thesis Title: Constructing a Proton Therapy Facility: An Experience in the Design, Installation, and Commissioning of Treatment Room Systems at MPRI
Advisor: Evenson, William
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Smith, Kelly R
Thesis Title: Phase Matching of Laser High Harmonic Generation in a Semi-Infinite Gas Cell
Advisor: Peatross, Justin Bruce
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Tait, Steven L
Thesis Title: A Comparative Study of Various Display Formats of Speech Frequency Spectra to Aid Lip Readers
Advisor: Strong, William J
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Tang, Rebecca Faith
Thesis Title: A New Scheme for External-Cavity Diode Laser Stabilization
Advisor: Durfee, Dallin S
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Tanner, Michael Sterling
Thesis Title: Obtaining an Electron Energy-loss Spectra Fingerprint for the X and K Phases of Aluminum Oxide
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Thompson, Nephi
Thesis Title: A Three-Barrier Two-Site Analysis of Gramicidin Conductance in Fluorinated and Native Peptides
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Honors Applied Physics: Selected Options Emphasis
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Tonks, Melinda
Thesis Title: Nano-Level Surface Patterning Through Chemomechanical Functionalization of Silicon and Germanium Surfaces Using an Atomic Force Microscope
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Transtrum, Mark Kenneth
Thesis Title: Quantum Mechanics in Snyder Space
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Vance, Scott
Thesis Title: Search for Fusion from Sonoluminescence in Ammonium Amalgam: A Null Result
Advisor: Jones, Steven E
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Wacaser, Brent Alan
Thesis Title: Assembly of Groups of Au and CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals Chemically Linked by 1,4-Benzenedimethanethiol
Advisor: Davis, Robert Clinton
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Walch, Shannon Rebecca
Thesis Title: Design and Construction of a Z-Pinch Apparatus for Metal-Catalyzed Fusion Experiments
Advisor: Jones, Steven E
Major: Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Ware, Michael J
Thesis Title: Phase Delay and Energy Flow in Angularly Dispersive Optical Systems
Advisor: Peatross, Justin Bruce
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Wilcox, Eva
Thesis Title: Energy Resolution in Neutron Detection
Advisor: Rees, Lawrence B
Major: Physics Teaching
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2002

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Alumnus: Yeates, Dennis O
Thesis Title: Transcendence: Reassessing the Religious Thinking of Sir Isaac Newton
Advisor: Booth, Gary M
Major: Honors Physics
Department: Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Avery, Shaela Ann
Thesis Title: Assessing Premature Osteoarthritis in the Knee Joint of Mice with the Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita (SEDC) Gene Mutation
Advisor: Seegmiller, Robert E
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Clough, Lauren M
Thesis Title: Modifying the Apical Ectodermal Ridge in Embryological Development of Vertebrates
Advisor: Barrow, Jeffery Richard
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Condon, Brett M
Thesis Title: Regulatory Factors Involved in the Dephosphorylation of AMPK by PP2C
Advisor: Winder, William W
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2009

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Alumnus: Davis, Evan Drew
Thesis Title: Elucidating the Functions of a Nuclear Variant of the Growth Factor Bmp2
Advisor: Bridgewater, Laura Clarke
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Gibby, Conrad Curtis
Thesis Title: Short-term Pharmacokinetics of Gadolinium Diethyltriamine Pentaacetic Acid Bisglucosamide
Advisor: Busath, David
Major: Biophysics
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Illum, Benjamin E
Thesis Title: The mechanisms of high-salt fetal programming of hypertension in sprague-dawley rats
Advisor: Porter, James Paul
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Madson, Katie A
Thesis Title: Process Development and Evaluation of a Student-Produced Human Dissection Guide
Advisor: Zimmerman, Beverly B
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: McIntyre, Scott J
Thesis Title: The Transcriptional Effect of Interleukin-6 on Acyl-COA Thioesterase, Acyl-COA Synthetase, Diazepam Binding Inhibitor and Peripheral-Type Benzodiazepine Receptor in H295R Cells
Advisor: Judd, Allan M
Major: Physiology and Developmental Biology
Department: Physiology and Developmental Biology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Aamodt, Kristie I
Thesis Title: Uncovering an Interaction Between Thymidine Kinase 1 and P53 in Cancer Cells
Advisor: O'Neill, Kim L
Major: Genetics and Biotechnology
Department: Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Baxter, Adrianne
Thesis Title: The Correlation Between Salt Tolerance and Allelic Differences of SOSI in Chenopodium quinoa
Advisor: Coleman, Craig Eliot
Major: Genetics and Biotechnology
Department: Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Hallstrom, Michael L
Thesis Title: An Evaluation of Social Venture Capital to Promote Sustainable Economic Development in the Third World
Advisor: Fairbourne, Jason Scott
Major: Bio-Agribusiness Management: Biotechnology Business Emphasis
Department: Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Kendall, Sarah I
Thesis Title: Small-Scale Agriculture on Maupiti, French Polynesia
Advisor: Jolley, Von Dale
Major: Environmental Soil Science
Department: Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2005

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Alumnus: Allen, Alexis
Thesis Title: Finding a Voice: Aemelia Lanyer and the Redemption of Eve
Advisor: Siegfried, Brandie R
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Baker, Anna Nibley
Thesis Title: Micro Enterprise, Development, and the Future of Women in Lesser-developed Countries and the United States
Advisor: Tullis, F Lamond
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Baker, Ryan Geoffrey
Thesis Title: Le Blocage Quebecois: The Effects of Provincial Nationalism on Foreign Direct Investment
Advisor: Thomas, John Alfred
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1997

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Alumnus: Bates, Christopher Alan
Thesis Title: Using "The Federalist" to Better Understand the Constitution: Does Publius's "Split Personality" Pose a Problem?
Advisor: Gilchrist, Brent
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2007

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Alumnus: Beacom, Rebecca L
Thesis Title: Utah: Testing Constitutional Limits to Protect the Unborn
Advisor: Daynes, Byron W
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Blair, Clifford Frank
Thesis Title: Evaluating Institutional and Elite-Motivator Approaches to Ukrainian Political Party Development: A Case Study of Ukrainian Elections 1994-2002
Advisor: Damron, Daniel Edwards
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2004

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Alumnus: Blair, Margo Larson
Thesis Title: Progressive Women: A Comparison of Women's Status in France, Morocco, and Tunisia
Advisor: Bowen, Donna Lee
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Brinton, Travis Petty
Thesis Title: What Does LDS Doctrine Teach About Civil Disobedience?
Advisor: Holland, Matthew S
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Spring 2009

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Alumnus: Butler, Daniel Mark
Thesis Title: The Determinants of Religious Freedom
Advisor: Damron, Daniel Edwards
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Campbell, David Edward
Thesis Title: Children and Their Federal Government: Political Socialization in Utah and Alberta
Advisor: Magleby, David Blyth
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Carlson, Eric R
Thesis Title: Unlikely Passage: Permanent Normal Trade Relations and U.S. Trade Policy
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Champoux, Jennifer Page
Thesis Title: The Standing Madonna and St. Catherine from the Kunsthistorisches: A Wedding Gift Symbolic of the Ideal Bride
Advisor: Peacock, Martha Lynne
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Clark, Collins R
Thesis Title: Immigration from Mexico to the United States: A Case Study of Immigration's Impact on Foreign and National Security Policy
Advisor: Fry, Earl Howard
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Cox, Paul Matthew
Thesis Title: Russian Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Advisor: Taylor, Stan A
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Dahl, Ryan
Thesis Title: A Dangerous Branch: How Korematsu v. United States Affirmed the Judicial as an Influential Branch in America's Tripartheid System
Advisor: Daynes, Byron W
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2000

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Alumnus: Esseltine, Christopher Robert
Thesis Title: Traditions of American Liberty and Republican Democracy in the Dutch Province of New Netherland
Advisor: Daynes, John Gary
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Farwell, Robert
Thesis Title: Values, Vouchers, and Education Reform
Advisor: Wilson, Sven Eric
Major: Public Policy
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Fears, Chad Richard
Thesis Title: Moderation in the Federalist: a Modern Republican View
Advisor: Midgley, Louis C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1996

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Alumnus: Floyd, Robert David Hunter
Thesis Title: Foucauldian emanations: Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Ambiguity
Advisor: Bohn, David Earle
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2001

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Alumnus: Grantham, Wyatt Donald
Thesis Title: Why Men Wear Women?s Jeans: The Trendsetters and Early Adopters in the Diffusion of Corporate Punishment Reforms
Advisor: Christensen II, Raymond V
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2009

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Alumnus: Halstead, John Hendrickson
Thesis Title: The Structure of LDS Interpretations of the TLC Apostasy
Advisor: Crandall, David P
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Hertzberg, Benjamin Richard
Thesis Title: Reading Tocqueville in Arendt's The Human Condition: A Comparative Study
Advisor: Hancock, Ralph C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Hunt, Hyrum Kamaka
Thesis Title: Mormon Politicians and Senatorial Campaigns: The Politics of Self-Presentation and Contextual Adjustment
Advisor: Magleby, David Blyth
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Ide, Jared C
Thesis Title: Talking Early Online? A Qualitative Study Describing Democratic Presidential Candidate Emails in the Early 2004 Primaries
Advisor: Davis, Richard Dana
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Jackson, Camille Marie
Thesis Title: Tax Reform In Russia: Success, Failure, and Implications for International Assistance
Advisor: Jacoby, Wade Anthony
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2005

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Alumnus: Jennejohn, Matthew C
Thesis Title: Theorizing European Union Enlargement: Reputation and Bargaining in Explaining Spain and Ireland's Curious Support for a Controversial Eastern Expansion.
Advisor: Jacoby, Wade Anthony
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Kendrick, Jessica Michel
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Gender Roles in Film
Advisor: Davis, Richard Dana
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2006

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Alumnus: Lloyd, Jeremy G
Thesis Title: Personality and Diplomatic Recognition: The President as Decision-Maker in the Cases of the Soviet Union and China
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2004

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Alumnus: Marin, David L
Thesis Title: Unicity Counselors in South Africa: Institutions, Representation, and Ethnicity
Advisor: Nielson, Daniel L
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Murff, Michael Joseph
Thesis Title: Mountain West IT Economies: Similar but Disparate?: A Multi-Faceted Comparison of Utah and Colorado Public IT Markets
Advisor: Griffin, John Richard
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2000

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Alumnus: Nichols, Ryan M
Thesis Title: Welfare Through Faith-based Organizations: Restoring Well-being to Welfare Recipients
Advisor: Bryner, Gary C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2008

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Alumnus: Osguthorpe, Stephanie Swift
Thesis Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, An Interest Group in Utah State
Advisor: Magleby, David Blyth
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Ozioli, Catherine M
Thesis Title: Diapers versus Stilettos: Secular and Religious Pressure on Women in Transition
Advisor: Bowen, Donna Lee
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Peacock, Byron David
Thesis Title: Olympic Potential: A Proposed Shift from Trickle-Down Olymponomics to Grassroots Football within the German Olympic Committee's Development Program
Advisor: VanHuele, Jean-Francois
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Pickering, Mark Allan
Thesis Title: Cultural Politics, Closed World Structures, and Antifoundationalism: The Unbridgeable Gulf Between Christianity and Liberalism According to Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor
Advisor: Hancock, Ralph C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2002

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Alumnus: Probert, Josh Edward
Thesis Title: Artemus Millet: Architect to the Kingdom
Advisor: Porter, Larry C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Purser, Stanford
Thesis Title: A Response to Term Limits from the Perspective of The Federalist
Advisor: Midgley, Louis C
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1995

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Alumnus: Quinn, Michelle Ann
Thesis Title: Reflections on National Identity: Taiwan's Language Politics
Advisor: Hyer, Eric A
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2007

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Alumnus: Reed, Michelle Ann
Thesis Title: Protection and Politics: A Cross-National Time Series of Middle Income Democracies
Advisor: Nielson, Daniel L
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1999

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Alumnus: Robertson, Emily Eyring
Thesis Title: Equity and Tuition Tax Credits: A Case Study in Utah
Advisor: Randall, E Vance
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2003

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Alumnus: Rogers, Richard M
Thesis Title: The Housing Issue in Provo City: Policy and Politics
Advisor: Seipel, Michael M O
Major: Public Policy
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1996

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Alumnus: Roper, Brook E
Thesis Title: Suicide Bombing/Life Sacrifice: Reasons Behind Support for Palestinian Resistance Among Muslim Arabs
Advisor: Bowen, Donna Lee
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2005

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Alumnus: Ryan, Marcus P
Thesis Title: The Turbulent Evolution of Relations Between the United States and Argentina
Advisor: Shumway, Jeffrey Merrill
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2002

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Alumnus: Samahon, Tuan
Thesis Title: The Activities of U.S. Nationals Abroad: Private Subsidization of Terrorism Against Friendly Regimes (title of Proposal)
Advisor: Ringer, Jeffrey F
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Sevy, Lindsay Leininger
Thesis Title: The Little Currant Bush: A Story of My Mother
Advisor: Thursby, Jacqueline Schuster
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2004

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Alumnus: Wager, Carl Andrew
Thesis Title: A Plan for Moderate Income Housing in Springville City, Utah
Advisor: Jackson, Richard H
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Wells, Louisa Marie
Thesis Title: Government and Morality: Should the State Permit Same-Sex Marriage?
Advisor: Andersen, Brent S
Major: Political Science
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Wheeler, Jennifer Noel
Thesis Title: The European Common Security and Defense Policy and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Interaction as an Impetus for Institutional Change in Europe
Advisor: Hawkins, Kirk Andrew
Major: International Politics
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Woolley, Margaret
Thesis Title: Micro-enterprise Development in the Third World, Prospects for Zimbabwe
Advisor: Woodworth, Warner P
Major: Public Policy
Department: Political Science, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Adams, Riley S
Thesis Title: A Reevaluation of Dialect Prejudice and Stereotypes
Advisor: Clayton, Claudia Jean
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2004

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Alumnus: Baldwin, Scott A
Thesis Title: Combining the Tripartite and Cognitive-Specificity Models of Anxiety and Depression
Advisor: Spangler, Diane Louise
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2001

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Alumnus: Burch, Laurel Anne
Thesis Title: The Premature Death of a Danish Giselle
Advisor: Kramer, Nathaniel Todd
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2007

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Alumnus: Carroll, Annmarie
Thesis Title: Body Image Satisfaction among LDS Versus Non-LDS College-Age Students
Advisor: Spangler, Diane Louise
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1999

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Alumnus: Chow, Sarah Kimiko Lee
Thesis Title: Socioeconomic Backgrounds and Influences on the Career Choices of Doctors in Puebla, Mexico
Advisor: Lyon, Thomas E
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 1998

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Alumnus: Cobia, Derin J
Thesis Title: The Use of Feedback in Psychotherapy: What is the Mechanism of Change? A Survival Analysis
Advisor: Lambert, Michael J
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 2003

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Alumnus: Crook, Rachel Elizabeth
Thesis Title: The Effect of Self-Monitoring and Manipulated States of Self-Awareness on Attitude Change in a Dissonance Paradigm
Advisor: Ridge, Robert Dean
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Summer 1996

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Alumnus: Curtis, Amy Valette
Thesis Title: Impact of Dietary Phytoestrogens on Reproductive Functioning and Growth Rates in Long-Evans Rats
Advisor: Lephart, Edwin D
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2001

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Alumnus: Curtis, Ryan D
Thesis Title: I Get Mad Just Thinking About It: Comparing Students' Emotions and Beliefs Evoked by Anger in Mozambique and at Brigham Young University
Advisor: Spackman, Matthew
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 2002

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Alumnus: Dance, Cassie Emiko
Thesis Title: Family Environment and Internalizing Symptoms in Youth Under Stress
Advisor: Warren, Jared Scott
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Winter 2006

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Alumnus: Fernandez, David
Thesis Title: Acculturation and Adjustment of International Students
Advisor: Bennion, Robert C
Major: Psychology
Department: Psychology, Department of
Graduation Year and Term: Fall 1995

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Alumnus: Gaitan, Santino C
Thesis Title: Effects of Monetary Rewards and Verbal Praise on Intrinsic Motivation: A Replication Addressing Methodological Confounds
Advisor: Ehlert, Michael Blair
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