Congratulations December '24 Grads
Meet the Newest University Honors Graduates
As another semester draws to a close, we are excited to congratulate our December 2024 Honors graduates! These students have demonstrated exceptional commitment to educational engagement, resulting in a broad, undergraduate experience and an enhanced ability to contribute to the academic body of knowledge with their Honors theses. We are excited to see them move forward in ways that will impact the world in remarkable ways. Well done!
Rosemary Ellen Ashby
Major: Experience Design and Management
Thesis: Relations Among Academic Program Elements and Students' Sense of Belonging (view thesis)
Advisor: Neil Lundberg
Plans After Graduation: Rosemary plans to travel Europe, then seek employment with plans to return to graduate school in the next five years.
Thesis: Relations Among Academic Program Elements and Students' Sense of Belonging (view thesis)
Advisor: Neil Lundberg
Plans After Graduation: Rosemary plans to travel Europe, then seek employment with plans to return to graduate school in the next five years.
Cielo Corinne Bake
Major: Interdisciplinary Humanities
Thesis: Music Is My Language: Analyzing Autism Acceptance within Communities (view thesis)
Advisor: Garrett Cardon
Thesis: Music Is My Language: Analyzing Autism Acceptance within Communities (view thesis)
Advisor: Garrett Cardon
Kyle James Bird
Major: Geography
Thesis: Analyzing the Relationship Between Tree Canopy Coverage and Snowpack in the Great Salt Lake Watershed (view thesis)
Advisor: Grayson Morgan
Plans After Graduation: Kyle will attend graduate school at Cambridge University, studying Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science.
Thesis: Analyzing the Relationship Between Tree Canopy Coverage and Snowpack in the Great Salt Lake Watershed (view thesis)
Advisor: Grayson Morgan
Plans After Graduation: Kyle will attend graduate school at Cambridge University, studying Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science.
Adam Bonny
Major: Media Arts Studies
Thesis: Automate to Create: Simplifying Workflows for Small Film Productions (view thesis)
Advisor: Jeffrey Parkin
Plans After Graduation: Adam will be attending graduate school at La Fémis, in Paris, France.
Thesis: Automate to Create: Simplifying Workflows for Small Film Productions (view thesis)
Advisor: Jeffrey Parkin
Plans After Graduation: Adam will be attending graduate school at La Fémis, in Paris, France.
Allison Grace Dahl
Major: Communications Disorders
Thesis: Recommendations for Adapting Religious Materials for People with Aphasia (view thesis)
Advisor: Dallin Bailey
Plans After Graduation: Allison will attend graduate school at Baylor University.
Thesis: Recommendations for Adapting Religious Materials for People with Aphasia (view thesis)
Advisor: Dallin Bailey
Plans After Graduation: Allison will attend graduate school at Baylor University.
Emma Rachel Dart
Major: International Relations
Thesis: Cross-National Prevalence and Legality of Consanguinity & Its Implications for State Security (view thesis)
Advisor: Celeste Beesley
Plans After Graduation: Emma is currently waiting for security clearance and review for a job with the federal government.
Thesis: Cross-National Prevalence and Legality of Consanguinity & Its Implications for State Security (view thesis)
Advisor: Celeste Beesley
Plans After Graduation: Emma is currently waiting for security clearance and review for a job with the federal government.
Blaise Rachel Dobson
Major: Psychology
Thesis: Examining the Dual Nature of Post-Mission Mental Health: An Analysis of Mental Health Symptoms and Positive Well-Being Among Returned Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (view thesis)
Advisor: Blake Jones
Plans After Graduation: Blaise plans to attend graduate school.
Thesis: Examining the Dual Nature of Post-Mission Mental Health: An Analysis of Mental Health Symptoms and Positive Well-Being Among Returned Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (view thesis)
Advisor: Blake Jones
Plans After Graduation: Blaise plans to attend graduate school.
Rebecca Price Goldrup
Major: Sociology
Thesis: Family Ties: How Families of Origin and Procreation Influence Women's Migration and Integration (view thesis)
Advisor: Jane Lopez
Plans After Graduation: Rebecca plans to work for a year and then return for a Master’s program.
Thesis: Family Ties: How Families of Origin and Procreation Influence Women's Migration and Integration (view thesis)
Advisor: Jane Lopez
Plans After Graduation: Rebecca plans to work for a year and then return for a Master’s program.
Chad David Hyer
Major: Molecular Biology
Thesis: Elucidating the Role of Aging in Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Cascade in Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Advisor: John Price
Plans After Graduation: Chad hopes to attend Stanford for a PhD in Bioengineering.
Thesis: Elucidating the Role of Aging in Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Cascade in Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Advisor: John Price
Plans After Graduation: Chad hopes to attend Stanford for a PhD in Bioengineering.
Madeline Kay Martin
Major: Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation
Thesis: Detecting Multiple Paternity in Mule Deer Using Kinship Values (view thesis)
Advisor: Brock McMillan
Plans After Graduation: Madeline is still finalizing plans for grad school, considering Iowa State and others.
Thesis: Detecting Multiple Paternity in Mule Deer Using Kinship Values (view thesis)
Advisor: Brock McMillan
Plans After Graduation: Madeline is still finalizing plans for grad school, considering Iowa State and others.
Isabella Aguiar Roque
Major: Neuroscience
Thesis: Bile Acid Effects on Accumbal Cholinergic Interneuron Firing Rates
Advisor: Jordan Yorgason
Plans After Graduation: Isabella will attend graduate school here at BYU for a Neuroscience MS degree.
Thesis: Bile Acid Effects on Accumbal Cholinergic Interneuron Firing Rates
Advisor: Jordan Yorgason
Plans After Graduation: Isabella will attend graduate school here at BYU for a Neuroscience MS degree.
Lauren Andrea Schmalz
Major: English
Thesis: Navigating Narrative and Identity: Producing Promposal
Advisor: Kelly Loosli
Thesis: Navigating Narrative and Identity: Producing Promposal
Advisor: Kelly Loosli
Samuel Paul Taylor
Major: Political Science
Thesis: Normative Truth Under Metamodernism (view thesis)
Advisor: Ralph Hancock
Thesis: Normative Truth Under Metamodernism (view thesis)
Advisor: Ralph Hancock