We are proud to announce our August 2020 Honors graduates! Congratulations on your remarkable achievements, and good luck as you move on to new adventures and join the ranks of the BYU Honors Alumni.
Caleb Andreason
BS in Psychology Honors Thesis: "Survivors of Human Trafficking: An Analysis of Current Mental Health Practices and Recommendations for Further Improvements”
BA in Spanish Translation Honors Thesis: “An Introduction to and Translation of "The Construction of Coco Chanel's Personal Brand through her Photographs" Future Plans: Work as a translator
BA in Classical Studies Honors Thesis: “The Fatale Monstrum and the Nasty Woman: Gendered Political Representations of Cleopatra VII and Hillary Rodham Clinton” Future Plans: Graduate School
BA in English Honors Thesis: “The Legacy of Jazz Poetry in Contemporary Rap: Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, and Kendrick Lamar” Future Plans: Law School
BS in Psychology Honors Thesis: “Parent Perspectives On Accessing Resources For Children With Developmental Delays And Their Younger Siblings” Future Plans: Employment
BS in Economics Honors Thesis: “Cancer Mortality Risk, Fine Particulate Air Pollution, and Smoking in a Large, Representative Cohort of U.S. Adults” Future Plans: Graduate School
BS in Biochemistry Honors Thesis: “Building an INS-1 CDNA Library for a Genome-Wide Crispr-Cas9 Screen can Help Identify Genes Required for B-Cell Survival of Metabolic Stressors” Future Plans: Pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Chicago
BS in Environmental Science Honors Thesis: “Human Health and Economic Costs of Air Pollution in Utah: An Expert Assessment” Future Plans: Pursuing a MS degree in Environmental Science at BYU
BS in Physics Honors Thesis: “Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Dynamics in Inhomogeneous Interstellar Media” Future Plans: Graduate school at Pennsylvania State University
BA in English Honors Thesis: “Journey Into the Self: Essays of Bi-Culturalism, Religion, and Identity” Future Plans: Content writer and seminary teacher, and eventually Divinity School and PhD
BA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Honors Thesis: “From Mercy Seat to Judgment Seat: A Source-Critical Examination of Priestly Adjudication in the Pentateuch” Future Plans: Pursuing a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago
BA in Political Science Honors Thesis: “Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Legal Tradition of the Italian Regency of Carnaro” Future Plans: Graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania
Tanner Mark Money
BS in Geography Honors Thesis: “A Comparison of the Economic and Cultural Development of Japan and Thailand through the Human Development and World Happiness Indexes” Future Plans: Graduate school at the University of Utah
BS in Economics Honors Thesis: “Differences in Immigrant Education by Destination Country: An Analysis of Turkish Immigrants' Perception of and Performance in Math and Science” Future Plans: Working and looking at Pre-Doctoral research programs
BS in Strategic Management Honors Thesis: “The Effects of Event Preoccupation on Business Activity: A bounded Rationality Perspective” Future Plans: After a year of employment, plans to pursue a PhD in Business