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This community features scholarly and creative work by students in the Honors College at Washington State University. The mission of the Honors College is to offer an enriched, four-year core curriculum to students of high ability and initiative. The Honors College provides students with the opportunity to challenge themselves in an engaged academic community in order to develop their full potential to lead and serve their local, national, and global communities. Through small classes taught by experienced and enthusiastic faculty dedicated to scholarship and learning, the Honors College helps students to develop genuine intellectual curiosity and a life-long love of learning, as well as skills in critical thinking, writing, public presentation, and information literacy.
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Honors Theses (WSU Pullman)
This collection features theses completed in the Honors College at Washington State University. -
Honors Theses (WSU Pullman, Passed with Distinction)
This collection contains theses produced by students in the Honors College at Washington State University who have passed their program with distinction. -
Honors Theses (WSU Vancouver)
This collection features theses by Honors students at WSU Vancouver
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Iridophore Expression in Mutant oca2 Zebrafish (Danio Rerio)
(2019)The gene oculocutaneous albinism 2 (oca2) is crucial for the proper development of color pattern in fish, and eye, hair and skin color in humans. When this gene is mutated (not functioning) in humans, albinism occurs, which ... -
Familial Stress and Academic Performance: The Role of an Outside Stress Factor on the Academic Success of College Students
(2019)College students face large amounts of pressure to succeed, both in their academic pursuits and in their home lives. That pressure may cause a significant change in the way these students are able to succeed academically, ... -
WSU Vancouver University Scholars Honors Program Thesis
(2019)Ozonation is a potential replacement for desalinated seawater purification by chlorination that produces carcinogenic byproducts. However, it can produce hypobromous acid that can become modified in biological systems to ... -
RACIALLY COLORBLIND IDEOLOGY ON THE WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY VANCOUVER CAMPUS
(2019)Our world is colored with diversity. To be blind to that diversity is to be blind to some of the most beautiful things this universe has to offer. Racially colorblind ideology, or the concept of “seeing no race” when looking ... -
To the Work We Must Do: The Washington State Communist Party 1945-Beyond
(2019)This study was conducted for two years, and drew resources from Canwell Committee documents, newspapers, letters, and other historians. A major conclusion of this work is that the Washington State Communist Party adapted ... -
Comparative Maternal Phenotypes in a Mouthbrooding Cichlid
(2017-05)Maternal care behavior is plastically adjusted based on external and internal cues. Differences in maternal phenotypes can be observed between laboratory raised animals and their wild-raised conspecifics, eliciting the ... -
Establishing A New Commons: The Role of Art and Education in Changing the Social Construction of the Home
(2017-04)The intention of my research was to find how the role of art in education could empower youth of all socioeconomic backgrounds and how art and education could effectively change and challenge the ways in which the home was ... -
Pursuit of A Coherent Truth
(2017-04)Along with my honors thesis, for the University Scholars Honors Program of Washington State University Vancouver, by means of an artistic representation, I explored the question: how can science and spirituality collaborate ... -
Psychophysiological Effects of Low-Frequency Vibration on Humans
(2017-04)This study explored the use of low-frequency vibration (LFV) in stress reduction with the goal of identifying LFV as an alternative therapy for panic attacks. A model recognizing the vagus nerve as the central component ... -
Analyzing the Effects of Screening Methods on Artifact Collection at Kanaka Village during the Hudson’s Bay Company Occupation of Fort Vancouver
(2017-04)Types and quantities of material evidence collected from archaeological sites are primary sources of information for archaeologists to base interpretations and provide evidence to answer posed research questions. Artifact ... -
High Speed Sintering of New Materials
(2017-04)Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, is a technology undergoing development which holds the potential for rapid and cheap production of complicated and exotic parts. Particularly, it is an excellent method of ... -
Influence of environmental factors on the vertical distribution of phytoplankton in Lacamas Lake, WA
(2017-04)Urbanization in watersheds has led to nutrient enrichment (eutrophication) and dissolved oxygen depletion (hypoxia) in many freshwater systems. These conditions impact species diversity, availability of habitat, and organism ... -
Self-Affirmation on Increasing Message Acceptance about Consequences of Meat Consumption
(2017-04)Self-affirmation methods have been commonly used to reduce reactance to potentially threatening health information, but far less focus has been given to other threatening outcomes. The current study examined the effect of ... -
Uncovering the Accessibility Concerns on the Washington State University Vancouver Campus
(2016-05)The goal of this study is to discover some of the barriers on the Washington State University Vancouver (WSUV) campus that impede differently-abled students from reaching their full-academic potential. Through this research ... -
The Effectiveness of Carpal Tunnel Release
(2016-04)Hand injuries involving the carpal tunnel are very common in today’s society, affecting 4-10 million people per year. This problem may become more prevalent due to an increase in new hand-oriented activities like texting ... -
Degradation of Perineuronal Nets in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and the Impact on Memory
(2016-04)Memory is a crucial asset to proper daily functioning. One important brain area involved in memory is the medial prefrontal cortex or mPFC. Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are structures that envelop specific neurons in many parts ... -
Influence of Diet on Activity Patterns of Nonhuman Primates
(2016-04)Primate activity patterns and diet have been researched separately in the wild; this project aims to examine the relationship between the two by comparing species in captive populations. The zoo setting allows for the ... -
Diel Vertical Migration of Zooplankton in Response to Hypoxia in Lacamas Lake, Washington
(2016-04)Zooplankton, microscopic aquatic animals, are often distributed vertically in the water column in unequal densities, sometimes exhibiting diel vertical migration behavior, typically residing in surface waters at night and ... -
The Behavior of Roping Cattle During a Team Roping Run
(2016-04)Team roping is a sport that has been around since the late 1800s. Today, thousands of dollars are up for grabs every day for the team with the fastest run. In order to become competitive in team roping, it takes a lot of ... -
Argentina: Bringing Beef to the Modern Age
(2016)As one of the world’s major producers of beef and cattle products, Argentina will soon become a more important player in the global marketplace. Decades of political and social turmoil have prevented Argentina from developing ...