All UHP Scholars design and complete a UHP Senior Project, a research-based thesis or creative work (depending on your major) that represents outstanding undergraduate achievement and the culmination of the 300-level Honors Scholar curriculum.
Older honors projects are available in print in the Ronald Williams Library. Browse or search this collection by topic or author to find their call number within the 3rd floor Curriculum Materials Honors Projects collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
IoT Technologies to Enable Location Based Services (LBS) for Smart Tourism, Dharmik Chhatbar
Person-First Versus Identity-First Language for Mental Illness: A Discourse Analysis, Amanda M. Cox
Mindfulness and Prosocial Behavior: A Study of the Light Triad of Personality Traits, Jake Goedert
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Evaluating an mHealth Application for Cancer Survivors with Disabilities through Usability Testing, Kevin Baez
The Impacts of Gentrification on Physical Activity within Hispanic Communities, David Canola
The Effect of Algal Wastewater Treatment Systems on Microbial Communities, Alexis Leach
Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants: A Study of Burnout and Quality of Life, Lori Light
Adversarial Attacks on Deep Convolutional Neural Network- Based Malware Classifiers, Patrick Poinar
Impact of Phosphatase Activity in C. elegans Expressing TDP-43, an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associated Disease Protein, Helena Puccini de Castro
Does Cognitive Reflection Support Children's Math Learning?, Diana A. Sanchez
Seeking Second Skins, Alisa Scott
The Effects of Circadian Rhythm Disruption on the behavior, lifespan, and fertility in Drosophila melanogaster, Isaiah Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Smartphone as an Edge for Context-Aware Real-Time Processing for Personal e-Health, Muhammad Bangash
Impact of the Attractiveness Bias on Acceptance of Interracial Relationships, Jackelyn Castaneda
Watching the Watchmen: An Ethical Evaluation of the Behavior of Modern Software Applications, Joshua Graves
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Psychiatric Survivor: Exploring the Paradigm Shift in Mental Health, Sean Gunderson
The Effects of Various Classroom Seating Arrangements on English Learners' Academic Achievement, Alvin Gutierrez
Analyzing the Nature of Immigrant Mobility with Respect to Property Taxes, Megan Kaminski
Creative Processes Among HRD Professionals, Briana L. Mesick
The Modern Meditation: The Effect of Video Games and Yoga on Mindfulness Scores, Brian Ray
Where's the Beef? How Chicago Gang Members Utilize Social Media to Promote Beefs and Incite Gang Violence and Gang Murders, Alejandra Ruiz
An Analysis of Reconstruction Era Policies as Partially Extending the Rights of Citizenship to Freedmen, Jonathan Tise
LAND VALUE RESPONSE TO HIGHWAY INVESTMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY 1943-1962, Matthew Lorenzo Uribe
Examining the Relationship Between Different Retail Mediums and Consumer Spending Habits, Melinda Vigh
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Effects of Company Culture on Company Profitability, Jennifer Bartoli
White & Undocumented: The Undocumented Experience of Eastern European Dreamers, Natalia Borowska
Examining the Lack of Consensus on the Minimum Wage, Belma Ramic
Video Games and Their Potential as Literacy Tools, Jessica Reich
Gender Differences in Undergraduates' Sexuality: A Comprehensive Study of Sexual Attitudes, Sindy Said
This Is Your Brain on Facebook: An Analytical Approach to Social Media and Autonomy, Armina Sharif
Acoustic Parameters as Discriminators of Wall Events in PICO Dark Matter Search Data, Lucia Volkova
Beyond Representation: Disney/Marvel's "Black Panther" as a Womanist Text, Daphne M. Watson
Publicly Fat: Narratives of Fatphobia, Diet Culture, and Intersectional Feminism, Jennifer S. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
System Disarmed: My Experience as a Pro Se Litigant, Michael Stephan Alexander
Negative Brand Placement: Directions for Future Research, Fernanda Baez Calvillo
Fragmentation in Care and Hospital Admissions of Older Adults, Dylan Burke
Surveillance Technology Toward a Dystopian Future, Sandy Hernandez
First-Year Students in Summer Bridge: Improving Academic and Mathematical Success, Sonia Hussain
The Politics of Colonial Authenticity: Food in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Katelyn Juerjens
Property Management Leadership in Digital Era, Monica Kristaly
Queering the Curriculum: A Content Analysis of Award-Winning Children's Literature Using a Queer Lens, Erika Lozada
Modeling Neurofibromatosis Type II in Zebrafish, Hannah Nuszen
A Genetic Screen to Identify New FGFR Signaling Components in C. Elegans, Victoria Puccini de Castro
Society's View of Mental Illness as a Result of Fictionalized Portrayals of Serial Killer Narratives, Cassidy Schmidt
Thoughts and Opinions on Police Intervention on Domestic Violence, Magdalene Thebaud
Examining Differences in Housing Voucher Law Application in Cook and DuPage Counties, Justin Wettstein
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Methods of Instruction for English as a Second Language: The Impact of English as a Second Language Program Models on English Language Learners’ English Proficiency, Emily Elizabeth Casaletto
Brand Linguistics: Study of Sound Symbolism and Consumer Language Fluency on Brand Name Attitudes and Perceptions, Evita Subkowski
Benchmarking Applicability of Cryptographic Wireless Communication over Arduino Platforms, Carolina Vázquez Torres