The Honors Thesis Project is your opportunity to complete a major research thesis or creative project in your major. It is how you fulfill the “Depth” requirement. You chose a topic you care deeply about (although science or engineering students’ choices may be more constrained). You have the resources of a major research university at your disposal; you are mentored by a faculty member you have asked to supervise you, and you complete a project that serves as the “capstone” of your major. It’s an exciting, pivotal project that often launches the next stage of your academic or professional life. The project typically takes four semester to complete. Theses can be screenplays, engineering projects, performances, films, paintings, written theses, and more. Graduating seniors routinely cite it as the most lastingly important academic part of their undergraduate education.

Follow


2017

PDF

Let Them Play!, Daniel Drashinsky

PDF

Thawing Relations: Reaching the JCPOA, Alicia Drummond

PDF

Kat & Lily: An Original Screenplay, Isabella Engelhard

PDF

Male-biased retrogenes in Drosophila melanogaster: integration of novel genes into pathways governing sperm development, Katherine Eng

PDF

Osiris: A short film, Kathryn Ferentchak

PDF

An Exploration into the Causes and Consequences of Women as a Minority in Technical Fields, Emily Fesnak

PDF

Uncontrollable Color: Street Art Meets Street Style, Laura Fidati

PDF

Development of a Spermatogenesis Specific Gene Driver Using the UAS-GAL4 System, Jake Figaniak

PDF

Intrusive or Beneficial: Do Corporate Cell Phones Affect Workplace Obligation?, Jamie Gelberg

PDF

Letters to Lindbergh: An Illustrated Children’s Book, Samantha Gottwalt

PDF

UBR-5, a conserved HECT-Type E3 ubiquitin ligase, negatively regulates notch-type signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, Anniya Gu

PDF

The Rise of Panarchy, Connor Hakan

PDF

The Glocalist: The creation of an online cultural-travel guide to the city of Havana, Cuba, Jaye Harris

PDF

@the_new_house: An Online-Offline Manifesto, Ana Paola Hernandez Derbez

PDF

How Comedy Television is Written and Developed., Douglas Holloway

PDF

Gravity 2, Yi Jin

PDF

Our Food Story: Examining the Relationship Between Food and the Community, Joan Kao

PDF

School Safety: One Year After The Parkland Shooting, Meredith Kava

PDF

The Uses and Abuses of Hellenism by the Diadochi and Their Successors, Andrew Kennedy

PDF

The Effectiveness of UNSC Sanctions: The Case of North Korea, Victoria Kim

PDF

Mausoleums and Mortuary Architecture, Nicholas Kronauer

PDF

An Evaluation of Mental Health Resources at Syracuse University, Joyce Lalonde

PDF

A Content Analysis of the 2014 Immigration Crisis Media Coverage: An Intergroup Threat Theory Approach on the Age of Immigrants, Carolee Lantigua

PDF

Power Shift: Germany's Energy Transition, Gabrielle Lichtenstein

PDF

Synthesis of substituted tetrahydropyrans using metal-catalyzed coupling reaction, Amanda Lieu

PDF

Synthesis and characterization of tribologically enhanced hydrogels, Emily Lindberg

PDF

The Communication of Cheating: A rhetorical analysis of the communication Major League Baseball players use when accused of taking performance enhancing drugs., Andrew Mallon

PDF

“The Imaginary Dragons” a Short Film., Christina McDonagh

PDF

When the Ultimate Goal is Running Yourself Out of Business: The Extent to which For-Profit Strategic Management Tools Apply to the Nonprofit Sector, Haley McDonnell

PDF

The Role of Mail in the First Women’s Rights Movement: A Project of Resistance and Knowledge Formation, Hannah-Abigail Mosier

PDF

Engaging with Craft: Concepts for Today's Architect, Stanislav Nedzelskyi

PDF

Contested Spaces: Spatial Discourses and the Struggle for Power in the Early Modern English Empire, Emily O'Hara

PDF

Analysis of Cardiorespiratory Interactions in Infants at Increased Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Megan Phan

PDF

Divergent allocation strategies between annuals and perennials in the field, Genevieve Pilch

PDF

Coffee Powerhouses: Utilizing PR and Marketing, Laina Pisano

PDF

Rural Retreat / Urban Myth, Celeste Pomputius

PDF

The Influence of Values and Recipient Groups on Social Welfare Policy Opinion, Christopher Pulliam

PDF

Ending Rape: Effective Strategies for Reducing Sexual and Relationship Violence on a College Campus, Seth Quam

PDF

Serving Syracuse Youth Through Mentorship, Neha Rauf

PDF

Political Ideology and Feelings Towards Feminism: Why Young People Reject the Feminist Label, Raychel Renna

PDF

Entering the Inclusive Space: An Autoethnography of a Future Educator, Lindsey Reuter

PDF

Witness the Spectacle, if You Can: An investigative analysis of the accessibility of democracy in Syracuse local government, Alexis Rinck

PDF

Witness the Spectacle, if You Can: An Investigative Analysis of the Accessibility of Democracy in Syracuse Local Government, Alexis Rinck

PDF

Fashion, Communication, and Consumerism, Jodi Robbins

PDF

The Treatment of Sexual Violence and Reclaimed Agency in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece, Lily Sarkisian

PDF

Circulating Literacies: When Storytelling Meets Policy, Nedda Sarshar

PDF

Challenging Structures: A Case Study of Middle East and North African States in the United Nations System, Emilie Scardilla

PDF

"Why Girls?": A Content Analysis of the #BringBackOurGirls Movement and the Transnational Significance of the Chibok Girls, Halima Shehu

PDF

Studies towards the synthesis of (-)-centrolobine via the carbonyl ene reaction of exocyclic enol ethers, Brianna Shores

PDF

Modesty and Manliness: Gendered Truth-Telling in Herodotus, Jennifer Shulman

PDF

"All I Ask of You": A Feature Film, Margaret Siciliano

PDF

The Economic, Health, and Psychological Effects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ilana Siegal

PDF

Dinner Parti, Evangeline Soileau

PDF

Dynamic Protein Movement Involved in Photoreceptors, Daisy Spoer

PDF

Physician Burnout: A Healthcare Crisis, Samantha Steinert

PDF

Journalism in the Digital Age: The Adaptation of Facebook Live in News Organizations, Brittany Stephanis

PDF

Incarcerated Individuals and the Food System: The Silent Rise of a New Labor Force, Collin Towensend

PDF

The Effects of Dementia on Language Ability in a Greek-English Bilingual Individual, Stacia Tsakonas

Hydrophobic/hydrophilic nanoscale patterns for pool boiling enhancement, Geoffrey Vaartstra

PDF

Trade Up, Saumya Vasuthevan

PDF

Please Forget to Floss: Developing an Assay for Identifying Tuberculosis in Dental Calculus from the Smithsonian’s Huntington Collection (1893-1921), Soleil Young

PDF

From Script to Screen: Capturing the Creativity of Children, Sara Zadrima

PDF

Migration at the Provincial Level in China: Effects of the Economic Motivation and Migration Cost, Mengran Zhang

2016

PDF

The Effects of Large Herbivores on Soil Organic Matter Quality in Terrestrial Ecosystems, Adrian Alvarez

PDF

Algorithmic Settlements, Benjamin Anderson-Nelson

PDF

The Role of Intermediate Filament Proteins in Retinal Degeneration and Regeneration, Alexandria Aruck

PDF

The Poppy: Contextualising a Seemingly Timeless Symbol in History, Materials and Practice, Emily Barrett

PDF

Arab Women in Development: A Postcolonial Legacy, Rachel Bass

PDF

Ruthenium Hydride Catalyzed Silylvinylation of Terminal and Internal Alkynes and Synthesis of Poly(trimethylenecarbonate) and Poly(dimethylacrylamide) Block Copolymer, Alec Beaton Jr.

PDF

Structure-Guided Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Bacterial ATP Synthase’s Epsilon Subunit, Mariam Bhatti

PDF

Soil for Your Soul: African American Women & Social Entrepreneurship, Markova Casseus

PDF

Collective and Individual Identities of Soldiers at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Christiana Chmielewski

PDF

Preparing for and Responding to Flood Disasters: A Tale of Two Floods, Rachel Correll

PDF

Jesus Wouldn’t Mow, He’d Grow: Transforming congregations, lawns, and food security in Linn County, IA, Juliette Crellin

PDF

Estrogens Regulate Metabolic Substrate Concentrations in Brains of Young Adult Female Rats: A Multiple Memory Systems Approach, Ella D'Amico

PDF

Psychological Reactivity to Dental Images and Sounds, Josue Deya

PDF

At Risk: Conflict Resources and the Right to Water in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madeleine Durbin

PDF

A Spy of His Own Confession: A Revolution in American Espionage, Cole Ellenbogen

PDF

Globalization and Offshoring: the Effects of a Globalized Workplace on Auditing Procedures, Mignon Farnet

PDF

Abortion, Teen Pregnancy, and Feminism: Finding Women-Centric Solutions for Reproductive Justice, Jessica Faunce

PDF

Stillwater: An Exhibition that Explores Touch and the Everyday through Ceramic Objects and Photography, Lily Fein

PDF

Personal Memory and Digital Mobile Media: How A Product and A Web Platform Can Improve Digital Memory Archiving, Sarah Folger

PDF

Zest Magazine: An Editorial, Managerial, and Exploration of Syracuse University's Premier Travel Publication, Madysan Foltz

PDF

Dental Health Education Outreach in Syracuse New York, Alyson Forman

PDF

Ethnography and Analysis of the Effects of Racism and Creating a Black Family Tree, Courtney Garvin

PDF

The Art Behind the Baroque Violin, Carolyn Goldstein

PDF

Lactate as a Memory-Enhancing Metabolite Across the Lifespan in Male Fischer 344 Rats, Brooke Hamling

PDF

Models for Storing Relationships: Relational vs. Graph Databases, Dylan Hantula

PDF

Effect of Rapamycin as an Inhibitor of the mTOR Cell Cycle Entry Complex on the Selective Lysis of Human Leukemia Cells Lines in Vitro Using 20 kHz Pulsed Low-Frequency Ultrasound, Yasmine Hemida

PDF

The sacrifice of space: transgressive tactics for micro-apartments, Matthew Steven Stewart Honig

PDF

Applying Linguistics: Analyzing the Differences Between Human and Machine Translation of Selected Texts, Nicole Howell

PDF

Welcoming the Stranger: African Refugees and Israel’s Asylum Regime, David Kimelman

PDF

A Case Study of the Yasuní-ITT: What is New about the Twenty-First Century Socialist Development Model?, Haley Kulakowski

PDF

Understanding the role of sog-4 and sog-6 in the GLP-1/ NOTCH Signaling Pathway, Micheline Laing

PDF

Reclaiming Identities: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia, Emily Malina

PDF

Improving the Nutrient Content of Agriculture Crops Through Community Ecology, Margo Malone

PDF

Introducing Alexandra Moniqué: A Journey Through the Music Industry, Alexandra Mayo

PDF

Trail's End Cafe Branding and Design, Morgan McMullen

PDF

Sourcing the Sherds: An Analysis of the Coarse Earthenware Ceramics from Trents Plantation in Barbados, Sara McNamara

PDF

Investigation of the Tandem Alkylation-Cyclization of Endocyclic Enol Ethers for the Preparation of Unusual Oxygen Heterocycles, Sarah Mehdi