The Honors Thesis is the culmination of a University Honors Program student’s time at LMU and the Honors Program. This collection gathers these works for posterity.
Guidelines for Honors Seniors
For uniformity of presentation, your thesis submission should include a thesis cover sheet. A template for this sheet is available as a public Google Doc:
Access the template with a web browser, choose File > Make a Copy… to create your own editable copy of the file, then enter the information that is specific to your thesis. Append this to your uploaded submission.
When submitting your Honors thesis information:
- Submission will require that you have an LMU Digital Commons account (which is distinct from your overall LMU credentials)—you will see an option to sign up when you click on the button. Treat your profile seriously and professionally: it is your permanent presence in the LMU Digital Commons.
- Include your thesis advisor as a co-author on the work. You may include additional co-authors if you have more than one mentor.
- The “Date of Completion” field is, in general, the end of the semester in which you finish your work and get it graded.
- The “Degree Type” field is where you can specify whether your work must be accessed from within campus. “Honors Thesis” makes your work part of the library’s public collection; “Honors Thesis—Campus Access” will only allow your thesis to be downloaded from a computer within the LMU network.
- When your thesis work is complete, please click on the submission button below to begin the process of adding your work to this collection. Your Honors Thesis requirement is not considered fulfilled until the final version of your thesis has been uploaded to this site.
- If your final thesis work is not in a form that can be uploaded to this site, please contact Dr. Hawley Almstedt, Research Advisor of the University Honors Program, to determine an alternative mechanism for accessing your work.
- The information you enter can be revised after submission. Please contact Dr. Almstedt as well to request changes.
Signed Permission Letter
The signed permission letter allows the Hannon Library to distribute your work to the web at large, as opposed to just making it available within the campus network. This permission letter is specifies the level of sharing that you permit, ranging from Internet-wide distribution to archival only (i.e., no distribution).
The permission letter is available as this Adobe Sign PDF. Fill out and sign the form, and it will then go to your thesis advisor. After your advisor fills out their portion, a link to the final version will be emailed to you. Please upload that final version to your HNRS 4000 Brightspace page.
Submit Your Honors Thesis InformationSubmissions from 2008
The Modernization of a Religion: Tibetan Buddhism in the 21st Century, Natalie Machida
Single and Fabulous? An Analysis of the Representation of the Single Career Woman in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Sex and the City, Meagan McDonald
Designing a Story: "Presidio" and Considerations in Production Design, Alix Milne
Database Management for Regulatory Bodies: A Case Study for Ballona Wetlands, Brennan Mitch
Identifying the Active Compounds in Uncaria Rhynchophylla that Inhibit the Aggregation of the Alzheimer's Protein, Aβ42, Theresa P.T. Nguyen
The Style of Awareness: The Rhetoric of Social and Political Issues in the Contemporary Fashion Magazine, Stephanie O'Toole
On Poetics, Scott Rowan and Jackie Mader
Polio in Twentieth-Century America: The Remaking of a Disease, Andrea S. Ryken
Modern Oncological Adevnoviral Gene Therapy Treatments, Stephen Sarmiento
The Hybrid Culture in Cusco, Peru: A Journey in Four Paintings, Jeanie Schuerman
Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila Melanogaster: The Effects of Aging, Bilal Shafi
The Volunteer's Dilemma: Rewarding the Volunteer, Christopher D. Villela
An Unbiased Selection for Functional β-Lactamase Signal Sequences, Jennifer Susan Woo
Senior Composition Recital, Ric Zimmerman
Submissions from 2007
Using Oligopeptides to Prevent AB42 Aggregation, Michael J/ Baine
The RIAA, The Internet, and the Fall of the Music Industry, Daniel Paul Bowen
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Mechanism for Promoting Responsible Leadership?, Matthew M. Delja
Writing the Wrongs: History and Power in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Jenny Frey
Night of Nueva Luna: Isabel Allende's Feminist Update of Arabian Nights in Eva Luna and Stories of Eva Luna, Maria Angelina Natalina Judnick
"Let Differences Reign": Colonialism, Despotism, and Multiplicity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, Jennifer Lin Lower
Volunteer Tourism: An In-Depth Analysis, Ana Paula Martinez Underwood
A Synthesis of Bridged Ketones to Study the Photochemical Decarbonylation Reaction, Barrett Michael Warren Welch
An Assessment of Student Views on the Nature of Science Using CENS Inquiry-Based Data Module, Erin Aiko Yamauchi
Submissions from 2006
Active Race Car Spoiler, Adam Baker, Katherine Corrigan, Greg Marcus, and Phillip Youngren
Ruth and Pilate: Embracing Gendered Embodiment in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Jennifer Bickett Hubbell
The Self-Assembly of Actin on Gelsolin According to a Specific Electron-Beam Patterned Substrate, Sarah Michelle Black
Seeming Contradiction: A Dialectic of Identity, Margaret Mary Bourque
Rated R for Sex and Violence: A Teaching Tool for Beginning Ancient Greek Students, Sarah Buser and Sanda Heinz
Criterion and the Canon, Raymond Crosby
Of It's Own Making: Victorian Society and the Rise of the Women's Sufferage Movement in 19th Century Britain, Kathleen Megan Cutsforth
The Good Life, Ronald Clark Duke III
Team B: Examination Room, Faustina Lee, John Beilstein, Cassandre Medrano, Laurence Michael, Graham Palmer, Jan Sanchez, and Nadhi Thekkek
Not Yet: A Novel, Mark J. Lehman
Tamagotchi Nation: How the Japanese Marketing System Drives its Popular Culture, James Malins
Examining Judicial Reform in the Developing World: A Case Study of Armenia, Aram Allen Nadjarian
The Latino Emergence: The Political Wave of the Future Political Post-Modern Los Angeles, The Latino Phenomenon, & its Effect on Angelinos, Justin James Nigro
Video Game Theory: A Peek at Japanese and American Societies through the Games They Make and Play, Dougherty J. Preuss
CAFTA: The Need for a More Effective Plan, Cristina Leigh Stanley
Our Time for Social Justice, Adrienne Tygenhof
The V-Squad, Daniel J. Walker
Young Adolescent Maturity Levels and their Deviant Behaviors, Kristina M. Yamamoto
The Harken Story, Matthew Zuvela
Submissions from 2005
Climate Change and the Developing World, Christopher J. Beaven
The Invisible Immigrant: Acculturation, Identity, and the Second-Generation Black West Indian Immigrant, Maneka Deanna Brooks
Magic Hour, Anton C. DeLateur
Have a Little Faith: Integrating Faith in Business Decision-Making, Marjorie L. Devany
An Earthward Glance: Yoga, Phenomenology, and a Remembering of Human-Nature, Sarah Eade
Christina English Mezzo-Soprano in a Senior Recital, Christina English
How to Distinguish Knots: The Alexander Polynomial, Sara Frietze
Shame the Devil, Deirdre Gaffney
The Corporatization of the American University, Samantha Heindl
An Ethic of Care in Elementary Education, Kate M. Hollenbeck
Ministry in its Fullness: Jesuit Campus Ministries as Collaborative Pastoral Agents, Spencer R. Johnston
Buisness and Solution Plan for Players Travel Inc., Christopher Lee Kissner
Hamlet: A Study in Buddhism, AJ Knox
Contrast and Assimilation Effects In Perceived Physical Attractiveness, Christopher M. Korte
...Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra: An Exploration of Unconventional Self-Representation in Non-Traditional Autobiography, Frances LeSourd
Dendritic Cells: The Effect of PGE2 on Human Dendritic Cell Phenotype and Function & Imaging the Uptake and Subsequent Cell Death in Human Dendritic Cells, Kathleen G. Mitchell
The Creative Integration of Art and Marketing for the Emerging Artist, Heidi Jayne Netzley
Induction, Visualization, and Characterization of Capsule in Knockout Mutants of the Fungal Pathogen, Cryptococcus Neoformans, Luningning A. Ocampo
Orientalism In Vergil's Aeneid, John Ohanesian
The Balikbayan Component: Filipino Americans and Tourism to the Philippines, Trina A. Roldan
Submissions from 2004
Changing Perspectives: Anti-Illusionism In Modernist Art And Literature, Erica Adelstein
Fons Vitae: Exploring Previously Unrecognized Jewish Elements in Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Work, Joshua Alan Bachrach
Becoming "Japanese": Modem Myths and the Creation of the Japanese Nation, Erica Connolly
Effectiveness Outcomes of Outpatient PTSD Treatments: Research and Anaylsis, Christy Cummings
The Isomorphism Theorem of Nöther and its Natural Habitats, Erika Frugoni
Characterization of the Racing Stripe and extra eye phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster and Modifiers of extra eye also modify Racing Stripe in Drosophila melanogaster, Jeanette Lynn Grant
Oh For The Nightingale's Pure Song And A Fate Like Hers: The Cassandra Figure In The Classics And Shakespeare, Sarah E. Hafner
The Oxidation of L- and D-Dopa by Synthetic Mimics of Metal-Ion Containing Enzymes, such as Tyrosinase, Robert G. Iafe
Asian American Panethnicity and Hate Violence, Joy E. Inouye
Decision-Making In Business: Looking Beyond Efficiency, Stephanie M. Interiano
Two Political Roads: Adams, Jefferson, and the Rise of Party Politics in the Early National Era, Michael J. Keane
Methods of Pipelining in Microprocessors, Carolyn R. Krekeler and Scott J. Haluck
The Evasive Subject and the Question of Humanism in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Jennifer R. Long
Tomorrow Is, Nicole McKinney
The Implications of Music in Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Douglas Pingel
Fly Trap, Kellen Prandini
Undecidable, Edward Scott
The Dead, Ben Stein
Getting The Message: Dialogic Consituents in Prosodic Forms And Poetic Meaning and Inverting The Exhausted Symbol A Collection Of Prosodic Poems, Katrina Swenson
Gordian, Lowell Trott
Whose King Is He?: The Sources that Inform Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Theory of Nonviolence, Rebekah Walter
Basque Political Identity, Hilary Yribarren
The Effect of Soil Salinity and Flooding on the Growth of the Invasive Carpobrotus Edulis (L.) N.E. BR: Implications for its Spread into the Ballona Wetlands, Leanne M. Zakrzewski
Submissions from 2003
Survival and the Hope for Recovery in the Aftermath of Violence, Ellen Lauck