Theses from 2025
A Comparative Analysis of Financial Ratios in Healthcare Sectors, Lucille Barnett
Life in Dance: Relationship to Self and Dance Environment, Emily Barz
The Bluey Effect: Using the Children’s Cartoon to Connect Social-Emotional Learning and Core Content in the Classroom, Marra Becker
The Podcast Election: How Podcasts Helped Decide the United States Presidential Election of 2024 in an Unprecedented Way, Logan T. Boyd
Attitudes on Solitary Confinement, Emily Dewey
Attorney Perceptions of Plea-Bargaining, Sarah K. Edelen
Don’t Cut the Cameras: How Media Coverage Has Impacted the Growth of Women’s Professional Sports in the United States, Lauren Ehrman
A Cross-Sectional Analysis: Employment and Its Impact on Physical Activity, Academic Performance, and Quality of Life Among Bellarmine University Students, Orlando Exposito Nuñez
Science Across the Elementary Curriculum, Cora E. Fields
The Wild Dark or, La oscuridad salvaje: Illuminating Identity Through Failure, Worley B. Gierhart
Navigating Circuit Splits: Analyzing Career Offender Enhancements in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines through Canons of Construction, Riley M. Goff
Community Engagement for the Children's Theatre, Lindsey R. Guilford
Cultivating Community: A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Community Literacy Practices in the Secondary ELA Classroom, Anna Heilers
Educating Patient Populations on the Use of SEM Scanner Technology, Mia Hein
The Effects of Exposure to Ultraviolet Light on the Activity of Catalase in Internal and External Tissues of the Sea Urchin Lytechinus variegatus, Ellerie C. Heinzmann
Game Changers: The Impact of Female Representation in Sports Media on Girls' Youth Sport Participation, Kaci L. Huff
Circles Are So Euclidean: Exploring Convex Bodies, Norms, Symmetries, and Isometries via the Minkowski Functional, Fanni Kertesz
The Castle is Still Here, and Yes, It's Still Scary: Reconstructing the Gothic Through Contemporary Short Story, Alyssa Kilroy
After The Play: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction Short Stories on the Mental Health and Pressures Surrounding College Athletes, Megan E. Konermann
Profiting on The Kentucky Derby, Bailey Korfhage
Optimizing the Well-Being of Residents Diagnosed with Dementia: An Activities Calendar and Guide for Cognitive and Physical Engagement, Kaylex L. Monteagudo Parra
An Exploration of Behavioral Sex Differences Due to a Parkinsonian Gene, pdr-1, in C. elegans., Adriana Mulet Miranda, Mary B. Kroetz, and Paul J. Kiser
Two Neighbors Walk into a Ballot Box A Soon-to-be Lawyer’s Second Take on Jesus and 21st Century Politics, Trey Murphy
Aristotle and Mencius, Comparisons of the Good Life, Cormac I. O'Brien
From Adversarial Attacks to Robust Classifiers - A Study in Social Media Spam Detection - Black Box & White Box, Jonathan Jose Penaloza Rumie
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Planning Using Hybrid D* Lite with PPO and TD3: Experimental Design and Performance Analysis, Matthew J. Rice
Simplifying 3D Printing Using Natural Language Processing, Jared E. Rosenberger
What About the Buyers? Deriving Factors of Demand in the U.S. Black Market, Eric S. Schneider
A Practical Guide for Navigating the PTE Tax Landscape, Caitlin Sizemore
An In-Depth Analysis of the Bellarmine University Student Athlete Experience, Mattingly E. Spalding
Valuing Small Business: Applying WACC to IPO Data, Joshua Tyler Stevenson
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Mental and Physical Health among the Hispanic Immigrant Population, Cheyla Tabares Cuesta
The role and expression of pros-1 in the C. elegans gonad, Brandon W. Thomas, Mary B. Kroetz, and Roberta Challener
Gonadal absence of ceh-22: Degradation of CEH-22 in the gonads of Caenorhabditis elegans, Andreya C. White
Cyber and Tech-Based Partner Stalking in Jefferson County, Norah Wulkopf
Theses from 2024
Kingdom Street : An Adventure in Applied Theatre, Community Engagment, and Life, Julien Allen
Written in Blood: The Cultural Work of Family, Sexuality, and Race in Adaptations of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Ariana Alvarado
Geometries Gon Wild, Naat Ambrosino
Investigation of the Anticancer Activity of phenylbismuthbis(4-carboxychalcone), Megan Baker
Synthesis of Trisubstituted Bismuth Complexes for Future Research, Cassidy Belk
Gonadal Absence of pig-1: Exploration of pig-1 in the Gonad of Caenorhabditis elegans, Winston S. Bennah
"And No Birds Sing": The Environmental Ethics of Carson, Keats, Sagan, and Oliver, Savannah Bloom
An exploration of the effectiveness of Xanthorrhiza simplicissima and its secondary alkaloids as antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus with the use of Reserpine, Donald Bothe and Savita Chaurasia
The Effect of Agrivoltaics on Irrigation Water Consumption in Central California, London Camba
Effects of Postural Position, EEG Asymmetry, and Temperamental Style on Cognitive Task Performance, Taylor Cops and Christy D. Wolfe
Small Moments: Anthropological Poetry, Lee Davis
RNAi “Flexon” Approach to Gonad Gene Knockdown in C. elegans, Sofia Suzanne Douglas
Investigating the Antibacterial Properties of Capsaicin in Synergy with Antibiotics Against A. baumannii, Jack Guffey
The 15th Theatre: A Kentucky State Theatre Proposal, Holly N. Kissel
Income Taxation of Corporations in the United States, Thomas Koshewa
Autism and Experiences in Relationships: A Moderated Mediation Analysis Exploring Different Pathways for Gender and Sexuality, Evah-Marie Lemma
Despertando del Sueño Americano: U.S. Policies Influencing Cartel Profitability from Undocumented Border Crossing, Gisela Martinez Acosta
Hi My Name Is: A Film on the Sources and Consequences of Labeling the Black Identity in America, Hannah Mitchell
Why Do They Do It?: Exploring the Phenomena of Familicide and Anomie Through a Case Study of the Coleman Family Murders, Sydney Packard
Schism, Synodality, and Communion in the Contemporary American Catholic Church, Nicola Peck
Living with Parkinson’s During COVID-19: A Survey of Parkinson’s Patients During COVID-19, Sia Shaila Pilgaonkar
Breathing Inequity: A Mixed Method Analysis of Rubbertown's Air Quality Problem, Mikayla Pitmon
The Perfect Model: Exploring Gender Differences Within Commercial Graphic Design Preferences, Adeline Roberts
Effects of UV filter pollutants on the growth of cucurbits and possible implications for humans, Leia Staples
A Comparison of the Prevalence of Salmonella, Specifically S. Enteritidis, in Captive Born Versus Wild Caught Reptiles, Jessica Thomas and Carrie M. Doyle
A Developmental Exploration of the Role of Catp-6 gene in Model Organism C. elegans relating to Parkinson’s Disease, Kaiser Kate Weafer
What's In a Name? Plant Naming as Cultural Artifact and Story in the Midwestern United States, Sophie Wesseler
Theses from 2023
Communicating Health: Misinformation and Mistrust in the Age of Coronavirus, Chris Anstead
Understanding the expression and role of pros-1 in the male gonad of C. elegans, Jack Bozik
An Analysis of Burnout and Wellness of Healthcare Workers Based on Patient Population and Healthcare Worker Location, Spencer Brandenburg
The Pressure to 'Do More with Less': Exploring Donor Misconceptions about Nonprofit Financial Health and Performance, Emily Dalton
Black Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates and Food Apartheid in Louisville, Maame Dei
The Mental Health Epidemic in Veterinary Medicine: An Analysis of Burnout in the Veterinary Field, Hannah Eckstein
A Potential Role of GSK-3beta in the Development of Pain Post-Spinal Cord Injury, Emily Ernst
The Impact Instagram Has on Women: Mentally, Physically, and Academically, Annie Gronotte
The Power of the Virtual Platform: A Look into Fandom Interactions via Twitter (X), Samantha Hacker
A Pastor's Fine Art Collection: From Down-to-Earth to World-Renowned, Lily Hampton
Cultural Concepts of Distress and Clinical Intake Processes for Chinese and Chinese American Populations in the United States, Jasmina Harambasic
How to Succeed in Business: An Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ownership, Alexandria Henderson
“You taught us how to change the world”: A Critical Autoethnography Reimagining the Future of Education, Isabella Howard
The Traditional, Scriptural “Mary's” Characterization, Olivia Johnson
Promoting Engagement Through Socioscientific Inquiry at the Middle School Level, Kaitlyn Kalehuawehe
A Community U-Knighted: Developing a Community Engagement Program for Student-Athletes, Jensen Kitrel
How Does Social Media Consumption Relate to a College Student's Mental Health and Body Image, Madyson Lira
Storytelling through Impressionist Music and American Sign Language: The Engulfed Cathedral, Elise Major
The Bellarmine Bee Bed: Organizing a Native Plant Garden Using Feedback from the Local Community, Kate Moran
Biodiversity in Eastern Kentucky: Effects of Habitat Change, Surface Top Mining, and Current Reclamation Practices, Sydney Pardieu
Effects of Guided Journaling on Nursing Clinical Judgment During an Externship, Jaclyn Parrill
A Constant Presence of Absence: The Construction of (In)visibility and Immigrant Deaths in the Borderlands, Haley Planicka
A Remembrance Project: The Lynching of Brack Kinley and Luther Durrett, Addison Rogers
“It Takes a Village”: The Implications for Gender Roles on Appalachian Family Dynamics, Taryn Jayde Rollins
Role of GPER in Cadmium-Induced Phosphorylation of ERK1/2 in Ovarian Adenocarcinoma, Laura Sackie
National Residency Matching Program: Looking at the Data through Linear Regressions, Jacklyn Tellez
Reverse Genetics: Downregulating chk-1 and fasn-1 in the Gonads of C. elegans, Sam Thompson
Gonads without glp-1: Silencing glp-1 in the Male Somatic Gonad in Caenorhabditis elegans, Matthew Titus
Examining the Accuracy of Two Commercially Available Global Positioning System Enabled Watches in Two Trail Conditions, Allison Tripure
Pro-life vs. Pro-choice: eye-to-eye, Kristen Via
Confessions of Crooks: An Analysis of How Art Influences Society's View on Antiheroes and Redemption Through an Original Short Story Collection, Connor Thomas Wilkerson
Freestyle: A Guide to Making Swimming Nutrition Simple, Megan Wills
Using CRISPR to Genetically Engineer Two Genes Involved in Gonadogenesis in the Model Organism C. elegans, Peyton Young
The Sharp Bounds of a Quasi-Isometry of P-adic Numbers in a Subset Real Plane, Kathleen Zopff
Theses from 2022
"We're Like Ghosts, but We Have to Be." Invisibility & Liminality Among Kentuckiana's Undocumented Population, Sophie Amaya