A year ago, the Honors Program at UT was given permission to pilot Honors Theses. Fourteen students were selected to complete an Honors Thesis in this inaugural wave. The first few of those students have nearly completed their theses. The soon to be graduates presented their research to Honors students over lunches this week. The eight students who presented were: Alia Simon (Psychology), Jessica Elson (Biology), Ryan Tharp (Biology), Abigail Nelson (Literature), Katherine Serba (Biology), Julia Ingram (Political Science), Jonathon Kulhanek (Biology), and Sherrea Brown (Biochemistry).
Sherrea Brown (Biochemistry): Tissue Specific Compensatory Regulation of Gene Expression Associated with Copy Number Variants in Danio Rerio 
Jonathon Kulhanek (Biology): The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in the Evolution of Multicellularity 
Julia Ingram (Political Science): Socioeconomic Status and Local Governance in Burkina Faso 
Julia Ingram (Political Science): Socioeconomic Status and Local Governance in Burkina Faso 
Katherine Serba (Biology): The Visual Pigments of Filter Feeding Elasmobranchs and Their Role in Foraging Ecology 
Abigail Nelson (Literature): Fake News and the Rhetoric of Disease in Early America 
Ryan Tharp (Biology): Stomach Content Analysis of Introduced Mayan Cichlids (Cichlasoma Urophthalmus) in the Tampa Bay Watershed 
Jessica Elson (Biology): An Analysis of Spatial Distribution of an Isolated Bahamian Population of the Lined Seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, via Nearest Neighbor, Hot Spot, and Buffering Assessments 
Alia Simon (Psychology): Mindful Based Copying Mechanisms in Relation to Positive Psychology