Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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The Arts and Sciences Honors Program provides a community for highly motivated and academically prepared undergraduate students and offers opportunities for intellectual engagement through honors courses, academic-inspired events, and honors thesis research and creative work.

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1. The Role of Interpeduncular Nucleus Somatostatin Neurons in Alcohol Drinking in Mice

Creator:: Kolb, Miranda
Academic Affiliation:: College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, and Psychology and Neuroscience
Subject:: Mice, Neuroscience, Alcohol, Somatostain, Binge drinking, Interpeduncular nucleus, and IPN
Abstract:: Binge drinking (BD) induces behavioral disturbances that accelerate the progression of alcohol use disorders (AUD). Despite the high prevalence of BD and AUD, the neural circuits that regulate BD behavior are not yet fully understood. In this project, we are investigating the role of the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN) in regulating...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

2. How does our visual mind retain information through our ears? A study of suprasegmental features, aphantasia, and comprehension

Creator:: Silveira, Vanessa
Academic Affiliation:: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS)
Subject:: playback speed, visualization, audiobook, memory, psychoacoustics, comprehension, and Aphantasia
Abstract:: The increasing use of accelerated playback speeds in audiobooks raises important questions about how temporal compression affects speech comprehension. Although faster playback enhances convenience and efficiency, prior research indicates that comprehension declines as speech rate increases. In spoken language, suprasegmental features (SSFs), including pitch, intonation, stress, rhythm, and pausing, are...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

3. Climate Change and Disease-Vectors: The Range Expansion of A. americanum

Creator:: King, Kelly
Academic Affiliation:: Environmental Studies
Subject:: Environmental Studies
Abstract:: Climate change has been observed to be affecting the patterns of infectious diseases around the world (Tokarevich et al, 2011; Scharlemann et al. 2008). One of the primary climate-associated mechanisms of change for disease vectors is the expansion or contraction of their geographical ranges. The goal of this thesis was...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

4. CU Boulder Students' Sense of Community on Social Media

Creator:: Herpers, Lillian
Academic Affiliation:: Sociology
Subject:: Community, Activism, Pandemic, Social media, Social media movements, Professional Networking, Social movements, and Sociology
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine college students’ sense of community on social media. I collected data by surveying 74 respondents who are at least 18 years old and are currently enrolled as students (undergraduate or graduate) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The survey questions assess the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

5. Demographic and Regional Differences in Elasticity of Meat Consumption in the United States

Creator:: Backsen, Mara
Academic Affiliation:: Economics
Abstract:: In light of growing environmental concerns related to meat production, reducing meat consumptionin the United States, a country with high consumption, is crucial for sustainability. For effectivepolicy design aimed at reducing meat consumption in the United States, it is important to under-stand how prices affect consumer demand, known as the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

6. Colonialism, Health and Healthcare Quality

Creator:: Justus, Aliana
Academic Affiliation:: Political Science
Subject:: Resource Exploitation, Healthcare, Colonialism, Regime Type, Ethnic Fragmentation, and Health
Abstract:: Colonialism laid the foundation for countries to build on after they became independent. It created longstanding effects that reverberate throughout the globe in current day. Specifically, regarding the quality of health and healthcare for the population in these former colonies. The current understanding of this relationship is not clear, with...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

7. A Revolutionary Regression: The Political Self-Defeat of Women in Paris, 1789-1793

Creator:: Sutter, Carissa
Academic Affiliation:: History
Subject:: History
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

8. The effects of inescapable stress on leukocyte subpopulations in male rats previously treated with Mycobacterium vaccae NCTC 11659

Creator:: Lee, Kyo AK
Academic Affiliation:: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology (MCDB) and Psychology and Neuroscience
Subject:: Inescapable shock, Flow cytometry, Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, Immunophenotyping, Inflammation, and Monocytes
Abstract:: Inappropriate inflammation has been linked to stress-related psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Inflammation is associated with increased proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β), interleukin 23 (IL-23), and interleukin 6 (IL-6). Increasing evidence suggests that the microbiome, particularly a category of microorganisms referred...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

9. The Decadent Scent: Patrick Süskind's Perfume as a Critique of Enlightenment Science

Creator:: Maestas, Maggie
Academic Affiliation:: English
Subject:: Enlightenment Science, Decadence, and Postmodernism
Abstract:: When the purpose of scientific inquiry blurs into a pure objective investigation of nature’s boundaries, the results overshadow ethical concerns. The Enlightenment’s fundamental basis of ceaseless campaigns for scientific achievement, excellence, and understanding evolved in later years, breaching ethical codes of humanity—namely, in the Nazi Regime. The lasting effects of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis

10. Playing for Change: Football and Community Building in East Africa

Creator:: Bader, Lauren
Academic Affiliation:: Honors Program
Subject:: International Affairs
Abstract:: Football exists everywhere in Africa. It is played formally by professionals and members of football leagues, and it is played on the Eastern beaches by barefoot children who made their own ball out of plastic bags. Given the popularity of the sport, there is potential to use it to meet...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Honors Thesis