The DePaul University Honors Program is proud to present the twelfth annual Honors Research Conference. Thank you for sharing in our celebration of Honors undergraduate research.
2025 Honors Senior Thesis Abstracts
Honors students have the option to fulfill their Honors Capstone requirement through a thesis project of their own design, mentored by two faculty members. The following students will present their Honors Senior Thesis at the 2025 conference.
Hannah Aman – Safe Space on Set
Isabella Ali – Framing the Coup: Analyzing Economic Interests in U.S., French, and West African Media Coverage of the Coup Belt
Mia Alvarez – Connecting Parental Warmth, Family Physical Activity, and Stress Biomarkers to Improved Impulsivity Control in Adolescents
Hannah Aman – Safe Space on Set
Aimun Anwer – Generative AI and its Future Impact on University Academia
Jessica Bergman – How U.S. Court Systems Have Dismantled Bodily Autonomy for Women and What To Do About It
Talia Bianchi – A Directory for Midwives: Nicholas Culpeper, Male Midwives and the Democratization of Medicine in Seventeenth Century England
Lydia Bonjernoor – The Impact of Course Resources on Meaningful Learning in an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Course
Lindsay Brisley – Exploring the Gap Between Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Scoping Review of the Published Literature in Psychology
Madeline Carrier – From Democratization to Decline: A Comparative Analysis of Hungary and Poland Jacob Casto Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and the Digital Age
TJ Chabot – The Ship of Theseus: The Art of Creating a Cover Album and the Exploration of Funk Music
Madeline Curless – Navigating the Digital Playground: Understanding the Impact of Evolving Children’s Media and the Future of Content Regulation
Corissa Draper – Bilingualism and Hemispheric Language Processing in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Thomas Dziwisz – Continuity of Covenant: How Covenant Theology Influenced Social Contract Theory and Later Ideas of Constitutionalism
Maya Edgu-Fry – Examination of Human Inflammatory Caspase Kinetics Through Computational Methods
Reese Elledge – Voices In Translation: Adapting the Quick Aphasia Battery for Italian Speakers
Christina Faller – Gender and the Professional Pipeline for Clarinetists
Anna Finerty – Woven Identities in Renaissance Venice: Becoming Veronica Franco and Isabella Andreini through Letter Writing, Fashion, and Portraiture
Swapna George – Breaking Barriers: Examining Minority Representation and Retention in Accounting
Ella Grace – Psyche of a Jazzwoman: Gendered Barriers to Jazz Participation
Zachary Grasee – A Puppet Odyssey, How Theatrical Objects Create Emotional and Political Resonance
Anton Hakopian – Visual Media as Technology to Discipline
Isadora Halsband – The Woman in Each of Us
Alexa Huerta – The Limits of Legal Symbolism: Decoloniality, Economic Policy, and the Future of Children’s Rights
Zayn Ibrahim – Perceptions and Impacts of Soil Health on Local Chicago Urban Farms and Community Gardens
Myles Igunbor – When the Mind Avoids: Exploring the Relationship between Involuntary Disengagement and Anxiety Levels among Urban Adolescents
Leena Jere – Fáilte go hÉirinn: Examining the Efficacy of Irish Language Revitalization Policy in the Republic of Ireland
Ethan Jones – Social Support, Belonging, and Self-Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Mentors
Andrea Juarez Hernandez – Americana Extranjera (Foreign American): Mexican American Identity in Film
Laszlo Katona – Hannah Arendt and The Possibility of Political Forgiveness
Delaney Kaufman – Is Digital Activism Enough? An Analysis of Women’s Social Movement Organizing Online
Sarah Launer – Recovery Outcomes in Oxford House Residents with and without Psychiatric Disorders
Maizy Mennuti – Refractions of Identity: Honesty in Fictionalized Lesbian Life-Writing
Isabella Monsalud – The Importance of Communication in Neonatal-Perinatal End-of-Life Care
Grace Raymond – Selling the World: World Literature in Context
Olivia Riley – Funding Priorities and Health Disparities: Reimagining the WHO in an Era of Private Foundation Dominance
Anna Roberts – De Facto State Diplomacy: Taiwan’s Diplomatic Status and Action
Lauren Sheperd – Journalism During Crisis: An Exploration of Historical and Modern Crisis Reporting
Madelyn Strasma – Adapting “As You Like It”: A New-Age Teen Rom-Com Film to Tackle Queer Identity
Kiernan Sullivan – REM: Subconscious Dreaming and the Art of Filmmaking
Jo Trasowech – Mapping Digital Feminist Geographies in South Korea: Women’s Activism — From Repression to Resistance
Grant VanderKlipp – Music as a Mechanism for Speech Recovery Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Maddie Voelkel – “Southern Likeness:” What Southern Symbolism Can Tell Us About Our Politics
Payton Volk – Rewiring Recovery: The Potential of Ketamine in Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
Joseph Walsdorf – If We Survive, Let’s Laugh At Them: How Satire Speaks Truth to Power and Builds Community
Ella Yates – Her Words, Her Power: How Personal Writing Empowers Women
The above students will present their theses in the below panels: