Report for the project, Exploratory User Research for CoRSAL, which was an exploratory ethnographic study to generate a foundational understanding of how different user groups might use a planned language archive for South Asian languages. Their research project was to be used by the CoRSAL team to help plan the design of CoRSAL’s infrastructure, and laid the groundwork for further studies that will take a deeper look at issues surrounding the design and use of the planned language archive.

Paper discusses the effects of gentrification on communities by focusing on Dallas Freedman’s Town/North Dallas—established by freed slaves in the 1860’s—and the Saint Paul United Methodist Church congregation.

Undergraduate thesis studying anxiety and substance use disorders (SUD) by examining the prevalence of anxiety-SUD comorbidity in an outpatient psychology training clinic and assessing how it affects psychotherapy outcomes. Results revealed that anxiety and SUD is more highly comorbid compared to when anxiety is paired with another disorder and the presence of a comorbid SUD was associated with worse therapy outcomes at the beginning and end of therapy. However, the comorbid SUD did not affect the rate of recovery in patients. Both groups benefited equally from therapy.

Paper explores questions about the efficacy of democracy in America.

Paper explores theories about the possible biological causes of homosexuality in people.

Paper explores the impact that the production and/or transit of drugs have on the durability of peace following civil war.

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.

This paper explores the relationship between the global drug trade and the corruption of government officials.

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationship between the global drug trade and the corruption of government officials. Included is a history of international drug prohibition, cases of corruption by country, United States policies implemented to prevent corruption, and an analysis of the potential for success in curtailing drug related corruption in the U. S.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on anger within a human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV+) population in relation to stigma and anxiety.

Keynote address by the Honors College Dean Gloria Cox, encouraging university students to value their opportunities and continue in the pursuit of their goals.

Paper explores the relationship between purpose of life, autonomy, and depression among college students.

Paper analyzes the commentary on the use of history in art in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii.

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.

Paper seeks to rectify the inaccuracies in previous historians’ analyses of Greek women by investigating the social, political, and economic power held by various women within the Greek world, as demonstrated in art, religion, and literature.

Paper discusses the content and implications of three previously uncollected letters written by minister William Ellery Channing, a progressive nineteenth century thinker.

This study examines the Matthew Effect in children's reading ability development through an analysis of reading progress measured in a fifth grade classroom using the Scholastic Reading Counts! program.

Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the influence and predictive qualities of homonegative attitudes on internalized homophobia among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students, and the moderating effects of self esteem on these variables.