2015
MODEL THESES
Carson Ashbaugh, Plan II Honors & Business Honors; Contextualizing the Twenty-First Centry Oil Boom in the Lone Star State
Kian Azimpoor, Plan II Honors; Racial and Ethnic Minority Healthcare Disparities in the U.S. Healthcare System: An Ethical and Pragmatic Analysis
Michael Baumgartner, Plan II Honors & Biology; Blind Men and a Neuron: Problems and Perspectives in Neuroscience Research
William Butcher, Plan II Honors & Business Administration; Microfinance Control Fraud in Latin America and Elsewhere
Dalton Dinderman, Plan II Honors & Mechanical Engineering; Perspectives on 3D Printing: A Close Examination of Legal, Ethical, and Social Activity
Katherine Floyd, Plan II Honors & Latin American Studies; Nuancing a Narrative: An In-depth Look at Preclassic Olmec-Style Crouching Figures
Sharon Hoefer, Plan II Honors & Social Work; Worth the Wait? The Consequence of Abstinence-Only Sex Education for Texas Students
Janie Holstine, Plan II Honors & Finance; Oil, Gas, and Water: Strategies to Conserve Water in Texas' Drilling Industry
Nicole Kruijs, Plan II Honors & Public Health; Financing Health Care for Terminally Ill Patients: A Study of Issues with Health Insurance in the U.S. and Lessons from Other Countries
Emily Mixon, Plan II Honors & Environmental Science; A Modis Based Examination of Annual Burned Area and Photosynthetic Response to Seasonal Fire in Southern Africa's Dry Sub Humid Ecosystem
Ogechi Onyeka, Plan II Honors & Psychology; The Mask of Tradition: An Examination of the Stigmatization of Mental Illness in Southeastern Nigeria
Shyam Popat, Plan II Honors; Mental Illness, Football Culture, and the League of Denial: The Current and Future State of American Football
Sadia Quddus, Plan II Honors & Architectural Studies; The Architecture of Power: An Analysis of Gender, Space, Imperialism, and Power in the London Central Mosque and Grande Mosque de Paris
Blair Robbins, Plan II Honors; Volunteer Tourism: Giving Back in the Global Era
Rachel Solomon, Plan II Honors & Marketing; Austin, TX: The Heart of Music, Technology, and… Fashion? A Comparative Analysis with the New York City and Los Angeles Fashion Industries
UNIVERSITY CO-OP GEORGE H. MITCHELL STUDENT AWARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Ciaran Dean-Jones, Plan II Honors, History & Classics; Woe Unto the World Because of Offences: The Wartime Theology of Abraham Lincoln - $3,000 prize
Thales Smith, Plan II Honors & Music Performance; From the Bones of Wolves: Guitar Music from the Southwest United States - $3,000 prize
LOIS BAIRD TRICE PRIZE FOR CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP IN A THESIS
Edgar Walters, Plan II Honors; Dry Spell: Will Wichita Falls, Texas, Survive Its Worst Drought in History?
ALBERT PRIZE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE
Randall Olmsted, Plan II Honors; Unban the Blood: Gay Men, Blood Donation, and an Outdated Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS
SCHUSTERMAN CENTER HONORS THESIS AWARD - Henry Weiss Award for Achievement in Jewish Studies
Tori Maidenberg, Plan II Honors & Middle Eastern Studies; An Antidote to Death: The Landscape of Israeli Holocaust Memorial Culture through the Prism of Art & Architecture
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES
Ciaran Dean-Jones, Plan II Honors, History & Classics
Sai Gourisankar, Plan II Honors & Chemical Engineering Honors
Mark Jbeily, Plan II Honors
Honorable Mention
Marlee Burns, Plan II Honors. International Relations & Middle Eastern Studies
Katherine Floyd, Plan II Honors & Latin American Studies
PLAN II HONORS DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES
Dudley Baker, Plan II Honors
Chantelle Barretto, Plan II Honors & International Relations
Kenneth Bolster, Plan II Honors & Chemistry
Marigold Hudock, Plan II Honors & English Honors
Benjamin Johnson, Plan II Honors & Economics
Nicole Kruijs, Plan II Honors & Public Health
Emily Mixon, Plan II Honors & Environmental Science
Logan Nickell, Plan II Honors & Physics
Sara Saastamoinen, Plan II Honors & Management
Edgar Walters, Plan II Honors
PLAN II HONORS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
Alexander Fischer, Plan II Honors, Philosophy & Rhetoric and Writing
