PLAN II MODEL THESES

Neil Byers, Plan II Honors, History Honors & German; The “Big E” and the “Mighty T”: Ship Memorials in American War Memory, 1945-1958

Austin Dickerson, Plan II Honors; The Rural Healthcare Access Dilemma: A Case Study of Duval County, Texas

Jori Epstein, Plan II Honors & Journalism; Uncovering the Street Newspaper Movement: Faces and Strategies of a Hidden Journalism

Rachel Huynh, Plan II Honors & Business Honors; Empowering Impoverished, Rural Women: An Exploratory Study of Social Enterprise

Lindsey Limbaugh, Plan II Honors; A Bitter Pill for the Catholic Church: Analyzing Italian Journalists’ Response to Humanae Vitae

Haley Lockwood, Plan II Honors & Biology; The Smart Toilet: Economic Feasibility, Social Valuation, and Contextual Applicability of a Technological Enabler to Disrupt the U.S. Healthcare System

Maclean Martin, Plan II Honors & Finance; Three-Tiers for Texas Beers: An Analysis of Texas Distribution Legislation’s Impact on the Craft Beer Industry

Clemmie Pierce, Plan II Honors & Corporate Communication Studies; Evaluating Educational Disparities in Developing Nations: A Case Study of Primary Education in Uganda

Jordan Rudner, Plan II Honors & History; Reporting the Court: Newspaper Coverage of Landmark Supreme Court Cases in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Duncan Smart, Plan II Honors & Biochemistry; The Migration of the Blues to Britain and Back Again: A Cultural Account of a Musical Exchange

Paul Alfonso Soto, Plan II Honors & English; Fingernails

Meredith Stark, Plan II Honors & Architectural Engineering; Effects of Dormitory Architecture on Resident Behavior and Community Development at the University of Texas at Austin

Ashley Stewart, Plan II Honors & Biology; Genome-Wide Association and Depression: The Search for Sad Genes (2015)

Zachary Stone, Plan II Honors, Economics, History, Government, & English; Constitutional Approaches to Texas Education Finance Litigation

Amy Zhang, Plan II Honors & Sociology; Sexual Violence and College Masculinities within the U.S. Higher Education System, with an Emphasis on the University of Texas at Austin

LOIS BAIRD TRICE PRIZE FOR CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP IN A THESIS

Connor Healy, Plan II Honors, History, and African & African Diaspora Studies; “Kill the Boer” : Anti-Blackness and the (Im)possibility of White Revolutionary Praxis

Connor Hughes, Plan II Honors & Biochemistry; Vaccination Campaign on a College Campus: HPV Case Study

DR. HAROLD M. ALBERT THESIS PRIZE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE

Neal K. Talukdar, Plan II Honors & Biology; Evolution of Shock Trauma: An Analysis of Critical Care Medicine in Combat from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror

UNIVERSITY CO-OP GEORGE H. MITCHELL AWARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Nell McKeown, Plan II Honors & English Honors; “And I am Ready to Put Armor On”: The Women of Shakespeare’s Histories in Performance - $10,000

Lillian Leone, Plan II Honors & Italian; The Contemporary Purposes of the Past: Evaluating the Use of Cultural Heritage as a “New Paradigm” for Socio-Economic Development - $3,000

Mohnish Gandhi, Plan II Honors, Business Honors & Finance; What’s the Interest in Payday Regulation: A Qualitative Analysis of the State of Payday Lending in the United States - $2,000

Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, Plan II Honors, International Relations & Global Studies, & Geography; Beyond Terroir: The Political Ecology of the South African Wine Industry - $2,000