The following defenses are open to the ASU community. Attending a defense is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of fellow Barrett students and to observe the process firsthand. If you plan to attend a defense, be sure to inform the student ahead of time. Use the ASU Directory to locate student contact information.
To be included on this calendar, please fill out the Honors Defense and Thesis Approval Form.
| First Name | Last Name | Thesis Title | Date Sort descending | Time | Location | Director | Department |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna | Belding | Right Funding, Wrong Priority: Seeking Practical Alternatives to Increasing Phoenix Police Department Budgets | 05/02/2024 | 12:00 PM | Novus 777 Building, 2nd floor, room 220 | Sanft, Alfred | The Design School |
| Kathryn | Hunter | House of Illnesses: Female Surrealists Leonora Carrington, Unica ZUrn and Kay Sage, and Mental Illness | 05/02/2024 | 3:00PM | Zoom | Mesch, Ulrike | School Of Art |
| Irina | Sands | Animated Short Film | 05/02/2024 | 1:00 PM | Lawson, Shawn | School Of Art | |
| Ribhu | Mukherjee | Design, Prototyping, and Testing of a Controllable Striker Arm for Flintknapping Experiments | 05/02/2024 | 12:00 PM | GWC 416 | Grewal, Anoop Singh | ENGR Academic & Student Affrs |
| Tarah | Schaffer | The Implications of Muscle Sarcoplasm Adaptations on Athletic Performance | 05/02/2024 | 2:00 PM | Rawls, Jeffery | Clinical Partnerships | |
| Meghan | Parker | Harmony in Motion: Building a Culture of Wellness in Dance Through the Redesign of Studio Tradition | 05/03/2024 | 3:00 PM | Design North, ASU Tempe | Murff, Scott | The Design School |
| Brad | Hughes | Form, Function, and Sustainability: Designing an Energy-Efficient, Community Oriented Ice Rink Through the Emulation and Utilization of Life's Natural Functions | 05/03/2024 | TBD | College of Design North | Spellman, Catherine | The Design School |
| Youla Tricia | Onayan | The Hyphenated Identity: Filipino-Americans Growing Up Between Two Cultures | 05/03/2024 | 11:30 AM | Barrett Downtown Mercado Suite/ https://asu.zoom.us/j/5421386265 | O'Flaherty, Katherine | Barrett Honors Downtown |
| Istarlin | Nur | The Exploration of Mental Health Views Within Islam and the Somali Culture | 05/03/2024 | Cohen, Adam | Psychology | ||
| Sean | Maseng | A Road Intervention:How to address poorly designed streets | 05/03/2024 | 3:00 PM | Design North | Spellman, Catherine | The Design School |
| Seamus | Cooney | Do Androids Dream of Making Music? | 05/03/2024 | 1:30 PM | https://asu.zoom.us/j/82665420293 | Pofahl, Geoffrey | WPC Information Systems |
| Jake | Bartels | Building in Harmony: Working with Our Environments for Happy and Healthy Lives | 05/03/2024 | 3:00 PM | Design North | Spellman, Catherine | The Design School |
| Lauren | Mestas | Presence in NSG Mice with Stable MCF7 Breast Cancer After Adaptive Therapy Treatment | 05/03/2024 | 11:00AM | Biodesign A130 https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88925429276?pwd=IfPDL2YyvqmIa1eIWKDYLpvPIIqYRR.1 | Maley, Carlo | Biodesign BSS |
| Ella | Wofford | Ethno-Religious Nationalism and Misinformation Systems: A Comparative Analysis of the Balkans and Russia in the Context of the Ukrainian and Yugoslav Wars and Identity | 05/03/2024 | 1:00 | https://asu.zoom.us/j/85993490770 | Langille, Timothy | SHPRS Religious Studies Facult |
| Aja | Shaw | Beyond Blueprints: Bridging Design and Business Landscapes through the Creation of 'Emusement' | 05/03/2024 | 3:00 PM | Design North | Murff, Scott | The Design School |
| Katrina | Ager | The InceptionTime Model for Measuring Neurotransmitters in the Human Brain | 05/03/2024 | 2:00PM | PSY275 | McClure, Samuel | Psychology |
| Rianne | Tamayo | The Hyphenated Identity: Filipino-Americans Growing UP Between Two Cultures | 05/03/2024 | 11:30 AM | Barrett Downtown Mercado Suite/ https://asu.zoom.us/j/5421386265 | O'Flaherty, Katherine | Barrett Honors Downtown |
| Grace | Copperthite | Yoga and Meditation as Stress Management in Police Academy Training | 05/03/2024 | 2:00 PM | Zoom Link- https://asu.zoom.us/j/3437557966 | DeCarolis, Claudine | School of Criminology & Crim J |
| Isabella | Ingrao | Student Athlete Cookbook | 05/06/2024 | 3:00 PM | https://asu.zoom.us/j/4094583167?omn=85053938698 | Reifurth, Katherine | WPC Marketing |
| Shivani | Bahl | Social Determinants of Drug Usage in Rural and Urban Populations | 05/08/2024 | 9 AM | https://asu.zoom.us/j/89535253196 | Smith, Lisa | College of Health Solutions MS |
| Zoe | Bates | How I Understand Grief as an Aspiring Mortician | 05/13/2024 | 2:00 PM | https://asu.zoom.us/j/7282149346 | Robillard, Alyssa | Edson Research Faculty & Staff |
| Jade | Pastor | Menopause and ovarian hormone induced changes on GABAergic and cholinergic circuitry in brain areas vital to cognition: Revealing the mystery mechanism | 05/14/2024 | 10:00AM | Library on the second floor of Psychology building (PSY230) | Bimonte-Nelson, Heather | Psychology |
| Kylie | Wetnight | What are the mechanisms to close gaps in capacity-building within emerging spacefaring ecosystems and how do commercially led partnerships help advance this goal? | 05/24/2024 | 10:00 AM | TBD - In-Person in Juniper 101 or 201 (I'm waiting to get room confirmation) | Rousset, Jessica | Interplanetary Initiative |
| Willow | Poorten | Shaping Justice: Female Supreme Court Justices and Reproductive Rights in the United States | 06/19/2024 | 4:00 PM | Zoom Link TBD | Dombrowski, Rosemarie | Sch Applied Sci & Arts/D |
| Aiselyn | Anaya-Hall | The Effects of Uncoordinated European Union Crisis Management on European Union Disintegration and the Rise of Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe | 06/28/2024 | 9:00 AM | Meyerrose, Anna | School of Politics & Global St |