College Honors Program
The College Honors Program brings together academically accomplished and highly motivated students to pursue multidisciplinary studies in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This highly selective and challenging program is composed of sophomores, juniors, and seniors from any major, and incorporates special seminars, an honors colloquium and a thesis.
The College Honors Program, established in 1962, is one of the oldest programs providing distinctive educational opportunities at Holy Cross culminating in the senior honors thesis, and the intellectual excitement of a multidisciplinary classroom, where students from all majors address significant matters with faculty who are experts in integrative teaching and scholarship.
Theses from 1982
Effects of Retinoic Acid on Communication Between Cultured Mammalian Cells, Elizabeth M. Keane
Stolypin and Russia's Attempt at a Peaceful Revolution, Daniel J. Kelly
The Influence of Journalsim, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Cezanne's Painting on Ernest Hemingway's Development as Artist and Author During His Years in Paris, Patricia A. Lynn
The Supreme Court and Women's Rights: Equal Protection of the Laws?, Andrew G. McBride
Effect of a Tumor Promoter on Cell-Cell Communication and Potassium Content of Human Fibroblast and Mouse 3T3 Cells, Paul L. Medrek
Black Reconstruction Legislators on the Question of Land, Michael Wilson Reed
Divergent Evolution in the Forelimb Musculature of Two Species of Molossid Bats, Neoplatymops mattogrossensis and Molossus molossus, Daniel G. Reilly
Theses from 1980
Birth, Death and Love: The Journey of Galway Kinnell in The Book of Nightmares, Mark X. Cronin
The Magic in the Web: Sacred and Secular in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Margaret A. Dempsey
Stoic Theory and Practice in Seneca's Prose Works, Timothy W. Diggins
Septal Destruction In Day-Old Rats And Its Effects on General Activity, Kenneth J. Edwards
Charity as the Subject of The Faerie Queene, Book I, Bill Kerwin
Toward a Theology of the Holy Spirit: A Statement of Evidence and an Attempt at a Model, Bruce Thomas Morrill
Schizophrenia and Primary Process Thought, Beth Murphy
The Synthesis of 4-(1-Napthylmethyl)-benzophenone and the Use of this Compound as a Model for Charge-transfer Exciplex Formation, Francis Charles Nichols
Development of an Orthoester Latent Activating Agent for Peptide Synthesis, John M. Phelan
Creative Writing: Poetry, Jaime Welch
Theses from 1979
El gaucho pampásico y el gaucho literario: El papel de cada uno en la historia de la Argentina, Debra Collins
Theses from 1905
Steroid receptors in the ovarian follicles of the turtle, Chrysemys picta, Terry Bushe