Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University proudly showcases the work of undergraduate honors students by sharing this collection exclusively with the ASU community.
Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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- Creators: Department of Marketing
- Creators: O'Flaherty, Katherine
We spent the past two semesters interviewing, surveying, and researching the fitness industry to design an fitness app that would be popular and helpful among our target market. We created an app that businesses will encourage their employees to download under the statistically-backed premise that active individuals display higher levels of cognitive function and lower health care rates on average than their sedentary counterparts. While designing the app we conducted both primary and secondary market research on which features and elements of the app would be most desired.
Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) have been consumed by athletes in organized sport for as long as the games have been around. Regulation of PEDs began at the turn of this century for many sports, but specific rules vary for each organized body. The inconsistency in regulations has resulted in different length suspensions, even for the same doping offense. What follows is an analysis of the current PED suspensions among the three major sports in the U.S., the MLB, NBA, and NFL, and all other amateur sports that fall under WADA. Various reasons for why the major U.S. sports are not signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code are discussed, along with an in-depth examination of each organization’s banned substances list. A survey collected further data to explain the effect PEDs have on sports fans and non-sports fans alike. A recommendation is made for harmonization of sanctions across global sport. Although it is very unlikely that U.S. sports will ever fall under the jurisdiction of WADA, an independent anti-doping agency for major American sports would be feasible, transparent, and effective at treating athletes more fairly. Furthermore, if this agency focused more on increasing monetary fines for doping violations, rather than increasing suspension lengths, they may be more successful than current policy at lessening PED prevalence.
