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Departmental Honors



Departmental Honors - May 2011

  • Abigail Phillips Adams, Political Science, "Campaigning 2.0: New Media, Messaging, and Grassroots Organization in the 2008 Presidential Election"

  • Nicholas Johnston Adams, East Asian Studies, "The So-Called New Women: The Evolution of the Seitō Organization and their Discourses on New Women and Sexual Liberation"

  • Ross Morgan Anstaett, International Business & Management, "A Case Study of the VEJA Corporation"

  • Andrew Joseph Barron, Philosophy, "The Empirical Untenability of Sentient Artificial Intelligence"

  • Lily Margaret Bieber-Ham, Environmental Studies 

  • Alexander Patton Bloom, Self Developed: Intellectual History, "The Populist Rhetoric of American Politics: Conservative and Democratic Discourse as seen through the Populist and Tea Party Movements"

  • Sarah Marie Buonacore, History, "Picturing the Modern Woman: American Women's Magazines, 1890-1910"
     

  • Thomas Matthew Carey, Political Science, "The Emergence and Strategic Orientations of Violent Islamist Movements Examining the Armed Islamic Group, the Islamic Group, and al-Quaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from the Perspective of Social Movement Theory"

  • Airlia Rose Choyce, Sociology, "Bisexual Burdens: Individuals with Nonexclusive Attractions Creating Authentic Identities" 

  • Elisabeth J. Christino, International Business & Management, "Veja: Sneakers with a Conscience - A Case Study"
     

  • Jack Michael Colicchio, Biology, "Transgenerational Epigenetics and Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Variable Light Levels"

  • Jessica Ann Colliver, Law & Policy, "The law will not go behind the curtain: Battered Woman Syndrome, Feminist Legal Theory, and Reasonable Sex Equality in the Law"

  • Alyssa Marie Coltrain, French 

  • Alyssa Monika Compeau, Psychology, "An Experimental Investigation of Fat Talk Among College Women"

  • Eliza Rose Cutler, English, " 'Become as Little Children': A Study of the Subversion of the Cult of Domesticity in Two Sentimental Texts"

  • Fabio Ariel Drucker, Computer Science, Mathematics 

  • Alice Ann Duchon, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology  

  • Kara Lynn Elder, Russian, "Utopian Vision, Industrial Realizations, and Dystopian Realities"

  • Hannah Elizabeth Farda, Sociology, "Societies at War, the Sexes at Peace"
     

  • Kimberly A. Ferington,Russian, "Vrubel's Demon in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Literature"

  • Benjamin Russell Fixsen, International Business & Management, "A Case Study of the VEJA Corporation"

  • Diliana Blagovestova Funtarova,Psychology 

  • Matthew D. Hartwig, Philosophy, "A Critique of Kymlock's Liberal Multiculturalism in Philosophy"

  • Brandon Michael Howard, East Asian Studies, "AYōkai Parade Through Time in Japan" 

  • Samem Jabarkhail, Political Science  

  • Leah Melanie Kaplan, American Studies 

  • Brian Spencer Krusell, International Studies  

  • Zhen Li,Neuroscience, "The Relationship of Protein Kinase C and Nitric Oxide Signaling in Metamorphosis of Marine Gastropod Larvae, Crepidula fornicata"

  • Megan N. Liberty, English, " 'But the Return to the Pictures': The Forgotten Photographs of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"  

  • Li-Yu Liu, Neuroscience, "Exploring Cell Dissociation in Larval Metamorphosis of the Gastropod Crepidula fornicata"  

  • Lachezar Emilov Manasiev, International Studies 

  • Kerstin Elisabeth Martin, Environmental Studies  

  • Katelyn Josephine McCann, Biology, "Analyzing a predator-prey interaction: muscular performance in Boas (Boa constrictor) and cardiovascular response in rats during constriction"

  • Kathryn McNamara, International Studies, "Context, cautions, and the way forward: prospects for increased U.S. military cooperation with Algeria and Libya"

  • Meredith Karen Meisenheimer,Political Science, "The Effects of Democratization and Internet Penetration on Terrorist Recruitment"

  • William John Monopoli,Psychology 

  • Vicki Jaye Morris, Law & Policy, "Diagnosing Delinquency: A Study of the Overrepresentation of Children with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System"; Spanish, "Las poetas del siglo XIX: su propio tercer mundo"

  • Minh Huu Nguyen,Chemistry, "Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Oxygenated PAHS in Stream Sediments along an increasingly Urbanized Land-Use Gradient"

  • Margaret Lee O'Brien, Sociology, "Elite Colleges or Colleges for the Elite?: A Qualitative Analysis of Dickinson Students' Perceptions of Privilege"   

  • Jonathan Gallegos Ontiberos, Russian  

  • Aidan Brown O'Shea, American Studies, "Worshipping to Control: The Public Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Political Right"

  • Grace Marie Perry, Africana Studies, "Resisting the Machine: Toward a Theory of Transnational Feminist Anti-Capitalism"   

  • Creighton Taylor Putnam, Psychology, "Decision-making between Different Sized Choice Sets: How the Number of Available Options Affects Peak Satisfaction"

  • Kristen Ann Recine, Physics, "Modeling the Evolution of the Cataclysmic Variable V723 Cassiopeia"

  • Christopher Albert Roberts, Political Science, "China, Reform, and Economic Development in sub-Saharan Africa"

  • Eric Daniel Rosenstein, Music, A Tool and Symbol of Hybridity: The Organ and its Role in Reform Judaism" 

  • Matthew Neil Schmiemann, International Business & Management, " 'Vega: A 21st Century Company ': A Business Case Study and Valuation"

  • Lauren Amanda Schoneker, International Studies, "The Ideology of Gaullism: The Foundations of European Leash-Slipping"

  • Emily Mae Stokes, English, "Steinbeck's Subversive Cultural Capital: The Grapes of Wrath and the Problematic Canonization of the Lower Classes"

  • Michael N. Supp, International Business & Management, "Vega Ethical Shoe Company Case Analysis and Department Presentation"

  • Thanh Thien To, Mathematics, "Mathematical Techniques for Assigning First-Year Seminars"

  • Russell Charles Toris, Computer Science, "Evolving Robotic Desires: A New Approach to Bridging the Reality Gap"

  • Rachel Faith Warzala, English, " 'Tainted with the Blood of the Oppressor': Womanism, Black Power, and the Treatment of the Mulatto in Alice Walker's The Color Purple"

  • Amanda Cate Wernicke, International Studies, "Complements to the Chef: Europe's Common Security and Defense Policy Interventions and U.S. Interests"

  • André O'Neil St. Philip White, Neuroscience, "Prazosin Disrupts Drug-Memory Consolidation"

  • Danni Yu, Computer Science, "Translating B Machines to JML Specifications"

  • Merin Klingel Yu, International Studies, "Liberalization of the European Union Natural Gas Market: An Internal Solution to an External Problem"

Departmental Honors - May 2010

  • Jenna Saunders Banning, International Studies, "The Role of the European Union in the Middle East Peace Process"

  • Daniel Harrison Barnak, Physics, "Exploration of the Anode Position Parameter in a Closed Drift Hall Thruster"

  • Kimberly Caitlin Blank, Political Science, "Riyals, Dinars, and Dirhams: Political Inclusion of Migrant Workers in GCC Member States"

  • Susan Anne Blasi, Biology, "Biogenic Amine Receptor Expression in the Developing Ventral Nerve Cord in Drosophila melanogaster"

  • Zachary Lee Carson, Physics 

  • Bettina Mariel Cerban, Psychology, "Judging Smokers: How Anger and Disgust Shape Our Moral Beliefs"

  • Jennifer Chmielewski,Psychology, "Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Body Image: Negotiating Intersections of Identity"

  • Hilary Eliza Collins, Sociology, "Negotiating Identities Within Contemporary American Society: Women of the Indian Community of Central PA"

  • Amy Louise Conner, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, "Changes in Gene Expression During Human Acute Myleloid Leukemia Cell Differentiation with Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)"

  • Melissa Renee Dean, Chemistry, "Synthesis and Reactivity of Two NAMI-A Derivatives"

  • Ryan David Deeds, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, "Microarray Analysis of the Transcriptional Changes in Phorbol 12-Myristate 13-Acetate-induced Differentiation of HL-60 Cells"

  • Denise Rose Del Gaudio, History, " 'I have not told the worst by any means. It could not be put in print': The Transatlantic Voyage of Euro-Immigrants to the United States, 1841-1900"

  • Gina Michele Del Tito, International Studies, "AFRICOM: The Militarization of American Foreign Policy, or the 'civilianization' of the American military?"

  • Ruth Leslie Dicker, Spanish, "Jorge Luis Borges: Language, Desdivinization, and Immortality"

  • James Andrew Doyle, Computer Science, "PathFinder in CUDA"

  • Gwen Elizabeth Dunnington, Geology, "Recurrence and Flow Direction of Glaciers across the Kawdy Plateau, northern British Columbia"

  • Louise Howard Feder, Art & Art History, "New Deal Murals in the Pittsburgh Post Office and Courthouse"

  • Elitsa Plamenova Gosheva, International Studies  

  • Allison Elizabeth Hall, Biology, "Pressure and Duration of Constriction in Boa constrictor is Influenced by a Simulated Prey Heartbeat"

  • Pauline Hovy, International Studies, "From Separatist Movement to Nation-State: The Influence of Great Powers in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Kosovo"

  • Kaitlin Mae Irvine, Anthropology, "Starting from Scratch: Building College Cultural Capital for First-Generation College Students at Dickinson"

  • Razvan Isac, International Business & Management  

  • Michael Patrick Keating, Computer Science, "Executing Formal Specifications via Constraint Programming: Enhancing the jmle Tool"

  • Ryan A. Koons, Music, "Dancing Breath: A Study of Music, Dance, and Cosmology at Tvlwv Pvlvcekolv"

  • Abby Christine Larson, Biology  

  • Kendahl Marie Lester, East Asian Studies, "The Current State of the Right to Remain Silent in Japan"

  • Elizabeth Leigh Lewis, Biology, "Neurochemical and Sensory Regulation of Metamorphosis in a Gastropod Mollusk"

  • Kelly Marie Lohr, Neuroscience, "Sex Differences in Carbon Dioxide-Driven Activation of the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus in Fos-Tau-LacZ Mice"

  • Anna K. Lovett, History, "Found in Translation: Dr. Julia Morgan and the Adaptation of Protestant Missions in China"

  • Catherine Kirkbride Ludwig, International Studies, "The Effect of Political Islam in Turkish EU Accession"

  • Lauren Ayn Martin, American Studies, " 'Never Underestimate the Power of a Big Gold Frame': Deconstructing the Ideological Powers of the Museum and Understanding the Development of the Curatorial Profession"

  • Christine E. Miller, Geology, "Homogeneity of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Canadian Cordillera: Petrographic Study of Xenoliths from Craven Lake, BC"

  • Anh Minh Nguyen, International Business & Management, "Bunge: Food, Fuel and World Markets"

  • Luan Manh Nguyen, International Business & Management, "Bunge Limited: How Bio-fuel Fits into a Global Agribusiness Business Model"

  • Caroline Anne Peri, English, " 'The Taint of Effeminacy': QuestioningNormative Masculinity in E.M. Forster's The Other Boat and Youssef Idris' Leader of Men"

  • Cynthia Lynn Polasko, Political Science, "Judicial Reasoning Has No Expiration Date: An Analysis of the Natural Cycle Theory as Applied to the Supreme Court of the United States"

  • Catherine Rose Poos, International Business & Management  

  • Anna Catherine Pusack, East Asian Studies, Philosophy, "The Place of the Globalized World: Nishida Kitaro and Japanese Ultra-nationalism"

  • Jeffrey Michael Rodgers, Chemistry, "The Pyridine-Formic Acid Interaction: A Matrix Isolation and Polymer Soft-Landing Study"

  • Kelly Joyce Rogers, Policy Studies, "Taxation Policy on Natural Gas Extraction in Pennsylvania"

  • Clara Sanguinetti, International Studies  

  • Lauren Carel Saunders, Biology, "Iron Pathology of Erythrocyte Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency in the Old Order Amish of Pennsylvania"

  • Elizabeth Margaret Schroll, History 

  • Katherine Elizabeth Shaw, International Studies, "Climate Change & Conflict in Bangladesh and India"

  • Eric Matthew Souder, History, "The People's Peasant: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and the Russian Populist Movement"

  • Gerald Philip Stevenson, International Business & Management, (senior INBM case analysis presentation), "The Operations of Bunge, an International Agritrade Business"

  • Katie Lynn Stewart, Political Science, "Was It the Luck of the Irish? A Comparative Analysis of the Levels of Success Attained by the Irish and Basque Nationalist Movements"

  • Jessie Paton Strasbaugh, English, "What She's 'Supposed to Do': The Lunar Erotic Poetics of Elizabeth Bishop and Brenda Shaughnessy"

  • Emily Marie Swain, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, "An Integrative Study of Gene Expression of PMA Induced Differentiation in HL-60 Cells by DNA Microarray Analysis"

  • Margaret Rose Tobias, Psychology, "Judging Fatness: The Effects of Emotion on Moral Judgment and Moral Judgment of Emotion"

  • Tiffany Rae Tucker, International Studies  

  • Gabriela Uassouf, Sociology 

  • Maunette Gabriela Watson, Environmental Studies, "Metals from Legacy Sediment Sites and Their Impact on Macroinvertebrates in the Yellow Breeches Creek Watershed, Cumberland County, PA"

  • James Yarnall Watson-Krips, East Asian Studies, "The Soundtrack of a City: Jazz, Modernity, and Urban Life in Republican Shanghai (1927-1949)"

  • Samantha Kimberle Weiner, Religion, "Ardhanārīśvara within the God-Image: An Exploration of the Androgynous Deity in Hindu Tantra and Jungian Psychology"

  • Samuel George Wheeler, Physics, "Experimental Studies of Backwards-Wave Phenomena in a Nonlinear Electrical Lattice"

  • Marci Allison Wills, Geology 

  • Heidi Elizabeth Wissel, International Studies  

  • Sarah Marie Zaleski, Anthropology, "Age and Sex Estimates of Subadult Ilia from Charnel House A22, Bab-edh-Dhra': A model for Determining Subadult Sex"

Departmental Honors - May 2009

  • Mofeyisayo Ayomidun Ayodele, International Studies, "The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Africa"

  • Matt Knapp Bachmann, Computer Science, "The Effects of Network Structure and Fitness Sharing on the Evolutionary Dynamics of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Strategies"

  • Shumei Chen, East Asian Studies, International Business & Management, "Western-Educated Chinese in China's Economic Decision-Making: Haigui's Increasing Influence in Chinese Politics"and senior INBM case analysis presentation 

  • Megan Elizabeth Conlon, Music, "Returning to Oneself: Debussy, French Nationalism, and 'Le Culte de Moi' "

  • Amanda R. Drummond, East Asian Studies  

  • Eleanor Grace Etheredge, Law & Policy, "A Better IDEA: Evaluating and Improving Legal Standards for Special Needs Education"

  • Krista Lauren Gray, History, "An Embrace of Ritual: Holy Communion Handbooks in Restoration England"

  • Christopher Michael Gross, English, Spanish, "Historicizing Gender: Masculine Dissolution and Female Dominance in Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth" and "Corrigiendo la historiografía hegemónica: la narración de resistencia de The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

  • Courtney Elizabeth Haynes, Geology 

  • Sean Kyle Hutchinson, East Asian Studies, "Supervision from Below: Sousveillance Through New Media as a Force for Political Change in China"

  • Nicholas Michael Allen Iorio, International Studies  

  • Elizabeth Carney Jeffress, Neuroscience, "C-fos Expression Increases Significantly in the Cerebellar Fastigial Nucleus Following Exposure to 10% Carbon Dioxide in FTL+ Mice"

  • Patrick Sidney Kelly, History 

  • Keith Kleinman, Biology, "Getting a Grip on Death by a Squeeze: An Analysis of Constriction in Population of Boa.constrictor"

  • Adrian Demetrius Kostrubiak, Computer Science, "Integration of Java Generics Into the jmle Tool Within the Eclipse IDE"

  • Chloe Autumn Mandell, East Asian Studies, "Perceptions of Japanese Honorific Language (Keigo) Use in Japan Today: A Reflection of Personal and National Reputation at Stake"

  • Melissa Lee Moreland, Sociology, " 'You Think You're Better Than Me?' Symbolic Violence and Upward Mobility: Working-Class at Dickinson College Go Back Home"

  • Ritwik Kumar Niyogi, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics 

  • Berkay Oncel, International Business & Management  

  • Davia M. Palmeri, Biology, "Carbohydrate Translocation After Herbivore Attack in Tobacco Plants"

  • Joanna Symington Kahn Parker, International Studies  

  • Elyssa Faye Plotkin, Music, Senior Music Performance Recital (clarinet).

  • Kaitlyn Marie Plummer, English, " 'Who Wants Cocoanut?': The Construction of Desire and the Demise of Empire in E.M. Forster's The Other Boat"

  • Elizabeth Catherine Price, Psychology 

  • Caroline Elizabeth Radesky, History, " 'Man's Domain': Shifting Notions of White Elite Masculinity at Dickinson College, 1878-1910"

  • Benjamin Christopher Rafetto, International Business & Management  

  • Richard Ray Rast, Computer Science, "Automated Interpretation of Arithmetic in First-Order Theories"

  • John Marshall Richards, International Studies, "China's Long March Towards Democracy"

  • Yvonne Suzanne Robbins, Russian  

  • Zachary Irving Rosenberg, Political Science, " 'This is My City': Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago, and the Politics of Police Repression"

  • Donald Eugene Sailer, History 

  • Chandan Sapkota, Economics, "Growth Diagnostics and its Application to the Nepalese Economy"

  • Manuel Ignacio Saralegui, Economics, Sociology, "Towards a new locus enunciacionis: The Dependency Debate in Latin America" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Represented: From the Bolivarian Process to a Critique of Social Theory"

  • Aiste Skardziute, International Studies  

  • Sarah Catherine Smith, Law & Policy, "Is the Peace Sustainable? The Legal Failure of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland"

  • Anton Ivanov Stoyanov, International Business & Management, "Grupo Bimbo"

  • Shannon Elizabeth Sullivan,Women's & Gender Studies, "Imagined Communities and Embodied Experience: The Creation of a Feminist? Nationalist Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina"

  • Amanda Ruth Waugh, English, Philosophy, " 'Willing Liberates': Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" and "The Postcolonial Feminist Nietzsche: Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions"  

  • Aaron Mark Williams, Political Science  

  • Joanne Leigh Williams, History, "Godless, Deluded, and Without Integrity: The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' Representations of Islam and American Indian Religions during the Nineteenth Century"

  • Jeffrey Scott Wilson, East Asian Studies, "Hataraki-Man: Gender and Success in the Workplace"

  • Justin Cassius Wisner, Religion 

  • Megan Leigh Wummer, Spanish  

  • Ke Zhou, Computer Science, "Improving the Two Color Image Prior Bayesian Demosaicing Algorithm"

Departmental Honors - May 2008

  • Kelly Marie Anastasi,Psychology  

  • Anabella Giselle Atach,Anthropology, "The National Institute of Anthropology and History and 'The Others': Different Perspectives on Issues of Patrimony"

  • Hristo T. Banov,International Studies 

  • Mitchell Aaron Bashur,Law & Policy, "On the role of the public defender in the juvenile justice system"

  • Ritoban Basu Thakur,Physics 

  • Brian Bradford Booher,Political Science, "Countering a Global Trend: Popular Responses to Neoliberalism in Chile, France, and Australia"

  • Hannah Rae Bortman,Spanish 

  • Sean Robert Brannon,Physics 

  • Adrian Sarah Broderick,International Business & Management, (senior INBM case analysis presentation), "Genzyme: The Gaucher Initiative"

  • Margaret Ann Browndorf,Russian, Russian Area Studies, "The Carnivalesque OBERIU: Poetics of the Body in the 1930s Writings of Nikolai Oleinikov, Aleksandr Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms"

  • Marissa Leigh Calfe,English, "The Over-Passing of the Bound": Analyzing the Influence of Dante's Francesca da Rimini on Milton's Revolutionary Eve"

  • Alexander Chester Cameron,Philosophy, "Elevating the Discourse: There is no 'I' in Team"

  • Danielle Marie Cioce,Environmental Studies, "The Patterns of Distribution of Organochlorine Pesticides in Sediment in the Letort Spring Run, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania"

  • Catherine Martina Creme,American Studies, "Pink Noise: Deconstructing the Popular Discourse of Breast Cancer"

  • Anna Catherine Cumbie,French, "Comment la politique linguistique française influence-t-elle et définit-elle l'identité occitane contemporaine?" [English title: How does French language policy influence and define contemporary Occitan identity?]

  • Ashley Kaye Damewood,Law & Policy, "Justice on the Grass: The failures of international law and the emergence of post-conflict legal responses in Africa"

  • Thomas Bradley Elrod,English, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, "'And All the Court Laughed Loud': Colonialism and Satire in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

  • Jason Robert Foltin,Economics, "Living the Narrative: The Reflection of Navajo Mythology in Navajo Social Institutions"

  • Alexander William Froom,Religion 

  • Kristina Teresa Gaff,Physics, "Exploration of the Coupling Oscillation in a Plasma Hall Thruster"

  • Kaitlin Mary Harrigan,Biology, "Investigating Hemlock Stand Resistance to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations"

  • Grant Albert Hastings,International Business & Management 

  • Micah Yoder Hostetter,East Asian Studies, "Reactions to Resettlement: Protest in China's Three Gorges Region"

  • Karen Elizabeth Kirner,Anthropology, "Perspectives among farmers and the general public of the economic and environmental impacts of biodiesel and ethanol development in Carlisle, Pennsylvania"

  • E. Kristiane Koontz,International Studies, "The Politics of Brazil – Argentina Economic Integration"

  • Erica Katherine Lally,International Studies, "Siberian Solution? Russian-Iranian Relations and the Iranian Nuclear Question"

  • Jennifer Reine Lloyd Langston,Biology 

  • Joshua Ian Lapps,Self Developed: Bioethics, "Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Investment in the Future"

  • Madison Lee Levitan,East Asian Studies 

  • Laura Rose Major,Anthropology, " Schmorl's Nodes and Osteophytosis at Early Bronze Age II/III Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan"

  • Stacey Kathryn Mardekian,Neuroscience, " Assessment of the Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Systems in Mediating the Acquisition and expression of Nicotine Conditioned Taste Aversion"

  • Christian Dominick Meade,Art & Art History, "Public Outdoor Sculpture at the Dickinson Farm"

  • Emily Robin Meuwissen,Economics, "The Adoption of the U.S. Minimum Wage: Economic, Social, and Political Considerations"

  • Benjamin Abraham Midanek,Political Science, "Developing Democracy: A Probabilistic Framework for Assessing Preconditions to Democracy in Later-Developing Countries"

  • Christian R. Millichap,Mathematics 

  • Michael Kiernan Murphy,Physics, "Development of a pulsed femtosecond laser lab and a multiphoton microscopy proof of concept"

  • Kiril Konstantinov Popov,International Business & Management 

  • Lindsay Marie Robinson,International Studies, Political Science, "Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia in Comparative Perspective"

  • Rohan Sen,International Business & Management, (senior INBM case analysis presentation), "Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility"

  • Cara Maria Sgobba,Philosophy, "A Virtue Situationist Approach to Business Ethics"

  • Meredith Lee Ship,English, "Transsexual Memoir: Breaking the Silence in Deirdre N. McCloskey's Crossing: A Memoir and Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders" 

  • Evan Turnesa Sparling,Russian Area Studies 

  • Elizabeth Dykeman Stokely,International Studies, "Perón, Menem and Kirchner: The Enduring Legacy of Peronist Populism and the Argentine Political Economy"

  • Mark Christopher Veronda,Computer Science," Applying a Genetic Algorithm to the Localization Problem Using an Extremely Sensing Limited Robot"

  • Julia Anne West,Psychology, "Stigma and beliefs about eating disorders in a sample of college women"

  • Ryan Eric Zeigler,Computer Science, "A New Approach for Evolving Robotic Controllers"

    Departmental Honors - May 2007

     
  • Emmanuel Essah Acquaah, Economics 

  • Peter Charles Backof, Political Science, "Distributing Speech: How the Internet Improves Democratic Access to the Mediated Public Sphere"

  • Laura Ashley Bahorich, Chemistry, "A Kinetic Study of n 2- Coordinated Arene Displacement from Rhenium and Manganese Centers"

  • David Robert Baron, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, "Foreign Humanity: Frankish-Muslim Relations around the time of the First Crusade"

  • Terra Renee Beck, Law & Policy 

  • Jennifer Lynn Bruneau, International Business & Management 

  • Megan E. Burke, Law & Policy, " Women and Sexual Crime in Pennsylvania: An Evaluation of Efficacy of the Law"

  • Michael Edward Burns, Geology 

  • Edward Wayne Cramp, Jr., Physics, "The Operation and Diagnosis of a Plasma Hall Thruter"

  • Alexandria Elisabeth de Aranzeta, Spanish, "De Hipócrates al Condado de Adams: Trazando la medicina humoral en literatura y práctica"

  • Anne Elizabeth Donovan, International Studies, "French Policies of Cultural Protection in the Face of Anglo-American Culture" (honors performance on cumulative oral exam in International Studies and French culture and society)

  • Chris Aaron Dumbroski, Economics 

  • Audrey Jean Fisher, Environmental Studies 

  • Stacey Leigh Foltz, Law & Policy, "Divorce in the 21st Century: The Collaborative Solution Law"

  • Richard Todd Fowler, International Studies, "The Folly of Applying Golden Straight Jacket Theory in China" (honors performance on cumulative oral exam in International Studies and Chinese culture and society)

  • Tamoghna Ghosh, International Business & Management, "'Ge Gu': Corporate Strategy in China"

  • Arthur Jeffrey Goldsmith, Mathematics, "Dynamics of the Derivative of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function"

  • Meaghan Elaine Gruber, International Studies, "The Consequences of Neoliberal Economic Policy in Nicaragua" (honors performance on cumulative oral exam in International Studies and Latin American culture and society)

  • Amy Russell Grunbeck, Chemistry, "The Influence of Electronic and Steric Factors on the Reactivity of the (n6-C6H5CF3)Cr(CO)2–(n 2- arene) Bond"

  • Laura Elizabeth Harbold, English, "Reconfigurations of the Male Body in British Trench Poetry of the First World War"

  • Sarah Jane Heim, German 

  • Ryan Jeffrey Hollm, Spanish, "Simbolismo del ser: La novela de Don Sandalio"

  • Margaret Scott Jackson, Geology 

  • Michael P. Kelley, International Studies, "Marginal Utility: France as a Strategic Partner to the US" (honors performance on cumulative oral exam in International Studies and Latin American culture and society)

  • Tiffany Nicole Kimbrough, Neuroscience 

  • Michele Anne Kondracki, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, "Oxidative Signaling in the Metamorphosis of Crepidula fornicata"

  • Jared Alexander Lease, Computer Science 

  • Alicia Anne LeBlanc,French, "Ni Putes Ni Soumises: Le pouvoir d'ameliorer la vie des jeunes femmes maghrebines dans les banlieues francaises

  • John Isaac Lingan, English 

  • Alexander S. Lloyd, Geology, "Plagioclase Growth Rates in Pillow Basalts: A Study in Crystal Size Distribution and Thermal Modelling"

  • Lisa Irene Maas, Biology 

  • Kaitlyn Roddy Maxwell, Law & Policy, "The Future of Brownfield Sites: An Examination of the Effectiveness of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act in Promoting Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites"

  • Mary Kathryn McClellan, Biology, "Characterization of bipolar spindle structure in ammonia activated eggs and maturing oocytes of the sea urchin"

  • Rachel Elizabeth McCool,History, "When the papists were there rampant: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in the English Popular Prints, 1660-1688"

  • Scott Joseph McHugh, Computer Science, "Small World Structures in Evolved Neural Networks"

  • Katherine Nicolayev Mosher, Sociology 

  • Jeffrey Christopher Reese, Philosophy, Religion, "Illumination in Saints Augustine and Maximus the Confessor: Differing Emphases within a Common Neoplatonic Heritage"

  • Sean Alexander Rhoads, East Asian Studies 

  • Laura Michelle Rockman, Psychology 

  • Rachel Lynn Sondag, Policy Management 

  • Ryan Alan Stearrett, Physics, "Experimental Generation of Intrinsic Localized Modes in a Nonlinear Electrical Transmission Line"

  • Alexander Lawrence Stout, Political Science 

  • Leah Adair Suhrstedt, History, "The Fugitive Slave Crisis and Personal Liberty Laws in Pennsylvania: The Breakdown of Comity in Antebellum America and the Coming of the Civil War"

  • JoAnna Noor Sullivan, Spanish, "La búsqueda del conocimiento: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y René Descartes" (The Search for Knowledge: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and René Descartes)

  • Evan Joseph Templeton, Biology 

  • Pablo Thaler, International Business & Management 

  • Henry J. Usher, Music, "Sea Tides"

  • Meagen Kathleen Voss, Biology 

  • Paul J. Winkler, Mathematics 

  • Rebecca Jane Worsham, Archaeology, Religion, "The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Archaeology of the Ritual"

  • Lauren Michelle Zazenski, American Studies, "The Social Construction of Cocaine: Examining the Dueling Identities of Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine as Presented in American Film, Laws, and Religion"