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 (n 6-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"
