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Departmental Honors Archive

The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.


Rylee Jade Beam (2023)
Contribution of the JNK Pathway to IL-6 Expression Following Isoprenoid Pathway Depletion

Katherine Jun Gong (2023)
Characterization of IL-12p40 mRNA levels in a Cellular Model of Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency

Andrew Rives Howe (2023)
Isoprenoid Depletion alters Protein and Vesicle Trafficking in a Model of the Autoinflammatory Disease Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency

Sher Bahadur (2022)
The Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Modulator Sprouty-2 Upregulates Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis Genes in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cell Line

Abigail Faith McGahan (2022)
Identifying Mutations of NanoBiT to Increase Selectivity for Multicomponent Cellular Tracking

Quenelle Washington McKim (2022)
Disruption of Myosin II ATPase Motor Function in Sea Urchin Cells via a New Inhibitor: Arrest of Cytokinesis but not Contractile Ring Assembly in Embryos and Disruption of Centripetal Flow in Coelomocytes

Sophie Johanna Andree Kivlehan (2021)
The Role of NR4A3 in Reprogramming Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells

Kayla Bendinelli (2019)
The Role of Fos and JunB in the Reprogramming of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells

Shannon Marie Bonner (2019)
The Role of EGR in the Genetic Reprogramming of Human Leukemia Cells

Grace Elizabeth Crossland (2018)
Reprogramming Leukemia Cells Toward Cell Cycle Arrest

Courtney M Gamache (2018)
The Taming of the Yeast: Domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus Yeasts

Meredith Johnson (2018)
Probing the Tetrameric Structure of Leishmania Major Pteridine Reductase (PTR1) with Point Mutations and Interface-Derived Peptides

Alissa Resnikoff (2018)
Selective Reactions of Cysteine Perfluoroaryl Thioethers

Tulley Shofner (2018)
The Role of MafB in Reverting the Transformed Phenotype of Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells

Sadie Ann Signorella (2018)
Characterizing expression of the protein Yorkie in the Drosophila embryo.

Andrew Shriver McGowan (2016)
Investigating the Effects of Coastal Acidification on Phenolic Production in Zostera Marina from South Bay, VA

Gabriel J DiNatale (2014)
Effects on Alkynyl-Parthenolide on Human Leukemia Cells, THP-1

Allison Margaret Murawski (2012)
Use of In Vivo Genetic Selection Reveals Sequence and Length Flexibility of the 5' Portion of Turnip Crinkle Virus Satellite RNA C

Alice Ann Duchon (2011)
Synthesis of a copper-binding distamycin conjugate as a potential anti-cancer therapeutic compound

Ryan David Deeds (2010)
Microarray Analysis of the Transcriptional Changes in Phorbol 12-Myristate 13-Acetate-induced Differentiation of HL-60 Cells

Emily Marie Swain (2010)
An Integrative Study of Gene Expression of PMA Induced Differentiation in HL-60 Cells by DNA Microarray Analysis

Amy Louise Williamson (2010)
Changes to Gene Expression During Human Acute Myleloid Leukemia Cell Differentiation with Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)

Michele Anne Gortakowski (2007)
Oxidative Signaling in the Metamorphosis of Crepidula fornicata

Theodore Scott Nowicki (2006)
Genome-wide Analysis of Differential Gene Expression Modulated by Butyric Acid in HL-60 Cells

Jillian Loyer Brechbiel (2002)
Changes in the Transcription Factor AP-1 during HL-60 Leukemia Cell Macrophage Differentiation

Dana R McGregor (2002)
A Study of the Photoproducts Formed from Ultraviolet-B Irradiation of Hydroxycinnamic Acids

Catherine Ann Battaglia (1999)
The Effect of Several First Row Transition Metal salts on Phytochelatin Length