2005 Senior Honors Projects

University Scholars’ senior honors projects represent advanced work in their individual majors and engage in reflections on their faith and learning. These are the projects of the 2005 University Scholars.

Liz BrownDICTEE’s Dream of the Audience

Grace Damoff — A Ministry of Presence: Alyosha as a Lay Confessor in The Brothers Karamazov

Nicola DePaul — Beloved: A Woman’s Journey into the Heart of God

Steve Dirks – Biomimetics: Natural Engineering

Noah Fletcher — A Proper Marriage: Maximizing the Physical and Spiritual Effect in Christian Micro Finance

Melissa Forbes — Lost and Other Places

Anne M. Gregory — Capoeira Looks Back: Zumbi de Palmares

Crystal A. Griffin — The Next Endangered Species: Language Death and Survival in a Globalized World

Sara Henderson — Designing a Testing Environment to Explore the Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields

Ryan Jablonski — Regional Economic Inequality and Conflict in Yugoslavia

Joel Jacobson — The Multi-Voiced Classroom

Emily Knipper — Supporting Indigenous African Institutions in the Fight against AIDS

Jessie Kwak — Weep No More: Revision of La Lorona in Chicana Art and Literature

Candice Lengyel — Mutations in MIC-A to Stabilize its Surface and Alter Binding Affinity to its Receptor, NKG2D

Katherine Lim — An Evaluation of Heading and Head Trauma in Soccer: Is it Time for Headgear?

Angela Little — The Spin on Quantum Mechanics

Perry McConnell — The Effect of Stoicism on Roman Law in the Early Empire

Corrie McDaniel — Magicians or Unsung Heroes? A Comparative Look at the Role of the Female Physician in Ancient Greece and the Early Roman Empire

Heather Morse — Gaming Nation: The Factors of Consumer Demand for the Sony Playstation Two

Tiffany Marie Mueller — The Feasibility and Usefulness of Peer Counseling at SPU

Jennifer Mundt — Will I Really Be Like That? Children’s Religious Orientation and Expectations for Adolescence

Judith Deborah Naegali — Culture, history and Interpretation: The Use and Misuse of the Past in the Basarwa Relocation Controversy

Ryan Provonsha — The Power of Christ Compels You: Comparing the Ethics of Christ to Act Utilitarianism

Tad Shafer — Wrestling the Wrong Angel: Morality and Meaning in Edward Albee’s The Goat

David Skavdahl – Relationship between Protein Kinase C and Nitric Oxide in Hemocytes of Lymnaea stagnalis

Rebekah Soule — Real Risks of Faith: Correlation Between Christianity and Eating Disorders

Sarah Stephens — Relegated or Restored: Ideals of Christian Womanhood through the Eyes of Women at Seattle Pacific University and Within the Tet of 1 Timothy 2:8-15

Yolanda Stetson — A Review of the Literature on Grief and Miscarriage: Addressing Women’s Emotional Needs

Christina Talley — A Leap of Faith: Surmounting the Barriers to Faith-based and Community Initiatives in Washington State

Emily D. Vergason — “Truth that Heals”: A Campaigners Group for the YoungLives Program in the Yakima Valley

Phil Woodward — Emergence and Mental Causation

Renee Ziemann — The Effect of Grazing on Weed Cover and Community Composition at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge