2012 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 2012 University Scholars.

Alyssa Antoniskis — Why Al Qaeda? The Luck and Legacy of the World’s Greatest Terror Organization

Jordan Bonney — Digital Design: How Technology Is Transforming the Publication Industry

Ashleigh Chambers — Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Project Professional Development

Whitney Giaimo — Can a House Have an IQ?: A Discussion of Existing Smart Homes and the Failure of the Expected Smart House Movement

Melissa Hale — Comparing Natural Design by Homology with Computational Design Strategy by Electrostatics: SEC Analysis of MICA Constructs Reveals Contrasting Binding Patterns

Jennah Harper — The All-American Man: Emerson’s Prescriptions for Masculinity in “Self-Reliance”

Evan Harris — The Influence of Faith on Economic Decision-Making

Samuel Henager — Comparing Rational Design Predictions and Experimental Data Reveals Predictable Correlations Such as Ground State Destabilization

Megan Hoye — Establishing Standards for Narrative Journalism: Telling the Displaced Refugee’s Story

Jamie Inouye — Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability of the Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol-Fuel System

Rachel Katsur — Developmental Relationships at Work: Increasing Critical Thinking Ability Through Mentoring

Marie Kiekhaefer — Oddly Empowered: The Emergence of a Human Ideal in George Gissing’s The Odd Women

Rebekah Koonce — Fashion and Function: Integrating Fashion Forward Details Into Women’s Activewear

Benjamin Lockyear — “You all heard that ‘antichrist’ is coming”: An Exegesis of the Antichrist in 1 and 2 John

Heidi McElrath — Privileging the Said: Morality, Imagination, and Redemption in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Laura Moser — The Elwha River Dam Removals: A Triumphant Failure of Ecological Ethics

Annie Mulder — Gentrification? An Analysis of Neighborhood Change Along the Wealthy Street Business Corridor and Its Effects on the Baxter Neighborhood

Ruby O’Connor — Turkish Delight: The Rhetoric of the Veil in Public Discourse

Brianna Pogue — Exploring the Intersection Between Healthcare and Narrative: HIV/AIDS Narrative-Based Medicine in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Brittany Raab — Development of a Surface Pressure Detector for Liquid Chromatography and Its Application to a System of Pulmonary Surfactants

Melissa Steffan — The Press and the Precedent: How the Supreme Court’s Pentagon Papers Ruling Applies to Wikileaks

Robert Vyn — The Path to Life: Flourishing Found in the Virtues of Survival