2014 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 2014 University Scholars.

Caitlin Baalke — “How the Relationship Between the United States and Saudi Arabia Has Shaped U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East”

Jessica Beebe — “The Strange Loop: Paradoxical Hierarchies in Borges’s Fiction”

Jubilee Brenneman — “Estimating Deer Density and Population Size on Blakely Island”

Andrew Damen — “Systematic Evaluation of Six Linkers for a Single Chain NKG2D Construct and the Binding Analysis of 5 Mica Isoforms”

Matt Edel — “Road Profile Sensor: A Detection Method for Active Suspension Systems”

Chelsea Elzinga — “Isolation and Formation of an Alternative Universal Identity: The Art of Nancy Spero and Annette Messager”

Rachel Evers — “Counter-Narrating the Nation: Homi K. Bhabha's Theory of Hybridity in Five Broken Cameras

Joseph Gallagher — “The Decline of the West and the Rise of the Rest? An Analysis of Hard Power Capabilities in the G-20, 1991–2011”

Lisa Goodhew — “Investigating the Proposed Affordances and Limitations of the Substance Metaphor for Energy”

Hayley Hill — “The Business of Transition: A Curriculum”

Scott Jackson — “A Critical Assessment of SPU’s Urban Plunge Program”

Ellie Janzen — “Reading the Mind of the Internet: A Study of Collaborative Recommendation Algorithms”

Colin Lewis — “The Soul of Korean Christianity: How the Shamans, Buddha, and Confucius Paved the Way for Jesus in the Land of the Morning Calm”

John Metcalf — “Shakespeare’s Human”

Katherine Morrow — “Reductionism and Emergent Properties in Philosophy of Biology”

Gabriel Much— “The Privileged Voice”

Danielle Myers — “The Lord of the Rings and The Weight of Two Worlds: An Exploration of Faith in Fantasy”

Claire Nieman — “Gender Disparity in Effective Chest Compression Delivery During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”

Miguel Ortega — “The Nature of Pilgrimage: Similarities and Differences Between El Camino de Santiago de Compostela and El Santuario de Chimayo”

Abigail Pagel — “Quantitative Analysis of Equine Intestinal Parasites as Pertains to Differing Management Styles”

Lauren Pederson — “Free Trade Zones: Development Possibilities for Nigeria”

Sarah Peterson — “Group Therapy Structure in Holistic Treatment of Homeless With Persistent Mental Illness”

Tucker Rogers — “Split Spinach: Fluorescent Modeling of RNA Assembly”

Charis Tobias — “Giving Power to the Powerless: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Presentation of Women in an Age of Change”

Dylan Vernon — “Hosea’s Marriage From the Perspective of the Biblical Versions”

Caroline Vokos — “The Effects of Anosmia on AVP Regulation of Parental Behavior and Aggression in Peromyscus Californicus”

Sarah Welch — “Staying Alive: Dynamic Equivalence Theory and Film Adaptation”