2007 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 2007 University Scholars.

Kelly Almon — Is the Audience Receiving Your Message? Analysis of Responsiveness to Visual Stimuli as Related to Depressive Symptoms

Alissa Baier — The Five Essential Elements of International Journalism: A Research Review and Experiential Learning Exercise in Foreign Reporting

Megan Boucher — Shadowy Immortality: Art in Unamuno’s Abel Sanchez

Wayne Brisbane — Co-localization Observed between Lysosomes and Zinc in Lymnaea stagnalis Hemocytes

Shannon Colacurcio — Beyond the Bottom Line: Developing a Sustainable Business Model for Non-Profit Providers of Marriage and Family Therapy

Marla DeKlotz — Personal Meaning: Engaging Scripture as a Human Being

Morgan Deming — Factors Influencing Demand for the Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and Game Cube

Elizabeth Dong — Computational Design Predictions of MHC Class I-like Ligands and the Immunoreceptor NKG2D using RosettaDesign

Rachel Ellis — All This Curious Certainty: A Collection of Biochemical Vignettes

Andrew Engstrom — Why You Should Marry a Trained Fighter: A Study of Conflict Management in Premarital Education

Matt Fletcher — Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Consequences for Divine Action

Angela Garland — Big Changes for Little Lives: A Discussion of Orphanage Interventions in Developing Countries and its Applications to a Case Study of Ecuador

Andrew HaysJus ad Bellum: Just War Theory and “Operation Iraqi Freedom”

Paul Henderson — Achieving Success without Arrogance: An Exploration of Foreign Policy Theory as Applied to the United States and Uzbekistan

Jared Hiebert — An Investigation of the Principle of Least Motion and the Counter-Ion Effect in the Birch Reduction

Alicia Hoffer — Rule of Law and the Lakota Sioux: Treaties, Laws, and Agreements before the Battle of Wounded Knee

Nicholas Jacobson — Nicholas of Cusa’s Religio Una in Rituum Varietate: An Image of Interreligious Dialogue in Late Medieval Europe

Amanda Lengyel — “Growth and the Overcoming of Obstacles are Inscribed on a Person’s Soul”: Grief and Healing in the Work of Banana Yoshimoto

Melinda A. Miller — Interior Design and Wellbeing: Addressing the Needs of Russian Orphans in a Small Family Orphanage

Aleya Mullett — Access to Clean Water in Africa: Understanding and Application

Justin Peters — “When Things are Gone They’re Gone. They Aint Comin Back”: The New Western Vision of Cormac McCarthy

Molly Petersen — Consuming the Bloody Lamb: Eucharistic Themes in the Writings of Beguines

Shelley L. Shaver — Understanding the Effects of Hypnotic Analgesia for Patients Suffering from Chronic Pain

Jason Shaw — Correspondence between Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Position Measurements in the Stepped Square-Well Potential

Melanna Smith — Sheng: Creation of a Liminal Identity in Postcolonial Kenya

Nicole Steinke — To the Mathematics Teacher

Nathan Toliver — From Renown to Rags and Back: Rediscovering Creech as the English Lucretius

Pierce Wade — Feathered Glory: The Bishops’ Bible and its Curious Initial Letters

Lindsey Willis — When the Food You Love Doesn’t Love You Back: What We Really Know about IgE-Mediated Food Allergies

Rachel Woodbrook — The Illustrious Virgin Cecilia: A Translation of Passio Sanctae Caeciliae from Medieval Latin to Modern English

Janelle Zakrzewski — Reading Race: Exploring Racial Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird

Stephanie Zimbelman — The Relationships between Maximum Strength and Body Composition, Body Image, and Physical Activity in College-Aged Men and Women