2008 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 2008 University Scholars.

Susan Bilynskyj — The History and Transmission of the Trisagion in Eastern and Western Liturgies

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

Andrew Caldwell — Complementary Experimental and Computational Techniques to Investigate the Energetics of Symmetric Hot-Spot Tyrosine Residues in NKG2D

Adrien Giles Camp — Found in Translation: The Influence of Being on Location in Missional Visual Communication Design

Thomas Carpenter — Putting Your Faith Where Your Mouth Is: Intrinsic Religious Motivation and Attitude-Action Congruence

Ben Creelman — Intra-Laminar Resistance Tool Heating: An Alternative Heating Technique for Carbon Fiber Fabrication

Stefan De Paul — For What They Did: Personal Perspectives on Modern Military Deployment

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

Allison Hays — The Lutheran Brethren: A Study in the Relationships Within a Global Church

Catherine Jhung — Caloric Deficits and the Female Athlete Triad

Kornelia Kandashova — Off the Streets: Ending Homelessness Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Through Outreach

Nathan Kennel — Increasing Patient Education for Victims of ACL, MCL, and Meniscus Tears

Thomas Macha — Interest Rate Elasticity of Capitalization Rates: A Seattle Real Estate Case Study

Meghan McClain — Do Behave: The Role of Agency in a Casual Analysis of Intentional Action

Matthew McIntire — The Missionary as an Engineer in Rural Water Supply: Experiences in the Dominican Republic and Uganda

Michael K. Miller — Homosexuality: A Curriculum for Church-Based Education

Patrick J. Nguyen — Applying Cation- UV Quenching Techniques to MIC Proteins

Jotham David Parker — A Little Body of Divinity: Songs for the Church Year

Alexander K. Paulsson — “God is a Frog”: Consciousness, Embodiment, and Nature in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain

Beth Rorabaugh — Safety and Efficacy of Selamectin in the Treatment of Budgerigars With an Atypical Knemidokoptes Infection

Megan Vasiliki Sailor — “There Can Be No Disparity in Marriage Like Unsuitability of Mind and Purpose”: Integrated Social Spheres in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

Elisabeth Schaffer — Alcohol and Antiretroviral Therapy Co-Management: Establishing a Guideline Recommendation for Low-Risk Consumption

Cory Shepherd — Marginvest Financial Services: Building Margins for the Marginalized

Michael Thomas — Jesus is Coming – LOOK BUSY: The Rise of Dispensational Premillenialism in 19th-Century America

Bethany J. Walrad — Cool Beans: Exploring the Function of Music in the Coffeehouse

Alissa Walter — Exchanging Bombs for the Ballot Box: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Ashley Whalen — Efficacy of Physical Therapy as Treatment for Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome in Female Students at Seattle Pacific University

Zachary Williams — Power Over Poverty: Sustainable Electricity for Rural Africa