2007 Capstones

2007 HONORS CAPSTONE CONFERENCE AWARD WINNERS & ABSTRACT BOOKLET

2007 Honors Capstone Abstract Booklet
View capstone abstracts of all Honors students who graduated in August or December 2006 or May 2007.

The 2007 Capstone Conference was held on Wednesday, April 11, 2007. See the schedule of presentations here.

The 2007 Honors Capstone ConferenceAward recipients are (click on the title of the capstone to view it):

Andrea Bottorff (CAS: Literature; SOC: Public Communication), “Multiculturalism and Universality: Cross-Cultural Myth, Fairy Tale, and Gender in Revisionist Texts.”
Advisors: Professor Richard Sha and Professor Roberta Rubenstein
Constance Heiss (SOC: Journalism), “The Equal Rights Amendment Teaching Supplement.”
Advisors: Professor Sarah Menke-Fish and Professor Karen O'Connor
Katherine Meck (SIS: International Studies; Minors: Spanish/Latin American Studies, Economics), "Developing A Framework: Microfinance and Gender.”
Advisor: Professor Vladimir Kvint
Taryn Olsen (CAS: Psychology), “The Playwright as Psychological Mediator.”
Advisor: Professor Caleen Jennings
Samantha Shterengarts (CAS: Chemistry), “The Effects of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Additives on Physical and Chemical Properties of Biopolymers.”
Advisor: Professor Douglas Fox
Joshua Su-Ya Wu (SIS: International Studies; CAS: Economics), “Game On: Constructing A Bargaining Power Model to Analyze the Taiwan Strait.”
Advisors: Professor Quansheng Zhao and Professor Walter Park

The 2007 Honors Capstone Conference Honorable Mentions are:

Lynn Blubaugh (CAS: Biology), “Analysis of Hyperglycemia in Zebrafish.”
Advisor: Professor Lynne Arneson
Jason Eisen (SIS: International Studies; CAS: Spanish/Latin American Studies), “The Price of Freedom.”
Advisor: Professor Julian Bond
Samantha Elliott (CAS: Literature), “ ‘We’re all mad here,’ or Metaphor and Metonymy at Play in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.”
Advisors: Professor Madhavi Menon and Professor Amanda Berry
Danielle Giusto (CAS: Music), “Music She Wrote.”
Advisor: Professor Nancy Snider
Kate Watts (SPA: Political Science; CAS: History), “Feminism and Fancy Panties: Women's Underwear and Social History 1945-1975.”
Advisor: Professor Robert Griffith
Landon Yoder (SIS: International Studies), “The Foreign Policy of Christ: Assessing The Foreign Ministry's Role According to Christ and Professing Christians.”
Advisor: Professor Joe Eldridge