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Spring Honors Senior Project Symposia

Spring Honors Senior Project Symposia

 

The following honors students will be presenting their Senior Projects at the end of spring quarter in Old Main 340 – Board of Trustee Room:

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

  • Moklen Indigeneity
    • Olivia Zimmerman – 11:30 am
  • Crab Tracker
    • Noah Strong – 12:15 pm
  • Pills, Needles, Support: how spiritual care can improve communication, and compassion in the health care industry
    • Emily Schneider – 1:00 pm

Friday, June 1st, 2018

  • Representations of Indigenous Cultures in Today’s Museums and Impacts on Cultural Tourism
    • Rachel Perkins – 10:15 am
  • Family Experiences Related to Early Hearing Intervention Guidelines in Washington State
    • Rachel Tennant – 2:00 pm
  • Dissolved Organic Carbon Bioreactivity in Stream Environments
    • Rachel Geiger – 2:45 pm
  • Constructing a Tabletop RPG
    • Alexander Veneruso – 3:30 pm
  • Let’s Speed This Up: Testing the Applicability of Machine Learning in Ceramic Trademark Identification
    • Ellen Hallingstad – 4:15 pm

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

  • On the Outskirts of Europe: The Case of Mikhail Glinka, the Russian Composer Who Wrote Spanish Music
    • Natalie Maeda – 8:45 am
  • Death and Survival: An analysis of the effects of Mocs1 upregulation on longevity in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
    • Michael Lee – 9:30 am
  • The Energy Imbalance Market: Environmental Benefits of Regional Market Integration in the West
    • Kristen Tarr – 10:15 pm
  • Failure to Launch
    • Claire Talbert – 11:00 am
  • Cultivating an Inclusive Culture in Stem
    • Tian Qing Yen – 11:45 am
  • When Church and State Collide: Examining Belief and Determining Sincerity in Cases of Religious Exemption
    • Meghan Woods – 12:30 pm
  • The Athena Effect
    • Alyssa Kaufman – 1:15 pm

Friday, June 8th, 2018

  • Politics of Reproductive Justice: Planned Parenthood Activism in Shades of Blue, Red, and Pink
    • Sarah Petry – 8:45 am
  • Examining the Use of EMI in Primary and Secondary English Classes in Taiwan
    • Leah Sharaby – 9:30 am
  • Controlling the nanoscale organization of thiophene-based conductive polymers with self-assembling peptides
    • Ellie James – 10:15 am
  • Factors associated with Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in Japanese Pharmaceutical Companies
    • Honoka Tsutsui – 11:00 am
  • Lost in Translation: How the Way We Talk About Math and Science Isn’t Helping Anyone
    • Jonathan Flynn – 11:45 am
  • Science Fiction Before and After World War II
    • Scott St. Clair – 1:30 pm
  • The Goal of the Translator: An aesthetic investigation into the efficacy of English translations of Borges
    • Stephanie Piccioni – 2:15 pm
  • Constructing Disability: Historical and Modern Perspectives and their Implications for the Medical Field
    • Anna Crow – 3:00 pm
  • Persistence of common myths and misconceptions regarding dyslexia among preservice teacher populations
    • Grace Barr – 3:45 pm

Monday, June 11th, 2018

  • Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Wilderness Therapy: A proposal for the inclusion of Mindfulness Based Experiences in Adventure Therapy treatment for SUD
    • Kelly Oberbillig – 9:00 am
  • Ta-Da! Musical training changes the brain and influences speech perception
    • Anna Marie Yanny – 10:30 am
  • Gender Discrepancy in Asexual Identity
    • Tori Bianchi – 11:15 am
  • Systematic Racism Curriculum Project
    • Matthew Ferris – 1:00 pm
  • Seek Truth and Minimize Harm: What I learned reporting on sexual assault and harassment at Western
    • Asia Fields – 1:45 pm
  • Reimagining the Tennant Lake Interpretive Center
    • Kaitlyn Boyd – 2:30 pm
  • Using SEM Micrographs to Examine Hydrothermal Vent Samples
    • Ceona Koch – 3:15 pm

Friday, June 15th, 2018 – in Bio 212

  • Development of a Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier for Acute Blood Replacement Therapy
    • Leah Huey – 10:15 am
  • Queer(ed) Monstrosity
    • Kyla Garlid – 11:00 am

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