College Honors, 2008-2009

Honors Projects From the Class of '09

Art History
Caroline Cobb Manganaro - Velázquez's Las Meninas: Courtly Ritual and the Emblematic Display of Philip IV

Zlatan Pobric - Mondrian and Music: A Historical Study of the Development of Form

Biochemistry
Michele Christine Darrow - Characterization of the Effects of Acute Ethanol Exposure on Signaling Pathways in Response to LPS Stimulus in RAW 264.7 Cells

Kelby Mitchell Okada - Investigation of the Unfolding/Folding Process of the GrpE1-112 Tetrameric Deletion Mutant Protein

Biology
Megan McNeil Brady - Telomerase Upregulation During Tissue Regeneration in Dugesia tigrina

Jamie Natsue Hadac - The Nuclear Localization of Both Isoforms of Intersectin During Xenopus laevis Development

Clint Steven Moore - Ecological Census of Coral Reef Habitats in the Vicinity of Tobacco Caye, Belize C.A.

Biology and Physics
Sarah Mariel West - A Longitudinal Investigation of the Forces Impacting the Articular Cartilage in the Knees of NCAA Division III Football Players During One Season

Chemistry
Michael Bradley Burt - A Novel Method for the Synthesis and Characterization of Heteroleptic Copper (II) Carboxylates

Patrick Lynn Cavins - The Use of Fluorescence Anisotropy as a Means to Determine the Molecular Volume of Proteins

Toshia Renee Zessin - Circularly Polorized Luminescence: Calibration and Calculations for Enantiomeric Excess

Computer Science
Ojaswirajanya Thebe - A Visual Approach to Parallel Programming

Creative Writing
Sarah Elizabeth Benkin - From West of Normal

Educational Studies
Haley Lynn Gallagher - "Chicago Kids": Voices from Galesburg High School

Film Studies
Neil Alan Richter - From Eisenstein to Star Wars: Film Form and Ideology in Twentieth-Century Cinema

Gender and Women's Studies
Rachael E. Goodman-Williams - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: A Functional Analysis of the Stranger-in-a-Dark-Alley-Rape Image

Interdisciplinary Studies
Sean Garrett Bullock - The Knox College Experience from 153 Voices: What Is It We Are Doing Here?

Polly Marie Young - Introspection Through Degustation: Dissecting the Connection between Gustatory Taste and Self-Actualization

International Relations
Stephen Michael Herzog - Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Post-Cold War Europe: Strategic Asset or Anachronistic Risk?

Michael Britton Payne - Hezbollah: The Dynamic Politics of the Party of God

Latin American Literature
Elizabeth Barrios - "¿Con quien te identificás?": Filmic Identifications and the Subversive Imagination in Manuel Puiz's Betrayed by Rita Hayworth and Kiss of the Spider Woman

Neuroscience
Nicholas Fasolt - Effects of Temporary Inactivation of the Basolateral Amygdala During Extinction of Cocaine Conditioned Place Preference in Rats

Physics
Tomomi Sunayama - A Hydrodynamical Modeling of RS Ophiuchi

Political Science
Daniel Long Hoffman - The Shifting Face of Iraq: The New Politics of the Shi'a Majority

Studio Art - Painting
Carrie Anne Ramig - Analysis of Perception: Color Theory and Space, With an Emphasis on the Role of Art History in Painting

Theatre
Pamela Rae Schuller - Youth Outreach Through the Collaborative Creation of an Original Film