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Tuesday, June 5, 2001
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College Honors Awarded to the Class of 2001

Biochemistry
Eric Martin Pietras - Temperature-Induced Modulation of IL-4 and gIFN Activity on LPS-Activated RAW 264.7 Macrophages

Sabir Mohammad Taj - Cloning Regions of the GrpE Gene from E. coli that contain the b-Sheet Domain of the GrpE Heat Shock Protein for Future Biochemical Studies

Biology
Jennifer Ruth Anderson - Be a Tree Tracker: The Creation of a Hands-On Children's Museum Exhibit

Summer Storm Kingery - An Approximated Growth Curve For A Mississippi River Population of Trachemys scripta

Michaela Simcha Klein - The Effects of Estrogen, DHEA and Insulin-like Growth Factor I on b-amyloid Toxicity Associated with Alzheimer's Disease

Biopsychology
Mara Elise Mellin - The Role of N-methyl D-aspartate (MNDA) Long Term Potentiation (LTP) in Attention and Arousal and Its Implications in Consciousness

Black Studies
Meghan Karlene Leiseberg - A Celebration of Heritage: Meeting Instructional Needs Through the Evaluation and Creation of Functional Black Studies Materials

Cellular Biology
Sidharth Mahapatra - Proposed Mechanism for the Selective Destabilization of alpha-Amylase mRNA in GA3-treated Barley Aleurone Layers Exposed to Heat Shock via Polysome and SRP Partitioning Studies

Chemistry
Heidi Adele Heuerman - Mechanism and Kinetics of Chlorine with Ethanol and Ethanol-d

Classics
Nathan Gilbert Bethell - Art Out of Voice: A Study in Vergilian Ekphrasis

English
Carolyn Anne Popovich - ESL Theory and Practice

English Literature
Melissa Marie Adams - Quixote in Drag: Queer Desire and Gendered Reading in Eighteenth-Century Burlesque Fiction

English Writing
Elaine Carmen Farrugia - "A Different Kind of Home": A Novella of the People of Malta

Shannon Christine Latimer - Creative Fiction and Dramatic Writing

Jennifer Joann Tynes - Wetlands

Ryan Michael Williams - There Are Words in Our Bones: A Web Album Exploration of Alienation and Community

Gender and Women's Studies
Benjamin Homan Neale - Stranger in a Strange Land: An Ethnographic Memoir of a Male Feminist

Margaret Brynn Seibert - Gendered News: A Study of Contemporary Women's Pages in Daily Newspapers From the U.S. and Argentina

German
Sarah Katherine Fraser - A Window to Vienna, 1866-67, Through the Eyes of American Cornelia Almira Post

Carolyn Jane Schenck - Motivations for Living: A Look Into the Life of Alma Mahler

Ellen Joan Titzkowski - Linguistic Suicide? Or a Sign of Modernity? Attitudes Towards Anglicizing the German Language

History
Jessica Claire Corlett - Female Friendship and Family Ties on the Illinois Frontier, 1830-1870

KarlTorgrim Kooistra - A Fleeting Encounter: British/Native American Contact in Puget Sound, 1792

Rory Anne Parilac - Selling What Couldn't be Bought: A Cultural History of Depression-era Print Advertising

Integrated International Studies
Kirsten Margaret Meredith - Presenting Morality and Mortality: Film as a Political Actor

International Relations
James Alan Wakefield - Transitions of Leadership in West Africa: The Case of Senegal

Interdisciplinary Studies
Elisabeth Rose Beasley - Interpreting, Representing & Responding: The Adaptation Process of a Maasai Folktale

Medical Ethics
Nicole Marie Tupik - Differing Medical Practices: A Study Into Which Practices Should Be Universalized and Which Should Be Allowed to Remain Culturally Differing

Molecular Biology
Janelle Marie Curtis - Characterizing the Binding Specificity of mRNA Binding Proteins in Heat Shocked Barley Aleurone Layers

Samvit Tandan - Cloning of the Sec61p a-Subunit ER Translocation Membrane Protein in Barley Aleurone Cells

Philosophy
Brian Joseph Prugh - The Proof Has A Hole In It! "Gaps" and the Axioms That Fill Them

Physics
Jeffrey Claiborne Smith - Design and Construction of a Fixed-Frequency Cyclotron

Political Science, International Relations and Women's Studies
Rebekah Kathleen Tromble - The European Union's Response to Transnational Prostitution: A Latvian Case Study

Psychology
Kei Kawashima - Improving Subjective Well-Being with Art Therapy: Two Intervention Studies

Anna P. Obraztsova - To Each His Own: Effects of Novelty Seeking On Cocaine Conditioned Place Preference and Post-CPP Cocaine-Seeking Behavior

Russian
Alison Cecile Rudy - Alone in the World: Observations of the Orphanage System in the Krasnodar Region of Russia During a Time of Transition

Sociolinguistics (Spanish)
Jessica Griffin Nadler - Reviving and Resisting a Minority Language: Debate Over the Normalization of Catalan

Sociology-Anthropology
Rachel Anne Horner - College Makes Me Sick!—An Exploration of Student Health Culture

Lillian Darcy Mason - Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News: Doctors Speak on the Changing Nature of Authority in Health Care

Sociology-Anthropology and Education
Julia Marie Wilson - "It's a Small School and You Know Everyone": Two Small Schools and Their Sense of Community

Studio Art
Jennifer Ann Frederick - Alternative Space and Creative Interaction in Public Spaces

Desirée Bernadette Maltbia - Creating an Environment

Limly Thipphongpraphas - Perceptual Art and Art From Memory, How the Two Reflect Parts of My Identity

Ellen Royer Trumbo - Landscape and Memory

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