Scholars Banquet Program Details

SENIORS, DEFENSE DATE, THESIS TITLE

Christina Jellema          4/10/2014                                        

The co-localization of p53 and Prohibitin after induction of apoptosis

Dr. Keith McClung

Adam Kucera               4/10/2014                                        

Data Analysis and Visualization of All-Pay Auctions

Dr. John Zelle

Allison Milner               4/10/2014                                        

A Memoir of Sorts.

Dr. Amy L. Nolan

Abbigail Mueller           4/10/2014                                        

The Musical Moment: An analysis of Paul Hindemith's Bassoon Sonate

Gregory Morton

Derek Norton                4/10/2014                                        

Effect of opposite-sex pheromones on immediate early gene expression in castrated and intact male Golden hamsters.

Dr. Larimer Bousquet

Andra Peeler                 4/10/2014                                        

Poetic Foundations

Carita Pfaltzgraff

Caitlyn Reynolds          4/10/2014                                        

The co-localization of p53 and Prohibitin after induction of apoptosis

Dr. Keith McClung

Serena Ugoretz             4/10/2014                                        

The Young Latino American Dream

Zak Montgomery

 Continuing Wartburg Scholars

Emily Almandinger		Zubeen Azari		Benjamin Bogard
Amanda Bonjour		Daniel Bonthius		Alexia Brewster
Gabrielle Calease Fox		Stacy Deibert		Cara Donels
Megan Ellis		Levi Endelman		Sean Engel
Emma Evans-Peck		Nathan Ford		Merry Gillaspie
Jessica Grant		Matthew Heeren		Lindsay Heinen
Emma Herms		Kayla Heslin		Andrew Hoyt
Yakin Jaleta		Nicole Jamieson		Robert King
Kellan Koch		Mallory McDonald		Evan Meester
Gabrielle Miller		Amanda Milner		Kelsey Miner
Madison Mix		Sara Mohr		Sarah Mullinax
Ella Newell		Tyler Nullmeyer		Leah Onsgard
Aditi Patel		Austin Pauling		Amanda Phillips
Hailee Reist		Eric Revis		Samantha Ribble
Elizabeth Rucker		Zach Schulz		MiKindzi Shanks
Emily Smith		Arun Sondhi		Michaela Sundermann
Megan Tapp		Alex Thibodo		Dylan Thiede
Tarra Troendle		Andrew Tubbs		Kelley Upham
Bradley Waller		Blaise Waller		Mackenzie Walsh
Phillip Wessels		Abigail Wetzler		Sarah White
Catherine Wilcox		Sophia Williams-Perez		Danica Windfield

2014-15 Scholars Council Election Results

Congratulations to the winners of the Scholars Council Elections

Class of 2015

                   Aditi Patel

Class of 2016

Benjamin Bogard

Bradley Waller

Class of 2017

Leah Onsgard

Sara Mohr

Ella Newell

Scholars Presenting at the Philosophical & Literary Society Friday

We are most pleased to announce a student “double header” at this week’s meeting of the Philosophical & Literary Society. Please come out and support our student presenters.


Allison Milner

Self-Deception aboard the Pequod: Put that in your pipe and smoke it!


Nicole Jamieson

Can religiosity indicate how trusting an individual is?

The Philosophical & Literary Society meets Fridays at 4:00 in the McCoy conference rooms of the Saemann Student Union when Wartburg is in session. Students are encouraged to attend. Beverages and snacks available.



We invite presentations of an academic nature from faculty, staff, students, and members of the community.

Fall SULI application is now open

The Office of Science / Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists WDTS), is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications to its 2014 Fall Term Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program, with all required application materials, including recommendations, due by 5:00 PM ET on May 30, 2014. The SULI program encourages undergraduate students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers by providing research experiences at Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, where selected students participate as interns appointed at participating host labs. They perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting the DOE mission.

Further information, including program eligibility, requirements, host lab participation, and access to the online application system are found at:

http://science.energy.gov/wdts/

http://science.energy.gov/wdts/suli/

with inquiries or questions made using:

http://science.energy.gov/wdts/suli/contact/

The SULI program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with the DOE laboratories. The Department of Energy's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

UMHC Tentative Schedule

Time	Room	Name/Last	Title of Presentation
April 24 at  3:00 PM			Registration
April 24 at  5:30 PM			Opening Remarks & Greetings
April 24 at  6:00 PM			Banquet
April 24 at  7:00 PM			Speaker
April 24 at  8:00 PM			Student Fun
April 24 at  8:00 PM			Faculty Reception
April 25 at 8:00 AM			Opening Remarks
April 25 at 8:15 AM			State Caucuses
April 25 at 9:15 AM	1	Hana Spangler	Spectators, Satyrs, and Frogs: The Role of the Chorus in Ancient Greek Drama
	2	Collin Heer	Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase: Form and Function
	3	Morgan Marushin	The Seeds of Our Future
	4	Srijita Kar	Psychological Manipulation
	5	Megan Hondl	The Honors College Student Council
	6	Tim Nichols	What About Love? A mult-disiplinary examination of one of the most powerful forces in human life
April 25 at 9:45 AM	1	Josh Sylvester	Nuclear Weapons Testing Program on the Marshall Islands
	2	Melinda Svejda	Himalayan Newts: Exploration and Rescue
	3	Joe Christensen	Faith in a Seed
	4	Katherine LaFleur	Start to Finish:  How the Eugenics Movement Led to the Nazi final Solution
	6	Josh Laskowski	Honors Living and Learning Community Service Contract
April 25 at 10:15 AM	2	Nicole Wennen	The Seeds of Change: Going Green
	3	Travis VanOverbeke	Random Number Generation: Seeded or Seedless
	4	Michael Rohm	Community Mobilization in Rwanda
	5	Tim Nichols	A Home of Our Own: Bringing Honors Hall at SDSU to Life
April 25 at 10:45 AM	1	Deborah Admire	Separation of the Sophists
	2	Noah Holzman	Engineering Chemistry: Fabricating a Photochemical Reactor
	3	Nick Arens	Not Every Function has an Elementary Antiderivative
	4	Katie Sam	Explaining the Difference in Financial Literacy Among College Students: Gender Effect or Family Background?
	5	Tim Nichols	Making Meaning in Honors
	6	Toril Sanford	Designing an Honors Teaching Manual
April 25 at 11:15 AM	1	Francisco Martinez	Cinema's Buried Thoughts
	2	Kuo-Liang Chang	Factors affected Household's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Survey Study in Northern Great Plain Region
	4	Antoinette Lyte-Evans	The Little Things that Matter
	6	Tim Nichols	Factors Influencing Honors Student Recruitment and Retention at SDSU
April 25 at 11:45 AM	1	Megan Feuchtenberger	How Aristotle’s Beliefs Influenced His Scientific Endeavors
	2	John Craig	Humans vs. Nature: Who is the Enemy?
	3	Jordan Ulmer	A Brief Survey of Mathematical Paradoxes
	4	Jennifer O'Konek	The Seeds of Success
	5	Barbara Kleinjan	The Connections and Disconnections of Social Media: How the Virtual World Impacts Relationship Development among Honors Students
	6	Bill Knox	After Honors: Staying in the Game
April 25 at 12:30 PM			Lunch
April 25 at 1:30 PM	1	Andrew Tubbs	The tonal asociations and their functions with in Franz Schubert's Die Schöner Müllerin
	2	Jessica Hulzebos	Turning America's Failing Crop Around
	3	Joellyn Sheehy	Self-Interest and Human Trafficking
	4	Madeline Hentges	Replanting the Seeds of Blame
	5	Hanna Larsen	Becoming an Honors Servant Leader
	6	Casey Goodmund	Reaping the harvest of Honors Contracts: the Learning Portfolio and Option B
April 25 at 2:00 PM	1	Jessie Eckroad	Truffula Trees and Camas Seeds: An Analysis of Two Nature Narratives
	2	Eric Revis
	3	Allison Rucinski	Coming Out: Is it Still Relevant?
	4	Lindsey Simmons	Adventures in Evolutionary Psychology
April 25 at 2:30 PM	1	Ellen Ahlness	Janteloven and Social Conformity in Thorbørn Egner’s Literature
	2	Katelyn Kippes	Down syndrome: The Effects of Knowing on Prenatal Testing and Abortion Decisions
	5	Suzanne Carter	Nurturing the Growth of Honors: Iowa Honors Outreach
	6	Chris Chambers	The Human SupraOrganism
April 25 at 3:00 PM			Poster Session
April 25 at 4:30 PM			UMHC Executive Meeting
April 25 at 5:00 PM			Pizza Dinner
April 25 at 5:00 PM			Faculty Dinner
April 25 at 7:00 PM			Ph.D. The Movie
April 25 at 8:30 PM			Ph.D. Panel Disucssion
April 26 at 9:00 AM	1	Megan Verhagen	Representation of Feminism in Antigone and The Mahabharata
	2	Aditi Patel	Precision Biopsy Leads to More Accurate Detection of Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Conventional Biopsy
	3	Rachel Trueblood	Sowing Seeds of Gender in Children's Minds
	4	Kelsey Stern	The Seeds of Aggression
	5	Ginny Walters	Fellowship Advising within Honors
	6	Kate Lysinger	The Female Condition: A Millennial Girl's Guide to Navigating a Patriarchal Society
April 26 at 9:30 AM	1	Barbara Kleinjan	SDSU Honors Speech Readers' Theatre: From Creation to Live Performance
	2	Brittney Anderson	Seeds of Change: Re-conceptualizing Obesity as a Disease
	3	Angela Wieland	A Worm in Disney's Apple
	4	Kyla Larsen	Social Success!
	6	Caleb Miller	The Psychology of Disagreement
April 26 at 10:00 AM	2	Riley Taubert	Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Antiviral Treatments on HIV Patient RNA and CD4 T Cell Levels
	3	Owen Shay	An Inter-State Vision: the People Who Built America’s Super Highways
	5	Tim Nichols	Honors-Led Common Read Engages Students, Builds Community
	6	Ben Stout	Using "A Sand County Almanac" to Develop Ecological Understanding and Land Value
April 26 at 10:30 AM			UMHC Annual Business Meeting
April 26 at 10:30 AM			Closing Remarks