Senior Honors Theses and Projects from 2013
Residents of a domestic violence shelter: A needs assessment for post-shelter living, Amber Smith (Social Work)
Social media impact on virtual shopping, Tarah Soltis (Technology Studies)
Women in the Criminal Justice System, Nickole L. Stein-Fisher (Social Work)
The methodological challenges of conducting research on elderly Chinese immigrants in residential settings, Jessica Thomas (Health Sciences)
Insights into readmission rates of atrial fibrillation patients referred to BRIDGE, Thomas Vasko (Nursing)
Characterization of coaggregation between probiotic Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482 and bacteria of the gastrointestinal tract, Rachael Vasquez (Biology)
Practicing what we teach: The politics behind creating a state social studies curriculum, Jacquelyn Visger (Political Science)
Casualties of the drug war, Allan Wachendorfer (Social Work)
The culture of intercollegiate athletes: Pawns for university economic success and academic fraud, Derek Wagner (Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology)
Reductions in muscular strength three months and six months following bariatric surgery are proportional to absolute weight loss, Renee Walton (Health Promotion and Human Performance)
Better social studies: Increasing content knowledge & reading simultaneously, Ellen Rae Weaver (Teacher Education)
Senior Honors Theses and Projects from 2012
Are individuals' views on inquiry-based learning related to the level of inquiry they have experienced?, Maria Ang (Biology)
Sexual risk taking behaviors of EMU residents, Jennifer Barker (Health Sciences)
Teaching "correct" English: Codeswitching between standard American and vernacular English, Kaia-Marie Bishop (English Language and Literature)
Mental health policy through the lens of a social worker, Rebecca Marie Boog (Social Work)
Nonlinear curve fitting (linear plus exponential) for magnetic cooling data, Shannon Bourke (Mathematics)
Make the grade: An investigation of STI-prevention marketing campaigns, Randal D. Brown (Psychology)
Tyrone and Vivian Brown: A person-in-environment retrospective, Tyrone Brown (Social Work)
The "push" and "pull" of Mexican immigrants across the United States border, Kayleigh Del Cotto (Political Science)
The five p's of type 1 diabetes, Paula Elizabeth Esteva (Nursing)
Analysis of DNA copy number variants in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae, Alexander Friske (Biology)
Hezbollah: A present day non-state actor, Travis Fry (Technology Studies)
Senior flute recital: Program notes, Corinne Marie Galligan (Music and Dance)
The matriarch: A historical review of the life of Ada Mae Woodson Brown Metcalf, Pamela Gesund (Social Work)
From the closet to the campaign trail: Homosexuality and elections, Emily Gillingham (Political Science)