Art
Capturing Suburban Angst
Student(s): Katie Heilenday
Collaboration (Artworks with multiple authors)
Student(s): Taylor Boyd
Depicting Self
Student(s): Pierrette Swan
Disconnection with the Natural Environment
Student(s): Scott Roberts
Graphic Design (Self Designed Commissions)
Student(s): Danielle Fiedler
Relief Sculpture (Exploring tree imagery)
Student(s): LeeAnne Morton
Shadow Play (Existentialism and light in painting)
Student(s): Sara Mullen
The Ocean's Cathedral (Wave imagery as a metaphor)
Art History
Comparative Images of Prostitution in Impressionist Art and After
Student(s): Shannon Agostino
Gender Bias and the 19th Century Criticism of the Sculpture of Camille Claudel
Student(s): Kathleen Mabry
Images of Smoking and Cigarettes in Late 19th and 20th Century Art
Student(s): Sara Mullen
Religious Art in the Nineteenth Century
Student(s): Kim Fahle
The Corrupting Power of Images and 19th Century Art
Biology
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Campus Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) Designs
Student(s): Katherine Burchett
Antibacterial/Antifungal properties of the nudibranch Doriopsilla pharpa and its sponge prey Cliona sp.
Student(s): David Curran
Bee Aggression: Why Bees Attack
Student(s): Bryttani Patton
Comparative study of the anatomy of harvestmen from Trinidad, with description of four new species
Student(s): Nouman Rana
Comparison of morphology in scolecophidian and alethinophidian snake skin
Student(s): Stephanie Couture
Cytotoxicity of Opisthobranch Egg Masses
Student(s): Parésa Taghavie-Moghadam
Defensive Behaviors of Harvestmen
Student(s): Danielle Dardis
Development of Harvestmen
Student(s): Nouman Rana
Diversity of Pulmonate Gastropods in Southeastern Virginia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Polmonata)
Student(s): Lynsey Main
Effect of Visual Sensory Cues on Sea Turtle Movement
Student(s): Suzie Lazarowitz
Electrical and Olfactory Perception of the Stingray
Student(s): Mallory Offner
Electroreception in the Lives of Sharks: Feeding, Mating, and Navigation
Student(s): Mallory Offner
Green Roof Habitat Usage by Invertebrates
Student(s): David Curran
Hearing Frequencies of Local Semi-Aquatic Turtles
Student(s): Allison Shannon
Huddling Behaviors of Penguins
Student(s): Ashley Lindsey
Identification, Description, and Comparison of the Harvestmen Fauna of Northern Trinidad, La Selva, Costa Rica and El Cope, Panama
Student(s): Danielle Dardis
Impact of an omnivorous fish on nutrient dynamics in mesocosms via excretion and bioturbation
Student(s): Troy Horn '08, Corey Selecky '06, Kevin Wright '07, and Wanda Morris '05
Opisthobranch Mollusks from Virginia's Eastern Shore: Systematics and Development
Student(s): Pamela Bray
Review of Pseudoreplication in the Biomedical Literature
Student(s): Francis Manno III
Role of Semiaquatic Turtles in Lake Nutrient Cycles
Student(s): Katherine Burchett
Sensory Perception and Post-Emergence Behavior of Leatherback Sea Turtle Hatchlings at Petite Tacarib, Trinidad
Student(s): Suzanne Lazarowitz
Sexual Dimorphism in Turtles
Student(s): Casie Newton
Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in Reptiles
Student(s): Stephanie Couture
The Causes and Effects of Hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay
Student(s): AJ Ward
The Effects of Development on Soenopsis invicta Territory Expansion
Student(s): David Curran
The Effects of Terrestrial Slug Herbivory on Vegetation
Student(s): Lynsey Main
The Sixth Sense: Electroreception in Elasmobranchs
Student(s): Hannah Ring
Use of a Designed Highway Undercrossing by Wildlife Over the First 2 Years of Use
Student(s): Kathleen Mabry, Samantha Porter '07
Chemistry
A Comparative Study of Antioxidant Levels in Fresh, Frozen and Canned Vegetables
Student(s): Paresa Taghavie-Moghadam
Conjugate Addition of Active Methylene Carbon Nucleophiles to Quinoline Vinylacetylines: New Access to the Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Benzoindolizines
Student(s): Rachel A Francher
Design and Synthesis of New Indolizine Derivatives
Student(s): Shannon Cassatt
Effect of Frozen Packaging on Total Phenolic Content of Strawberries and Blackberries
Student(s): Ashley Zimmerman
New Synthesis of Substituted Pyrrolo[1.2-a] Quinoxaline Derivatives Employing Quinoxaline 2-Vinylacetylenes
Student(s): Megan Cahoon
Practical Synthesis of Pyrrolo [1, 2-a] Quinoxalines
Student(s): Tamecka Melton, Telisa Holland
Preparation and characterization of quinoxaline 2(Z)-vinylhalides and quinoxaline vinylacetylenes: Key starting materials for the synthesis of biologically useful pyrroloquinoxaline heterocyclic derivatives.
Student(s): Telisa Holland and Tamecka Melton
Computer Science
Building a Cluster Computer
Student(s): Tom Fletcher
Designing an Inventory Database System
Student(s): John Ahigian
The Study of Online Cataloging Information Systems
Student(s): David Weirich
Web Colloquy: A Teacher-Student Communication Tool
Earth and Environmental Sciences
VA Wesleyan College Energy Audit and Proposed Alternatives
Student(s): Victoria Brynildsen
Education
Accelerated Reader: Diagnostic Teaching Tool or Supplemental Reading Program?
Student(s): Antonia Woods
America’s Minority Students Still Lag Behind: The Achievement Gap, Its Causes, and Possible Solutions
Student(s): Eileen De La Cruz
Are We Dumbing Down America?
Student(s): Mary Warnock
Being Involved: Parents Affect Children's Education
Student(s): Megan Chrisman
Early Intervention, the First Gatekeeper
Student(s): Tiffany Leppert
Elementary Foreign Language Instruction: Putting it Forward as Part of the Core Curriculum
Student(s): Diana Carrasco
How do Deaf and Hearing-impaired Children Adapt Language Development?
Student(s): Toni Montella
Including or Excluding: Is Inclusion Really a Practical Practice for Special Education Students?
Student(s): Desiree Lipinski
Parental Involvement—Could Your Child Be Affected?
Student(s): Lauren Melton
Research In Reading Education
Student(s): Francis Manno
The Absence of Recess and Its Effects on Elementary School Children
Student(s): Amy Yurksaitis
The Effects of Teen Pregnancy on Adolescent Mothers’ Education
Student(s): Adrienne Skinner
The Four Myths of Homeschooling vs. Reality
English
Ecology and Buddhism
Student(s): AJ Ward, Kristian Flitton, Matthew Ashby, Shaylyn Baker, Josh Blankenship, Ryan Gillespie, Tamecka Melton, Matt Pace, Sam Smith
Renaissance Psychology: The Humoral Theory, Its Societal Implications, and Its Role in William Shakespeare’s Literature
Student(s): Jackie Boyce
Sublimity to Mastery: The Developing Relationship of Man and Nature in William Wordsworth's "The Prelude"
Health and Human Services
Emergency Contraceptives: Plan B
Student(s): Katie Albert
The Drug and Alcohol Use of Female College Student Athletes and Sorority Women
Student(s): Julie A. Maggioncalda
History
Bon Curè: the counter-revolution of the French Vendèe
Student(s): Jennifer Brownell
Changing Jamestown: Environmental Conditions and the Starving Time
Student(s): Brandan Adams
Indian Scouts during the Little Big Horn: A Forgotten People
Student(s): Hunter Morgan
St. Paul of Tarsus and St. Augustine of Hippo: A Comparison of the New Testament Writer and the Early Church Father
Student(s): Frederick Swift
The Evolution of Currency During the American Civil War
Student(s): John Maravich
The Jewish Resistance And Revolt in Sobibor
Student(s): Sean Coffey
The Struggle over Black Economic Agency on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Post-Reconstruction Him Crow South
Student(s): Kentoya L. Downing
Journalism
Homelessness and Tourism
Management, Business and Economics
A Meta-Analysis of Diversity Programs in American Organizations
Student(s): Kaitlin Allison
African American Women in Leadership Positions in Corporate America
Mathematics
A Study of Crystallographic Groups
Student(s): Kelli Karcher
Undergraduate Research Workshop in Mathematics
Music
Formal analysis of 'Pantoum' from Ravel's Piano Trio
Student(s): David Weirich
Music Analysis
Student(s): Owen Davis and Luke Crownover
Music Research for Junior Recital
Student(s): Geoffrey Bell
Music Research for Junior Recital
Philosophy
Humanitarianism and the Politics of Economic Development in Vietnam
Student(s): Julie Maggioncalda, Lauren Perry, Matthew Ryan, Lan Tran, Sarah Tytler
The Relationship Between Dioxin Exposure and Specific Genetic Disorders in Vietnam and Humanitarian Efforts to Aid Victims and the Community
Student(s): Lan Tran
Translation of Plato
Political Science
Colombia: Democracy and Drug Trafficking
Student(s): Joshua Riley
Democracy Assistance: USAID in Bolivia and Uganda
Student(s): Nathanael Swann
Democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia
Student(s): Rosheena Lewis
Economic Factors in Democratization
Student(s): Ottavia Caesar
The Effects of an Independent Judiciary on Democracy
PORTfolio
College Students' Motivation to Volunteer: An Examination of Research and Values.
Student(s): Krystle L. Kitchen
Psychology
An Investigation into the Effect of Volunteering on Life Satisfaction
Student(s): Bradford S. Jones & Mallori King
An Investigation of the Rehabilitation Needs of Women Incarcerated in a Mid-Atlantic Prison
Student(s): Holly A. Phaneuf, & Jason D. Silvia
Development of the Rigidity Inventory
Student(s): Normal G. Tippens III, Tanya Tyson, & Taryn Jordan
Gender Differences in Some Aspects of Smoking Behavior: Replication of an Investigation Testing Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Student(s): Whitney L. Schubert, Jaclyn Ochs-Gregory, & Sarah R. Saccone
Gossip as a Multifaceted Construct: Development of a New Gossip Questionnaire
Student(s): Eileen de la Cruz
The Effect of Film-Induced Mood on Processing Speed
Student(s): Diana M. Carrasco & Danielle M. Seisa
The Emotional Dependency Scale: A Review of its Development and Psychometric Properties
Student(s): Nicole Murback, Eileen, De LaCruz, Sequoia Holton, & Brian Conner
Religious Studies
Here I Stand: Martin Luther as Classical Hollywood Hero at the Diet of Worms
Student(s): Robins, Kori
St. Francis as Celebrity: Evolution of a Cinematic Saint
Student(s): Orman, Kathleen
The Crusades as Romance: The Adventures of Religious Wars
Student(s): Roane, Ashley
The Lifestyle of Chinese Buddhist Monastics
Theatre
"Everyman" Stage Make Up Design
Student(s): James Cooke
Everyman: A Look at Its Place in History and Its Sources
Student(s): Kimberly Fahle - " Everyman: A Look at Its Place in History and Its Sources"
Women in Mathematics: Challenging Gender Typecasting in David Auburn's Proof
Women's and Gender Studies
It Was Our Duty: Motherhood and the German Nazi Regime
Student(s): Katherine Bradley
“Nothing but Smut”: Addressing Misrepresentations of Pornography and Advancing its Positive Attributes
Student(s): Jaclyn Boyce