The Honor Scholar Program is open to DePauw students of any major who show unusual promise and commitment to the development of the life of the mind. Each year a small number of carefully selected first-year students are invited to participate in the program and the special opportunities it presents. During their final year at DePauw, Honor Scholars pursue independent work under the direction of a faculty thesis advisor and a committee of two or more additional faculty members, culminating in an Honors thesis.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Assessing the Viability of Converting Indiana's Energy Framework to Renewable Sources by 2050, Lincoln Barlow 14
States and the State of Nature: Understanding State Failure through Evolutionary Theory, Shelby L. Beasley 14
Spirits and Syringes: Malaria as an Epidemic, a Spiritual Punishment, and an Act of War, Kelly Blair 14
Bridging: Poetry of Place in Putnam County, Megan Carter 14
Coleman Young’s Detroit: A Vision for a City 1974-1994, Rachel S. Dauenbaugh 14
Sexual Dimorphism of Staminate- and Pistillate-Phase Flowers of Saponaria officinalis (Bouncing Bet) Affects Pollinator Behavior and Seed Set, Dana A. Dudle, Leah M. Freestone, Peter Konieczny, Michael B. Tobin, and Michael M. Britton
Unpacking the Suitcase: The Real Last Chapter of Alice Paul and Peg Edwards’s Activism, and Why These Stories Matter, Clark Edwards 14
Learning to Read, Learning to Love It: A Shared Literacy Vision, Abigail E. Emmert 14
Dystopian Language and Thought: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Applied to Created Forms of English, Kristen Fairchild 14
The Empathetic Human: The Story of How Story Increases Cognitive and Social Ability, Olivia C. Flores 14
Cardiac Repair and Regenerative Potential in the Goldfish (Carassius auratus) Heart, Jamie Grivas, Maria Haag, Adedoyin Johnson, Trina Manalo, Julia Roell, Lala Tanmoy Das, and Pascal J. Lafontant
Heritable Health: An Exploration of Parental Epigenetics and their Impact on Individual and Public Health, Brittany F. Hayes 14
Social Childbirth and Communities of Women in Early America, Jocelyn Jessop 14
Life as an Only Child: Modern Psychology’s Take on the Stereotypical Only and My Firsthand Perspectives, Samuel Johnson 14
Letters to Make-Believe: An Afterschool Survival Kit, Jessica Maginity 14
“Like Husband and Wife”: The Role of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Friendship in Advancing Their Personal and Professional Successes, Maritza Mestre 14
From Passive Receptacles to Active Contenders: Ovulation and Intrasexual Competition in Human Females, Andres E. Munoz 14
Perception and Communication of Nonverbal Emotion: In Close Relationships, Christine F. Norris 14
Stories of Africa: The politics of displaying African objects in museum exhibitions, Kristin Otto 14
Evolutionary Eating: A Critical Evaluation of the Paleo Diet, Ben Roess 14
German Foreign Policy in the Cyber Age, Patrick Schmitz 14
From Marsquakes to Terraforming: the Role of Planetary Geology in Science Fiction Literature, Katherine Shover 14
Ecology, Emotion, and Culture: The Moral Psychology of Environmentalism, Camille G. Veri 14
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Metropolitan Myth: Catastrophic Language, Ecologies of Violence, and the Storm of Progress in a South Asian City, Kartik Amarnath '13
Press ‘A’ to Speak: Videogames as a Storytelling Medium, Brian Banta '13
Seeing Candidates Through a Gendered Lens: How Differential Media Coverage Serves as a Barrier to Women's Political Participation, Shelby Bremer '10
Early Warning for the Responsibility to Protect, Henry Dambanemuya '13
Democracy, Identity and Anti-Americanism in Turkey: Implications for United States-Turkey Relations, Jeff Easterling '13
Internet Dating: News Media’s Battle to Court a Clicking Audience (and Why an Updated Ethics Code Could Help), Chase Hall '13
Leaving No Child Behind: Finding a Happy Medium for Science Education, Chris Jennings '13
Greenwashing: The Ethics of Green Marketing, Alex Landreville '13
Reinvesting in Art Education in Putnam County: An Analysis and Case for The Castle, Emily Miller '13
A Climate for Swelling: The Social & Biological Impacts of Lymphatic Filariasis on Males & Females in Developing Countries, Arezoo Nazari '13
Moving to the beat: musical rhythm as a cipher for priming, synchronizing, and entrainment in the premotor cortex, Mikey Padilla '13
Anachronistic Policies in the United States: What All Policymakers Need to Know About Marijuana, Alex Riggs '13
Academic Integrity: Values, Responsibilities, and Policies in Postsecondary Education, Sara Scully '13
Defining Humanity: Gender and Equality in the French Revolution, Erin Sheek '13
The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth and Its Implications, Mark Tolley '13
BLOODSPEAK or How the girl gew up with horror, MacKenzie Weeks '13
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Fraught with Zigzags: A realist examination of evolving Great Power-Iraeli relations, Macy Ayers '12
Untold Stories of Human Cargo, Taylor Beaty '12
Parallel Lives: Similarities Between the Lived Experiences of Persons with Cancer and HIV, Danielle Boyd '12
My Life Was Worth Something: Biographical and Autobiographical Memoirs, Laura Bruce '12
Life Beyond The Haze: The risks, reasons and rewards of dealing and doing in college, Matthew Cecil '12
From the Caped Crusader to the Dark Knight: An Application of Robert Ray's Official and Outlaw Hero Framework to Batman, Daniel Cetina '12
Consecration of the City of the Gods: Teotihuacan, 1891-1922, Samuel Holley-Kline '12
Mzungus, Mugazi, and Mitengos: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Education in Lilongwe, Malawi, Stewart Jones '12
Meditation: The Physiological and Psychological Benefits, Karishma Kollipara '12
Romance Novel Heroines Don't Judge Books By Their Covers, Do You?: Popular Perceptions of the Romance Genre Investigated, Nicole Koschmeder '12
The Giant Danio (D. aequipinnatus) as a Model of Cardiac Remodeling and Regeneration, Pascal J. Lafontant, Jamie A. Grivas, Mary A. Lesch, Lala Tanmoy Das, and Tyler D. Frounfelter