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
Learning to Read, Learning to Love It: A Shared Literacy Vision, Abigail E. Emmert
Dystopian Language and Thought: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Applied to Created Forms of English, Kristen Fairchild
The Empathetic Human: The Story of How Story Increases Cognitive and Social Ability, Olivia C. Flores
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
Social Childbirth and Communities of Women in Early America, Jocelyn Jessop
Life as an Only Child: Modern Psychology’s Take on the Stereotypical Only and My Firsthand Perspectives, Samuel Johnson
Letters to Make-Believe: An Afterschool Survival Kit, Jessica Maginity
From Passive Receptacles to Active Contenders: Ovulation and Intrasexual Competition in Human Females, Andres E. Munoz
Perception and Communication of Nonverbal Emotion: In Close Relationships, Christine F. Norris
Stories of Africa: The politics of displaying African objects in museum exhibitions, Kristin Otto
Evolutionary Eating: A Critical Evaluation of the Paleo Diet, Ben Roess
German Foreign Policy in the Cyber Age, Patrick Schmitz
From Marsquakes to Terraforming: the Role of Planetary Geology in Science Fiction Literature, Katherine Shover
Ecology, Emotion, and Culture: The Moral Psychology of Environmentalism, Camille G. Veri
Submissions from 2012
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