An Honors Senior Project is required for graduation through the WWU Honors College. The Senior Project serves as a “capstone” experience, synthesizing what students have done in their entire education, including but not limited to their work in the major and in Honors.

The term, Senior Project, is vague, and for a reason. The term “Senior Thesis” is easily available, but it is one the WWU Honors College deliberately has avoided. While the project must be “product oriented,” i.e., there must be something tangible at the end of the process, it may be a long paper, that is a thesis, but it may also take several other forms, e.g., a recital, a painting, an album, a bound book, all of which have been quite successful senior projects.

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Become the Monster: Identity, Perception, and What it Means to be Inhuman, Juniper Amundson

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Language Barriers Among Immigrant Communities, Rosia Aning

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Racial Diversity and Retention Rates of Psychology Faculty in Washington State Public Universities, Chiyo Aoki-Kramer

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The Three R's of Exercise: Review, Reframe, Recommend, Liam Arenas-Field

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Fierce Female Friendships: An Artistic Representation and Exploration of the Benefits of Gender-Based Inclusivity and Community in STEM, Maya Bachmeier-Evans

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SENTIMENTAL VALUE: Developing a model for sentiment & linguistic analysis of cable news, Caitlin Bannister

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CBD Levels and Localization in the Body, Jenavieve Barson

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Verb strings and other weavings: An exploration of grammatical structures, visual arts, and language teaching, Mae Bash

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Outdoor Therapy for Women: A Coming Home, Drew Baty

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Hunting Down Treatment Therapies for Huntington's Disease, Sage Berry

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"You Have to Look at Both Sides": Percepticide and Memory in Argentina's Parque de la Memoria, Lily Berver

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She Who Seeks the Deep, Laci Bowhay

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Enticing Communication: An Examination of Environmental Arrangement Strategies in Early Intervention Settings, Anna Brillault-Kenny and Beatrice King

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Verse Engineering: A Compositional Analysis of World Music Cultures, Mosey Brown

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Studying the South Lake Whatcom Fire, Lillian Buck

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Vail Resorts, Inc. - Valuation and Comprehensive Analysis, Griffin Butler

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The Secret History of Bagley Basin: Snow Algae and the Millennia Long Story They Tell, AG Camara, Robin Kodner, Doug Clark, Michael Kraft, and Emma Mickelson

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Perspectives on (In)Human(e) Displacement and Migration, Jordan Carey

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An Analysis of Clinopyroxene Reaction Rims as Assimilation Chronometers at Cinder Cone Volcano, Lassen National Volcanic Park, California, Annabelle Carozza

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Women in Classical Music, Caitriona Cassel

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Math Identity: Breaking Barriers and Building Brilliance, Emily Chappell

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Dine and Dash: Changing Harbor Seal Numbers and Habitat Use at the Developing Bellingham Waterfront, Holland Conwell

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What are our plans missing? What are our missing plans?, Vivien Coop

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Recreation: Work That Makes A Difference, Logan Cornwell

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Making Space: How the ENGD Makerspace promotes inclusion and belonging, and its success in doing so, Noah Crow

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Perceptions of Political Knowledge, Political Participation, and Political Efficacy Among Western Washington University Students, Bryndis Danke

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Not All Monsters Live Under Your Bed, Rebecca Davis

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Pieces of the Puzzle: How public health fits in with the world, Erin Demir

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Frank Wins a Staring Contest with the Universe, Frank DePalma

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Language Planning, Education, and Linguistic Identity in the Republic of Ireland, Margo Digiacinto

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No Man's Land: Diversify Our Outdoors, Katrina Doerflinger

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We Walk in Different Worlds, Olivia Dong

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Ego Liminality, Sof Dubois

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Getting to Know Community Forestry, Jane Egan

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Mistletoe Blooms: A Proposal of Method, Petra Ellerby

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Route 666: A Guided Tour Through American Road Trip Horror, Grace Fiser

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Salmon Against Humanity: Are Hatcheries a Part of Salmon Recovery?, Janine Fong

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Wild Buildings in the Balkans - Using drones and GIS to identify illegal buildings in Galicica National Park, North Macedonia, Marko Foster

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Animal-Sediment relationships reexamined, a meta-analysis, Christine Franzen

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Framing Dr. Fauci: The Portrayal of Dr. Anthony Fauci by Fox News and CNN in the Early COVID-19 Lockdown, Lilian Froese Raihl

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Redefining Drug Education: A Neuroscience-Based Class for High Schoolers, Talia Frost-Belansky

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Developing the *ucker Carlson Effect: Creating Space for Collective, Personal, and Professional Work in Cognitive Psychology, Zoe Gadbow

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Examining harbor seal predation impacts on Bellingham Technical College's salmon smolt release, Madison Gard and Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez

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A History of China-Tanzania Relations: How China Became Donor, Friend, and Foe, Lucy Gentry

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Joy at the End of the World, Faith Giboney

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A Golden Friendship: A Children's Book, Gurleen Gill

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Visualizing Animal Fire Responses, Michael Ginster

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Assessing Positioning of Centriolar Satellites by the Golgi Apparatus, Jonah Goodfried and Nick Galati

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Derivatives, Mikayla Goodkin et al

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A Change-Point Analysis of Air Pollution Levels in Silao, Mexico and Fresno, California, Rachael Goodwin

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Writing through becoming, becoming through writing: The evolution of poems through 2022 and early 2023, Maya Miracle Gudapati

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Media Coverage on Human-Bear Encounters, Robin Hall

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Shared Roots: A geochemical investigation of basaltic andesites to understand magmatic cogenesis at the Middle Sister and South Sister volcanoes, central Oregon, Sean Francis Halstead

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From Filth it Rises presentation, Griffin Hartz

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A Look at Languaging: Linguistic Justice in the Hacherl Research & Writing Studio, Rose Huentelman

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Virginity: Not All Rose Petals and Candles, Katherine Hunter

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Keystone Species Explorer Website, Claire Hutchings

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Solving the Genius Square: Using Math and Computers to Analyze a Polyomino Tiling Game, Noah Jensen

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Creating a Knockout Cell Line: Using CRISPR/Cas9 as a Tool for Huntington's Disease Research, Emma Jerome

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Creating a Mass-Balanced Food Web Model for a Generalized Restored Estuary in Puget Sound, Penelope Johnson

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/kwɪɹ/, Breann Jones

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The role of volatile enrichment in the radiogenic heating and thermal evolution of rocky exoplanets, Ula Jones and Asmaa Boujibar

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How-to: Make your house a battery--How demand-side management will be one key to a greener future, explained for popular audiences., Olivia Kaulfus

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Silicon and Oxygen in Earth’s Core: Applications of Machine Learning to Metal-Silicate Equilibria and Core Formation, Ruben Keane

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alternative milks: a musical exploration of identity, violence, and friendship, Fern Keely

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Honoring the Gift: An epistolary exploration of an alternative approach to learning grounded in reciprocity and gratitude, Tegan Keyes

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The Neuroscience of Creativity (Structure and Emotion), Michael Kihanya

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Adventure in Seoul: A Bilingual Korean-English Children's Book, Abigail Landaverde

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The Diffusion Illusion: An interdisciplinary approach to modeling cellular calcium dynamics, Katie Lane

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Digital Archaeology: Detection of Archaeological Structures Using Convolutional Neural Networks on Aerial LiDAR Data, Katie LaRue

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Eco-Anxiety in Undergraduates: An Exploration of Western Washington University Students’ Beliefs of and Personal Experiences with Climate Change and Ecological Crisis, Kathryn Lee

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L'Esprit de Lascaux: Exploring group camaraderie in the paleolithic through game design, Logan Lemieux

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1. On Adapting Local Food Systems, Nelson Lobo

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Lagrangian Mechanics and the Motion of a T-Handle, Eric Maurer

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Blood Coagulation Factor IX: Purification, Activation, Crystallization, Juliet McGill

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Investigations on the Active Catalyst in Pd Catalyzed Organic Reactions, Riley McGraw

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Political Rhetoric: A Personal and Scientific Exploration, Joshua McNeal

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Beyond the Meeple: TTRPG's Impact on WWU Students, Nicolas Mendez

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Development, Line by Line: An Introspective Case Study on Narrative Identity and Development through Poetry, Milla Miller

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Liberalism and its Trail, David Nessa

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The Silenced Migrants, Alisa Nguyen

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Databases and Deliberation, Britany Orozco and Quentin Jensen

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Racism within the Honors College, Zoe Pais

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Facing the Music: Reflections from a Classically Trained Violinist, Olivia Palmer

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The Call of Muscari, Sophia Passarelli

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The Preacher's Child, Sam Pearce

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The Power of Play: Theatre’s Potential for Healing the Wounds of Capitalism, Danielle Phillips

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Revolutionizing Solar: A Portable Solar Solution for Anywhere, Anytime Use, Shelby Powers

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The Eco-Thrifter’s Medley: Designing a low-waste lifestyle guide that seeks to address and overcome common barriers to sustainable living, Laura Raufi

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Double Trouble: Applying Deep Learning to EBS Systems, Noah Reneau, Hidemi Mitani Shen, Nicholas Chandler, and Ian Pourlotfali

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'An Indigenous Reckoning': An Indigifutures Production, Jayden Robles

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Liberty Without Love: An Investigation of Antebellum Slave Narratives and American Freedom, Hallie Rogers

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Quanta: Queering Video Games, Fyn Rose

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“Emotions and the Ocean”: Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into a Fifth-Grade Science Curriculum, Madison Rossen

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An Overview of Background and Experimental Methods Used to Investigate a ~23-24 nucleotide small RNA pathway and its Links to Genome Stability, Abigail Ruddick

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The Foreign Earth: An Exercise in Speculative Biology, Aidyn Ruf

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The Study of Peace: Proposing and Designing a Peace Studies Class for WWU, Clarice Ruhlin-Hicks

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Not Not Double Negation, Jagmeet Sahota

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‘Overcoming Terror’: A Holistic Investigation into Using Horror Media to Manage the First-Person Experience of Fear and Anxiety, Nick Satnik

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On Research Ethics: A Proposal for an Undergraduate Ethics Course using a Graduate Research Ethics Course as a Baseline, Jordan Sawyer