Senior Honors Presentations

Senior honors projects are semester-long independent research projects designed to showcase the work of the Honors Program students. Topics for these presentations range from discussions of German expressionism to experiments with sediment collected in the barrier reef system near Belize; from coaches' motivational speeches to the effects of pseudoscience. Additionally, each day will begin with a brief ceremony awarding Honors medals to the graduating seniors.

3:00: Welcome and presentation of honors medals

3:15: Ben Gutzky, “How Resistance Training Influences Muscle Hypertrophy”

3:30: Raffaela Mueller, “Natural Medicine and Pseudoscience”

3:45: Taylor Arbogast, “Communication Tendencies in Sports Speeches”

4:00: break

4:15: Elyssa Williams, “From Roots to Ends: Untangling Meaning through Black Hair ”

4:30: Melanie Cohn, “BBRS Sediment Composition”

4:45: Mark Juengling, “Can a Computer Really Learn?”

5:00: Kristina Confesor, “What are the Similaritrees: A Comparison of Microsatellites In Maple Species”