Dr. Jennifer Vitale
Elliott Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the Honors Program
Chair of the Honors Council
P.O. Box 165
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
(434) 223-6206
Office: Bagby 223
E-mail: jvitale@hsc.edu
Previous Recipients of Departmental Honors
Year:
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998| 1997 | 1996 | 1995
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Avery Moncure |
Chemistry | Investigations Concerning the Stability of an Evolving Quaternary System of the type Oil/Water/NaOH/Surfactant |
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Daniel Isaacs |
Physics | Time-Dependent Mössbauer Spectroscopy |
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Clayton Parker |
Computer Science |
Adobe AIR Applications with Database Synchronization |
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Janko Kajtez |
Physics |
Mössbauer Study of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin Treated with Nitric Oxide |
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Robert Oliver |
Biology | Mutagenesis of Yeast Integral Membrane Protein Apq12: Exploring the role of the C-terminal region of Apq12 in the regulation of cell cycle progression and cell separation |
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Nathan Thomas |
Biology | The Role of the Nuclrea Membrane Proteins Brr6 and Br11 in Cell Wall Integrity and Cell Seperation |
|
Timothy Fisher |
Foreign Affairs |
Chinese Foreign Aid in Africa: Should the United States Develop a More Visionary Aid Policy to Counter China's Expanding Influence in Africa |
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Kenneth Simon |
Government | Foreign Combatants: The Extent of Presidential Powers |
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Matthew Jones |
Religion | The Poet Loves the Finite: Literature's Legitimate License for Christian Theology |
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Adam Lees |
Foreign Affairs and History (Latin America) |
Andean Autocrats: Historical Contexts and Political Lessons of late-Twentieth Century Military Regimes in Chile and Argentina |
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Matthew MacFarland |
English | Mortal Poetics and the Voice of Elegy: Modern Re-imaginings of Orpheus and Eurydice |
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Justin Smith |
Spanish | The Candombe and the Tango: From Socil Outcast to National Treasure |
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Nathan Parr |
Psychology | The Interaction of Pain Expectancy and Mood in Pain Tolerance |
|
Pranay Reddy |
Biology | Characterization of the Murine Melanoma Cell Lines B16-F1 and D5.1G4: A Model System for Investigating Immune Regulation by Highly Tumorigenic versus Poorly Tumorigenic Melanomas |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Newman Ainsley |
History | Integration of Islamic finance into the United Kingdom |
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Chad Harte |
Chemistry | Metal complexes of Chiral Modular Peptide-Based Oxazolines: Preparation and evaluation as Lewis Acid Catalysts |
|
Chad A. Pleasants |
Biology | The nuclear membrane components Brr6 and Brl1 potentially link nuclear division to the microtubule cytoskeleton and G2/M cell cycle progression |
|
Thomas Schultz |
Physics and Astronomy | Temperature dependence viscosity of motor oils using a capillary viscometer |
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Charles Alexander Smith |
Mathematics and Computer Science | A survey of various data compression techniques |
|
Christopher Tait |
Mathematics and Computer Science | A design for Phase I trials of multiple drugs |
|
Bryan Vanetten |
History | Please ignore the women behind the curtain: Maria Theresa, Madame de Pompadour, Elizabeth of Russia, and the roles of women in politics in the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756 |
|
Gordon Wadsworth |
Economics | The contraints of Empire: An analysis of Roman public policy from an understanding of government budget constraints |
|
Brandon Wood |
Philosophy | Gradualism and trait clusters: Why we owe obligations to our cousins |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Bikash Acharya |
Physics and Astronomy | 7PJ oscillator strengths of Cesium using susceptibility measurement of coherent anti-Stokes Rama Scattering through depolarization spectrum |
|
Christopher Arnatt |
Chemistry | Solid-state supported Baylis-Hillman catalysts |
|
John Campbell |
Chemistry | The Gel Phase in Cold Process Soap Making |
|
Chris Cataldi |
Psychology | Predicting how shy individuals will use the Internet |
|
Devin Drumheller |
Economics | The role of state-level renewable portfolio standards in promoting renewable energy |
|
Ivo Gyurovski |
Psychology | Need for Cognitive Closure and Right Wing Authoritarianism: Testing the Dual-Group Processing Model |
|
Robert Christian Malott |
French/Religion | French culture encounters Islam |
|
John Caleb McClure |
Psychology | Contraint and impulsivity in fraternity and non-fraternity members |
|
Spencer Mobley |
Government and Foreign Affairs | Interest groups in the American political system: Lobbying and deliberation |
| Drew Murphy | English | Epic genre as a living entity: A study of the form, function, and evolution of the epic genre |
| Willoughby Obenchain | Psychology | Cognitive ideology: Response inhibition in Liberals and Conservatives |
| J. Steele Parris | Physics and Astronomy | Optical variability observations of select quasars |
| Ryan Parrish | Chemistry | A study to determine the structure of the Tetrapeptide Pro-Thr-Pro-Ser in order to design a Peptidomimetic Inhibitor for IgA1 Protease |
| Zachary Phillips | Economics | Reinventing the national pastime: The impact of Latin American players in Major League Baseball |
| Sean Platt | Chemistry | A study of the free radical metabolism of Cucumin and related phenolic antioxidants |
| John Reid | Psychology | Mechanisms of attention: Positive allosteric modulation of a7nAChRS in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat |
| J. Andrew Surface | Chemistry | The Development of ESR Signal Recovery Software: An Approach to Improving S/N of Weak ESR Signals |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Eric Lewis |
Philosophy
|
Improving upon Aristotle: Kant's Superior Treatment of Happiness in Morality
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Gregory Mascavage |
Economics |
Hospital Ownership Choice and the Provision of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions |
|
Alex Mayberry |
Fine Arts (Theater) | Misery: A Production in Progress |
|
Phillip G. Miskovic |
Religion | To Form Good Men and Good Citizens': The Hampden-Sydney Religion |
|
James Rawles |
Chemistry | A Study of Variously Substituted Silyl Styrene Radical Anions by Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy |
|
Robert Shrader |
Political Science | Sorting Out the Court System after Saddam: A Look at the Establishment of the Rule of Law in Iraq Focusing on Legal Reform |
|
Hakob Stepanyan |
Economics | Do the Indicators Really Matter for Futures Pricing? |
| Mark Tassone | Classics | Adonis' Double Identity |
| W.T. Hillman Terzian | Biology | Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance Observed in Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-Positive Coagulase-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Hampden-Sydney Students |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Justin Azar |
Biology
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Andrew Brendle |
Political Science | No Religion, No Democracy: Tocqueville's Assessment of Religion in America |
| Andrew Boyett | Fine Arts (Visual) | |
|
Tim Brown |
History |
Simon Iturri Patino: The Epitome of Entrepreneurship or a Hated Exploitative Industrialist? |
|
Zach Dussault
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Political Science
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| Stephen English | English | Ariel and the Witch: Personae and Exorcism in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton |
|
Michael Rutkowski |
Physics and Astronomy |
A Look at the Supernova Remnant 1E0102.2-7219 with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
|
Jonathan Schaaf |
Psychology | |
|
Nate Schetzler |
Political Science | Where the Wild Things Are: Roadless Area Policy and the Battle between Conservation and Commerce Off the Beaten Path |
| Josh Schniper | Humanities | 'Where man can't live gods fare no better': The Role of Religion in Cormac McCarthy |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Graham Bodie | Biology | Characterization of melanoma cell lines |
| Ben Chambers | English/Philosophy | Naturalism in literature and determinist philosophy |
| Mark Goodin | Physics | Phase speeds near the single bubble resonance of a bubbly liquid |
| Charlie Harris | Biology | Anti-tumor effects of organic plant compounds |
| Bryan Hicks | History | Influence of television on 1950s & 1960s politics |
| Brendan Lee | Psychology | Effects of multiple placement on attachment |
| Nathaniel Phillips | Psychology | Machiavellianism and emotion processing |
|
Abhishesh Regmi |
Physics | Polarimetry of Organic Dye Solution |
| Nutan Shrestha | Economics | An Analysis of the Social and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana |
| Chris Thompson | History | Impact of Francis Marion on the Revolutionary War |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jack A. Carter | Psychology | Will Reward Undermine Intrinsic Motivation? A Test of the Symbolic Cue Hypothesis |
| James R. Elliott | Economics | An Impact Analysis of Wal-Mart on the Local Economy |
| Kenny A. Fernandez | Spanish | Unveiling the Myth: An Examination of the Male-Female Relationship as Seen in "Lección de Cocina" by Rosario Castellanos and "Album de Familia" by Luisa Valenzuela |
| Christopher A. Garland | Political Science | Uncommon Methods: A Comparative Study of the Civil Rights Movements in Northern Ireland and in the United States |
| Christopher K. Gross | Religion | A Picture Painted without God: Alasdair MacIntyre, Stanley Hauerwas, and the Predicament of Religion in the Modern Era |
| William Brian Hamilton | History | The Mongol-Christian Alliance: Would It Have Changed the Levant? |
| Regan G. Hanson | Chemistry | The Attempted Synthesis and Characterization of Borazocine |
| Travis J. Hardy | History | The Modernized Monkey: The Scopes Trial and the American Debate between Fundamentalism and Modernism |
| Thornton B. Henry | Religion/English | Flannery O'Connor: The Eucharistic Mystery of the Incarnation |
| Jack E. Jirack | English | A Fruitful Tension: The Stability of Language and the American Legal System |
| Kevin P. Kolbash | Psychology | The Effects of Muscimol Injections to the Thalamic Reticular Neculeus on a Covert Orienting Task in Rats |
| Christopher R. Lea | Chemistry | Ab Initio: Determination of the Barrier to Dissociation for Octaazacubane |
| Preston L. Lovelace | Chemistry | Construction and Calibration of an ENDOR Spectrometer |
| Robert Spencer Thomas | Biology | Community-Acquired Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus |
| Robert A. Young III | Religion | Sunyata and Ethics: A Critical Study of Chapters XXIII and XXIV of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher E. Allmond | Physics | The Design and Construction of a 30-Watt Carbon-Dioxide Laser |
| Daniel L. Barlow | Political Science | From John Locke to Newt Gingrich: A Study of the Foreign Policy Powers |
| Andrew M. Habenicht | English | Biography: High and Serious Art |
| Richard R. Heath | Political Science | Change and Limitations: The Coming of the Rhetorical Presidency and Its Role in our Modern Society |
| William G. Homiller | Political Science | Kenneth Starr, Morrison v. Olson, and a Reaffirmation of the IndependentCounsel's Constitutionality |
| Stephen G. Hopkins | Political Science | The Good Friday Agreement: A Historical Compromise? |
| John D. Jordan | History | The Crusaders: A Study of the Composition of the European Armies of the First Crusade |
| George G. Keener | Political Science | A Comparative Analysis of the Abortion Laws of Western Europe and the United States |
| Daniel F. Layman | History | Predestination, Original Sin, and Radicalism: The Anabaptists and the Augustinian Tradition |
| Brian P. Mackey | Psychology | The Effectiveness of Various Accommodations for College Students with Learning Disabilities |
| James I. Shew | Applied Mathematics | An Actuarial Education: The History of the North American Actuarial Education and Examination System and An Attempt to Pass Two of the Current Exams |
| James E. Thatcher | History | Filmed History: Alternative Representations of the Past |
| Jason A. Weis | Philosophy/Religion | The Intellectual's Flight of the Soul in Augustine's Earliest Writings |
| Francis E. Zellner | Economics | NAFTA: An Overall Assessment from the U.S. Perspective |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Richard L. Alexander | Chemistry | Optical Spectropotentiometric Resolution of Formal Redox Potentials of Heme-Human Serum Albumin Binding Sites |
| Paul O. Arnold | Biology | Emerging Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus |
| Joshua L. Bettridge | History | John F. Kennedy and the Diplomacy of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Shaun P. Bourgeois | Philosophy/Religion | Occasionalism: Philosophy in the Service of Religion |
| Thompson E. Davis | Psychology | The Development of Racial, Gender, and Age Prejudice in 6-9 Year Olds |
| Brian P. DeFade | Biology | The Anti-Tumor Effects of Interleukin-12 in a Murine Model |
| Benjamin Dale deLee | Classics | Gandharan Art: The Artistic Dialogue in the Conflux of East and West |
| John S. Duval | Economics | An Analysis of Matriculation among Accepted Students: Qualitative-Response Behavioral Models and the Optimization of Value to the College |
| Mark E. Feldmann, Jr. | Biology | Linking Adaptive Mutation and Bacterial Transformation |
| Mark Finelli | History | The Business of War or the War of Business |
| Joseph Z. Fritsch II | Philosophy | Are We Justified in Trying to Learn How to Live Properly? An Examination of Early Stoic Answers to the Problems of Logical and Causal Determinism |
| Brad Alan Funari | Political Science | Appalling Publius: The Dilemma of Constitutional Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Jurisprudence |
| Gregory W. Harmon | History | Mamluks, Mongols, and Armenians: Religion, War, and Diplomacy in Thirteenth-Century Armenia |
| John M. Long | Physics | Optoacoustics: A Study of the Macroscopic Molecular Structure of Liquid CS2 via Laser-generated Acoustic Signals |
| Bruce M. Lovelace IV | Chemistry | Designing a Sandwich Assay for Use in Detecting Prokaryotes |
| Anderson L. Marsh | Chemistry | ESR Study of the Thermal Polymerization of Phenylacetylene |
| J. Bryson McCain | Chemistry | Attempted Synthesis of Borazocine |
| Robert Bryant McCulley | English | "To Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever": The Spiritual Journey of American Nature Writing |
| Curtis Wayne Owen | English | William Wordsworth: A Vision Lost |
| William C. Robinson | French | The French Resistance: Myth and Reality |
| Jonathan L. Schneider | History | Amphibious Operations of the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| William C. Bradford | Economics | The Effects of Free Agency on Competitive Balance: The Case of Major League Baseball |
| David W. Cias | English/Religion | John Donne's Passionate God |
| Gordon W. Gifford III | Psychology | A Comparison of Cognitive, Mood, and Music Affinity Variables in the Efficacy of Audioanalgesia |
| Carlysle Johnson | History | The Face of Battle: 178th Field Artillery Battalion Remembers WWII |
| John E. Lansche, Jr. | Psychology | Teachers' Perceptions of Students with Learning Disabilities |
| Ross M. Lodge | English | Perfection and Corruption: A Typology of Relationships in the Poetry of Tennyson |
| Robert H. Ramsey | Economics | Capital Gains Tax Reform and the Resulting Effects on the Economy and Tax Revenues |
| Eric C. Sands | Political Science | International Environmental Management: A Functionalist Approach for the Twenty-First Century |
| Stephen A. Saunders | French | The Man in the Shadows: An Analysis of the Life and Exploits of France's most Famous Unknown Resistant |
| James D. Sparks | Philosophy | Chimps, Memes, Evolution, and Morality: Three Critical Responses to Taking Darwin Seriously |
| James J. Stone | Physics | Germanium Waveguide Sensors for Measuring Fourier Transform Infrared Absorption Spectra of Single Frog Oocyte Membrane |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| W. C. Kirkpatrick Alberts II | Physics | Analysis of EGRET Data on the Gamma-Ray Source 2EG J0241 + 6119 |
| Barton T. Bobb | German | An Edition of a Late Restoration Drama by Nestory |
| James A. Cromwell IV | History | "Man on a White Horse": A Study of the Great Leaders of France and Why in a Moment of Crisis the French Turn to These Authoritarian Figures |
| Micah K. Eads | Psychology | Deficits on a Lateralized Visual Discrimination Task Following Unilateral Ibotenic Acid Lesions in the Entopeduncular Nucleus of the Rat |
| Alfred L. Evans III | Political Science | Wide Awake vs. University of Virginia: A Critical Analysis |
| Victor Gonzalez-Maertens | Economics | A Change in Course: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and a Revised Development Strategy in Peru (1990-1996) |
| Marc Korczykowski | Psychology | The Five-Factor Theory of Personality as a Predictor of Computer Success |
| Matthew F. K. McDaniel | History | "No Regrets": Interviews with World War II Airmen |
| Allen B. Nock | Physics | Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Velocity in YBa2Cu3O7 |
| Erik L. Plyler | Political Science | The Constitutionality of Affirmative Action Programs |
| Walter W. Rabke | History | Knights Templars as Financiers: A Survey of Their Activities from Moneylending to Royal Depository |
| Andrew P. Sherrod | English | A Southern Take on the Kleiner Bildungsroman: The Influence of the Family Environment on Individual Development as Depicted in Southern Short Fiction |
| Aaron S. Walters | Political Science | A Question of Race or Class: Is Affirmative Action the Best Solution to the Inequalities Which Face the Black Community? |
| Jeffrey M. White | Psychology | Opponent Process Theory and the Affective Dynamics of Exotic Body Piercing |
| Name | Department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Philip H. Bangle | Philosophy | The Ideal of the Artist for van Gogh and Nietzsche |
| Christopher W. Bishop | History | Der Kaiser und der Khalif: The German Jihad in the First World War |
| James Richard Broughton | Political Science | Abortion Jurisprudence in the Supreme Court: An Analysis of the Continuing Debate over Roe v. Wade |
| Logan H. Brown | Religion | The Earth Goddess and the Rediscovery of the Prescription for Living the Good Life: Reflections on Gaia, Environmentalism, and the Judeo-Christian Tradition |
| Steven Ho | Economics | Reforming the Polish Economy: More Than Just Economic Consideration |
| Justin P. Isaacs | Economics | Northern Virginia Econometric Model |
| Matthew E. Malone | Economics | The Morality of Capitalism: An Analysis of Capitalism from a Moral Point of View |
| Matthew E. Michael | Political Science | Nixon's Absolute Veto: A Practical and Theoretical Examination of Impoundment |
| Anastasios M. Pantoulis | Psychology | Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Employment Applications |
| Scott J. Pietan | History | Romulo Betancourt: The Evolution of a Venezuelan Statesman and the Founding of a Democracy |
| Michael P. Richardson | Chemistry | Synthesis, Characterization, and ESR Studies of Octasila [4,4] between Allene and Related Molecules |
| Carl T. Stebbing | Physics | Fiber Optic Sensors with Applications and Techniques in Physical Acoustics |
| Brian M. Taylor | Biology | Oral Ecology and Anatomy of the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) |
| Cleveland D. Turner | Mathematics | Modeling, Generating, and Simulating Data for Queueing Systems |
| Daniel C. Turner | English | Three of Shakespeare's Antagonist Villains in Performance: Different Interpretations of Iago, Edmund, and Claudius in Film and Videotape Productions |
| Gresham T. Weatherly | Chemistry | Investigation of the Redox Properties of Cholesterol Oxidase in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide |
| Anthony C. Wininger | Political Science |
Is a Universal Civic Constitution Possible?
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