The honors program challenges students of exceptional achievement to do extended original research in the field of their choosing during senior year. Honors students usually spend the first term of their senior year engaged in research and the second term writing and revising their papers. The final step in the process is an oral examination conducted by the adviser and two other examiners. Successful completion of an honors project is noted on the student's transcript following graduation.
Alessandra Williams
A Piece of Land: Black Women and Land in South Africa and the
United States of America
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Rachel Jones
“You Eat Beans!”: Kin-based Joking Relationships, Obligations, and
Identity in Urban Mali
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Susan Mead
Crossing the Border: Poverty, HIV and the Women of the Southern
Ghana–Togo Corridor
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Elizabeth Goldsmith
The Seasonal Impacts of Urban Development on Roadside Old Field
Birds in East Central Minnesota
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Anna Krawisz
Design and Production of Human Ribonuclease Inhibitor Variants
that Resist Oxidation
Ben Pederson
Investigating Auxin Metabolism in Arabidopsis Thaliana Mutants with
Altered Adventitious Rooting Via High Throughput Indolealkanoic
Acid Quantification
Can Sungur
Using a Chemical Genetics Approach to Characterize the Auxin
Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis Thaliana
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Christa von Behren
Impact of Agriculture and Urban Development on the Community
Structure of Wetland Birds in East Central Minnesota
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Susan Brown
Towards the Synthesis of Clathculins B
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Kara Manke
Rotational and Hyperfine Structure in the Spectra of TaO and ReO
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Amy Fisher
“Pour Forth the Sparkling Chalice” An Examination of Libation Practices in the Levant
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Eli Weaverdyck
From Pagan to Christian: An Archaeological Study of the Transformation of Corinth in Late Antiquity
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Pawan Dhir
The Impact of Stock Market Liberalization on Emerging Equity
Market Volatility
Brendan Pierpont
Democracy, Property Rights and FDI in Developing Countries
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Linh Thuy` Tô
The Time Horizon of the Forward Premium Puzzle: A New Approach
in Examining Classical Explanation
Ellen Bracken
Off the Beaten Path: Rural Students and the Pursuit of Higher
Education
Vendela Engblom
I Am the Elements: A Translation of Edith Södergran’s Modernist
Collections The September Lyre and Altar of Roses
Jake Seltzer
1755 Chicago Avenue
Ariel Trahan
Negotiating with Nature: The Evolution of Urban Parks in the Twin
Cities
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Sophia Giebultowicz
African Immigrants in the Twin Cities: A Study of Residential
Patterns and Health Care Access
Curran Hughes
The Influence of Ethnicity and Nationalism on Soviet and Post-Soviet
Urbanization in Tallinn, Estonia and Kazan, Russia
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Clare Hunt Jacky
Modern, Indigenous, Woman: Female Agriculturalists, Sustainability, and Development in the Highland Region of Ecuador
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Laura Kerr
Resisting Agricultural Assimilation: The Political Ecology of Hmong Growers in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
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Joel Larson
Food Security in Urban America: A Model Based on Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota
Sara Nelson
Farming on the Fringes: Changes in Agriculture, Land Use and Livelihoods in the Peri-Urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Martha Truax
¿Librería o biblioteca?: el españo y el inglés en contacto en las Ciudades Gemelas ¿Librería
Evan Mohl
Baseball in Nicaragua: Tracing the Game’s Rise from Niche Sport to National Pastime
Ihotu Ali
Staying Off the Bottom of the Melting Pot: Social Welfare, Post-9/11 Policy, and Self-Sufficiency in Somali Refugee Resettlement
Blair Brown
The Picture of Health (Care): Healthcare Practitioner Education for People and Planet, Based on Comparative Analysis of Rural Medical Waste Management in Ecuador and Native American Reservations in Minnesota, U.S.A.
Megan Metzger
Slovakia and the European Union: Complexities and Contradictions
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Megan Mulcahy
“Islam is the Solution”: Demystifying Islamization in Morocco and Egypt
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Daniel Allen
Toward a Common Currency: Using Item Response Theory to Correct for Grading Inconsistency
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Jeffrey Barnes
Object-Relational Mapping as a Persistence Mechanism for Object- Oriented Applications
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Luis Gabriel Mesa Martínez
El Vuelo de un Angel (Piano Trio)
Anh Trinh
Quartet for Saxophones
Joshua Whitney-Wise
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Gregory Taylor
One Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Necessity and Normativity
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Laura Bell
Investigating Quantum Wells
Kassahun Haileyesus
Soliton in AdS2
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Daniel Schroeder
Soliton Solutions in Anti-de-Sitter Space
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Anne Sweet
Spectral Classifications of Companion Stars in Herbig AeBe Binary Systems
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Daniel Allen
Power Politics: An Empirical Analysis of the Electoral College
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Justin Bigelow
A New State of Puerto Rican Politics: Framing the Plebiscites on Status
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Rachel Brady
From Court to Country: A Legal, Political, and Social Analysis of Privacy in the U.S., 1965–1974
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Natalia Espejo
Trend or Anomaly? Structural Adjustment Policies and The “New” Latin American Left
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Emily Hedin
Between African Nationalism and Structural Adjustment: How Senegalese Elites Redefined Neoliberalism
Herschel Nachlis
Governing in the Absence of Enemies: Congressional Intelligence Oversight, 1989–2001
Trudy Rebert
Immigrant or Latino? Multi-Ethnic Mobilization and Collective Identity in the Immigrant Rights Movement
Désirée Weber
Interpreting Interpretation: Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Theory of Language and Politics
Andrew Judd
The Value of Later Life: Deconstructing the Idea of Aging as Decline
Abigail Katowitz
Family Structures and Adult Romantic Relationships
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Rachel Kornfield
Perspectives in Dream Function Theory
Tuong-Vi Nguyen
A Study on Motivational and Motor Behaviors in Rats Following IV Infusion of Orexin A Using a Schedule of Reinforcement
Allison Woerpel
High School Coaches’ Knowledge of Disordered Eating Behavior in Female Athletes
Ashley Geisendorfer
The Christian Science Child: Subjectivity and Social Marginalization
Zachary Teicher
American Children Encountering the Bible: Ensuring Engagement through the American Education System and the Children’s Bible
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Elizabeth Engebretson
What Replaced the Kolkhozes and Sovkhozes: A Political Ecology of Agricultural Change in Post-Soviet Russia
Ashley DeMinck
The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru
Elizabeth Newman
From Political to Personal: Forming Feminist Identities
Audrey Peer
Selecting Environments: The Mediating Influence of College Choice on Binge Drinking
Thomas Phelan
Jazz and the Academy
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Stephanie Phillips
Japanese-Brazilian Return Migration: Pushes, Pulls, and Prospects
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Christina Brux
From Theory to Practice in Postmodern Times: Interrogating Imperial Feminisms and Decolonizing Transnational Feminist Politics
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Nicole Giardina
Civilization in a Microwave: And Other Metaphors for Modern Education’s Queer Survivors
Bradley Stiffler
Negative Approach: Punk Rock, Feminism, and the End of the History
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