2020 Honors Scholars

Alma Nizaye Cortez Alvarez (Rahel Wells & Oystein S. LaBianca, Behavioral Sciences) Sihon, Pools, and Disaster: The Memory of Biblical Heshbon.

Vanessa Angel (Karen Reiner, Medical Laboratory Sciences), Lectin Properties of Synthetically Produced Glucuronate, Alginate, and Related Boronates.

Jonathan Borton (David B. Sherwin & Vanessa Corredera,  Visual Art & Design), The Boricua Dialogues: Puerto Rican Identity in Conversation & Photography.

Jessica Bujor (Karl D. Bailey & Sonia Badenas, Behavioral Sciences), Gender Role Beliefs and Intercultural Romantic Relationships.

Joanna Deonarine (Denise Smith, Biology), Synthesis of an Arylidene Pyrazolone and its Effects on Glioblastoma Cancer Cells.

Bernadette Flores (Denise Smith, Biology), Evaluation of Anticancer Activity of Heterocyclic Arylidenes on the U87MG cancer cell line.

David Forner (L. Monique Pittman, English), A Comparative Analysis of National Identity Construction and Rhetorization in William Shakespeare's King Henry V and Aphra Behn' Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave.

Hannah Gallant (Vanessa Corredera, English), The Blame Game : Complicity and Rape Culture in Margaret Atwood's Novel and Hulu's Adapted Series The Handmaid's Tale

DahEun Danielle Harning (Robert Zdor, Biology), Exploring Soil Texture Effects on Mustard Seed Meal Suppression of the Weed Velvetleaf.

Benjamin H. Hiramoto (Denise Smith, Biology), Novel Heterocyclic Arylidene Derivatives as Anticancer Agents Against U87 Human Glioblastoma

Haley Kang (Marlene Murray, Biology), The Effects of the Omega-3 Fatty Acids Docosahexaenoic Acid on INM1 Gene Expression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.

Teddy Kim (Beverly Matiko, English), "They Called Me Kimchi Breath" and Other Short Narrative Essays: A Study in Composing Asian-American Identity in Short Nonfictional Essays.

Joiliana Lecointe (Herbert Helm, Behavioral Sciences), Identifying the Relationship Between Supplementary Educational Tools and Black Undergraduate Academic Performance.

Jasmine Logan (Karl G. D. Bailey, Behavioral Sciences), The Relationship of Emotional Responses to Religious Music and Personality in Religiosity.

Patrick Miller (Stephanie Carpenter, History & Political Science), Natural Law, Literary Accommodation and the Successful Social Justice Movement : Thomas Reid's Natural Law Philosophy and the Abolitionist Writings of Olaudah Equiano and Ottobah Cugoano.

Nikitha Nelapudi (Lisa Ahlberg, Chemistry & Biochemistry), Assessing Amino Acid Racemization in Avian Eggshells through Reverse Phase Liquid Chromatography

Emerald Danielle Norman (Harvey J. Burnett, Jr., Behavioral Sciences), Express Yourself : A Study of Expressive Writing and State Anxiety.

Janice Pakkianathan (Desmond H. Murray, Chemistry & Biochemistry), Synthesis of Novel Temozolomide-Fatty Acid Imide Hybrid Compounds for the Chemotherapeutic Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme

Kelsey M. Rook (Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Engineering & Computer Science), Finding Optimal Input Parameters for BayesWave.

Tiffany Steinweg (Karl G. D. Bailey & Karin Thompson, Music), A Phenomological Study: The Adventist Musician Experience.

Peyton Ware (Lisa Ahlberg, Chemistry & Biochemistry), Design of a Novel Isoxazoline Class Drug for the Suppressive Treatment of Malaria

Dana Wilson (Adriana Perera, Music), El Sistema for, or against, Benton Harbor.

Nina Woodard (Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, Biology), Are Florida Manatees (Trichechus Manatus Latirostris) Wearing their Teeth Beyond Functionality? Interspecific and Intraspecific Mesowear in Manatees.