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The College of the Sciences continues to put collaboration between students and
faculty at the center of undergraduate education. Examples of student-faculty partnerships are Science Honors Research Projects, COTS Undergraduate Research Grant Projects, and William O. Douglas Honors College Senior Theses. These projects are highlighted here and are organized by student name in alphabetical order.
| Student Name |
Faculty Name |
Project Title |
Department |
| Jonathan Betz |
Tom Cottrell |
The role of fire disturbance in weed invasion of forest plant communities. |
Biology |
| Heather Biles |
Levente Fabry-Asztalos |
The effects of force field and charge on molecular modeling: a volumetric study to find the perfect model for Cathepsin-D ligands. |
Chemistry |
| Liane Fernyhough |
Virginia Bennett / David Gee |
A comparative study of the dietary intake of Mexican women in Michoacan and Mexican-American women. |
Nutrition, CEPS |
| Katharine Gilliam |
Paul Hoskin |
Investigation of the origin of acid mine drainage and the fate of dissolved metals in surface waters,
Whatcom and Snohomish Counties, Washington. |
Geology |
| Lindsay Groce |
Anthony Diaz |
New phosphors for modern display applications. |
Chemistry |
| Lindy Mullen |
Steve Wagner |
Implications of torrent salamander respiration for conservation and the evolution of lunglessness. |
Biology |
| Nicholas Salim |
Levente Fabry-Asztalos |
New techniques for molecular modeling: using neural networks and Sybyl to predict biological activity. |
Chemistry |
| Anthony Smith |
Andrew Piacsek |
Wave propagation through a tensegrity structure. |
Physics |
| Student Name |
Faculty Name |
Project Title |
Department |
| Teresa Buswell |
Lisa Ely |
Geoarcheology field studies in Michoacan, Mexico. |
Geology |
| Kendra Hinckley and Jean Holiday |
Karl Lillquist |
The origin of sandstone spires in the Swauk watershed central Washington. |
Geography and Land Studies |
| Min-Swan Kim and Sunjin Un |
Candace Winstead |
The quantitative study of the infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus growth kinetics in vitro. |
Biology |
| Joe Lemley |
Boris Kovalerchuk |
Automatic matching and analysis of medical images. |
Computer Sciences |
| Nicole Paulk |
Anne Johansen |
Photochemical studies involving sulfinic acids and iron. |
Chemistry |
| Jugraj Patrick Singh |
Carin Thomas |
Using mitochondrial respiration to assess the toxicity of Washington state environmental contaminants. |
Chemistry |
| Tabitha Trosper |
Lisa Ely |
Geomorphic characterization of archaeological sites in Michoacan, Mexico. |
Geology |
| Student Name |
Faculty Name |
Project Title |
Department |
| Thomas Evans |
Marte Fallshore |
Not completed yet |
Pyschology |
| Chris Foerstel |
Andrew Piacsek |
Not completed yet |
Physics |
| Lindsay Groce |
Anthony Diaz |
When Even Right Reason Reasons Wrong: Antigone and Gendered Ethics |
Chemistry |
| Jennie Jung |
Loran Cutsinger |
An Hour of One's Own: Woolf's Feminist Essay and the Young Women of Today |
Anthropology |
| Jennifer Lampi |
Yvonne Chueh |
Paradise Lost and the Image of a Tyrant: Comparison of Satan and King Charles I |
Mathematics |
| Beth McCune |
Mathew Manweller |
The Irish Simian: An Examination of the Effects of Early Evolutionary Theory on the Visual Representations of the Irish in the Late Nineteenth Century |
Political Science |
| Joshua Munroe |
Bruce Palmquist |
The Ongoing Journey to the West: China's Social and Economic Changes in the Post-Mao Era |
Physics |
| Jeffrey Vogel |
Terry Devietti |
Not completed yet |
Pyschology |
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