Honors Fellowships

William & Mary Honors Fellowships support students conducting research for department Honors projects. Students may receive up to a $4,000 summer grant to enable the student to conduct 10 full-time weeks of pre-Honors research. Students are eligible to apply for additional funding to support their research during the academic year.

The Honors Fellowship Website

The Honors Fellowship Give Campus website (active exclusively for Honors Fellowships March through early April) allows multiple donors to view student research projects and provides an opportunity to support projects like the ones available on the website. The Charles Center is able to fund 70+ Honors Fellowships each year because of the generous support of our donors. For that reason, we want to give donors a real feel for student research projects and why you are passionate about it. The site will feature videos and images that will give donors this personalized appreciation for students behind the research projects.

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Eligibility

All students who have been approved to conduct Department Honors in the 2021-2022 academic year are eligible to apply for W&M Honors Fellowships. Please see the Guidelines and Planning page for Arts & Sciences eligibility rules and check with your Honors advisor, department chair or program director applicable rules.

How to Apply

The first step is to discuss your research project idea with your William & Mary faculty project advisor. Make sure they know that they will be writing a letter of recommendation for you, mentoring your research, following your blog, and helping you with your presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Access the online application by clicking this link and create an account using your email.wm.edu address. Select the appropriate application from the drop-down menu.
Charles Center Summer Research Grant ($3000 for seven weeks of research) and Charles Center Honors Fellowship ($4000 for ten weeks of research) applications are due by February 14, 2021. Note: students submitting Honors Fellowship applications are automatically considered for Charles Center Summer Research Grants and should not apply to both.

What Materials Do I Need?

What Materials Do I Need?
Project Proposal The project proposal questions will be answered within the online application via Embark. What is the question you are hoping to answer with your research and what is its significance? (<150 words) Discuss your methodology in detail. Describe the plan for what you are going to do. (<350 words) What resources are available to you for this project (lab space, access to collections/ archives, additional funding, etc.)? (<150 words) What new knowledge or interpretation will emerge from this proposed project? (<150 words) What will the deliverable be from your research (article, play, website, story map, etc.)? (<150 words) Note: This proposal must be written by the student. However, we do encourage project advisors to read it and make constructive comments.
Personal Statement The personal statement will be entered as a response to a prompt within the online application via Embark. Explain how this project fits into your academic plan. For example, did it emerge from a course you took; is it related to your major; something you are doing to prepare for graduate school; or an interest that you haven't had a chance to explore yet. After reading your personal statement, a reviewer should understand the context of this project within your intellectual and academic trajectory. (<250 words)
Video Upload NOTE: This is for the online application. Honors Fellows are also required to submit photos and submit an additional video as noted below. It's important that you can explain your project to a non-specialist audience in your own words. We want to give you a chance to do this in a non-written format. Please explain your project succinctly in a short video using your phone. Include your research question, why it's important to you and how you plan to answer the question. (1 minute video maximum; this isn't supposed to be a professional video, unedited cell phone video quality is fine.) Please use this an opportunity to enlighten us more about your project; do not simply read your proposal.
Transcript Upload an unofficial (from Banner self-service), William & Mary transcript, including 2021 spring registration.
Recommendation Letter A recommendation letter is required from the William & Mary faculty member who has agreed to be your Project Advisor. You must meet to discuss your proposal with the project advisor before registering them in the system. When you enter the faculty member's name and email into the Embark application system, they will get a prompt to submit a letter on your behalf. Please do this before your application deadline, so they have enough time to complete & submit the letter. The letter of recommendation is due two days after your application deadline and must be received in order for your proposal to be considered for funding. You are responsible for checking online whether the letter has been submitted by the letter of recommendation deadline.
Application to Honors To apply for an Honors Fellowship your Honors project must first be approved by your Honors advisor and the head of the appropriate department / program. The Application for Admission to Departmental Honors must first be completed on this form. For questions concerning Departmental Honors, please email cchonors@wm.edu. (NOTE: Students applying for Honors Fellowships must have their Departmental Honors application submitted by February 14)
Required Videotaping and Photos To be included on the Honors Fellowship site, you must submit a video, three still photos, and a headshot no later than 5:00PM February 18. Be sure to read through the Applicant Video Instructions. SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS HERE
Student Institutional Review Board If you are working with human subjects in any way, exemption by the Student Institutional Review Board or Protection of Human Subjects Committee is required at the time of application UNLESS your research falls under your faculty advisor's exemption. Ask your project advisor for clarification before you begin the IRB process. Note that the IRB process takes a significant amount of time and requires an online training module that must be completed by both you and your research advisor. Your IRB protocol must be exempted before you can receive funding from the Charles Center. Travel Insurance and Travel Warning Policy All students receiving summer research grants are required to abide by William & Mary travel guidelines. If you plan to travel abroad for your research, the College requires that you purchase insurance for your time abroad. The Global Education Office at the Reves Center strongly recommends that you purchase Cultural Insurance Services International (CISI) insurance. Read more about CISI and how to purchase it . If you plan to travel to a country which is on the State Department's Travel Warning list, you must petition for approval from the College under the W&M Travel Warning Policy. Petitions for Charles Center-funded travel/research/internship in a country under a Travel Warning must be received by [[nsvasquez, Nick Vasquez]], International Travel and Security Manager. See this page for details and plan to submit your petition by the February 14* Charles Center deadline. Your travel must be approved by the Travel Warning Review Committee before you can receive funding from the Charles Center.*

What Happens Next?

Applications will be reviewed by the Undergraduate Research Committee. Your proposal will be read by faculty both inside and outside of your research topic area, so make sure that it does not contain jargon and is understandable to an educated person outside of your field.
Students who receive funding from the Charles Center will present their work at the fall or spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Want to talk to someone about how to get started? Make an appointment with a PSA.
All general Charles Center Summer Grant and Monroe Grant applicants will receive an email about award decisions by mid-April. Notifications will go out in batches, starting in mid-March, so do not panic if someone else hears their outcome before you do. Honors Fellowship results will go out last (a week or so after fundraising ends).
Note that it is possible for an Honors Fellowship candidate to end up with something less than the $4,000 grant. In these cases the Charles Center will work with individual students to identify the most productive uses for the available funding for activities related to the honors project.

Deadline

All parts of the online application are due February 14, 2021.

All of the 2021 W&M Honors Fellowship applicants whose materials are submitted by the deadline will appear on the GiveCampus website, there is no additional selection process.

drop-down menu of application details
2019-2020 Honors Fellows Soren Antebi, Role of Mitochondria in Experience-Dependent Neurogenesis Abeer Ayyoub, On Creating and Producing "Psych Ward": A Play Representing Mental Illnesses and Personality Disorders James Barrie, Isaac Beam, Left Behind: Perceptions of the American Dream in Rust Belt Communities Jake Beardsley, Gender Futures, Gender Destiny: A Metaphysics of Gender in Time Camile Borja, Differences in the N170 Event-Related Potential during Emotion Identification as a Function of Autistic Traits Belle Buzzi, Zebrafish as a Basis for a Computational Model to Study the Correlation between REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and Parkinson's Disease Jennifer Chen, Scn8a Gene Expression of Nav 1.6's Effect on Breathing Behavior in Mice Abram Clear, Cross-Dialectal Vowel Mapping and Glide Perception Elise Coberly, Politics, Perception & Personality: The Effect of Reframing Political Issues on Persuasion Margot Cunningham, Social Spaces, Tourism, "Instagramability" and Authenticity: The Phenomenon of Eccentric and Aesthetic Western-Style Coffee Shops in Southeast Asian Cities (Chiang Mai, Thailand and Manila, Philippines) Leslie Davis, Activating Gender as a Salient Political Identity and its Role in Contributing to Gender Animus in Polarized America Kevin Diestelow, The Political World of James Wilson Elizabeth Do, The control of iron homeostatic genes in the gastric pathogen, Helicobacter pylori Stephanie Do, Creating a Rapid, Inexpensive, and Portable Phage-based Biosensor to Test for the Presence of Environmental Mycobacteria Yuan Dong, Understanding Philosophy of Mathematics Through the Lens of Neo-pragmatism Mads Emmett, The Ecology of Opposition: Capitalism, Time, and Toxicity in Grassroots Responses to Energy Projects in Virginia Gustavo Espinosa, Pelando Bola en Miami (Strugglin' in Miami): Class, Ideology, and Immigration Status Among Venezuelan Crisis Migrants Xiangyi Fang, Constructing a library of well-characterized Mycobacterium smegmatis promoters Sihan Feng, Neurodevelopment Decision Maker: Mitochondrial Abundance and its Role on Neural Progenitor Cell's fate Abby Fergus, Final lengthening as a potential tool for parsing words during first language acquisition Grace Ford-Dirks, “Epic Poems in Bronze": Confederate Memorialization and the Old South’s Reckoning with Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century” Daisy Garner, Babelsberg 03: How a German Club Soccer Team and its Fan Base are Reflecting Contemporary Far-Left Culture in the Former East Emma Gergel, Does MK-STYX Interact with HDAC6 to Recruit the Ubiquitin Proteasome System? Katie Gibson, Feet, Breeches, and Itches: How Public Health Shaped Rural Communities in Virginia During the Early Twentieth Century Emma Glass, Determining Nanoparticle Biodistribution Using a Time Dependent Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Multi-Scale Model Cameron Goff, Elissa Gosling, The Morality of Punishment: Can our Justice System be More Moral Ashley Hernandez Estrada, Constructing Localities: An analysis of housing and its effect on population composition and local decision-making David Hood, Imaging the Electronic Quenching Dynamics of Nitric Oxide with Molecular Hydrogen Jamelah Marie Jacob, "Postcolonial," Personal, and Poetry: Examining Narratives in Contemporary Asian American Literature Danielle Jones, The effects of phosphomimetic substitutions in the response regulator, ArsR, in the gastric pathogen, Helicobacter pylori Alexa Kelly, Margaret Lawrence, Iron (III) Organometallic Complexes on Titanium Oxide for the Photocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen Xinhao Li, Impact of Acetylation on Intracellular Trafficking of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Î²2 Yongkang Li, Concise Synthesis and Derivatization of Chimaphilin via Diels-Alder reaction Paige Little, The Effects of an Orexin 2 Receptor Antagonist on an l-dopa-based Model of Schizophrenia Yuxin (Vicky) Liu, Role of Mindfulness on Food Consumption Sarah Lott, Reconstruction and analysis of paleo-spit formations around rocky headlands in Babitonga Bay, Brazil Lydia Mackey, The Female Kirk: Women’s Religious Participation in the Early Years of the Scottish Presbyterian Church Rohan Mainali, Influences on development of Alzheimer's disease due to autophagic failure Jonathan Malks, Bicoastal Nature in Literature During the Ascent of the U.S. Conservation Movement Elizabeth Maneval, Quantifying Dimensions of Vowel Space in Patients with Schizophrenia Versus Controls Katie McDonald, The SUMO Stress Response to Space Environment induced Cellular Stress on Reproductive Biology Robert Metaxatos, Sterne’s Sovereign: Biopower and the Rise of the Novel-Form in Eighteenth-Century England William Moeller, What can we learn about tuberculosis by studying bacteriophage infections of mycobacterium smegmatis using mass spectrometry-based proteomics? Kayleigh Morrison, Characterizing the roles of NHR-23 and SPE-44 in the C. elegans spermatogenesis program Allison Moyer, The Use of Humic Acids as Sacrificial Electron Donors in Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis Sally Mullis, Les oiseaux spectaculaires: A study of birds in French opera and court spectacle under Louis XIV Erin Murray, Relationship Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships and Friendships of Opposing Political Ideology Malik Obeidallah, Developing a Metric to Assess the Efficacy of Bilateral and Multilateral Research Programs between U.S. Government Institutions and International Collaborators in Southeast Asia Adam Oliver, Utilization of Dual Transcriptional and Translational Control to Enable the Conversion of Dynamic Signaling Within the Cell Carol Oordt, Experimental Archaeology and Use-Wear Analysis on Expedient Shell Tools from the Society Islands Tatiana Prioleau, Does MK-STYX affect the dynamics of LC3 in autophagy to reduce effects of cell stress? Yi Qi, Protein MK-STYX's Inhibitory Effect on the Deacetylase Activity of Protein HDAC6 Yihan Qin, Synthesis and Biological Testings of Naphthoquione and Noscapine based Natural Products Tristan Ramage, Computational Semantics of Words Describing Nebulous Human Concepts Faith Reid, Orexin-Saporin as a novel model of Alzheimer's disease Brett Restrick, Punishment in a World Without Free Will: A Rejection of Consequentialism and an Analysis of Semi-Compatibilism and Duty-Based Theories of Punishment Spencer Schrandt, Real conjugacy classes in finite symplectic groups Emma Shahin, Examining the Effects of Music Journaling on Long-Term Memory Retrieval Mary Shannon, Dame Ethel Smyth and The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, and “The Bonds of Self” Ryan Shipman, The impact of DNA methylation by a type I restriction-modification system on Helicobacter pylori Grace Smith, The effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitor or muscarinic 1 allosteric agonists on attention in rats with orexin lesions Zoe Smith, Playwriting as Weapon: Wielding Radical Empathy to Create New Dramatic Writing That Explores the Bounds of Human Connection and the Personal Parts of Politics Swathi Sowmitran, Investigating the Role of the Multimerin 2 (MMRN2) gene in the Wound Healing Processes of Xenopus laevis Embryogenesis Jiarui Sun, In Search of Remembrance in Meta-films Judith Tauber, Hegemony and Revolution: the Red Brigades Between Violence and Consensus Timothy Terlizzi, Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the College Woods, Reconstructed with Phytoliths Julia Urban, Engineered Biosynthesis for Ratiometric Control of Co-Culture Madeleine Wade, Measures of syntactic retention for language processing Sophia Warnement, Interpersonal Relationships & Female Agency in Flavian Epic Nereese Watson, The Rise of Pretrial Detention and Private Prisons: the Resurgence of Jim Crow Mya White, Black Speculative Feminism: The Connections of Ecology and the Female Body in Speculative Works Across the Diaspora Mia Wilson, Screenwriting for Television: Studying Creativity in the Genre of Murder-Mystery Shows Benjamin Woessner, The Code of Chivalry: Implications of Humor in Arthurian Grail Literature Chifang Yao, Making Spaces and Stories: German White Female Colonizers in the African Colonies, 1884-1919 Mary Young, Harvesting Practices and the Sustainability of the Chesapeake Oyster Fishery: A York River Study Zheng Yu, How I Got that Name: Poetic Journey Down the Road of Cultural Identity Crisis, Family Language as a Barrier, an Difficult Art and a Channel Hermela Zerihun, Defining the Acid Transcriptome of Helicobacter pylori Independent of the Two-Component System: A Study of Three Outer Membrane Proteins and Their Downregulation in the Presence of Acid Xinzhi Zhang, Modeling Effects of Macroeconomic Factors in Stock Market with Machine Learning Yiru Zhang, Behaviors of Lurkers on Twitter And Indications of Lurking Behaviors Among Online Groups Jialu Zou, Before the movement became Mai 68: the battlefield for interpretations, representations and memory of the 1968 French Movement, 1968-1978
2018-2019 Honors Fellows Caroline Abbott, The Dimetrodon Dilemma: Reassessing Posture in Sphenacodonts Mark Agrios, Simplicial Homology and Neural Networks David Allen, The Totally Positive Matrix Completion Problem Junda An, Tilings in Two-dimensional Hexagonal Grid Nathaniel Anderson, Egoism and the Repugnant Conclusion Jill Ashey, The Effect of Environmental History on the Stress Response of the Eastern Oysters Katherine Avery, (In)Human Anatomy: Constructions of Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Matthew Baker, The Biological Inhibition of Sea Grass Restoration Zachary Baldwin, Exclusive Pi-zero Production and Compton Scattering at GlueX Grace Becker, Heart Rate Variability Response to Acute Hypoxia Exposure as a Predictor of Endurance Performance Sarah Bottari, Empathy and Etiology: Understanding the Role of Social Perception in the Development of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Disorders Courtney Check, Informing Amphibian Conservation: Nonbreeding Season Movement and Habitat Use in Three Species of Pond-breeding Frogs Riley Covert, Ethics, Ontology, and the Environment: How Implicit Assumptions Shape the World Around Us Laila Drury, Resilience to Depression and Anxiety: Grit, Conscientiousness, and Mindfulness in Long Distance Runners Hope Duke, Structural and Thermochronological Analysis of the Central Virginia Piedmont: A Time and Depth Reconstruction from Collision to Rifting Kathryn Eckler, Christianity During Times of Crisis: The European Refugee Movement Emma Efkeman, The Effects of Space on Hindu Devotional Objects in Museums and Temples Daniil Eliseev, Regionalism, Nationalism, and Language Attitudes in the English-Official West Indies Alfredo Fallorina, Assessing the Effects of Abiotic Stressors on Plants Using Single-sided NMR Carolyn Farling, Increasing the Enhancement Factor of Silver Nanoparticles for Pigment Identification Victoria Fong, A Defense of Representationalism Against the Inverted Spectrum and Blur Objections Sara Franklin-Gillette, Peer Emotion Socialization and the Development of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence Holly Funkhouser, Impacts of Projected Sea Level Rise on Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Habitats and Applications for Living Shorelines Rebecca Gaborek, Gardens Beneath the Ash: Contextualizing Natural Imagery Within Pompeii's Urban Fabric Elizabeth Gallary, Picky Eating During Childhood and the Role of Sensory Factors in Food Acceptance Allison Greenday, Food Insecurity in the Hanover Community: How Data Collection can Improve Community Policy Schuyler Blake Hani, Falling Backward: Trauma and Loss in 20th Century American Literature Yukuan Hao, Zhao Erfeng in Tibet Catherine Harvey, Understanding Cell Division By Looking at Potential Kinases that Cause Ulp1 Inhibition Zhengyang Huang, Projecting Emotion: Multimedia Installation in Studio Art Practices Alexis Jenkins, Traditional Practices and Shifting Perceptions in Mattaponi and Pamunkey Fisheries in Virginia Jackie Keshner, "Strengthened by Worth": Economic and Moral Value in The Blazing World and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Erin Kitchens, Interactions Between Locals and Asylum Seekers in Italy William Lake, Evaluation of Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Emma Lather, Response of Wetland Bird Populations to Neighboring Land Use Land Cover Change Benjamin Lazarus, Controlled Hierarchical Structure Additive Manufacturing Hayden Le, The Court of Social Media: Leveraging Computational Methods to Predict Public 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Supportive Responses on Teen Emotions and Mental Health Zach Meredith, Documenting the History and Social Impact of the Williamsburg Redevelopment & Housing Authority Becca Merriman-Goldring, SERS Analysis of Ozone Fading of Madder Lake and Carmine Paints Yiqin Miao, An Intercultural Study and Staging of the Play Secret Love in Peach Blossom Island with Multi-ethnic Casts Grace Murray, The Effect of Ideological Stratification on the Supreme Court's Stance on Tribal Sovereignty Emily Mushlitz, Paleoclimate History and Storm Variance in Sandsvatn, Faroe Islands Ryan Onders, Billy's Burg: Investigating Time, Language, and Identity in a Colonial Context Ivie Orobaton, An Analysis of Infectious Disease of African Americans from Slavery through the 20th Century Ellie Rakoff, The Urban Maasai of Dar es Salaam: Reconciling Pastoralist Ancestry and Modernizing Identities Leah Roemer, Implications of Colonialism for the Marriage of Western and Traditional Health Practices in Dakar, Senegal Brent Russell, Utilization of ULP1 in the Development of a Novel Prostate Cancer Test Stephen Ryan, Britain and the Continent: Henry Fielding and the Idea of Europe Kate Sandberg, Persuasion in Discourse: Evaluation Strategies of Vegans Anna South, Beowulf: Examining Translation and Adaptation in the Modern World Indira Stevens, Photocatalytic Systems for Solar Hydrogen Generation Using Naturally Occurring Electron Donors Rick Stevenson, Life in the Modern World: Emerging American Identities in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio Xiangwen Sun, Effects of Tax Structure on Economic Growth Xiaopeng Sun, Mathematical Model of Competition between NCoR1 and Exportin for Binding TRa1 Anna Tsutsui, Characterization of Flame-resistant Polymers by Single-sided NMR Jonathan Van Name, Discovering the Ion Channel Mechanisms of Breathing Xiye Wang, Synthesis of (+)-serantrypinone, a Potent GABA Inhibitor Abby Whitlock, Knights of the Air: Social Identity in the Royal Flying Corps John Williams, Have Ghede, Will Travel: An Examination of Ancestor Veneration Among Vodouisants in Boston Katharine Williams, Unspeakable Sensations: Decoding the Language of Touch in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel Colleen Wilson, Sowing Corruption: Ignominious Burials in Dickens and Hardy Anna Wingfield, Wordsworth's British Empire: Liberty, Property, and the Slave Question Jordan Wyner, Kafka in Space: Investigating Public Space in Fin-De-Siecle Prague and Franz Kafka's Literature Robert Yancey, The Second Sophistic, Identity, and Egypt: Sarapion's Honorary Inscription and Local Identities in the Roman Empire Rui Yin, The Role of SUMO Modification on Protein Mislocalization in Cancer Ying Zhang, Chinese Export Porcelain of the Seventeenth Century Tianrui Zhu, Analysis of Electronic Signals from Neonatal Intensive Care Units
2017-2018 Honors Fellows Brittany Acors, Religious Reformations, Then and Now Brian Anyakoha, Jr., Social Anxiety, Pain, & Exclusion: The Hidden Link Lydia Boike, Oxidative Stress and Lactate Dehydrogenase: Understanding the Biochemistry of Alzheimer's Thomas Briggs, Unifying Hannah Arendt's Theory of Judgment Dara Bright, School is Cool: A Comparative Study of the Attitudes of High School African-American Males and Females Towards College in Different Socio-Economic Environments Hannah Bruzzio, Particle Manipulation and Cross-step Filtration in the American Shad Gowri Buddiga, Reproductive Justice for All: Contraception Policy and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in United States, Australia, and Canada Jessica Campbell, Perception of Stress in L1 and L2 Spanish and English Anna Chahuneau, Pursuing the Monarchs: A Documentary Jessica Crowley, Modeling the Inhibition of Calcium Influx in Axon Degeneration DeLauren Davis, To What Extent Are Hegemonic Norms of Masculinity Evoked and Emphasized Through Membership in Black Greek Letter Organizations? Charlotte DeForest, Myth of a Nation: Nationalism in the Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Neil Gaiman AnnaTram Do, Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Fragmentation Studies of Peptides Containing Lysine, Serine and Cysteine Homologs Chen Dong, Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity Following Anterior-Posterior Axis Rotation of Xenopus laevis Central Nervous System Rachel Dubit, A Song of Arms and of the Goddess: What a Critical Reading of the Carmen de Bello Actiaco Reveals about the Roman Conquest of Egypt under Octavian Emily Earls, The Cultural Influences on Argentine Abortion Policy Sora Edwards-Thro, Syans fiksyon: Defining Science Fiction For A Haitian Context Kexin Fan, Association Between Diploid OipA in Asian Strains of Helicobacter pylori and High Prevalence of Asian Gastric Cancer Dana Florczak, Fighting Against the Backlash: Women's Solidarity in Contemporary Fiction Hannah Gourdie, Factors Predicting Enactment of Abortion Clinic Access Laws Theresa Gozzo, Investigating Post-Translational Modification of Transcription Factor in Gastric Cancer Risk Contributor, Heliobacter pylori, via Bottom-Up Proteomics Jesse Granger, Diatomaceous Solar Cells Mary Grutta, Supporting Meaningful Career Paths: Effects of Mentoring on Vocational Outcomes for Emerging Adults Sarah Heins, Complexities of Communication: William Carlos Williams's Medical Narratives and the Exploration of Language Michelle Hermes, Operationalizing the Holocaust Complex: The Effect of Age on Perceptions towards Refugees in Germany Danting Jiang, The Role of Protein-Coding and Regulatory Evolution in Speciation of Wild Yeast Emma Johnson, The Mythologized Man's Maladjustment in a Post-War World Yajna Jowaheer, The Role of Implicit Racial Attitudes in Predicting Perceptions of Drug Users Anna Kenan, The Mechanism of arsR in the Acid Response System of Helicobacter pylori William Kim, Polymer Composites containing Boron Nitride Nanotubes for Thermal Management Likhitha Kolla, Profiling Nuclear Autophagy in ALS Yoojin Kook, Mental Health and Resilience in First Generation College Students Katherine Lang, Structural Geology of the Blue Ridge Tunnel, Rockfish Gap, Virginia Heather Lawrence, Imagining Oppression in Young Adult Dystopian Literature Yoongbok Lee, Public-key Cryptography Using Nonabelian Groups Elijah Levine, Performing the Spiritual in Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" Xiang Liu, Mathematical Studies of Optimal Economic Growth with Monetary Policy Sri Harshavardhan Malapati, Wallerian Degeneration in ALS Emma Merrill, The Ideology, Policy, and Market for Firearms in Virginia Rose Olwell, African Mothers and French Fathers: The Debate Over Mixed Race Children in Colonial French West Africa Zachary Oppler, The Genetic Basis for Social Phenotypes in S. cerevisiae Sophia Palia, Behavioral Effects of Noise Pollution on the Zebra Finch Elena Parcell, Meiotic Defects of a C. elegans Mutant Kristin Passero, Characterizing the Subcellular Localization of Mutant Thyroid Hormone Alpha (Ala382ProfsX7) Jen Peek, RNF4's Role in Stripping Transcriptionally-Active Huntingtin on a Genome Wide Level Rachel Plummer, The Effects of Appearance-Related Media on Men's and Women's Body Image Andrea Powers, The Small Arms Revolution: An Analysis of Small Arms Proliferation, Non-stat Actor Power, Major Power Defense Strategy, and How This All Fits Together Mark Pownall, The Role of Ploidy in Embryonic Plasticity Samantha Ryan, Behind the Curtain: Althea Hunt as Directress, Professor, and Feminist Michael Salomon, Investigating Cancer-Causing Mutations Megan Screen, Artificial Photosynthesis: Hydrogen Fuel Generation via Transition Metal Complexes Rafael Snell-Feikema, Capitalist Anti-Capitalists, Racists Anti-Racists; the Normativity of Whiteness in Left Spaces Daniel Speer, Accessing the Cannabinoid Family of Compounds through an Alkynyl-Prins Cyclization Aparajita Sur, Exploring the Evolutionary and Molecular Dynamics of Mixed Biofilms to Disrupt their Stability Nita Takanti, Protein Proteomics: Using HPLC-MS to Analyze Peptide Fragments Caitlin Taylor, The Effect of Implicit Biases on Discriminatory Behavior Towards Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Catherine Valery, Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the Lofoten Islands, Norway Yonghao Wang, In Defense of Property Dualism Madeline White, From Being to Thing: The Commodification and Mistreatment of Pets in America Ryan Wilmington, Enhancing the Capabilities of Infrared Microscopy Apparatus Hannah Winckler-Olick, Ethical Borders: The Ethics of Citizenship as a Partial Relationship Devon Wolfe, J.S. Mill and Representative Democracy in the Athenian Spirit Shichuan Xi, Investigation of the Catalytic Ability of an Amine-functionalized Polypyridyl Iron Complex for Hydrogen Generation Yanxin Xu, Ultra-High-Dimensional Statistical Learning Justin Yu, Ultrafast Two-dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Ingression of Solvent Treatments in Paint Bowen Zhang, Non-parametric Classification and Estimation Xin Zou, A Mathematical Model of Economic Growth of Two Geographical Regions
2016-2017 Honors Fellows Anastasia Rivera Lyuba Bolkhovitinov Colleen Flynn Dongsun Heo Michelle Barbeau McNeill Bauer Aaron Bayles Courtney Blackington Jacob Brammer Eboni Brown Lydia Brown Hannah Bunting Yuming Cao Lindsay Chatkewitz Sarah Collier Arya Dahal Bernadette Deschaine Ebimene Doubeni Meghan Downey Kristen Ekstrom Christine Fulgham Mary Garrett Hunter Gentry Logan George Stephen Gurley Brooks Henne Anna Henshaw Edward Hernandez Danielle Horridge Christina Howard Emmaleah Jones Cody Jones Kevin Kay Sang Kim Sarah Kinniburgh Polly Lauer Thomas Le Caroline Martin Emily Masi Matthew McGuinness Rachel Merriman-Goldring Francis Pham Meagan Phillips Natalee Price Alexa Rosalsky Daniel Rosenberg Rachel Rosenfeld Kharis Schrage Abigail Simon Sarah Stratton James Sylvester Colleen Truskey Cody Turner Quentin Ullrich John Weaver Alexander Williams Matthew Wong Lauren Wood Ellen Yates Joshua Zimmt Julia Zuercher
2015-2016 Honors Fellows Catherine Acio Karl Adryan Flores Isaac Alty Mary Andino Laurel Brockenberry Hannah Brooks Noah Brooksher Alyssa Brown Evan Cunningham Connor Dantzler Emily Draper Kristin Edwards Yussre El-Bardicy Katie Fee Brenna Ferris Reynolds Hahamovitch Megan Haney Claus Carolyn Hartley Emily Harmon Zachariah Hasan Chantal Houglan Doo Hyun Nam Bina Kakusa Anton Lachowicz Ebony Lambert Robert LaRose Cassandra Leong Natalie Libster Emma McGregor David McPherson Gabrielle Mecca Frankie Morin Minu Nagashunmugam Emily Nye Marshall Padilla Sarah Perry Nic Querolo Davis Richardson Jeremy Ross Jillian Sequeira Brent Sherwood Hannah Smith Patrick Smith Wangxiaoqi Sun Jenna Tan Olivia Trani Katianna Tron Sarah Volz Karyne Williams Fangyi Xu
2014-2015 Honors Fellows Salma Abdel-Raheem Jacob Abrams Emma Albert-Stone Eri Anastas Maura Brennan Tyler Brent Isabel Bush Alana Burton Christian Chamberlayne Dave Geroski Madeline Grimm Nicholas Gupta Melissa Hey Heather Hoskins Natalie Hudson-Smith Lauren Jean Elisabeth Laird Casey Lardner Lucas Leblanc Maren Leibowitz Jacob Lisi Emily Mahoney Addie Merians Chloe Miksovic Adam Mullet William Plews-Ogan Laura Pugh Yusheng Qin Alison Roberts Jacqueline Romero Tanner Russo Alyssa Samuel Jake Schneider Hae Seong Kim Marvin Shelton Katherine Shipman Carly Shira Rachel Sillcox Lillian Singer Jackson Stone Ashby Sturgis Danielle Tassara Grace Taumoefolau Casey Thompson Claire Tocheny Catherine Wise Stephanie Wraith

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