Spring 2024 Capstone Presentations
Mark your calendar for Spring Quarter Senior Capstone presentations! Scheduled from Friday, May 17 to Friday, June 14, we have around 100 presentations. Spring presentations will be in person in Old Main 330 classrooms (unless otherwise listed) with a Zoom option. To arrange your virtual attendance at any presentation, please email Honors@wwu.edu to request the Zoom link. All times listed are in Pacific Time.
Friday, May 17 2024
Riley Weeks
Journalism Justice
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Friday, May 24 2024
Chloe Anderson
Unraveling the Legacy of DDT: Synthesis and Degradation pathways of Environmental Pollutants
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Joshua Dyeson
J.G.T. : A Venture Into Game Design
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Friday, May 31 2024
Delaney Alvord
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: An Illustrated Guide
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Jordan Baron
Feet Stained Red: A memoir and exploration of the history of my family and my cultural identity in today’s society
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
August Grossblatt
Worlds Within Words: Science Fiction, Aliens, and Linguistic Injustice
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Mackenzie Morehead
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Review of Evidence Based Practice within Communication Sciences and Disorders
12:00 pm PDT
12:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Rachel Hultman
Finding Resilience Through Knitting
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Alyssa Geolamin
Implanting Seeds of Community: Exploring the effects of community support on increasing rates of contraceptive implant use in Rwanda
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Finn Coffin
Freezer Geology: At Home Experiments to Relate Rock Weathering and Abrasion
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Tuesday, June 4 2024
Hailey Bridges
Challenging Care: Discussing Intersections of Individualism, Mental Health, and Community in America
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Taylar Christianson
Future Tense / Angel River: A Poetry Chapbook
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Ava DeVries
The Uncanny Valley: a Creative Writing Portfolio
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Kathleen Thornbourgh
The Threads of Life the Stories and Lessons Learned Caring for the Dying and the Dead
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Wednesday, June 5 2024
Carolyn Schmode
Bloom or Bust: An interdisciplinary exploration of flowering plants and how climate change impacts them
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Caylee Caldwell
Daughter as Hybridity: A Creative Writing Gallery
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Viking Union 464
Annika Bjornstad
Teachers! Quit Yapping! Student-Led History and the Critical Classroom
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 587
Ingrid Violette Shipstead
To Walk Between Worlds: An artistic exploration of my experience as an engineering student at Western
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Thursday, June 6 2024
Saunder VanWoerden
AI & Jobs: Threat or Opportunity?
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Winter Yi
Shmoomics: An Exploration of Science Communication
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Ian Cambridge
Stories from the collection: Shards. Speculative fantasy inspired by Greek and Chinese myth
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Ariana Stephens
Mad Women: A tirade of hidden patriarchal practices that should incite feminine rage and prove that we should all be mad
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Friday, June 7 2024
Beatrice King
Communication Temptation: The use of Environmental Arrangement strategies in the LAPE parent education program
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Brianna Benner
Soils to Streams: Investigating the efficacy of soil amendments in mitigating nanopesticide leaching
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Alesandra Geddert
You Are Life Itself: A picture book for the healing inner child
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Milica Jakovljevic
Weeding Out the Truth: Understanding the neuroprotective effects of CBD on gliosis in mouse models of Huntington’s Disease
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Tasha Denton
Weed & Sex
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Natalie Keys
The Cheers Engineers
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Thai Nguyen
Automating Accessibility: Evaluating Automated Accessibility Checker Tools (updated presentation date: 6/7 @ 12:00PM)
12:00 pm PDT
12:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Monday, June 10 2024
Cole Yamamura
Death//After: Conceptualizing Life through Digital Media
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Chloe Unflat
Visualizing Household Food Resilience
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
CJ Chopot
Conformity in our Youth: Why do we conform to societal pressures and norms?
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Aimee Long
What the Heck: Total synthesis of naturally occurring molecules rupestines H and I via an intramolecular Mizoroki-Heck cyclization
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Carly Hopp
Environmental Equity in an Unjust World: The Ganges Delta
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Percy Batalov
Can My Landlord Do That?
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Adrienne Rugg
Fashion Slow: Poetic Threads of Fate and Decay
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Marie Kerns
Opposites Attract: The electrostatic combination of silk films and metal nanostructures for biomedical sensing applications
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Emmy Formiga
Beneath the Surface: An Exploration of Endospore-Forming Bacteria in Brassica Seeds
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Liam KenWood
Against the Tragedy: Commons as a pathway for sustainable futures
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Madeline Pysher
AI Utopia: How is our understanding of futuristic and nostalgic utopian urban forms interpreted by AI?
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Adelle Koenig
The Chemistry of Plastic
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Aina Zabinski
Understories: A Queer Rewilding of Ecology and Literature
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Tuesday, June 11 2024
Max Stone
Justifying Goods: Analyses of David Benatar’s Philanthropic and Misanthropic Arguments for Antinatalism
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Jessica Dietzman
From Threads to Treasures: The Resilient Journey of the Western Worn Community Closet
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Eleanor Scott
And They Were Roommates: Exploring Communal Living Through Podcasting
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Jasper Kerns
What's Cookin' Good Lookin'?
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Vivian White
Learning and Aligning Structured Random Feature Networks
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Brody Hunt
Not a 9 to 5: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Pursuing a Career as a Musician
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Emma Martin
Imaging Evidence of Earthquake Damage in the Crust Along the Queen Charlotte Fault
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Alyssa White
WWU's Sustainable Lab Certification
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Aicha Tokar Falatah
Generational Echoes: How Trauma Transcends Generations
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Javin Morrison
So What Is Exercise Anyway?: A Sociolinguistic Study on the Definition of Exercise
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Rose Border
Watch the Golgi Bloom: The journey of an assay imaging the Golgi in live human cells
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Emily Sabisch
Colorful Relations: How Race Conditions the Relationship between Sexual Orientation and Willingness to Interracially Date
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Wednesday, June 12 2024
Ellie Skiffington
Logic Lessons: A Course Dedicated to showing the intersection of Computer Science and Philosophy
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Lily Storbeck
Feed the Earth: An Exploration of Regenerative Agriculture Programs in Washington State
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Sam Burgh
Impractical Ecologies
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Miller Hall 239
Emmaline Lenz
Goo Gone! Removing adhesive contamination from PakTech beverage toppers for recycling
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Dylan Braund
Food for Thought: Food systems mapping and goals at Western Washington University
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Dawson Gyllenhammer
Beksiński, Disarticulated: A 3d Modeling Journey
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Lola Lang
Tets, Blots, and Ligases! Oh My! An undergraduate’s research journey
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Samantha Seaboldt
Fanfiction: From Dante to MissKingBean89
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Elinor Hendricks
Articulating the Tarot
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Claude Brun
Morality, War crimes, and Engagement in Games About War: A Sociological Analysis
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Briana Lubinski
witness marks: a poetry chapbook
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Elijah Yost
Literacy and SEL Informed Songs and Games for the Music Classroom
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Bella Royster
The 22nd Annual Masquerade: A blasphemous, queer, and occasionally obsessive coming of age through poetry and photography
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Bridget Miller
Finding the green: Integrated justifications for green space in urban environments
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Noah Goodwin-Rice
Someday we'll bind it... The Protein Connection. Accelerating sortase-mediated ligation reactions in vitro
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Thursday, June 13 2024
Sophia Cox
Youth Voice in Museums: A Case Study at the Whatcom Museum
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Kate Conway
Herbalism as Community Care: Centering relationship-building in class research, development, and teaching
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Hannah Thorp
Fem in STEM
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Simone Player
High and Mighty? Exploring the effects of CBD and beta-caryophyllene on stress-induced allodynia in mice
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Ellery Temple
Representing Self and Community Through Aerial Dance
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Cait Steiner
Shades of Belief: Colorblind Ideology and Perceptions of Wealth Inequality
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Tristan Trudell
Singing The Praises: A Short Album Listening Party
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Kaylie McRea
Examining the Accessibility of Digital Payment and the Rise of Socioeconomic Inequality due to the Cashless Revolution
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Lillie Tomlinson
Ashes to Algae: Phytoplankton Communities in Early Successional Ponds at the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Mady Jacobs
Hydrophobicity in Membrane Binding of Factor VIII
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Grace Ferrell
From Initial State to Ground State: A Quantum Computing Journey
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Pilar Deniston
Do Brown Lawns Lead to Blue Lakes? Assessing the Efficacy of the Washington Ban on Phosphorus Fertilizer
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Anna Byquist
Squirming in Stress
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Amaya Coblentz
Landscapes of Change: Acequias, Community Resilience, and State Power in Northern New Mexico
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Friday, June 14 2024
Emma Owens
Eating Spring: A month of eating wild and cultivated foods seasonal to Whatcom County
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Maya Mijares
One seal, two seal! A study using mtDNA to investigate the genetic population structure of harbor seals in Washington State
9:00 am PDT
9:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Maggie Strecker
Our Inheritance: Exploring the Future of Climate Change and Environmental Policy through Fiction
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Toby Traudt
Pond Scum Genome Protection Program
10:00 am PDT
10:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Sebastian Sauceda
Medical Horror: Power and History in Medical Spaces
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330A
Karenna Merritt
Miss Americana & the Queen Bey: A Seismic Analysis of Synchronous Crowd Movement at Lumen Field Concerts
11:00 am PDT
11:00 am PDT in Old Main 330C
Emma Magnuson
Tierra y Libertad: How Land Reflects Power within 20th Century Mexican Literature
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Kal Hines
but you'll forgive yourself, won't you? OMORI's depiction of self-compassion as a means to prevent suicide
1:00 pm PDT
1:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Kieran Sutton
The Myth of Brokenness, Ableism in the Field of Speech & Language Therapy
2:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Mathias Holshouser
The Anticipations
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Gabby Laipenieks
Climate Storytelling: An experiment in interdisciplinary course design
3:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Caton Coldicott
Claiming Whatcom: Understanding the Land Claims of Whatcom County
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330C
Phoenix Willging
Married or Dead: Little Women, The Girl Next Door and Feminine Irrelevance
4:00 pm PDT
4:00 pm PDT in Old Main 330A
Carina Raffaelli
SHORELINE: A short film
7:00 pm PDT
7:00 pm PDT in Arntzen Hall 100