Winter 2021 Senior Project Presentations

Mark your calendar for Winter Quarter Senior Capstone presentations! Winter presentations will be in person in Old Main 330 classrooms 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.

Thursday, March 11

Text reads: “Western Washington University Presents: Recontextualizing Literature: a podcast project dedicated to celebrating and broadcasting the voices of Indigenous authors and storytellers. A Senior Honors Capstone Presentation by Xavier Hickey. Advised by Brian J. Bowe, Ph.D. Thursday, March 11. 8 AM PST. For Disability Accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu”. Text is on a red-to-blue gradient background. To the left are cartoon graphics of a microphone and a speaker at a podium.

Xavier Hickey

Recontextualizing Literature: A podcast project dedicated to celebrating the voices of Indigenous authors and storytellers

8:00 AM

Text reads: "Speaking My Truth: Voices and Portraits of Honors Students of Color. Presented by Leah Kerbs. Advised by Joan Connell. March 11th at 10AM. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu". To the left is an abstract drawing of a partial face made of a single unbroken black line. Under everything is a plain beige background.

Leah Kerbs

Speaking My Truth: Voices and Portraits of Honors Students of Color

10:00 AM

Text reads: "Logging and Labor in the Pacific Northwes: A demystification of the social systems that underpin our region’s historic logging industry. Thursday, March 11th, 11 am. By Leif Salveson. Advised by Dr. David Rossiter." Under the text, a photo looking down on a forest of evergreen trees, with mist fading into the background.

Leif Salveson

Logging and Labor in the Pacific Northwest

11:00 AM

White and teal rectangle graphics on a light pink background. Text reads: "Risky Business? Examining prevention and perception of STI and pregnancy risk among college students at Western Washington University. March 11th @1-1:45pm. Presented by Emily van Deinse. Advised by Dr. Mary Hunt. For Disability Accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu"

Emily van Deinse

Risky Business? Examining prevention and perception of STI and pregnancy risk among college students at Western Washington University

1:00 PM

Text reads: "Presented by Alex Wiecking. Advised by Dr. Tristan Goldman. History Through Fashion: The 2020 Collection. Rebranding History, one thread at a time. March 11, 2021. 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm. For disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu". The background is white with a red border and one graphic of an embroidery needle attached to a spool of black thread.

Alex Wiecking

History Through Fashion: The 2020 Collection

2:00 PM

Text reads: "Your Vote, Your Faith. Religious parties in Israel and the Netherlands. Presented by Bryant Donner. Advised by Amir Abedi. March 11, 2021 4:00 pm." The background is red under the title and blue everywhere else. Between the text and subheading are two checkboxes labeled "Orthodoxy" and "Stability", each containing a large black checkmark.

Bryant Donner

Your Vote, Your Faith: Religious parties in Israel and the Netherlands

4:00 PM

Friday, March 12

Text reads: "To Remember Even This. Jessica Oravetz. Advised by Dr. Tristan Goldman. 10 am March 12, 2021. For Disability Accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu”. The background is a photo of a mountain farmland with a collage of magazine cut-outs arranged on top, including a floral dress, a baby, a sheep, a basket of fresh vegetables, and a bead necklace.

Jessica Oravetz

To Remember Even This

10:00 AM

“An image of a young woman’s face, upside down and smiling. She’s wearing heart-shaped glasses with that are painted over with an LGBT pride rainbow pattern, and her dark hair is spilling down to create the backdrop for these words: "Boy Crazy. A screenplay about gay fanfiction, queerbaiting, and asexual identity. Presented by Luci Mintiero, and advised by Evan Mueller. Friday, March 12th, from 11am to 11:45 on Zoom. For Disability Accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu."

Luciana Mintiero

Boy Crazy: A screenplay about gay fanfiction, queerbaiting, and asexual identity

11:00 AM

A black-and-white picture of destroyed brick buildings, with the text: "Luke Griffin presents an original screenplay about the French Resistance during the Second World War. LA RÉSISTANCE [Working Title]. March 12, 2021, 1:00 PM. Advised by Greg Youmans. For Disability Accomodation, please email honors@wwu.edu"

Luke Griffin

La Résistance: An Original Screenplay

1:00 PM

Black and white photo of a Mongolian individual in traditional clothes on horseback with their a bow and arrow drawn. Text reads: "Mulan’s Sisters on the Steppes of Inner Asia. Examining Sorqoqtani, Toregene, Wenming, Mulan. By Zoe Hoff. Advised by Scott Pearce. Friday, March 12 at 2 pm. For disability accommodation please email honors@wwu.edu"

Zoe Hoff

Mulan’s Sisters on the Steppes of Inner Asia

2:00 PM

Text reads: "Wonder Women: An artistic approach to understanding the female biome. Friday, March 12th 2021 at 4:00 pm. The Art Work of Zoë Johnson. Advised by José Serrano-Moreno. For disability accomodations please email honors@wwu.edu". Text is on a dark pink background with a grid of 9 black squares, 7 of which contain drawings of colorful bacterial growth in yellow petri dishes.

Zoë Johnson

Wonder Women: An artistic approach to understanding the female biome

4:00 PM

Monday, March 15

Text: "Emotional Health and COVID-19. Psychology research on students' emotional health and experience with Western's resources. Honors Senior Capstone by Anamika Paulay. Advisor Dr. Jennifer McCabe. Monday, March 15 9am. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu". Background: Dark blue gradient with yellow dots at the top and bottom of the text. To the right is a cartoon illustration of a lightbulb in the shape of a human side profile with a cloud with strings coming out of it inside.

Anamika Paulay

Emotional Health and COVID-19: Psychology research on students' emotional health and experience with Western's resources

9:00 AM

Image: An outline of a salamander made from equations on a graph. Text: "The Graph Menagerie: an exploration of the intersection of math, biology, and art. By Maggie Barry, advised by Dr. Jeanine Amacher. Monday, March 15th 10:00 am. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu"

Maggie Barry

The Graph Menagerie: An exploration of the intersection of math, biology, and art

10:00 AM

Text reads: "Honors Capstone Project: On Fear. By Olivia Klein. Advisor: Aaron Smith. A podcast mini-series featuring conversations with three experts, exploring fears related to the self, others and endings. March 15, 2020 11am. For disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu". The background is white, and the text is broken up by 3 headshots of people smiling, captioned as "Keith Russell", "Kevin Delucio", and "Lashanna Williams".

Olivia Klein

On Fear

11:00 AM

Photo of Lake Padden in the evening. Shadowy treetops along the shore are framed by a tinge of orange and a clear periwinkle sky. The colors reflect in the water. Text reads: "Memories, Expressions, Reflections: a Personal Retrospective. Presented by Corey Griffis. Advised by Tristan Goldman and fueled by late night snacks. Thoughts on remembrance, life, death, materiality, ecology, sublimity, etc. 3.15.21 @ 12PM. For Disability Accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu"

Corey Griffis

Memories, Expressions, Reflections: a Personal Retrospective

12:00 PM

Photo of a barge floating in the water at the Port of Bellingham, with Old City Hall in the background. Photo credit to Mike Siegel, The Seattle Times. Text reads: "Building Better Business: Creating a Socially, Environmentally, & Economically Sustainable Business. March 15, 2021 @ 1pm. Will Barror, Advised by Dr. Craig Dunn. For disability accomodations, please email honors@wwu.edu"

Will Barror

Building Better Business

1:00 PM

Text reads: "Running Whidbey: Exploring the mental and physical effects of long distance endurance on the human body. Monday, March 15th at 2pm. By Bree Daigneault. Advised by Dr. Jeanine Amacher. For disability accomodations please email honors@wwu.edu". Background image is a photograph taken at night of a young woman sitting and wrapped in an orange sleeping bag, with a headlamp on. Drawn over the image is an outline of Whidbey Island.

Bree Daigneault

Running Whidbey: Exploring the mental and physical effects of long distance endurance on the human body

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2:00 PM

Text: "Let's Talk About Sex (education and how it can transform the way we teach financial literacy to young people) Baby. March 15, 2021 at 3:00 pm. Presented by Serafima Healey. Under Advisement of Dr. Ed Love. For disability acommodations please email honors@wwu.edu". Background image: a lined piece of paper with hand drawn doodles of arrows pointing to text, stars around the word "sex," and a heart with initials J & M, resembling a middle school note.

Serafima Healey

Let's Talk About Sex (education and how it can transform the way we teach financial literacy to young people) Baby

3:00 PM

Montessori Education in the Eyes of a Public School Teacher

Sara Ronen

Montessori Education in the Eyes of a Public School Teacher

4:00 PM