Winter 2025 Capstone Presentations

Mark your calendar for Winter Quarter Senior Capstone presentations! Winter presentations will be in-person with a Zoom option. To arrange your in-person or virtual attendance, please email Honors@wwu.edu. All times listed are in Pacific Time.

Senior Project Presentations

Monday, March 17, 2025

Joy Cobb

Dark blue background with three black line drawings of fish overlaying three yellow circles. Text reads “Forage Fish Foray. How naturally produced toxins affect coastal forage fish. A study of diatom-derived polyunsaturated aldehydes’ effects on the fitness of embryonic and larval surf smelt. Presented by Joy Cobb, Advised by Dr. Brady Olson. Monday March 17 at 9:00 am. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu.”
Forage Fish Foray: How naturally produced toxins affect coastal forage fish

Emily Freudenberger

An orange desert tower rock is centered on the poster, framed by a blue swatch of water color paint and a green piece of construction paper. The poster reads "Confluences; A practice in belonging, relation, and continuation as facilitated by the Colorado River. Emily Freudenberger, advised by Lindsay Poynter. March 17th, 10am. For disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu".
Confluences; A practice in belonging, relation, and continuation as facilitated by the Colorado River

Chris Gilbert

A black background with gold edges at the top and bottom. The text reads "Israel in America. An Exploration of Support for the State of Israel Among Conservative Christians. Chris Gilbert. Advised by Daniel Chard. 3/17/25. 11:00 AM. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu."
Israel in America: An Exploration of Support for the State of Israel Among Conservative Christians

Sydnee Bossen

Teal background with an image of a woman, holding a clipboard, kneeling next to a child on a bean-bag chair. The child has a scribbled out thought bubble above their head. Text reads “The Intervention Worked But Did It Help? An examination of applied behavioral analysis for autism spectrum disorder. By Sydnee Bossen, Advised by Dr. Mike B. Warren. Monday, March 17th 2025 at 2:00 PM. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu.”
The Intervention Worked But Did It Help?

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Isabelle Garten

A yellow tulip on a purple background. Title says "I like my taxes. Do you?" You can view the presentation by Isabelle Garten on March 18th at 9 am. Advised by Professor Singleton. For location and disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu.
I Like My Taxes, Do You?

Isabella Accetturo

Graphic of a coffin and a mountain range. Text reads, "Presented by Isabella Accetturo. Advised by Dr. Laura Fernandes Laffrado. ILLUSTRATOR BACK FROM THE DEAD? Have you ever wanted to learn about an illustrator that almost everyone has forgotten about? Did you take Laura Laffrado’s class on Ella Higginson and remember the illustrated poem “The Snow Pearls”? Come to my presentation to learn all about the great PNW illustrator, Maud Miner Biglow. March 18th @ 10am"
Illustrator Back From the Dead?

Mayla Ward

A light yellow background is decorated with colorful intersecting curves in the top right and bottom left corners. Text reads "Searching for Unicorns in the Fourth Dimension. Using Algebra, Combinatorics, and Computers to Identify Exotic Knotted Surfaces. Tuesday, March 18 @ 11 am, OM 330C. Presented by Mayla Ward, Advised by Dr. Jeffrey Meier. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu."
Searching for Unicorns in the Fourth Dimension

Cherise Russo

A beige vintage style poster depicts trout in a stream with insects in and around the stream. Text reads: "Tuesday, March 18th, 1pm. Bugs and Guts: Diet Preferences of Fish in the Olympic Peninsula. By Cherise Russo. Advised by Dr. James Helfield. For disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu.
Bugs and Guts: Diet Preferences of Fish in the Olympic Peninsula

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Jaden Holt

Blue background with two trees that have U.S. dollars in the leaves. Larger tree takes up most of the page contains off-white colored text reading “If money doesn’t grow on trees, why do banks have branches?” The second tree at the bottom right corner of the page contains off-white colored text reading, “Presentation by Jaden Holt. Advised by Christopher E. Carabini. March 19 at 10am.” Across the top of the page green text reads, “For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu”
If Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, Why Do Banks Have Branches?

Gwendolyn Pane

Yellow-orange background with silhouetted crows on tree branches in the top-right corner. Along the bottom, there is a white city skyline with a group of people walking rightward sketched in the bottom-left corner. A dotted border fills in the empty space between images. Text reads “For the Birds: An Exploration of the Corvid as a Reflection of the Anthropocene. Presented by Gwendolyn Pane, Advised by Dr. John Bower. March 19th at 1 pm. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu.”
For the Birds: An Exploration of the Corvid as a Reflection of the Anthropocene

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Hadley VanLandingham

Black text on a white background which reads "One Hundred, presented by Hadley VanLandingham, advised by Thomas Hummel. 10 am, March 20th, 2025. For disability accommodations please email honors@wwu.edu"
One Hundred

Anika Rozich

A poster stylized as a cigarette box with a red and white color scheme. The top half features red- tinted images of a crying Lana Del Rey and Fleabag. The text reads: "Pretty Little Nihilists: The Aesthetic Politics of the Sad Girl. Presented by Anika Rozich, Advised by Dr. Mary Erickson. Monday, March 20th at 1:00 PM." At the bottom, a black-bordered box resembling a warning label states: "For disability accommodations, please email honors@wwu.edu."
Pretty Little Nihilists: The Aesthetic Politics of the Sad Girl