Bachelor of Philosophy Recent Graduates and Capstone Projects

Julia Bingham – Spring 2005
“Research, Development, and Implementation of ESL Course for Chemistry Graduate Students”
Mentor – Henry “Chip” Gerfen – Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Tressa Gibbard  - Summer 2004
“Gibbard Farm:  A Model of Small Farm Sustainability”
Mentor – David Riley – Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering

Christopher Gibbons – Fall 2004
“Rights in the Balance”
Mentor – Jeremy Cohen – Professor of Communications

Andrew Giffin – Spring 2005
“Use of Digital Projectors as Lighting Instruments”
Mentor – William Kelly – Associate Professor of Arts and Architecture

Jeremy Hill – Spring 2006
“From BOLD to TrackITS: The Design and Development of a User-Centric Order Approval Workflow and Asset Tracking System”
Mentor – John Harwood – Associate Professor IST

Robin Hoecker – Spring 2002
“The Black and White Behind the Blue and White: The History of Black Protests at Penn State”
http://www.robinhoecker.com/
Mentor – Jeremy Cohen – Professor of Communications

Kaylin Kopcho – Fall 2005
“Cyclooxygenase-2 Selective Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs: An Overview of the Controversy That Rocked the Medical World”
Mentor – Michelle McClellan Stine – Instructor, Biobehavioral Health

Tarek Nabas – Spring 2005
“Identifying and Interpreting Penn State University Pre-Law Resources”
Mentor – Samuel Richards – Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Tal Peretz – Spring 2005
“Social Crucifixion”
Mentor – Samuel Richards – Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Sarah Reed – Spring 2005
“Parsing Wh-Extractions in Second Language Learners”
Mentor – Paola Dussias – Assistant Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics

Paul Scanlon – Spring 2005
“Plants and Caribbean Rituals:  Anadenanthera peregrine and Oenothera biennis”
Mentor – Lee Newsom – Associate Professor of Anthropology

Merin Thomas – Spring 2006
“International Development: HIV/AIDS Awareness in India”
Mentor – Lakshman Yapa – Professor of Geography

Celina Troutman – Spring 2005
“Cognitive Processing Costs of Interpreting Code-Switched Speech”
Mentor – Henry “Chip” Gerfen – Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Alisha Witmer – Spring 2005
“Misalignments During ESL Teacher-Student Writing Conferences”
Mentor – Susan Strauss – Assistant Professor of Speech Communications