»Honors Achievements Archive
2021-2022
October 27-31, 2021
2019-2020
National Collegiate Honors Council 2019
New Orleans, LA
November 2019
Danielle Espiritu
“Green Politics: Indigeneity and the Question of Economic Development”
Priya Mistry
“Modulation of Ocular Epithelial Cell Mucins Expression by Proinflammatory Cytokines”
Nikki Purewal
Film Master Class
Pippa Russell
“Wild Seed, Wild Theories: Regrowing Society Post-colonialism”
Corinne Tam
“Emotional Logics of Care: Love and Obligation for the Sandwich Generation”
Western Regional Honors Council Conference 2019
Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT
March 2020
Accepted students who were unable to present due to the Covid19 Pandemic:
Natalie Brown
“An Investigation Into the Real Reasons Behind Segregated Bathrooms”
Dylan Holder
“Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Organ Donation”
Maithu Koppolu
Scribendi Honors Magazine Editor's Choice Award for, Sunscreen
Kylie Miller
“It’s an imperfect world, but it’s the only one we’ve got.” Exploring and Redefining Sovereignty Through Examples from the Marvel Cinematic Universe”
Priya Mistry
“Comparative analysis of hyperosmotic stress-mediated modulation of cytokine gene expression in human conjunctival and corneal epithelial cells”
Hayley Nelson
“TikTok: Entertainment as International Relations”
Elyse Runkle
“Sex in Film: How what we see on screen informs gender dynamics”
Pippa Russell
“Bestiaries and The Lion King: The Long Lasting Impact of Medieval Bestiaries”
Shreya Sheth
“Displaced in Cyberspace:
Cyber-borders Curbing Human Rights for Rohingya Refugees”
Corinne Tam
"Tiger Moms, Dragon Dads, and Baby Pandas:
Cultural Expectations Success Among Asian-American College Students."
Isy Barrett
Cala Gin
Fulbright Program
Carol Sun ‘18
Caitlyn Nguyen ‘17
Esme Aston ’16
Phi Beta Kappa
2020 Inductees
Avery Cardosi
Samuel Kagan
Pippa Russell
Corinne Tam
2019 Inaugural Inductees
Cala Gin
Jenny Gritton
Morgan Kindel
Vanessa Stahel
The University Honors Program’s Outstanding Student Award
Haley Anderson
Alex Ballard
Kylie Miller
Kina Wong
The University Honors Program’s Academic Excellence Award
For having a 3.85 GPA or higher
Isy Barrett
Maddie Barrett
Austin Bohannon
Avery Cardosi
Alli Esposito
Cala Gin
Kayla Holder
Samuel Kagan
Amy Sara Lim
Kylie Miller
KJ Minzner
Pippa Russell
Corinne Tam
Hunter Turney
Kina Wong
Grace Zoerner
2018-2019
National Collegiate Honors Council 2018
Boston, MA
November 2018
Alex Ballard
“Children’s Attitudes Toward Micromanagement”
Kina Wong
“Historiography, Ethics, and War: An Analysis
of Civilian Targeting Through War Memory in Anime”
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations 2018
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
March 2019
Alex Ballard & Kina Wong (co-presenting)
“Kennedy versus Krushchev:
The Battle for Cold War Supremacy in Africa”
Zoe Barley
“The Importance of Outdoor Education in Creating Happy
Children and a Successful Society”
Brittney Bringuez
“A 53-Year War: Foreign Influence and Prioritization of Life and
Peace in Colombia, South America”
Natalie Brown & Hayley Nelson (co-presenting)
“οἶκος and the Economy”
Melissa Coyle
“Simultaneous Targeting of mTOR and mLST8
in Human Breast Cancer Cells”
Carolyn Davio
“The Positive Influence of Mindfulness”
Sierra DeWalt
“The Portrayal of Death in the Tao Te Ching”
Kylie Miller
"Globalism and Right-Wing Populism: A Study of Reactions
to Globalization, and the Conflicting Definitions of Sovereignty
on which Each Reaction Relies”
Kate Minzner
“The Alcatraz Effect: Prison Tourism
and Its Effect on the American Penal System”
Priya Mistry
“Modulation of ocular epithelial cell mucins expression
by proinflammatory cytokines”
Pippa Russell
“Sansa Stark: A Feminine Hero”
Jacqueline Van Bronkhorst
“Harry Potter in the Age of Trump”
Chapman University Awards
Finalists for the Cheverton Award
Brittney Bringuez
Talia Cain
Catherine Domingo
Phi Beta Kappa – Inaugural Year Student Inductees
Cala Gin
Jenny Gritton
Morgan Kindel
Vanessa Stahel
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Brittney Bringuez
Cheverton Award finalist
University Honors Program Outstanding Student Award
Graduating with departmental honors in Integrated Educational Studies
Talia Cain
Cheverton Award finalist
University Honors Program Outstanding Student Award
Graduating with departmental honors in Integrated Educational Studies
Nominated for an IES senior award
Dory Ann Carter
Communications Departmental Award
Rebekah Dennis
University Honors Program Outstanding Student Award
Music Departmental Award
Catherine Domingo
Cheverton finalist
Biology Honors
Rachel Gallagher
Most Involved in C.A.S.T Award
Outstanding Performance Award
Cailin Grantham
Presidential Scholars Award
Henley Social Sciences Award for Political Science
Departmental honors
Jenny Gritton
Inaugural Inductee for Phi Beta Kappa
Outstanding Senior Award
Schmid College departmental honors
Maddie Gwinn
Dodge College's nominee for Kodak's Undergraduate
Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking Award
Leo Freedman Award
1st place for the Kevin and Tam Ross
Undergraduate Research Prize for capstone essay
Aidan Jones
Music Department Award
Sociology Departmental Honors
Nominated for Huntington Award, Diversity Leadership Award,
Outstanding Senior Award
Cal Keeter
Henley Award
Political Science departmental honors
Morgan Kindel
Inaugural inductee for Phi Beta Kappa
Departmental Honors for Psychology
Natalie Kowell
Henley Social Science Award
Peace Studies departmental honors for
outstanding academic achievement in the major
Dana Luo
Sociology departmental honors
Kevin Pope
National Society of Collegiate Scholars Award
Anika Prednis
Dr. Lynn Doti Award for Excellence in Economics
Kaitlyn Raymundo
Nominated Outstanding Senior Awards
Julia Ross
Order of Omega Honors
School of Communications Award
Reagan Shrum
Received numerous awards within the conservatory of music
for excellence in academics and performance
David Siegel
Syracuse Stage Playwrights Festival – Finalist
Vanessa Stahel
Inaugural inductee to Phi Beta Kappa
Departmental Honors in Philosophy and IES
Presidential Scholar
Mitchell Sturhann
University Honors Program Outstanding Student Award
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence
(2018-2019)
Brittney Bringuez
Talia Cain
Dory Ann Carter
Danny Cassee
Rebekah Dennis
Catherine Domingo
Rachel Gallagher
Ashley Gates
Cailin Grantham
Jenny Gritton
Madison Gwinn
Aidan Jones
Cal Keeter
Taylor Killefer
Morgan Kindel
Dana Luo
Rebecca Maehara
Anika Prednis
Kaitlyn Raymundo
Regan Shrum
Vanessa Stahel
Mitchell Sturhann
Jacqueline Van Bronkhorst
University Honors Program Students of the Year
(2018-2019)
Brittney Bringuez
Talia Cain
Rebecca Dennis
Mitchell Sturhann
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 4, 2019
Everyone is Connected but Nobody is Connecting
Higher Education is a Baloney Sandwich that Costs $5 and I’ve Only Got $3:
A Critique of Social and Institutional Oppression
Game of Tourism: Postcolonial Subjectivity and Attraction to Social Deviance
“Hell on Heels:” Power, Revenge, and Resistance of Female Country Music Artists
Extending the “Magic If”: An Examination of Self-Centrism and
Actor /Audience Relationship in American Acting Pedagogy
Music, Culture, and Expression
Why Does Music Move Us: An Exploration Into
How and Why Music Affects Human Emotion and Physiology
From Skin to Brain Cells: Understanding the Research Behind Treating
Alzheimer’s Disease with Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
We Should Eat Bugs! A Study of Why that Idea Grosses You Out
On the Danger of Adopting Virtual Realities:
An Exploration of the Normalization of Escapism
Holy Mary Mother of God, Radical Chicana Feminist:
Breaking the Binary of Chicana Virgins or Whores through Art
Masculinity and The Environment: How Precarious Manhood is Killing Our Planet
Countering the Current:
The Function of Cinematic Waves in Communist vs. Capitalist Societies
From Cavemen to Soyboys: Women’s Attraction to Carnivores and Herbivores
Everyone Loves a Man in Uniform:
Understanding Western Military Style and Nazi Chic in Queer Subculture Fashion
An Incarceration Miscalculation: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Food in Memory: How Our Memory Influences How We Eat
The Struggle for Nutrition in a Globalizing World
Marketing The Environment: The Product of Making Change
Chancla vs. Feather Duster: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Expressions of Discipline/Affection and the Effects on the Parent/Child Relationship
“No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies”:
On the Equal Rights Amendment and the U.S. Body Politic
Sharing Shakespeare: How Film has Made the Bard More Accessible Than Ever
Cosmic Consciousness: Using Quantum Theory to Understand Our Personal Reality
“What’s Better Than the Arts?”:
Community Music Therapy as a Tool of Transformative Justice
The Socializing of the Carnivalesque in Children's Programming
The Psychology of Self-Segregation: Can Empathy Break the Pattern?
Rehabilitation of the Aging: Gait and Parkinson’s
American Opera in the New Millennium
“HA! That’s Depressing -- The Psychology of Dark Humor”
Our Wartime First Ladies: How Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt’s
Decisions Affected the Nation and the Role of First Lady in the 20th Century
When Conservation Means Killing:
An Ethical Perspective on New Zealand’s “War” Against “Invasive” Species
The Only Thing Flat Earthers Fear is Sphere Itself:
Why we can trust science, and why some people don’t
Sociopathy in Children and How to Address it in the Classroom
Understanding the Scare: The Cultural Psychology of Cinematic Horror
Harry Potter in the Age of Trump
Religious Accommodation, Legal
Exemption, and the Corruption of Equal Toleration
Huddled Masses: Persecuting the Persecuted - Asylum detention in the U.S.
2017-2018
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
National Collegiate Honors Council 2018
Atlanta, GA
November 2017
“Protecting Our Cyber Borders”
Benjamin Bond & Aidan Jones
“Stereotypical Symphonies:
An Analyzation of Stereotypes in Disney Soundtracks”
Talia Cain
“Derailing the School-to-Prison Pipeline”
Nolan Kresnak
“I Think, Therefore I (Instagr)am”
Rebecca Maehara
“Creating Better Accessibility in Southern California Art”
Carol Sun
“Anime and War”
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Chapman University
Orange, CA
April 2018
Alexander Ballard
‘“Development” and “Developing Nations”’
Brittney Bringuez
“Preferential Aberrant Parenting Practices in 21st Century America: An Intersection of Race, Wealth, and Privilege
Talia Cain
“Derailing the School-to-Prison Pipeline”
Mackenzie Gray
“Uncertainty is Certain”
Sam Kagan
“White Supremacy Still Thrives: On the Ubiquity of Modern American Racism”
Taylor Killefer
“The Death of Television”
Morgan Kindel
“The Relationship Between Episodic Memory, Restrained Eating, and Homeostatic Appetite Regulation”
Rebecca Maehara
“A Public Health, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Analysis of
Building Housing Near Freeways in Los Angeles”
Priya Mistry
“Modulation of Ocular Epithelial Cell Mucins Expression by Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines”
Chapman University Awards
Tellis Aucoin
Peace Studies Department Award
Benjamin Bond
Religious Studies Department Award
Departmental Honors
Paige Gulley
Cheverton Award
History Departmental Honors
Haley Hopkins
Purcell Award
Fine Arts Honors Award
Lucie Jerome
Psychology Departmental Award
Nilsha Khurana
Outstanding Senior Award
Biology Departmental Honors
Ian Nel
Psychology Departmental Honors
Psychology Special Award for Outstanding Research
Taryn Park
Crean Departmental Honors
Anne Roffler
Biochemistry Department Award
Victoria Turner
Psychology Department Award
Samantha Waugh
National Honor Society in Dance Arts
Dance Departmental Honors for artistic
merit, leadership and academic achievement
Bradley West
Henley Award
Manon Wogahn
Art History Departmental Honors
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence
(2017-2018)
Christine Anderson
Suraj Daryanani
Maggie Dorfman
Anastasia Finney
Paige Gulley
Paul Harnack
Lucie Jerome
Drew Nelson
Sammi Waugh
University Honors Program Students of the Year
(2017-2018)
Christine Anderson
Carol Sun
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 5, 2018
“Going Green: High Performance Building for the Future”
“Math Phobia: Mathematics Anxiety and the Failures of Pedagogy”
“A Slow Death: How Humanity Botched the Climate Change Debate”
“Police Brutality & the News in the United States of Amnesia”
“Reason and Research”
“Voodoo Fires in the Music of New Orleans”
“Food, Self & Society: How Peace Starts on Your Plate”
“Wealth and Privilege: The One Percent and Everyone Else”
“An Exploration of Technology’s Influence on Education”
“I Hate My Group: Deliberately Teaching Teamwork”
“Amplifying Change:
Implementing Drops Philosophies into Chance Theater”
“Sex Education in the United States:
Repressing Rights, Suppressing Sexuality, Highlighting Hypocrisy”
“Undocumented Immigration in the United States:
The Growing Divide and Morality of the Issue”
“Oriented to a Particular World:
The Role of Language in Colonial French Algeria”
“Ethical Implications of Big Data and the Data Collection to Do It”
“Women as Mutable: Feminizing the Tabula Rasa”
“Dance Like No One’s Watching: The Portrayal of Dance in Mass Media,
and its Adverse Effects of the Dance Community”
“Dance is Healing: Psychological. Anthropological,
and Medical Perspectives on the Healing Benefits of Dance
“The Stories We Tell: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Fairy Tales”
“Music Therapy for Mental Disorders: The Rhythm of Healing”
“Taxation Without Equal Representation:
A Look at the Interplay Between the Government, Taxes, and Nonprofits
“Diegesis: Constructing Truth in Digital Media”
“Creator of Happiness”
“Morality and Justice in War: Is There Such a Thing?”
“In the Age of Streaming, Will Movie Theaters Stand the Test of Time?
“The Portrayal of Terrorism in Western Media”
“‘Kill Yourself Faggot’: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
of Suicidality Among Young Sexual Minority Men”
“She Said What? AAVE, Queer Speech, and the Linguistic Performance of the Other”
“Future Storytellers: The Intersection of AI and Cinema”
“The American Obesity Epidemic”
“Holistic Eating: A Guide to Restructuring US Agribusiness”
“The Inherent Manipulativeness of Cinema:
Responsibility and the Hermeneutical Nature of Truth in Arthouse Film”
“Storytelling in Themed Entertainment”
“Me Talk Science Pretty One Day:
Public Distrust and Communication as Cure”
“Globalization and Cultural Difference: Hybrid Identities”
“In Between: The Effects of Being a Third Culture Kid”
“What It Means to Be – How Parents’ Traumatic Experiences
are Genetically Passed on to their Children”
“Black Women Make the Best Lemonade: A Brief Guide for
Non-Black Women on How and Why They Need to Learn the Recipe”
“It’s the White Man’s School, We’re Just Learning It”
Motion as Intrinsic and Empathic:
Evidence the Being-in-the-World is Moving-in-the-World”
“The Politics of Nu Metal”
“The Pope as King:
Examining the Papal Tiara in the Context of the Modern Church”
2016-2017
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
National Collegiate Honors Council 2017
Atlanta, GA
November 2017
NCHC 2017 Poster Winners
1st Place Social Justice - Rebecca Maehara, English BA
3rd Place Arts & Humanities – Ben Bond, Religious Studies and Aidan Jones, Sociology
NCHC 2017 Poster Presentations
Sofya Bochkareva
“Protecting Our Cyber Borders”
Benjamin Bond & Aidan Jones
"Stereotypical Symphonies: An Analyzation of Stereotypes in Disney Soundtracks"
Talia Cain
"Derailing the School-to-Prison Pipeline”
Nolan Kresnak
"I Think, Therefore I (Instagr)Am"
Rebecca Maehara
"Creating Better Accessibility in Southern California Art Museums: The Visual Arts
as a Way of Enabling Justice"
Carol Sun
"Anime and War"
Sikh Lens Documentary Scholarship
Taylor Killefer, TV Writing & Production BFA
Kylie Miller, News & Documentary BFA and Political Science BA
Noah “Hulu” Nunokawa, Film Production BFA
Western Regional Honors Council Presentation
Ashland, OR
April 2017
Sofya Bochkareva
“Protecting Our Cyber Borders”
Nicole Choy
“Analysis of the Female Presence in the Male-Dominated Comic Book Industry”
Melissa Coyle
“Interfering with Signal Transduction in Breast Cancer Progression”
Monica Furman
“Cross(ing) the Line: Leadership in Devised Theatre”
Matt (Gonzalez) Mako
“Leadership on a Global Scale”
Jamie Moseley
“Conservation and Natural Selection: Ethical Considerations”
and
“Learning Through Leadership: Growing as a Peer Leader”
Marco Saglimbeni
“The Sicilian Pupi: Conveyors of Myth”
Jessica Stipek
“Veganism: A Cure for Global Hunger?”
Carol Sun
“Anime and War"
Chapman University Awards
Shannon Annarella
Marion Knott Scholar, 2016
Morgan Bates
Psychology - Department award
Leon Dominguez-Lukic
Diversity Leadership Award
Ethan Friederich
Political Science - Departmental Honors
History - Departmental Honors
History - History Outstanding Student Award
Monica Furman
Fulbright Semi-Finalist
Schweitzer Scholar for the 2016-2017
Johnny Garcia
Sociology – Academic Achievement Award
Michaela “Miki” Kubo
Crean – Outstanding Senior Award
Marissa Messina
Women of Chapman Endowed Filmmaker Award 2016
Taryn Miyake
Huntington Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Jamie Moseley
Outstanding Senior Award
Crean - Outstanding Seniors at the Leadership Award
Finalist for the Gloria and Julian Peterson Award
Caitlyn Nguyen
Fulbright Award winner
Robert K. Greenleaf Servant Leadership Award
Leader & Change Agent award
Tanja Radic
COPA – Department award
Alexandra Rupp
COPA – Department award
Marco Saglimbeni
Outstanding Senior Award
Jessica Stipek
Sociology Award for Academic Excellence
Sara Wanous
Peterson Award
Tonicia Williams
Outstanding Senior Award
Spirit of Chapman Award
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence (2016-2017)
Brian Abud
Shannon Annarella
Harmanpreet Bhatti
Carol Liang
Evan Maier-Zucchino
Taryn Miyake
Alexandra Rupp
Marco Saglimbeni
Jessica Stipek
University Honors Program Student of the Year (2016-2017)
Jessica Stipek
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 6, 2017
Brian Abud
“Fashion on the Postcolonial Runway: Collective Memory & Colonization as Strategy
in the Transitional Space”
Aziz Alangari
“The Economic Impact of Undocumented Immigrants”
Shannon Annarella
“Harry Potter and the Identity Myth: Exploring Cultural Anxieties and Narrativized
Space”
Morgan Bates
The Psychological Effects of Trigger Warnings
Harmanpreet Bhatti
Discrimination Against Sikhs in Post-9/11 American Society and Why I’m Sikh of It
Alexey Bonca
The Monkey's Paw: Pragmatism and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Nicole Choy
Female EmPOW!erment: An Analysis of the Female Presence in Comic Book Culture
Leon Dominguez-Lukic
The Uncertainty of Depression
Ethan Friederich
The Localization of the Indian Sanitary Department:
Cholera’s Role in Creating the Bureaucracy of the Raj and Sustaining an Empire
Monica Furman
To Stage or Not to Stage: The Significance of Diverse Casting in Theatre
Johnny Garcia
What Research is Possible? A Critical Analysis of the Scientific Method
James Haeck
Roleplaying Revolution: How Games Changed the Way We Tell Stories
Maheen Jeddy
Women of Color in Superhero Media
Michaela Kubo
An Analysis of Kawaii as a Postmodern Phenomenon
Carol Liang
Pedophilia and Incest: Orthodox in Future Society?
Evan Maier-Zucchino
Developing Meaning: A Look at the Treatment of Violence in Video Games
Helena McGill
A Soundscape of Fear: Psychoacoustics and Sensory Response in Horror Sound Design
Marissa Messina
The Future of Virtual Reality
Taryn Miyake
Onryo and Horror: Traditional Roots Exposing Contemporary Anxieties in Japan
Jamie Moseley
Conservation and Natural Selection: Ethical Implications
Meghan Nelson
Refuting Neither by Doing Both: Reconciling Science and God
Caitlyn Nguyen
The Self-Help Book Industry and Modern Education
Samuel Pinnelas
Beyond the Fourth Wall: Deeper Meanings in American Sitcoms
Danielle Platt
Let's Talk About Sex: Communication, Social Media and Sex in the Age of Hook Up Culture
Tanja Radic
Mind the Gap: Locating Truth in the Space between Language and Meaning
Chinmai Raman
From Norms to Politics: How American Mores Drive Our Political Discourse
Connor Reed
Pornography Addiction: Asking the Uncomfortable Questions
Alexandra Rupp
How to Escape Plato’s Cave
Marco Saglimbeni
The Sicilian Pupi: Conveyors of Myth
Matthew Somogyi
Cinematic Filters: The Qualities of Authorship in Film
Jessica Stipek
Veganism: A Cure for Global Hunger?
Sara Wanous
An Economic and Environmental Critique of the Environmental Movement
Tonicia Williams
Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jacqueline Yee
Not Just for Kids: The Diverse Medium of Animation
Xinyi “Michelle” Zhang
Villains and Victims in Disney
Kayla Ziegler
Developing Ethically Well-Behaved Artificial Intelligence
2015-2016
National Collegiate Honors Council 2016
Seattle, WA
October 2016
Johnny Garcia
“The Best of Both Worlds”
Nolan Kresnak
“Like, Comment, and Subscribe –
An Investigation into the Growth of Online Video Content”
Jamie Moseley
“The Costs of Cancer”
Ian Nel & Danielle Platt
“Age of ‘Enlightenment’ for the Powerful of Europe”
Jessica Stipek
“Transnational Feminism in an Eastern Asian Context”
Jacqueline Yee
“Animation, the Diverse Medium”
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
Chicago, IL
November 2015
Brian Kmetz
“Data Mining Techniques for use in Cancer Diagnosis/Treatment”
Anja Kruslin
“The Divergence of Paths”
Sohini Mukherjee
“Next Stop, Squalor - Foreign Perspectives on India and the Exoticism of Poverty”
Danielle Platt & Seth Yund
“The Gender in Your Genes: Biological Misrepresentations in the Gender Binary Model”
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Riverside, CA
April 2016
Sofya Bochkareva
“Pizza Delivery and Other Uses of Drone Technology”
Sarah Kenner
“The European Crisis Through a Literary Lens”
Natalie Kowell
“Just Hum a Merry Tune”
Devin Marcus
“Her Beauty and Her Terror: The Use of Geography in Australian Horror”
Jamie Moseley
“The Costs of Cancer”
and
“The responsibilities of a College Newspaper”
Sohini Mukherjee
“Next Stop, Squalor - Foreign Perspectives on India and the Exoticism of Poverty”
Seth Yund
“The Gender in Your Genes: Biological Misrepresentations in the Gender Binary Model”
and
“Effects of Human Recreational Activity on the Tameness of Common Loons (Gavia immer) in Northern Wisconsin”
Chapman University Awards
CES Departmental Award
Schweitzer Award
Henry Kemp-Blair Trophy presented to a Graduating Senior for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre
Theatre Departmental Award
Huntington Award
Outstanding Senior
Psychology departmental award
Theatre Departmental Honors
Tansu Phillip
Nominated for the Outstanding Senior Leadership Award
Awarded the Spirit of Chapman Award Winner this year!
Chancellor's List
Fannie Kalis Award
Financial Executives International Award
Chloe Tardiff
Temianka Scholarship Recipient
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence (2015-2016)
University Honors Program Student of the Year (2015-2016)
University Honors Conference
May 7, 2016
Shelby Allen
"A Critique of the American Education System Through a Critical Pedagogy Lens"
Esme Aston
"The Cost of Education, and the Price of Ignorance"
Nicole Beck
"Creating a Serial Killer"
Arielle Berman
"Faith, Flamboyance, and Film: The Middle East’s Move Towards Sexual Conservatism"
Logan Day
"Maplevision, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse"
Shelley DeHekker
"From Vinyl to Spotify: The Impact of the Digital Age on PR and Finance within the
Music Industry"
Evan DeVries
"InstaFamous: Tracking the Changing Music Industry"
Joseph Dye
"Gender Essentialism in Writing"
Alexa Ferrante
"National Parks: Use or Misuse"
Alyssa Flanders
"Maternal Depression and Your Future Child"
Nicole Hornaday
"How Computers Can Treat Cancer"
Camille Houphouet-Boigny
"Rise and Fall"
Brian Kmetz
"Socialized Moral Reasoning"
Anja Krušlin
"To The Uncertain Mind"
Michelle Liva
"Going Beyond Greed: The Psychology of Unethical Behavior in the Investment World"
Nathan Loy
"The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Schizophrenia"
Devin Marcus
"Australian Horror and Aboriginality"
Carter Moon
"We Believe in Nothing; The Nihilism of the Coen Brothers"
Hotaru Morita
"Popular Science and The Debate for Social Responsibility"
Marc Moshcatel
"Passing a Climate Change Bill"
Sohini Mukherjee
"Healthy Women: Empowerment of women in the Fight Against Poverty and Disease"
Hannah Nailor
"'Come Dream With Me': Film, Fantasy, & Intersubjectivity"
Quoc “Kurt” Nguyen
"Homosapiens: An Alternative Protein Source"
Andrew Petriello
"When the Story isn’t Yours – To Speak Again; a Play about Gun Violence and its Victims"
"No Media = No Rights: How The Sudanese Government Oppresses Its People Through Strict Media Control."
Lenore Porter
"Critical Mathematics: Math Education as a Tool for Equity"
Abbygail Quick
"The Escalation of U.S. Financial Crises by Behavior and Interaction"
Tradon Reid
"Fear and Greed: The Hidden Enemy of the Financial World"
Matthew Robillard
"Animation beyond Entertainment"
Joseph Rudin
"Free Will: Reality or Illusion?"
Anna Rose Warren
"Smaller Screens
Megan Schrotenboer
"Voluntourism: Help or Hindrance?"
Thomas Seraydarian
"Leanworld: A Critical Look at Yung Lean"
"Infusing Meaning in Movement"
Jonathan Stachel
"Politics and Production: Examining the link between the Presidency and the Economy"
Jordan Taffet
"Cancer and Nutrition: Fight it or Feed it"
Chloe Tardif
"Representation and Marginalization in U.S. Classical Music"
Sarah Thorson
"Approaching Environmental Issues through Dance"
Seth Yund
"The "unnatural" Sexes: how biologically inaccurate understandings of "sex" and "gender"
in America have been used to deny marriage rights to trans- and intersexual individuals"
2014-2015
Chapman University Awards
Marissa Wong
Won the Cheverton Award (The highest award bestowed at Chapman University)
Samantha Cressey
Nominated for the Cheverton Award
Marilyn Love
Nominated for the Cheverton Award, Religious Studies Department Award
Gabrielle Stetz
Nominated for the Cheverton Award, Music Department Award
Conner Bogenreif
Music Department Awards – Conservatory of Music (highest COPA award), String Ensemble
Award, Music History Award
Isabelle Grimm
Theatre Department Award
Nickolas Kaynor
Music Department Award - String Performance
Abigail Kim
History Department Honors
Daniel Levy
Best Undergraduate Paper Award: Europe by the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society,
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors Society, Theta Alpha Kappa, Religious Studies Honors
Society, and Mortar Board
Sten Olson
Nominated for Dodge's top undergraduate cinematography award ‘14
Selected for the ASC Heritage Award, which is the highest honor for student cinematography
in the country
Megan Parish
Outstanding French Student Award/Departmental Honors in French
Departmental Honors in Theatre
Elise Pertusati
Art Department Award
Drew Richardson
Beta Gamma Sigma. BGS is the premier honor society recognizing business excellence
and it’s the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive.
McKenzie Tavoda
Top prize winner for the John and Margaret Class Student Book Collection Contest
Honorable Mention for the Leatherby Library's student undergraduate research prize
Cris Wilcoxon
Beta Gamma Sigma. BGS is the premier honor society recognizing business excellence
and it’s the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive.
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence (2014-2015)
University Honors Program Student of the Year (2014-2015)
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 2, 2015
Fernando Amador
Gender in the Making: Sex and Gender in Catalina de Erauso's Early Modern Society
Connor Bogenreif
Write that Down! A Note-Worthy Look at the History and Evolution of Music Notation
Courtney Bramstedt
Hospice Workers and Their Relationship to Death and Dying
Abbey Cavendish
Schools Not Prisons
Javier Chacon Jr.
The Ramifications of Synesthesia
Samantha Cressey
The Gay Death Penalty
Rachel Deering
Feel the Sound: How Sound Design Influences Audiences in Theater and Film
Emily Ebbers
Imperialism Unearthed: Power and Representation in Colonial-era Egyptology
Nikolai Eiteneer
Lighting Design Concept for Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: Chapman University Spring 2015
Gianna Giusti
The Broken Mirror: Identification through Homeland and Travel in Salman Rushdie's Enchantress of Florence
Désirée Greenhouse
"Popular Science": Justifying Immorality By Co-opting the Validity of Science
Jennifer Grich
The Bridge Between Brand and Consumer: Properly Reaching the 2015 Hispanic American
Market
Isabelle Grimm
Trojan Whores: Unsung Stories of Women in Theatres of War
Brian Halbur
How to Spend a Million Dollars: A Good Look at Income and Wealth in America
Tiffany Ho
The Conversion to Christianity in Asian American Immigrants
Alex Jewett
Ethics of Neuromarketing
Nickolas Kaynor
Hermeneutical Bartók: A Study of Interpretation in Bartók's Viola Concerto
Abigail Kim
Creating Identity: The Korean Third Space
Jennifer Kim
#justanotherdisaster
Timothy Lee
The Evolution of Morality
Daniel Levy
"For the Encouragement of Learned Men": Circular Trends in Copyright Law
Zohar Liebermensch
The Formula to Success
Marilyn Love
Seeing the Face of the Other: The Role of the Seductress in the Hebrew Bible
Savahna Malatesta
What Have the Millennials Brewed Up?
Shannen Mosqueda
Share Your Pain With Me: An Exploration of Fear, Worldedness, and the "Other" in Immigration
Reform
Sten Olson
A Look into Darkness: The History and Science of the Illusion of Night in Film and
Art
Emmabel Orendain
The Cinderella Stories: Cultural Transmission Through Storytelling
Megan Parish
Inside the Boudoir: Designing the World of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel
Elise Pertusati
The Politics of Art at Fotainebleau
Anna Price
Eyre-headed Adaptations: Implications of Manipulation and Omission in Cinema
Haley Pucelik
Step by Step: A Guide to Stop Motion
Emily Ralston
Inequality Joe: "It's not what you buy, it's what you buy into. - Starbucks."
Drew Richardson
Exploring the Ethics of Hunting
Kendra Rickard
The Politics of Food Insecurity: An Examination of Obesity in the United States
Alec Shumate
Film Production Design: Balancing Art and Vocation
Sarah Smith
"Make it a Women's World": The 1911 California Woman Suffrage Campaign
Gabrielle Stetz
This is Your Brain on Atonal Music
Alyssa Tapper
Music for Everyone, Money for No One? The Legal and Financial Implications of Digital
Streaming
McKenzie Tavoda
"A Land You Could Not Escape From But Almost Didn't Want to Leave": Japanese American
Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens
Alex Tomko
Hot Set! - An inside Look at a Film's Art Department
Amy Vanderlip
Now in Theaters: Immersive Post Processes in Cinema
Andrew Vo
The Power of Playing: Analyzing the Video Game Genre With the "Kingdom Hearts" Series
Allie Weber
Repaving Wall Street: The Political Legacy of the Great Recession
Cristiana Wilcoxon
Demanding Diversity: The Student-Driven Push for a Multicultural Center
Marissa Wong
The Politics of History and Memory: Implications for Peace Education in Rwanda
Jonothan Woo
The Future of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves: Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry
November 2014
Brian Kmetz & Garrett Isaacs
“Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning”
Timothy Lee
“Analysis of Moral Dilemmas in Vocational Choice”
Daniel Levy
“Statute of Anne: The Invention of Copyright and Authorial Ownership”
Marilyn Love
“Patriarchy and the Male Gaze in Vodou”
Sohini Mukherjee
“Study of Socioeconomic, Sanitation, and Hygiene Factors as Determinants of Recurrent
Diarrhea in Children Aged Five and Under in Sundarban Area”
Marissa Wong
“Not a Protected Ground: Gender-Based Asylum Claims and the Neglect of Refugee Women”
Cristiana Wilcoxon
“Be Careful What You Sign: The Destructive Power of the Unconscionable Contract”
Drew Richardson
“Why We Need Political Economists: Making the Case for a More Interdisciplinary Approach
to Economics in Ecuador”
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Reno, NV
April 2015
Emily Ebbers
Nikolai Eiteneer
Joshua Gotham
Desiree Greenhouse
Tiffany Ho
Abigail Kim, Sarah Smith
Jennifer Kim
Brian Kmetz
Anja Kruslin
Devin Marcus
Shannen Mosqueda
Sohini Mukherjee
Emmabel “Tami” Orendain
Megan Parish
Danielle Platt
Kendra Rickard
Sarah Smith
Andrew Vo, Kassidy Vo
Cristiana Wilcoxon
2013-2014
Chapman University Awards
Magna Cum Laude
Jasper Anderson
Andrea Boonyarungsrit
Thyra Brody
Kayla Camacho
Meganne Christensen
Megan Daugherty
LeeAnn Dowd
Kristen Fowler
Jason Goussak
Genna Palermo
Amy Sayers
Anne Weisenstein
Summa Cum Laude
Jared Celniker
Nicole Connolly
Matthew Earle
Lauren Fox
Adam Z. Kalawi
Emily Neis
Noreen Raja
Brandon Tracey
Cum Laude
Jason Anthony
Parambir Bhatti
Paulette Garcia
Ashley Moradipour
Charlie Nelson
Erin Wainwright
Aileen Yoon
Departmental Honors
LeeAnn Dowd
Matthew Earle
Jared Celniker – Psychology
Jason Goussak -
Cheyenne Greenwood - Communication Studies.
Jared Celniker - Psychology
Brandon Tracey - Communications
Erin Wainwright - working on Department Honors
Senior Leadership Awards
Zara Abraham - Nominated
Lauren Fox - Dean's Senior Leadership Award (Argyros School of Business)
Jared Celniker - Nominated for a campus leadership award
Mark Saatzer - Campus leadership award
Outstanding Senior Award
Rebeca Herrera
Erin Wainwright
Miscellaneous
Connor Bogenreif
New Music Ensemble Award
String Ensemble Award
Edgar Sholund Scholarship Award
Joseph Dye
Published in Scribrendi, the printed magazine of the Western Regional Honors Conference.
Rebeca Herrera
Nominated for: - Outstanding Diversity Leadership Award
Ronald M. Huntington Outstanding Scholarship Award
Global Citizenship Award
Adam Z. Kalawi
Selected as a Cheverton Award Finalist
"Outstanding Graduating Senior" award from the American Chemical Society
Nominated for Huntington award
Nickolas Kaynor
String Ensemble Award
Emily Neis
Outstanding Achievement in Spanish Award
Best Paper in American History at the Southern California Regional Conference for
Phi Alpha Theta
Charlie Nelson
received SURF prior to Senior year
Undergraduate Research Creative Grant
Noreen Raja
Wilkinson Humanities Academic Honors
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
New Orleans, LA
November 2013
Professor Juyle Bidmead, Ph.D.
"Tarnishing Tiana's Tiara: Disney's 1920's New Orleans as a Corrective?"
Kayla Camacho
"Living Life in the In-Between: The Literature of Post-Colonial Nigeria"
Jared Celniker
"One Minute and a Rubber Bracelet: Fostering Heroic Behavior"
Nicole Connolly, Professor Kelli Fuery, Ph.D., Isabel Hsu, & Cristana Wilcoxon
"Restructuring Sapere Aude: How integrating Honors-style interdisciplinarity changed
and elevated a student-run journal"
Desiree Greenhouse
"The Effects of the Contemporary Digital Archive: How Anonymity Influences the Memory of Gender"
Isabel Hsu & Andrew Vo
"Comic Books and the Presentation of the Other"
Cristiana Wilcoxon
"Harry Potter as a Global Business Phenomenon"
"Hometown Tourism: A How-To on Studying Abroad in Your State"
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Denver, Colorado
April , 2014
Joseph Dye
"Transhumanism: Why the Negativity"
Paulette Garcia
"Knowledge Worker Motivation: A Cross Sector Comparison"
Tiffany Ho, Jennifer Kim
"Business and Religious Affiliations"
Tim Lee
"Analysis of Moral Dilemmas in Vocational Choice"
Tim Lee; Abby Kim
"Societal Self Image in South Korean Media and Societal Health"
Daniel Levy
"Statue of Anne: The Invention of Copyright and Authorial Ownership"
Marilyn Love
"Patriarchy and the Male Gaze in Vodou"
Sohini Mukherjee
"India: On Trend and So In"
"Study of Socioeconomic, Sanitation and Hygiene Factors as Determinants of Recurrent
Diarrhea in Children Aged Fiva and Under in Sundarban Area"
Tami Orendain
"Covers & Culture: An Examination of Pride and Prejudice Book Covers"
Tansu Phillip
"The Effect of Age on Political Efficacy and Voting Behavior"
Danielle Platt
"Investments in Agricultural Education and its Implications in Poverty Reduction in
the Developing World"
"Sustainable Solutions and their Potential Economic Growth Effects"
Tanja Radic
"Gender in Opera as Performance Art"
Drew Richardson
"'You Haven't Carried a Foot in a Bowl': Conflict Between Collective and Autobiographical
Accounts of Veteran Identity"
Joseph Dye, Cristiana Wilcoxon, Seth Yund
"Reconstructing Sapere Aude: How Integrating Honors-Style Interdisciplinarity Changed
and Elevated a Student-Run Journal"
Dr. Julye Bidmead, Daniel Levy, Christina Wilcoxon
"S.P.E.W: Students presenting Equality through Wizarding: Teaching Social Justice
with Harry Potter"
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 5, 2012
Zara Abraham
“Creating the Illusion of Life”
Jason Anthony
“Old Dogs, New Tricks: Creativity Across the Intergenerational Gap”
Christina Bell
“State of the Union”
Parambir Bhatti
“Why Bonding Matters: Oxytocin’s Role in the Development of Childhood Aggression”
Andrea Boonyarungsrit
“Work-Life Balance? How Significant is it in the Current Economy?”
Thyra Brody
“The Bikutsi”
Kayla Camacho
“The Music of Language: The Effects of Jazz on the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance”
Jared Celniker
“The I in Psychology “
Stephen Cheesman
“Real Skiing: Myths, Gender, and Business”
Meganne Christensen
“Death, Dying, and Reanimation: Determining Quality of Life”
Megan Daugherty
“Sabermetrics: How Performance Measures Have Affected America’s Pastime”
LeeAnn Dowd
“The Act, the Audience, and the Art: Theatre as Constructed Experience”
Matthew Earle
“Cancer and Consumer Products: Where Science Meets Advertising”
Kristen Fowler
“How Conflict is the Result of Inflexibility of Approach”
Lauren Fox
“Putting the Humanity Back Into Human Resources: Psychological Assessments in the
Hiring Process”
Paulette Garcia
“Psychology of Workplace Motivation: A Cross Sector Comparison”
Rebeca Gonzalez
“Herrera Human Trafficking: A Symptom to the Collapse of a System of Rapid Sociopolitical
Change and Anomie”
Jason Goussak
“Musical Mormons and Dancing Deities: Cultural Influences of Modern Musical Theatre”
Cheyenne Greenwood
“Selling Happiness: Disney’s Effective Communicative Practices”
Adam Kalawi
“Conceptual Versus Strategic Interdisciplinarity in the Sciences”
Ashley Moriadpour
“Between the Cuts: A Critical Look at Documentary Editing”
Emily Neis
“San Francisco’s Refugee Camps: Conflicting Definitions of Relief”
Brynn Nelson
“Theatrical Trans*formations: Using Theory to Analyze and Deconstruct Representations
of Gender Identity in Theatre”
Genna Palermo
“Eye of the Beholder: The Cinematographer as Artist, Interpreter, and Technician”
Katey Phillips
Undressing Twelfth Night: Costuming, Character and Gender in Shakespeare’s Twelfth
Night”
Noreen Raja
“’Call This Number:’ A Social Justice Ethnodrama”
Lauren Sarazen
“Titles Suck and Other #WriterProblems”
Amy Sayers
“The Dilemma of Education”
Mark Schiller
Problematizing Monolithic Conceptions of Identity
Natalya Subbotina
“Deconstructing Chapman: Institutional Impact on Student Development”
Brandon Tracey
“The Role of Narrative Imagination in Effective Persuasion”
Erin Wainwright
“Losing Sleep for the Sake of Science”
Anne Weisenstein
“Why Sequels, Reboots, Gunfights, and Explosions Have Overtaken Hollywood Films”
Aileen Yoon
“The Evolution of the Music Festival Phenomena”
2012-2013
Chapman University Awards
Jasper Anderson
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best Production Design
Almog Avidan Antonir
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best Editor
Connor Bogenreif
Edgar Sholund Scholarship Award
Courtney Bramstedt
Outstanding Junior Award
Kayla Camacho
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award for University Women's Choir
Samantha Cressey
Outstanding Sophomore Award
Daniel Fister
Outstanding Junior Award
Phoebe Gildea
3rd Place Undergraduate Research Prize
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award in Music History
Burghardt Award
Departmental Honors in Music
Nicole Goehring
Outstanding Sophomore Award
Rebeca Herrera
Outstanding Junior Award
Molly Iker
Departmental Honors in History
Departmental Honors in Music
Elizabeth Iverson
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best Picture
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best Director
Adam Kalawi
Outstanding Junior Award
Eli Kaynor
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award in String Ensemble
Nicky Kaynor
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award in Orchestra
Phil McGuire
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Hazel Naylor
Outstanding Japanese Major Award
Megan Parish
Department of Theater Award for Quiet Excellence
Tansu Philip
Outstanding First Year Award
James Pratt
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Excellence in Producing
Michael Rushman
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award in Music History
Conservatory of Music Award
Departmental Honors in Music
William James Award for Outstanding Student In Philosophy
Samuel Scheleier
Paul Delp Award in Peace Studies
Ryan Stathos
Outstanding Performance in a One-Act Award
Priya Shah
Cheverton Award
History Award for Academic Excellence
Departmental Honors in History
2nd Place Undergraduate Research Prize
Outstanding Spanish Major Award
Clay Thomas
Departmental Honors in Sociology
Outstanding French Major Award
Erin Wainright
Outstanding Junior Award
Aileen Yoon
Cecil Awards: Nominee for Best PR Campaign of the Year
Mary Young
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music Award in Wind Symphony
Seth Yund
Outstanding First Year Award
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
Boston, MA
November 2012
Cristiana Wilcoxon & Isabelle Hsu
"Honors Journals: For the Students, By the Students"
Molly Iker
"Hard Times in the Big Easy: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853"
Shannen Mosqueda, Jennifer Kim, Emmabel Orendan, & Tiffany Ho
"'Love' versus 'Facebook Official'"
Michael Rushman
"19th Century Fusion Music: Brahms's Fourth Symphony"
Rick Wysocki
"Pop-Mortality: Examining Modern Depictions of Death"
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Flagstaff, AZ
April, 2013
Elizabeth Berrigan
"Schwinger’s Finite Quantum Kinematics and Aharonov’s Dynamical Non-locality Concept"
Kayla Camacho
"Living Life in the In-Between: The Literature of Post-Colonial Nigeria"
Nicole Connoly
"Dumb, Expensive Kids: The Failures of the U.S. Public Education System and What It
Can Learn From Finland"
Phoebe Gildea
"Death, Resurrection, and the Power of Music"
Rebeca Herrera & Diego Romero
"Conceiving Political Participation Among Indigenous People: The Achí and Ixil of
Guatemala"
Hazel Naylor & Clay Thomas
"Interdisciplinarity Beyond the Classroom"
Cristiana Wilcoxon
"Hometown Tourism: A Photographical How-To on Studying Abroad in Your State"
and
"Harry Potter as a Global Business Phenomenon"
Rick Wysocki
"Direct Action: Taking Responsibility for your Education"
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence
Almog Avidan-Antonir
Elizabeth Berrigan
Kristen Blacklock
Phoebe Gildea
Megan Grenata
Elizabeth Iverson
Hazel Naylor
Diego Romero
Michael Rushman
Sam Schleier
Priya Shah
Clay Thomas
Kathryn Virk
University Honors Program Student of the Year
Molly Iker
Diego Romero
Clay Thomas
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 4, 2013
Almog Avidan-Antonir
"When Life Gives you Music, Make Story-ade: The Psychology of Music in the Short Film
"Proverbia""
Elizabeth Berrigan
"Schwinger's Finite Quantum Kinematics and Aharonov's Dynamical Nonlocality Concept"
Kristin Blacklock
"Saving Lives With Mathematics: A look Into the Mathematical Models Behind Atheroschlerosis"
Emma Castor
"Globalized Marketing and its Implications"
Felicia Chanco
"Pop-up! An Unconventional Approach to an Unconventional Business for Unconventional
People"
Emily Denker
"Cutting to the Chase: The Invisible Craft of Film Editing"
Phoebe Gildea
"Death, Resurrection and the Power of Music"
Megan Granata
"When Disability Goes Viral: Digital Storytelling and the Online Disabled Community"
Jacqueline Hudspeth
"The Time I Told My Parents I was Joining the Circus...and other masochistic tales
of assistant directing"
Molly Iker
"There's No Place Like Home: Philosophies of Historic Preservation in Orange, CA"
Elizabeth Iverson
"The Art of Building Worlds"
Anthony Jacobsmeyer
"Strengths n' Stuff: Psychological Testing and Its Implication on Leadership Training,
Team Cohesion, and Productivity"
Britt Keller
"Acting as Empathy: An Argument for the Requirement of Theatre in Early Education"
Ben Kepner
"The Collective Psychology of Horror"
Philip McGuire
"Hollywood Rethought: Methods for a Film School"
Hazel Naylor
"Objectification and Cultural Fantasies in Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the Shore"
Brandon Padveen
"Career, Self and Society: On the business of Hollywood, the road to the top, and
the responsibilities of being there"
James Pratt
"The Construction of Process"
Diego Romero
"A Todo Vapor: The Politics of Inflation in Argentina"
Michael Rushman
"Where Music Meets Philosophy: Aesthetics, Teleology and the Music of Charles Ives"
Sam Schleier
"Constructing and Maintaining the Ghetto: A Collision of Colonial Domination and Capitalistic
Exploitation"
Priya Shah
"Language, Discipline and Power: The Extirpation of Idolatry and Indigenous Resistance
in Colonial Peru"
Clayton Thomas
"Disc Golfing: Identify and the Social Process of Sport Legitimation"
Rick Wysocki
""Savage by Command:" The Discourse of Violence in the Literature of the Spanish Civil
War"
Robin Yokel
"Giving Us a Voice"
Mary Young
"How Use of Self Affects One's Performance: A Study on Alexander Technique"
2011-2012
Chapman University Awards
Hannah Carsen
Art Department: Honors Award
Megan Demshki
Peace Studies Program: Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement
Political Science Department: Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement
Political Science Citizen-Scholar Award
All Campus Leadership: Peterson Award
Elizabeth Fiacco
IEEE GameSig Intercollegiate Game Competition - First Place
Katelyn Friesen
Language Department: Outstanding Achievement in French
Ania Hodges
Political Science Department: Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement
Whitney Kofford
Department of Dance: Quiet Excellence Award
Department of Dance: Departmental Honors
Department of Dance: Outstanding Choreographer in Concert Intime
Katherine Landberg
Peace Studies Program: Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement
Eileen Regullano
Conservatory of Music: Edgar Sholund Scholarship Award
Conservatory of Music: Departmental Honors
Kelly Self
Conservatory of Music: Music Education, Choral Area Award
Conservatory of Music: Departmental Honors
Matthew Shaffer
Math Department: Program Honors in Computer Science
Math Department: Outstanding Senior Award for Computer Science
Alexander Winkle
Political Science Department: Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement
University Honors Awards
Katelyn Friesen
Keith Funkhouser
Ania Hodges
Sam Price-Waldman
Matthew Shaffer
Elizabeth Fiacco
Sam Price-Waldman
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
Phoenix, Arizona
October 2011
Michael Rushman
"What is Wisdom? A Two-Part Definition of Humanity's Worthiest Desire"
Elizabeth Fiacco
"Publication in the Internet Age"
Keith Funkhouser
"An Eye on Film"
Ania Hodges
"Gender Socialization: Not an Issue to Toy With"
Winnie Khaw
"Chinese Supernatural Tales: Poetry Master Class"
Michael Rushman, Emma Castor, Collin Pointon
"When Students Teach: The Honors Preceptorial"
Sam Price-Waldman
"The Modern Documentary Film"
Eileen Regullano
"Spatial Analysis of Japanese American Population Trends"
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 2012
Molly Balzano
"An Argument Against Emotionalism"
Elizabeth Berrigan
"Ware: An Abomination by Man, or an Illness: An Existential Analysis of Les Chemins de la Liberte"
Kristin Blacklock
"Morera's Theorem and Hyperfunctions in a Hyperbolic Setting"
Nicole Connolly
"Zombies, Bad Robots and Leprosy: How the Uncanny Valley Shapes Thought"
Keith Funkhouser
"Stuck in the Alamo"
Phoebe Gildea
"Aphrodite, Hera and Athena: Goddesses as Women in Art"
Ania Hodges
"Occupy Wall Street or Tea Party Rally: Where Would Jesus Be in Contemporary American
Politics"
Jackie Hudspeth
"It Started with a Mouse but Ended with a Sequel: How Disney 'Fights Back' in a Plummeting
Economy"
Molly Iker
"Hard Times in the Big Easy: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853"
Cristiana Wilcoxon
"Visual Manipulation: An Examination of How Photography and Graphic Design Distort
Our Perceptions"
Rick Wysocki
"The Culture of Death in the Westen World"
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 5, 2012
Megan Demshki
"Rushin' to Make Friends: An Interdisciplinary Examination of U.S.-Russian Relations"
Alexia Fedail
"Eldritch: From Inspiration to Script"
Elizabeth Fiacco
"The Game of Life"
Megan Fobar
"Nutrition in the News: Are you eating Pink Slime?"
Katelyn Friesen
"The Penguin Paradigm: Transatlantic Paperback Design, 1939-1948"
Keith Funkhouser
"Creating Electric Euphoria: The Function of Film Editing"
Jocelyn Havel
"Biochemical Pathways Affected by Cholera Toxin"
Ania Hodges
"Occupy Wall Street or Tea Party Rally: Where Would Jesus be in Contemporary American
Politics?"
Hannah Karsen
"The Spatial Potential of Line in the Art Practice of Alexander Rodchenko"
John Elias Kaynor
"The Psychology of Music: an Experience in Musical Humanism"
Winnie Khaw
"A Summit of Tumultuous Worlds"
Emmeline Kim
"Attaining Unity of Impression"
Melody Kleiman
"Entering Adulthood with Autism, iPad in Hand"
Whitney Kofford
"Math and Dance: Infinity Intertwining"
Katherine Landberg
"Transitional Justice: Lessons to be Learned by North Ireland from South Africa"
Edward Leer
"Racing to the Finish: A Screenwriter's Bloody and Savage Chronicle of Self-Annihilation"
Annamarie Orsi
"A Reflection of Societal and Cultural Constructs of Chapman University: University
Workers"
Kjellrun Owens
"Journalism's New Age: Print-Internet-Tablet"
Jane Pittluck
"Tiffany at the Met: The Role of Museum as an Intermediary between Viewer and Object"
Jennifer Preda
"Special Education Inside and Out"
Sam Price-Waldman
"Tailings" - A Short Documentary
Eileen Regullano
"The Role of Music in Filipino Identity"
Kelly Self
"Music in the Classroom: Interdisciplinary Implications of the Theory of Multiple
Intelligences"
Matthew Shaffer
"Story Telling within the Rules - The Effects of Gameplay Rules on Story Telling in
Video Games"
Alexander Winkle
"They Have the Right to Remain Relevant"
2010-2011
Chapman University Awards
Matthew Baker
Psychology Department: Outstanding Research Project
Psychology Department: Departmental Honors
Summa Cum Laude
Sarah Booher
Summa Cum Laude
Daniel Bulone
Mel Watson Award for Scholarly and Creative Excellence
Magna Cum Laude
Kelly Dona
Peace Studies Department: Departmental Honors
Konish Dutta
Magna Cum Laude
Jessica Green
Psychology Department: Departmental Honors
Mortar Board
Campus Leadership Award
Magna Cum Laude
Laura Hantke
Magna Cum Laude
Kaitlin Hopkins
Summa Cum Laude
Amanda Jacobsen
Psychology Department: Departmental Honors
Psychobiology Department: Departmental Honors
Biology Department: Outstanding Leadership (Global Medical Brigades)
Mortar Board
Campus Leadership Award
Summa Cum Laude
Paul Jones
Magna Cum Laude
Chelsea Judy
History Department: Departmental Honors (Henley Award)
Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference: Best Undergraduate Paper (Third Prize)
Phi Alpha Theta: Nominated for the Nels Andrew Clevens Prize (National history undergraduate
paper award)
Magna Cum Laude
Angela Kane
Summa Cum Laude
Samuel Knee
Mortar Board
Magna Cum Laude
Elizabeth Parker
History Department: Departmental Honors (Henley Award)
Mortar Board
Magna Cum Laude
Dana Quadri
Magna Cum Laude
Grant Reed
Cecil Award: Best Director - Undergraduate (Incest! The Musical)
Cecil Award: Best Picture - Undergraduate (Incest! The Musical)
Summa Cum Laude
Michelle Roll
Chapman Ambassador
Summa Cum Laude
Devonie Royal-Gordon
Cecil Award: Best TV Show: Narrative - Creator/Executive Producer (Higher Education)
Laura Smith
Music Department: Choir Award
Music Department: Departmental Honors
Music Department: Burghardt Trophy
Language Department: Outstanding German Studies Award
Summa Cum Laude
Rachel Smith
Magna Cum Laude
Nathan Zencey
Political Science Department: Departmental Honors (Henley Award)
Magna Cum Laude
University Honors Awards
Award for Academic Excellence (2011)
Matthew Baker
Sarah Booher
Kaitlin Hopkins
Amanda Jacobsen
Angela Kane
Grant Reed
Michelle Roll
Laura Smith
University Honors Program Student of the Year (2010-2011)
Class of 2011
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
Kansas City, Missouri
October 2010
Keith Funkhouser, Sam Price-Waldman
"Why We Like the Bad Guy: A Look into the American gangster Film"
Paul Jones
"The Cooperative Colonial farm Experiment: Exploring Factors in Successful Commons
Management"
Elizabeth Fiacco
"Cash and Cartoons: The Business of Animation"
Elizabeth Parker
"The Making of Modern Ireland"
Daniel Bulone, Brandon Padveen
"Writing Honors Culture: The Honors Novel and Community Building"
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Park City, Utah
March 2011
Elizabeth Parker, Chelsea Judy
"Khrushchev and the Congo: An Investigation of Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita
Khrushchev"
Hazel Naylor, Clay Thomas
"Retweet, Reblog and Regurgitate: A Study of Mimicry in Internet Culture"
Paul Jones
"Rebuild, Reboot, Retrain - Exploring Job Fluidity Potential in American Employment"
Kelly Dona
"Globalization and its Effects on the Transnational Movements to End Human Trafficking"
Daniel Bulone
"Lincoln's Laser: An Examination of Alternate History"
Elliot Cooley
"Touching and Kissing: Tangent Lines and Osculating Circles before Calculus"
Kristin Blacklock
"A Contemporary Look at 'Ars Magna'"
Brandon Padveen
"The Sinful Messiah: On Writing the American Monster"
Winnie Khaw
"Chinese Supernatural Romantic Tales"
Keith Funkhouser
"An Eye on Film"
Liz Fiacco
"Publication in the Internet Age"
Molly Iker
"The Zimmerman Note: The Influence of the Media Upon a Nation"
Sam Price-Waldman
"The Modern Documentary Film"
Elizabeth Berrigan
"Nietzschean Influence in Women in Love: A Novel Tracing the Path of Nihilism"
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 7, 2011
Matthew Baker
"The Effect of Magical Ideation on Creative Processes"
Molly Balzano
"College Education: What's the Point?"
Sarah Booher
"Mission Intercultural: A Global Public Relations Education"
Daniel Bulone
"Lincoln's Laser: An Examination of Alternative History"
Kelly Dona
"Human trafficking: Could You be the Next Victim?"
Konish Dutta & Sarah Lawson
"I Am Love Itself"
Jessica Green
"Trauma Type and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"
Laura Hantke
"Branded"
Kaitlyn Hopkins
"I Can't Do It: Stereotype Threat & Its Relevance"
Rebecca Hughes
"Flimsy Fairytales to Modern Media: A Timeline of Feminine Ideals"
Amanda Jacobsen
"Genetics: The Next Frontier of Medical Research"
Paul Jones
"Rebuild, Rebbot, Retrain: Exploring Job Fluidity Potential in American Employment"
Chelsea Judy
"'Unbroken Towards the Sea:' The National Trust and the Rise of Coastal Preservation
in Late 19th and 20th Century Britain"
Ariel Lawrence
"Globalization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Elizabeth Parker
"'Ourselves Alone:' Irish History, Nationalism and the Nation, 1842-50"
Dana Quadri
"Designing Your Mind: The Social and Psychological Role of Graphic Design and Advertising"
Kailee Quinn
"Sustainable Design"
Grant Reed
"'Incest! The Musical' - Building a Musical Sequence"
Michelle Roll
"The Art of Memoir"
Devonie Royal-Gordon
"Gender Inequality in Hollywood"
Laura Smith
"More Than Just Music: The Art of the Song Recital"
Rachel Smith
"The Ties That Bind: Brain Chemistry's Role in Determining How We Mate and Marry"
Nathan Zencey
"Applying Market Principles to United States Federal Campaign Finance Systems"
2009-2010
Chapman University Awards
Sasha Anderson
Henley Award: Political Science and Sociology
Language Department: Outstanding French Major Award
Campus Leadership Award
Tim Deisler
Communication Studies Department: Departmental Honors
Jesse Dietch
Psychology Department: Departmental Honors
Psychology Department: Outstanding Senior
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts: Cecil Award nomination for
Achievement in Cinematography
Sarah Ganderup
Language Department: Outstanding German minor
History Department: Academic Achievement
History Department: Award for Academic Excellence
Elizabeth Klehfoth
Wilkinson College: Outstanding Creative Writing Student Award
Mel Watson's Award - Scholarly and Creative Excellence
AJ Lepore
Music Department: 2010 Music Education Award
Music Department: Departmental Honors
Merideth Robinson
Psychology Department: Departmental Honors
Tim Sauer
Conservatory of Music: Music History Award
Conservatory of Music: Jazz Award
Recognition for graduating with a GPA higher than 3.7 (3.93)
University Honors Award
Thomas Carpenter
University Honors Program Student of the Year, 2009 - 2010
National Collegiate Honors Council Presentations
Washington, D.C.
October 2009
Elizabeth Kosearas, Daniel Bulone, Matt Baker, Liz Klehfoth, Melody Kleiman
"pWn'd! A Newbs Guide to the Interwebz"
Liz Fiacco, Sam Price-Waldman
"It's Alive! The Re-re-re-re-re-reanimation of Frankenstein"
Western Regional Honors Council Presentations
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
March 2010
Daniel Bulone, Brandon Padveen
"Writing Honors Culture: The Honors Novel and Community-Building"
Joy Buchanan
"Copyrights and Social Norms"
Jessee Dietch
"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Treatments of 21st-Century Insomnia"
Liz Fiacco
"Extremes and In-Between"
Keith Funkhouser
"Why We Like the Bad Guy: A Look into the American Gangster Film"
Jessica Green, Matt Baker, Sam Price-Waldman
"Mental Music: A Brief Introduction to Music Therapy"
Paul Jones
"The Cooperative Colonial Farm Experiment: Exploring Factors in Successful Commons
Management"
Elizabeth Kosearas
"Lyrical Breakdown"
Devonie Royal-Gordon, Elizabeth Klehfoth
"The Plot Thickens: Examining the Story Behind Stories"
University Honors Conference
Chapman University
May 1, 2010
Sasha Anderson
"The Sociolinguistics of Power"
Jeff Black
"Going, Going, Gone. The Past, Present and Future of Sports Broadcasting and Reporting"
Thomas Carpenter
"Pun Intentional"
Grant Cushman
"Religion vs. Morality: An Analysis of Western Religion's Effect and Stance on Morality"
Dawn Datte
"The Effect of Comprehensive Sex Education on Students' Safe Sex Practices"
Tim Deisler
"More Than Just a Game"
Jesse Dietch
"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Treatments of 21st Century Insomnia"
Sarah Ganderup
"How White was the Wash?: Bloody Sunday, 1972, and Memory Creation in the Widgery
Report"
Chandler Garbell
"It's All Greek To Me: An Exploration of Greek Mythology and Its Significance in Western
Culture Throughout History"
Morgan Helme
"How to Save the News"
Megan Holmstedt
"The Blood Suckers: Capitalism and the Changing Future of the Vampire"
Kat Jacobs
"Graphic Novels in the Classroom"
Chelsea Judy
"Secrets in Stone: A Look at Hidden Symbols in European Architecture"
Elizabeth Klehfoth
"The Plot Thickens: A Revealing Look at the Meaning Behind Stories"
Sam Knee
"Like It, Love It, Greenlight It - How a Movie is Made Before the Camera Starts Rolling"
Andrew Lepore
"The Future of Music"
Jasmine Li
"Analysis of American Apparel: Internal and External Perspectives"
Courtney Long
"Media Credibility in Mass Communications"
Kat Parks
"Positivity"
Andrew Ritter
"Getting Your Foot in the Door"
Merideth Robinson
"Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship to Academic Success"
Tim Sauer
"American Indian Powwows in California"
Rachelle Yeung
"Shirts, Sex, a Social Phenomenon: The Story Behind American Apparel