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Faculty Advisors • Pass With Distinction • List of all students who have received Pass With Distinction |
PASS WITH DISTINCTION AWARD
| Fall '99 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Ala, Funmilayo | Damon Arnold | Creating Diversity | |
| Allbee, Steinnun | J. Lindsay Oaks | Equine Infectious Anemia Virus | |
| Allison, Jesse | Charles Argersinger | Senior Composition Recital | |
| Bauermeister, Jennifer | M Watrous-Schlesinger | The Involvement of Women in Mexican Politics and Economics | |
| Cadwell, Eric | M Nziramasunga | An Analysis of the European Union | |
| Dirks, Kristen | Michael Skinner | Transcriptional Regulation of Androgen Binding Protein in Sertoli Cells of the Testes | |
| Douglas, Meghan | Catherine Bicknell | UH 440 Facilitator | |
| Freed, Kristy | David Moffett | Public Health Care in the Dominican Republic | |
| Gantt, Stephanie | Helen Place | Analysis of Bacteria by Matrix-Assisted Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry | |
| Gurtner, Liz | Richard Toolson | A Helpful Handbook for First Time Tax Filers | |
| Hageman, Kelly | Don E. Miller | Wildlife Conservation and the Applications of Technology | |
| Hjartarson, Steven | John McNamara | Crooked Calf Disease in Washington Cattle | |
| Koch, Ted | Lindsay Cohen | Temperament and Pain in Infants During Immunizations | |
| Legerski, Sara | Eric Newman | Internship at Elgin DDB | |
| Moore, Meghann | Darcel Swanson | National Assoc. of College & University Food Services Internship at Bryn Mawr | |
| O'Dea, Megan | Michael P. Moore | Common Causes of Otitis Externa in Canines | |
| Pollastro, Lena | Diane Albright | Ecotourism and Quintana Roo | |
| Porter, Amanda | M Watrous-Schlesinger | The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigration on Costa Rica | |
| Ratliff, Catherine | Keith Dunker | Atomic Force Investigation of Nucleosome Hardness | |
| Singh, Simrun | Sue Hinz | Internship at the Rockey Company | |
| Thompson, Miranda | Jill Schultz | The Role of the Food Bank in Enhancing Food Security: A Community Service Project | |
| Vining, Elisa | Roberta Kelly | Reporting Internship with a Community Paper | |
| Spring '00 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Bhalla, Preeti | Ralph Yount | Phosphorylation-Dependent Structural Changes in Smooth Muscle Heavy Meromyosin | |
| Chasse, Lisa | Kwan Hee Kim | Spermatological Transplantation and Vitamin A in Spermatogenesis | |
| Clark, Michael | Don Stem | The Need for Tactile Input in Electronic Commerce | |
| Coley, Tim | Jane Lawrence | Oral History Project: Davenport and the Depression | |
| Fisher, Heather | Thomas Besser | Relationship Between Immunoglobulin Conc. in Holstein Colostrum & Total Serum Protein in Holstein Heifer Calves | |
| Folsom, Kristi | Tom Newton | Separation of Acetronitril from Hazardous Waste | |
| Gerton, Jeff | Gary Thorgaard | Effects of Temperature on Sex Determination in Trout | |
| Johnson, Kevin | Catherine Bicknell | Peer Facilitator for UH 440 | |
| Kiepke, Melissa | Meredith Arksey | Striing Quartet Arranging and Coaching | |
| Larson, Joe | Caroline Smith | Student Teacher of Math 101 | |
| Loerch, Patrick | Michael Griswold | Identification of Gene Responsible for Action of Testosterone in Rats | |
| Long, Jackie | Carla Jones | Early Prognostic Indicators of Developmental Apraxia of Speech | |
| Nachtsheim, Malecka | Tom Brigham | Psychology 106 Instructor | |
| Smith, Stephanie | Ward Ferguson | Truckin' On Up: Raising Freightliners Used Truck Values | |
| Tutko, Jennifer | Debra Sellon | Retrospective Study of Coccygeal Vertebral Fraction in Horses | |
| Wyrick, Jared | Kevin Bertrand | Protein-Protein Interactions in E. coli AcrAB Efflux Pump | |
| Yost, Denise | Gary Thorgaard | Coral Reefs | |
| Fall '00 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Appel, Aaron | Scot Wherland | Synthesis & Characterization of the Liquid Ionic Solvent 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Tetrafluoroborate | |
| Bowley, Amy | Carol Maloney | Opinions Surrounding One Dual Immersion BiLingual Program | |
| Evans, Tyler | Gerald Berthiaume | Junior Recital: Purpose and Performance | |
| Honda, Kristen | Ruth Newberry | Social Learning in Chickens | |
| Ney, Michelle | Mark Nelson | Toxic Effects of Fatty Acids on Ruminal Protozoa & Their Methanogenic Endosymbionts | |
| O'Rourke, Jennifer | Wes Leid | The Ethics of Ear Croppiing | |
| Schaeffer, Renee | Dennis Gross | Assessment of Secretion of Phytotoxins as Antibiotics by Pseudomonas syringae vs Syringae | |
| Schmidt, Andy | Mark Nelson | Toxic Effects of Fatty Acids on Ruminal Protozoa & Their Methanogenic Endosymbionts | |
| Schweitzer, Stephanie | Pat Kuzyk | American Income Distribution: Characteristics and Determinants | |
| Spring '01 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Berndt, Erika | Tom Brigham | Changing the Misperceptions of Social Norms Regarding Alcohol Use by Incoming Freshmen at WSU | |
| Brooke, Ryan | Terry Cook | Competing Liberties: Negative & Positive Liberty in John Stuart Mills' Thought Book | |
| Cairns, Jerico | Samantha Swindell | The House of Charity: A Survival Shelter for Homeless Men | |
| Henderson, Samantha | Gretal Leibnitz | The Frequency of False-Positive Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screenings Due to the Rabies Vaccination | |
| McElwain, Camille | Francois Martin | Effects of Animal Assisted Terapy on Expression of Pro-Social | |
| Salbosa, Lasha-Lynne | Paul Verrell | National Park Service Internship at Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii | |
| Scoville, Damon | Gary Thorgaard | The Feasibility of Extracting Ancient DNA from Salmon Bones | |
| Smith, Thomas | Steven Kale | Serbian Nationalism and the Role of Kosovo: A Confusing Blend of History and Myth | |
| Wittig, Nicole | David Whidbee | Subprime Lending: Helping or Hindering America's Low Income and Minority Residents? | |
| Fall '01 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Arnold, Rita | Naomi Lungstrom | Therapeutic Interventions for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure | |
| Deatherage, Brooke | Mary Sanchez-Lanier | Efficacy of Surface Coatings in Prevention of Microbial Infection: An In Vitro Study | |
| Herbison, Sarah | Sue Clark | Chemical Extractions to Determine Metal Partitioning to Sediments and Soils | |
| Kielpinski, Marina | Tom Preston | The Conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia: An Assessment | |
| Martin, Michelle | Nora McCabe | Correlation Between Oncofetal Fibronectin Isoform ED~A+ and Breast Lump Diagnosis | |
| Marusich, Julie | Fran McSweeney | Effects of Ethanol Reinforcers on Within-Session Response Changes in Operant Responding of Sprague-Dawley Rats | |
| Payne, Robin | Janice Rutherford | Hell No! We Won't Go! The Rationale Behind Oppositions to the Viet Nam War | |
| Spring '02 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Bakko, Marlene | Inge Eriks | Characterization & Development of an Assay for Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Sheep | |
| Baze, Monica | Patrick Carter | Correlated Response of Nesting Behavior to Selection on Voluntary Wheel-Running Activity in 1-yr-old | |
| Campion, Corey | Joan Grenier-Winther | Franco-German Relations in the European Union as Affected by the 'German Question' | |
| Chang, Hsiu-Lin | Kevin Bertrand | Development of Recombinant Reproductive Hormone Vaccines to Sterilize Beef Cattle | |
| Ironside, Brian | Wayne Joerding | Development of Web-Based Simulations for Pedagogic Use in Economics | |
| Larson, Katherine | Katrina Mealey | Incidence of Drug Interactions in Veterinary Critical Care Patients | |
| Phelps, Matthew | Betsy Krueger | Drinking Trends at WSU: Simply the Facts | |
| Pritchard, Juli | N Robison/M Marcelo | College Recruitment Techniques: WSU Honors College Recruitment Video | |
| Smith, Christina | Rance Sellon | Feline Hyperthyroidism: A Breed Predisposition | |
| Fall '02 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Balko, Lacey | Craig Parks | Effects of Quality Group Performance on Group Members' Perception of Each Other | |
| Borchardt-Wier,Harmony | Carol Sheppard | Caffeinated Caterpillars in the Classroom | |
| Cannon, Lisa | Sunny Zhou | Stereospecific Colorimetric Assay for (S,S)-Adenosylmethiionine Quantification Based on Thiopurine Methyltransferase-Catalyzed | |
| Cearley, Cassia | Lynn Churchill | Time of Day Affects Extinction of Cocaine-Induced Conditioning & TNFa mRNA Levels in Specific Brain Regions | |
| Dunn, Jeffrey | David Shier | Thinking Machine: What the Artificial Intelligence Debate Can Tell Us About Ourselves | |
| Gipe, Rebekah | Bintong Chen | Employee Optimization System for Homeland Fruit Co., Inc. | |
| Harrison, Lisa | Michelle McGuire | Conjugated Linoleic Acid Intake of Exclusively Breastfed Infants | |
| Maxwell, Jody | Candis Claiborn | Community Gardens: Marigolds in the Inner City | |
| Stein, Amy | Richard Hume | Multiple Intelligence & Essential Academic Learning Requirements: Can They Work Together? | |
| Stenson, Kristopher | Richard Williams | Caesar, Pompey, & the Collapse of the First Triumvirate | |
| Stevens, Jeremy | Rick Busselle | Integrity of Broadcast Journalism: A Study of News Judgment in Commercial Broadcasting | |
| Stillman, Carina | Carol Sheppard | Caffeinated Caterpillars in the Classroom | |
| Spring '03 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Alley, Dan | Carol Ivory | Art & Politics: the Use of a Visual Language as a Social Critique | |
| Berlin, Julie | Andrew Appleton | The Continuiing Suppression of Nationalism in the Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Billes, Sonja | Robert Ritter | Forebrain but not Hindbrain Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptors Participate in Specific Circuitry for Reduction of Food Intake by Illness | |
| Brown, Bethany | Katrina Mealey | Prevalence of Parasites, esp. those w/Zoonotic Potential, in Wild Dogs/Dingoes in Suburban Fringe Areas of Townsville (Queensland, Australia) | |
| Ferluga, Elizabeth | Barbara Sorg | The Effects of Electroconvulsive Shock on Addiction Behavior in Rats | |
| Herbison, Blake | Robert Ritter | Leptin Induced Nuclear Expression of Phosphylated STAT3 in Rat Hindbrain | |
| Lovelace,Jessica | Patty Fischer | The Multifaceted Production of a Fashion Show | |
| Piper, Drew | Camille Roman | The Need for Canonical Evolution: The Lyrics of Bob Dylan & Paul Simon as Poetry | |
| Raun, Jeff | Kim Andersen | Reflections of Nature in the Works of Four Nobel Prize Winning Nordic Authors: K. Hamsun, H. Laxness, S Legerlof & J Jensen | |
| Reiman, Lauren | Trevor Bond | Solving the Mystery: What Makes the Fictional Librarian Such a Good Sleuth? | |
| Ulrich, Amanda | Lance LeLoup | The Aftermath of 9/11 in the U.S. & the Arab World: Public Opinion, Behavior, & the Response | |
| Wilson, Sarah | Eric Lear | Rhythmic & Intuitive Analysis in Performance | |
| Fall '03 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Baty, Melissa | Jon Hegglund | Metropolis & the Oceanic Metaphor: E.M. Forster's Howard's End & Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | |
| Blake, Kimberly | Martha Cottam | Controlling Chile: Examining the Pinochet Regime | |
| Hughes, Jennifer | Keith Dunker | Literature & Database Analysis of the Structure of BRCA1 & BRCA2 Proteins & Their Roles in Hereditary Breast Cancer | |
| Jordan, Kerry | Anne Campbell | Foreign Language Instruciton: When Should It Begin? | |
| McKinley, Amanda S. | James Cook | Evaluation of Progeny of Genetically Engineered Barley Plants for Resistiance to Rhizoctonia oryzae & Rhizoctonia solani AG-8 | |
| Navarijo, Eva | A. Espinosa-Aguilar | Examining & Dismantling Stereotypes in Novels by Julia Alvarez, Nicholasa Mohr & Oscar Hijuelos | |
| Spring '04 | NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS/PROJECT TITLE |
| Anthony, Loni | Jeff Joireman | A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Five Dimensions of Personality: Examining Actual & Perceived Traits within & between Australia & the US | |
| Barnes, Ryan | Barbara Sorg | The Effects of Unstable Social Environment & Trait Anxiety on Extinction & Reinstatement Behaviors of Rats Addicted to Cocaine | |
| Bongiovanni, Kathleen | Margaret Black | Functional Analysis of the 152-156 Amino Acid Region of Yeast Cytosine Deaminase using Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis | |
| Britt, Rachel | Raymond Reeves | Confirming the Down Regulation of 4 DNA Repair Genes during the Over Expression of High Mobility Group A1b in Human Breast Cells | |
| Carman, Briana | Paul Verrell | A Test for Acute Toxic Effects of a Glyphosate-Based Herbicide on Larvae of the Salamander Ambystoma macrodactylum | |
| Carter, Kelli | Sue Ritter | The Role of Hypothalamic Peptides in Consummatory Feeding Behavior | |
| DeWitt, Allison | James Lincoln | Cervical Spinal Cord: Effects of Neck Position in Dogs | |
| Fleischer, Kristin | Elizabeth Krueger | Duty or Destruction: The Ethical Debate Surrounding Nuclear Deterrence | |
| Gillies, Laura | Sunny Zhou | Selective Derivation of Protein Carboxylate Esters: Development of a New Detection & Quantification Method | |
| Jesperson, Ryan | Charles Argersinger | Words for the Dead | |
| Johnson, Eleda | John Watkinson | James Hutton & Plate Tectonics: Parallels in Time? | |
| Lane, Samantha | Doug Call/James Eve | Amplicon Secondary Structure Prevents Target Hybridization to Oligonucleotide Microarrays | |
| Lester, Erin | Sue Ritter | The Role of Hypothalamic Peptides in Consummatory Feeding Behavior | |
| Matthews, Ashley | Steven Martinez | Kinetic Gait Comparison in Humans and Dogs with & without Lameness due to Cruciate Ligament Rupture | |
| Mejia, Pamela | Jill Schultz | Water, not Chocolate: Type 2 Diabetes Education for Hispanics | |
| O'Brien, Justin | Bintong Chen | An Efficiency Analysis of the Top 50 MBA Programs & Pac-10 Undergraduate Business Schools Using DEA | |
| Stewart, Kelly | Steven Martinez | Kinetic Gait Comparison in Humans & Dogs with & without Lameness due to Cruciate Ligament Rupture | |
| Wirtz, Jenna | Jon Mallatt | The Increased Incidence of ACL Injury in Female Athletes & the Effects of Proprioceptive Training Programs on Tear Rates |