The program provides a series of interdisciplinary honors courses which satisfy selected general education requirements. Participation in the program culminates in an honors research project, typically during the senior year.
The senior students of the University Honors Program are pleased to share their research with a broader audience.
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Submissions from 2007
Christian children's songs in Zambia, Erin Black
Domestic and International Consequences of US Farm Subsidies, Jeff Reczek
Favoritism in the Courts of Early Modern England: A Study of James I and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Rachel Heeter
How Long is Your Block: Strengthening Understanding of Measurement in a Relevant Urban Context, Kelly Cooper
Identifying H-2b-restricted CD4+ T Lymphocyte Recognition Epitopes Within Simian Virus 40 Large Tumor Antigen, Elizabeth M. Chmielewski and Lawrence M. Mylin
Immigrant Civic Participation, Megan N. Wolf
Instrumental Learning and Pedal Movements in Bufo americanus, Rebecca Kern
La condicion politica de la comunidad latina en los Estados Unidos, Jordan Brensinger
Liberal Democracy in Illiberal Contexts: A Model for Democratic Transition in China, Bethany Stotts
Linear Models in Statistics, Paul Bernhardt
Linguistic Reform of Media Portrayals: Moving Towards Positive African American Identity Affirmation, Marissa McKeever
Loneliness Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Loneliness Among University Students in Uganda and the United States, Sara Van Cott
Maternal perspectives on child care quality, Sarah Weaver
On the dust of its husk: Evidence for an alternative Shadean theory in Pale Fire, Tiffany DeRewal
Organic Reactions in Ionic Liquids, Anna Beiler
Sacredness of the Vessel, Diane Pierce
Short-Term Urban Service Trips: Relevance in Ministry and their Impact on Adolescents' Perception of the City and Continued Service, Melissa Sandrock
Spiritual Development in Early Childhood: From Theory to Practice, Emily Dause
War and Corruption: A Political History of Uganda, Mathew Miller
Zambia Papermaking Project, Elizabeth Ball
Submissions from 2006
Bible Study or Budding Cult? A Study of a Controversial Bible Study on a Christian College Campus, Sarah Ringer
Body Image and How the Mass Media Affects Us, Connie Wheeler
"Disposed To Be Communicative": Conversations about Literacy Among Four Texts, Danina Garcia
Focusing on Femicide: Democracy through the Lens of Women's Rights in Guatemala, Jill Seibert
Jesus on the Hill: A Descriptive Study of the Church Community on Allison Hill, Eric Hernandez
Loss of Authenticity: An Examination of Globalization in Athens, Greece, Alison M. Seiler
"Loyalty and Dissent in Civil War Maryland: William Glenn and the Suppression of the Daily Exchange", Kelly Knight
Mahadaga pump project : durability testing and redesign of a handicap accessible pump for irrigation in West Africa, Joseph Longenecker, Chris Claassen, and Peter Govey
Mason Locke Weems, George Washington, and the Emergence of an "Evangelical Nationalism" in the Early Nineteenth Century, Justin J. Bollinger
Messiah College adventure programs: policies and procedures handbook, Emily Cagwin
"Nothing About Us Without Us"; Empowerment, Disability and Community Development in Kenya, Kim Warde
Peace, Postmodernism, and Praxis: 'Binding and Loosing' as a Model for Conflict Transformation, Ben Lamb
Religious Attitudes and Participation at Messiah College, Lauren Webster
Senior Project Final Written Report : Drive-Train Redesign of the Hand Powered Tricycles, Sean Davis
Solving Pell Equations, Matthew Wright
Strengths of Urban Youth: An Examination of North Philadelphia Teenagers and their Development and Talents, Stephanie Vroman
Student Housing Effect on Socialization: Does Messiah College Housing effect socialization of students?, Signe Henkel
The Gothic Tower: How the Genre has Lent Itself to Depictions of Evil throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, Kristine N. Harvey
The Skills Agenda: Great Britain vs. the United States, Jennifer Brownett
Women in Prison: The Path They Take in and the Path They Take Out, Brenna O'Donnell
Submissions from 2005
An Ethnographic Report: The Intersection of Self, Career, and Education in the Life of Kelly Smoker, Kelly Smoker
Cohabitation: Function and Dysfunction, Kristen N. Hess
Danish Unemployment, Chris Gilbert
Factors Affecting Third Culture Kid Adjustment to College, Ellen P. Ferris Shaffer
From Ghettos to Globalization: The Market Politics of Discipline and Repression, Zachary Stock
Incarcerated Females: Trapped in a Man's World, Ashley Gwen Brill
Leading by Example: Crime Reduction and Techniques in the City of New York, Ryan R. Sensenig
LSA Integration, Josh Joyce, Tyler Miller, and Jonathan Shenk
Proposal: Do we create sex in the media or does sex in the media create us?, Ashley Russ
Prosthetic Knee Redesign, Brett Davis, Nathan Shaffer, and Brian Thompson
Reducing the Recidivism Rate of America's Adolescents: A Restorative Justice Approach, Deborah Erving
The Effect of Thai Public Education on the Cultural Identity of Karen Tribal Children, Cassandra Hartman
What is community?: Commitment and capital among three groups, Heather Bechtel and Kevin A. Thomas
Submissions from 2004
A New Conception of Violence, Chelli Stanley
Business process constraint-driven product planning, Brendan Post
College Students' Attitudes Toward Seeking Help for Mental Health Problems: A Vignette Approach, Kelly Sensenig
Developing Software for Cognitively Disabled Children: Teaching Time Telling Skills, Ryan Tierney
Eating Disturbance and Religious Belief: The Connection Between Religiosity and Body Image Among Messiah College Women, Danielle Roser
Evaluation of the Juvenile Justice System, Ryan Garner
Hobbies verses the World Are We Becoming a One-Dimensional Society?, Danny Wicks
Magnet Schools and Urban Education: Adversaries or Allies?, Melissa Wankmuller
Men and women's soccer programs: is there an equal playing field at Messiah College?, Jennifer Sapp
Nonviolence in the Real World, Shawn Horine
Parental Divorce and Depression in Young Adulthood: Christianity as a Mediating Factor, Ashley R. Miller
Phylogeographic Allometry of Anuran Amphibians of the Genus Atelopus from Central Panama, Andrew Tucker
Putting Us In Our Place: An Ecological Literary Reading of Barbara Kingsolver, Janel Atlas
Seeking the white rabbit: The ethical and religious journey of Rabbit Angstrom, Amy Raj
Self in Struggle: Levels of Resistance in Nonwestern Autobiography, Christina Moyer
Sexual Knowledge and the Implications for Society, Angie Wagner
Sudan: Case-Study for a Better Understanding of Large-Scale Conflict, Abigail S. Carlisle
The Acute Effects of Static and Ballistic Stretching on Vertical Jump Performance in Trained Women, Jessica Unick, H. Scott Kieffer, Wendy Cheesman, and Anna Feeney
The Philadelphia Campus: Vision, Purpose, and Reality: An Historian's Perspective, Sarah D. Mackin
The Roles and Portrayal of Women in Film Over Time: A Content Analysis of Films from 1939-2002, Allison M. Simon
The Stories of Four Gay Students At Messiah College, Josi Ferreira
Violence and Children's Testimony, Faye Stephen
Women Behind Bars, Joanna Wilkinson
Submissions from 2003
Amish Shunning: A Ritual of Purity and Shame, Amos Stoltzfus
"As if language had surrendered": Transcending Speech in the Plays of Brian Friel, Debbie DeGeorge
Chivalry and the Tournament in Chaucer's Knight's Tale; History, Subjectivity, and the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Nicholas Lauer
Civil Religion and the Patriotic Church: Wielding the "Power of Pride" in Times of War, Elizabeth J. Claassen
Configuration For GNU Project Summary and Documentation Guide, Jason Long and Justin Yackoski
Exploring Greeneland: Examining Duality in Graham Greene's Life and Works, Kristin Masters
Gender Inequality in Higher Education, Leah M. Ver Steeg
Isolation of Genetically Homogeneous Cell Lines Immortalized by a Wild Type or Mutant Form of the Simian Virus 40 Large Tumor Antigen, Megan Benedict
New Media Technology: oppression in the modern world, Shauna Nefos
Production and In Vitro Characterization of Altered Tag Transformed Morine Fibroblasts, Kevin Driver and Lawrence M. Mylin
"Protecting Intellectual Property in a Software Development Environment", Jeffrey Woldan
Republicanism, Wives, and the Presidency The Political Dilemma of Washington, Adams, and Madison, Megan Jones
Resolving Sums of Conjugate Radicals, Nicholas C. Zoller
Rigorously Unrevised, Unapologetically Uncensored: An Experiment in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Heather Ross
Self-association studies of yeast TATA binding protein using an E. coli two-hybrid system, Michael Sauder, Claire Adams, and Michael Fried
Shades of Dresden: Kurt Vonnegut and the Artist's Responsibility in Responding to and Representing War, Marissa S. Brown
Songs of the South and the East: Disney and (Consumer) Culture (or, "Everybody Has a Laughing Place [and wherever it is, Disney owns it]"), Alicia Watkins
The Effects of a Short-term Plyometrics Program on Hamstring Strength in Female Collegiate Soccer Players, Melinda B. Miller
The Reality of Evil and Christian Visions of God, Sharon A. Hewitt
