A highlight of the undergraduate Honors program is the required senior honors project. Honors projects involve an intensive exploration of a topic that is related to the student’s major and is studied within the context of the Christian faith. These projects demonstrate one way in which SPU students engage the culture in order to change the world.
Current honors projects are now included in this series. Past completed honors projects are included in the permanent collection at the SPU Library.
Honors Projects from 2024
Music Creation: A look into the process and products of organizing and performing a concert of arrangements and original musical works, Cameron Beers
Starbucks Workers United and the Future of American Labor Activism, Sophia Drake Braymen
"Can you just speak normal?": How language summer camps affect White children's participation in the linguistically, culturally, and racially diverse United States, Mary M. Bruggeman
Demystifying the "Social Media Algorithm": The Legacy of Surveillance Advertising and Platformization, Garrett Crites
“The Hero of My Own Life”: The Purpose of the Fictional Self in the Life Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Charles Dickens, Jessica M. Day
Defining Healthy Love: A Narrative Review of Purity Culture's Impact on Healing from Sexual Assault, Gloria L. Diehl
“I’m not your friend”: Content type influence on parasocial relationship formation on YouTube, Sage E. Driscoll
Salmon mislabeling rates uncovered in restaurants and grocery stores in Seattle, Jewel L. Garcia and Jewel L. Garcia
Tied Together With Ticketmaster: Analyzing The Exclusive Contracts Of Ticketmaster Through The Lens of Antitrust Scholars, Jenna Gillam
Analysis of Green Data Center Efforts and Energy Usage, Dillon J. Goicoechea
An Anglican-Episcopal Theology of Desire & Prayer Book Liturgical Asceticism, Kyler F. Granados
Human Health and Outdoor Lighting: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Review of Current Research, Kellie Joy Grover
The Translingual College Classroom: Repurposing Essays for Inclusivity and Practicality, Maxwell P. Hayden
EARTH/UNEARTH [on the Nature of G-d and Creation], Macs Herdrich
Resilience in Refugee Youth: A Review of Contributing Factors and Potential Barriers, Anna J. Kreisman
A Survey of Practical Haskell: Parsing, Interpreting, and Testing, Parker Landon
Deciphering Authority: The Balance of Powers in Local Government, Rayna Martin
The Perpetual Foreigner: Modeling Cycles of Asian American Discrimination, Philip Min
Intimacy Without The Chance Of Heartbreak For Richer, For Poorer, In Sickness & In Health, Cynthia Nguyen
Past Experiences and Current Attitudes: Is Everything Connected?, Miranda Oddy
reaping in the dark, Rae Perez
'I didn't know what sex was': Effects of Christian Youth Group Involvement on Women's Sexuality in Adulthood, Aubrey K. Rhoadarmer
Anion Binding and Sensing Using Cs124-Sensitized Luminescent Terbium Complexes, Alessandro Rizzi, Minhee Lee, Wade Grabow, Olivia Brooks, Helena Nguyen, Neal Yakelis, and Clarisse VanderFeltz
A Romantic Austen: The Discordant Feminist Discourse of Adapting Sense and Sensibility, Evan Teigland
Helping the Home Cook: How Unsupervised Machine Learning Can Prevent Food Waste, Ryan B. Watson
Honors Projects from 2023
How Alzheimer's Disease is Taking Over (Your Brain), Hoda AbouEich
IDENTITY AND BODY IMAGE: HOW BICULTURAL INFLUENCES AFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE AND DISORDERED EATING IN KOREAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS, Abigail G. Brown
A QUEER HISTORY OF SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: RECONCILIATION AND RECOVERY IN ORAL HISTORY MANAGEMENT AND SPECIAL COLLECTION CREATION, Rebecca Cavanaugh
grief web, Patricia M. FONG
"A Shadow of a Magnitude": The Parthenon Marbles Through the Eyes of Keats and Byron, Annie Griffin
Speaking as the Romans Do: Potential Effects of New Findings on Foreign Language Proficiency and Expatriate-HCN Relationships for Future Research, Annelise Hoover
Humanity in Animals: A Exploration of the Complexity of Elephants as Intellectual Beings, Xing Z. Huang
Using Deep Neural Networks to Classify Astronomical Images, Andrew D. Macpherson
WHAT OUR HEARTS CRAVE FOR: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PARADOXICAL ATTRACTION TO DANTE’S INFERNO, Ketzalt E. Marquez
Human Trafficking and Nutrition: Assessing the Effects of U.S. Public Policy on Food Security and the Malnourishment of Refugees, Moxie R. McCandless
Understanding the Beauty of Mathematics by Composing Claude Debussy's Syrinx into Mathematical Equations, Mackenzi Mehlberg
Exploring the Intersectionality Between Homelessness and Addiction: A Review, Antonia Miranda
A Community Centered by Love: A Linguistic Approach to the Theology of Paul's Instruction for the Corinthian Body, Cadence Moore
MORE THAN TEXT: EXAMINING EMBODIED PRACTICE IN THE CLASSROOM, Susan Nash
Flat Plate Solar Collector for a Tiny Home, Clarice Leslie Nicholas
Epidemiology of Island and Mainland Populations: How Does Culture Influence Health Risk Factors Of Non-Communicable, Chronic, and Metabolic Diseases?, Jake Thomas D. Palisoc
Creating Project Contrast: a Video Game exploring Consciousness and Qualia, Pierce Papke
Abort the Court? How abortion jurisprudence has highlighted questions surrounding the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, Junia E. Paulus
BASEBALL’S EVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AND HOW IT EXEMPLIFIES HUMAN RESPONSE TO CHANGE, Jonathan Sharpe
Survivor Accounts of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide: A Comparative History, Marisa Silva
The Students for Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College: The Case Against Affirmative Action from the Asian American Perspective, Annabelle Mae Sukin
Digital Masculinity: An Analysis of How Masculine Values are Manifested in Online Spaces, Catherine Thompson
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL STRESS-INDUCED RESPONSES OF DOGS DURING VETERINARY EXAMINATIONS, Jessica Ellen Vester
Financial Literacy: The Basics to Learn in High School, Christopher J. Wisely
Honors Projects from 2022
ADORATION ABOVE OBJECTIFICATION: THE PROMOTION OF OTHER IN BLACK, MEXICAN AND ARABIC LOVE POETRY, Joycelynn L. Baker
SURVIVORSHIP OF COLUMBIAN BLACK-TAILED DEER IN A PREDATOR-FREE ENVIRONMENT, Grace Hope Barthelmess
SOLDIERS’ INWARD BATTLE: A THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR-BASED MORAL INJURY AND THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH, Emily Ann Bogle
Haunted Heroines: An Examination of the Complication of the Gothic Heroine, Molly S. Callison
Data Ethics: An Investigation of Data, Algorithms, and Practice, Gabrialla S. cockerell
Pondering Pauses: Experiencing Stillness in Scrolling Webcomics, Moira Dewey
Developing a Natural Language Processing Approach for Analyzing Student Ideas in Calculus-Based Introductory Physics, Jon M. Geiger, Lisa M. Goodhew, and Tor Ole B. Odden
Thy Kingdom Come: A Biblical Theology of Social Justice Movements, Chloe Guillot
How the Dungeons of The Legend of Zelda Challenge Players to Find the Way For Themselves, Jonathan David Hacker
Personal Library Organization and Tracking Application (PLOT), Katie Honsinger
Not Just the Flu: The Impacts of ASIAFLUCAP Influenza Policy Recommendations on Southeast Asia During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, Rebekah Huber
Issues of Right to Legal Counsel in Immigrant Removal Proceedings: Due Process Framework and Applicability, Cambria A. Judd Babbitt
Non-Profit Accounting and Financial Strategies For The Exponential Age, Nathan A. Judd
An analysis of mesophotic macroalgal species richness and abundance in Puget Sound, Mathea Kurtz-Shaw
White-Collar Crime: Diversity and Discrimination in Sentencing, Rachel LaBrie
Breaking the Cycle: An Analysis of the Reduction of Single Women in the Homeless Community, Luisa J. LaMagra
Devil’s Lettuce or Heaven Sent? How the Legalization of Recreational Cannabis Impacts Rates of Schizophrenia in Washington State., Elizabeth C. Lucas
Puritan Patriarchal Construction of American Sexual Morality and Woman's Worth: A Daughter's Response, Savannah Mather
Read This: A Content Analysis Framework for Book Recommendation Applications, Cypress S. Payne
Investigating Media Influence on Language Change in Low-Level Sociolinguistic Variables, Keaton Strawn
Heterogeneity of Gene Expression in Peanut-Allergic Cells May be Related to Differing Cell Subpopulations, Sophia R. Tekorius
The Development of a Global Shoreland Information Database May Help Determine the Appropriate Bacteria and Nutrient Technology Needed to Remediate Oil Contaminated Shorelands, Tiffany Ann Veeder
Interns and Institutions: Interactions Between Unpaid Interns and Public Policy, Hannah G. Waterman
The Generational Impacts of Sexual Violence: In the Context of the Rwandan Genocide, Chloe Nicole Wesson
Honors Projects from 2021
FROM MARGINAL TO MAINSTREAM: THE QUEER HISTORY OF CAMP AESTHETICS & ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF CAMP IN HIGH FASHION, Emily Barker
The Language of Filmmaking and the Troubles of Modern Illiteracy, Gabriel A. Blank
The Role of Empathy in Design and the Responsibility of Designers to Create With Their User in Mind, Emma S. Brenchley
Salicylic Acid Response to Simulated Herbivory in Geographically Distinct T. heterophylla and H. discolor Populations, Amy E. Castle
Machine Learning in Stock Price Prediction Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks and Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, Carl Samuel Cederborg
Vocation or Victimization: An Analysis of Legal Models Addressing Prostitution, K'reisa J. Cox
The Effects of South Korean Beauty Standards on Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction Amongst Asian Americans, Janessa Akemi Fong
STRUCTURAL DELUSION, RELIGIOUS ANXIETY, AND A MELODRAMATIC PRIEST: EXPLORING MACRO AND MICRO INFLUENCES ON THE CÓRDOBAN MARTYRS, Emma K. Friesen
A Practical Guide to the Impractical Life: Contemporary Morality and the Desert Monastics, John Goodhew
Assessing Competitive Reaction Rates in the Nitration of 2-Methylbiphenyl, Biphenyl, and Toluene to Determine Steric Restriction in Resonance-Stabilized Planarization of the Carbocation Intermediates, Victor A. Hanson, Tristan Wine, Kevin Bartlett, Joshua Padilla, and Alessandro Rizzi
The Whore and the Holy Woman: How Christianity and Islam Slandered Their Leading Ladies, Olivia Heale
The Healthcare Costs of Overnutrition, Ryan Hodge
Institutional Indifference: Physical and Mental Health Challenges of Pregnant Inmates, Menolly A. Hollabaugh
A Consumer-based Aquatic Trash Collecting Drone: A Engineering Design Case Study, Andrew C. Josselyn
CREATIVE OCCUPATIONS AND THE PRECIPITATING FACTORS OF BURNOUT, Natasha E. Koval
An Exploration of Math Trauma Through Ability Grouping and Teacher Language in Elementary Schools, Sarah E. Owen
Antigenic variation in Mycoplasma genitalium reduces antibody-antigen association kinetics, Suzanne M. Stafford
The Realistic Desirability of Perfection in Thomas More’s Utopia and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eryn Tan
Ba'ath Party Archives and the Khmer Rouge Records: The Importance of Cultural Accessibility, Elizabeth M. Thompson
Honors Projects from 2020
Selections from & The Process of Creating "My Blue Scarf: The Story of Ruth, a New Play", Abigail Jane Ayulo