Honors Students Present Work at 2012 WSU Academic Showcase

PULLMAN, Wash. — During the annual Academic Showcase, students, faculty, and staff at Washington State University present their research and creative activities as posters and displays.  In March 2012, 14 Honors students showed off their hard work to interested visitors and fellow scholars.

Applicants to participate must demonstrate through an abstract that their findings are of scientific, scholarly, or creative significance.  All projects must be original and represent either a clearly-followed creative timeline or the scientific method.  Future work proposals are not accepted.  There are no rewards or judging of presentations.

The following Honors students were invited to participate:

  • Omar Bayomy, On Interleukin-1 Receptor Accessory Protein B in Sleep Regulation
  • Jade Carboy, The Global Relationship Between Women and Control: A Timeless Affair
  • Amanda Feeney, Role of Interleukin 16 in the Induction of Primordial to Primary Follicle Transition
  • Michelle Heacox, Political Ideologies and Beauty: How Confucianism, Communism and Capitalism Affected Women’s Fashions and Beauty Trends in China
  • Colleen Johns, Pesticides Methoxychlor and DDT Promote Adult Onset Ovarian Disease Through Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
  • Emily Martin, The Effects of Agriculture on West Nile Virus Incidence in Washington State
  • Alisha McBride, Ovarian Hormone Modulation of Supraspinal THC-Induced Analgesia
  • Jesse Miller, Temperature Dependence of the Hyperfine Field in Nickel
  • Drew Neyens, Early Shaolin Temple Resists Traditional Chinese Misogynistic Tendencies
  • Evelyn Quezada, Language Choice Among Spanish-English Bilinguals
  • Danny Reis, Alcohol-Dependent Rats in Spontaneous Withdrawal Show Increased Dynorphin A-Like Immunoreactivity in the Islands of Calleja
  • Marcela Rodriguez, A Mile in Bound Feet: An analysis on the Road to Concubinage
  • Ryan Scott, Environments of Deadly Dust: Workers, Doctors, Policy Makers, and the Fight Against Asbestos Disease in the Shipyards of the Puget Sound Region
  • Deven Tokuno, Can Imported Foods Serve as Vehicles for Transporting Antibiotic Resistance Genes?

MEDIA CONTACT: Jared Brickman, Communications Assistant, Honors College at WSU, 509-335-8070, UCHCCommMar.4@wsu.edu