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In The Spotlight: Class of 2007 Honors
Honors Degree with Distinction
The following students were recipients of the Honors Degree with Distinction. To earn the Honors Degree with Distinction, a student must have accumulated a grade-point index of at least 3.400 at the time of graduation and have earned 30 credits in Honors courses. In addition he or she must have successfully defended a senior thesis to a committee of faculty approved by Biological Sciences and the University Honors Program. The senior thesis is based on research projects that students carry out for a year or more in a faculty laboratory. This represents a tremendous effort and these students are functioning as graduate students at their time of graduation.
Ashley Anttila Thesis: Functional Expression of a CFTR Channel in Vertebrate Proximal Tubule Cells |
Karla Boyd Thesis: Akt and RhoCGTPase Interaction in Prostate Cancer Adhesion to Bone |
Abigail Bradley Thesis: Colonization of Intertidal Habitats by Invasive Species: Effects of Riprap Emplacement |
Laura Shankman Thesis: Effect of Junctional Adhesion Molecule A on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
Wen Allen Tseng Thesis: The Role of JAM-A Homodimerization in Angiogenesis |
Degree with Distinction
At the time of graduation, students earning a Degree with Distinction must have a cumulative grade-point index of at least 3.00, an index in their major of at least 3.50, and successfully defended a senior thesis.
Picture not available Thomas Bentley Thesis: The Effect of Transgenic Bt Corn on the Male Mating Fitness of the Western Corn Rootworm |
Lindsay Higdon Thesis: The Effect of Bcl-2 on Apoptosis in the Developing Chick Embryo Brain |
Evan Lebois Thesis: A Role for N-Glycosylation in Differential Growth Control and Drosophila Development: Phenotypic Analysis of alg10 |
Sara Sterling Thesis: Cholesterol Homeostasis in Human Adipocyte Cells |
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