These projects have received funding through the Dintersmith and WM Honors Fellowships to conduct pre-Honors research in summer 2009. Click on the student’s name to access the research blog.

Dina Abdel-Fattah, International Relations: The Comparative Effect of International Imposition of Power-Sharing Agreements on Ethnoreligious Reconciliation: Case Studies of Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon (Dintersmith Fellowship)
Rebecca Mikulas Allred, Optimizing Energy Transfer via Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopic Analysis (WM Honors Fellowship)
Sarah Argodale, Russia’s Peripheral Nations: An Examination of the Soviet Union Colonialist Legacy (WM Honors Fellowship)
Caitlin Bovery, Habitat Preferences and Potential Restoration of the Soft Shell Clam, Mya arenaria, in the Lower Chesapeake Bay (WM Honors Fellowship)
Annie Brown, Indian Cosmo: Globalization and the Middle Class Indian Woman (WM Honors Fellowship)
Jennifer Garrott, Prince William County during the Civil War: Crossroads of Conflict (Dintersmith Fellowship)
John Gay, The Is/Ought Problem and the Scientific Investigation into the Roots of Morality (Dintersmith Fellowship)
Kathryn Hansen, Ballet as a Political Force in Seventeenth Century France (WMHonors Fellowship)
Mary Henin, English as a Second Language Programs and Pedagogy: A Critical Linguistic Analysis (WM Honors Fellowship)
Megan Shuler, Things Left Behind: A Comparative Artifact Analysis of Pompeii and other Roman Domestic Sites (Dintersmith Fellowship)
Tyler Stukenbroeker, Formation of Highly Electrically Conductive and Specular Reflective Surface-Silvered Polyimide Films Under Exceptionally Mild Conditions (Dintersmith Fellowship)
Daniel Villarreal, Closing the Communication Gap Between Mathematics Professors and Undergraduates (Dintersmith Fellowship)