2014 Fall Showcase

From left to right: Charlotte May, Bethany Ragle, Melody Dunn, Chelsi Norris, Rachel Nicholas, Anna Talkington, Morgan Hicks, Allie Barton, Nik Razo, Sadie Woodruff, Charlynn Estes, and Lam Dinh.

Congratulations to this fall's Honors Showcase presenters!

HONORS SUPER SHOWCASE

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 3:30 p.m.

ROOM 104

HONORS THESES

Aileen Barton, Senior, Communication and Performance Studies
“Utilizing Entertainment-Education to Prevent Sex-Trafficking: An Oklahoma Perspective”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Steve Phillips, Assistant Professor, Communication and Performance Studies

Lam Dinh, Senior, Art (Graphic Arts)
“Designing a Logo for a Woodcut Printing Company”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Brad Jessop, Director of School of Fine Arts and Professor, Art

ENGAGEMENT HONORS EXPERIENCES

Nik Razo, Senior, Physics
“Understanding Light Curves of Bright Transients”
Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of Oklahoma (Norman)

Rachel Nicholas, Senior, Business Administration-Management
“Oklahoma Business Week,” Internship
Faculty mentor: Stacey J. Bolin, Director, Wilburn L. Smith Center for Entrepreneurship
and Instructor, Business Administration

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS PROJECTS

Rachel Nicholas, Senior, Business Administration-Management
“Organizational Best Person Fit”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Tom Zeni, Chickasaw Nation Professor of Business Administration
and Assistant Professor, Management

Anna Talkington, Junior, English (Teacher Certification)
"Implementing 21st Century Skills Using Technology in the K-12 Classroom”
Faculty mentor: Debbie Claxton, Instructor, Education

Morgan Hicks, Junior, Business Administration, Managements
“The Compensation System:  Action Research”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Tom Zeni, Chickasaw Nation Professor of Business Administration
and Assistant Professor, Management

HONORS SUPER SHOWCASE

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 3:30 p.m.

ROOM 103

HONORS THESIS

Charlynn Estes, Senior, English and Mass Communication
“ECU from A to Z:  The Connection between Language, The Brain, and Graphic Design
in East Central University’s Honors Publication”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Steve Benton, Associate Professor, English

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS PROJECTS

Chelsi Norris, Junior, Accounting
“Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis”
Faculty mentor: Dr. Jaime Elliott, Instructor, Accounting

Charlotte May, Senior, Nursing
"The Effects of Folic Acid on Preterm Birth"
Faculty mentor: Jennifer Heck, Instructor, Nursing

"Childhood Maltreatment: A Lifelong Experience"
Faculty mentors: Debra Ollila, Instructor of Nursing and
Roberta Mowdy, Instructor, Nursing

Melody Dunn, Junior, Music, Vocal
“The Monodic Revolution and Its Influence”
Faculty mentor: Nathaniel Berman, Assistant Professor, Music

Bethany Ragle, Senior, Biology
“ECU's 2014 Communicable Disease Tabletop Exercise”
Faculty mentors: Dr. Patrick Bohan, Professor, Environmental Health Science

ENGAGEMENT HONORS EXPERIENCE

Sadie Woodruff, Senior, English
“The Role of Museums in Contemporary Culture,”
Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program