Applied Science

In its Honors Program the Department of Applied Science awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The project listed below has been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2019-2020

Heather Baier, "Learning about Learning with Deep Learning: Satellite Estimates of School Test Scores" (Honors)
Daniel Runfola + Anthony Stefanidis, Eric Walter
Angelica Lin, "Sizes of Self-Assembled Spider Silk Nanofibrils" (Honors)
Hannes C. Schniepp + Christopher Del Negro, Margaret Saha

2018-19

Benjamin Lazarus, "Controlled Hierarchical Biomaterial Utilizing Diatom Nanostructure"
Hannes Schniepp + Jonathan Frey, Walker Smith

2017-18

Chloe Walsh, "Self-Assembly of Native Spider Silk Protein Shows Nanofibril Formation" (Honors)
Hannes Schniepp + Elizabeth Harbron, Myriam Cotten

2016-17

No Honors students this year

2015-16

No Honors students this year

2014-15

Pei Pang, "Investigation of the Interaction Between Graphene Oxide and a Biopolymer Surface" (Honors)
Hannes Schniepp + David Kranbuehl and John Poutsma
Jeffrey Yen-Ting Liu, "Modeling the Effect of Cooperative Binding on Ligand-driven Fluctuations in Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors" (Honors)
Gregory Smith + Leah Shaw and Drew LaMar

2007-2014

No Honors students this year

2006-07

Chris Tignanelli
Greg Smith + Mark Hinders and Sebastian Schrieber