The Honors Program provides a mentored pathway through the curriculum designed to help students develop skills in creative inquiry, pursue advanced topics within and across disciplines in great depth, and master complex analytical and research skills. The honors curriculum begins with Honors Seminars and Tutorials designed for first- and second-year students to introduce them to the skills of creative inquiry across disciplines. The honors curriculum culminates in an honors independent research or creative project under the mentorship of a faculty member in the student’s area of academic interest. Students are provided guidance and assistance not only from faculty mentors, but also from a vibrant community of fellow honors scholars as they develop and complete their honors independent projects.
Honors Projects are submitted to Digital Commons @ OWU by the conclusion of the spring semester.
Submissions from 2023
A Study of Safe Haven Baby Laws in the United States: One Life Saved or Too Many Unknowns to Evaluate?, Kolby Brock
Camera Traps Reveal Two Novel Predators of Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) Nests but Limited Support for the Nest Concealment Hypothesis, Josephina Fornara
The Modern Relationship Between Music and Political Preferences, Teresa Martin
The Safavid Merger: Sufism, Popular Islam, and the Rise of the Safavids, Sam Miller
Using Genetic Testing in Order to Improve Retention Rates in Youth Sports, Madison Nelson
Peasants and the Powerful: Peasant Socio-Economic Organization in Early Medieval Iberia 400-1000 CE, Drake Ogden
Modern LGBTQ+ Representation in Transiciones and My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Haley Pero-Favazzo
The Perennial March: Britain's Road to Afghanistan, Cole Peterson
How Global Urban Food Systems Can Combat Climate Change and Environmental Racism, Simultaneously: A Case Study, Eliza Richardson
Pharmacogenetics of Efavirenz and Neuropsychiatric Side Effects in Asian Populations, Navami Shenoy
Submissions from 2022
Brahma and the Problem of Popularity, Grant Cayton
Impact of COVID-19 on Occupational Therapy Service Delivery in Public Schools, Amanda Ciccone
Let's Talk About Social Justice, Anna Fender