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2019-2020
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Melissa Alpers-Springer | Kara Jeffers | Weekly Aggregate News Bulletin |
| Dr. Hannah Bolados | Caitlin Cook; Grace McFarland | Español ecuestre: Spanish Language Resources for the Equine Industry |
| Dr. Caroline Boyer; Dr. Timothy Hanrahan | Haley Shepard | The Effect of Preschoolers’ Mindfulness on Their Cognitive and Perceptual Development |
| Dr. Robin Hirsch-Jacobson | Rebecca Engle | New On-Campus Pollinator Garden |
| Dr. Rachel Turney | Hannah Cronin | Bridging Differences--The Woods Mirror |
2018-2019
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Terry Martin | Rosemary Lentz and Makala Cahill | Varied Art Media Match to Perception of Natural Diversity. |
| Professor Jennie Petterson | Anna Johnson | Introductory Guide to Competitive Horse Judging. |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wilson and Dr. Lisa Sitler | Ari Arnold | Exploring the Impact of Pet Therapy and Health Awareness on Student Stress and Anxiety. |
2017-2018
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Anthony Cavaiani | Maggie Olivia | Community Inclusion: Analyzing Democratic Participation and Citizenship in Sports Outreach Programs. |
| Dr. Timothy Hanrahan | Ashlynn Girard | Topic and Participants: Effective Questioning and Deeper Level Thinking in Physical Education, Education, and Human Performance Departments. |
| Prof. Terry Martin | Bennett Zink | Exploring the Gasconade: Studio Art and the Naturalist Experience. |
| Dr. Craig Bruce Smith | Paige Bichsel | The Greatest Man in the World: A Global Perspective on George Washington. |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wilson | Hannah Bland | Exploratory Study Examining the Effects of Social Media Use on College Students. |
2016-2017
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Caroline Boyer | Stephanie Clawson; Daryl Parungao | What Are We Teaching Our Children? The Effects of Parenting Styles. |
| Prof. Terry Martin | Jennifer Martin | Environmental Stewardship. |
| Dr. Stephanie Wells | Rachel Skelton | Works In Feminist Fiction. |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Honorable Faculty Assistance Mention: Prof. George Garner | Jennifer Kurth | Making a Difference Every Day: Snapshots of Social Work in Mid-Missouri. |
2015 - 2016
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa Alpers-Springer, Communication | Melissa D. Williams | Curriculum Development to Accompany Children’s Theatre Productions |
| Dr. Caroline Boyer Ferhat, Psychology | Shelby Hammel | What Are We Teaching our Children?: Preschool Disciplinary Techniques |
| Dr. Matt Dube, English | Jennifer Iffrig | Travel to Fantastic Lands: A Morphology of Inter-Dimensional Travel as Represented in Contemporary Manga, English, and Visual Arts |
| Dr. Stephanie Wells, English | Kristen Bauer and Isabella Long | Rape as Romance: Depictions of Sexual Infringement in Young Adult Literature |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Social Work | Ryan Stocker | Reducing Student Stress: Research and Implementation of Healthy Stress Relief Activities to Increase Mental and Physical Well-Being |
| Cox Research Scholar Dr. Nicholas A. PullenD |
Joan M. Ryan | Comparative efficacy of equine bone marrow derived stem cell culture protocols |
2014 - 2015
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Boyer-Ferhat | Halie Brooks | The Relationship Between Anxiety Levels And College Life |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Katherine Johnson | Understanding Rape Culture Among Freshman College Students: A Follow-Up Study Describing ‘Definition of Consent. |
| Jane Mudd | Sara McCahon | Modern Narratives In The Old Painting Tradition: A Further Investigation Into Techniques Of The Old Masters |
| Jean Kraus | Megan Shahinian | The Further Development of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Modules To Augment Equestrian Studies Instruction |
| Karen Pautz | Ciera Cordero | Equestrian iBook |
2013 - 2014
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Boyer-Ferhat | Sarah McCahon | The Relationship Between Personality Types and Perceptions of Homosexuality |
| Jean Kraus | Joan Ryan | An Exploration or Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and how it could be Utilized to Augment Equestrian Studies Instruction |
| Terry Martin | Meghan Graber | Color Drawing Studio Techniques |
| Joe Potter | Kassaundra Dadidson | Audience Development - Understanding, Attracting, and Cultivating the 21 st Century Theatre Audience |
| Betsy Tutt | Leigh Rice | Writing for an Education Journal |
| Laura H. Ward | Victoria Berlin | Visual Study of the Skeletal Anatomy of the American Saddlebred, Morgan, and other Animated Breeds |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Katherine Johnson | Understanding Rape Culture among High School Students: Exploratory Study Describing Teen's Definition of Consent |
2012 - 2013
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Linda McClaren | Jacque Franco and Julia Needhammer | Developing an Equine Personality and Job Description Matrix |
| Joe Kyger | Lincoln Purvis | Capturing the Cosmos: a Photographic Voyage |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Bethany Osborn | Veterans as a Population At-Risk: Assessing BSW Curriculum Specific to Veteran's Needs |
| Caroline Boyer-Ferhat | Jenny Morris and Alicia DeLaney | The Relationship Between Body Type and Body Language |
| Terry Martin | Erica Begley | Out of the Mouth of the First Fish |
2011 - 2012
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Boyer-Ferhat | Elizabeth Cato | Exploring the Relationship Between Preschool Children's Perceived Cognitive Performance Ratings and their Performance on Measures of Mathematics |
| Robin Hirsch-Jacobson | Allyson Hawkins | Creating a Species Account for the Puerto Rican Screech-Owl, Adding Another Completed Species to the List |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Bethany Osborn | Examining what Knowledge, Skills, Tools, and Resources are Needed to Effectively Serve the Growing Number of Military Families in the State of Missouri |
| Jason Knowles | Lincoln Purvis | Alternative Pedagogies for Cinema Education: Applying Ecological Film Theories to an Advanced Green-Screen Motion Picture |
| Linda McClaren | Stephanie Fisher | Developing an Equine Personality and Job Description Matrix |
| Jean Kraus | Madeline Emme | Developing Problem-Based Learning Programs for Studying Equine First Aid |
2010 - 2011
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Martin | Jessica Bargate | Exploration of Printmaking Techniques and Art Exhibition |
| Linda McClaren | Melissa Smith | Development of an Equine Personality and Job Description Matrix |
| Greg Smith | Chris Norton | Special Visual Effects and the Development of Film Aesthetics, Technology, and Style |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Stephanie Fisher | Dimensions of Psychology and Creativity |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Emily Kline | Assessing Social Work Practice Needs for Effectively Serving Military Families |
2009 - 2010
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Linda McClaren | Alison Gray | The Things Horses Tell Us: Development of an Equine Personality and Job Description Matrix |
| Greg Smith | Aaron Griffin | Lighting Out in the Dark: Manifestations of the Huck Finn Archetype in American Cinema |
| Laura Ward | Kaitlyn Alemain | Complete Saddle Seat Showing Guide for William Woods University |
2008 - 2009
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kyger | Kathryn Golden | Utilizing High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS) with Stable Isotope Analysis to Measure Calcium Absorption in Premature Infants |
| Linda McClaren | Patricia Clark | The Things Horses Tell Us: Preparing Hunters and Jumpers for Competition |
| Greg Smith | Jonna Dick | Working Girls on Film: The Career Woman Archetype in American Cinema |
2007 - 2008
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kyger | Kathryn Golden | Utilizing High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry with Stable Isotope Analysis to Measure Calcium Absorption in Premature Infants |
| Terry Martin | Jennifer Costello Alex Orear | Healing Arts in the Community |
| Linda McClaren | Jessica Billham | Retraining the Problem Horse |
| Jane Mudd | Adam Dresden | Investigation into the Glazing Techniques of Five Master Painters |
| Gary Mullen | Kate Woodard | Implementation of First Special Olympics Equestrian Event for the State of Missouri |
| Karen Pautz | Patricia Clark | Development of Horse Show Association Record-Keeping Software |
| Greg Smith | Nicholas Jenkins | Richard Nixon Is Rosemary's Baby: Subversive Gothic Tropes In Vietnam-Era American Horror Films |
| Mary Spratt | Ashley Miller | Annotating Prokaryotic Genomes: Participation in a Multi-Institution Collaboration |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Jessie Brown | Dimensions of Optimism |
| Stephanie Wells | Tara Boehl | In Its Infancy: The Rhetoric of Adoption |
| Linda McClaren | Jojo Levy | Starting the four year old warm-blood sport horse over fences |
| Terry Martin | Jennifer Costello Alex Orear | Healing Art Workshops and Exhibits |
| Jane Mudd | Meagan Cooper | Fulton Public Mural Project |
| Mary Spratt | Jackie Althauser | Species Variation within the Ehrlichia Bacteria |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Laura Barbarick | Assessment of Personality: Personality, Eating Disorders, and Stress |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Dawson Powell | Assessment of Personality Traits: Optimism-Pessimism |
| Laura Ward | Lauren McMichael | History of the Horse Program at WWU |
| Harriet Yelon | Josh Stephenson | Value of Social Services to the Corporate Bottom Line |
2006 - 2007
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Linda McClaren | Jojo Levy | Starting the Four-Year-Old Warm-Blood Sport Horse over Fences |
| Terry Martin | Jennifer Costello and Alex Orear | Healing Art Workshops and Exhibits |
| Jane Mudd | Meagan Cooper | Fulton Public Mural Project |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Laura Barbarick | Assessment of Personality: Personality, Eating Disorders, and Stress |
| Marilyn VanLeeuwen | Dawson Powell | Assessment of Personality Traits: Optimism-Pessimism |
| Laura Ward | Lauren McMichael | History of the Horse Program at WWU |
| Hariet Yelon | Josh Stephenson | Value of Social Services to the Corporate Bottom Line |
2005 - 2006
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Marylin VanLeeuwen | Laura Barbarick | Personality and Connections to Moods and Emotions |
| Mary Spratt | Amanda Candee | Coinfection of Ticks from Pulaski County with non-Ehrlichial Bacteria |
| Brett Rogers | John Ford II | Experiences of African Americans in the U.S. Navy |
| Linda McClaren | Janelle Kessler | Training a Young Green Horse to Use Software |
| Jane Mudd | Hunter Nesbitt | Late Modernism / Post Modernism |
| Jane Mudd | Anne Stinson | Analysis of Paul Cezanne Produce Paintings |
| Terry Martin | Sarah Williams | Varied Art Media to Express the Natural World |
2004 - 2005
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Mudd | Cara Evans | Interaction and Perception of Color in Various Media and Technique |
| Linda McClaren | Betsy Irvin | Comparative Training Techniques in Show Jumpers Development |
| Terry Martin | Holly Dirnberger | Communicating the Majesty of the Natural World |
| Brett Rogers | John Ford II | African-Americans in WWII: An Oral History |
| Mary Spratt | Amanda Candee | Developing a Real-Time PCR Assay for Ehrlichia bacteria |
| Marilyn Van Leeuwen | Amber Kadera | Understanding Addiction: Personality v. Environment |
| Marilyn Van Leeuwen | Allison Hedges | Art Therapy in Relation to Self-Image and Beauty |
| Mary Spratt | Jillian Lee | Identifying Ehrlichia bacteria carriers in Missouri |
| Terry Martin | Sarah Williams | Communicating the Majesty of the Natural World |
2003 - 2004
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| G. Kremer | Banks, Barbie | Dr. Thompkins of Kansas City |
| J. Mudd | Colbert, Megan | The Nude in Art: Assessment & Analysis |
| M. Spratt | Hilpipre, Virginia | Ehrlichia bacteria in Missouri Tick Populations |
| S. Webb | Holiman, Riki | Molecular Systematics & Taxonomy of Characodon |
| L. Kramer | Nelson, Gretchen | Indigenous Missouri: Sacred Sites and Special Places |
| M. VanLeeuwen | Kadera, Amber | The Role of Personality in Information Processing |
| L. McClaren | Thompson, Megan | Equestrian Website |
| S. Riddick | Van Gundy, Emily | American Women Authors |
| T. Martin | Williams, Sarah | Varied Art Media to Express the Natural World |
2002 - 2003
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Martin | Megan Colbert | Analysis of Media and Perception - An Art Exhibit |
| Shane Webb | Kathleen "Kat" Gettinger | Intraspecific Phylogency of Goodea atripinnis from the High Plateau and Central Mexico |
| Gary Kremer | Nicholas Coleman | The Life and Achievement of an African-American Physician Named William J. Tompkins |
| Robert Sappington | Jacob Itegboje | The Linux Server Environment |
| Mary VanLeeuwen | Donna Delia | Attachment, Copying, and Emotional Intelligence |
2001 - 2002
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Shane Webb | Adam Alter | A Genealogical Study of Populations of Goodea atripinnis of the High Plateau of Mexico |
| Terry Martin | Megan Colbert | Creation of a Multimedia Work Consistent with International Society for Experimental Artist Standards |
| Robert Sappington | Jake Itegboje | Design, Implementation, and Operation of a Functioning Unix Network |
| Gary Kremer | Nicholas Coleman | Collection and Analysis of Historical Information Pertaining to Dr. William J. Tompkins |
| Vrunda Prabhu | Leslie Bendrick | A Study of the Relationships between the Definite Integral, Two Archimedean proofs, and a New Representation using Zeno's Paradoxes |
| Marylin VanLeeuwen | Donna Delia | Relationship Between Attachment Style and Cognitive Ability |
1994 - 2001
| Faculty Mentor | Student Mentee | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| M. Van Leeuwen | Ivana Popovic | The Role of Personality and Stress on Health and Well-Being |
| G. Kremer | Gloria Reagan | African-American Life in the Missouri Ozarks: The Village of Eldridge, 1880-1950 |
| G. Kremer | Evan Orr | The Lake Placid Story: A Study of African American Community Life |
| T. Martin | Katherine Mitten | Family and Friends, Dreamed and Remembered |
| V. Prabhu | Marcus Stucke | Extending Scope of ISTL (Interactive Set Language) to Include Linear Algebra Applications |
| M. Van Leeuwen | Leah Beth Williamson | The Role of Personality and Stress on Health and Well-Being |
| M. Spratt | Rachael Palow | A Study of the Causative Agents of Tularemia and the Ehrlichial Diseases in Infected Ticks from Selected Missouri Counties as Identified by Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| M. Spratt | Katie Miles | An Examination of Selected Species of Ticks in Callaway County and Adjacent Counties for Francisella tularensis as Identified by DNA Amplification |
| M. Van Leeuwen | Michele Stephens | Attachment Styles and Communication via an Electronic Format |
| G. Lampe | Lisa Ferguson | Developing a Manual of Saddle Seat Equitation Workouts |
| Terry Martin | Phyllis Shaw | Illustration and Production of a Digital Manuscript Describing the Growth on an Artist Teacher |
| Vrunda Prabhu | Whitney Mitchell | Julia Sets and Applications |
| Gayle Lampe | Danielle Dodge | Workbook for Riding For Success |
| Marilyn Van Leeuwen | Lindsay Bowman | An Investigation into the Role of Personality Variables in Interpersonal Relationships: An Attachment Perspective |
| Terry Martin | Crystal Bowden | Exhibition Related to Concerns for the Environment |
| Gary Kremer | Amber Hoglin | African-American Community Life in Arrow Rock, Missouri 1879-1940 |
| Mary Spratt | Tammy Lucas | A Pilot Study of TicksIn Callaway County, Missouri, as potential vectors of Francisella tularensis, the causative Agent of Tularemia, as found by PCR |
| Gayle Lampe | Jodie Richardson | Research & Writing Activities Related to a book to be entitled, Riding for Success |
| Gary Kremer | Jennifer Kane | African-American Community Life in Gary Kremer in the Ozarks, 1879-1940 |
| Paul Clervi | Sarah Miley | A Study of Women Sculptors of the Twentieth Century |
| Gary Kremer | Cindy Mackey | Yates |
| Gary Kremer | Cindy Mackey | Women in the Labor Force in Industrializing Missouri |