The Bethel Honors Program collection dates mostly between 1993 and 2010, with one document from the late 1970s. The collection fills two boxes.

The Development folder holds documentation from the development of the Honors Program, the senior projects, and procedural documents. The Honors Committee Agenda and Minutes and Directors Reports folder date between 1994 and 2005. The H-Tagged Courses refers to the classes tagged as Honors in the curriculum. The Evaluations folder, parts of which are restricted in accordance with FERPA, contains surveys, focus group information, rankings of appliants, and recruitment evaluations. The Programs / Forums folder contains fliers and programs of the forums and presentations of Honors projects.

Individual Honors projects done by students are as follows:

1999 Campbell, Josh - Development of Indirect Immunoflourescent Techniques, for the Identification of Interstitial Cells of Cajal Detlefsen, Susan - Language of God: A Study of Religious Metaphor Ekblad, Joy - Sigrid Undset's Life and Work Finifrock, Lyndi - The Religious Economies of Protestant Christianity Gossett, Rachel - Coding Theory: Because Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do Jacobson, Karen - The Loss of Blessings and Rewards in Hebrews 6:4-6 Kimbell, John - The Incarnational Christology of Hebrews 2:10-18 Kinzel, Laura - Out of Their Minds: The Poet's Shifting Alliance with the Unconscious and Conscious Lindberg, Doug - The Effects of Olestra on Normal Fat Absorption Musel, Samuel - Vaclav Havel: Art Imitating Life Imitating Art... Nystrom, Joanne - A Woman's Quest for Words Olson, Lori - Making a Difference: FOP Education, Research, and Family Support Raisanen, Tessa - Senior Voice Recital Rieke, Kristina Louise - The Logistic Map: An Example of a Dynamical System Which Exhibits Chaotic Behavior Smith, Ryan - Guitar Studies Swanson, Amanda - The Effects of Nerve Growth Factor Concentrations on Neurite Growth Rates

2000 Andreo, Erin - The Center of Mark's Gospel: Peter's Confession of Christ and Jesus' Teaching Concerning the Son of Man Benedict, Abby - The Effects of Impoundment on Water Temperature and BOD in Spring Creek and Taylor Pond, St. Croix Watersheed Research Station, MN Berger, Kendra - An Exploration of Second Language Learning Theory and Application to Classroom Instruction Cuellar, Nate - The Writer at Work Elmer, Monica - Somali Women in the United States: Barriers to the Resettlement of Refugees Engen, JulieAnn - A Practical Guide to Bridging Muslim and Christian Differences Johnson, Krista - The Global-Mindedness of Seniors at Bethel College Johnson, Scot - The Role of Non-Profit Community Development Organizations in Phillips Neighborhood Economic Redevelopment Kolarsky, Heidi - Para-Church Organizations and the Local Church: A Study of Partnership Land, Matthew - Applications and Improvements of a Stabilized Heterodyne Interferometer Peterson, Brian - Analysis of a Flat Tax - H.R. 1040 "Freedom and Fairness Restoration Act of 1999" Rendahl, Aaron - Modeling Diffusion and Drift in Dielectrics Under High-Energy Bombardment and the Resulting Secondary Electron Emission Tannehill, Carie - The Changing Face of Itasca State Park: A Structural Analysis and Micro-level Application

2001 Betzler, Linnea - El papel del etnocentrismo en la vida de Colon por su relato Boswell, Sarah - Current Deposition and Dose Rate Algorithms for Modeling Charge Deposition and Transport Within Dielectrics Under High-Energy Electron Bombardment Busman, Stina - Biblical Feminist Theology: Toward a Methodology Carrao, Elizabeth (Teka) - "Tailoring Rorty" Fast, Andrew - Analysis of the Forster-Andwerker Algorithm for the Automated Sorting of Microneurographic Spikes Hanson, Harrison - Clinical Evaluation of Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET) on Treatment of Chronic Symptomatic Low Back Pain and Factors That Contribute to the Success of the Surgery Jackson, Valerie - Evolutionary Relationships Between Ramalina celastri and Ramalina willei as Determined by Meristem Initials and Branching Patterns Jennings, Amanda - Study of Degradation by Nitric Oxide of Antioxidant-Free Polyurethane Tubing Used in Pacemakers Mayo, Claire - The Cupless Saucer [and other short stories] Ochs, Brian - Shrinkage Measurement of UV-Cured Multifunctional (Meth)acrylate Polymers Sunquist, Nathan - Development of a LabVIEW Virtual Instrument Interface for the SR400 Two Channel Gated Photon Counter / Using the SR400 Instrument Library in LabVIEW Toupin, Shawna - The Jesus Seminar: Social Movement of Religious Reform or Heresy? Trandem, Jhonessa - A Closer Look at Natural Selection: Searching for a New Paradigm Troedson, Sarah - Adam and Christ: An Exegetical Paper on Romans 5:12-21 Yenter, Timothy - The Possibility of Third Way Historicism Walker, Melissa - Cultural Sensitivity in Children's Health Care: Understanding and Meeting Needs of Patients and Their Families

2002 Gabel, Sarah and Johnson, Karin - Drop In Group Medical Appointments: A Solution to Missed Well Child Check-ups? Gray, Alison - Study of the Discoloration and Degradation of Polymers for Use in Biotechnology Applications Kardell, Aaron - A Look into a Deterministic Parallel Automated Reasoning System Kubly, Jenna - Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Krzmarzick, Dan - Stroboscopic Imaging of Periodic Refractive Events Lindquist, Nathan - Undergraduate Studies of Sonoluminescence Nelson, Ingrid - The Effect of a Socially Monogamous Relationship on Pre-weaning Growth in Juvenile Mongolian Gerbils, Meriones unguiculatus Nowachek, Beth - Re-estimating the Taylor Rule Pearson, Erika - El silencio quebrado: la voz latina Peffley, Carrie - Eriugena's One Samp, Talley - Cultural and Gender Differences in Physiological and Expressiveness Responses to Emotionally-Laden Pictures Taylor, Nathaniel - On Significant Soil: A Life Understood Through T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets Van Zee, Matt - This is a Bunch of Junk: A Creative Non-fiction Essay

2003 Allen, Michelle - A Study of Self-disclosure and Preaching Andrews, Kyle - The Use of Mechanical and Biological Prostheses in Heart Valve Replacement Surgery: A Comparison Berry, Amanda; Engen, Brittani; Gerrell, Kelly; Karle, Krisine; Peterson, Alyssa; Troolin, Karry - Patient Flow at Family Medical Center: A Research Study Bjork, Eva - The Olof Eastlund Family and the Nineteenth Century Swedish Immigrant Experience in Minnesota Boswell, Paul - An Investigation of Mechanical and Shape-memory Properties of Various Stearyl Acrylate Copolymers Brandes, Hannah - Identity Crisis: Miss America Redefined or Undefined? Carlson, Kimberly - The Effect of Ripped Fuel on calcium Excretion, Plasma Iron Levels and Other Markers of Metabolic Activity in Mice DeKoning, Carlyn - An Analysis of Intramitochondrial Tubules Found in Untreated and ACTH Treated Rat Adrenal Tissue Fast, Jonathan - Synthetic Approaches for Stearyl Acrylate Copolymers Freeman, Luke - Literature and Revolution: The Early Post Soviet as Seen by David Remnick Hafvenstein, Kirsten - Oriental Medicine and Western Nursing Johnson, Paul - Extensibility to the Extreme Hinton, Holly - Health Savings Accounts: Destined to Change the Realm of Health Care, But in What Ways? Kunnari, Kristine - Osteoporosis and its Treatments Larson, Anna - Guide to International Student Teaching Kirk, Julie - The Continuing Dilemma of Historical Feminine Scrips: Woman Series: A Response Lemke, Bryan - Senior Piano Recital Lindberg, Kirsten - Senior Voice Recital Luhring, Annie - Woman at Birth McMullen, Steven - The Challenge of Poverty in a Changing City: Atlanta 1990 to 2000 Michler, Jeff - The Spectre Hunting Russia: Turgenev and Chernyshevskii's Visions for Nihilism in Russia as Evident in the Conceptualized Reality of Fathers and Sons and What is to be Done? Ochs, Jon - Student Perceptions of BSA: The Bethel Student Association Explored Peffley, Joshua - The Possibilities and Dilemmas of NATO Enlargement: An Alliance for the 21st Century? Peterson, Anne Marie - Philosophy of Teaching English as a Second Language Poe, Shelli - Molinism and Possible Worlds: A Defense of Soft Actualism and Critique of Molinism Price, Jesse - The Impact of Daily Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) Injections on Mouse Weight, Activity, and Testicular Physiology Price, Rachelle - The Cardiovascular Effects of Glycyrrhizinic Acid on Rat Aorta in vitro and Leopard Frog Hearts in vivo Raatikka, Brandon - The 'Middle Position' of English Parliament: Non-partisanship, Neutrality and the America Civil War Rendahl, Matthew - Rationalized Taxation: A Discussion of the British Rational for Taxation of the American Colonies Rieke, Elizabeth A. - Impact of Biodiversity on the Resistance of Verbascum Thapsus and Agropyron Repens Within Abandoned Minnesotan Fields Schock[?], Jered - Liberalism, Religion, and the Public Sphere Schripter, Luke - Horizons of Significance and the Possibility of Self-Creation: A Communitarian Critique of Rorty Sieber, David A. and Reynhout, Dr. James - Electron Microscopic Survey of Zebrafish Embryos with Special Attention on Notochord Development Tri, Eric - Increasing Social Functioning of Special Education High School Students Through Group Cohesion

2004 Anderson, Nicole - "Nine Hundred Seventy-Eight Miles and Two Feet": A Short Story Buck Joe - Distributed Computing in an Educational Environment Van Loon, Joel - An Analysis of the Unfolding Crisis in Darfur and of the Appropriate Response of the International Community Gossett, Nathan - Hidden Surface Removal Using Deferred Rendering

2005 Buol, Justin - Seeking a Canonical Approach to the Eschatology of Isaiah 65 and Revelation 21 Beukhof, Tom - Fractals in Parallel Christopherson, Andene - Marketing the Message: The Effects of Media on an Unsuspecting Peasantry Hainlen, Christina - A Comparison of Surgical and Medical Treatment Options for Endometriosis Associated Pain and Infertility Hilk, Emily - "Designed for Great Exploits": Vocation as a Theme in Samson Agonistes and the Life John Milton Indrelie, Kate - The Critical Approach: Using Literary Theory in the High Schools and Beyond Magnuson, Jordan - Growing Pains: Video Games and the Future of Art Storey, Daniel and King, Daniel - A Novel Technique for the Examination of Protein Folding Using MALDI-tof Thostenson, Kathryn - Augustus' lex Julia Laws: A Program of Moral Reform Weber, Reed - Interferometric Pressure Measurements in the Ping Pong Cannon Wurtz, CAllie - Visualizing Combinatorial Proofs

2006 Borst, Erin - Business Ethics Crosby, Elizabeth - Perinatal Transmission of HIV Einerson, Brett - Sequence and Expression of the FGF-10 Gene in Xenopus Laevis Fuller, Janelle and Van Zee Maggie - Literacy: From Dependence to Independence Johnson, Natalie - Surfactant Protein B and Surfactant Protein C Characterization and Expression Kroeker, Faith - The United States Policy Toward Africa: An Ideological Criticism Lucas, Joshua - Economics and Presidential Elections Nelson, Galen - Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer: Use as a Screen for Angiogenesis Inhibitors Targeting VEGF Receptor 2 Patton, Katie - Un Analisis de la Teoria de Dependencia Rogers, Caleb - The Effect of Nicotine on the Force and Frequency of Rat Uterine Contractions Voelker, Kathryn L. - Allerseelen: Performance and Analysis Wolfe, Melissa - [Senior Honors Project]

2007 Becker, William - Is the Faith of Silentio's Knight Anticipation for an Outcome or Commitment to God? Carlson, Bradley Evan - Temperature and Desiccation Effects on Antipredator Behavior in Centruroides Vittatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) Dalberg, Briana - Literacy Across the Curriculum: Identifying and Correcting the Issues of Literacy Instruction at Every Level Fast, Bethany - The Controlled Release of Dexamethasone from Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) Acid Microspheres Fisher, Matthew - Taking a Proper Look at the Things Close to You: Collaborative Suspension of Disbelief in the Anime-World Harvey, Celeste D. - Collective Responsibility and Jurgen Habermas' Discourse Theory: How Discursive Democracy Implies Collective Responsibility Jaeger, Sarah - HR Can Change the World: Human Resource Management Policies and Expatriation Jones, Laura - Peer Conferencing in the Middle School Writing Classroom: How it Can be Used Effectively Kirkwood, Kelly J. - Moessner's Magic Maus, David - Beyond Suppression and Co-option: Finding a More Constructive Role for Islam in the Political Development of Central Asia Morris, Amy - Beauty Queens in Combat Boots: Hyperfeminizing the Female War Hero Olson, Gustaf A. - Characterization of a CO2 Laser to be Used in Frequency Stabilization Patton, Cara - Progressive Cooperation: A Foreign Aid Methology for Global Public Health Stringham, Noel - A History of the People's City Mission of Lincoln, Nebraska Tommerdahl, Paul - Where Are the Men? And How Do We Reach Them? Schwendinger, Jamie (Ed.) - A Woman's Guide to Christianity

2008-2009 Weavers, Paul - Toward Stabilization of a 637nm Diode Laser to Molecular Iodine Carlson, Gwen - The Effects of a Diet High in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (Omega-6 and Omega-3) on Rat Swimming Performance Dickmeyer, David - A Study in Historical Interpretation: 20th Century Perspectives of the Terror Dooley, Samantha - Combating the Plasmodium Parasite: The Biology and Anti-malarial Treatment and its Social Impact Dunn, Trevor - Searching for a Neural Basis of Mindfulness Kriby, Cassandra LaMae - Elder Abuse: A Review Kirkwood, Kristin - Marketing in a Recession Tschetter, Joshua; Rognrud, Christopher; and Kaster, Mike - Butane Alkylation Process Design

2010 Boycott, Julie - The Lovelady Center: An Option for Women Dahlman, Kaari - By Blood and Ink: Understanding the Use of Arthur in Medieval Latin Chronicle Dunrud, Laura - Nature Versus the Net Evelsizer, Andrew - The Contractile Effects of Caulophyllum Thalictroides (Blue Cohosh) on Rattus Norvegicus Aortic and Intestinal Smooth Muscle In Vitro Fosso, Brandon - General Relativity: Field Equations and Applications Iskierka, Danielle - Nonprofit Marketing: Learning Through Research Application Johnson, Jeremiah - Xenopus Laevis ABCA3 Gene Sequence and Expression in Lung Development Kan, Carolyn - Exploring Single-Pixel Hyperspectral Detection and Discrimination Larson, Peter - Laser Linewidth Studies Manns, Allyson - Using Curriculum to Care in the Classroom Peffley, Eric - [Senior Music Recital] Smith, Evelyn - Let the Play Begin: Bringing Four Years of Theory to Life on Stage Wearda, Kaitlin - Optimal Management of Mandibular Subcondylar Fractures: A Retrospective Review of Open and Closed Treaments Methods Werner, Kimperly - "For the Better Increase of Her Faith": Women's Education the English Reformation Towle, Michelle Irene - Learning by Doing