Ten University honors students presented their senior honors projects in Scanlon Banquet Hall on December 5 & 6. The following seniors presented their research:
- Sean Bacon (psychology and biology major) – Mental Resilience, Discrimination and Social Support
- Amanda D’Aprix (elementary education and liberal studies major) – Books, Bullying and Bibliotherapy: How the Bibliotherapy Method Applies to Children’s Literature about Bullying
- Steven Ferrara (special education and liberal studies major) – Strategies Used by Successful College Students with Learning Disabilities
- Kaitlyn Hester (elementary education and liberal studies major) – Critical Literacy in the Elementary School Classroom
- Ashley Linnehan (English major) – Promoting Linguistic and Dialectal Diversity in Westfield State University’s Reading and Writing Center
- David Kennedy (English major) – The Witch and the Northman
- Christine Luongo (English major) – Destabilizing Dichotomies: Bisexuality in Young Adult Literature
- Sarah Morgan (history major) – Race and American Public Education
- Kathleen Morris (English major) – Rethinking the Way We Teach: Moving from Standards-Based to Student-Based Education
- Jarrod Petersen (biology major) – An Anatomical and Mechanical Investigation of the Walking Appendages in the Striped Searobin, Prionotus evolans