Academics
Phi Beta Kappa > Phi Beta Kappa Senior Thesis Award
The Phi Beta Kappa Senior Thesis Award is presented at the Senior Honors Convocation in recognition of outstanding scholarship, intellectual maturity, originality, and competence in academic skills as evidenced in the senior thesis.
2009 Eder Jaramillo
"Male Identity in Shakespeare's Plays"
2008 Joseph Figliulo*
“What kind of men are these good men?:” inquisition, dissent and society in the Languedoc, 1300-1325
2008 Mithaq Vahedi*
Developing a novel PCR assay to assess telomere length changes in Aspergillus nidulans
2007 David Cantor-Echols
Abbot Suger’s “safe middle:” notions of power and compromise in twelfth-century France
2007 Christopher Shirley*
Queering the machine: a theory of camp
2006 George Gerolimatos*
National socialism: a German revolution?
2006 Katrina Brandis
Modeling Parkinson’s disease: using two yeasts to assess contributions of oxidative stress and α-synuclein aggregation towards cellular toxicity
2005 Loveena Dookhony
The impact of orphanhood on health status and educational attainment of children in Uganda
2004 Nijee Sharma*
Baker’s yeast promotes understanding of α-synuclein’s functional and pathogenic roles
2003 Erica Beth Johnson
In search of the good life: language, education, and ethics
2002 Charles R. Evans*
Chemical vapor sensors for air pollutants based on silica nanoparticle thin films
2002 David S. Smith*
Federal power and Black civil rights: the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
2001 Dimitar S. Antov*
Game theory applied to bargaining in economics: general perspectives and a new mathematical model
2000 Marina Petcherskaia*
Investigation of telomere role by using telomerase template mutants in Tetrahymena themophila
1999 Christine M. Case
Alteration of antibody light chain variable domain (VL) aggregate structure by single amino acid substitutions and the chaperone protein BiP
1999 Yancy R. Dominick*
Learning to fall in love: reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow through Chuang Tzu, Plato, and myself
1998 Tiffani Helberg
A million countless women: a documentary video
1997 Alexey Yuryevich Kaplunov*
The idea of social progress: an examination of the thought of Alexander Herzen and Nicholas Chernyshevsky
1996 Windell H. Oskay*
Experimental progress towards measurement of the angular distribution of resonance fluorescence in Lithium
1995 Heather A. Brummel
Semiempirical study of the Bergman reaction: a computationally efficient and accurate method for modeling the enediyne anticancer antibiotics
1994 Noel Andersen Black*
Understanding difference through paradox: exploring the relationship of language to religious truth in the writings of William James, William Blake, Alan Watts, Thomas Merton, and Jacques Derrida
1993 Roger Sommer
Computational and experimental approaches to the synthesis of polycyclic phosphazanes
1991 Will J. Cronenwett*
Der tod in der dichtung Rainer Maria Rilkes und Hugo von Hofmannsthals
1991 Marcus W. Jurema*
An investigation of the applicability of the PM3 semi-empirical quantum mechanical method to hydrogen bonded systems
1991 Edward C. Wingenbach*
Political philosophy in the development of first century Judaism and Christianity: the traditions concerning Yohanan ben Zakkai and the epistles of Paul as sources for political thought
1990 Kelly Harmon
Mother Jones as “hell-raiser”: the Paint and Cabin Creek strike
1989 Robert Lindenbusch*
The linear array theory of laser emission
1988 Kelly Leonard
Writing to God: Jack Kerouac and his beat generation
1987 María Helena Vélez de Berliner*
Antidependent interdependency within global industries: an alternative path towards the amelioration of dependency in Latin America
1986 R. Bradley Wilson
“We fight, get beat, get up, and fight again.”: Nathanael Greene, strategy, and logistics in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
1985 Philip A. Klinkner*
Illusions of inferiority, chimeras of strength: Reagan administration military policy 1981-1984
1984 Wayne Robert Rohde*
El conflicto de dualidad: la unificatión de la trilogía novelistíca de Ernesto Sábato
1983 Carol Heer
The distressed woman: literary perspectives of femininity in the age of modernism 1890-1930
1982 Judith Owens*
A study of the effects of sodium orthovanadate on Schizophyllum commune
1981 Toni Gilpin*
Left by themselves: a history of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America, 1938-1955
1980 Michelle Matlak Burke*
Thomas Hocclevé, medieval poet and renaissance man: a study of the early fifteenth century in England
1980 Diane Gartner
Translation of Poeta en Nueva York by Federico García Lorca
1979 H. Scott Burgess*
Migration and income disparity: a demographic analysis of internal migration in Canada
1978 Jerah Chadwick
The book of the dead: revised edition
1977 Michael M. Kash*
Helium 23S1 beam production
1976 Barbara Stone*
Six European intellectuals in the trenches of the Great War
1975 John S. Blanchard‡
An investigation into the mechanism of the enzyme monoamine oxidase
1974 Frederic A. Reese*
The apple in the vortex: the natural philosophy of Newton and Descartes
*Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Chapter of Illinois – elected to membership
‡Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Chapter of Illinois – elected to Alumni membership