EOU Honors Program Alumni 2004-2005

 

Lisa Alder

Academic Project 1: Sue: An Example of Language Success (Kerri Wenger)
Academic Project 2: Research into the Attitudes of Professional Educators Concerning ESOL Students (Jan Dinsmore)
Academic Project 3: Censorship Issues in the Language Arts Classroom (Kerri Wenger)
Community Service Learning Project: Organization Experience: Washington County Youth 4-H Program (Becky Settlage) Campus Leadership Project: Exploring Quality Children's Literature: What Future Teachers Should Be Looking For (Kerri Wenger)

 

Andi Aliko

Academic Project 1: Production of an Audio/Video Live Stream (Rick Kovacic)
Academic Project 2: An In-Depth Look at the Pinhole Camera (Mel Buffington)
Academic Project 3: Displaying Images - The Outer Frame (Mel Buffington)
Community Service Learning Project: Alternative Spring Break (Jeffrie Kingsley)
Campus Leadership Project: International Cornerstone Student Helper (Elizabeth Boretz)

 

Patricia Hansen

Academic Project 1: Investigation of the Santiago de Compostella and the Theories of St. James (Leandro Espinosa)
Academic Project 2: Creation of a Cabinet of Wonder Focusing on Miniatures (Mark Shadle)
Academic Project 3: The Literature of Jazz (Mark Shadle)
Community Service Learning Project: Direction of a Christmas Program at Union Baptist Church (Dan Mielke)
Campus Leadership Project: Haunted Hoke Halloween Happening (Jeff Dunbar)

 

Hillary Jensen

Academic Project 1: Research on Reading Fluency (Carol Lauritzen)
Academic Project 2: An Investigation of Children's Literature that Promote Kindness and Caring (Carol Lauritzen)
Academic Project 3: The Efficacy of Reading to Newborns (Ginny Holt)
Community Service Learning Project: Outreach to New Parents on the Importance of Reading (Ginny Holt)
Campus Leadership Project: Vice-President of the Mountain Valley Reading Council (Carol Lauritzen)

 

Deirdre Kambasha

Academic Project 1: Directing and Producing a Television Show on Methamphetamine (Michael O'Connor)
Academic Project 2: Business Plan and Implementation of a Music Production Company: Pinnacle Music Productions (Ted Atkinson)
Academic Project 3: Completion of Two Honors Courses, PHIL 102 and HUM 346 (Jeff Johnson and Regina Braker)
Community Service Learning Project: Creation of the World Passport Program (Fred Van Slyke)
Campus Leadership Project: Starting a Black Student Association, "FLAVOR" (Aristotle Thompson)

 

Eden Krueger

Academic Project 1: Creation of a Manuscript of Prose Poems (Jodi Varon)
Academic Project 2: The Anthropology of Tourism in Hawai'i (Linda Jerofke)
Academic Project 3: Pidgin English Poetry (Linda Jerofke)
Community Service Learning Project: EOU Folklore Project (George Venn)
Campus Leadership Project: Rebirth of Ars Poetica (David Axelrod)

 

Brenda Lukehart

Academic Project 1: Keeping Track: Investigating Teachers' Interactions with Caucasian and Hispanic Students in Three Elementary Classrooms (Jan Dinsmore)
Academic Project 2: Researching and Implementing Art Lessons at the Elementary Level (Jan Dinsmore)
Academic Project 3: Building Better Readers, Fostering Emergent Readers (Jan Dinsmore)
Community Service Learning Project: Revising Assembly of God Sunday School Curriculum with Constructivist Teaching Strategies (Jo Honey)
Campus Leadership Project: "Spring Symposium 101": A Short Course for Pre-service Teachers at EOU Branch Campuses (Jan Dinsmore)

 

Tammara Mahler

Academic Project 1: Maria: A Puerto Rican Immigrant's Education, Family, and Language (Kerri Wenger)
Academic Project 2: Research into the Attitudes of Professional Educators Concerning ESOL Students (Jan Dinsmore)
Academic Project 3: The Language Acquisition Hypotheses and Theories of Stephen Krashen (Kerri Wenger)
Community Service Learning Project: Teen Women's Youth Group Leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Brad Barlow)
Campus Leadership Project: Summer Tutor in Writing: Assisting Pre-CUESTE Students at a Rural Branch Campus with Expository Writing (Kerri Wenger)

 

Nicole Mizuta

Academic Project 1: Ernesto's Story: A Case Study about His Bilingualism (Kerri Wenger)
Academic Project 2: Investigating Begins With the Quote, " Their parents don't care about them or their education" referring to the Hispanic culture (Jan Dinsmore)
Academic Project 3: Multicultural Educational Views from James Banks and Sonia Nieto Perspective and How We as Teachers can Become More Aware of other Cultures (Jan Dinsmore)
Community Service Learning Project: Exploring Another Culture's Sport and Helping the Ore-Ida Judo Club (Jan Dinsmore)
Campus Leadership Component: Spring Symposium 101 for Upcoming Students (Jan Dinsmore and Kerri Wenger)

 

Keiko Odashiro

Academic Project 1: Testimony as a Tool of the Feminization of the Wor(l)d (Jill Gibian)
Academic Project 2: Women Living Near Military Bases in Pacific Islands (Rosemary Powers)
Academic Project 3: Peacemaking Through Peace Education: The Empowerment of Children with Learning Disabilities through the Teaching of a Foreign Language (Ruth Davenport)
Community Service Learning Project: Assistant to Special Education Classes, La Grande Public School District (Kathleen Walker)
Campus Leadership Project: Peace Through Japanese, Russian and Korean (Regina Braker)

 

Michelle Smietana

Academic Project 1: An Exploration of the Compatibility between Judicial Review and Democracy (Jeff Johnson)
Academic Project 2: The United Nations and the 21st Century (Jeff Dense)
Academic Project 3: Sports and Marxism (Alex Steenstra)
Community Service Learning Project: Service as a Mentor in the Native American Adolescent Mentorship Program (NAAMP) (Jacqueline Grant)
Campus Leadership Project: Hoke Center Renovation (Jeff Dunbar)

 

Rhonda L. Smith

Academic Project 1: An Investigation of Prison Conditions that Prevent Rehabilitation (Rosemary Powers)
Academic Project 2: An Application of Macrosociological Perspectives to Microsociology in a Particular Setting (Rosemary Powers)
Academic Project 3: An Investigation of Stigmatization within the Criminal Justice System through an Understanding of the Symbolic-Interactionist Paradigm (Bill Grigsby)
Community Service Learning Project: Service as a Mentor in the Native American Adolescent Mentorship Program (NAAMP) (Jacqueline Grant)
Campus Leadership Project: Reorganization of the Alliance for Social Change Club (Bill Grigsby)