Research

Early in their academic careers, Honors students engage in research under the guidance of world-renowned faculty, gaining knowledge and learning professional skills.  Research is integral to an Honors education and graduation with "Latin" honors.

Recent Honors Research topics have included: 

• “Mediation of Lead Using EDTA,” Targeted Drug Delivery with Fuctionalized Liposomes”
  
  
• “Antiviral Properties of Apobec Proteins in Mammals”
  
  
• “A Simulation of the Magnetic Field of the Milky Way”
  
  
• “Trauma Correlates to Emotional Memory”
  
  
• “Analyzing Irish-Gaelic Society through Animal Motifs and Archaeology”
  
  
• “Relations between Early Maternal Responsiveness and Later Language Development”
  
  
• “The 2006 FCC Indecency Rulings and the First Amendment”
  
  
• “A Comparison of Advertising and Public Relations Communications in Affecting Cognitive Processing, Learning, and Attitude Change”
  
  
• “Viral Marketing: A Role in Public Health Communication Campaigns”
  
  
• “Jezebel: A Critical Analysis of African American Female Playwrights Addressing a Stereotype of Women of African Descent”
  
  
• “The CSI Effect: Is TV Swaying Jury Verdicts across America?”
  
  
• “Sustainable Living: Domesticity and Sustainability.”
  

Research topics and opportunities are unlimited.

Honors students find many avenues for creative experiences in their chosen areas of study.  Students may intern at the renowned Guthrie Theater, work on sustainable architecture projects with local firms, research costuming at the Goldstein Gallery, develop projects with local designers, produce film and video projects for the Walter Art Center, learn editing at the Minnesota Press, sing opera in “new spaces”, create dance as social commentary, merge art and technology in a project featuring “glowing, living algae as artistic expression”.

The possibilities are endless.