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Join Senior Honors Students as they share their senior projects!
Honor Project Presentations are in the Visual Arts Building, Room 102
Presentations are typically Friday's in March, April, and May from 3:00 pm - 4:30.
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ALAYNA SWAINEY
ALAYNA SWAINEY
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Project Title: Women on the Autism
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About Alayna
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class(es)!
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AMANDA HANG
AMANDA HANG
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Project Title: Bridging Beliefs: A Documentary on Shamanism's Role in Hmong Culture
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About Amanda
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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BRIELLE PETERSON
BRIELLE PETERSON
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Project Title: Growing Together: Helping Children Understand Pregnancy Through Story and Illustration
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Queer history has often been overlooked or hidden, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in various communities and institutions. Given that relationships now often reinterpreted through a queer lens have been highly prevalent in homosocial spaces like women’s colleges and convents, it is very possible that St. Kate’s is an environment where queer identities, bonds, and viewpoints have been able to flourish. The goal of this project is to explore how St. Catherine University’s intersecting identities as a Catholic, women’s, and social justice oriented institution have shaped the attitudes of its students, staff, faculty, and administration about LGBTQ+ issues and identities. Further, it aims to illuminate how having a queer identity impacted the experiences of students and to reevaluate the relationships that women at St. Kate’s engaged in, recognizing historical norms around acceptable women’s relationships but also uncovering examples now perceived as instances of queerness. This project primarily involves archival research utilizing materials from the St. Catherine University archives, which is supported by the reading of secondary sources to give historical contexts to the stories being revealed and motivate new research angles. It culminates in a digital exhibit that allows community members to engage with archival resources that illustrate the queer history of St. Kate’s from its founding to the present. Preliminary work suggests that the Catholic identity of the university played a large role in its official viewpoints, often to the detriment of public acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities, though relationships that can be read as queer in the current day have been present, if hidden, over a long period in spite of this. Goals to empower women with minority identities and commitments to social justice have driven St. Kate’s to be increasingly more inclusive over time, though there is still room to grow.
About Brielle
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
After graduation?
CAROL DANG
CAROL DANG
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Project Title: The Burden of Belonging: Navigating Filial Piety and Cultural Dissonance
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About Carol
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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ELLA TRACY
ELLA TRACY
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Project Title: Transit and Highways in the Twin Cities
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About Ella
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors classes!
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HEJARA MOHAMMED
HEJARA MOHAMMED
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Project Title: Sunflowers After the Sun
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About Hejara
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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JORDAN ALBERTS
JORDAN ALBERTS
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Project Title: Modern Medical Illustrations
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About Jordan
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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JULIA SCHMITT-MISCHKE
JULIA SCHMITT-MISCHKE
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Project Title: Power in Numbers: Understanding Unions
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About Julia
Why St. Kate's?
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KHILA GAMBRELL
KHILA GAMBRELL
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Project Title: Alice Reimagined: How "Are You Alice" and "Alice in Borderland" Transform Wonderland's Legacy
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About Khila
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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KYLA BOHR
KYLA BOHR
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Project Title: A Practical Guide to Nutrition for Female Reproductive Wellness: Evidence-Based Recipes for Managing Women’s Health Conditions
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About Kyla
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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LANEY SCHWARTZ
LANEY SCHWARTZ
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Project Title: An Exploration of Women and Crafts in the Arts
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About Emma
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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LILLIAN JONES
LILLIAN JONES
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Project Title: School District Lines - The Lines Between Homes and Racial Covenants
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About Lillian
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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MAEVE KELLY
MAEVE KELLY
Majors: Psychology
Hometown: St. Paul, MN
Project Title: Better Together: Illustrating A Picture Book For Kids About Symbiosis
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About Maeve's
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Favorite honors class!
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MC NIENOW
MC NIENOW
Majors: Business Administration, Marketing
Minors: Japanese Studies
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Project Title: Guardians of Tradition: The Evolution of Japanese Castles from Practical Fortresses to Cultural Symbols.
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NATALIE CHANDLER
NATALIE CHANDLER
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"Knowledge of how to use medicinal plants has been cultivated by Native and Indigenous peoples for centuries, but many people today have never been exposed to this information or struggle to find it. There is a wide variety of medicinal plants across the globe, contrasting opinions about their use and effectiveness, and unclear information that often doesn’t follow through from what a plant can be used for to finding that particular plant or exactly how to use it. Often, once a search for a remedy reveals an appropriate plant, that plant is not native/common in the person’s area. This means using that medicinal plant can be expensive and unsustainable, especially if it is from a distant location which requires importing the plant or purchasing pre-processed plant-based products. Many sources for medicinal plant use do not include sourcing or evidence for their information, which is crucial to giving context and credibility to the plants’ uses, regardless of whether it is from traditional or research-based evidence.
This booklet aims to be a reliable source for finding evidence-based information on the use and context for medicinal plants. It also includes a geographical-specific component: plants discussed in this booklet are native to or commonly found in the Midwest. Anyone in the region should be able to find them within a few hours of their home! This book considers both traditional and modern medicinal practices collaboratively. This way, any individual can rely on the information for bettering their health without needing to choose between traditional practices or western ones. "
About Natalie
Why St. Kate's?
I thought I wanted to go to a larger school, but St. Kate’s popped up on my college application site so I went on a tour and it felt like where I was meant to go! I love the green, open spaces on campus and how many opportunities for learning there are right in the St. Kate’s area.
Favorite honors classes!
I loved getting to know sisters from the Carondelet center and telling their stories through our projects in the Honors Aging class. I also really enjoyed being able to dive deeper into the history of hispanic/latinx culture and how history has led to current affairs in the Hispanic/Latinx Immigrant Literature honors class.
After graduation?
After graduation, I hope to work in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit and continue growing my nursing skills. I then hope to go to further schooling to become a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist). I will also be spending my spare time with my friends, family and plants, of course!
OLIVIA STEVEMER
OLIVIA STEVEMER
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Project Title: Toppling the Ivory Tower: Increasing the Accessibility of Politically Relevant Academic Sources
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RACHEL DELONG
RACHEL DELONG
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Project Title: Nudibranch Narratives: Ecological Storytelling Through Microbial Art
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About Rachel
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RHAYA MERRICK
RHAYA MERRICK
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Project Title: Stepping into Service: Redesigning A Nursing Clinical Rotation to Support Homeless Populations and Student Growth
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About Rhaya
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors classes!
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SOFIA "FIA" VANDERLAN
SOFIA "FIA" VANDERLAN
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Project Title: Adik Odoodemokwewag: The Women of the Caribou Clan
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Favorite honors class!
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SOPHI CAHALAN
SOPHI CAHALAN
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Project Title: A Father Half-Known but Fully Loved
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About Sophi
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Favorite honors class!
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TAYLOR TAKEUCHI
TAYLOR TAKEUCHI
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Project Title: "One Team, One Dream: Equal Pay for All" The United States Women's National Soccer Team fight for Equal Pay and Equality
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About Luul
Why St. Kate's?
Favorite honors class!
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VICTORIA LO
VICTORIA LO
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Project Title: Folktales, Fairytales, and Stories of the Hmong People
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About Victoria
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KATHRYN LEWIS
KATHRYN LEWIS
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