Honors Journal: Spring 2008

The papers in the Honors Journal reflect the research and writing efforts of undergraduate students at the time the papers were submitted to the journal. Web links within the papers were active at the time of publication, but they are not updated.

This issue of the Honors Journal was edited by Laura Gandy '08 and Alice McLean, Honors Postdoctoral Fellow.

Table of Contents
Honors 2007 Summer Research Papers

The Actor, the Advocate, and their Words: A Study of Drama and Rhetoric in Ancient Rome
By Mary Dance '08

A Computational Chemistry Study of Eumelanin Monomers
By Jessica Dawn Echols '09

Frankly Frankish: The Development of Law and Society in Merovingian Gaul
By Audrey Hogan '09

Tall Meadow Rue on Sweet Briar's Campus: Differences Between Males and Females
By Doreen McVeigh '09

Masks of Madness: Contextualizing Euripides' Bacchae
By Emma Meador '09

Uncovering Morality
By Michelle Sanchez '08

Energy Gaps Between Cyclobutene and Butadiene for Both Excited and Ground States
By Laurel Sanders '08