You are invited to join the Honors College community in exploring the diversity of honors student thesis projects at the 2026 Thesis Fair! There are opportunities to engage both in-person and virtually on Friday, May 29, 2026.
Event Details
Lightning Talk Sessions
Learning Innovation Center 343 and on Zoom
9-10:00 a.m.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Noon-1:00 p.m.
Hear brief presentations from honors students about their thesis projects in the Learning Innovation Center on the OSU Corvallis campus and over Zoom.
Zoom Meeting ID: 926 4413 6202 Password: 243032
The schedule of presenters is listed below.
Poster Displays
Learning Innovation Center Third Floor
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Connect with students at posters displaying their thesis work.
9 a.m. Lightning Talks: LInC 343
In person at the Learning Innovation Center (LINC 343) and via Zoom.
Esha Ahmed
- Thesis: Elucidating the Impact of Metabolic Factors on the Neuroendocrine Control of Reproduction: Responses of Immortalized Kisspeptin Neurons to Hormonal and Metabolic Signals
Hassan Abderahman
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Thesis: Sugar, Sex, and Death: High-sugar diet interacts with reproductive costs to modulate lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster
Harlene Buehler
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Thesis: Identification and Quantification of PFAS from Thermal Degradation of Fluoropolymers
Fakhria Saadat
- Thesis: Membrane and Protein-Protein Interactions of Ferlin C2A-C2B Linkers
Ethan Shingleton
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Thesis: Soaring in the Snow: An Analysis of Observational Systems Required for Autonomous Flight in Polar Regions
Cosette Fowler
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Thesis: Measuring Wellbeing through Sport
Sara Vargas
- Thesis: How Estrogen Signaling Shapes Outcomes in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer
Lilli Ahlers
- Thesis: A Systematic Review of Nutrition and Substance Abuse
Jack Derbenti
- Thesis: The Objectivity of Moral Judgement
Matthew Koteskey
- Thesis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nickel Speciation and Bioavailability in the Northeastern Pacific
10:30 a.m. Lightning Talks: LInC 345
In person at the Learning Innovation Center (LINC 345) and via Zoom.
Finley Taylor
- Thesis: Evaluating the Impact of Shape and Configuration of Porous Networks on Saturated Soils
Natalie Donato
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Thesis: Picture pore-fect: Mapping shark electroreceptor pores with novel methods using photograph-based 3D models
Charlotte Robison
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Thesis: Planning for “The Big One”: Revisiting Recovery Times from the 2013 Oregon Resilience Plan
Kim Tu
- Thesis: Investigating the Effects of Reishi Mushroom Extracts on Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan and Reproduction
Julia Martin
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Thesis: Acting Conscientiously: An Ethical Analysis of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
Sean Counihan
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Thesis: Understory Spider Abundance and Diversity Under Varying Structural Conditions in a Coastal Oregon Forest
Hannah Dempsey
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Thesis: Pointwise Convergence of Solutions to the Linear Schrödinger Equation
Sara Vargas
- Thesis: How Estrogen Signaling Shapes Outcomes in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer
Troy Lopez
- Thesis: Building a Lightweight Security Incident and Event Management Tool for Academic Cyber Defense Competitions
Bodie Fahey
- Thesis: Mining for Sovereignty in Kanaky: Settler-Colonialism, Indigenous Resistance, and the Land Back Movement in New Caledonia
Mason Olander
- Thesis: Interrupting Robot Two: Further Investigation of Proxemics in Social Robotics
Riley Callahan
- Thesis: MYC-Dependent Lipid Profiles
Noon Lightning Talks: LInC 343
In person at the Learning Innovation Center (LINC 343) and via Zoom.
Shawn Durr
- Thesis: A Tale of Two Speakers: How Race Shapes Judgment in Health Messaging
Allison Bisgard
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Thesis: AMR in wastewater
Megan Sykes
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Thesis: They See Me Rollin’, They Hatin’: Disabled Students’ Sense of Belonging in Oregon Higher Education
Lucy Heine
- Thesis: Developing a Photo-Identification Catalog for Broadnose Sevengill Sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) in the Northeast Pacific
Hayden Gosnell
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Thesis: A Tale of Two Purines: Guanosine Imitates Adenosine Stimulation of Immune Cell Activity in Drosophila melanogaster
Nathan Co
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Thesis: Navigating Empathy and Professional Boundaries in Patient/Provider Relationships
Riley Whisler
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Thesis: Conversations with my Grandfather: How Basketball Shaped Life in Off-Reservation Native American Boarding Schools and Rural Native Alaskan Communities
Shengdong Li
- Thesis: Simple, Fast: Falling Leaves
Augustine Schoonveld
- Thesis: Robot Interpreters: The Ethical Implications of Using AI for Medical Interpretation
Cassidy Hayes-McQueen
- Thesis: Spirit & Sound: The Identity, Community, and Culture of the Oregon State University Marching Band
Guilermo Morales
- Thesis: Design and Validation of an XR Reality-Based EMG Training System for Prosthetic
Control Using Head-Mounted Display