Honor Scholar Program at DePauw University

05/17/2025

05/01/2025

Happy College Decision Day to our newest Honor Scholars, the Class of 2029!! 🦉📚— Hoot-Hoot! We’ll see you soon!

05/01/2025

Hazel writes: “My research argues that TikTok extends the tension between Hollywood studios and the audience regarding creative control over film releases and associated media texts. TikTok edits show an intriguing clash between organic excitement for a media release and corporate strategies that capitalize on the audience’s online behaviors.” 🦉📚

04/24/2025

Knole writes: “Knole’s research explores how 21st-century presidential crisis rhetoric shapes public perceptions of democratic leadership by analyzing key speeches and media responses through a mixed-methods approach combining rhetorical theory, textual analysis, and reception data.” 📚🦉

04/17/2025

Olivia writes: “This project discusses the common mental health struggles of elite athletes and analyzes how sport-specific factors have a hand in negative mental well-being. The effects are widespread, affecting all elite athletes and tying a negative consequence to sports participation. But, by practicing Epictetus’ philosophy and approach to emotional management, athletes can ease their struggles and reap the physical and mental rewards of organized sports without suffering the negative mental consequences.”📚🦉

04/10/2025

Jacob writes: “My thesis is on how the norms set up by international organizations failed to create an effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic.” 📚🦉

04/03/2025

Alex writes: “My thesis explores different fates of the universe from the perspective of both physics and philosophy. Using modern evidence in physics, I explain some likely fates of the universe including the “Big Chill” and “Big Crunch” and then explore what they might mean for life, scientific theory, and religious beliefs.” 📚🦉

03/27/2025

Sarah writes: “In my thesis, I am critically examining the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, which are widely considered to be the foundational documents of international refugee law. By analyzing the legal text’s historical context, limitations, and biases, I raise questions about its relevance in the modern global governance system. Ultimately, my thesis serves as a starting point for discussion on how to best reform the current legal framework for global refugee protection.” 📚🦉

03/20/2025

Alec writes: “My project is about vaccine hesitancy, and I will be surveying the directors of the immunization departments of each state to understand what they did during the COVID pandemic to increase vaccine uptake.” 📚🦉

03/13/2025

Callie writes: “I am examining and comparing variables that contribute to the level of sports medicine care of humans and horses.” 🦉📚

03/12/2025

Time change got you feeling ‘meh?’ Scoot over to Prevo Study at 4:00 pm for Tea & Cookies! 🦉📚

03/07/2025

Honor Scholars! Come out and support fellow HoScho Ava Rennard ‘ 26 today (Friday, March 7th) at 4pm in the UB Living Room for the second International Women’s Day Student Panel! Rumor has it there will be Crumbl cookies and lemonade, too!