Senior Presentations
One of the most anticipated days of the year in the Templeton Honors College is our "Senior Presentations Day," during which graduating Templeton seniors share their research theses and projects with the rest of the college. It's a wonderful celebration of learning concluding with a reception in honor of our graduating seniors.
2025 brought us presentations on the following, among many others:
* "The Development of a Silver Nanoparticle-Based Sensor for Selective Detection of Dopamine"
* "The Art of Choral Arrangement"
* "Light Curves and Analyses of the Eclipsing Overcontact Binaries V1386 Tau, V2822 Ori, and V673 Peg"
* "The Cult of Saints and the Pagan Dead"
* "Hospitality: Grieving through Music"
* "From Roots to Action: The Spiritual Dimensions of Poverty and Policy"
* "Mother Wants a Lipstick: The False Leisure of Susan Pevensie"
* "Where is Thy Sting? Teaching Our Children to Face Death"
* "Machine Learning Predictor for Tennis Point-Deuce Matches"
* "I Will Take Comfort Here: Reflections on Home, Place, Environment, and Family"
* "The Art Temple and its Lapsed Believers"
* "Singing for the Dying: Experiences Bringing Music to Echo Hospice Patients"
The variety of presentations demonstrates the breadth of Templeton students and the diversity among the majors they pursue outside of the Honors College. We love having this breadth within the Honors College, and wish each of our seniors the very best as they strike out into the next phase of their well-lived ordinary lives!