Students with a high academic record entering their senior year—above a 3.5 GPA—can pursue Honors by completing significant or original work in their major. These projects are some of the finest work Ursinus students have completed, often leading to work in graduate school or by future Ursinus students. Students who complete a project of remarkable discipline and originality can earn Distinguished Honors.
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
The Use of Organic Reagents in Inorganic Analysis, With Applications to Qualitative Tests for Certain Metallic Ions, Wallace S. Brey Jr.
The Effects of Deficiencies of Copper, Iron and Zinc Upon Untreated and Rootone Treated Rye and Alfalfa, Archer P. Crosley Jr.
A Study of the Hydrolysis of p-Bromoacetanilide, Franklyn Miller
Quantitative Effects of Rootone on Stem and Root Growth in Zea Mays and the Effect of Nutrient Salts on the Same, Roy Wenhold
The Effects of the Deficiencies of Boron, Phosphorus, and Manganese as Correlated With the Use of a Growth-Substance, Nathaniel Winkelman Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
A Discussion of Multicolor Stains, Bryce C. Cochran
Fetal Ossification and Staining in the Chick Embryo, Felix E. Karpinski Jr.
A Discussion of Sulfanilamide and Related Compounds, E. Curtis Leuallen
Artificial Parthenogenesis in Rana Pipiens, Frank A. Lippi Jr.
The Economic and Physiological Significance of the Effect of Rootone on Dutch White Clover, Mary Alice Lord
The Iron Horse: A General Survey of the Railroad Problem, Harry L. Showalter
Theses/Dissertations from 1940
Artificial Parthenogenesis in Rana Pipiens, Richard V. Frohner
The Effect of pH on Intensities of Histological Staining of Picric Acid, Acid Fuchsin, as Ordinates and Coordinates, Irvin M. Gerson
Sex-Linkage in Drosophila Melanogaster with Mention of Mutation Factors, D. Wilkins Kirkpatrick
Spectroscopic and Quantitative Determination of Platinum, John W. Manning III
Reflex Action in the Earthworm, as a Typical Example of the Annelids, Morris L. Yoder Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1939
The Determination, Analysis, or Assay of Sodium Nitrite, William Ellenbogen
The Relationship of Auximones and Phototropic Responses to Plant Growth, H. Eugene Hile Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1938
The Federal Reserve System and its Relation to Monetary Conditions in the United States: A Study of the Banking System of the United States, Gertrude F. Goldberg
Some Aspects of the Physiology of the Nephron, Christian Elwood Moser
A Study of the Organic Dye Nitrazine as an Indicator for Acid-Base Titration, Grace Nachod
Present Day Concepts of the Gene with Special Reference to the Salivary Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, Lola S. Reed
Regeneration Experiments with Planaria Maculata, Frank J. Tornetta
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
A Consideration of the Cobalt Complexes, Jack Maloney
Theses/Dissertations from 1936
Nervous System of Felis Domestica, Rachel Creighton McAvoy
Theses/Dissertations from 1935
Chemical and Physical Considerations of Carbohydrates, Flora Cooke
The Grignard Reagents: Their Preparation, Flora Cooke
The Food We Have Never Seen, Walter S. Price
Theses/Dissertations from 1934
Potentiometric Titration, S. Lillian Kern
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
The Genesis of Tetanus and Characteristic Features of a Single Muscular Contraction, Clarence S. Livingood
Theses/Dissertations from 1931
A Study of Intersexuality as Exhibited in Animal Forms, Ida V. Jaggard
A Problem in Railroad Consolidation, Stanley Omwake
Theses/Dissertations from 1930
The Determination of Hydrogen Ion Concentration by the Electrometric Method, Evelyn Matthews Cook
Theses/Dissertations from 1929
The Endocrine Glands, Mary Gordon Rule
Theses/Dissertations from 1923
Methods in Determinative Minerology, Ruth Hespenheide
Theses/Dissertations from 1921
Localization of the Motor Area in the Brain, Marian Josephine Xander
Theses/Dissertations from 1920
Volumetric Chemical Analysis, Beatrice Brooks
Quantitative Analysis (Gravimetric), L. Arthur Walton
Theses/Dissertations from 1919
Non-Nitrogenous Foods, Edna M. Boyd
The Chemistry of Nitrogenous Food Stuffs, Emma M. Schweigert
Theses/Dissertations from 1916
The Chemistry of Selected Food Stuffs and Condiments, Leslie F. Rutledge
Theses/Dissertations from 1914
Portland Cement, Asphalts and Bitumens, George R. Ensminger
Theses/Dissertations from 1913
The Detection of Poisons, Lloyd S. Cassel
Gravimetric Analysis, Walter M. Lauer
The Chemical Analysis of Potable Waters, Ellwood Paisley
Theses/Dissertations from 1912
Select Methods in Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Florence Ada Brooks
Theses/Dissertations from 1909
Chemical Analysis of Foods and Their Adulterants: Being an Investigation Into the Nature, Relative Value and More Common Forms of Adulterations of Certain Foods, William Samuel Long
