Southwestern University: King Creativity Fund

King Creativity Scholars

2012-2013 King Scholars

Southwestern Commuting and Vehicle Usage Reduction Study “Pirate Ride”

Jesse Chiu
Advisor: Jim Kilfoyle
Bubble Display

Eric Oden
Advisor: Steve Alexander
Low Cost EcoDome

Kelsey Abel, Nathan Balke, and Chandler Johnson
Advisor: Steve Alexander
Polypavement Sand Sculpture

Ellen Hinds
Advisor: Steve Alexander
Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Vicente Estrada-Carpenter and Robert Lehr
Advisor: Steve Alexander
The Fine Line: Painting as Objects or Objects as Paintings?

Rebecca Gordon
Advisor: Victoria Star Varner
Where’s Waldo

Amir Ardjomand Hessabi, Bryony McLaughlin, and Chancellor Clark
Advisors: Walter Potter and Anne Hines

Bach and the Baroque Violin

Marie Smith
Advisor: Eri Lee Lam
Thermoacoustic Generator

Karl Kleinsasser and Caroline Weston
Advisor: Steve Alexander
Strongholds of Insecurity

Tess Outlaw
Advisor: Mary Visser
SU Splash: Students Becoming Teachers

Sara Goodman, Kavita Singh, Cori Gagliardi, Chris Gilbert, Elizabeth Grenadier, Morgan Gribble, Robert Lehr, and Jeanne Wehde
Advisor: Stephen Marble
An Artistic Expression of Particle Physics Through 3D Modeling

Curran Johnston
Advisor: Steve Alexander
Arts Festival 2013

Stacie Glowka
Advisor: Bruce Cain
AIDS Through Music

Phillip Wozny, Winston Myers, Rachel DeLong, Michelle Moses, and Stinson Seuser
Advisor: Fumiko Futamura

2011-2012 King Scholars

Interdisciplinary Craft as Art Exhibition

Emily Manning, Andja Budincich, and Mary Alyson Atkins
Sponsor: Elizabeth Green Musselman, Professor of History
Instruments for Unequal Temperament

Stinson Seuser and Laura Brackney
Sponsor: Bill O’Brien, Associate Professor of Physics
Programming Poetry: The Art of Adaptation and the Adaptation of Art

Stephen Brown and Addison Dean
Sponsor: Suzanne Fox Buchele, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Project NEF-Hope, Nuclear Energy Future - Halt Oil and Petroleum Energy

Evan Firth and Vincente Estrada-Carpenter
Sponsor: Steven Alexander, Professor of Physics
Automated Microorganism Detector

Marisol Frausto-Martinez, Eric Godat, Tran Le, Jessilyn Massey, and Heather Petty
Sponsor: Gerald Wade, Coordinator of Science Facilities and Equipment

Construction of a Solar Concentrator to Work in Tandem with a Passive Thermal Battery

Eric Godat
Sponsor: Steven Alexander, Professor of Physics
Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

Karl Kleinsasser
Sponsor: Steven Alexander, Professor of Physics
The REM Dreamer as an Aid in Lucid Dream Induction

Joseph Kyle
Sponsor: Jesse Purdy, Professor of Psychology
Mural for Environmental Studies Lounge in Mood Bridwell Hall

Kira McEntire
Sponsor: Patrick Veerkamp, Professor of Art
SU Splash: Students Becoming Teachers

Kavita Singh, Jacob Brown, and Elizabeth Grenadier
Sponsor: Julie Cowley, Associate Vice President for Academic Administration

2010-2011 King Scholars

Through the Webs of Haussmann

Christine M. Harris
Sponsor: Victoria Star Varner, Professor of Art
SUTV: Film Training & Community

Matthew Hall
Faculty Advisor: Paul Sicard
Attitudes Toward Creativity in Artificial Intelligences: Interactions Between Humans and Artificial Intelligences

Matt Daughtry
Sponsor: Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus
Improvisation Across Mediums

Zac Carr, Phillip Wozyny, Audrey Olena, Stenson Seuser, Kyle Hermes, Ethan Banner, Riley Webb, Trey Thiele, Robet Frost, Chris Weihert, Matt Cragg, Kelly Lawrence, Garrett Cathey, Katelyn Watkins, Kadidiatou Magassa, Aly, Taly, Kirby Crone, Christine Harris, Jessie Cragg
Faculty Advisor: Rick Roemer
Automated Microorganism Detector

Will Hardy, Marisol Frausto-Martinez, Jessilyn Massey and Heather Petty
Sponsor: Gerald Wade, Coordinator of Science Facilities and Equipment
Steven Alexander, Associate Professor of Physics
Sustainability in the Theatre

Kira D. McEntire
Sponsor: John Ore, Professor of Theatre

Chimpanzee See; Chimpanzee Do: A Study of Social Learning and Handedness

Morgan E. Mingle
Sponsor: Steven Schapiro, Professor of Psychology
Shakespeare Out of the Box: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Andrea M. Neal
Sponsor: Michael Saenger, Associate Professor of English
Using Sound to Desalinate Water

Thomas R. Newman
Sponsor: Steven Alexander, Associate Professor of Physics
Gerald Wade, Coordinator of Science Facilities and Equipment
Electric Cello

Natalie I. Phillips-Perkoff, Will J. Hardy
Sponsor: Gerald Wade, Coordinator of Science Facilities and Equipment
Lois Ferrari, Professor of Music
The Fourth Annual Arts Festival

Natalie I. Phillips-Perkoff, Anne M. Fenley
Sponsor: Jason Hoogerhyde, Associate Professor of Music
Bruce A. Cain, Associate Professor of Music
Film Music and Its Effects on the Cultural Perception of Western Music

Andrea L. Plybon
Sponsor: Lois Ferrari, Professor of Music

2009-2010 King Scholars

Senior physics major wins prize for his creativity

Pelham Keahey is the first recipient of a new prize sponsored by the King Creativity Fund
Insect Macrophotography: Portraiture as a Presence

Carlos Barron
Faculty Advisor: Mary Visser and Catherine Urban
Snakes, Snails, and Yuppy Naturalist Tails: A video documentary of the response to biological invasion in Texas and Florida

Matt Trawick, Brandon O’Conner, Olivia Stanzer, Jessilyn Massey, Allyson Plantz, and Ryan Saurage
Faculty Advisor: Romi Burks

From Noses to Computers: Reshaping the Perfuming Business

Christy Bell and Ben Lake
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Steven Alexander
Black and White Judgment: Exploring the Gray in the Death Penalty Racial Biases

Joshua Bruner
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael Saenger

2008-2009 King Scholars

A Confederacy of Dunces

Adaption By Adam Carter, Jeremy Delgado, Lindsey Knapton, Daniel Farrar and Mitchell Hampton
The Infinite Chaotic Arcade Machine

By Duncan Alexander and Lane Hill
Amplifying SU Radio’s Capabilities

Kaitlyn Dennis, Brooke Lyssy and Vickie Valadez
An Untapped, yet Viable Energy Alternative: Solar Chimneys

Chris Elliott
Spectres: A Play in Two Acts

By Jessica Espinoza

Inequalities in Education: What are we teaching our children?

By Casey Grier
Physics Ensemble: An Audio Visual Experience

By Pelham Keahey and Will Hardy
Arts Festival

By Natalie Moore
This is Your Life on Music: a musical collaboration program

By Andrea Plybon and Katherine Mead

2007-2008 King Scholars

Basic Instinct: The Hunt for “Pinata Colobus”

By Dominique Bertrand
Women Dou Hui Shuo Zhongwen! Educational Video Curriculum for Beginning Students of Chinese

By Emily Brandt
Creation of a Student-Run Internet Radio Station

By Kaitlyn Dennis, Brooke Lyssy, Andrea Plybon and Katy Siciliano
An Extensible Computer Game for Interactive Language Learning (and Other Areas)

By Stephen Foster, Tommy Rogers, Carl West, Anna Prather, Stephanie Taylor, Claire McAdams, Heather Lesieur, Emily Gutzmer, Bobby Potter, Whitney Johnson, Matthew Scott, Jonathan McBride and Kyle Strine
A Play in a Day: The 24-Hour Theatre Project

By Matthew Harper
Efficient, Low-Cost Solar Water Heaters

By Pelham Keahey

Thermal Solar Powered Refrigerator

By Melanie Loop
Building Bridges: Discussing the Realities of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Andrew Mayo and Martin Stanberry
Southwestern University: Arts Festival sponsored by Delta Omicron

By Natalie Moore and Mary Kierst
“Worms, Worms Everywhere!” Regenerative Capabilities of Lumbriculus variegatus

By Emily Schmidt
Consumption and Waste: Reflections through Food

By Jaymie Teakell

2006-2007 King Scholars

Cracking the Cola Code

by Christy Bell
Faculty Sponsor: Steven Alexander
As Seen on TV - Theatre for Social Justice Racism in Local Area High Schools

Leia Crawford and Lindsey Smith
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Kathleen Juhl
Unmentionables: An Exploration Into the Forms and Functions of Victorian Corsetry and Underpinnings

Elizabeth Huysman
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Kerry Bechtel
The Creation, Publication, and Performance of Works of Music

Travis Jeffords
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jason Hoogerhyde
Economical Solar Water Heater

Pelham Keahey
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Steven Alexander

Objectification of Women

Brad Mathis
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Bob Bednar
Beautiful Binaries - A Paradox of Perception

April Mosher
Faculty Sponsor: Mary Visser
The Effects of Limited Sleep on Cognitive Self-Regulation

Sally Redden, Shelly Tang, Leigh Mingle
Faculty Sponsor: Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus
I Am A Real Shark!

Delia Shelton, Heather Decker and Leah Christian
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jesse Purdy