Graduate Student Research
A collection of Graduate Student Research by students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Where loyalties lie: A study of workplace dissent through the lens of loyalty, Katelyn L. Santy Open Access Thesis 2014 Award
Effects of isolated work environments on software engineering metrics collection, Christian A. Schreiner Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Teachers' perceptions of professional development for the use of interactive white boards in Turkey, Erkan Taskin Open Access Dissertation
Queering the coming out narrative, Sarah Jean Taylor Thesis (UNI Access Only)
A master's recital in double bass, Dmitriy Vasilistov Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Behind the mask: An analysis of women's perceptions and rationale toward the purchase and use of anti-aging products, Clair Maureen Williams Open Access Thesis
Habitat usage, movement patterns, and home range size of wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) in a suburban habitat, Jessica Williams Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The design and evaluation of a small size wind-solar hybrid power system, Bekir Zihni Yuksek Dissertation (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
A Novel Method of Studying Ion Formation and Fragmentation Using a Modified Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, David S. Ames Open Access Thesis
Graduate Recital in Viola, Mariia Bogodist Open Access Thesis
Before Words, There Were Leaves: A Collection of Poems, Jason Bradford Open Access Thesis
A Wave Frozen in Bone and Flesh, Tiffany L. Bullen Open Access Thesis
Correlation between Science Process Skills Proficiency in Pre-service Elementary Teachers and Academic Achievement, Laura Witt Dawson Open Access Thesis
Limited assessment of a selected particulate matter sensor technology in emission measurement applications on diesel vehicles, Svetlana Korotkova Espinosa Open Access Dissertation
Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama, Megan M. Gallagher Open Access Thesis 2013 Award
Strategic communication in women's rights organizations: Tools, challenges and best practices, Anastasia Kalinina Open Access Thesis 2013 Award
Early avian colonization in a prairie biofuel project, James T. Mason Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Increasing the Accuracy of Protein Three-Dimensional Structure Comparison, Mauricio J. Arriagada-Benitez Open Access Thesis
Examining the Use of Collocations in Natural Language Processing, Patrick Anthony Burke Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A Master's Recital in Viola, Amy Beekhuizen Open Access Thesis
Kurt Vonnegut, Authorship and the Purpose of Literature: A Study of Kilgore Trout, Danielle M. Benesh Open Access Thesis
Investigating the Use of Ranking Tasks to Improve Student Conceptual Understanding in an Introductory High School Physics Course, Matthew Joseph Harding Open Access Thesis
The effects of planting methods and granivory on seedling emergence in a tallgrass prairie reconstruction, Justin Vernon Huisman Open Access Thesis
Creating salsa, claiming salsa: Identity, location, and authenticity in global popular music, William Guthrie LeGrand Open Access Thesis 2011 Award
Improving the Instruction and Learning of Topographic Maps through the Use of Geospatial Technologies, Troy Dean Schwemm Open Access Thesis
Conflicting identities and ideologies: A rhetorical analysis of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II, Kaori Yamada Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Pollution Swapping: The Effect of Phosphorus Sequestration on Denitrification in Wetland Sediments, Nathaniel Femi Adegboyega Open Access Thesis
Master of Music Degree Recital, Bonnie Eve Alger Open Access Thesis
A Master's Recital in Percussion, Matthew M. Andreini Open Access Thesis
A Motor Speech Programming Investigation Using Inhibition: Part I, Jeffrey Thomas Backlin Open Access Thesis
Identifying Communication Skills Necessary for Two-Year College Graduates to Succeed in the Changing and Competitive Workplace, Sarah R. Baker Open Access Thesis
Baseball as Family: Successful High School Coaches’ Perceptions on Effective Communication, Aaron Barber Open Access Thesis
Positions of Power, Abjection and Constraint: Evaluating Discursive Attempts to Save an Other, Ruth Janet Beerman Open Access Thesis
A Phylogeographic Analysis of Fiddler Crabs, Uca longisignalis and U. pugnax, Cydney Brooks Open Access Thesis
Resistance to and Virulence of Fusarium verticillioides, Tracy Lynn Bruns Open Access Thesis
Captivating emotions: Sentiment and the work of rhetorical drag in colonial and early national captivity narrative, Gleidson Gouveia Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
The effects of varying seeding rates of Bouteloua curtipendula and mowing on native plant establishment in a new prairie reconstruction, Ryan Leon Welch Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Mother-Daughter Communication and Media Influence on Self-Esteem and Body Image, Tori Austin Open Access Thesis
Comparing the Effects of Sung versus Spoken Lyrics on Speech and Language Acquisition in Late-Talking Toddlers, Chelsea Ki Sook Clock Bell Open Access Thesis
Academic Success: A Qualitative Case Study of Student Perspectives, Heather Marie Bentley Open Access Thesis
Graduate Recital in Voice, Mark Bjorklund Open Access Thesis
Graduate Recital in Flute: Works by C.P.E. Bach, Widor, Messiaen, and Prokofiev, Breta Lorraine Borstad Open Access Thesis
Give ‘Em Hill: The Fighter Persona in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, Rebecca Diane Buel Open Access Thesis
Evaluating Earth Science Misconceptions in One School Districts: A Case Study, Katherine Marie Schafer Open Access Thesis
The Reflective Science Educator, Caroline Anne Scheidel Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Bomb Media 1951-1964, Tristan Edward Abbott Open Access Thesis
The Environmental Implications of Aggradation in Major Braided Rivers at Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, Scott Robert Beason Open Access Thesis
The Use of AFLP to Create a Genetic Linkage Map for Fusarium graminearum, Eric Von Berns Open Access Thesis
Effects of Identity on Public-Organization Relationships: A Case Study of Student-University Relations, Nadezhda Olegovna Bocharova Open Access Thesis
Master's Recital in Voice, Sarah Martha Brindley Open Access Thesis
Jazz Pedagogy and the Guitar: Recital Recording, Tony Brown Open Access Thesis
Significance of the general public for public relations: A study of the blogosphere's impact on the October 2006 Edelman/Wal-Mart crisis, Sergei Golitsinski Open Access Thesis 2009 Award
Quantifying granivory in a reconstructed prairie: affects of season, species, seed predators, sacrificial food, and the chemical deterrent capsaicin, Craig M. Hemsath Open Access Thesis
Succession of an Iowa sand prairie into an adjoining old-field, Susan Jill Kirt Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
A Graduate Recital in Voice, Celeste Lea Bembry Open Access Thesis
Graduate Recital in Voice, Nicole Birkland Open Access Thesis
Up Wau Hollow and Other Stories, Deborah J. Bloom Open Access Thesis
An Exploration in Exhibit Design, Maria A. Buteler Tillard Open Access Thesis
Adding species diversity to a reconstructed prairie using an incremental approach, Amy L. Carolan Open Access Thesis
Biomonitoring organochlorine and cholinesterase inhibiting insecticide in eastern Iowa streams, Matthew Thomas Fisher Open Access Thesis 2007 Award
George Frideric Handel's St. John Passion, Boe Tanner Hodnefield Open Access Thesis
Biotechnology Education in the State of Iowa: A Survey of Teachers and Factors Affecting Inclusion, Jason Allen Lang Open Access Thesis
Student Attendance and Its Relationship to Student Achievement in an Earth Science Class, Gregory Lee Schafer Open Access Thesis
Direction of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen: Theatre UNI, Spring Semester 2004, Megan E. Schumacher Open Access Thesis
Voicing women's resistance within religious studies: An interrogation of rational choice theory, Anne E. Tedore Open Access Thesis 2008 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Modeling and simulation to investigate effects of static mixer, carrier gas, temperature and pressure on the mixing ratio of carbon nanotubes growth reactors, David Addie Noye Open Access Dissertation
"Second-class families": Media portrayal of adoption in America, Jennifer Ellen Struve Open Access Thesis 2006 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Master's Flute Recital, Kylie Kay Anderson Open Access Thesis
An Overview of a Jazz Recital and Related Pedagogy, Duncan William Bamsey Open Access Thesis
An Investigation of the Instrument Selection Processes Used by Directors of Beginning Bands, Dale Edward Bazan Open Access Thesis
Modeling and measuring the dispersion of odors from hog confinements, François Béra Open Access Thesis 2005 Award
Modeling and Measuring the Dispersion of Odors from Hog Confinements, François Béra Open Access Thesis
A Master’s Recital in Cello, Suzanne Bullard Open Access Thesis
The Learning Garden: A Case Study, Laurie Ann Kellogg Hayzlett Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Memorization of Piano Music: Instrumental Sub-Context Alteration within the Same Room among Community College Students, William Wayne Backlin Open Access Thesis
Costume design for Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scot, Theatre UNI, Spring Semester, 2003, Carmelita Tyson Guse Open Access Thesis
Recent Jewish immigrants' communication in Postville, Iowa: A case study, Anna I. Levina Open Access Thesis
The Effects of Student Manipulated Lewis Structure Models on Chemistry Achievement According to Cognitive Level, Kimberly M. Ross Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Organophosphorous insecticide contamination in streams: Insects as bioindicators, Brian M. Andersen Open Access Thesis 2003 Award
Monitoring of prairie bushclover (Lespedeza leptostachya) in south-central Iowa, Paul J. Bockenstedt Open Access Thesis
Piagetian Developmental Reasoning Levels of High School Students in Differentiated First Year Chemistry Courses, Pamela Kay Brewer-Michael Open Access Thesis
Prints and Installations: Clinical Essence, Karla Kaye Burkhardt Oler Open Access Thesis
Strategies Against Architecture, B. Justin Sanhueza Campoy Open Access Thesis
The use of AFLP to detect genetic differentiation within and among populations of two prairie plant species: Panicum virgatum and Coreopsis palmata, Christopher Andrew Hilker Open Access Thesis
Identifying and Comparing Misconceptions Held by American and Russian University Students in Mechanics, Alexandra Sokolova Open Access Thesis
A Study of the Validation of the Constructive Inquiry Science Reasoning Skills Test, Matthew John Stier Open Access Thesis
Emergence and mortality of native prairie forbs seeded into an established stand of grasses, Dave Williams Open Access Thesis
Emergence and mortality of native prairie forbs seeded into an established stand of grasses, Dave Williams Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Migration and cultural identity: Performing the Afro-Caribbean woman's struggle, Elvinet Samantha Wilson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Graduate Recital in Voice, Korey Barrett Open Access Thesis
Real Women in an Unreal World, Angela Brommel Open Access Thesis
Master's Flute Recital, Kathleen Anne Cameron Open Access Thesis
The effect of valproic acid on motility and morphometry parameters, and actin and N-cadherin distribution in avian neural crest cells, Leah Christine Fuller Open Access Thesis 2002 Award
Teaching Effectiveness in an Introductory High School Honors Physics Course as Measured by the Force Concept Inventory, April Crawford Moore Open Access Thesis
Germination, emergence, and early growth of Spartina pectinata, Wade Herold Williams Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Role of Intercultural Communication in Conflict Resolution between African Immigrants and Their U.S.-Born Children, Aje-Ori Anna Agbese Open Access Thesis
Master's Oboe Recital, Terri Smith Armfield Open Access Thesis
Inner Presence, Amy L. Bailey Open Access Thesis
A Structure-Model for the Hamlet-Tradition, Christopher Scott Chiron Open Access Thesis
Photodecomposition of crystal violet dye in water solution and suspensions of metal oxides, Tatiana Yurievna Zakharian Open Access Thesis 2001 Award
