Honors Program Theses
The University Honors Program is an intellectually stimulating and socially nurturing community of students of exceptional academic achievement. Every honors student has the opportunity to complete undergraduate research during their time at UNI by writing a thesis. Students work with faculty members in their major or area of interest to develop and conduct a study during either their Junior or Senior year. To go to the Honors Program page, click here.
From this page, you can browse our Honors Program Theses. To filter by department, use the Advanced Search function. Some theses and dissertations are not eligible for open access.
Submissions from 2009
Telos: An Interactive Platform for Broadcast Management, Andrew L. Knight, Department of Communication and Media, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cedar Rapids Flood of 2008: Manmade or Statistical Anomaly?, Beth Kolsrud, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Ambigrams: The Art and the Math, Callie Kronlage, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Assessing the Potential Habitat Value of Biomass Production Fields for Grassland Birds, Mandy Larson, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A light unto our path: Toward a mutual understanding of fundamentalist Christianity and science, Kassidy K. Lyons, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Does Race Affect the Salaries of NFL Players?, Joshua Patrick Mahoney, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Reading Is for Girls: Examining Gender Differences in Reading Attitudes, Molly Jo McAllister, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Personal Financial Knowledge of College Students, Adam Moehn, Department of Finance, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Senior Year Plus Program in Iowa, Andrew Q. Morse Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Elevated Homocysteine on the Expression of Cadherins 6B, 7, and 11 in Migrating Neural Crest Cells of Chick Embryos, Chelsea L. Reinhard, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Women's Labor Markets in Costa Rica, Kelsey Rinehart, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Managing Generational Diversity in the 21st Century, Matthew Joshua Rohden, Department of Management, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Timecourse Analysis of the Effect of Atrazine on Human HepG2 Cells, Erin M. Schrunk, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Our aliens: How does a criminal become human?, Leah Marie Short Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Attention and memory in young and middle-aged adults, Emily Sorensen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Relationship Between Employment and Alcohol Consumption Among College Students, Justin Michael Sprung, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Comparing Single Member District Plurality and Proportional Representation in the Next Eleven Countries, Maggie McMahon Stehn, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Financial Fiasco: What Started It and How Long Will It Last?, Jodi Sweeney, Department of Finance, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly and Long-Term Care Insurance as a Viable Option for Today's Elderly, Brenda Joan Turnis, Department of Social Work, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
What's up with Fiddler Crabs: Does Larval Dispersal Render Genetic Similarity in the Disjunct Distribution of Uca minax (Uca: Ocypodidae)?, Alexa Warwick, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Powerful and powerless speech styles in employment mock interviews, Amanda M. Wilson, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Administration Oversight: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform During Recent Presidential Administrations, Chantel Witt, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2008
The effects of nanoscale disorder on the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition in melt-spun gadolinium and gadolinium iron alloys, Justin Gary Bohnet Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Myth and Reality of Prom: A Qualitative Examination of the American High School Prom Experience, Sarah C. Brandt, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Depictions of Male-Male Sexual Activities in Ancient Greece As Expressed Through Visual Imagery: Aspects of Roles, Abigail Bristow, Department of Art, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Adam Smith and Consumerism's Role in Happiness: Modern Society Reexamined, Michael Busch, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Formulation of an ultra-violet curable, soy-based, organic pigment screen printing ink, Jenna L. Cherry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Militarization Versus Democratization: A Case Study of Pakistan and India's Divergent Political Paths Since Independence, Zenab Afzal Chowdhry, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Risk Classification and Ratemaking in Insurance, Erin Conrad, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Entrepreneurship in Action: Top Hat Chimney Services, Amy Suzanne Coombs, Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Honors Program Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
What Role Should Subsidies Play for Microfinance Institutions, Emily Anne Cormaney, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Female hysteria across cultures and periods in American literature, Jessica Daine Droogsma Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Directing Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches of Teaching, Emily Eisenman, Department of Communication and Media, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The tax gap: America's underreported revenues, Jennifer Granzow, Department of Accounting, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Study of Harmony and Form in J. S. Bach's Sonata in G Minor for Solo Violin BWV 1001, Rebecca Leigh Homard, School of Music, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A New Design for the Hudson Community School District's Website, Shannon Michelle Horn Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Gender on Health Care Policy in the State Legislature, Ashley Wilson Huth, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Application of Blast-Based Techniques For Musical Information Retrieval, Fedor Aleksandrovich Korsakov, Department of Computer Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Convergence of IFRS and U.S. GAAP: Implications on the public accounting profession, Linsey Dee Lain, Department of Accounting, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
School finance reform in Iowa: Where to turn for improvements in equity?, Darcy Kathleen Lane Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
A sociological assessment of the dental health of Latino children in Des Moines, Iowa, Esperanza Pintor Martinez, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Analysis of echoic properties in vocalizations of a preverbal child on the autistic spectrum, Sarah A. McConnell, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Who Should Own the Air?: A Closer Look at Smoking Bans, Stacy McMullen, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Iowa caucuses: Effects of presidential campaigns on state politicians, Amy Kathleen Meyers, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Biracial Filipino Americans In Society, Neal Andrew Molitor Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Microcredit in Developing Countries: Evaluating Programs for Poverty Alleviation, Kelly Sue Nessa, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cell Cycle Analysis of Atrazine-Treated Human Cells, Daniel Pelzer, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Leap From Playing to Performing: Representing the Composer and Performer in Classical Music Performance, Rachel A. Price, School of Music, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Religious pluralism: The evangelical Christian response, Matthew F. Rittgers, Department of Philosophy and World Religions, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Social politics and freedom: Incorporating civil society into Arendt's political thought, Grant J. Rozeboom Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An American's Guide to Cultural Brokering, Jessica Anna Sauer, Department of Social Work, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Two Types of Recovery on the Decline In Performance After Intense Bouts of Exercise, Whitney Shindelar, School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Fundamental Region on Two Copies of the Hyperbolic Plane, Alyssa Jesse Soenksen, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Integrating music into math classroom: Implications for educators, Rebecca Thayer, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Carpe noctum, Mark Andrew Turnage Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Case of Social Responsibility: An Ideal of Objectivity, Sara Van Hemert, Department of Communication and Media, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Research Mentors' Perspectives on Scientist-Teacher Partnerships, Andrea Van Waardhuizen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Fundamental Stock Market Analysis Tool, Rakshith Varadaraju, Department of Computer Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Debian Clusters for Education and Research: The Missing Manual, Kristina Wanous, Department of Computer Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
UNI elementary education majors' beliefs toward mathematics education, David Frederick Wirtz, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Birthrate and Population Density as Predictors of Quality of Life, Jessica M. Young, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2007
Cell Cycle Analysis of Atrazine-Treated Human Fibroblast Cells Using Flow Cytometry, Andrea L. Austin, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educational Programs in Correctional Facilities: Are They Worth the Cost?, Adam Robert Baggett, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mon Voyage: Paris Through My Eyes, Kristyn Ann Beckman, Department of Art, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics and Spanish: A Comparative Approach of Teaching Methods, Emily R. Borcherding, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Homocysteine on Neural Crest Cells, N-cadherin, and its Binding Partners, Kacie Rae Callaway, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Post Holocaust Theodicies: Contemporary Solutions to the Problem of Evil, Wei-erh Chen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Financial Planning Tools for a UNI Graduate, Scott Ivan Cochran, Department of Accounting, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Academic Advising: Differences Between Freshmen and Sophomores, Abby L. Cochren Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Sound Spectral Analysis of UNI Carillon Bells, Kimberly Cordray, Department of Physics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Everybody's Doing It But Me: Comparing Pluralistic Ignorance Across Behaviors, Katherine S. Corker, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Considering the Consequence of Class: Cross-Class Relationships in Nineteenth Century British Novels, Julie Christine Crow Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Lights Up! On Teaching Hints for Novice Theatre Educators, Chelsea Cunningham, Department of Theatre, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Free Clinics of Iowa: An Inside Look at an Alternate Route to Healthcare, Laura DeBoer, Department of Health, Recreation, and Community Services, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Repeat After Me: The Use of Errorless Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom, Mark Adam Foster, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Crippling America, Health Care Fraud Incentives, Colby Goetsch, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Critical Examination of Love, Marriage, and Society in Late 19th Century Aristocratic Russia As Seen Through Works of Tolstoy and Chekov, Bridget Lynn Gongol Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Young Adults and Health Insurance Coverage: A Description of Trends, Christina Lynn Hansen, School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Interior Design for the Classroom, Jessica Hellmann, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An Analysis of the Triple Goddess: Images of Persephone, Kali, and Nephthys, Kimberly Elaine Holladay Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Meeting the Interests of Adolescent Females in Physical Education, Sarah Marie Huffer, School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Thomas Jefferson's Biographers: Historiography and Sally Hemings, Courtney Ihde, Department of History, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Private Rates of Return to Undergraduate Education by Major, Nick Johnson, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Sarbanes-Oxley - From Idea to Implementation: A Look at the Impact on Public Companies, Stephanie Lynn Johnson, Department of Accounting, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Academic and Social Self-Efficacy in Honors and Non-Honors University Students, Carmen Marie Krapfl, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Quartz Grain Surface Textures as Indicators of Infilling Processes and Depositional Environments Associated With Ice-Wedge Casts in Northeast Iowa, Michael Loux, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Sense of Place: An Analysis of the Role of Environmental Factors in Presidential Speeches, Timothy Michael McCue, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Język: Attitudes Toward Language in Poland, Angela Ott, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Assessment of Key Parameters to Achieve Bacteria Transformability in E. coli and A. tumefaciens, Zach Regelin, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The History and Evolution of Traditions and Norms in the Appointment of Federal Judges, Dustin Wray Rook, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics Education: An International Perspective, Lisa Roose, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Microbiological Enhancement of Phosphorus Sequestration in Iron-Enriched Sediments, Lindsay Marie Sandersfeld, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
On the Effect of Cranial Deformation in Determining Age From Ectocranial Suture Closure: A Test of the Meindl and Lovejoy Method, Ingrid L-A Sensor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Father-Son Bonding: The Influence of Paternal Relationships on College Males' Sexual Behavior and Values, Erica L. Spies Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Poverty Reduction: An Evaluation of Micro Finance and Foreign Aid, Wade Summers, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Producing a Short Film, John Wiedenheft, Department of Communication and Media, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
St. Peter Canisius and the Youth: Jesuit Educators in Counterreformation Germany, Kendra Anne Willey, Department of History, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Conceptualization of Mental Illness Held by North-Eastern Iowa Legislators, Jennifer J. Younie, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2006
The Effects of divorce on children and interventions for all members of the family unit, Laurie Arieux, Department of Social Work, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Identity Theft: Who's in Your Wallet? A Look at Urban Legends and Consumers' Greatest Risks, Amber Sue Beenken, Department of Accounting, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
