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 by academic department or by the year of completion Some theses and dissertations are not eligible for open access.
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Browse Honors Program Theses by year of completion:
Submissions from 2006
Learning to Live and Living to Learn: An Exploration of Human Relations in the Classroom, Stephanie Lynn Orth Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Oboe Recital, Dane C. Philipsen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Taxes, and Food Stamps: Their Effects on Minimum Wage Workers by State, Aaron William Popp Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of the Herbicide Atrazine on Human Liver Cells, Erin R. Powell Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cell Cycle Cyclin Expression of Atrazine Treated HepG2 Cells Using Western Blot Analysis, April Dawn Rand Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Effects of Historic Preservation Commissions on Midwest Communities, Jennifer Reep Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Content Analysis of Public Elementary School Library Media Program Websites in the State of Wisconsin, Faye I. Reinhart Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Brief Study of Real-Valued Continuous Functions on Various Spaces, Dusty Ross Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educational Ideas and the Future of Our Society, Mallory Sue Smiens Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Designing Healthy Spaces: Physical and Emotional Response to Color in Built Environments, Megan A. Smith Open Access Honors Program Thesis
LTR Retrotransposon Evolution in Wild Sunflowers, Kaitlin Marie Stimpson Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
TestCASE Tool, John Louis Van Hemert Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Infectious Diseases of the Eye: Loa Loa, Onchocerciasis, & Trachoma, Lindsay N. Wise Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Should Corporate Farming Be Limited In the United States?: An Economic Perspective, Nathan Alan Wittmaack Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Financial Decision-Making by University of Northern Iowa Business Students, Steffany Mae Zabokrtsky Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2005
Personality and individual differences in health-promoting behaviors, Benjamin J. Bristow Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Compilation of homologous cancer-related genes in humans and dogs, Julie Susan Brown Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Psychometric Characteristics of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children in Adolescent Samples, Nicole Carlson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Retail wave: A look into the future of the apparel industry, Sarah Clemens Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Critical Analysis of No Child Left Behind, Kelli Brooke Dostal Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Zaghloul's Music: One Business Plan's Writing Process, Jennifer Lynn Dricken Open Access Honors Program Thesis
African American Breast Cancer Health Disparities, Theresa Lynn Gaul Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors Affecting Judicial Decision Making, Brooke Marie Hansen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Influence of British Culture on the Advance of Modern Architecture in the United Kingdom, Shannon K. Holt Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Conscientious Communities: The Question of the Government Legislation of Morality, Lindsay Nicole Jenkins Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An Analysis of the Effect of a Loser-Pays Rule on the Decisions of an American Litigant, Jaime Leigh Loos Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Seasonal Allergies: An Intertextual Explanation, Nathaniel Abel Nieman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Community Building in the College Classroom: Understanding the Facilitator's Role in Encouraging Community Formation, Joanne Marie Peterson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Economic Argument Against Estate Tax Repeal, Stephen Paul Skram Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Assessing the Potential of Hemisphere-Wide Free Trade, Andrea M. Smiens Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Brothers' Foundings, Bradley M. Strouse Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction: A Review of Literature and National Survey of Urologists, Mark E. Thomsen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Synthesis and Characterization of Membrane Anchored Peptides, Eugenia Christine Tsamis Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Communication in the Accounting Profession, Heidi Beth Weiskircher Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2004
Reflections on the development and implementation of the Camp Iodiseca Biblical day camp, Sara Ann Busch Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Theoretical considerations for geosynchronous, Earth-based gravity wave interferometer, William Griffin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of Neo-Liberalism: A Proposal to Measure Women's Feeling of Safety and Job Satisfaction In Two Garment Factories, Briana Henscheid Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Are parties true to their word? Platform politics in the 1996 election, Catherine Louise Olexa Open Access Honors Program Thesis
