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 2006
The loathsome and the virtuous: An examination of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White in literature and film, Heather Marie Birk, Department of Philosophy and World Religions, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cooperative and Competitive Games: An Examination of the Effects of Goal Structures on Social Development, Courtney J. Darby, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Senior Voice Recital, Sarah Jo Duvel, School of Music, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Process to Perform, Nicole Suzanne Farley, School of Music, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Asbestos Litigation and Indemnification, Paul Grammens, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Case Studies: Sustainable Design Buildings in Iowa, Ashley Marie Hinz, School of Applied Human Sciences, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Self-Injury: An Analysis of the Behavior, Causes, and Effective Treatments, Lindsey Huyser, Department of Social Work, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The University of Northern Iowa Honors Program and You, Eric Jacobs, Department of Communication and Media, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educating Students to be Better Citizens: Effects of Service-Learning Courses on Civic Attitudes and Engagement, Aubree Rae Johnson, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Moral of the story, Katie Beth Jones, Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Striking Out: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League Failed to Break Gender Barriers, Lindsey Letcher, Department of History, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Turkey's Entrance Into the European Union: Global Implications, Melanie Miller, Department of Management, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Insurance: A Consumer's Perspective, Elizabeth Ann Nanke, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Learning to Live and Living to Learn: An Exploration of Human Relations in the Classroom, Stephanie Lynn Orth, Department of Teaching, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Oboe Recital, Dane C. Philipsen, School of Music, 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, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of the Herbicide Atrazine on Human Liver Cells, Erin R. Powell, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cell Cycle Cyclin Expression of Atrazine Treated HepG2 Cells Using Western Blot Analysis, April Dawn Rand, Department of Biology, 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, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Brief Study of Real-Valued Continuous Functions on Various Spaces, Dusty Ross, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educational Ideas and the Future of Our Society, Mallory Sue Smiens, Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations, 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, Department of Computer Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Infectious Diseases of the Eye: Loa Loa, Onchocerciasis, & Trachoma, Lindsay N. Wise, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Should Corporate Farming Be Limited In the United States?: An Economic Perspective, Nathan Alan Wittmaack, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Financial Decision-Making by University of Northern Iowa Business Students, Steffany Mae Zabokrtsky, Department of Finance, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2005
Personality and individual differences in health-promoting behaviors, Benjamin J. Bristow, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Compilation of homologous cancer-related genes in humans and dogs, Julie Susan Brown, Department of Biology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Psychometric characteristics of the multidimensional anxiety scale for children in adolescent samples, Nicole Carlson, Department of Psychology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Retail wave: A look into the future of the apparel industry, Sarah Clemens, Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Critical Analysis of No Child Left Behind, Kelli Brooke Dostal, Department of Special Education, 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, School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors affecting judicial decision making, Brooke Marie Hansen, Department of Psychology, 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, Department of Political Science, 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, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Seasonal allergies: An intertextual explanation, Nathaniel Abel Nieman, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Community Building in the College Classroom: Understanding the Facilitator's Role in Encouraging Community Formation, Joanne Marie Peterson, Department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Economic Argument Against Estate Tax Repeal, Stephen Paul Skram, Department of Economics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Assessing the Potential of Hemisphere-Wide Free Trade, Andrea M. Smiens, Department of Management, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Brothers' Foundings, Bradley M. Strouse, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction: A Review of Literature and National Survey of Urologists, Mark E. Thomsen, Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Synthesis and Characterization of Membrane Anchored Peptides, Eugenia Christine Tsamis, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Communication in the Accounting Profession, Heidi Beth Weiskircher, Department of Management, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2004
Reflections on the development and implementation of the Camp Iodiseca Biblical day camp, Sara Ann Busch, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Theoretical considerations for geosynchronous, Earth-based gravity wave interferometer, William Griffin, Department of Physics, 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, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Are parties true to their word? Platform politics in the 1996 election, Catherine Louise Olexa, Department of Political Science, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
