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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Submissions from 2010
Creating Units For Second Grade Learners of English as a Foreign Language, Laura Elizabeth Messerly Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Structure Elucidation of a Glycosylated Benzyl Ester of Salicylic Acid from the North American Prairie Plant Oligoneuron rigidum, Sarah Katherine Miesner Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Analysis of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics and the Synoptic-Scale Weather Pattern at the Potosi, WI SLAMS Monitor, Sean K. Newlin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Women's labor force participation in Spain: An analysis from dictatorship to democracy, Kristi Philips Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Implications of physical attractiveness on time allocations from salesperson to customer, Emily Anne Prinsen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The value-added tax: Effects on tax revenue, U.S. corporations, and individual taxpayers, Joseph Raymond Pudenz Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Creative Non-Fiction: Teaching Teachers, Emma T. Reeve Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cost, Quality and Access: An Analysis of Health Care in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Katherine Elizabeth Reidy Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Experience of Upward Mobility, Lacey Jae Ritter Open Access Honors Program Thesis
How does the University of Northern Iowa's recycling program compare to the recycling programs of its peer institutions?, Anna J. Schrad Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Home Movies, Taylor Scott Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Purchasing subscription reference databases in the Iowa elementary public school library, Michaela B. Seeman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Recession, unemployment, and attendance at Major League Baseball games, Bradley Joseph Shatek Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Disclosure of At-Risk Status for Huntington's Disease: Is There a "Right Time?", Krysten Ann Shipley Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors Affecting Religious Beliefs at a Public Midwestern University, Dana Catherine Shook Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Playing the Part: An Actress Prepares the Role of Cathy in The Last Five Years, Katy Slaven Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Integrating art and literacy in the elementary classroom, Megan Kristine Sorensen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Collection of Original Music, Kelsey Staudacher Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Service-Learning in Iowa: A Study in Training and Support for Teachers, Jessica Staudt Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Earth's Skin: Poems on Connections With Our Natural and Human Environments, Abigail Fay Stonner Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Musically Mainstreamed: Mainstreaming in Elementary General Music Classrooms, Kelsey Rae Ternes Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Wandering Socially: Technology and the Modern American Hobo Community, Natalie K. Turner Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Collection of Original Music, Hanna Van Hemert Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2009
Indigent Defense in America: Racially or Geographically Unjust?, Lisa Karen Akre Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Treatment Options for Neuropathic Pain, Sara Akre Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of Epigallocatechin Gallate on the Structure and Dynamics of Podosomes in Human Macrophages, Vinay Bajaj Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Building a Business: Baker & Associates CPA, Heath Baker Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Health Care in America: Historical Context, Current Issues, Future Reform, Emily Boevers Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Engagement in the Workplace: Incorporating Athletic Team Characteristics Into the Business Community in an Effort to Alleviate Male Disengagement, Matthew J. Bries Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Mental Health of Low Socio-Economic Populations, Sarah E. Bumgarner Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Postville: The Emotional Consequences Applying Diagnostic Criteria to a Unique Event, Mollie Katherine Burke Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Savannah: A short story cycle in the tradition of American literary craft, Emily Burney Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Spatial, Geologic, and Land Use Characteristics of Sinkholes in a Karst Landscape: Waverly, Iowa, Adam Richard Campbell Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors related to the unemployment rate: A statistical analysis, Reanna Collins Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The purpose of Facebook: The value of Facebook friends in increasing self-perceived popularity, Michael J. Cronin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Impact of a Proposed Federal Shield Law, Lisa Dahlke Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The use of productive questions in the early childhood classroom, Rachel Alice Dengler Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of Sport and Physical Activity on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Youth From Mass Trauma Populations, Sydney de Victoria-Michel Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Unique Silencer, Christofer Ditscheit Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Public water fluoridation, Jessica Fohey Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Homocysteine on Development of Contractions and Expression of β-Catenin in Chick Embryo Precardiac Mesoderm, Michelle Lee Formanek Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Problem-solving behaviors in college relationships, Bethanie Frattini-Scott Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Erotics of Textuality, Megan M. Gallagher Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Managing Risk in Life Insurance With Your Genetic Information: The Issues, the Options, and the Speed of Progress, Michelle Gogerty Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Fair value accounting: Variations in relevance by business sector, Elizabeth Harriss Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Preliminary Development of Quantitative Immunoassays for Mitochondrial Proteins, Adriann Hovey Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Study abroad: Products, practices, and perspectives of a new culture, Molly Marie Juza Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Telos: An Interactive Platform for Broadcast Management, Andrew L. Knight Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cedar Rapids Flood of 2008: Manmade or Statistical Anomaly?, Beth Kolsrud Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Ambigrams: The Art and the Math, Callie Kronlage Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Assessing the Potential Habitat Value of Biomass Production Fields for Grassland Birds, Mandy Larson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A light unto our path: Toward a mutual understanding of fundamentalist Christianity and science, Kassidy K. Lyons Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Does Race Affect the Salaries of NFL Players?, Joshua Patrick Mahoney Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Reading Is for Girls: Examining Gender Differences in Reading Attitudes, Molly Jo McAllister Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Personal Financial Knowledge of College Students, Adam Moehn 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Women's Labor Markets in Costa Rica, Kelsey Rinehart Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Managing Generational Diversity in the 21st Century, Matthew Joshua Rohden Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Timecourse Analysis of the Effect of Atrazine on Human HepG2 Cells, Erin M. Schrunk 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Comparing Single Member District Plurality and Proportional Representation in the Next Eleven Countries, Maggie McMahon Stehn Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Financial Fiasco: What Started It and How Long Will It Last?, Jodi Sweeney 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 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Powerful and powerless speech styles in employment mock interviews, Amanda M. Wilson 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 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Depictions of Male-Male Sexual Activities in Ancient Greece As Expressed Through Visual Imagery: Aspects of Roles, Abigail Bristow Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Adam Smith and Consumerism's Role in Happiness: Modern Society Reexamined, Michael Busch Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Formulation of an ultra-violet curable, soy-based, organic pigment screen printing ink, Jenna L. Cherry 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Risk Classification and Ratemaking in Insurance, Erin Conrad Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Entrepreneurship in Action: Top Hat Chimney Services, Amy Suzanne Coombs Honors Program Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
What Role Should Subsidies Play for Microfinance Institutions, Emily Anne Cormaney 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The tax gap: America's underreported revenues, Jennifer Granzow 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 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Application of Blast-Based Techniques For Musical Information Retrieval, Fedor Aleksandrovich Korsakov Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Convergence of IFRS and U.S. GAAP: Implications on the public accounting profession, Linsey Dee Lain 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 Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Analysis of echoic properties in vocalizations of a preverbal child on the autistic spectrum, Sarah A. McConnell Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Who Should Own the Air?: A Closer Look at Smoking Bans, Stacy McMullen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Iowa caucuses: Effects of presidential campaigns on state politicians, Amy Kathleen Meyers 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cell Cycle Analysis of Atrazine-Treated Human Cells, Daniel Pelzer Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Leap From Playing to Performing: Representing the Composer and Performer in Classical Music Performance, Rachel A. Price Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Religious pluralism: The evangelical Christian response, Matthew F. Rittgers 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Two Types of Recovery on the Decline In Performance After Intense Bouts of Exercise, Whitney Shindelar Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Fundamental Region on Two Copies of the Hyperbolic Plane, Alyssa Jesse Soenksen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
