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 2009
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
Integrating music into math classroom: Implications for educators, Rebecca Thayer 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Research Mentors' Perspectives on Scientist-Teacher Partnerships, Andrea Van Waardhuizen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Fundamental Stock Market Analysis Tool, Rakshith Varadaraju Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Debian Clusters for Education and Research: The Missing Manual, Kristina Wanous Open Access Honors Program Thesis
UNI elementary education majors' beliefs toward mathematics education, David Frederick Wirtz Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Birthrate and Population Density as Predictors of Quality of Life, Jessica M. Young Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2007
Cell Cycle Analysis of Atrazine-Treated Human Fibroblast Cells Using Flow Cytometry, Andrea L. Austin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educational Programs in Correctional Facilities: Are They Worth the Cost?, Adam Robert Baggett Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mon Voyage: Paris Through My Eyes, Kristyn Ann Beckman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics and Spanish: A Comparative Approach of Teaching Methods, Emily R. Borcherding Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effect of Homocysteine on Neural Crest Cells, N-cadherin, and its Binding Partners, Kacie Rae Callaway 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 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Everybody's Doing It But Me: Comparing Pluralistic Ignorance Across Behaviors, Katherine S. Corker 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Free Clinics of Iowa: An Inside Look at an Alternate Route to Healthcare, Laura DeBoer Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Repeat After Me: The Use of Errorless Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom, Mark Adam Foster Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Crippling America Health: Care Fraud Incentives, Colby Goetsch 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Interior Design for the Classroom, Jessica Hellmann 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Thomas Jefferson's Biographers: Historiography and Sally Hemings, Courtney Ihde Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Private Rates of Return to Undergraduate Education by Major, Nick Johnson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Sarbanes-Oxley - From Idea to Implementation: A Look at the Impact on Public Companies, Stephanie Lynn Johnson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Academic and Social Self-Efficacy in Honors and Non-Honors University Students, Carmen Marie Krapfl 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Sense of Place: An Analysis of the Role of Environmental Factors in Presidential Speeches, Timothy Michael McCue Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Język: Attitudes Toward Language in Poland, Angela Ott Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Assessment of Key Parameters to Achieve Bacteria Transformability in E. coli and A. tumefaciens, Zach Regelin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The History and Evolution of Traditions and Norms in the Appointment of Federal Judges, Dustin Wray Rook Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics Education: An International Perspective, Lisa Roose Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Microbiological Enhancement of Phosphorus Sequestration in Iron-Enriched Sediments, Lindsay Marie Sandersfeld 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 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Producing a Short Film, John Wiedenheft Open Access Honors Program Thesis
St. Peter Canisius and the Youth: Jesuit Educators in Counterreformation Germany, Kendra Anne Willey Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Conceptualization of Mental Illness Held by North-Eastern Iowa Legislators, Jennifer J. Younie 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 Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Identity Theft: Who's in Your Wallet? A Look at Urban Legends and Consumers' Greatest Risks, Amber Sue Beenken Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Loathsome and the Virtuous: An Examination of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White in Literature and Film, Heather Marie Birk Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cooperative and Competitive Games: An Examination of the Effects of Goal Structures on Social Development, Courtney J. Darby Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Senior Voice Recital, Sarah Jo Duvel Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Process to Perform, Nicole Suzanne Farley Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Asbestos Litigation and Indemnification, Paul Grammens Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Case Studies: Sustainable Design Buildings in Iowa, Ashley Marie Hinz Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Self-Injury: An Analysis of the Behavior, Causes, and Effective Treatments, Lindsey Huyser Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The University of Northern Iowa Honors Program and You, Eric Jacobs Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Educating Students to be Better Citizens: Effects of Service-Learning Courses on Civic Attitudes and Engagement, Aubree Rae Johnson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Moral of the Story, Katie Beth Jones Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Striking Out: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League Failed to Break Gender Barriers, Lindsey Letcher Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Turkey's Entrance Into the European Union: Global Implications, Melanie Miller Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Insurance: A Consumer's Perspective, Elizabeth Ann Nanke Open Access Honors Program Thesis
