Undergraduate Student Work
This collection contains research and creative works by undergraduate students at the University of Northern Iowa. at the University of Northern Iowa. All student works require department, unit, or individual faculty review.
UNI's Undergraduate Student Work collection is featured in the Digital Commons Undergraduate Research Commons.
Submissions from 2006
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
Analyzing the Debate over Offshore Outsourcing in the Service Industry: Is there a Reason for Concern?, Gwynn VanderWeerdt
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 Wittmaack
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
From composition to performance, Jacquelyn Dayle Zwiefel Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 2005
Music and visual form: An investigative study, Kendra Bousfield Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
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
Using space to describe space: American Sign Language and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Cindee Calton Open Access Presidential Scholars 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
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis Dethroned, Jed Ellerbroek
African American Breast Cancer Health Disparities, Theresa Lynn Gaul Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Economics of Mandatory Biotech Food Labeling in the United States, William J. Gongol
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 examination of tag-questions and ellipsis in English and Spanish, Tiffany Judy Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
The Impact of Computers and Globalization on U.S. Wage Inequality, Jana Kerkvliet
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
The Effect of a Loser-Pays Rule on the Decisions of an American Litigant, Jaime Leigh Loos
Terrorism and Multinational Corporations: International Business Deals with the Costs of Geopolitical Conflict, John J. Mazzarella
Introduction, Ken McCormick
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
Push and pull: Using regression models to study the influence of economic variables on net migration in Iowa counties, Andrea White Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Synthesis of Nanomaterials: Magnesium Hydroxide Nanoparticles and Applications for the Catalyzed Decomposition of Toxins, Travis Witte Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Popular Portrayal Versus Historical Evidence Concerning Mary of Magdala, Robin Ann Yoerger Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 2004
The formation of the Bible, Steve Allen Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
The Qi connection: A study in studying Qi, Elizabeth Brooke Barrett Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
The mutual find scandal: A day trading simulation, Matt Becker Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Ending an Internet Auction: Is eBay's Approach Optimal?, Andrew Behrens
Protecting the Steel Industry for all the Wrong Reasons, Justin Berry
SOX in the boardroom: The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley 2002 on the corporate reporting of the Fortune Fifty, Angela Boedeker Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Reflections on the Development and Implementation of the Camp Iodiseca Biblical Day Camp, Sara Ann Busch Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Intergenerational preferences regarding punishment of criminal offenders, Allison Deutsch, Molly Movall, and Christine Van Berkum Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Rules-based vs. principles-based accounting standards: Analyzing the impact of amending APB No. 18 to a principles-based standard, Jodi E. Ferring Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Coping with work-school conflict through social support, Kyle Gerjerts Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
The Relationship between Team Payroll and Team Performance in the National Hockey League, Brandi Glasnapp
Theoretical Considerations for Geosynchronous, Earth-Based Gravity Wave Interferometer, William Griffin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Paperless construction: How contractors can adjust to change in the industry, Tyler Hackman, James Lindgren, Kerri Rackow, and Chris Snyder Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Isaiah and the suffering servant: A look at Isaiah 52:13-53:12 (biblical references: English standard version), Laura Helmke Open Access Presidential Scholars 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
Information security: A comprehensive overview for businesses in the proper selection and implementation of a secure information system and policy, Matt Jaeger Presidential Scholars Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Senior thesis work, Corey Jansen Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Sarbanes-Oxley: A compliance case study, Rachel Kass Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
A Look at the Inefficiencies of the U.S. Tort System and Reforms to Correct Them, Ryan Koopmans
The biopsychosocial model of medicine: Implications for the future of healthcare, Abby M. Luensmann Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Introduction, Ken McCormick
The Welsh language: Cultural preservation or a losing battle?, Kim Mercer Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
A look at the Little Rock Nine, Stacey Noble Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Are Parties True to Their Word? Platform Politics in the 1996 Election, Catherine Louise Olexa Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cerebral palsy: Physical therapy and medical treatment issues, Jill Pedretti Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Effect of light duration on pulvinar motor organ movements in Phaseolus vulgaris, Thomas William Rinehart Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
R & D Exchange in a Duopoly with Strong Patent Protection, Nicholas Sly
Teaching speaking in the foreign language classroom, Amanda J. Smith Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Theoretical neuroscience: modeling the activation mechanism of potassium channels in neurons, Kevin Twedt Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Similarities and differences in perception and production of diphthong sounds among native speakers of Spanish and English, Kelley Wilkinson Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 2003
The glass ceiling for women in business, Megan Abels Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Effectiveness of educator-oriented content courses, Joslyn K. Burt Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Effects of cohabitation on engaged adult relationships, Matthew W. Chingren Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
A comparison of the epithelium to mesenchyme transformation process in cultured embryonic chick neural crest cells and human metastatic cervical cancer cells, Molly Decker Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Legal and Economic Strategies for International Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software, Liz Dunshee
Serpents of the Ark-La-Tex, Jennifer L. Hollis Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Homegrown, Cedar Isbell Presidential Scholars Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The redox potential of DDT: An environmental perspective, Anne Lewis, Christopher Cramer, and John Bumpus Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Human resources' role in successful mergers and acquisitions, Vanessa Loecke Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Introduction, Ken McCormick
Flaws in the Kyoto Protocol's Pollution Permit System, Adam Mellem
The Role of Athletics in Higher Education, Ryan Miller
E-commerce: Choosing the appropriate tax model, Jeffrey A. Scudder Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
E-Commerce: Choosing the Appropriate Tax Model, Jeffrey A. Scudder
Creating chaos: US' policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kelly Shell Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
A Cost Benefit Study of Banning Leaf Burning in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Joshua Van Kley
Submissions from 2002
Inspire and equip: The needs and wants of students in a high school English curriculum, Jocelyn Hays Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
