Undergraduate Student Work
This collection contains works by undergraduate students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa. All student works require department, unit, or individual faculty review.
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Submissions from 2013
English-only legislation: The Iowa story, Kari Lien Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A study of the genes TFL1 and LFY as agents in the divergent evolution of the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana and Carica papaya, Ryan Lockard Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Generating new Type II protein models using cytochrome c, Lindsey M. Ludwig Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Search for catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase α in Thermomyces lanuginosus, Chelsea Elyse Meier Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Utility of phosphoglucose isomerase (PgiC) intron sequences in the phylogenetics of Physaria (Brassicaceae), Troy Joseph Mensen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Competition and extrinsic motivation in the band classroom: A review of literature and suggestions for educational practice, Stephanie Kay Opsal Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Developing crochet patterns for surfaces of non-constant curvature, Katherine Lea Pearce Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Analysis of mathematical descriptions of gravitational microlensing, Sarah Michelle Pearce Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Influences of Armenian Folk Music on Clarinet Chamber Works by Aram Khachaturian and Alexander Arutiunian, Emma Peterson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The "Tragedy" of Down syndrome: Is it really so tragic?, Ashley A. Richardson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Effects of Flooding on the Flora and Fauna of a Reconstructed Tallgrass Prairie, Andrew J. Ridgway, Mark C. Myers, and Benjamin Hoksch Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
A Population Genetic Study of the Fish Rhinichthys cataractae in Northeast Iowa Using Microsatellite Genotype Data, Haley Ann Rinehart Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Comparative phylogeography of species across the Mississippi embayment, Matthew James Samec Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Relationships between habitat preference and population size of the declining longnose dace, Erica Anne Scullin Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
An Examination of Expression: Sonata no.1 in F Minor, Op. 120 by Johannes Brahms, Mary Beth Thiry Open Access Honors Program Thesis
From Here to There: The Music's Journey: How the Music in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy Represents the Cultures of Tolkien's World, Jennifer Louise Titus Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Equivalences of Dessins D'Enfants, Rachel M. Volkert Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Gaining Perspective: Student Learning Perceptions of the Role of TESOL Principles in Their English-Learning Experiences, Danielle Christine Westcot Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Musical Analysis of Selections From Contemporary Christian Music Contributing to an Original Composition, Ashley Elizabeth Williamson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Bank Erosion Hazard Index (BEHI) Study of Dry Run Creek, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Cara Wright Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2012
Lost in Translation: In Search of the "Real" "Wulf and Eadwacer", John Anderson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An Evaluation of the Species Status of Physaria intermedia (Brassicaceae), Katie Arp Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Morphological Variation Among Populations of Uca rapax in the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean, Amanda L. Brase Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Key Elements of Poverty Influencing Language Development and Academic Achievement, Joanna L. Eggert Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Spanish Through Music: A Model for the Content-Based Classroom, Anna Gansen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Perceptions of "Americanism": U.S. high school students' attitudes towards non-standard English accents, Christina Michelle Goering Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Quantz and Frederick the Great: Masters and Monarchs of the Flute, Betsy Anne Groat Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Using Ecological Niche Modeling To Resolve Cryptic Taxa Within the Greenside Darter Species Complex, Jack Alphonse Kosmicki Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Spinning Wheels, Weaving Words, and Cupbearing: The Wife's Lament and Female Power, Agency and Resistance in Anglo-Saxon England, Alison Leytem Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Bird use of heterogeneous prairie biofuel production plots in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Jarrett Pfrimmer, Mark C. Myers, Benjamin Hoksch, and Drew Miller Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Cursed: An Experiment in Gender Roles in Video Game Concept Art, Gillian Renk Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Study of Nitrogen Sources in the Municipal Wells of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Alison Renee Schell Open Access Honors Program Thesis
GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Rigid Water, Byron Alexander Tasseff Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Butterfly Community Dynamics in a Restored Prairie Used for Biofuel Production, Nicholas E. TeBockhorst, Jarrett D. Pfrimmer, and Mark C. Myers Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Pulling Back the Veil on Stem Cell Research: The Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as an Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Sara Ternes Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Determining the Virulence of Corn Pathogen Fusarium verticillioides Utilizing Deletion Mutants Lacking Genes FV_00027 or FV_NPS6, Abigail Zieman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2011
Bad Reputations: A Discussion of Gender Norms and Personas Created and Performed in Courtly (and Not So Courtly) Lyrics, Rebecca Ann Bohnet Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Different Kind of Garden: Seeding the Growth of TaS2 Nanostructures with 3d Transition Metals, Kayla Rose Boyle Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors controlling hop flowering and their potential for use in the brewing and pharmaceutical industries, Margaret Nicole Crain Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Effects of Hypergravity on Xenopus Embryo Growth and Cardiac Hypertrophy, Bryce Joseph Duchman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Way Out: A Musical Depiction of an Artist's Journey of Self-Discovery, Robert Espe Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Effects of MYD88 Inhibition on Bovine Lung Endothelial and Epithelial Cell Cytokine Expression, Cassandra Kay Hayne Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Leading Unconducted Chamber Vocal Ensembles: A Case Study of the University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men's Glee Club Camerata, David Hoobler Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Jerry Falwell's Use of Theological Methodology for Making Political Claims: A Critique, David William Hosack Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The hearing room: Combining video art and electroacoustic music, Aaron Michael Hynds Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Effect of Egg-Incubation Temperature on Growth and Selected Temperature of Apalone Spinifera, the Spiny Softshell Turtle, Amy L. Klopfenstein Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Formation of Intercellular Junctions During Secondary Neurulation in the Tail Bud Region of Developing Chick Embryos, Selena Mae Losee Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Bass Clarinet: Its History and Role in the Symphony Orchestra, Katlin MacBride Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Apologia, atonement, and the public sphere, Christopher Outzen Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a DI-T-Butyl Dicyclopentadienyl Ligand, Regina Rose Reinig Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Individual Batting Factors Influencing a Team's Probability of Winning, David Matthew Rygh Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Essential workplace communication skills: Student vs. employer perspectives, Amanda Schickel Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
What it's like to be me: A qualitative look at students' narratives about diversity inclusion and discrimination, Megan Deanne Wharff Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Growth and characterization of nanoscale thin films, Erik Thomas Wolter Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Variables Affecting Crime Rate, Jaime Zeigler Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Pre-service general education teachers' attitudes on the education of English language learners, Rachel Margaret Zidon Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2010
Playing like a girl: An analysis of the role of gender in trumpet performance, Leslie Ellen Aboud Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Ornithine Decarboxylase (ODC) Regulation by MTOR: New Insights From TSC1 Knockout Cells, Alyssa Mae Cates Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Towards Cloning a Tyrosinase Gene from Pitayas, Kurt J. Chamberlain Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The perception and production of Spanish pure vowels by native English speakers, Lauren Erickson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Butterfly response to floral resources at a heterogeneous prairie biofuel production site, Benjamin J. Hoksch and Mark C. Myers Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Synthesis and characterization of a [Ru(bpy)2(NCS)2] derivative for use as a dye-sensitizer in nanocrystalline solar cells, Joel Thomas Kirner Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Physical Therapy Availability in the Rural Counties of Iowa, Kelsea Elizabeth Leacox Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Formation of the neural tube epithelium basement membrane during secondary neurulation in the chick embryo, Leslie Ann Mataya 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
Disclosure of At-Risk Status for Huntington's Disease: Is There a "Right Time?", Krysten Ann Shipley Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Integrating art and literacy in the elementary classroom, Megan Kristine Sorensen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Musically Mainstreamed: Mainstreaming in Elementary General Music Classrooms, Kelsey Rae Ternes Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Collection of Original Music, Hanna Van Hemert Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2009
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
Spatial, Geologic, and Land Use Characteristics of Sinkholes in a Karst Landscape: Waverly, Iowa, Adam Richard Campbell 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
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
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
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
Timecourse Analysis of the Effect of Atrazine on Human HepG2 Cells, Erin M. Schrunk 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
Submissions from 2008
Depictions of Male-Male Sexual Activities in Ancient Greece As Expressed Through Visual Imagery: Aspects of Roles, Abigail Bristow 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)
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
Analysis of echoic properties in vocalizations of a preverbal child on the autistic spectrum, Sarah A. McConnell 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
Integrating music into math classroom: Implications for educators, Rebecca Thayer Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Research Mentors' Perspectives on Scientist-Teacher Partnerships, Andrea Van Waardhuizen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
UNI elementary education majors' beliefs toward mathematics education, David Frederick Wirtz Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Submissions from 2007
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
Sound Spectral Analysis of UNI Carillon Bells, Kimberly Cordray Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Crippling America Health: Care Fraud Incentives, Colby Goetsch 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
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
