Undergraduate Student Work
This collection contains works by undergraduate students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa. All student works require department, unit, or individual faculty review.
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Submissions from 2024
“Our Hands are Tied”: How State Educational Diversity Laws Affect Iowa Public Educators and How Educators Respond, Lydia Berns-Schweingruber Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2024 Award
Culture, Politics, and Economics: Alcohol and the Dynamic Social Environment of Celtic Europe, Trevor Davidson Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Beyond the Classroom: Do the Iowa Civic Virtues Standards Achieve Their Goals?, Damien Foster Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Political Orientation and Moral Values: Examining their Effects on Susceptibility to Misinformation, MaKayla L. Hall, Jordan A. Neely, and Helen C. Harton Open Access Poster Presentation
Unearthing UNI's First Football Stadium, Hannah Huffman Open Access Poster Presentation
Language Barriers in the U.S. Legal System for Primarily Spanish Speakers: Attorney Perspectives and Potential Solutions for True Equal Access, Emma F. Kizer Open Access Honors Program Thesis
I Failed My Brother: How Online Radicalization Affects the Family Unit, Serenity Kollasch Open Access Poster Presentation
"I Failed My Brother": How Online Radicalization Affects the Family Unit, Serenity Dawn Kollasch Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Impact of High School Climate and Bullying on Depression and Anxiety in Emerging Adulthood, Tyler K. D. Larson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Redefining 21st Century Evangelicalism, Anna McDowell Open Access Poster Presentation
Gender Socialization and Social Media in College Students' Fear of Crime, Ashlyn C. Miller Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Senatorial Behavior in Recent Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Alex Perrin and Donna Hoffman Open Access Poster Presentation
Preventing Injuries in Violinists and Violists Through Body Awareness and Appropriate Set-Up, Stephanie Ramos Poster Presentation
The Impact of COVID-19 Related Stress on Parenting and Community Engagement in a Small Iowa Community, Danny Trip and Savanna Farley Open Access Poster Presentation
Events from 2023
Trends in Iowa’s K-12 Public Education: An Analysis of School Spending & Student Achievement [poster], Lydia Berns-Schweingruber, Kristin Mack, and Marybeth Stalp Open Access Poster Presentation
Underground Iowans, Cyrus Emmet Cummings Open Access Poster Presentation
Competencies Acquired in the Psychology Major, Jake Harrington Open Access Honors Program Thesis
How Economic Distribution Impacts Human Rights on an International Level: A Case Study in Africa and the Balkans, Lindsey G. Ingraham Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Not ‘Real Rape’: Recognizing and Supporting Victims of Sexual Coercion, Chloe Johnson Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Institutional Choices Regarding Human Rights and its Effect on Citizen Participation, Elle Jones Open Access Poster Presentation
The Prevalence and Knowledge of Proper Treatment of People Living with Dementia in Physical Therapy, Eric Robert Melrose Open Access Honors Program Thesis
How Hypermasculinity and Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) Relate to Rape Proclivity in College Males, Cora Lynn Patterson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Senatorial Behavior in Recent Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Alex Perrin Open Access Honors Program Thesis
A Snapshot of War: First World War Postcards from the Cedar Falls Historical Society, James Alexander Schmitt Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Breaking the Marble Ceiling: The Construction of Athena in Greek Thought, Elizabeth Tulley Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2023 Award
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Therapists’ Past Trauma and Workplace Interventions, Morgan Wickman Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Therapists' Past Trauma and Workplace Intervention [Poster], Morgan A. Wickman Open Access Poster Presentation
Submissions from 2022
College-age students' attitudes toward essential oils, alternative medicines, and modern medicine, Taylor Nicole Brown Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Social media recruitment and online propaganda by extremist groups, Megan Marie Robinson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Animal adoption profiles: An application of the human-animal connection, Autumn Stowe Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Alexander the Great and Achilles: The origin of the connection between the Homeric hero and the king of Macedon, Katie Thessen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Gender Bias Burden on Business: Women’s Access to Credit in Bahrain [poster], Sandra Thiman Open Access Poster Presentation
Submissions from 2021
"It all just ends": Death attitudes across age, gender, and religion, Bekah Bass Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Anti-communist politics of the Second Red Scare and how it affected Hollywood and the types of movies being made, Maddy Everson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Made in China: Decline of unions and stagnant wages in the U.S., Witt Harberts Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2022 Award
On beauty: Ancient perceptions of beauty from classical Greece to Imperial Rome, Maya Jess Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Multicultural education and attitudes towards immigrant groups in the United States, Anika Marie Lillegard-Bouton Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The effect of proximal carceral contact on political participation, Emily Loomis Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Assessing the implicit curriculum in social work education: An examination of the University of Northern Iowa students' experiences, Madison Motz Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2021 Award
U.S. presidential election portrayed by foreign media: Costa Rica and Nicaragua comparative study, Emily Neumann Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Exploring eating disorders in athletes: A literature review and analysis of prevention strategies, Emily Schotzko Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Literature review: Improving end-of-life care and creating a good death, Erna Smlatic Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The moderating role of mindful awareness in the associations of adverse childhood experiences and coronavirus exposure with sleep patterns, Shyanne Faith Sporrer Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2021 Award
The influence of gain-loss framing and its interaction with political ideology on social distancing and mask wearing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan Steffen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The administration of American elections during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sydney Wagner Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Exploring voting habits and attitudes of LGBTQ+ college students in the United States, Jordan Weber Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Reasons for self-mutilating behavior in the 21st century, ZhiQing Yaw Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Events from 2020
Let’s Talk About Death: Conversation and Bereavement in Late-Life Widows and Widowers [Poster], Bekah Bass Open Access Poster Presentation
Role of guns in child mortality, Alexandria Bibbs Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Science curriculum alignment to the NGSS, Whitney E. Canaday Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Meet your audience where they are: The dissemination and reception of political messaging among young voters [Paper], Bailey Marie Caskey Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Meet Your Audience Where They Are: The Dissemination and Reception of Political Messaging Among Young Voters [Poster], Bailey Marie Caskey Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
NSSI Stigma Toward Adolescent Girls and Boys, MacKenzie L. Dallenbach Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Base & Summit: American Women's Right on Either Side of the Passing of the 19th Amendment, Abigail Fer Open Access Poster Presentation
Perceptions of dementia in faith-based organizations, Megan Elizabeth Kooker Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Predicting COVID-19 Health Behaviors Using the Health Belief Model [Poster], Kristyn Pellymonter, Adam Butler, and Theresa Dethlefs Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Perceptions of the police: The role of need for cognition and numeracy, Carolyn Pham Open Access Poster Presentation
The impact of school-based mindfulness programs on the externalizing behavior of students, Madison Ruhlmann Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Unveiling Shadows: How to Optimize Shadow Detection in HSI through Combination of LiDAR and Histogram Thresholding, Maritza Salinas Open Access Poster Presentation
Testing the effects of mindfulness meditation in reducing music performance anxiety as measured by cortisol and self-report, Anya E. Shorey Open Access Honors Program Thesis 2020 Award
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free": A case study analysis of U.S. immigration policy and public perceptions of Latin American immigrants, Erin Thomason Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Literature review: The role of inflammatory biomarkers in the connections between sleep and chronic health conditions, Madeline Walker Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2019
The relation between disordered eating, stress, and anxiety in first-year college women, Jenna K. Anderson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Relation between Disordered Eating, Stress, and Anxiety in First-Year College Women [Poster], Jenna K. Anderson Open Access Poster Presentation
The determination of gender roles and power dynamics within female same-sex couples, Sydney Faith Atwood Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Students in the Margin: The Creation of Evangelical Ministries on College Campuses, Hannah Gregor Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Effects of political ingroup/outgroup rejection on behavior and physiology, Hannah Rose Lentfer Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Can Human Rights be Ignored for a Price? An Analysis of Lobbying Power and U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Human Rights [Poster], Collin Lint Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Can human rights be ignored for a price?: An analysis of lobbying power and U.S. foreign policy towards human rights, Collin Lint Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Case study in the emotional and social benefits of joining a women's organization in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Hailey Lorenzen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Communicating the status of Alzheimer's disease treatment research to the general public, Abigail Manderfield Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Decision Experience in Hyperchoice: The Effect of Age, Numeracy, and Mental Fatigue, Natasha Peterson and Jiuqing Cheng Open Access Poster Presentation
The impact of chronic poverty on children's behavioral health and learning outcomes, Anna Catherine Rasmussen Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The anthropological significance of Knockloon Hill, Emma Rosentrater Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Factors influencing attitudes toward survivors of brain injury, Carrie Nicole Shea Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Chasing the Idea: Love and the Impossible, Caleb A. Stekl Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Prehistoric Plant Resources in the Cedar Valley: How Prehistoric People Utilized Flora In Subsistence Practices, Lyn Tackett Open Access Poster Presentation
Submissions from 2018
Personality in politics, Rachael Fix Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An examination of the moderating role of hormones on the relationship between sleep patterns and mood regulation, Claire A. Guderjahn Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Attitudes on education policy in Iowa, Sarah Lois Hofmeyer Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Attitudes on Education Policy in Iowa [Poster], Sarah Lois Hofmeyer Poster Presentation (UNI Access Only)
Variations in state higher education grant programs: Potential reforms from a case study, Rachael Johnson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Gender Differences in Sexual Assault and PTSD Stigma [Poster], Megan Kennedy and Elizabeth Lefler Open Access Poster Presentation
President Trump's transgender military ban: A legal analysis, Kailee Martens Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Pre-service teachers' attitudes of students with chronic pain, Katelyn A. Melcher Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Corruption in Public Education, Cade M. Olmstead Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Motivation to engage in occupational therapy, Karla Peterson Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
A song to remember : The effects of music therapy on individuals with Alzheimer's disease, Gabrielle Woods Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Events from 2017
Skin Bleaching in the African Community, Yena Balekyani Open Access Poster Presentation
Alcohol and Its Relationship to Family Work Conflict, Jasmine Beecham, Adam B. Butler, and Brenda L. Bass Open Access Poster Presentation
Masculinity, dress, and power: A theoretical intersection, Parker Bennett Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Some Evidence of Youthful Aging: Elevated Cortisol and the Association With DNA Damage, Jason M. Fly and M. Catherine DeSoto Open Access Poster Presentation
Employee wellness program attitudes, Lucille Madden Gee Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Cultural Influences on Time Pressure in the U.S. and Taiwan, Maribel Guevara-Myers and Helen C. Harton Open Access Poster Presentation
The Impact of Immigration on National and Supranational Identity, Sarah Hofmeyer Open Access Undergraduate Student Work
Education inequity: a comparative analysis of Johannesburg and Chicago city schools, Melissa Marie Johnson Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Predictors of Attitudes toward Transgender Men and Women, Natalie Kaufman, Emma Welch, Hailey Hatch, Toni Fleming, and Helen C. Harton Poster Presentation (UNI Access Only)
Gender differences in sexual assault and PTSD stigma, Megan Kennedy Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Anticipatory reactions to erotic stimuli: An exploration into "psychic" ability, Margarita Meza Open Access Honors Program Thesis
"A special program for highly gifted students:" The evolution and growth of UNI's Honors Program, 1959-2009, Matthew Christian Miller Open Access Honors Program Thesis
