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Honors Theses from 2019
The Quantum World and Cubism, Christopher Billmyer
Use of Clofibrate to Bypass Nuclear Targeting in the Development of Non-Viral Gene Delivery Systems, Kelsey Blocklinger
Soda, Casey Marie Burton
Abandoned Monuments, Andrea Campbell
Words Matter: A Situational Analysis of Alcohol, Conflicts, and Violence, Travis Carter
The Art of Lettering, Amanda Cerutti
Jomon Pottery: Influence, Style, Technique, Zachary Cervenka
Can Semantic-Phonemic Discrepancy in Verbal Fluency Help to Detect Alzheimer’s Dementia?, Haoxuan Chen
How Asylum Policy in France Contributes to a Gap in Perceptions between French Nationals and Asylees, Caitlin Chenus
Counting the Costs of Car Culture, Brooke Clayton
New Women in the Anglo-Indian Novel, 1878-1901, McKenna Coon
Employer Perception of Candidates Before and After Negotiation, Olivia Dieschbourg
Growth of Auditory Reflexes with Stimulus Level, Hannah Dunn, Lexi Kolterman, and Shawn Goodman
Affective and Cognitive Correlates of Interpersonal Dependency in Neurologic Populations, Keagan Duster
More Than Cornfields, Kate Edwards
The Role of Weight-Based Rejection Sensitivity in the Association between Social Anxiety and Binge Eating, Hannah Erlbacher
Healthcare Perceptions among Patients and Physicians in Kyiv, Ukraine, Lucas Fagre
The influence of long-access cocaine self-administration on behavioral measures of anxiety and craving in rats, Jesse A. Gray, Victória A. Müller Ewald, and Ryan T. LaLumiere
Ports of Entry, Alaina Handrick
Flash, Harrison Hugen
Listener Judgements of Fluency and Perceptions of Aphasia, Nicole Khvalabov
Honor and Shame in the Sagas of the Icelanders: Women's Struggle for Influence, Sarah A. Lauer
Investigation of Motor Inhibition Influence on Working Memory Representations, Alec Mather
Diphthongization of /u/ in Midwestern American English, Catherina Narigon
SAAH Scaping, Zachary Nelson
Meeting "Moi Moi": An Exploration of Ideophones in Japanese Children's Literature, Onae Parker
To Kill a Stereotype: An Examination of Canonical Literature and Racial Representation in the Classroom, Tiphany Phan
Leveraging the Competition: How Wealth Managers Can Use Robo-Advisors to their Advantage, Chase Rourke
Understanding the Impact: The Iowa Edge Program and African American Students in Higher Education, Tristan Schmidt
Television Media Coverage and Voter Turnout: Evidence From 2018 Iowa Congressional Districts, Cassidy Shubatt
Competitive Learning Processes: The Role of Verbal Mediation in Sequential Learning, Jeff Shymanski
From Feet to Flippers: The Evolution of Whales, Tyler Stone
Exhibiting Power: Proto-Museological Origins in the Empires of Antiquity, Callaghan Todhunter
Emotion Regulation in Infancy and Attachment Classification at 15 Months, Nora Tucker
Link Predictions for Social Networks in an Online Health Community, Shangguan Wang
Body, Cell, and Ambiguity, Yuan Wang
Nasofacial skeletal divergence of admixed African-Americans away from Equatorial African morphology, Alexis Williams
Immigrants Owners of Restaurants in Iowa City, Kun Zhou
Memories of Wuhan, Kun Zhou
Shape and Form, Xi Zhu
Honors Theses from 2018
Crater Lake, Molly Arndt
Mechanisms for Insulin-dependent Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria by OPA-1, Serif Bacevac
Rent-Seeking and Economic Development in 20th Century South Korea, Asher Bergman
Desirability Bias: Do Desires Influence Expectations? It Depends on How You Ask., Mark Biangmano
Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality and Revaluation of Values, Omar Bin Salamah
Rho inhibition promotes vemurafenib resistance in BRAF mutant melanoma, Jeremy Bobera and Christopher Stipp
Partial Suffrage in Iowa: 1894, Katherine Boyd
Attempting to Reinvent the Wheel, Jared Brdicko
Creating an Alien Visual Communication System, Josh Brdicko
Fingerprinting the Refugio Oil Spill using Topographic Signal Processing of Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatographic Images, Rachel Bruflodt
The Andreae System: Defending Brewing Interests and Consolidating German-American Political Power in the 1914 Iowa State Elections, Allison Buser
Do Cochlear Implants Limit Bicycle Riding in School-Age Children?, Rachel Canon
The mir-503 cluster is coordinately under-expressed in endometrial cancer, Elizabeth Cha
God and Caesar in Symbiosis: Russian Church and State Relationship, Kyle Chapman
Tick Tock, Lindsey Chapman
Exploring the Experiences of High School Refugee English Language Learners, Gabrielle Chelette
Korean American Studies: Then and Now, Ashley Chong
Food, Power, and Hierarchy: A Case Study of King Louis XIV in France, Sophie Churchill
Las ratas callejeras, Taylor Claman
Silence in the Stars, Taylor Claman
Non-Rational Persons and the Original Position: A Rawlsian Defense of Animal Citizenship, Michael Corazza
Bike Veil Bride, Asa Crowe
Poker Cards for the Color Blind, Xindi Dai
Well, What Are You?, Andrew Donlan
A Prescription to Remedy Global Agricultural Antibiotic Resistance: An Integrated Approach, Valerie Drake
Wood is Soft, Youtian Duan
Memories, Bonnie Duong
The Internal Working Model and Sexual Satisfaction: A Self-Determination Approach, Sadie Elbert
final, final frontier, Aimee Fredericksen
Green Roof Policy Optimization Algorithms and Microsimulations Benefits and Downsides of Green Roof Incentives and Mandates in San Francisco, Harrison Freund
Narrative Skills in School-Age Children who are Hard of Hearing, Kathryn Gabel
Opposing Tyranny: White Resistance against the Rhodesian Front (1965-1977), Rebekah Gansemer
Pseudoarchaeology: Archaeology's Long-Lost Cousin?, Rebekah Gansemer
Characterization of a ULK1 Agonist, Michael Garneau
Crack in the System: The Racially Motivated Intentions and Consequences of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Caroline Garske
CAFE Standards and the Federal Gas Tax: Impact on Private Transit CO2 Emissions, Emily Giovannetti
The Effect of Recent Experience on Template Formation during Categorical Visual Search, Kenneth Eduardo Granillo-Velasquez
What is it Made of?, Yuyang Guo
Gender and an All-Girls Book Club: Navigating Conversation Centered on Gender with Fifth Grade Girls, Anna Haller
Overexpression of Sponge BHLH MRNA In Xenopus Laevis Disrupts Inner Ear Neurosensory Development, Jessica Halyko
Identifying and Quantifying Hidden Hearing Loss, Emily Hanson
Sewing and Reminiscence, Yukun Hao
Using Reducing Agent TCEP to Alter the Rate of Mucocilliary Transport, Kieran Hartley
Incorporating Technology into Analytical Chemistry, Neal Hausmann
Neighborhood Effects on Anxiety and Depression, Hallee Haygood
Morning in the Agora (בקר בהרחוב), Leon Hedstrom
Underwater Soldier, Ana J. Hosier
Finding Gravitationally Lensed Systems in the VLA Stripe 82 Survey, Jacob Isbell
Entrepreneurship through the Centuries: A comparison of William the Conqueror and Jeff Bezos, Mollie Jackowski
Sens et saveur: L'art de traduire dans un cadre multilingue, Claire Jacobson
Aphasia Reading Club Outcomes: Acquisition and Use of Metacognitive Reading Strategies, Jessica Janota
Effects of Pak Kinase Inhibition on Emergence of Vemurafenib Resistance in Melanoma, Brooke Jennings
Relations Among Parents' Mind-Mindedness and Depression in Infancy, and Children's Attachment Security at Age 2, Adrienne Jensen
Perspectives of the Clean Water Rule and an Alternative Policy, Katelyn Kelley and Kelsey A. Hopkins
Liberation at Gunpoint: Deconstructing Politicized Representations of Afghan Women, Lina S. Khodor
Extracellular Adenosine Protects Microglia-like Cells During Simulated Ischemia, Anya Kim
From Akrasia to Quality of Will: A Critical Examination of Accounts of Moral Responsibility and Ignorance, John Kirchner
Investigating Vegetative Phase Change in Maize, Michael Kline