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Honors Theses from 2020
Understanding the Human Gut Microbiota: A Mathematical Approach, Melissa Adrian
Effects of Inorganic Nitrate Supplementation on Heart Rate and Ventilatory Responsiveness to Acute Hypoxia and Blood Pressure in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Thomas F. Asama, Joshua M. Bock, and Darren P. Casey
Investigating the Nucleophosmin (Npm1) Protein in the Context of Protein Aggregation in the Budding Yeast S. cerevisiae, Tyler Atagozli
Disrupting the Narrative of Global South to Global North Immigration: Media Portrayals and the Immigrant Experience, Isabelle Breitfelder
Therapeutic Recreation as an Alternative Mental Health Treatment in Local and Global Corrections, Emily Brekke
Macroalgae Aquaculture in Southwestern Florida as a Potential Tool for Nutrient Sequestration, Claire Carlson
The Prevalent Misuse of Fisher’s Partial Eta Squared Formula, Mariah Cooper
The Fall of Penn Central and the Rise of Conrail: Corporate Failure and the Politics of Deregulation and Nationalization in the 1970s, Harry S. Daley-Young
"One Day There Will Be No Such Thing as Religious Intolerance": Anti-Catholicism During the Election of 1960, Emma Johnson
Discovery and Analysis of New Cocrystal Solid Forms of the Anti-HIV Drug: Emtricitabine, Elizabeth Keene
Severus of Antioch and the Anti-Chalcedonian Movement, Benjamin Kimball
What’s Deer to You?: Exploitation of White-tailed Deer from a Late Woodland River Valley Site, Kathryn Kuennen
Nothing Comes to Her Who Sits and Waits: The League of Women Voters and Citizenship After Woman Suffrage, 1920-1940, Emily Lefeber
Beer and Spirit: A Confluence of Medieval Traditions in Brewing and Monasticism, Benjamin Louviere
Investigating the Roles of Phonology and Orthography in Visual Word Recognition, Lindsey Meyer
Variably Innate: Inconsistent British Perceptions of Martial Races in the Late-Victorian Indian Army, Cameron Moeller
Anatomy of Initiation: A Unified Theory on Interstate War Initiation, Cody Moen
Adolescent Predictors of Binge Drinking in Adulthood: The Association with Psychiatric Disorders in Emerging Adulthood, Ashlyn K. Neppl, Olivia N. Diggs MS, Tricia K. Neppl PhD, and Natalie L. Denburg PhD
"Humane Anxieties": Expressionism and Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus", Brandon Pahl
Ladies at the Loom: Examining Intersections of Gender and Textiles in New Kingdom Egypt, Caitlin Patton
Mixed Media Stone Setting with Paint and Fabric, Hana Kai Ray
Offensive to the Majority: The Formation, Activism, and Survival of the Iowa City Gay Liberation Front, 1970-1999, Michael Steffen
The Structure of Semantic Memory in School-Age Children: An ERP Study, Hailey Verdick
Literacy and Democracy: Does a Causal Connection Exist?, Matt Wallack
Effects of Speaker-Identity Cueing on Listening Effort During Speech-in-Noise, Meghan Wickham, Jason Geller, and Inyong Choi
Honors Theses from 2019
Releasing the Fantasy: Wittgenstein's Critique of Consciousness, Killian Beck
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
Investigating the instruction of the therapeutic alliance in speech-language pathology clinical education, Lauren Brown
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
Connective Collective, Stacy Craft
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
Child Dental Fear and Anxiety: Examining the Effects of an Intervention, Jessica Hipnar
Flash, Harrison Hugen
Listener Judgements of Fluency and Perceptions of Aphasia, Nicole Khvalabov
Gun Policy and Youth Behavior, Ioannis Koutsonikolis
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
The Forest Seer's Almanac: Seasonal Cycles and the Artist-Naturalist Archetype, Leigha Meredith
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
Wordless Picture Books for the Young Gifted and Talented Learners, Nabeeha Pasha
To Kill a Stereotype: An Examination of Canonical Literature and Racial Representation in the Classroom, Tiphany Phan
The Role of Cognitive Control in Understanding Speech in Noise, Sarah Plock
Leveraging the Competition: How Wealth Managers Can Use Robo-Advisors to their Advantage, Chase Rourke
Simulating NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Games, Charles Ruff
Integrating Art into Instruction, Alexandria Sanford
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
Sensitivity of fine-grained phonetic variation in children who use cochlear implants, Abigail Simon
School of the Wild's Impact on Students' Attitudes Towards the Outdoors, Learning Science, and Sustainability, Rebekah Stelzle
From Feet to Flippers: The Evolution of Whales, Tyler Stone
Exhibiting Power: Proto-Museological Origins in the Empires of Antiquity, Callaghan Todhunter
The Materiality of the Spiritual, Allison Tokarski
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
The Victim’s Justice: Vengeance in Ancient Greco-Roman Homicide Law, Kate Whitaker
Nasofacial skeletal divergence of admixed African-Americans away from Equatorial African morphology, Alexis Williams
Slicing form and chair----a case study, Ninglu Zhang
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