Honors Research is a hallmark of an IWU liberal arts education. Eligible students are invited to embark upon a year-long research or creative arts project with a faculty mentor and a committee of faculty from within and outside of their major department.
Any entry that does not have a pdf attached has been withheld from the repository at the author’s request. Bona fide researchers may be consult these works by contacting Tate Archives and Special Collections.
Submissions from 2017
Counting Multigraph Pairs of λKn, William A. O'Connor
Accessibility to Food Intolerance and Food Allergy Resources in McLean County, Illinois: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Study, Raelynn Parmely
Examining the Evolution of Cognition Using a Breed Differences Approach, Eric Rydell
Nurses’ Knowledge of Alcohol-Interactive Medications, Kyle Serafico
The Well-Tempered Tuba (Honors), Jacob Taitel
Sexual Slander in the Ancient Mediterranean From the Late Republic Through Early Christianity, Jenni Tucker
Encoding Lexicographical Ordering Constraints in SAT, Wenting Zhao
Submissions from 2016
The Local American Voter: Mayoral Election Turnout in Midsized American Cities, Austin Aldag
Dog Self-Control: The Extent and Limitations, Stephanie M. AuBuchon
Elucidating a Mechanism of Growth Cessation in Heterocysts of Anabaena sp. PC7120, Blake Beehler
National Identity, Historical Narratives, and the Fate of Poland in World War II, Ziven K. Chinburg
Anatomical effects of exercise following ischemic insult in young and aged c57BL/6 mice, Mark Curtis
Emotional and Social Responses to Stargazing: What Does It Mean To Lose the Dark?, Analeigh Dao
The Cloud Neighborhood, Kristina Dehlin
Multidecomposition and multipacking of complete graph into graph pair of order 6, Yizhe Gao
It Takes a [Latina] Candidate: Discovering the Motivations That Lead Latina Elected Officials to Run for Office, Melissa Guzmán
Actores transnacionales: un estudio en cinema internacional, Lydia Hartlaub
Decomposition of complete directed graphs into directed graph pairs of order 3 and 4, Jacob Henry
Differences in Spatial Cognition in Captive Tigers and Bears, Jessica Kraut
Income Mobility Through Education in the United States, Maxwell Leonard
Pimping Caterpillars: Select Constructed and Conscious Performances of Black Masculinity from the 'Minstrel' to the 'Real Negus', Anastasia Lowenthal
Effects of Exercise and Good Limb Training on Functional Outcome Following Stroke in C57BL/7 Mice, Amanda Macuiba
The Effect of China's One-Child Policy on Male and Female Immigrant Earnings: Does it Pay to be an Only Child?, Stephanie McAtee
Neural and Behavioral Effects of Social Exclusion on Self-Regulatory Control, Anna C. Moczynski
Stress & Well-being: The Role of Relationship Quality with Adult Children, Niccole A. Nelson
One-to-One Computers in the Classroom: One Size Fits All?, Anna Oliveri
Second-Generation Immigrants: The Effect of Parental Nativity Status on Earnings, Karen Silverman
An Economic Study of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Tyler Stacey
Neural and Behavioral Effects of Social Exclusion on Self-Regulation, Natalie R. Weimer
Oscillating Chemical Reactions, Ruomeng Zhang
Submissions from 2015
Anxiety Sensitivity, Stress, and Problematic Drinking Behaviors Among College Students, Kathryn V. Bulandr
Conflicting Perspectives: Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Historiography, Stephanie L. Carlson
Between History and Fiction: Visualizing Contemporary Polish Cultural Identity, Dominique Castle
"Unos seres nacen para vivir": un análisis psicosocial de Nada, Nathan Douglas
"O! My Son": Musical Interpretations of a Father's Grief in the Age of Jacobean Rhetoric (Honors), Hannah Eby
Do Dogs Experience Cognitive Dissonance?, Ethan Fischer
Domestic Dogs ' (Canis lupus familiaris) Evaluation of Moral and Immoral Actors, Katherine E. Ford
Examining Whether Body Image Dissatisfaction is a Predictor of Risky Sexual Behavior, Nikki M. Greenhill
The Impact of Dexamethasone on Behavioral Development in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Casie L. Henrikson
Unleashing Music's Hidden Blueprint: An Analysis of Mathematical Symmetries Used in Music (Honors), Natalie Hoijer
The Effects of Good Limb Training on the Corpus Callosum in C57BL/6 Mice, Ryan Holden
Economic Analysis of the Labor Market Experience of African Immigrants in the U.S., Ene Ikpebe
Illinois (Honors), Luke J. McLoughlin
Pushing the Limit: An Analysis of the Women of the Severan Dynasty, Colleen Melone
Your Story Matters: Theatre for Community in Practice with the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal, Sarah Menke
Defying the United States: General Douglas MacArthur, Luke G. Mueller
Construction of Spline Type Orthogonal Scaling Functions and Wavelets, Tung Nguyen
Intra-regional Currency Linkages and the Evolution of Exchange Rate Regime of the ASEAN Region, Tung Nguyen
A Computational Study of Icart's Function, Thomas Simmons
Synthesis and Screen of a Proline-Rich Combinatorial Library Towards the Identification of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin Polymerization Inhibitors, Laura Steenberge
Levels of Empathy in Undergraduate Healthcare Professions Students, Ashley M. Tegge
Compensated Cadaver Organ Donation: Will a small fee waiver work?, Daniel Truesdale
Two Rosa-type Labelings of Uniform k-distant Trees and a New Class of Trees, Kimberly Wenger Diller
Landfall, Michael Wettengel
Neural Effects of Varying Levels of Social Re-Inclusion After Varying Periods of Social Exclusion, Jessica M. White
Submissions from 2014
The Sustained Impact of an Engaging Diversity Program on College Seniors’ Color-Blind Racial Attitudes, Josefina Banales
Comparative Perspective of Regional Level Bank Profitability, Alexandra Bechtel
Development of a Measure of Nurse Vigilance from the Patient ' s Perspective: A Content Validity Study, Jennifer Boll
Carving the Perfect Citizen: The Adventures of Italian Pinocchio in the Soviet Union and the United States, Rachel Branson
Peace With No Thing, Patrick Cavanaugh
Neural and Behavioral Effects of Being Excluded by the Targets of a Witnessed Social Exclusion, Kaitlin R. Dunn
Bruce Prince-Joseph: Toccata Giovane (Honors), Lucas W. Fletcher
Come On Down: Investigating an Informational Strategy to Debias the Anchoring Heuristic, Melissa A. Fuesting and Ellen Furlong
The Effect of Relative Wage on Hours Worked, Mark Giannis
School Nurse Job Satisfaction, Provision of Health Education, and Student Attendence, Molly G. Guenette
Normative Beliefs as a Mediator between Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating, Antonia Jurkovic
The Effects of Background Factors on AFQT Score, Jaret Kanarek
Self-Reported Experiences of Dating Abuses among College Students in Romantic Relationships, Melissa A. Kinsella
Estimating the Effect of Home Court Advantage on Wins in the NBA, Jason Kotecki
How do bond specific, firm specific and macroeconomic factors influence corporate credit spreads?, Michael Mayberger
Evidence-Based Practice in Action: Ensuring Quality of Pediatric Assessment Frequency, Katelyn McDonald
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) for Adopted Children Receiving Therapy in an Outpatient Setting, Lauren E. Nielsen
There --> Here, Joe O'Brien
Thank You for Calling, Colleen O'Connor
Does Educational Inequality Explain Income Inequality Across Countries?, Claudia Petcu
Preyer, Mack Rivkin
Ostracism: How Witnessing the Perpetrators Influences Subsequent Experiences of the Target, Robert J. Romay
Effect of Three Informational Strategies on Coworker Attitudes towards Hiring People with Autism, Kathryn Thomas
Open Trade Policies: Filthy Fog of the Future?, Erin Wachtel
Frontal Lobe Theta Activity in Socially Ostracized Individuals: Understanding Social Ostracism through EEG, Victoria Whitaker
Submissions from 2013
20th Century Trends in the Rhythmic Interpretation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Honors), Chelsey Belt
From the Philippines to The Field Museum: A Study of Ilongot (Bugkalot) Personal Adornment, Sarah E. Carlson
Long-Term Effects of Non-Paretic Limb Training in Mice, Kimberly A. Cheffer
The effect of community participation on subjective well-being in community dwelling elders, Elise English
Singing to the Spirits: Cultural and Spiritual Traditions Embodied in the Native American Gourd Dance, Alicia M. Gummess
Assessing Happiness: How Economic Factors Measure Up, Elizabeth K. Hancock
Filling a House with Meaning: The Construction of a Chicago Housing Cooperative, Laura Hones
Transforming the Farm Bill: The Local Food Movement and Political Change, Danny C. Kenny
Voice and Resistance in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer: Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Écriture Féminine, Maria M. Klingele
Why They Rise Up, or Not: A Study of Linguistic Minorities and Ethnic-National Mobilization, Yelei Kong
Potential Factors Influencing Leniency toward Veterans who Commit Crimes, Amanda Larsen
Displacement in D.C.: A Case Study of Gentrification and Granger-Causality in Our Nation's Capitol, Will Lawrence
What Causes Bank Failures During the Recent Economic Recession?, Qingyu Li
Perceptions of the Underrepresentation of Women in Agriculture and Motives for Movement into the Industry, Jennifer Long
Analyzing and Extending an Infeasibility Analysis Algorithm, Ammar Malik