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 2009
Length of Contracts and the Effect on the Performance of MLB Players, Katie Stankiewicz, '09
Explaining Ethnic Peace: The Importance of Institutions, Rebecca Tong, '09
Does Perfecting Your Day Keep the Doctor Away?: Examining the Roles of Affect and Coping in the Association Between Perfectionism and Physical Health, Carly A. Visk, '09
Voices from the Darkness: A House of Leaves Experience, Melanie Waltman, '09
Bank Ownership and Management Structure Affects on Principal-Agent Costs and Returning Capital, Joel Wicks, '09
The War of Images: An Artistic Approach to the Parting of the Ways, Kristin Zavislak, '09
Submissions from 2008
Small Banking Conditions and their Impact on the Economic Activity of US Firms, Stephanie Bannos '08
The Effect of Gender Inequality on Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study, Quentin Brummet '08
Validation of a Measure of Affective, Inferential, and Holistic Intuition, Lauren A. Carlson '08
The "Evolution" of Media: The Influence of a Media Literacy Campaign on Self Esteem and Body Image, Vasiliki D. Dremonas '08
Brazilian Ethanol and U.S. Industrial Organization: An Analysis of Bilateral Trade Barrier Removal, Michael X. Feeney '08
An Economic Analysis of the Effects of Steroids on Season Best Performances in Track and Field, Allison Fisher '08
The Effect of Changes in the Federal Funds Rate on Stock Markets: A Sector-Wise Analysis, Kunaey Garg '08
Responding to Romanticism, Valerie Higgins '08
Family Experience with Eating Disorders Scale: Exploring Reliability and Validity and Evaluating the Clinical Utility of its Use in Treatment, Kathleen M. Hoff
From Mario to Manhunt: The Effects ofViolent Video Game Content and Competition on Hostility and Aggressive Cognitions, Courtney Lee '08
"How skinny I got, and how fucking weird I was": Michael Shannon, Sarah Kane, Woyzeck and Experiential Theatre, Marti Lyons '08
Transparent Politics or Empty Legislation?, Connor McGee '08
The Effects of Social Ostracism on Frontal Lobe Electroencephalogram Activity, Jennifer A. Morozink '08
Challenges to Implementing the Greenhouse Gas Inventory at Illinois Wesleyan University, Leslie Morrison '08
The Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Behavioral and Neuroelectric Indices of Cognition in Young Adults, Elizabeth K. Mraz '08
Visualizing a Fourth Dimension: Hypercubic Resistor Networks, Andrew J. Nelson '08
Goddesses, Priestesses, Queens and Dancers: Images of Women on Sasnian Silver, Mary Olson '08
Increasing Condom-Related Behavioral Intentions, Motivation, and Willingness via Social Ties in Advertisements, Marylee Richardson '08
Behavioral Responses to Predictable and Unpredictable Competitors and c-Fos Expression in the Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens, Jennifer Schnupp '08
Demonstratives and Cognitive Significance, Adam Simon '08
Stock Index Pricing with Random Walk and Agent-Based Models, Scott N. Swisher IV '08
Determinants of Crack Cocaine Trial and Addiction, Elizabeth Taylor '08
The Effects of the Norepinephrine Agonist, Guanfacine, on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairments in the Rat, Andrew P. Tharp '08
Physicalism and Phenomenal Experience, Nicholas Timme '08
The Vibrational Behavior of a Cured Carbon Fiber Disk and a Tennis Racket, Nick Timme '08
Promoting Environmentally Responsible Behaviors Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques, Sarah L. Tribble '08
Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination and its Potential Effects on Eggshell Characteristics of Dickcissels (Spiza americana), Bridget Wall '08
Submissions from 2007
The Effects of International Diversification on Portfolio Risk, Angela Agati '07
From Matthew to the Mishnah: A Study of the Sources of The Protevangelium of James, Laura Arnold '07
Green Chemistry Using Bismuth Salts Bismuth (III) Iodide Catalyzed Deprotection of Acetals and Ketals in H2O, Aaron D. Bailey '07
After the Fact (Honors), Brian Baxter
Downtown Club Dreams (Honors), Brian Baxter
Fanfare for the Black Cat (Honors), Brian Baxter
Kyrie (Honors), Brian Baxter
Passing Tour (Honors), Brian Baxter
People Movement (Honors), Brian Baxter
Vermont (Honors), Brian Baxter
Light the Way: Song Cycle for Baritone Voice and Piano (Honors), Brian Baxter and Joshua Ziemann
Globalization and Gangs: The Evolution of Central American, Patrick Beary '07
Measuring The Impact of Urban Amenities on Average Wages in Metropolitan Areas, Benjamin Burry '07
French Framing of Anna Karenina: Confused Identities in Russian Aristocratic Culture, Devin Conley '07
Reducing HIV Stigma: A Common Group Identity Perspective, Heather Deutsch '07
Trade Liberalization and Environmental Justice in the Ivorian Cocoa Industry, Anne M. Fell '07
Risk Management through Derivatives Securitization, Stefan Filip '07
Bipolar Disorder, Disclosure, and Their Effects on Employment Opportunities, Melissa B. Finch '07
Practical Problems and Decision Making: The Effect of Strategy and Experience, Sarah Flores '07
Exploring the Effects of Age at Arrival and Region of Origin on the Earnings of Immigrant Physicians in the U.S., Matthew Goergen '07
String Quartet (Honors), Luke Gullickson
Transformations of Menace: Naomi Wallace's Multiplicity of Threat and the Legacy of Harold Pinter, Charles Haugland '07
An Empirical Investigation of Poison Pill Use in the Banking Industry, Zachary Hooper '07
Influence of Contrast Effects on Attractiveness of Individual Faces and Facial Prototypes, Kelly Irvin '07
Exploring the Causality between the Pollution Haven Hypothesis and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, Brian W. Jbara '07
Role of the Medial Septal Area in Regulating Prefrontal Theta Rhythm in Rats, Leo Kelly '07
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Development and Aggregate Welfare in Developing Countries, Todd J. Kumler '07
Symphony for Strings and Percussion (Honors), Eric Malmquist
Analyzing the Relationship between change in Money Supply and Stock Market Prices, Biniv Maskay '07
Social Ostracism and the Effect on Electroencephalogram Waves, Genevieve Nehrt '07
Effects of Guanfacine on Mnemonic Processing Following Lesion to Rat Medial Septum: A Novel Treatment Approach to Alzheimer's Memory Type Deficits, Mark D. Opal '07
Rapid Face Detection using Independent Component Analysis, Aditya Rajgarhia '07
Reactions to Ostracism and Their Predictors, Kelly J. Sanderson '07
The Effect of Mood and Individual Differences on Implicit Learning, Kathryn M. Sentman '07
Las sendas del desencanto: Los mares del sur de Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Rachel Slough '07
Of Minorities, Markets and Mongols: Re-imagining the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Rationality in Russian Center/Periphery Conflict, Brett A. Strand '07
Stepping through the Thin, Crackly Crust of the Present: Historians, Biographers, Novelists and Jack Burden, Lindsay A. Theisen '07
Titus and the Queen: Julia Berenice and the Opposition to Titus' Succession, Michael S. Vasta '07
Raiding the Archive: A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Rebecca Welzenbach '07
Satiation, Habituation, and Elasticity: An Economic Analysis, Amanda Zang '07
Much Ado About Nothing's Criticism of the Renaissance Patriarchy, Kristen Zomparelli '07
Submissions from 2006
Limits of Diagonalization and the Polynomial Hierarchy, Kyle Barkmeier '06
The Role of Fault in Defensive Killing, Adam Betz '06
Integration of Women into the Flute Section of Orchestras from 1950 to the Present (Honors), Deborah Boersma
Who's in Charge? An Examination of Societal Impacts on Gender Roles in American and English Witchcraft, Austin J. Buscher '06
The Effect of Oil Prices on Exchange Rates: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic, Jennifer C. Dawson '06
The Effects of 9/11 on the Fire Fighter Labor Market, Kathleen E. Frawley '06
The Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism, Michael J. Friedman '06
Unsupervised Learning to Improve Anomaly Detection, Daniel H. Garrette '06
A Survey of Foreign-Educated Nurses: Workforce Experience, Melissa Giegerich
Effects of the Federal Income Tax Structure and Social Security on the Changing US Family Composition, Adam M. Gray '06
Economic Development and the Gender Wage Gap, Sherri Haas '06
Detecting Suicide Risk in Adolescents in an Emergency Department: An Implementation Study, Rebecca L. Hahn
Team Success and Personnel Allocation under the National Football League Salary Cap, John Haugen '06
Out of the Movement and on to Today: The Contemporary Impact of the Students for a democratic Society, Lindsay M. Hawley '06
The Pricing Effects of European Union Insurance, Andrew Heikes '06
High School Dropout Determinants: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Learning Disabilities, Adrienne Ingrum '06
Social Interactions of Siblings of Children with Autism: A Pilot Experiment, Sarah Janota '06
The Relationship between Gay-Related Stress and Ethnicity for Homosexual and Bisexual Males, Keyona Jarrett '06
The Gender Wage Ratio: Does it Differ Between Races?, Britanny Kirkpatrick '06
Intuition Versus Analysis- Which Process is Most Appropriate for Solving Everyday Problems with Differing Levels of Social Content and Complexity?, Amy E. Kowalski '06
The Development and Structure of Feeding Arms in Antarctic Species of Pterobranchs (Pterobranchia, Hemichordata), Catherine Krahe '06
The Development of Perfectionism among Adolescents: Comparing the Influence of Friends and Parents, Heather Kwoka '06
The Gospel of Thomas and the Historical Jesus, Jennifer LaBrenz '06
Serving Sophomore Students, Jessica S. Lothman '06
Conflict in Adolescent Friendships Across Cultures: Indonesia, South Korea and the United States, Melissa McCandless '06
Emotional Knowledge Development in Preschoolers Receiving Head Start Services, Meghan E. McGrady '06