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 visiting the University Archives in Tate Archives & Special Collections; contact archives@iwu.edu or visit Tate Archives and Special Collections for details.
Compositions from 2007
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
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
At the Grave Beneath the Oak, Benjamin Johnson
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
Seven Piano Pieces, Eric Malmquist
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
Acoustic Exploration for Prepared Piano, Jesse Schaar
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
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
Four Preludes for Piano, Luke Gullickson
String Quartet (Honors), Luke Gullickson
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 Letter, Benjamin Johnson
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
Solo for Vibraphone, Eric Malmquist
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
and I will open and close my petals, Molly M. McLay '06
The Speeches and Self-Fashioning of King James VI and I to the English Parliament, 1604-1624, Megan Mondi '06
"Spirit of Health" and "Goblin Damned": The Ghost of King Hamlet as a Symbol for the Religious Ambialence in England during the Religious Reformation, Bridget O'Connor '06
An Evaluation of Envy within Adolescent Friendships, Natalie A. Pawluk '06
The Cult of Millenial Motherhood and the Rhetoric of Female Reform: Domesticity, the Millenium, and Gender Constructions in Antebellum America, Erie M. Roberts '06
The Effect of Financial Ratios and Market Hype on Short Term Stock Prices, Adam F. Turk '06
"Loss of Estrus" and Concealed Ovulation in Human Evolution: A Reevaluation., Joshua S. Wagener '06
The Perceived Attractiveness of Adult Facial Prototypes, Ashley Whittington '06
"Quartet:" Dissecting a Story, Elizabeth H. Williams '06
Submissions from 2005
The Effects of β-Mercaptoethanol on the Specific Activity of Porphobilinogen Synthase Mutants of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Protein, Trefan Archibald '05
Concepts of Addiction: Assessing the Beliefs of Addiction in University and Treatment Center Populations, Krystle M. Balhan '05
Predicting Olympic Medal Counts: the Effects of Economic Development on Olympic Performance, Xun Bian '05
A Taxonomic Study of the Lichen Genera Canomaculina, Canoparmelia and Rimelia in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Erin Boente '05
Ethanol Effects on Reward Value Judgment Following Infusions into the Amygdala: Implications for Emotional Processing, Stephanie M. Brewer '05
Arabian Nights (The Framing of Sherazade), Alison Daigle '05
Perceived Quality of Asian Brands in the Automobile Industry, Adrien Gatesman '05
Entre Etre et Devenir La recherche de l'identité dans trois romans Maghrébins, Ariana Giles '05
Building a Viable Muslim Community in Central Illinois: The Development and Implementation of Acculturation Strategies at the Islamic Center of Bloomington-Normal, Daniel Glade '05
Borrowed Meanings: Case Studies of Katsina and Dreamcatcher Traditions, Angela Glasker '05
Piano Concerto "Pacific", Luke Gullickson
Parent-Teacher Collaboration for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Teacher Training, Amber Hays '05
Climbing Down the Ladder: Inwardness and Abstraction in Wittgenstein's Philosophy with Reference to Kierkegaard, Lisa Hoelle '05
Role-Taking vs. cultural identity: Defining disability in an able-bodied environment, Elizabeth G. Holman '05
Hume's Objection to the Thomistic Doctrine on Suicide, Emily M. Kelahan '05
What a Beast Art Thou!, Eric Malmquist
Beyond the Bun: An Ethnographic Examination of the Meanings and Significance of Hair in Samoa, Laura Myford '05
Photometry of Outer-belt Objects, Gautham S. Narayan '05
if: Poems from the Unstandardized Perspective, Douglas Pietrzak '05
Language Deficiency and the Occupational Attainment of Mexican Immigrants, Elizabeth Planas '05
Normative Failure in Blackburn's Ruling Passions, William R. Porter '05
Using Binary Space Subdivision to Optimize Primary Ray Processing in Ray-Tracing Algorithms, Mark Portolese '05
Comparative Study: Factors that Affect Foreign Currency Reserves in China and India, Ana Maria Romero '05
Reforming the Stage and Screen: How Expectations, Audiences, and Economics Shaped the Film and Theatre Censorship Movements in Early-1930s New York, Jenna Simpson '05
The Effect of Monopsony Power in Major League Baseball on the Salaries of Players with Less Than Six Years in the Majors, Andrew Tarman '05
A Preliminary Evaluation of Heartland Head Start, Michelle Uhlenkott '05
An Investigation of the Influence of Hope on the Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among African American College Students, Jennifer L. VanderZee '05