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 2003
Benjamin Franklin's Female and Male Pseudonyms: Sex, Gender, Culture, and Name Suppression from Boston to Philadelphia and Beyond, Jared C. Calaway '03
The Virtual Beta: An Interactive Fish Using Java Script and CSS, Lauren B. Carroll '03
The Effect of Supply and Demand Factors on the Affordability of Rental Housing, Jamie L. Davenport '03
There's No Business Like Show Business: The Business of Theatre, Danielle M. Drogos '03
The Truth About Income Inequality, Juliana Giraldo '03
Atypical Estar: Innovative Vs. Conservative Uses of Estar in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alissa Hoffenberg
Soft Money and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Cameo M. Kaisler '03
Two Facets of Competitiveness and Their Influence on Psychological Adjustment, Elaine Kayhan '03
'Make Yourself for a Person', Anzia Yezierska's Alternative Americanization, Amy M. Kiel '03
Regulating Babylon: Religion and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina, Sarah E. King '03
Phase Transitions Occurring in Models of Neighborhood Racial Segregation, Alexander J. Laurie '03
Masculinity and Homophobia: Does Masculine Threat Increase Homophobic Behavior?, Julie M. Longo '03
Insight into Illinois Wesleyan University Study Abroad, Christopher B. Lyons '03
The Importance of Mass Culture for Democratization, James D. Melton '03
Automated Annotation of Heegaard Diagrams, Dmitry Mogilevsky '03
Contentious Policies: The Experiment with Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions to Public Universities, Elizabeth R. Notz '03
The Effects of a Parent-Child Communication Intervention on the Worries of Siblings of Children with Autism, Erin L. O'Neill '03
The Photochemistry of Nitrous Acid in an Aqueous Matrix, Jay S. Ratliff '03
Confederation at the Tip of a Sword: How the Threat of American Aggression Created the Dominion of Canada, Katrina L. Roloff '03
Narrative Understanding and Theory of Mind in Preschoolers, Arpita A. Shah '03
Threatening Masculinity and Its Effects on Antigay Attitudes and Behaviors, Frances C. Shen '03
The Role of Prefrontal Theta Reset in Learning and Memory, Stephen W. Smith '03
On vs. Off: Coronary Bypass Surgery from a Patient's Perspective, Ann Steele
P-FASTUS: Information Extraction System Implemented in a Constraint Programming Language -SICStus Prolog, Rajen Subba '03
To Ourselves and Others: Toward a Human Ethics of Relation, Zachariah B. Summers '03
Beneath the Red Curtain: Intentions and Motivations Behind an Authoritarian Regime's Move Toward Democracy, Andrew G. Sur '03
Enduring Deep Sorrow: Depression Among Religious College Women, Kara E. Wolff '03
The Development of a Measure of Men's Objectification of Women, Liza Zolot '03
Characterizing Conformational Changes Along the Dimerization Helix of the Global Regulator, FNR, Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Melanie Zupancic '03
Submissions from 2002
See Jill Paint: An Experiment in Queer Film, Sarah M. Aubry '02
Gender Differences in Depression In HIV-Infected Patients, Sarah L. Beyers '02
My Little Force Explodes: A Re-creation of the Assembly of Emily Dickinson's Fasicicle 18, Katie Brokaw '02
Examining the Cognitive and Physiological Processes Underlying Traumatic Disclosure, Anna Carlson '02
Masculine Threat and Anti-Gay Attitude, Chad Corbley '02
Multicultural Education in Head Start Classrooms, Cynthia Czerwin '02
The Effects of Family, Social and Background Factors on Children's Educational Attainment, Megan De Serf '02
The use of a genetic algorithm to evolve networks for a natural language processing task, Alexander E. Dimov '02
A Question of Motivations: Determining Why Donor Countries Give Aid, Sarah Fuller '02
The Demand for Marijuana, Cocaine, and Heroin, Katherine Hampson '02
Design and Construction of a Radio Frequency Plasma Device, Matthew Highland '02
Czech Voucher Privatization: A Case of Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Katia Hristova '02
The Effects of a Parent-Child Communication Activity on the Worries of Siblings of Children with Autism, Sara M. Irwin '02
Market Concentration: The Effects of Technology, David Janashvili '02
Constructing a Common Ukrainian Identity: An Empirical Study, Igor Khrestin '02
Bubble Mania or Not?, Justin Leverton '02
The Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Soci-Economic Development, Anisha Madan '02
The Effects of Malpractice on Medical Specialties, Melinda Mannlein '02
Cultural Scripts of Parental Intervention in Conflict, Kristina L. McDonald '02
Analysis ofthe Future Tense in Two Argentinean Cities, Denise E. Miller '02
Development of a Data Acquisition and Analysis System, Michael V. Mores '02
The Benefit of Code Switching within a Bilingual Education Program, Susan Pollard '02
Exclusive Liberation and Lesbian Suicide in Interwar Japan, Scott Reynen '02
English Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Mexican Immigrants, Jeremy Sanford '02
The Cellular Divide: A Comparative Analysis of Mobile Phone Usage in Spain and the United States, Deborah J. Slezak '02
Illumination and Food Deprivation as Determinants for Hoarding in Golden Hampsters, Erin Smith '02
Evaluating the Collaborative Efforts of Teachers and Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum, Lindsey Vacco '02
Submissions from 2001
Development of Human and Physical Capital and Change in the Structure of Exports in Developing Countries: An Analytical Study, Pritam Banjeree '01
Systematic Relationships of Natalid and Furipterid Bats, Based on Hyoid Morphology (Chiroptera: Natalidae and Furipteridae), Kosha N. Baxi '01
Campaigning in America: Captain Johann Ewald's Hessians in the American Revolution, Gregory D. Bereiter '01
Neotropical Nectar-feeding Bats (Family Phyllostomidae) Revisited: Lingual Data Support a Recently-Proposed Molecular Phylogeny, Shawn De La Mar '01
Relational and Overt Aggression in Middle Childhood: A Comparison of Hypothetical and Reported Conflicts, Jillian M. Denoma '01
Code-Switching in the Hispanic Community of Bloomington, Illinois: A Case Study, Rachel Dziallo
Croatia's Leap Toward Gender Equality in the Parliament: Rules Versus Players, Josip Glaurdic '01
The Urban Response to the Rural Land Reform During the Chinese Civil War: 1945-1949, Elizabeth Grad '01
Mexican-American Women in the United States: Acculturation Experiences, Language and Self-identity, Diana Hammer '01
Neighborhood Effects and the Development of Cognitive Ability: A Re-examination of The Bell Curve, Amber Munday '01
Second Language Acquisition and its Practical Application: Evaluating French Textbooks at the Secondary School Level, Jacelyn O'Roark '01
Cabaret: The Design and Production Process, Jennifer J. Owen '01
Lipid Biochemistry of House Wren Egg Yolk and Possible Effects on Incubation Period, Brian J. Payne '01
Let Us In, Let Us In: A Study of Female Representation in Post-Communist Legislatures, Rebecca Ray '01
Trembling for the Nation: Illinois Women and the Election of 1860, Erika Rozinek '01
Cognitive and Physiological Processes Underlying Written Disclosure, Leila Setork '01
Explaining the Wage Gap Between Contingent and Noncontingent Workers, Nicole Skalski '01
L'intertextualité dans les œuvres d'Anne Hébert: Le lien entre la voix poetiqué, la voix narrative, et la voix féminine, Karla Stoesser '01
Misery and Militarization: High Military Expenditure and Minimal Development in India, Michelle L. Stone '01
Unity Before Orthodoxy: An Investigation into Second and Third Century Resurrection Theologies, Sharon L. Stowe '01
Lewis Acid Catalyzed Reactions of Aziridino-Olefins, Steven Tymonko '01
Imaginative Geography, and the Perspective of the Other in Russian Literature, Joshua Wansley '01
A Case of the Phillips Curve in the Formation of a Monetary Union, Yuet Wen Wan '01
Submissions from 2000
Effect of Structured Work Systems on Task Performance in Children with Autism, Kari Beth Adkins '00
Loneliness and Self-Esteem at Different Levels of the Self, Kiley L. Bednar '00
Mutagenesis and Cloning of Photosynesis Genes of the Filamentous Bacterium, Chloroflexus aurantiacus, Kristi L. Berger '00
Vse Luchshe Detiam: All the Best to the Children, Soviet Ideology in Children's Fairy Tale Cartoons, Matthew Boyd '00
A Study of the Solvolysis Reactions of Tetrahydrofurfuryl Tosylate, Rebecca Centko '00
Holographic Optical Tweezers: Development and Analysis of the First Holodeck Prototype, Matthew T. Dearing '00
Behavioral Contrast: A New Solution to an Old Problem, Sara J. Estle '00
An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Fertility, Michelle Y. Ewert '00
LaSalle's Invariance Principle on Measure Chains, Anders Floor '00
United States and Indonesian Children's Reports of Intimacy in their Same-Sex Friendships: Gender, Developmental, and Cultural Differences, Andrea M. Fosco '00
Integrating the Fine Arts Across the Elementary Curriculum, Emily Gilbert '00
Sex and Gender Through an Analytic Eye: Butler on Freud and Gender Identity, Anna Gullickson '00
Foreign Language Textbooks in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy, Kristina Harlan '00
U.S. and Indonesian Children's Descriptions of Relational Aggression: Gender, Development and Cultural Comparisons, Elizabeth A. Jansen '00
The Integration of Capital Markets: A Study of Market Integration Principles and the Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks on National Stock Market Comovements, Kristopher Kaneta '00
Informational Asymmetry and the Demand for IPOs: An Explanation of Underpricing, Peter Karlis '00
Determinants of Economic Growth in East Asia: A Linear Regression Model, Elizabeth Kowalski '00
Brown-headed Cowbird Brood Parasitism in Bison-grazed and Ungrazed Tallgrass Prairie, Alexandra C. Latham '00
Factors Influencing Foreign Direct Investment in Lesser Developed Countries, Jason Lewis '00
The Power of Perception and Origin Myth: Reconsidering the Origins of the Arthurian Legend, Rae Marie Marotta '00
A Test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve For Local and Global Pollutants, Robin Meers '00