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 1996
Rats in Bliss: A Minimal-Deviation Model of Ratio Schedule Performance, Jennifer Bredthauer '96
Automobile Leasing Versus Installment Loan Credit: A Comparative Analysis, Susan E. Brown '96
Macroelements and Orthogonal Multiresolutional Analysis, Jonathan M. Corbett '96
The B-spline Wavelet Recurrence Relation and B-spline Wavelet Interpolation, Patrick J. Crowley '96
Pursuit of a Chiral Amino Aldehyde Intermediate in the Synthesis of (+)-Obafluorin, a B-Lactone Antibiotic, Jim Cwik '96
Someone to Care: An Ethnographic Study of Full Gospel Christian Church, Tricia A. Dailey '96
Radioimmunoassay Analysis of Testosterone Levels in Clutches of House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) Egg Yolks, Kimberly A. Fryzel '96
A Solution to the Shortage of Capital in the Property Insurance Industry, Amy Gebauer '96
The Great Women Heart: The Women's Congresses at the World's Colombian Exposition, 1893, Jennifer Greenwald '96
Immunolesions Using Site Specific Injections of 192-lgG Saporin into the Basal Forebrain Fail to Affect Radial Arm Maze Performance in the Male Rat, Lesley J. Hickman '96
The Effects of Visual Field Size on Search Performance, Heather A. Lang '96
The Effects of Blocking on Selective Attention in Visual Search, Kristen Lewandowski '96
The Synthesis of an Organophosphorus Analog of Acetylcholine, Jay-James R. Miller '96
Habitat Edge and Nest Predation in House Wrens, Daniel Moore '96
PowerFAIDS: Building a Road to Financial Aid Efficiency, Lauri Nichols '96
Improved Data Migration and Processing for Projecting the Financial Aid Budget, Jeffery L. Olson '96
This Great and Sacred Trust: Robert R. Moton's Legacy at Tuskegee Institute, 1916-1930, David J. Paul '96
The Political and Economic Factors Affecting the U.S. Sugar Subsidy Program, Anne Peterson '96
Descent into Chaos: Ways of Reading St. Thecla, Betsy Phillips '96
The Role of the PBGC in Pension Guarantees: An analysis of efficiency and effectiveness, Jason C. Richards '96
A Different Approach to Term vs. Whole Life Insurance, Neil Rubenstein '96
An Empirical Analysis of Dutch Disease: Developing and Developed Countries, David Rudd '96
Predicting the Divorce Decisions of Young Women Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Angela A. Smith '96
A House Divided: Party Polarization on Welfare Issues, Amy Stewart '96
Toward an Efficient Method of Detecting Cocaine Metabolite in Urine, C.J. Summers '96
Two Problems in the Philosophy of Mind, C.J. Summers '96
Cultural Wage Differentials Among United States Immigrants, William J. Takahashi '96
Living With Unstable Coronary Artery Disease, Marcie M. Tempel
Estrogen Levels in House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) Egg Yolks, V. Brook Waggoner '96
Accounting For Derivatives, Craig Ward '96
Submissions from 1995
Income Inequality in Developing Countries, Baindu Banya '95
A Possible Age-Related Neurological Mechanism in the Formation of Problem-Solving Set, Catherine J. Blair '95
Writing Russian Women's Lives: Exploring the "Unwritten" Autobiographies of Karolina Pavlova and Olga Berrgoltts, Kristen Bleakley '95
Long-Term Effectiveness of Combined Alprazolam and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Panic Disorder, Steven M. Bond '95
Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in the Neotropical Migratory Passerine Birds, Birthe Borup
On the Mechanism of Giant Electromotility in Polyelectrolyte Gels, Kimberly Ann Branshaw '95
Using the Iowa Screening Battery for Mental Decline as a Predictor of Functional Impairment, Laura L. Chapman '95
Socialization of Emotion: The Role of Parental Discipline in Infant Anger Expression, Jennifer L. Cioni '95
Visual Attention Differences Across The Lifespan: A Study of Inhibition, Emily H. Cointin '95
The Stock Market as a Leading Economic Indicator: An Application of Granger Causality, Brad Comincioli '95
Error Recognition in Calculus Problems: What Characterizes Expertise?, Alisha M. Crawley '95
Quest for Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910), Jennifer L. Cutsforth '95
Novel Swelling Structures and Electromotility Response in Polyelectrolyte Gels, Dana Deardorff
The Duality of Soviet Culture: Manufactured and Organic Cultures, Mark Thomas Fletcher '95
The Effect of Nations' Economic Linkages on the Co-Movement of their Stock Markets, Niveditha Hasthak '95
The Living Metaphor of Orlando: Duration, Gender, and the Artistic Self, Michele L. Herrman '95
Ignition and Environmental Effects of Wildfires as Related to Giant Impacts, Gregory S. Kufner
The Effects of Circadian Entrainment on Operant Conditioning, Karen M. Lionello '95
The Scope and Practice of Rural Nurse Practitioners in Central Illinois, Lisa L. Lovegren
Comparison of the Effects of Saporin-IgG Injections into the Nucleus Basalis Magnocellularis and Medial Septal Area of Male Rat as Assessed by the Morris Water Maze Task, Alexander R. V. McCampbell '95
The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 1882-1914, Lorena S. Neal '95
Dancin' to Freedom: A Historical Analysis of the Rise of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Deborah Obalil '95
Examining the Role of Agitation and Aggression in Perceived Caregiver Burden, Anthony R. Peterson '95
Defining the Recognition of K^(bm3) and L^d by the Alloreactive 2C T Cell, Kevin Ratliff '95
Reinforcer Demand Elasticity Under Direct Competition Between Rats, Susan L. Reynolds '95
The Effects of High School Mathematics and Science Classes on Wages, Kara Joy Rocheleau '95
Risk and College Majors, Dan Scholz '96
Division of Labor and the Economic Determinants of Divorce, Virginia (Ginny) Shull '95
A Legacy of Love, Jennifer Shurtleff '95
The Case for High Returns: A Study of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, David Taylor '95
Bright Hopes and Bloody Realities: The Diplomatic Preclude to the Winter War, Steven D. Webster '95
The Role of Supeman in American Culture: 1938 to 1955, Elayne Wehrly '95
Predictors of Relapse and Long-Term Recovery, Leann Westerhold '95
Photochemistry of the Nitrite Ion, Laura J. Wilson '95
"Til Death do us Part:" Lyric Opera in Two Acts (Honors), D. Christopher Wolff
Cumulative Voting and Single Member Districts in Industrial Organization, Joshua Yount '95
Submissions from 1994
Connections, Symbols, and the Meaning of Intelligence, Peter M. Asaro '94
Financial Aid Budget Projection Methodology, Amy N. Baird '94
Burnout, Social Support, and Coping in Crisisline Volunteers, Lisa Beal '94
Behavior and Thought Change After a Self-Improvement Program: Studying the Effects of Environmental and Other Factors on the Transfer of Training, Jennifer Bernstein '94
Advertising Aimed Toward Working Women Before and After World War II, Jennifer Bowman '94
Inflation in the European Community: A Study Before and After German Unification, Ann C. Chalstrom '94
The Photochemistry of the Nitrite Ion, Deborah Anna Cull '94
Investments in Human Capital and the Poverty Transition, John A. DeHerrera '94
Identification of Inner-City, African-American Caregivers' Informational Needs in Providing Care for Their Children, Stacie De Lair
The Establishment of Illinois Riverboat Gambling and its Impact on Alton, Peoria, and Joliet, Julie A. Dressler '94
Developmental Factors in Visual Search: The Inhibition Deficit Hypothesis in a Feature-Integration Task, Stacy M. Forbes '94
The Scope of Abortion Rights Since Roe v. Wade and the Next Tier: The Right to Access, Thomas Wayne Gaylord '94
Course Scheduling Software: Reference Manual, Saadatu Gobir
Post-Cold War Nationalism in Germany and Austria: A Comparative Study, Garett William Graubins '94
Order and Orderlessness in Gravity's Rainbow: A Dialectic, Richard A. House '94
A Synthetic Study of an Organophosphorous Compound as an Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor, Sulay Jhaveri '94
The Effects of Social Competition of the Economic Behavior of Rats, Jennifer D. Johns '94
Types of Stress Associated with the Onset of Panic Disorder and Social Phobia, Diana L. Johnson '94
Using Random Sequence Primers in the Polymerase Chain Reaction to identify Gender-Specific Genetic Markers in House Wrens, Jeremy J. Kirchman '94
Women in Law--Equal Justice for All?, Barb Kube '94
Educational Attainment: The Effects of Socioeconomic Differences, Risa Kumazawa '94
The Recurrence Relation of B-Wavelets, Rumi Kumazawa '94
The Power and the Promise of Ecofeminism, Reconsidered, Elizabeth Mayer '94
The Inhibition-Deficit Hypothesis: A Possible Neurological Mechanism for Age-Related Changes in the Formation of Problem-Solving Set, Elizabeth J. Meinz '94
The Integration of Banking Systems in the EC, Heidi M. Munson '94
The Effects of Exports and Their Composition on Growth in Developing Countries, Franklin N. Nnebe '94
Advertisements: Mirrors of the Soul The Reflections of Current Social Change in Russian Advertising., Laurel Nolen '94
The Implications of Cognitive Change in the Treatment of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, Lisa M. Nowak '94
Demythifying Melville: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and the Nightmare of Slavery, Rachel Palencia '94
The Effect of Premium Offers and Consumer Buying Decisions, Amy R. Parker '94
QuickAdvise - The Search for a More Efficient Method of Advising, Gregory G. Pengiel '94
Investment and Interest Rates in Ecuador During 1970-1990, Max Proano '94