Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) | Office of Sponsored and Undergraduate Research | Valparaiso University
 

Formerly the Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship, SOURCE is an opportunity for students to share creative and/or scholarly work that they have undertaken during the past year in a poster or oral format.

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Submissions from 2016

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A Voltage Multiplier for the nEDM Experiment, Nathaniel I. Bouman

A Climatology of the Interaction between Short-Wave Troughs and Shore-Parallel Lake-Effect Snowstorms off of Lake Ontario, Zachary S. Bruick, Emily W. Ott, and Nicholas D. Metz

Diurnal Oviposition Timing of Blow Flies and DNA Identification of Early Arrivers, Kristi Bugajski, Jordan Corsolini, Christopher Henning, Jonathan Teresczenko, and Beth Scaglione Sewell

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Who Done It?: DNA Identification of Species-Specific Samples Using Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Max P. Carpenter, Ryan Banashak, and Agnel Rahul Rayan

“The Folly… of Silly Women”: Women and the Development of Modern Medicine in America During the Civil War, Sarah Chamness

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Framing the Islamic State: A Comparison of Al Jazeera English and USA Today, Marie Chetcuti

Cross Talk, Visualizing the Dynamics of Students Interrupting Each Other in Typed Chat, Austin Coleman, Nasser Almawash, Chinedu Emeka, and Piyush Chowdri

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Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Jared Matthew Coller

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"You Say You Want a Revolution": Rock & Roll's Voice in Society, Elena Cruz-Lopez

Ritual Music in China, Avery M.D. Davis

Swarm Robotic Cheer Team for Robotic Football, Danielle Desmond, Maddie Horton, and Adam Morrison

Undergraduate College Students’ Smoking Behaviors within a Smoke-Free Campus, Haley DeYoung and Megan Eggert

Screening Unnatural Fluorescent Amino Acids for Incorporation into E. Coli Cellular Machinery, Shilpa Dhar and Claire C. Mammoser

Correlation of Warmth and Loneliness, Despina I. Diveris

Relationship Between Functional Movement Squat and Muscle Activation in D1 Swimmers, Pedram etebari Goharrizi

College-Aged Women: What Influences Eating Disorders?, Maribel Flores, Ashlyn Sorrell, and Sarah Hansen

Light Curve Study of the Eclipsing Contact Binary V2477 Cyg, Stephen Freund

Where are All the Women?: The Gender Bias Against Female Composers in Western Classical Repertoire, Nichol Gabor

Differences in Anaerobic Capacities and Blood Lactate Levels in Elite and Recreational Athletes as Measured by Wingate Testing, Sydney Galvez-Daley

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HvZ Website: The Re-Engineering, Grant J. Garr, Justin Wicker, Caleb Sanchez, Rodrigo De Bem, and Jake Smith

The Relationship Between Ankle and Knee Injuries in Division I Collegiate Athletes, Sarah E. Godwin

Robotic Application of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm, Chase M. Greenhagen, Timothy Krentz, and Janelle Wigal

Solar Reduction of Cobalt Oxide Particles: Rotary Kiln Reactor Model and Experimental Results, Jesse R. Greenhagen, Jack D. Hoeniges, Samantha J. Kopping, and Luke J. Venstrom

Engineering Outreach in Elementary School: Is Once Enough?, Theresa Green

3D Printer Filament Recycler, Theresa Green, Louis Christensen, Ty Luebcke, Nicholas Takacs, William Foy, and Samuel Homer

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Relationship Quality among Married Couples, Amber R. Haack

Does Being in Proximity Encourage Interactions Between Domestic and International Students?, Stacia Hackmann, Eleni Kaldis, and Danielle McCuan

The Search for Periodicity in Light Variations in a Sample of Proto-planetary Nebulae Candidates, Cole D. Hancock

Associations between Emotional Experience of Music and Expertise, Appreciation, and Absorption, Magen Hauser

Statistics of FA Cup Soccer, Jonathan Heagy

The Relationship between Coping Mechanisms and Life Satisfaction, Ashley Heisey, Meagan McCarver, and Timothy Standiford

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An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Determine Overwintering Habits of American Robins and Eastern Bluebirds, Samuel Iselin and Shannon Segin

Use of Teach-Back to Reinforce Nutrition Knowledge in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Ila A. Jackson, Jessica Coapstick, and Graciela Payan

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Computational Study of CO2 Adsorption and Reduction on Doped Graphene Sheets, Yesukhei Jagvaral and Haiying He

The Undergraduate Music Major: Shifting Perspectives of the Curricular Model, Patrick M. Jansen

Learning from the Mistakes of the Past: Christianity, Apartheid, and Social Movement Framing, Miranda L. Joebgen

Social Honesty and Culture: White Lies and Social Face, Jared Joseph

Values and College Major, Rebecca Kazdoy, Elizabeth Seyfert, and Nichol Wilson

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Double-Spin Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production in Longitudinally Polarized p + p, Taegyun Kim

Using E. Coli to Incorporate Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acids into Proteins, Alyson Kneusel, Bayland Brown, Amy Gunter, Claire C. Mammoser, Thomas Goyne, and Laura Rowe

Modeling the Kinetics for the Electrolytic Oxidation of Manganese (II, III) Oxide, Daniel Kotfer, Louis Christensen, Carol Larson, Robert Palumbo, Shahin Nudehi, and Jonathan Schoer

Solar Tracking for the Renewable Energy Zone, Rachel Law

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SatNOGS Project, Ashley A. LeBlanc, John White, Christopher Paradiso, Grace Freigang, Paul Flaten, and Daniel J. White

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Covering Arrays and Fault Detection, Brooke LeFevre and Emily Anderson

Audiovisual Perception Interaction with Emotion to Impact Memory recall of human faces, Nicholas Lewis and Andrew Butler

Theorems Regarding Points on the Euler Line, Kathryn E. Lezark

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Cardiorespiratory Intensity Levels of Four Ballroom Dances, Catherine N. Long

Recovery Heart Rates of Division 1 Female Soccer Players, Sarrah M. Ludwig

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Approaching Women's Education: Utilizing Islamic Sources for Empowerment, Emily P. Lueder

Screening for Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation in Cellular Machinery, Claire C. Mammoser, Amy J. Gunter, and Bayland Brown

The Neurobiology of Mind and Body Practices: Perils and Prospects, Katelyn M. Marak and Jim Nelson

A Computational Study of the Interaction of Harmful Organic Compounds with Functionalized Graphene –Towards the Design of Effective Graphene-based Sensors, Christopher C. Morrissey, Jordan Eissner, and Nimma Elizabeth

Concentration Dependent Aerosol Substrates: UV-VIS Attenuation Measurements, Christian Q. Mundorf, Cynthia Smith, and Christopher Iceman

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Data Security in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Anurakta Nayak

Network Classification and Inferencing, Sammantha K. Nowak-Wolff, AnnaLee Knapp, and Charles Morris Jr.

Measurement of the Temperature Dependence of the Dielectric Constant of PMMA for the nEDM Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory., Marcus A. Ochsendorf

Impact of Thigh Muscle Fatigue on Force Production in Knee Stabilizing Muscles, Sara N. Ozgur

Defining Protein Kinase C Substrates Involved in the Na-K-2Cl Cotransporter 1 Endocytosis in Colonic Epithelial Cells, Natasa Petreska and Jesse Smallwood

Measuring the Differential Cross Section in Compton Scattering of 0.662 MeV Photons, Stephen Place

Solar Thermal Decoupled Electrolysis: Reaction Mechanism of Cobalt Oxidation, William Prusinski, Daniel Kotfer, Joshua Grade, Carol Larson, N. Leonard, Jonathan Schoer, and Robert Palumbo

Rebellion Fueled by Beethoven, Emily Robinson

Does Expansion of the Presumptive Somite-Notochord Boundry Contribute to Xenopus laevis Involution and Elongation?, Sophia L. Robinson and Elizabeth Walsh-Rock

Search and Rescue Operations with Robotic Swarms, Aaron W. Roggow, Richard Doner, and Eugene Jegal

A Computational Study of Transition Metal Clusters for Dehydrogenation Catalysis, Michal Scherer-Berry, Nathanael Juliot, and Stan Zygmunt

Determinants of Points Per Game in the Horizon League, Jacob R. Schoon Mr.

The Impact of Higher Education on College Students' Religiosity, Josie R. Scott, Ellie Propper, and Katelyn Caragher

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Synthesis and Characterization of a 4-(N,N-dimethylamino) Phthalimide-Substituted Amino Acid, a Polarity-Sensitive Fluorophore, Stephen Sekoulopoulos and Ashita Bhatnagar

First Principle Study of Photocatalytic Activity of Graphene-Semiconductor Nanocomposites, Stephen P. Sekoulopoulos

College Students' Awareness of Sexual Misconduct Resources, Meghan Sellin, Rachel Briegel, and Kimberlyn Chermak

Validating Methods to Further Research of the Circadian Rhythm of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Ashley L. Smith

Combinatorics of Twist Boxes of Knots, Nichole S. Smith

Rejecting Fallibilism, Nichole S. Smith

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SatNOGS Website Project, Dylan Snyder, Caitlyn Marko, John-Eric Tiessen, and Adya Pandey

Modeling of Iron Enhanced Rain Gardens, Seth W. Strelow

Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography Analysis of Proteins and Synthetic Intermediates, Katherine Sulaitis and Carine Renner

Landay Poetry: How Form, Changeability, and Content Attribute to the Success of a Hushed Rebellion, Kristine Tarmann

Developing a Nudged Elastic Band Program for Gaussian09, John Eric Tiessen

Budget Conditions of County Prosecutor's Offices, Molly E. Triolo

Exploring the Presence of Microplastics In Salt Creek, Tiffany M. Tyler and Troy J. Janesheski

Iron Enhanced Rain Garden, Rebecca F. Valliere

The Study of Light Variability in a Sample of Proto-Planetary Nebulae Candidates, Abigail Vance

Computational Study of CO2 Adsorption and Activation on Graphene Supported Metal Clusters, David M. Vogl and Haiying He

Beethoven and the Aesthetic of the Pathetic, Ke Wang

Screening for Genes Important for Cold Acclimatization in Neurospora crassa, Michael K. Watters, Holly Howell, and Victor Manzanilla

Spectroscopic Studies of Brooker’s Merocyanine in Zeolite L, Kelsey L. Weber, Benjamin Henning, and Thomas Dabertin

QAM Backscatter for Low Power RFID Data Transfer, John White

Forensic Chemistry: Microcrystalline Drug Chemistry, Refractive Index Investigation, and Firearm Serial Number Restoration, Raechel M. White

Searching for Periodic Light Variability in Proto-Planetary Nebulae Candidates, Kathryn Willenbrink

Examining the White House Task Force’s Effect on College Sexual Assaults, Katherine Wilson

Synthesis and characterization of a 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl (NBD)-containing amino acid, Dana Ann Winkle

Night Shift Work: An Audio Documentary, Yishuai Zhang, Leyi Jiang, Zhiying Ruan, and Ning Shen

Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G: Resisting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, McKenzey D. Zollinger

Submissions from 2015

Comparison of Electromyography and Functional Movement Screening as Indicators of Return to Full Activity: A Case Study, James A. Alessio and Kelly Helm

Synthesis and Characterization of an Unnatural Fluorescent Amino Acid, Yeongseo An and Bill Trimoski

From Epistolary to Narrative Novels: Truth and Self-Perception in Victorian Literature, Nadia Atassi

Probabilistic Analysis of Polyovulation, Kaylyn Banaszak

Water Quality in the Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed, Brittany M. Barkus, Hannah M. Tomten, Jordan P. Delorenzo, and Yugoviandi P. Mamahit

Transformation of Organic Pollutants using Novel Nanomaterials, Abby Beavan

Psychological Impact of Football Related Concussions, Krista Besser

Impact of Pratt Industries on Water Quality of Salt Creek, Jon M. Bicanic