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.
Submissions from 2023
A new high-temperature, high-pressure electrochemical test station to support the development of processes that produce sustainable fuel, Demetria M. Zoldak, Bradley Davis, Kade Kovarik, Luke Venstrom, and Paul Smith
Submissions from 2022
Tackling the Class Scheduling Problem: an Investigation Into Developing a Calendar Suite, Rene Aguilar-Delgado, Allura Isabella Magsino, and Fred Raymond Yaniga
Manual Therapy and Infraspinatus Activation During External Rotation, Ben Anspaugh
Searching for Periodicity in 6 Carbon-rich Protoplanetary Nebula, William Bakke
Development of an Instrument to Identify Depression in College Freshman, Julianna Barbosa, Estelle Niego, Marypaz Arroyo, and Hannah Krueger
What a Terrible Thing a Dream Can Be, Savannah Barnett
The Persistence of Vaccine Skepticism, Lauren Bartlett, Benjamin D. Sommers, and Abigail G. Valicevic
Past, Present, The Future: Valparaiso University Research Society, Tabitha Bartoe, Dylan Grace, and Oliver Vinovskis
Examining Job Security During Covid-19 in the United States, Emily Baur, Katie Craig, and Jaina Westphal
Characterizing the Cytotoxic Effects and Several Antimicrobial Phytocompounds of Argemone mexicana, Helene Bee, Lanna Sirhan, Emily Gonzalez, Ashley Wasserman, Katelyn Shouse, Alexis Dres, Caleb VanArragon, Jeffrey Pruet, and Danielle Orozco-Nunnelly
"Round Midnight" (1944): Performative Identities Reconsidered, Tracy Rebecca Bermingham
The Effect of Plastic Bags on Decomposition and Necrophagous Fly Composition, Kristi Bugajski, Jhanelle Spence, Maranda Powell, Heather Wendland, Emily Archibald, Ashlynn Williamson, Kendall Larson, and Isabella Schoolcraft
Mourning What Could Have Been, Sage Burns
Campus Assessment of Parking Lot Occupancy, Mary Busby and Angela Shebel
Campus Origin-Destination Study Using Bluetooth, Mary Busby and Evan Stock
Brahms' Third Symphony: The Revolution of Self-Expression in Music, Mitchell Calderone
Climatology and Vertical Distribution of Elevated Mixed Layers in the United States, Peyton Camden
Gustav Holst's The Planets (1917) as Psychological "Mood Pictures", Dante Canchola
Welcome to Halidon, Mohiri E62, Samson Canchola
Do Pornography Use and Masturbation Play a Role in Erectile Dysfunction and Relationship Satisfaction in Men?, Joe Castleman and Katelyn R. Bacys
Nanoplastic formation from macro and microplastics in aqueous solution, Joe Castleman and Scott Kaiser
The World of Language Development: Relations Between Cross-Situational Word Learning and Lexical Processing, Larissa Chavarria
Stayaverage inc., Hailey Cirak
The Impact of Upper Limb Loss on Center of Mass during Walking, Jogging, and Running, Julianna Colon
Silver molybdate electrochemistry mimics cardiac defibrillator battery mechanism, Derrick John Combs
Effects of Upper Limb Loss on Range of Motion in the Ankle, Emily Crane
Iwan Knorr: Symphonische Phantasie Op. 12, Jessica Cretors, Katharina Uhde, and Dre Sanchez
"Perceived 'beginnings'" Reconsidered: Fanny Hensel's "Sehnsucht" (1830), Evee Curtis
Beasts Of the Bygone, Jacob Davis
Secondary Reflector for Solar Furnace, Nate DeGoede
Death Be Not Proud: The Darkness of Benjamin Britten as told through “The Holy Sonnets of John Donne”, Joshua DeJarlais
Markiewicz Solar Research Facility Website Project, Dawson Demien and Justin Layhew
An Examination of the Impact of Enrichment on Learning a Novel Task, Amy Denton
The Impact of Simulated Upper Limb Loss on Stride Length While Running, Maranda Donahue
Elucidating the Antimicrobial Effects of Curcuma longa, Curcuma aerogunosia, and Ziginber officinale to Combat Superbugs Related to NASA Space Travel, Alexis Dres, Katelyn Shouse, Jeffrey Pruet, and Danielle Orozco-Nunnelly
Identification and characterization of a novel axon guidance receptor in the eye-specific visual projection, Maya Dunson, Elaina Baker, and Masaru Nakamoto
Is There a Relationship Between a MLB Team’s Payroll & Their Performance?, Grace Edwards, Alex Conlin, Madison Gawlinski, Mark Lorenz, and Jonathan Bledsoe
Science Education in Public K-12 Schools, Kelsey Eichenauer
Niccolo Paganini's Caprice No. 24 for Saxophone, Marcus Engstrom
Distinct Lattice Paths, Marcus Engstrom and Eric Yager
Investigating the Presence and Makeup of Plastic Waste at Valparaiso University, Grace Fleszewski, Julie Peller, Helene Bee, Antigone Wilson, Seth juglans, Ryan Nemit, Justin Self, Doc Janowiak, Joey Lucas, Matt Kavanaugh, Derrick Combs, and Hallie Wolf
Does Acoustic Variability Impact Language Development in Bilingual Infants?, Ella Frangopoulos
Building Stakes Through International Tents: Strategies for Expanding Markets into the U.S. Market, Enza Frediani, Anna De-windt, Hannah Downs, Daris Visantyo, and Isabell Sefija Duric
Custom Integrated Circuit Design Using Open-Source Tools, Dylan Grace, Jeremy Blumka, Joel Reuning-Scherer, Larissa Ptak, and Philip Wig
Analysis of Electrostatic Simulation of Quantum Dot Cellular Automata, Dylan Grace and Spencer Gannon
Effect of estrogen on Candida albicans growth cultured on YEPD solid media, George Gundelach, Paige Camp, Idalia Zachara, Caleb VanArragon, Tiffany Kolba, Michael Watters, and Patrice G. Bouyer
Evaluation of Pedestrian Safety Measures, Leah Haman and Evan Stock
Campanile Time Server: Chronologic Support for the S.E.R.F., Nathan Harmon, Graham Butler, and Spencer Gannon
Geological Specimens Database Project, Daniel Hautzinger, Samuel Gilfillan, Aaron Jaraczewski, Jonathan Robledo, and Garrett M. Scheiber
Building Teacher Leaders while Preparing Future Teachers Through a Professional Learning Community of Preservice and Inservice Teacher, Emily Heggeland
Bach Through the Lens of Artistic Research, Morgen Heissenbuettel
Paradox Paintings: Meta Art through Technology, Hailey Hemmings-Kadolph
Out and Proud Heroes: The Coming Out Imperative in Superhero Films, Maddie Henry
Different Views of Hierarchy in Early Christian Communities, Rebekah Hershberger
Memories: The Keys to Understanding and Self-Improvement, Payton Hodson
Ethical Considerations of Autonomous Weapon Systems, Payton Hodson, Johnathan D. Clayton, and Paul D. Sennyey
iOS Application to Track Student Driver Practice Hours, Thomas Hohnholt, Christian Garcia, and Alex Luke
Development of an Efficient Batch Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization Method for Engineering Design, Adelle Holder and Henry DeBruin
The Impacts of Simulated Upper Limb Loss on Quadriceps Muscle Activation, Sarah Hughes
Genetic effects in response to extremes in precipitation in Arabidopsis thaliana, Marilyn Ives, Simranjit Kaur, and Sydney Martens
Understanding Film Success, John Janesheski, Eddie Juszczak, Katia Fedor, and Connor Smith
Residential Life Guest Business Process Support, Jeremiah Johnson and Mackenzie Albright
APS High Voltage Component testing for the nEDM Experiment at SNS, Lauren Virginia Kadlec
Solid-State Redox Experimental Apparatus Development, Alex Kagay
Effects of Environmental Factors on Candida albicans Morphology: A Focus On Estrogen and Microgravity, Sky Kaur, Idalia Zachara, Anita Coleman, Caleb VanArragon, Tiffany Kolba, Michael Watters, and Patrice Bouyer
Solar-Thermal Decoupled Production of Hydrogen, Jackson King
Developing Methods to Remove Toxic Chlorite Ions from the Environment, Kyle Kohlmeyer, Charlie Toman, and Jack King
Emotional Overdose, Josh Kolodizner
Mozart's "hideous, high-pitched whinny-giggle”: Behavior Portrayal in Amadeus (1984) in Correlation to Mozart's Musical Personas, Rachael Lagunas and Katharina Uhde
Analyzing On-Time-Delivery of an E-commerce Distributor, Mark Lorenz, Jacob Janssen, Garrett Wolan, and Nicholas Jimenez
An Analysis of Road Dust Samples in the United States, Joey Lucas, Adelyn Carney, Ali Egertson, Alyssa Suprenant, Caitlyn Quidetto, Doc Janowiak, Gavin Tabor, Lily Groessl, Liz Tancos, Osaid Attallah, Siobhan Cleveland, Mia Wind, Noah Durlam, and Julie Peller
Paul Hindemith's Trumpet Sonata Analysis, Kurt A. Metzger
Health Behavior Theory Intervention for Condom Preparatory Behaviors, Caroline Meyer
Estimating the number of bird species in INBio Park in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, Momin Mirza
Improving the Synthesis of an Unnatural Fluorescent Amino Acid, Stephanie Moore and Elliee Guido
Computational Molecule-Ice Interactions Within the Interstellar Medium, Emily Nelson, Emily Pavasars, and Lane Scheel
Unmasking the Truth of Masks: How Science and Community Have Affected the COVID-19 Pandemic, William A. Neupert, Joy Kassel, and Isoken Ogli
How Organization Can Lead Students to Academic Success, Emma Marie Nieto
Mechanistic Studies of the Carbon Monoxide Sensor CooA, Nicole Norfolk, Ana Flavia Michelini, Burke Niego, and Hallie Wolf
Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions on Campus, Joely Overstreet and Aubrey Pomorski
How Humans and Nature Can Coexist: The Creation of a Modern Day Responsible Landscape, Allison Pariso
How do morning meetings guided by social emotional questions VS casual talking questions affect student behavior?, Shelby Parker
BPSSA: Feedback Informed Treatment, Clo Perkins
Satellite Observation Scheduling Bazaar, Erik Petersen, Ethan Hawk, and Nicholas Koeppen
Non-Fungible Tokens: Accessible Investment for All, or a Bubble?, Franco Raimondi, Ian McMillan, and Patrick Malone
Vaping Prevalence after “AVOID” on a College Campus, Nick Ridder, Shamus Marr, Alaina Meyer, Lexi Przybylski, Kaylinn Woolever, Estelle Niego, Isabella Dietrich, Asia Janeczek, and Marianna Baca
Vocabulary Comprehension in Middle School Social Studies, Billy Robinson
Analyzing the Dataset on Abandoned Cars in the City of Chicago, Anthony Sawyer Jr., Dakota Diederich, Andrew Serkaian, and Timothy Burgess III
High School Students Answering Socio-scientific Questions in the Ecology Unit, Paige Schaber
A New High-Temperature, High-Pressure Electrochemical Test Station to Support the Development of Processes That Produce Sustainable Fuel, David-Paul Schulze, Luke Venstrom, Kade Kovarik, Bradley Davis, and Paul Smith
Journey on Wings, Sabrina Searcy
The Difference Between All-Way Stop and Signalized Intersection Related To Safety and Capacity, Grace Shebel
Investigation of the Relationship between Postural Analysis and Functional Movement Scores, Laddie Skarecky
Not a Woman, but a God, Kylynn Smith
What behavior intervention plans best help/support varied kindergarten misbehavior?, Taylor Smith
Machine Assessment of Student Debate Postings, Matthew Spivey
