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 2013
Effect of Emotional Cues on Memory Recall and Response Time, Rachel Rahn
Testing the Klein-Nishina Model for Compton Scattering of 0.662 MeV Photons with a Focus on Lower Scattering Angles, Joel Rogers
Binary Stars in Planetary Nebulae, Hannah Rotter
A Study of Light Variability in Dying Stars, Hannah Rotter, Aaron Seider, and Austin Bain
Climate Change and Politics: A Connection between Congressional Voting and Our Warming Planet Using GIS, Kelsie Rudolph
In the Land of Beer, Brats, and Bootlegging: A Personal Account of Milwaukee History, Marissa Schmidt
Water Music: Metaphor and Marriage in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Hannah Scupham
An Army for the Revolution, a Revolution for the Army: The French Revolutionary Army, 1792-1797, William Scupham
War, Railroads, and the West: The Lost Story of J.R. Scupham, William Scupham
Morality and the Mind: A Discussion on Christian and Scientific Views Related to the Human Propensity to Sin, Jennifer Sechrist
Health Literacy: Understanding Medication Labels, Jennifer Sechrist, Brittany O’Reilly, Katherine Jankauski, Emily Czekala, and Lily Salinas
The Use of Intercultural Competency and Culture-Bound Syndromes in Mental Health Services for Latino Americans, Tina Siganporia
Scandal in Scotland, Abigail Smith
Beyond the Volcanoes: A Community Partnership for Health in Rural Nicaragua, Paige Snyder, Catherine Wingstrom, Carly Crave, Claire Simonpietri, Christina Lundy, and Amy Cory
Enhancing Interest in STEM at NW Indiana Middle and High Schools through Balloon Launches and Tracking, Mark Spychala and Raymond Finzel
Using Public Relations Analysis to Study the Role of Perception of a Student Organization (OPR), Shiho Suzuki, Nour Ulayyet, and Lisa Borosh
A PR Case: Understanding Public Perception from a Perspective of Lakeshore Public Media through Research, Johnathon Taylor, Lauren Robinson, and Sarah Dooms
Watts Up with That: Comparing Wind Farms in Texas and California while Explaining Why Farm Quantity Does Not Overcome Wind Quality, Alexandra Thompson
Why So Special? The Israel Lobby, Human Rights, and United States Foreign Aid, Stephanie Volz
Cultural Profits: How Museums Communicate through Nonprofit Public Relations, Erika Wagner
Study of Ligand Binding Reactions of Bis-AmineMetalloporphyrins, Frank Wang
A Linear Regression Analysis for Understanding High School Grade Point Average (GPA), Christine Warner
The Language of Human Rights: Applying the Communitarian Critique to Global Human Rights Language, Anna Wiersma
The Usefulness of Scientific Field Trips: What are High School Students’ Attitudes towards Them?, Aaron Wayne Willis
Measuring Determinants of Investor Confidence through Time: A Regression Analysis, Paul Yox
Do Classroom Teaching Methods Incorporate All Types of Learning Styles?, Samuel Zucker
Submissions from 2012
The Spirituality of Addictions: A Christian Patristic Model and Procedure for Assessment, Alyssa Abbate, Ryan Abraham, Kelly Perfect, and Diana Stribl
Beauvoir for the Masses: Exploring Applications of Her Philosophy in French Social Revolutions of the 1960’s, Reille Acks
PTSD in Military Veterans: History, Evolution, and Policy Implications, Christine Albain
Examination of Social Responding in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Paul Allison, Carlton Lyons, and Charla Trubey
Studying the Variability of Dying Stars, Austin Bain, Hannah Rotter, and Aaron Seider
Teaching Computers to Think: Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Connect Four, Kirk Baly, Andrew Freeman, Andrew Jarratt, Kyle Kling, and Owen Prough
November Snowfall Variability and Trends Around Lake Michigan: Sensitivity to Temperature and Teleconnection Patterns, Amanda Bandurski, Justin Barrick, and Kristin Smedley
Calibrating the STAR Endcap ElectroMagnetic Calorimeter Using Pi-O’s, Benjamin Barber
Measurements of the Angular Cross-Sections of the Decay Products of Proton Capture by Lithium-6, Benjamin Barber
Neutron Electric Dipole Moment: Research and Development, Benjamin Barber
The Design and Manufacturing of the Solar Furnace Reactor Table, Chris Baum, Zach Saylor, and Andrew Schiller
VU Solar Furnace: Final Design and Construction of Louver System, Chris Baum, Zach Saylor, Andrew Schiller, and Gretchen VanHeeren
Women’s Rights in the Sex Industry, Emily Beatty, Amanda Rychtanek, and Madeline Schuttey
Supporting Underserved Pregnant Women through Smoking Cessation, Emily Bernhard, Lauren Paczkowski, Nathan Matejczyk, Nina Tu, and Michelle De Young
Determination of Flow Rate Using Ultrasonic Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring, Peter Bocek
GIS Mapping and Analysis of Lake-Effect Snowfall Patterns in Indiana and SW Michigan, Holly Boney and Matthew Christy
Transformation of Public Relations Agencies Through Evaluation of Golin Harris’ Evolution to the G4 Model Using Public Relations Theories, Samuel Borden, Elizabeth Freeman, Nathalie Martinez, Lauren Rubio, Ryan Brule, Demetrius Amparan, Kimberly Coticchia, and Liz Powers
Fit Kids Rock: The Campaign against Childhood Obesity in a Valparaiso Elementary School, Samuel Borden, Nathalie Martinez, Lauren Rubio, and Ryan Brule
PR Social and Digital Professional Challenges: A Relationship between Organizations and Their Publics, Samuel Borden, Erika Wagner, Lauren Rubio, Elizabeth Freeman, Matt Butcher, and Tom Haeussler
Does Motivation Affect Exercise?, Angelica Brown
Secondary Student Metacognition Compared to Actual Participation in the Classroom, Kristin Buch
Equitable Labelings of Caterpillar Graphs, Mark Burek, William Olson, and Brock Taulbee
Group Cognition in Problem Solving Dialogues: Analyzing differences between voice and computer transcripts, Melissa Butts, Daniel Leighty, and Christine Warner
How Position of Reading Questions Affects the Reading Comprehension of High and Low Ability Readers, Sam Cain, Ben Friedman, Theresa Funderwhite, Taylor Grashel, Debra Harstad, Stephanie Kuipers, Angelique Mercier, Margaret Rufo, Tina Siganporia, and Dustin Tragesser
The Effect of Different Training Regimens on Improved Sound Frequency Discrimination in Wistar Rats, Sam Cain, Elizabeth Grigoletti, and Erin Walsh
Improving Assessment Strategies in General Chemistry, Samantha Cassell
The Reduction and Reporting of Data on Proto-Planetary Nebulae from Two Observatories, Wesley Cheek
Neutral Pion Background Analysis at STAR, Adam Clark
Bach and Opera: Is It Possible?, Hilary Clark
Relationship between Aggressive Driving and Various Types of Music, Karen Davidson and Ora Whitehead
Effectiveness of a Stretching and Strengthening Program on Improving Forward Shoulder Posture in Elite Competitive Swimmers, Russell Deghi and Tim Skerrett
Queer Neo-Mexicanism: Negotiating Mexican and Gay Identities in the Art of Nahum B. Zenil and Julio Galán, Nicholas Derda
The Impact of Foam Rollers as a Form of Active Recovery on Lactate Disappearance, Dannie Dolan
Religious Individualization, American Catholicism, and Vatican II: Issues of Influence and Interpretation, Laura Ehlen
Wintertime Climate Variability in the Lake Michigan Region: Sensitivity of Snowfall to Temperature and Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns, Travis Elless, Tony Lyza, Sarah Mustered, and Craig Clark
Impact of AQUA Satellite Data on Hurricane Forecast: Danielle 2010, Travis Elless, Xuguang Wang, Ting Lei, and Govindan Kutty Mohan Kumar
Creek and Lake Water Analysis of the Little Calumet East Branch Watershed, Nicholas H. Feller and Melissa Dorton
Cultural Competency of High School Staff, Sidney Findley, Jodie Buchanan, and Rachel Pollock
Social Consciousness: A Fair Trade Campaign, Calin Florek and Laura Van de Carr
Designing a Calorimeter to Calibrate an Optical Radiative Flux Measurement System to Find the Power Entering a Solar Reactor, Jesse Fosheim, Melissa Meyer, and Jonathan Ogland-Hand
Assessing Conceptual Knowledge of Differential Equations, Samantha Frisk and Samantha Schwartz
The Question of Philanthropy: Social Reform in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance, Ashley Gilbert
Sorting Permutations with Finite-Depth Stacks, Timothy Goodrich, Drew Groth, and Lauren Knop
Varying Curricula to Meet Physics Students’ Learning Styles, Gavin Grillo
The Solar Thermal Decoupled Electrolysis of Water Process: An Investigation of the Electrochemistry in a Base, Jessica Guertin
A Simple Understanding of Attention Deficit Disorders and Resources for the Afflicted and Their Support Group, Amber Hauser
Does Branch Structure of an Invasive Shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) Alter Bird Perching Behavior?, Heather Herakovich, Marcy De Vries, and Laurie Eberhardt Dr.
Mary Grace and the Warthog from Hell: Violent Redemption in Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”, Halina Hopkins
How Chilly is Valpo? A Campus Climate Survey, Nicole Hudson and Erica Wickstrom
Net Neutrality: Fight for the Survival of the Free Internet, Andrew Jarratt
Prayers from Underground: The Psalmic Voice in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Jacob Just
Idealism Realized: A Closer Examination of Leo Tolstoy’s Influence on Jane Addams’ Theory of Social Reform, Laurie Kenyon
The Correlation between the Independent Lines in Easter Motets, Shireen Korkzan
I Want to be a Scientist: Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Science as a Career, Kayla Kutz
Stability of the Gains of the STAR Endcap Calorimeter from 2006 to 2011, Kayla Kutz
Don’t Weight!: A Public Relations Campaign to Raise Awareness about Childhood Obesity, Ellyn Lange, Murphy Maes, and Molly Heztner
Effect of Stray Charge on Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: A Full-Basis Calculation, Matthew LaRue
Finding Variable Stars in Planetary Nebulae Using the ISIS Image Subtraction Software, Jake Long and Kevin Nault
Spectroscopic Study of Host-Guest Inclusion Complexes, Jenessa Lucas and Jennifer Holt
A C-Band, Dual-Polarimetric Radar Analysis of a Tornadic Mesoscale Convective System: The 25 May 2011 Northern Illinois and Indiana Tornado Event, Anthony Lyza, Raquel Evaristo, Eric Lenning, Sarah Mustered, Travis Elless, Sarah Al-Momar, Ian Lee, Teresa Bals-Elsholz, Bart Wolf, Kevin Goebbert, Adam Stepanek, and Craig Clark
Not Afraid of Lacking: Toward an Asexual Theology, Wendy Mallette
GPU-Based Parallel Computing for Nanotechnology Research, Alex McGuffey
The Search for an Epoxide Precursor in Trimethylenemethane (TMM) Cycloaddition Reactions, Christopher Miko
Observational Studies of Proto-Planetary Nebulae, Christopher Miko and Rachael Jensema
Verification of Monte-Carlo Simulation for STAR EEMC, Kevin Miller
Electrical Control and Safety System for Solar Furnace, Parisa Nasserifar and Jason Toberman
Water Quality in Restored Wetlands and the Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed, Diandra Obermeyer and John Stewart
Living Homeless: The Interactions between Homeless Individuals and the Communities in which They Reside, Rachel Okerstrom and Lena Walsh
Ambler Flatwoods: Invasive Species Control, Alexandra Olson
Instilling Normal Saline with Suctioning: Beneficial or Harmful?, Brent Pavell, Charity Letko, Graciela Olivares, Jenny Luedke, and John Gustavson
An Event by Event Comparison of Clustering Algorithms, Billy Pochran
