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 2019
Development of a Novel Epoxide-Containing Trimethylenemethane Precursor for Palladium-Catalyzed Cycloadditions, Mara Paterson
Effects of Microfibers on Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) Attachment Behavior, Thomas G. Paul, Cody A. Banks, and Laurie Eberhardt
The Impact of Ice Versus Ischemic Compression on Muscle Recovery Post Resistance Training, Brian Pecyna
First-Generation College Students & Campus Resources, Aaron Pevitz, Lily Kapitan, and Trace McKenna
The Effects of Language on Salary: South Africa, Caroline Pratt
The Age of 360, Steven Reed
Correlation Between Jump Foot Force Production and Distance Jumped in Collegiate Long Jumpers, Malik Riley
The Colonization of Mexico and the Effect on the Nahuatl Dialect, Daniela Rios Aguilar
An Investigation of the Landfall and Extratropical Transition of TC Narelle (2013) in the Southeast Indian Ocean Basin, Samantha Schletz and Jacob Janssen
Efficiency of the Valparaiso University Crusader Transit, Lauren Schneider, Anna Raimondi, and Kortney Klipstine
Problem of Scoring Gerrymandering, Austin Schnoor
Curricular Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach, Erik Schuchardt, Georges El-Howayek, and Ahmad Slim
Scenes At The Shore, Susan Scuderi
Pain in Beauty: A Clothing Connection, Megan Seibert
Pluralistic Nationalism: The Example of the Kurds, Rachel Silcox
The Stability of Unnatural Amino Acids within Mars Planetary Conditions, Christopher Smith, Claire Kovarik, and Kelly Davidson
Impact of Blood Flow Restriction on Resistance Training of the Biceps Brachii, Drew Snouffer
Lutheran Deaconess Association Tool Suite, Brian Sukowicz, Brian Vidal, Nina Tadic, Emanuel Dagget, and Dakota Phillips
Relationship Between Ankle Injury History and Ankle Dorsiflexion in Division I Athletes, Steven Sutkay
Written Language and Cultural Identity: The Use of Traditional and Simplified Hanzi in the People's Republic of China, Lukas Torgerson
Binge Drinking Among College Students in Relation to Depression, Experienced Homelessness, and Parental/Guardian Relationships, Daniela Trajceski, Samyra Leonard, Denise Arce, and Meredith O'Connor
How Age Impacts Reasons for Migration: Examining Migration from Northern Latin America to the United States, Hilary Van Oss
Sure It’s Fine, We Checked 9 Years Ago: Surface Water Quality Testing of the Little Calumet River in Gary and Lake Station, Indiana., Jessica Villegas, Langston Stalling, Drake Shearer, Donovan McGill, Nathaniel Parson, Derrick John Combs, Noah M. Wilkes, Amber M. Garcia, and Breanne Mason
Effect of Estrogen on Morphological Change in Candida albicans and Neurospora crassa, Idalia Zachara, Chase Jones, Paige Camp, Hamza Hasan, and Patrice Bouyer
Beethoven's Impact on the Piccolo: Earning a Soloistic Position Within the Orchestra, Sarah Anne Zakowski
Refactoring Meteorology's Online Weather Center, Chris Zenieck, Dusten Knull, and Colin Braun
Submissions from 2018
Geyser V. United States, Allison Abayay
Web Application for Student Analytics, Cristian Abello, Ryan Bennett, Samuel Iselin, Arezu Mansuri, and Kimberly Orr
A Qualitative Study: Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes and Beliefs about Marijuana, Bradley Adkins, Ellie Ashbrook, Andrea Pertl, Madissen Brookshire-Green, Guadalupe Ortiz, Olivia Smith, Emma Kamp, and Kayleigh Willett
Minimizing the Residual Field and Field Gradient in a Magnetically Shielded Room for nEDM at LANL, Chamindu S. Amarasinghe
The Modernization of the VU Lutheran High School Directory, Tyler Ammons, Thomas Schuessler, Franklin Kirui, and David Schmeling
A Case Study of Four Atmospheric River Events Over the Pacific West Coast of the United States, Isaac Arseneau and Wendell Nuss
Arab Nationalism in a Francophone Country: The French Language and Moroccan Identity, Jewan Attallah
Solar Eclipse Radiosonde Launch Project, Kristen Axon, William Wight, Erika Goshorn, Aaron Mehner, Cole Evans, Seth Tacke, and Adam Stepanek
Assessment of Muscle Activation in Landing Error Scoring System Performance in Collegiate Swimmers, Serena Badgley
It Falls to Us: Linking The Waste Land to Dante’s Divine Comedy, Katherine Balkema
Mature Minor Doctrine, Katherine Barbian
Student Governance Digital Business Process, Shayne Depree Barron, Zachary Diamond, Nate Weber, and Alex Watson
Agent-Based Modeling of Pollen Competition, Katherine Bassett
The Impact of Active and Passive Recovery on Blood Lactate Clearance in Sprinters, Allison Baylor
Screening Single-Atom Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation, Christopher Bean and Stan Zygmunt
Reid v. Wetzel Amicus Curiae Brief, Magdalena Bonilla
Calculating the Minimum Energy Crossing Point for Chemical Reactions with Intersecting Potential Energy Surfaces with Different Spin States, Nathaniel I. Bouman
Diurnal Oviposition of Blow Flies in Different Aged Carrion, Kristi Bugajski, Raenah Bailey, Lauren Smith, Cecelia Frankewich, Monique Le Donne, Shelby Leucata, and Janelle Bouman
Fantastic Patterns and Where Not to Find Them, Michael Bukata, Ryan Kulwicki, Nicholas Lewandowski, Lara Pudwell, Jacob Roth, and Teresa Wheeland
Identification of Differences in Composite Vertical Profiles Between November Lake-Effect and System Snow Events in Northwest Indiana, Evan Cade, Timothy DeRolf, and Samantha Schletz
Juvenile Transfer in Toliver vs. the State of Arkansas, Chloe Castelluccio
Ancient Feminism: Troy and the Cold War Germany, Olivia Curcio
Identification of Blowfly Species Using PCR, Kayla Currier and Nathan A. McChesney
Relationship Between Limb Dominance and Site of Injury in College-Age Students at a Midwestern University, Zach Cutler
Muscle Activation and Foot Pressure of College Female Basketball Players with and Without Knee Injury: A Pilot Study, Georgi Donchetz
Rolando Ruiz v. Texas: Assessing the Psychological Impacts of Extended Solitary Confinement on Death Row Inmates, Zoe Fischer
Muscle Activation and Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) Performance in D1 Swimmers, Selena Gonzalez
The Effect of an 8-Week Challenge on Weight Loss, Mackenzie Grossmann
How Pretrial Publicity Can Destroy A Case, Sarah Harrington
Analysis of Neutral Pion Asymmetry with the STAR Detector, Alec J. Hauck and Noah Strand
A Turntable Switcher Intersection for the LANL nEDM experiment, Jackson T. Heise
Addressing Citizen Concerns: Analysis of Heavy Metal Contamination in East Chicago, Indiana, Zoe I. Henkes and Ashita Bhatnagar
Mathematical Modeling of the Evolution of the Domestic Dog, Ashley Hire, Michael Revor, and Samuel Iselin
The Start of the Week, Justin Holland
Quadriceps Muscle Activation of Division One Swimmers while Performing the LESS Jump, Karen Holmquist
Setting the Stage: 40 Years in VU Theatre, Leilah Hovey
Mapping NKCC1 in the Endocytic Pathway During PKC Activation in Mardin Darby Canine Kidney Cells, Emily Hughes, Amanda Bazaldua, Chase Jones, Marie Dix, Natasa Petreska, Payton Klosa, Nicholas Barron, and Patrice G. Bouyer Dr.
The Sensitivity of Predicted Solar Thermal Reactor Performance to Solid-state Kinetics, Amanda Jaacks and Luke Venstrom
Electronic And Optical Properties Of TiO2 Nanoclusters and Nanosheets Supported on Silicene, yesukhei jagvaral and Haiying He
Com v. Dillion Amicus Brief, Kayla Jenkins
A Lantern Slide Through Time, Journey Joll
In His Image: A Question of Creation and Humanity's right to Human Dignity., Taylor Justison
Deconstructing the Gilded Age Mansion: Identity, Industry, and Culture through Architecture, Anthony Kalin
A Comparison Between Pulsed Ultrasound and Self-Myofascial Release on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness, Allison Ketcham
The Role of the Imagination in Religion and Science, Jonah Koetke
Analyzing and Quantifying Microfiber Pollution in the Lake Michigan Watershed, Edward Kostelnik, Allen Huff, and Julie Pohlman-Zordan
Phone Application for Multi-Site Church, Ryan Kulwicki
Learning Dialects: Potential Aide in the Integration of Refugees in Germany, Will Levi
Calibrating Electroencephalography and Stimulation Tracking Devices for the Study of Event-Related Potentials, Inga Majewska, Lynda Arredondo, McKayla Deleon, and Andrew Butler
Developing an Unnatural Amino Acid-Specific Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase, Claire C. Mammoser and Laura Rowe
Graduate Students as Future Mandated Reporters, Emily E. Mellin
Cardiovascular Disease: Analyzing Primary and Secondary Prevention Strategies, Anastacia Mesina, Dwight Moline, Audrey Corn, and Michael Bohney
Nazi Germany's Effects on the Modern German Language, Ariana Moore
The Impact of Foam Rolling on Hip Range of Motion in Division I Athletes, Sarah Mythen
Antiquity and Applicability: Medea's Connection to Modern Social Issues, Taylor Nesselroad
Effective Sincerity: On Catholic Private Prayer and the Poetry of Mary Karr, Emily Neuharth
Analysis of the Nuclear waste Extractants BTP and BTBP using LCMS, Thu Nguyen and Julie R. Peller
Amicus Curiae Brief, Alex Nicishatse
Monitoring Black Oak Savannas in the Indiana Dunes, Sidney L. Noble
Monitoring Vernal Pools in the Indiana Dunes, Sidney L. Noble
A Computational Study of Cu-Pd for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction, Marcus A. Ochsendorf
Amicus Brief for Marliee Patricia Garner, Dariane Okeley
Interface Extensions to the AMC Evaluation Platform, Casey Primozic, Jackson Roush, Robert Schenck, Benjamin A. Levandowski, Brian Doriott, and William Sullivan
Optimized Routes to 7-Carboxymethyl-Pterin: A Useful Building Block for Medicinal Chemists, Jeffrey Pruet, Kassidy Grumbles, and Zachary Bennett
Perceived Levels of Stress and Physical Activity in College Students, Amanda Riley
Analysis of Valpo Women's Soccer Heart Rate Data, Grace Rogers, Pall Baggett, and Montel Hall
Beta Radiation Sources for Attenuation Studies of Atmospheric Aerosols, James Rolland and Chris Iceman
Child Abuse/Child Witness, Jasmine Scott
Institutional Outcomes following Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation in Children, Stephen P. Sekoulopoulos
Greek Drama and Disease: Ancient Parallels to Modern Perspectives, Max Shiller
Medieval Japanese Culture and Catastrophe: Evaluating Societal Responses to Natural Disasters., Max Shiller
Solar Thermal Decoupled Process: The Rotating Disc Electrode's Effect on Mass Transfer of Cobalt Oxide, Rachel Silcox and Guadalupe Villagran
The Link Between Antihypertensive Agents and Cognitive Decline, Luke Stanczyk, Kayleigh Corn, and Alyson Kinzie