Volume XXIV (2021)
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UW-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume XXIV (2021)
Articles are organized below by UWL college and department, and then listed alphabetically by undergraduate student author(s).
Entries appear in the following format: Student Author(s), [Faculty Mentor(s)]–Title.
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College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CASSH)
Archaeology and Anthropology
Kinney, Emily (Nicodemus) - Social Dynamics in Bronze Age Europe: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Communication Studies
Flood, Josiah (Dickmeyer) - Queer Christianity: A Qualitative Co-Cultural Study
Lange, Abigail (Lavelle) - The Twitter of Donald J. Trump During an Age of Uncertainty: The COVID-19 Pandemic
Werner, Lily (Dickmeyer) - “I’m so OCD!”: A Qualitative Study Examining Disclosure of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
English
Digman, Emma (Thoune) - Content Analysis: Representation of Down syndrome in Children’s Literature
Koziol, Callie (Thoune) - Journaling’s Impact on Mental Health
Laman, Sarah (Zhang) - Heaven and Hell as Present Realities: The Use and Purpose of Literary Imagery in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce
Nikula, Sofia (Wilkie) - The Human, the Non-Human, and the Thing
Stumpf, Olivia (Wilkie) - Globalization of Environmental Justice
Templeton, Olivia (Wilkie) - In Search of [a] Reason: Questioning Considering Answers as Solutions
Vaillant, Madison (Wilkie) - Human vs. Nonhuman: How Marginalized Communities Are Considered “Things”
History
Jaeger, Johnathon (Beaujot & Trimmer) - “Dance Halls or Dance Hells:” Turn-of-the-Century La Crosse Adolescents and Social Reformers
Political Science & Public Administration
Jensen, Gunner (Arney) - An Evaluation of Policy Restrictions on LGBTQ Blood Donations
Psychology
Golisch, Bailee (Rozek) - Stressed out and Under Pressure: Decision-making in the Healthcare Field
Murray, Ryan (Thakkar) - A Review of Synesthesia: Historical and Current Perspectives
Vian, Sydney (Deason) - The Impostor Phenomenon and Implicit Theories of Intelligence
College of Business Administration (CBA)
Economics
Korish, Devyn (Hamman) - Emissions Permissions: A Study of California’s Smog Check Program
College of Science and Health (CSH)
Biology
Koehnke, Heidi (Vander Vorste) - A Review of Trends and Stressors Related to Hexagenia Mayfly Populations to Determine Future Research Development
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Bussan, Kennedy, Josie Lammers, Riley Allison, Kyle Faivre (Stepanova) - Synthetic efforts towards the development of a microwave synthesis of ethyl benzoate
Faivre, Kyle, Sam Kallis, Kaitlyn Michalek, and Ashley Landon (Stepanova) - Computational efforts towards the analysis of synthetic preference of cis and trans isomers of the chalcones 4-chlorochalcone, 2-methoxychalcone and 3,4-methylenedioxychalcone
Faivre, Kyle, and Nico Lang (Stepanova) - Performance Comparison of Single-Mode and Batch Microwave Reactors Using Curcuminoid Synthesis
Kallis, Sam, Kaitlyn Michalek, Ashley Landon, and Kyle Faivre (Stepanova) - Synthetic Efforts towards the Development of a Microwave Synthesis of Isobutyl Propionate Ester
Mauch, Emily, Tyler Hall, Michelle Greenfield (Stepanova) - Computational efforts towards the analysis of synthetic preference of cis and trans isomers of o-anisaldehyde chalcone derivatives
Philpott, Kyle, Claire Trudeau, Allyssa Moser, and Ryan Kieffer (Stepanova) - Computational efforts towards the thermodynamic analysis of product preference for chalcones formed from the p-anisaldehyde and ketones: acetophenone, p-methylacetophenone, and indanone
Trudeau, Claire (Stepanova) - Synthetic Efforts and Computational Modeling towards Nitrogen-containing Curcumin-related Compounds
Mathematics & Statistics
Floersch, Sean (Vidden) - Why the 2020 Dodgers Are the Greatest Team of All Time, at Least Statistically
School of Education (SOE)
Education