This is a collection of works authored by students at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Follow

Events from 2007

The Decision to Run: The Stories of Women in the Minnesota Legislature, Danielle M. Thomsen

The Effects of British Penal Reform on Juvenile Delinquency, 1895-1900, Abigail A. Tieck

Girls Gone Wild: Porn or Pop Culture?, Kelly Trytten

Junior High Reading Choices and School Librarian Influences on Those Choices, Sarah Turbes

PDF

2007 Abstract Booklet, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Nineteenth Century Views on Theater and Drama in England, Rebecca Unetic

Team Cohesion and Performance as a Product of Virtual Condition, Melissa Vale

Title IX at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Courtnay VanDe Velde

Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Multialleic Migration-Selection Models, Chad N. Vidden

An MSU Feature Presentation, Philip C. Warren

Mankato's Water: Is It Clearly the Best Choice?, Krista Wassenaar, Chris Kulzer, and Kevin Wittbrot

Articulation in Conversation: A Comparison of Children with Williams Syndrome and Their Typically Developing Peers, Amy Weiss, Rachel Dahl, Jada Jokumsen, and Laura Johnson

Variations in Transition Metal Ion Speciation Due to Differences in Dissolved Organic Matter, Richard Wienhold

Visualization of the Microvasculature Structure of the Rat Sciatic Nerve, Michael W. Witthaus and Adam W. Sudbeck

Trust Formation Across Multiple Levels of Virtuality, Amanda Woller

The Cultural Construction of Emotional Experience and Subjective Well-Being:The Role of Social Situations In Japan and the United States, Khou Yang

Events from 2006

Analysis of Banana Extract, Joshua M. Abraham

Service Learning and Perceived Student Value, Jessica Albright and Melissa Radabaugh

What Cause Poverty in Africa?, Mohamed A. Alimici

Riba (Usury) and Islamic Modes of Finance, Yahye Ali

An Investigation of Marketing Problems and Possible Solutions in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Amanda Anderson, Danielle Husby, and Jennifer Sellner

The Intertextuality of Music, Grant Anderson

Analysis of a Semi-Direct Injection Two-Stroke Snowmobile, Greg Anderson and Jake Jerdee

Affinity Orientation in Employment and Labor Law, Heidi Anderson, Christopher Stone, Matt Hanson, and Trang Mai

Dietary Assessment of Underclass Students in Residence Halls, Katherine Baier, Rachel Valesano, and Lucia Rhodes

Simple and Effective Removal of Organotin Compounds from Reaction Products, Joseph P. Bequette

Interfacing and Establishing a Lab Station for Optoelectronic Measurements of OLEDs., Steven K. Besser

Where We Live, Kelly Biers

The Effects of Soil Salinity on Proline Concentrations, Photosynthesis and Biomass Production in Glycine max, Jessica Biever

Where We Live, Mandi Bingham

Sexual Violence Education in Elementary Schools, Alyssa Bischoff

The Effect of Chronic Exercise on Vascular and Kidney Responses in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat, Cassandra M. Borg and Chris Schmitz

The Clash of Expectations and the Origin of the Cold War, Gregory Boubel

The Articulatory Loop and Age-Related Differences in the Processing of Rapidly Presented Visual Information, Rachael Bozhinova

Pottery Analysis of a Middle Woodlands Archaeological Site in Southern Minnesota, Andrew Brown

A Normative Study for Voice Turbulence Index (VTI), Caitlin J. Buchkoski

An Empirical Analysis of Temporal Relation Between Mortgage Interest Rate and Residential Gasoline Price, Min Budhathoki

Impact of Antibiotic Therapy on Regeneration Following Caudal Amputation in the Earthworm, Brady Bulian

Initial Comparison of DNA Sequence Variation Between a 5-SNP Cluster on the Y-Chromosome and an SNP-Rich Region of the Mitochondrial DNA, Michael Bradley Burns and Cassidy Punt

Immigrants, Refugees, Intercultural Conflict and Communication with Property Owners and Managers in Mankato., Jessica Carlson

Stability and Structural Analysis of [Pt(CNC2H5)4] [Pt(CN)4], Jason Carver

Jane Austen: Female Originality in Literature, Natalie Joy Casper and Mary O'Connor

Assessment of Daycare Options for MSU Students with Children, Shayna Collins

Where We Live, Nathan Corbett

Religious and National Origin Diversity in the Workplace, Julie Dahanaike

Synthesis and Analysis of [Pt((CH3)2CHNC)4[Pt(CN)4], Jennifer Dahm

How Christians Deal with Times of Transition: Comparing and Contrasting the Fourth Century Basilica with the Modern, Tysen Dauer

Immunolocalization of Actin in Transgenic and Wildtype Murine Myocardium, Jacob R. Davis and Meghan Bohland

Examination of Proteins in Roundup Ready Soybean Seeds, Fiona Denge

Renewable Energy from the Oceans, the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion System (OTEC), Elizabeth Drommerhausen

Readability Levels of High School and College Chemistry Textbooks, Elizabeth A. Drommerhausen

Characterization of Proteins Interacting with the Alpha Subunit of Actin Capping Protein, Angelique DuCharme and Charity Zabel

The Influence of Kaolinite on the Fate of Erythromycin in Soil Environments, Leila Erdmann

Contrafusion: A Creative Investigation of Gender in Art, Jarrod Feddersen and Anna Melzer

Intentionality in Kant and Wittgenstein, Ryan Feldbrugge

Detection of Lead in Bullet Wipe Using Sodium Rhodizonate, Heather Finch

Drawing the Figure Using References for an Online Comic, Jill Fredrickson

Gendered Inequalities in Sex Education Curriculum, Jessica Friton

The Founding of the Front de Liberation du Quebec and the Events that Led to the October Crisis of 1970, Melanie M. Garcia

Morphological Characterization of Genetically Altered Murine Hearts Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, Gabriel Gehrke

Climate Change, Famine and Witches: A New Interpretation of the European Witch Hunts, Adam Gish

Assesment of the Mankato Area's Young Adult Population's Knowledge of Mall Video Mining for Marketing Research, Tyler S. Goodmanson, Brett E. Fleck, and Emily A. Johnson

Killing for Fun: A Study of The Effect Violent Videogames Have on the Player, Mike Goracke

The Role of Greed and Deception in the Collapse of Energy Giant Enron and What It Means for Kenneth Lay, Todd Grant

Arabic Calligraphy in Modern Islamic Art and Its Ties to the Past, Jana Griesenbrock

Do Only "Sluts" Talk About Sex? Young Women Discuss Sexuality, Sarah Groh

Hold the Discrimination: Effective Strategies for Preventing an Anti-Gay Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, Emily Haas

A Faunal Analysis of the Silvernale Site, Goodhue, Mn; Features 1 and 2, Christine Halling

Effects of Surgically-Induced Low Aldosterone on Blood Pressure of Rats, Jonathan Hammer

Where We Live, Marissa Hansen

Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem: The Moderating Effect of Self-Structure, Elizabeth A. Harsma

Affinity Purification of an Antibody, Marilyn Hart

The Prevention of Inflammatory-Related Liver Damage by Tamoxifen in Rats Given Fish Oil, Renae Haycraft

Responses of Minnesota Accounting Firms on Sarbanes-Oxley, Joe Hellman and Dan Ristau

The Effects of Internal Curing on the Properties of Concrete, Ryan Henkensiefken and Michael Krause

The Impact of Single Women and the Early Modern Economy, Bridget Heussler

Economic Changes and Their Environmental Impacts of China, Phillip Hintz

Kromoscopic Instrument Development and Detection of Oxidation Damaged LDL and DNA, Ariel Howe

Fraud Forecast: Hot and Rising, Amber A. Hubbard

Customer Spotting And Service Area Analysis Of The YMCA Using GIs: A Case Study Of The Greater Mankato Area, Brandon Hughson

The Le Sueur River Capture, Angela Isackson, Jon Lipinski, Tom Morton, and Chad Otto

The Nutritional Impact of Campus Kitchens, Erin Jaskulke and Mallory Zigan

The Slip-Casting Process and Recent Multi-Media Art, Art Johnson

Geochemical Assay of Natural and Anthropogenic Processes of a Large Prairie Pothole Lake, Benjamin J. Johnson

Morphological Differences in the Renal Vasculature of Hypertensive and Normal Rats, Dave Johnson, Jolene Smith, and Ken Willaert

Use of Mycobacterium Smegmatis to Express a Recombinant Mycobacterial Protein, Robert Johnson

Analysis of Pit Features from the Silvernale Site, Joel Juen

Costs of Implementing Open-Source Software, Timothy Juliar

Analysis of the Nicollet County Law Enforcement, Court Services and Community Corrections Revenue and Expenditures: A Five Year Review, Cheryl Kaberle and Virginia Neal

Are Women Getting the Lowest Price? Women's Access to Low Cost Birth Control Pills in Minnesota, Julie Kent

High Schoolers and Their Women: An Analysis of Contemporary Literature Courses at Mankato High Schools, Caroline Kessler and Amy Williams

The Effects of Drought and Temperature Stress on the Competitive Interactions of Smooth Brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.) and Little Bluestem (Schizachyrim scoparium Michx.), Christopher D. Kniffen

Are European Journals More Likely to Publish Positive CAM Trials than American Journals?, Kayla L. Knudsen

Japan and the U.S.: Two Free Nations, Two Versions of Free Press, Eliza Koch

From Mao to Hoover: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 2005 Minneapolis Public Library Ad Campaign, Emily Kofoed

Oxytocin: The Trust Hormone, Emily Kofoed

Identification of the Correlation Between Student Self-Efficacy And Final Course Percentage in a General Chemistry Course, Ian Lalich and Michelle Taylor

Opposition to Catholic Emancipation Within Great Britain, 1820-29, Daryl R. Lawrence

The Basis of Self and Other in Gender Constructed Identity, Julie L. Lemley

Effects of Thermal Boundary Conditions During Finite Element Modeling of Physical Vapor Transport, Wade Luhman