2009

First Place:

Sergei Golitsinski

Communication Studies

"Significance of the General Public for Public Relations"

(Dean Kruckeberg)

Second Place:

Heather M. DeWaard

Physical Education

"Exploring the Relationship between Parent Beliefs and Athletes' Perceptions: A Sport Commitment Approach"

(Mickey Mack)

Third Place:

Melinda Bullock

Psychology

"The Effect of Facial Attractiveness, Weight, Immedicacy on Social Influence: A Test of Dynamic Social Impact"

(Helen Harton)

 

2008

First Place:

Matthew A. Voss

Geography

"Tree Species Identification in an Urban Environment Using a Data Fusion Approach"

(Ramanathan Sugumaran)

Second Place:

Anne E. Tedore

Women's Studies

"Voicing Women's Resistance within Religious Studies: An Interrogation of Rational Choice Theory"

(Martha Reineke)

Third Place:

Shantelle Howe Weichers

Physical Education

"An Examination of Group Agreement among Functional Ankle Instability Participant Inclusion Criteria"

(Todd Evans)

 

2007

First Place:

Matthew Fisher

Biology

"Biomonitoring Organochlorine and Cholinesterase Inhibiting Insecticide in Eastern Iowa Streams"

(Kurt Pontasch)

Second Place:

Nathan Green

Geography

"Monitoring Spatial and Temporal Water Quality Changes in Iowa Lakes Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery"

(Ramanathan Sugumaran)

Third Place:

Kristin Stoneberg

Athletic Training

"The Contribution of Socioeconomic Status and Maturity on Injury Risk in Youth Soccer Players"

(Thomas Dompier)

 

2006

First Place:

Michael Philipp

Psychology

"Sticks, Stones, and Stigmas: A social cognitive account of stereotype threat mechanisms"

(Helen Harton)

Second Place:

Jennifer Struve

Communication Studies

"Second Class Families: The media portrayal of adoption in America"

(Catherine Palczewski)

Third Place:

Julia Moeller

Science Education/Physics Education emphasis

"Investigating the Effectiveness of Professional Development in High School Physics' Teachers""

(Lawrence Escalada)

2005

First Place:

Jerry G. Cullum

Psychology

"Culture From Chaos: The Formation of Social Norms From the Dynamic Self-Organization of Individuals' Attitudes"

(Helen Harton)

Second Place:

James Harken

Geography

"Mapping Wetlands and Potential Wetland Restoration Areas in Black Hawk County, Iowa Using Object-Oriented Classification and a GIS-Based Model"

(Ramanathan Sugumaran)

Third Place:

Francois Bera

Environmental Science

"Modelling and Measuring the Dispersion of Odors from Hog Confinements"

(Alan Czarnetzki)

2004

First Place:

Mei-Chuan Wang

Psychology

“Body, Image, Eating Disturbance and Estrogen Levels Across the Menstrual Cycle”

(Catherine DeSoto)

Second Place:

Dave Williams

Biology

“Emergence and Mortality of Native Prairie Forbs Seeded Into An Established Stand of Grass”

(Laura Jackson)

Third Place:

Michael Anderson

Psychology

“The Effects of Social Identity Salience on the Cohesion of Demographically Diverse Groups”

(Helen Harton)

2003

First Place:

Crystal Stallman

English

"Good Stuff For Wise Men To Laugh At Or Honest Men To Take Pleasure At": The Arthurian Tradition During The Renaissance

(Richard Utz)

Second Place:

Brian Andersen

Biology

Organophosphorous Insecticide Contamination In Streams: Insects As Bioindicators

(Kurt Pontasch)

Third Place:

Jennifer MacConnell

Psychology

The Effects of Individual Factors on Punitive Attitudes Toward Juvenile Offenders

(Helen Harton)

2002

First Place:

Cyril Geyer

Environmental Science

The Coupling of Biotechnology with Electrochemistry:

Electrodenitrification of Water Using the Enzyme Nitrate Reductase

(Duane Bartak)

Second Place:

Leah Christine Fuller

Biology

The Effect of Valproic Acid on Motility and Morphometry Parameters,

and Actin and N-Cadherin Distribution in Avian Neural Crest Cells

(Darrell Wiens)

Third Place:

Nader Anis

English

A Contrastive Cross-Cultural Study of the Speech Act of

Correction in Egyptian Arabic and American English

(A.J. Meier)

2001

First Place:

Mark Arthur Alexander

Geography

Assessing the Classification Accuracy of Digitized National Aerial Photography

Program Imagery: Comparison with Botanical Data

(Dennis Dahms)

Second Place:

Tatiana Zakharian

Chemistry

Photodecomposition of Crystal Violet Dye in Water Solution and Suspensions

of Metals Oxides

(Shoshanna Coon)

Third Place:

Kristin A. Clark

Psychology

Similarities in Aggression, Inattention/Hyperactivity, Depression, and

Anxiety between Friends and /Nonfriends

(Helen Harton)

2000

First Place:

Katarzyna Jakubiak

English Language and Literature

Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning Traditional Metaphors of Light and Darkness

(Vince Gotera)

Second Place:

Randal Pilkington

Geography

Estimating the Potential Available Labor Supply for Mid-Sized Iowa Communities

(C. Murray Austin)

Third Place:

Ryan Sprau

History

The Commonweal in the Heartland: Charles T. Kelley and Iowa's Industrial Army

(John Johnson)

1999

First Place:

Jennifer M. H. O'Hara

Biology

Breeding Bird Use of Intensively Managed Rotational Grazing Pastures, Native Prairies and Savannas: A Comparison

(Laura Jackson)

Second Place:

Brian J. Fiderlein

History

The Morality Issue: How Darlan Infuenced the Allied Unconditional Surrender Pledge in World War II

(Donald Shepardson)

Third Place:

Gregory J. Moeller

Environmental Programs

Macrophyte-Macroinvertebrate Interactions in a Lentic Ecosystem and the Effect of Fluridone Treatment to Control Myriophyllum Spicatum L.

(Kurt Pontasch)

 

1998

First Place:

Atta Kofi Osei

HPELS

The Effects of Ibuprofen on Exercise-Induced Muscle soreness and Performance

(Fred Kolkhorst)

Second Place:

Sonia E. Ingles

History

Invisible Walls: Milliken V. Bradley and America's Urban Apartheid

(John Johnson)

Third Place:

John F. Hamman

Mathematics

Fuzzy Logic: An Analysis of Logical Connectives and Their Characteristics

(Joel Haack)

1997

First Place:

Jason Daniel Abbas

Biology

The Development of SCARS For Identification of AM Fungi

(James Jurgenson)

Second Place:

Tomma Lou Maas

English

All Our Days Are Numbered--Journey Through Breast Cancer With Traditional and Alternative Medicine

(Barbara Lounsberry)

Third Place:

Martha E. Colwell

HPELS

RN and LPN Perceptions of Front-Line Delegation

(Debra Jordan)

1996

First Place:

Sergio Chaigneau

Psychology

Is the Error-Reaction Time correlation in Category Verification tasks Evidence

of Fuzzy Limits in Categories?

(Jack Yates)

Second Place:

Heather E. Rhoads

Environmental Science

Radon Reduction, Improvement of Indoor Air Quality, and Energy Savings Through

an Original Solar Ventilation System

(Peter Hoekje)

Third Place:

Saed Jamal Abu-Hijleh

Geography

The Political Geography of a Palestinian State: Main Problems of Implementation

(C. Murray Austin)

1995

First Place:

Eric Scott Juhnke

History

Iowa's Wolf in Populist Clothing, 1925-1936

(Joanne Goldman)

Second Place:

Stephen Michael Walk

Mathematics

A Partial 'Squeezing Theorem' For a Particular Class of Many-Valued Logics

(Michael H. Millar)

1994

First Place:

Dan H. Breneman

Biology

Stream Microcosm Toxicity Tests: Colonizing Test Organisms and Predicting the Effects

of Fenvalerate on Riffle Insect Communities

(Kurt Pontasch)

Second Place:

Sally Nelson Wiedmann

Philosophy

Towards the Development of the Kantian Environmental Ethic

(William W. Clohesy)

Third Place:

Erika Lea Kumerow

Educational Psychology & Foundations

Predicting Adolescent AIDS-Related Risk Behavior From Psychosocial Factors: A Replicaiton

(Donald Schmits)

1993

First Place:

Philip J. Nelson

History

A Pretension of Place: The Industrialization of Cord Belt Agriculture, 1940-1965

(Charles E. Quirk)

Second Place:

Thabit Abu-Rass

Geography

The Egypt-Palestine/Israel Boundary, 1841-1992

(Thomas Fogarty)

Third Place:

Anita M. Johnson

Health, Physical Education & Leisure Services

A Descriptive Study of Bone Health Risk Factors in Females Ages 13 to 16 Years

(Forrest Dolgener)

1992

First Place:

Steven R. Gulick

English Language & Literature

'Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae': The Cantos and Ezra Pound

(Daniel Cahill)

Second Place:

Martin E. Hansen

Sociology & Anthropology

Sociological Implications of Technology: The Historical Treatment of Technology

in Sociological Theory and A Proposal for Empirical Research

(Jerry Stockdale)

Third Place:

Beth Ann Hardy Nordmeyer

Curriculum & Instruction

The Implementation of Naturalistic Evaluation of Reading Comprehension:

A Descriptive Study of First Graders in a Chapter 1 Reading Program

(Jeannie Steele)

1991

First Place:

Lisa G. DeBerg

Biology

Gas Exchange of Four Vigurnum Species

(Virginia Berg)

Second Place:

Michael T. Prahl

History

The Federal Government and the Industrial Workers of the World,

1917-1918: an Attempt to Crush a Labor Union

(Charles Quirk)

Third Place:

Mary Ellen Wacker

Sociology & Anthropology

Occupational Outcomes of Bachelor's Degrees Earned by Nontraditional Students

(Jerry Stockdale)