2019 Celebration of Research

Annotation of Four Novel Mycobacteriophages: Beelzebub, Raela, RedRaider77, and Antonia

Michaela Aulner, Northwestern College, Iowa
Kristina Sevcik, Northwestern College, Iowa
Peace Preston, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Annotation of Two Soil Mycobacteriophages: JacoRen57 and DrLupo

Ali Almail, Northwestern College, Iowa
Kelsey Dorhout, Northwestern College, Iowa
Jackson Johnson, Northwestern College, Iowa
Hannah Jorgensen, Northwestern College, Iowa
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College, Iowa
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Anti-proliferative Effects of Common Plant Extracts on Tumor Cells in Vitro

Joseph Kelly, Northwestern College, Iowa
Christopher Borchers, Northwestern College, Iowa
Perkins Aiyegbeni, Northwestern College, Iowa
Paige Boote, Northwestern College, Iowa
Brittany Buren, Northwestern College, Iowa
Katie DeKruyff, Northwestern College, Iowa
Emily Geraets, Northwestern College, Iowa
Chau Le, Northwestern College, Iowa
Rachel Mercer, Northwestern College, Iowa
Courtney Mithelman, Northwestern College, Iowa
Haley Muyskens, Northwestern College, Iowa
Renju Pun, Northwestern College, Iowa
Zachary Rosson, Northwestern College, Iowa
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Best Practice for the Treatment of Intertrigo

Melanie Enkhorn, Northwestern College, Iowa
Ingrid Ramirez, Northwestern College, Iowa
Moriah Lee, Northwestern College, Iowa
Hannah Barber, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Building a Better College: Estimating the Effects of New Athletic Facilities on the Enrollment Decisions of Student-Athletes

Alex Vander Stoep, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Compassion Fatigue

Abigail Wanninger, Northwestern College, Iowa
Courtney Riley, Northwestern College, Iowa
Karli Hofer, Northwestern College, Iowa
Maddie Swift, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping: Effects on Extrauterine Transition in Full-Term Infants

Brenna Ellington, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Efficacy of Curos Caps in Infection Reduction

Betsy Bolt, Northwestern College, Iowa
Cherish Shuka, Northwestern College, Iowa
Kassidy De Jong, Northwestern College, Iowa
Megan Young, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

External Catheters and Reducing Adverse Effects in Female Inpatients

Ellie Bleeker, Northwestern College, Iowa
Allison Koehlmoos, Northwestern College, Iowa
Elizabeth Glover, Northwestern College, Iowa
Alexandria Helmink, Northwestern College, Iowa
Michelle Van Wyhe, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Gangsta Rap as Political and Rhetorical Discourse

Emma Van Drie, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

How Do Visuals Affect Challenging Behaviors in the Preschool Classroom?

Shadley Grimes, Northwestern College, Iowa
Sara Waring-Tiedeman, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Impact of Athletics on Academic Performance at NWC

Matthew Scott, Northwestern College, Iowa
Brant Vermeer, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Intentional Teaching in Kindergarten: Combining Academic Instruction and Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Amy Borkowski, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Intuitions about God and Satan: The relationship of mentalizing and imagination with the experience of supernatural good and evil

Paige Boote, Northwestern College, Iowa
Ethan Husbands, Northwestern College, Iowa
Taelor Lamansky, Northwestern College, Iowa
Rebekah Muilenburg, Northwestern College, Iowa
Hannah Paauw, Northwestern College, Iowa
Bailey Swain, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Investigating mycobacteriophage cluster relationships: Characterization of anti-mycobacteriophage antibodies

Emily Geraets, Northwestern College, Iowa
Sara Sybesma Tolsma

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Just Making Small Talk?: A Fresh Look Inside Mundane Conversation

Alex Currier, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Literature Review of Rural Water Fluoridation Cessation

Amanda Klyn, Northwestern College, Iowa
Vaughn Moser, Northwestern College, Iowa
Blake Miller, Northwestern College - Orange City
Samantha Benson, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Narrative and Christian Education

Heather Van Itallie, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

On the Age and Creation of the Universe: A Philosophical Perspective

Brant Vermeer, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Partition of a Team

Elizabeth Ellis, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Probing the Spt16-Pob3 Interface Through BPA Cross-Linking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Proof of Concept

Ali Almail, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Effects of Second Step in a Prekindergarten Classroom

Victoria Brandenburg, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Efficacy of Vision Training in Collegiate Baseball Hitting Performance

Connor Tupper, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Power of Intentional Planning

Brittany Busch, Northwestern College, Iowa
Sara Waring-Tiedeman, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Prevalence of Lower Extremity Non-Contact Injuries in Athletic Populations in Relation to Measured Ankle Dorsiflexion

Logan Richard, Northwestern College, Iowa
Rick Loutsch, Northwestern College, Iowa
Zachary Riddle, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Use of Weighted Blankets in Patients with Anxiety

Kelsey Den Hartog, Northwestern College, Iowa
Mariah J. Jansen, Northwestern College, Iowa
Madison Godfredsen, Northwestern College, Iowa
Eden Burch, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Video Self-Modeling, Reading Aloud, or Silent Reading: Effects of Strategies on Fluency

Rebekah Vande Kamp, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

What Makes a Good Student?

James Warren, Northwestern College, Iowa
Jennifer S. Feenstra Dr., Northwestern College, Iowa
Sydney Batz, Northwestern College, Iowa
Jordanna Kruse, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

What Parenting Style Should We Use? A study on the relationship styles in academics and career outlook

Amber Schubert, Northwestern College, Iowa

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Why me? Connections between socioeconomic status, religiosity, perceived personal control, and views of suffering

Alex Currier, Northwestern College, Iowa
Emily Starr, Northwestern College, Iowa
Dr. Melanie Nyhof, Northwestern College, Iowa
Dr. Meghan Page, Loyola University Maryland

Northwestern College, Rowenhorst Student Center

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM