2021 Celebration of Research

Avoiding the Advantageous: Identifying Mental Health Treatment Barriers in High-Risk Professions

Hannah Paauw, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Conflict Strategies, Spiritual Meaning, and Spiritual Disclosure Across Various Relationships

Elissa O'Dell, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Coping During the Time of Covid: Mental Health and Changes in Religious Practices

Laird Edman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hannah Paauw, Northwestern College - Orange City
Taelor Lamansky, Northwestern College - Orange City
Nolan Behr, Northwestern College - Orange City
Noah Hop, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jessica Rogers, Northwestern College - Orange City
Allison Haverdink, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alison Schutt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Desirable Difficulties: Study Strategies and Academic Performance

Chika Nwaelugo, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jessica Nibbelink, Northwestern College - Orange City
Andrew De Noble, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Determinants of Well-being: Impacts of Adversity and Resilience Across the Lifespan

Taelor Lamansky, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laird Edman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer Schon, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Developing a Cloud Chamber to Measure Cosmic Ray Muons

Ryan Van Ostrand, Northwestern College - Orange City
Caroline Van Berkum, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Dramaturgy for Sweat

Karisa Meier, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Effective Methods of Alphabet Instruction for Preschool

Kelsey Throne, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Elucidating Antiproliferative Mechanisms of Grapeseed, Guava, and Juniper Berry Extracts

Ali Almail, Northwestern College - Orange City
Noah Gritters, Northwestern College - Orange City
Colton Hage, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lauren Pavich, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dominick Pickard, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mitchell Rentschler, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ashley Van Egdom, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) Density Impact on Invertebrate Diversity in a Floodplain Forest in Sioux County, IA

Riley Chartier, Northwestern College - Orange Cit
Todd Tracy, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laurie Furlong, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Eurydice Dramaturgy: Relating Myth to Christian Audiences

Rachel Smart, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exploring a Transcriptional Regulatory Region in Mycobacteriophage JacoRen57

Ali Almail
Elizabeth Heeg, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College, Iowa

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Children's Understanding of God in Three Persons

Darrin VanMeter, Northwestern College - Orange City
Elissa O'Dell, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mia Hoogeveen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Anneka Sterk, Northwestern College - Orange City
Caitlin Hornback, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ainsley Billings, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer S. Feenstra Ph.D., Northwestern College - Orange City
Melanie Nyhof Ph.D., Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Fluorescent Labeling of Calmodulin for Future Application

Emma Anunson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Dobesh, Northwestern College - Orange City
Travis Grover, Northwestern College - Orange City
Benjamin Kingery, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dominick Pickard, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mitchell Rentschler, Northwestern College - Orange City
David Arnett, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Genetic Annotation of Bacteriophages MScarn, Knocker, and Neos5

David Adair, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lindsey Craig, Northwestern College - Orange City
Keziah Knudson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kaylee Maasdam, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kaarina Marttila, Northwestern College - Orange City
Katie Meyer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alexa Olguin, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mitchell Rentschler, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Schmidt, Northwestern College - Orange City
April Van Tol, Northwestern College - Orange City
Samantha Blum, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Investigating Gene Functions in Mycobacteriophage Island3

Ali Almail, Northwestern College - Orange City
Samantha Blum, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lauren Pavich, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Jabberwocky: Costume Design

Sofia Schaeffer, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lighting Design - Bright Star

Maren Taylor, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Monitoring a Small Northwestern Iowa Stream Undergoing Watershed Changes

Krista Riensche, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kaarina Marttila, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cassandra Koel, Northwestern College - Orange City
Riley Chartier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Juliann Jansen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Angela Brinkman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lindsey Craig, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sadie Sandbulte, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laurie Furlong, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

No response? Simulating Fear of Missing Out Experiences to Investigate Relationships with Emotion Regulation, Negative Affect, and Counterfactual-Seeking through Social Media

Jordanna A. Kruse, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laird R. O. Edman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer S. Feenstra, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Terminal Restlessness in End-of-Life Care

Amber DeStigter, Northwestern College - Orange City
Anna Hiebner, Northwestern College - Orange City
Josie Post, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Optimal Intramuscular Injection Site and Maximum Volume in Adult Population

Samantha Dowling, Northwestern College - Orange City
Austin Moss, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jessica Mouw, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Popularity vs Complexity in Esports Games

Kitrick Fynaardt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Re-engineered Hospital Discharge Program (RED)

MacKenzie Bammer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hayley Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Morgan Roberts, Northwestern College - Orange City
Moriah Wittenberg, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Religious Coping Styles and Depression, Well-being, Life Satisfaction, and Post-traumatic Growth for Cancer Patients

Mia Hoogeveen, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Rooted in Hesed Boutique

Mia Hoogeveen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Makenzie Fink, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Stormbreaker8 and A3Wally Bacteriophage Genome Annotations

Riley Chartier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Abigail M. Clarke, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lindsey Groen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Marshall Kleinhesselink, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cassandra Koel, Northwestern College - Orange City
Madison Korthals, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jordyn Kramer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Garrett Raymon, Northwestern College - Orange City
Krista Riensche, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sadie Sandbulte, Northwestern College - Orange City
Annika Stecker, Northwestern College - Orange City
Daniel Strand, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kaytlin Wojciechowski, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ali Almail, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Taking Care of Busyness: The Effects of a Busy Lifestyle on Optimism Across the Adult Lifespan

Noah Hop, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laird Edman, Northwestern College, Iowa

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Assessment of Quad to Quad and Hamstring to Quad Ratios in Patients Twelve to Twenty-Four Months Post Completion of a Supervised Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Rehabilitation Program

Riley Anderson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Bennett Sikkink, Northwestern College - Orange City
Justin Grevengoed, Northwestern College - Orange City
Nick Adams DPT, Northwestern College - Orange City
Rick Loutsch DAT, ATC, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Effects of Cannabinoids on Individuals with Chronic Pain: A Critically Appraised Topic

Allison Birks, Northwestern College - Orange City
Julia Goodburn, Northwestern College - Orange City
Rick Loutsch DAT, ATC, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Impact of Distance from Home on Student-Athlete’s GPA at Northwestern College

Misael Bruzzone, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hailey Louw, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Science and Fiction of the Multiverse

Alyssa Buren, Northwestern College - Orange Cit

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Trauma and Pastoral Care

Kelsay Parrott, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Using FCS to Explore Agglomeration States of Small Heat Shock Proteins

Noah Gritters, Northwestern College - Orange City
David C. Arnett, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM