2023 Celebration of Research

Alphonse Mucha: The Revolutionary Behind the Art Nouveau Movement and the 1960’s

Faith Tyrrell, Northwestern College - Orange City
Phil Scorza, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kali Jo Wacker, Northwestern College - Orange City
Meghan Flynn, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

An Assessment of Surgical Weight Management Compared to Pharmacological Therapies for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Olivia Becker PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ava Gonsorowski PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cassandra Schmiesing PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Building a Bicycle-Powered Centrifuge

Travis Grover, Northwestern College - Orange City
Josh Hardy, Northwestern College - Orange City
Luke Jenness, Northwestern College - Orange City
Blake Johnson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Building the Weather Balloon with the Limited Budget and Observing the State of Atmosphere Both Visually and Statistically

Aimee Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Daiki Jonouchi, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tim Kaltenberger, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Cardiovascular Effects of Long Term Androgenic Anabolic Steroid Use

Jordan Grosdidier PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Zach Harrison PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ryan VanMoer PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Andrea Crew PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Christian College Students and Purity Culture: Acceptance and Lived Experience

Jessica Nibbelink, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Collagen Meniscal Implantation Outcomes Following Partial and Full Meniscectomies

Jenna Benson PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Chelsey Christensen PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kaylee Frenette PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jaclyn Freese MPAS, PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

College Athletes and Mental Health: How Gender, Year, Sleep, Injury, and Social Support Affect Anxiety

Madison Jones, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Cost of Transport and Muscle Activity as a Function of Walking Efficiency at Variable Speed

Grace Van Namen, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Cross-modal Integration: Visuomotor Activity, Auditory Recall, and Its Implications for Art Therapy

Amelia Holt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Designing and Building an Inverted Microscope

Daniel A. Nordquist, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City
Eric Jones, SUNY Stony Brook

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Dexcom & Other Continuous Glucose Monitors Impact Toward Diabetic Care Management & Convenience

Lacey Beyer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tori Buckler, Northwestern College - Orange City
Colleen Rypkema, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Discovery and Annotation of Two Phages that Infect Microbacterium foliorum: Tedro and Bajuniper

Grace Anderson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Olivia Anderson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Clayton Bosma, Northwestern College - Orange City
Erin Brouwer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kleyton DeGroot, Northwestern College - Orange City
Owen Hede, Northwestern College - Orange City
Daiki Jonouchi, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dylan J. Kirkeby, Northwestern College - Orange City
JT Klinghagen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kate Kralik, Northwestern College - Orange City
Julie Kutz, Northwestern College - Orange City
Olivia Lott, Northwestern College - Orange City
Victoria Pavik, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cayli Penner, Northwestern College - Orange City
Leah Rozeboom, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jett Skrien, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jessica Slight, Northwestern College - Orange City
Maegan Stokes, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jonas Tiensvold, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kyra Wajer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alaena Trevino, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Do You Think This is About You? Moral Disengagement, Self-Awareness, and Emotional Intelligence in Narcissism

Shaylee Yates, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laird Edman, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Dramaturgy for the Theatre Production "Harvey"

Marissa Leraas, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Efficacy of a Low FODMAP Diet and Probiotics in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Adults

Melinda Kubesh PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kyle Nathan PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mariah Nathan PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sandra Muyskens MPAS, PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Faith Constructs: How Imagining God Effects Religiosity

Jadyn Williams, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Improving Adolescent Utilization of Mental Health Services in Community-Based Settings

Brianna Kleinwolterink, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kyra Klinghagen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hannah Nerem, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hannah Ten Pas, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

In newborn babies, what are the risks of developing Vitamin K deficiency bleeding disorders if not provided IM Vitamin K injection at birth?

Chelsea Daines-Raasch PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Morgan Powell PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kali Welling PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lori Anderson MPAS, PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Increasing Accessibility to Birth Control: Over the Counter Oral Birth Control

Sydney O'Neal PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Julieta Silva PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Andrea Crew PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Laser Beam Profiling and Crystallographic Analysis

Jacob McDowell, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tim Kaltenberger, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa D. Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Eric Jones, State University of New York at Stony Brook

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Literature Review: Diagnosing Types of Dementia Using Biomarkers

Haley Jahnke PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hanna Maxwell PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Brett Bastian PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Long-COVID Fatigue Treatment Methods

Stephanie Davis, Northwestern College - Orange City
Madysn Grotewold, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jack Johnson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lost In Translation: A Literature Review of Professional Interpreter Utilization in the Emergency Department

Jenna Corrin PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Nicholas Fenske PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lexie Severtson PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Macroinvertebrate Colonization Patterns in the Floyd River

Gideon Fynaardt, Northwestern College - Orange City
JT Klinghagen, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Metabolic Characterization of Porcine Hepatocytes

Kip Cullinan, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sophie Swart, Northwestern College - Orange City
Zachary Varpness, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ryan Schulze, Cytotheryx, Inc.

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Middle School Students: Science Outreach, Math Anxiety, and Resiliency

Teyah Rivers, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

mRNA Production of Gene 50 in JacoRen57

Kaytlyn Harms, Northwestern College - Orange City
Elizabeth Heeg, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Out of Pocket Pay at Northwestern College

Josiah Bonestroo, Northwestern College - Orange City
Fan Fei, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer Schon, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris

Luis Barragan PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Brent Chambers PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Anneke Weg PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Progress in Developing Laser Tweezers and Control Systems

Gabriel Andres, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City
Eric Jones, State University of New York at Stony Brook

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Reducing Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Among Nurses

Vanessa Gomez, Northwestern College - Orange City
Brialle Koerselman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Nora Olson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Matthew Wynne, Northwestern College - Orange City
Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Rev1 Protein Purification

Martha Stein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

"Silent Sky:" The Scene Design Process

Jack MacGregor, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Single-Molecule Dynamics: Fluorescent Tracking and Analysis Techniques

Jacob McDowell, Northwestern College - Orange City
David Arnett, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Slide Preparation for DNA Attachment for use in Optical Tweezers

Dylan J. Kirkeby, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City
Eric Jones, SUNY Stony Brook

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Soul: The Power of Giving Back

Thomas Anderson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sarah Hummel, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Surgical vs Conservative Treatments for Adolescent Shoulder Instability

David Pontius, PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ian Shields, PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Taylor Ten Pas, PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Rick Loutsch, DAT, ACT, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Targeting MDM2 and CDK4/6 in HR+ Breast Cancer

Abigail Bastian, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Effect of Adversity in Childhood and Religious Orientation on Sleep Health in College Students

Maggie Kensak, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Effects of Birth Order on Reading Comprehension

Allison Haverdink, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Fatalism of the American Dream: Housing Discrimination, Schools, and the Church

Emma Geary, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Mud and Water: The Impact of The Great War on a Soldier in the Trenches

Piper Williams, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Progression of Pattern Alteration

Chloe Tschetter, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Shepherd's Bible: A Novel

Shane R. De Vries, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Transubstantiation and Physics: Validity in Science Vs. Validity in Religion

Martha Stein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Undergraduate Studies to Design and Build DNA Structure to be Used by Optical Tweezer

Daiki Jonouchi, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tyler Nhan, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Understanding the Antiproliferative Activity of Plant Extracts

Abigail Bastian, Northwestern College - Orange City
Parker Fryer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sadie Gilmeister, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jackson Hofland, Northwestern College - Orange City
Blake Johnson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lauren Jurrens, Northwestern College - Orange City
Keziah Knudson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Madeline Kvatek, Northwestern College - Orange City
Erika McKenney, Northwestern College - Orange City
Abigail Noonan, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alexa Olguin, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Schmidt, Northwestern College - Orange City
Martha Stein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Anneka Sterk, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sophie Swart, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jonas Tiensvold, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alaena Trevino, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Upright Birthing Positions: The Positive Impacts on Labor

Brooke McIver PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jayde Schroder PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sydney Schwitters PA-S, Northwestern College - Orange City
Lori Anderson MPAS, PA-C, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Using a Genetic Screen to Discover Gene Functions in Mycobacteriophages Sbash and Island3

Anneka Sterk, Northwestern College - Orange City
Abigail M. Bastian, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sadie A. Gilmeister, Northwestern College - Orange City
Keziah J. Knudson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Erika J. McKenney, Northwestern College - Orange City
Garrett Raymon, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alaena L. Trevino, Northwestern College - Orange City
April S. Van Tol, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Utilization of Escherichia Coli for the growth of Y Family DNA Polymerase Rev1 and GSTrap column for purification​

Alexa Olguin, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alaena Trevino, Northwestern College- Orange City
Martha Stein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Karissa Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emily Grace, Northwestern College- Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM