Schedule
2026
Thursday, April 16th
11:00 AM

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Behavioral Problems Among Hispanic Adolescents

Emily Bennett, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hugo Garcia Arreguin, Northwestern College - Orange City
Aubrey Britten, Northwestern College - Orange City
Pietra Ferreira, Northwestern College - Orange City
Seowon Song, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Annotation of Bacteriophages RedRaider89, SuperHeroCarly, CherryCola, and Kouch

Brianne Brandt, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mya Cole, Northwestern College - Orange City
Matthew Dawkins, Northwestern College - Orange City
Julia De Vos, Northwestern College - Orange City
Isaac De Young, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hannah Gordon, Northwestern College - Orange City
Landon Greve, Northwestern College - Orange City
Brody Hoverstein, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mia Kellenberger, Northwestern College - Orange City
Genesis Maldonado, Northwestern College - Orange City
Charlotte Pritchard, Northwestern College - Orange City
Noah Robinson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Leonardo Romo, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mackenzie Schram, Northwestern College - Orange City
Grace Timm, Northwestern College - Orange City
Arianna Van Donkelaar, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kamea Van Kalsbeek, Northwestern College - Orange City
Byron Noordewier, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Are Certain Mobile Phones Overpriced?

Camron Pickard, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer Schon, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Bacterial 2-Hybrid Assay: Interactions of Phage Island3's Gene 36 and Mycobacterium smegmatis Gene Products

Elsie L. Larson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Belonging, Motivation, and Academic Achievement

Rubin Charles, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Do Social Relationships Matter Equally? Predicting Academic Motivation Among Latine and Non-Latine Students

Pietra Ferreira, Northwestern College Iowa
Aubrey Irene Britten, Northwestern College, Iowa
Emily Bennett, Northwestern College - Iowa
Hugo Garcia, Northwestern College, Iowa
Valerie Stokes, Northwestern College, Iowa
Seowon Song, Northwestern College, Iowa

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Does Reappraisal of Test Anxiety Improve Performance?

Lydia Baker, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jay Medenwaldt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

EagleEye is landing: Discovery of Cytotoxic and Defense Genes in a Cluster A16 Mycobacteriophage

Clara Bader, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kylie Foss, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mallory Gramstad, Northwestern College - Orange City
Korver Hupke, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jenna Kluxdal, Northwestern College - Orange City
Elsie Larson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ayda Maassen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Adriana Sandbulte, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dane Schoenborn, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emma Steinhardt, Northwestern College - Orange City
Alexa Trover, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Geographic Trends in North American Tornado Risk: A 75 Year Analysis

Thomas Tracy, Northwestern College - Orange City
Todd Tracy, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Gut Health Interventions on Major Depressive Disorder

Hannah Beckloff, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ellie Erickson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Olga Furmanova, Northwestern College - Orange City
Hailey Van Dyken, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ashtyn Wobig, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Health and Motivation

Lydia E. Erickson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Jay Medenwaldt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Hockey Top Hand Trainer Effectiveness

Alice A. Boggs, Northwestern College - Orange City
Brooke Bartscher, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jay Medenwaldt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

If You Give a Mouse a Phage

Peyton Abraham, Northwestern College - Orange City
Princess Bola-Lawal, Northwestern College - Orange City
Amelia Brown, Northwestern College - Orange City
Anne Eveland, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jenna Kluxdal, Northwestern College - Orange City
Elsie Larson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Gabrielle O'Bannon, Northwestern College - Orange City
Leonardo Romo, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sara S. Tolsma, Northwestern College

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Inpatient Treatment Compared to Outpatient Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Paige Auch, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jaylin Gaston, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jori Harskamp, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ella Peterson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kenzie vonRentzell, Northwestern College - Orange City
Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Investigation of Northwest Iowa Pollinator Communities Using Two Survey Methods

Ellary Carson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mya Cole, Northwestern College - Orange City
Isaac De Young, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sharon Huffman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Naomi Johnson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Genesis Maldonado, Northwestern College - Orange City
Maelee Rodenburg, Northwestern College - Orange City
Travis Sweeney, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tark Griebel, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laurie Furlong, Northwestern College - Orange City
Todd Tracy, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Late-season forb availability and bumble bee foraging patterns in Iowa’s restored prairies and suburban gardens

Isaac De Young, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ellary Carson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Mya Cole, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tucker Draayer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Sharon Huffman, Northwestern College - Orange City
Naomi Johnson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jasmine Lux, Northwestern College - Orange City
Genesis Maldonado, Northwestern College - Orange City
Caitlin Olson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Maelee Rodenburg, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jordan Shull, Northwestern College - Orange City
Travis Sweeney, Northwestern College - Orange City
Arianna Van Donkelaar, Northwestern College - Orange City
Laurie Furlong, Northwestern College - Orange City
Todd Tracy, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Loan Risk Classification Model

Giulio Palombo, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Nitrous Oxide Use in Labor

Aimee Aberson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Janae Cam, Northwestern College - Orange City
Rylie Franken, Northwestern College - Orange City
Rachel Henriksen, Northwestern College - Orange City
Ben Robinson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Perfectionism and Excellencism: A Study on Parental Impact

Devon Miller, Northwestern College - Orange City
Megan Heitritter, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jennifer S. Feenstra Ph.D., Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Political Orientation as a Predictor for Collegiate Anger and Narcissism

Tyson D. Braunschweig, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jay Medenwaldt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Projection Design for The Little Prince

Melissa Thompson, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Properties Design for The Little Prince

Ruthie Zimmerman, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Quantifying and Validating the Decrease of Ciliogenesis Genes in Mouse Models with PCD

Mia X. Kellenberger, Northwestern College - Orange City
Casey McKenzie, Sanford Research
Lance Lee, Sanford Research

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Ritual, Economy, and Social-Relational Impacts in the Church

Alexia M. Hanson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Jeremy Williams, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Role of Dental Screening in Preventing Hip Prosthetic Joint Infections

Aidan Anderson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cailee Dix, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emma Franken, Northwestern College - Orange City
Erin Keizer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Zavyr Metzger, Northwestern College - Orange City
Tyra Snyder, Northwestern College - Orange City
Pam Hulstein, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tactical Seagulls: A Multimedia Children's Story

Clara Showalter, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Effect of Sports on Personality: An Examination of Athletes vs. Non-Athletes

Noah C. Parmelee, Northwestern College - Orange City
Dr. Jay Medenwaldt, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Intentional Soundtrack: Using Specific Music to Proactively Manage the Elementary Classroom

Meredith Sundberg, Northwestern College - Orange City
Angela Carlson, Northwestern College - Orange City
Carrie Thonstad, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Understanding the role of lipid metabolism on pancreatic cancer metastasis

Luke Fischer, Northwestern College - Orange City
Kylie Foss, Northwestern College - Orange City
Jacob Lewis, Northwestern College - Orange City
Joshua Lewis, Northwestern College - Orange City
Emma Steinhardt, Northwestern College - Orange City
Megan VanGarven, Northwestern College - Orange City
Cody Rozeveld, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Water Feature Design for An Enemy of the People

Rae Outland, Northwestern College - Orange City

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM