Student Works: Recent submissions

  • Synthesis, Purification, and Computer Modeling of I80-H37 
    Wright, Makayla (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Heteroaryl compounds have been shown to hold a prospective significance in pharmaceutical circumstances. I80 and H37 represent the molecules tropinone and 3- bromoquinolone, respectively. As such, this research focuses ...
  • Reducing Funerary Pollution through Greener Burials 
    Winkle, Kayla (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Traditional burials and cremations are the most common methods of burials, but require many resources and cause pollution to the soil and air. Greener burials are a solution to this pollution by reducing the amount of ...
  • Integrating Creativity: Measuring helping professionals’ willingness to implement creative interventions 
    Wilson, Shannon (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Though research supports the use of creativity within the helping profession, it remains unclear how willing professionals are to use these modalities. This study aims to measure helping professionals’ perception and ...
  • The Synthesis of Tropinone and Heteroaryl Compounds to Create Aromatase Inhibitors 
    Wells, Hannah (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "The purpose of this experiment was to study the heteroaryl molecule, I80- H37. This molecule includes a tropinone scaffold and a heterocyclic ring, nitrogen heterocycles are important and used in pharmaceuticals due to ...
  • The Effects of Cancel Culture: Examining The Public's Response to Apologies and its Lasting Impact on Reputation Recovery 
    Weber, Alyssa (Northern Kentucky University, )
    """Cancel Culture"", or cancelling describes the act of no longer supporting an individual, typically a public figure due to questionable behaviors. In 2020 alone, there were more cancel cases than any other year to date. ...
  • Impact of Maternal Helminths on Learning and Memory 
    Weaver, Madeleen; DeMoisey, Olivia (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Neuroinflammation can occur during development and cause cognitive impairments. Helminths have been shown to reduce cognitive disfunction and inflammation if given to mom and pups, but never if given to moms before she ...
  • Burnout 
    Wears, Caleb (Northern Kentucky University, )
    When you hear of the term “burnout” what is your first thought? Maybe you think of a dead-end job that someone may be working, and they have just had enough? Or maybe you think of a student that has just way too much work ...
  • URROC- Undergraduate Research in Organic Chemistry Course Synthesis of Heteroaryl Molecule I80-H53 through Palladium Catalyzed Heteroarylation 
    Watson, Elizabeth (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Our research focused on the properties of several heteroaryl molecules which had never been synthesized in the hopes that they will help find better treatment for breast cancer. 2.4 NaOtBu, 2% XPhos Pd Gen 4, 1.1 tropinone ...
  • Course-Based Undergraduate Research (CURE) Integration Increases Student Overall Success 
    Wallace, Bridget (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Traditional learning in undergraduate STEM degrees is not always conducive to all learning styles, especially when it comes to performance in a lab environment. Course- based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) allow ...
  • Responsibility of Climate Change within American Communities 
    Wagner, Tessa (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Why isn't the American public better informed about climate change and ways to help combat its effects? I propose that certain factors within the crisis of climate change are impacting the lack of interest and or denial ...
  • Female Sexual Harassment in Higher Education 
    Vogel, Jessica (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Sexual harassment towards females is highly prevalent in multiple environments, especially on college campuses. The research shows 59.2% of undergraduate female students experienced harassing behavior, reporting the highest ...
  • More Than Just Quality 
    Vincent, Vivi (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Specialty coffee farmers face many challenges in production. The purpose of this paper is to investigate these challenges that specialty coffee farmers face in order to identify the factors that impact the price of specialty ...
  • Microwave Irradiation of Heteroaryl Compounds with Tropinone for the Synthesis of Aromatase Inhibitors 
    Ungar, Liat; Seibert, Samuel (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Heteroaryl compounds are important molecules with extensive significance in medical chemistry. In our lab, we reacted heteroaryl compounds (4- Bromoquinolone) with tropinone using microwave irradiation at 160°C and 180°C ...
  • Cultural Competence and Empathy for Japanese in America 
    Turley, Abigail (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Much attention today focuses on the journey of immigrants to America, but less popular is acculturation and adaption that marks immigrant's new lives here. This paper focuses particularly on the story of Japanese immigrants ...
  • Veteran Reintegration on College Campuses 
    Terry, Michaela (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "The literature suggests that there is a chasm between civilians and veterans, with many civilians having negative perceptions of veterans (e.g. aggressive, mentally unstable). The literature has not yet explored whether ...
  • No relationship between clutch size and the embryonic heart rate of Eastern Blue birds 
    Tendam, Marissa (Northern Kentucky University, )
    Natural selection will favor birds that maximize their fitness with a clutch size that will produce the most viable offspring while not being too stressful to take care of. We predicted that nests with a larger clutch would ...
  • Predicting Public Opinion on Abortion Laws 
    Swaiss, Joanna (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "How do certain demographic characteristics predict public opinion on abortion laws? I proposed to test two theories of public opinion attitudes (the role of race and religiosity on support for abortion). After an extensive ...
  • Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Social Work Collaboration 
    Sumner, Cara (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Nationally, crime incidents increasingly gain media attention. Media sources increasingly criticize police, suggest they are given too much authority/responsibility and argue that situations would have been better addressed ...
  • Riding the Pulse through Critical Entertainment Journalism: Ethnography of Film Critics 
    Stephenson, Joshua (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Due to limited access to education and job positions, film critics face structural gatekeeping in finding the role they play in the diverse public media representation of films and television. Based on unstructured ...
  • Identification of the enzyme required for the acp3U modification in plastidic tRNA 
    Spigelmyer, Sarah; Funk, Holly M. (Northern Kentucky University, )
    "Posttranscriptional tRNA modifications are essential for protein translation and proper cell growth. Defects in human tRNA modifications are associated with diseases such as cancer, type two diabetes, neurological disorders, ...