CUP Undergraduate Research
This collection archives and makes available undergraduate theses that were previously held in Concordia University Portland's institutional repository, CU Commons.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Digital Fabrication of an Aerosol Impactor, Stefan Vincent
Slipcover[ed], Hana Marie Whisman
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Belief and its Origins in Hominid Evolution, Patrick Allred
Neil Goldschmidt: A Case Study Analysis of Local Politics, Taylor Nicole Bair
The Plaque and Public Health, Amy Jean Brenner
Speakers of English: A Comparative Study of Language Accents and Perception, Benjamin Crane
Bilingualism and Personality Shifts: A Study of Vietnamese-English Bilinguals, An H. Dang
The Connection between Societal Influences and the Prevalence of Serial Killers: Across Time and Culture, Kayla Elizabeth Driessner
Pathways of Anticoagulation in a Mouse Model of Heart Failure, Alicia Ann Hayes
Comparative Efficiacy of Three Treatment Modalities for Juvenile Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis, Tiffany Nicole Keeton
Competing Commemorations of the Vietnam War: Voices of First- and Second-Generation Vietnamese in the United States and Vietnam, Chau-Anh Xuan Nguyen
NMR Kinetics of the Diels-Alder Reactions of 9-Substituted Anthracenes: Development of an Organic Chemistry Lab Experience, Kira Oyama and Andrew Johnson
The Lost Girls, Kayla Elaine Suvak
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Influence of Hip-Hop on Perceptions of Authority, Keegan Baurer
The Aging Effect on Optical and Chemical Properties on Collected SOA, Ryan Caylor
Composition of Secondary Organic Aerosols, Ryan Caylor, Felisha Imholt, Matthew Wise, and John Shilling
Skewed Theologies and Spoiled Prophets: Eight Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Alejandra Chavez
Effect of 1,3-Adamantane Bridging Units Within the Surrounding Macrocycle of Squaraine Rotaxanes, Carleton G. Collins, Andrew T. Johnson, Richard D. Connell, Ruth A. Nelson, Ivan Murgu, Allen G. Oliver, and Bradley D. Smith
Retention of Students at Oregon Colleges: A Comparison with Students from Hawai'i, Alana Hu
Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosols Using Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy, Felisha Imholt
Composition and Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles, Felisha Imholt, Ryan Caylor, Matthew Wise, and John Shilling
Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosols, Felisha Imholt, Ryan Caylor, Matthew Wise, and John Shilling
From Parzival to Percival: A Study of the Development of Sir Percival and his Role as the Grail Hero, Regina Maag
The Effect of Plants on College Freshmen Stress Levels, Nature Relatedness, and Attention Capacity, Miriam McCauley
The Effects of Abuse on Adult Attachment Styles: A Persuasive Literature Review, Sophia Rebecca Nainan
The Use of Molecular Dynamics to Predict the Stability of Squaraine Rotaxanes, Ruth Nelson
The Use of Molecular Dynamics to Predict the Stability of Squaraine Rotaxanes, Ruth Aimee Nelson
Representations of Women Through the Image of the Witch in American Popular Culture, Caitlyn Percell
Antimicrobial Properties of Green and Black Tea and Kombucha, Maria S. Polozova
The Inhibition of Human Deoxycytidine Kinase Mutants by Deoxycytidine Triphosphate, Loriann Noelle Reese
Determining the Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosols using UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Vanessa Selimovic
Determination of Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosols Using UV-VIS Spectroscopy, Vanessa Selimovic, Matthew E. Wise, and John Shilling
The Flawed Stratagem in the Fertile Crescent: The Fiasco of the War in Iraq & Its Implications for American Foreign Policy, Akashdeep Singh
The Relationship Between Physical Fitness and Psychological Well-being, Ashlyn Skogsberg
Steered Molecular Dynamics - Stretching DNA and GNA, Emma Sleeman
When an Emperor Meets a Sleeping Giant: How the United States helped unravel radicalized Shinto, Noah Edward Thomas
Chloroquine and its Effects on K562 Cells, Sarah Elizabeth Thornton
The School of the Americas; Foreign Policy in Latin America, Edgar Vazquez
Benefits of Psychology in Legal Education and Career, Auburn Raquell Wise
America's Grand Experiment: US Politics and the Creation of American Election Campaigns, 1790-1830, Julia Zellie
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
How Prohibition Affected America, John Edward Dalton
What Goes in your Tummy Should be Yummy, Ellen Catherine Dexter
A Heart Unpacked: Coming to terms With a Reconstructed Life, Jamie Dugas
Therapy Options Available for Family Members of Individuals with Alcoholism, Brenda Fasse
The Journey from Mexico’s Far North to America’s Southwest: Hispanics in the American Southwest 1850 - 1910, Andrew Figueroa Jr
The Yeast Mating Scaffold Ste5 Exhibits Evolutionary Specialization, Jonathan Alex Flores
Larger Than Life: The Making of the Reagan Legend, David Stanley Jaynes
Effect of Glycerol as a Crowding Agent on Lysis Solubility of Putative Toxin BC 2332 Found in Bacillus Cereus, Jeremiah Jensen
Mythopoeia, David LaFore
Faery Bones and Other Poems: Gracie's Story, Ciara Lyn Laing
The Perfect Heroine, The Selfish Nymph, and the Two Sisters Who Wrote Them, Monica Hruby Logan
Effects of Reality Television on Perceptions of Violence and Sexual Undertones, Kathryn Amber Neeck
Predicted Deleterious Missense Mutations and Their Contributions to the Threshold Hypothesis in the Non-Down Syndrome AVSD Population, Robyn Neimann
The Use of Molecular Dynamics to Predict the Stability of Squaraine Rotaxanes, Ruth Nelson, Jeffrey Baumes, Richard D. Connell, Ivan Murgu, Allen Oliver, Bradley Smith, and Andrew Johnson
Discerning Shakespeare Through the Succession Crisis, Robert Lee Perkinson
A View from the Other Side: Russia, China, and the Vietnam War, Daniel Pershall
At the End of the World: An Exploration of World War I and the Poetry that Witnessed It, Indigo Recker
2013 II CU SURI (Common Poster), Vanessa Selimovic, Loriann Reese, Ruthie Nelson, Emma Sleeman, Hibery Ho, and Maria Polozova
Exploration of the Structural and Energetic Landscape of Glycol Nucleic Acids, Emily A. Sleeman
Vitelline Artery Ligation as an Experimental Method for Manipulating Hemodynamics in the Early Embryonic Chick Heart, Victoria Marie Talbutt
The Sexual Harassment of Men and Women A Comparative Study of Gender Differences, Jennifer Whitney
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Famous Potatoes: the Impact of Potatoes on the History of the World, Marika R. Adams
First Sexual Encounter: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Adolescent Behaviors in Austria and America, Kailey Michelle Anderson
Uniting the Grassroots: Defining the New Monastic Movement, Geoffrey Franklin Balke
The Early Church and Care for the Destitute Sick: Theology in Thought and Action in the First Through Fourth Centuries, Laurin C. Becker
Converging Patterns: Similar Voting Behavior Between Neo-Nazis and Neoconservatives, Samuel Belisle
The Narrative Movement: Rethinking Biblical Exegesis, Jonathan Richard Durkopp
So the Nazis Won't Know We Were Here, Dylan Evanston
Tea: A Way of Intentionality for Faith, Michael William Kuhn
A Correlational Analysis on Materialism, Life Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem Among Undergraduates, Zackary Madison
Shepherd-Kings, Waverly Ann Peterson
Organic Honeybush Tea and Other Stories, April Powers
A Word-Person Talks Body Language: Nonverbal Communication in Society, Bethany P. Quesnell
Defending the Gothic Theme of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Jean Scroggs
The Effects of Companion Animals and the Benefit which Ensues: Animals Helping Human Happiness, Kelsey Marie Silva
Isabetta Gallo’s Diary, Danielle Rose Taylor
The Apocatastasis: The Hope that All Will Be Restored in Christ, Douglas Vitro
The Aftermath of Job; The Viewpoint of the Replacements, Jeriann Watkins
Prognostic Significance of FLT3 and NPM1 Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Breanna Wentz
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Space Race and the Cold War, 1945-1969, Cassandra Carver
Beervana: A Conversation with the Enlightened: How the Craft Brewing Industry of Portland Catalyzed a Culture, Daniel Charuhas
Life is a Gift: An Analysis of the Death Penalty and Human Rights in the Developing World, Erika A. Doremus
Progress Toward Removal of the Purification Tag in a Putative Toxin Protein via Site-Specific Mutagenesis and Proteolytic Cleavage, Joanna L. Fridlund, Bethany G. Taylor, and Michael H. Godsey
Effects of Educational Background on Clothing Selection, Personal Appearance, and Perceived Physical Attractiveness, Dusti A. Garrison
Disarmed Japan: Article 9 and the Self-Defense Forces, David Gerkman
Development of a Novel GC/MS Method for the Detection of Nicotinamide and Activity of ADP-Ribosylating Toxins, Lindsay Lermo
Development of a Novel GC/MS Method for the Detection of Nicotinamide and Activity of ADP-Ribosylating Toxins, Lindsay R. Lermo, Thomas O. Munson, and Michael H. Godsey
Tidal Pull, Chantelle Meyer
Charnel Bonds, Benjamin Jacob Miller
The Chicana Struggle, Tracy Miskovich
Alcoholics Anonymous Construed Through Positive Psychology, Sara I. Newberry
The Effect of Maternal Low Protein Diet on Rat Renal Organic Anion Transporter 1, Jacob Pearson
Monsters and Curls, Magdalena Pesanti
Root Acid Invertase Activity in a Transgenic Maize Isoline, Luke Reyes
Ken Kesey and the Complete Female, Cassondra Elizabeth Shaw
The History of Mary Eliana Grey, a Woman, Megan V. Smith
Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Process in Visual Artists, Kimberly M. Steele
Removal of the Purification Tag in Putative Toxin Protein BC_2332 from Bacillus Cereus via Site-Specific Mutagenesis and Restriction Enzyme Cutting, Bethany Grace Taylor