• Populist Party Characteristics and Development in the Visegrad Group 

  Cermak, Asha (2021-05)

  This paper compares the characteristics of four populist parties within the Visegrad Group. The Visegrad group is comprised of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. These countries all have an intertwined ...
• Square Tilings and Discrete Modulus 

  Reel, Andy (2021-05)

  In his 1993 paper, “Square Tilings with Prescribed Combinatorics”, Oded Schramm gave a remarkable one-to-one correspondence between triangulations of planar regions and tilings of rectangles by squares. Schramm uses a ...
• America’s Pastime: How Baseball Went from Hoboken to the World Series 

  Parkhurst, Kimberly (2021-05)

  Baseball is known as “America’s Pastime.” Any sports aficionado can spout off facts about the National or American League based on who they support. It is much more difficult to talk about the early days of baseball. ...
• The Impact of Gender Roles on the Likelihood of STI Testing in College-Age Women 

  Mueller, Sarah (2021-05)

  The research questions that this study was challenged with answering were (1) What is the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) in college-aged women in the United States (2) How do gender roles impact ...
• Hearing Histories; Telling Stories 

  Hall, Jocelyn (2020-05)

  I believe in letting people speak, for through speaking, one is heard, understood, and one’s valley deep turmoil is used by another to build mountain-high change. Storytelling is important. It is how we as a culture ...
• The Ball State University Honors College Oral History Project 

  Gunnell, Hannah (2021-05)

  The Ball State University Honors College is a liberal arts institution in a public university. As the first Honors Program in the state of Indiana, the Honors College is the birthplace of creativity, innovation and ...
• Community Gardens, Food Insecurity, and Neoliberalism 

  Engel, Philomena (2021-05)

  Food insecurity in the U.S. is a devastating issue that ties into similar issues of food waste and obesity. The rate of food insecurity in Delaware County, Indiana alone ranges from 16% overall to 20% for children ...
• The State of California V. Hayes: An Annotated Mock Trial 

  Carnes, Kendall (2021-05)

  In a society which has what appears to be increasingly polarizing political ideologies, it comes as no surprise that politics can be a sensitive topic, even with those who share the same beliefs as ourselves. When fear ...
• 7 More Minutes: Developing New Work in High School Theatre 

  Buescher, Cassandra (2021-05)

  High school theatre often brings back cringe-worthy memories of stilted productions of Beauty and the Beast or cobbled together versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; it does not have to be this way. I believe new work ...
• WNBA: A League Where the Players Always Lose 

  Bridge, Alyssa (2021-05)

  Sports have always been an integral part of culture since their development. Particularly, the game of basketball, developed in 1891, has been a popular sport in the United States and in Indiana. At its origin, women were ...
• Precipitation Swings and Whiplash Events: South Bend, IN (2010-2019) 

  Gagnon, Nathan (2021-05)

  This research paper focuses on extreme wet periods and dry periods that follow closely after one another. The primary focus of this paper is to determine the number and severity of whiplash precipitation events that occurred ...
• Exploratory graph analysis with estimated consumer utilities: a pilot study for uncovering the network dimensionality of iced tea claims 

  Nicoletti, Thomas (2020-12-19)

  Using estimated consumer utilities for 21 different iced tea claims, this study aimed to examine how typical factor extraction approaches, as well as exploratory graph analysis, performed comparatively. Data was collected ...
• Supplanting old world nature with new world architecture: Willa Cather’s death comes for the archbishop 

  Mendenhall, Michael R. (2020-12-19)

  This research project focuses on Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes from the Archbishop. The author argues that Cather’s protagonist, Father (later Archbishop) Latour seeks to erect an extraordinary edifice of faith ...
• Health literacy matters: an assessment of health literacy knowledge and experiences of health professions students and eating disorder mental health literacy competencies of nursing students 

  Kallenback, Madeline (2020-12-19)

  Among several obstacles healthcare professions face when providing care to patients, a notable barrier is health literacy. Health literacy (HL), is the ability to obtain and understand health information and necessary ...
• The value of soft skills: preparing the next generation of workforce for future work 

  Coates, Kayla (2020-12-19)

  Graduates are not only expected to attain a degree but a range of soft skills. Soft skills such as communication, creativity, and critical thinking are among the most desired skills employers seek. Soft skills are well ...
• Structural equation modeling: an investigation of self-regulated learning 

  Ascolani, Margaret (2020-12-19)

  The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) experience elevated levels of attrition. The broad research agenda of this work aims to investigate these levels of attrition through the lens of self-regulated ...
• Modern expressive doubling: generating patterns in situations of extreme contrast 

  Smith, Daniel (2020-12-19)

  Expressive doubling is a concept coined by musicologist Lawrence Kramer that first starts to appear in the Romantic era among authors, painters, and composers. Artists of the times would establish a pattern, then vary ...
• Measuring perceptions of administrative burden in CDBG entitlement communities 

  Hepworth, Emily (2020-12-19)

  Administrative burden is a persistent feature of work for many employed by bureaucratic institutions, and its relation to the administration of federal funding through the Community Development Block Grant Program is ...
• Clarinet and percussion: a new school festival category to increase student learning 

  Healton, Daniel (2020-12-19)

  The objective of this project is to lay out a structure by which music educators and officials of state music organizations may begin to incorporate the clarinet and percussion duo into the festival performance schedules ...
• Trauma journalism education and Ball State University 

  Amick, Justice (2020-12-19)

  Trauma is something that journalists experience daily. From reporting at house fires to covering homicides to interviewing sexual assault victims, each of these trauma situations needs to be handled correctly to minimize ...

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