Luther College

Each year, Luther sends 15-20 students to present their research at the National Council of Undergraduate Research Conference. This is a list of research presented at the 2009 Conference, held in La Crosse, Wis.

• Effect of the June 2008 flood on macrovinvertebrate abundance and species richness in northeast Iowa creeks, Biology
• Immigration rhetoric: constructing a sovereign America in the Lou Dobbs era, Communication Studies
• College gardens: a model for sustainability, Environmental Studies
• Poetry and politics: rap lyrics in France, Modern Languages
• The effects of landowner motivations on wetland restoration in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, Biology
• Why weight?, Theatre/Dance
• Arashi Yosakoi, Theatre/Dance
• Multicultural choral music in 1A and 2A eastern Iowa high schools: inclusion and pedagoical implications, Music
• Regulating e-cadherin trafficking using a tetracysteine TAQ, Biochemistry
• Mixed reality, Theatre/Dance
• In type we trust: typography and national identity in the age of international style and global citizenship, Communication Studies
• Speech codes and success on Luther College cross country, Communication Studies
• Markov chains for dispersal kernels with diffusion and non-homogeneous convection, Mathematics
• From dictatorship to democracy: Spain as a model for emerging democracies, Political Science
• Permission and patience: marriage and the modern Muslim woman in Cameroon, Central Africa, Africana Studies
• A Neyman-Scott model of rainfall in northeast Iowa, Mathematics
• Russian-American relations in the 21st century, Political Science
• Effects of the tachinid, myiopharus infernalis, on the population dynamics of lema daturaphila (coleoptera: chrysomelidae), Environmental Science
• Digital dialogues: assessing at-risk readers using podcasting technology, Education
• Effect of flooding on ground beetle asseblages in Gateway Prairie, a reconstructed oak savannah and tall grass prairie, Biology