• The Effects of Soil Composition on the Health of Tree Species in the Southern Piedmont Region of the US 

  Channell, Allison P. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Soil is the foundation for plant life and development. The micro-nutrients found in soil are keyindicators for forest health and response to environmental and human-caused disturbances (Page- Dumroese et al, 2008). Through ...

• Employee Stress and Remote Work During COVID-19 

  Kietzman, Sarah J. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  In March of 2020, COVID-19 sent approximately 1.5 million university instructors into remote work (Hussar et al., 2020). This study aimed to determine how family status and remote work intensity of university instructors ...

• Environmental Services Employees’ Perceptions of Online Learning at a Midwestern VA Medical Facility 

  Wolfcale, Lisa J. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) intends to employ a workforce made of 40% veterans. Many veterans choose to work at the VHA because of the incentives provided by the government. Veterans often choose entry level ...

• The Prevalence of Orthorexia Nervosa Among University Students by Major and Using Different Thresholds of the ORTO-15 Evaluation Tool 

  Baseski, Ilkay (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  The prevalence of orthorexia nervosa among college students- especially among healthrelated major students may be higher than the general population. Orthorexia nervosa does not have official diagnostic criteria; the tools ...

• Factors Contributing to Job Satisfaction 

  McDonald, Zane M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Job satisfaction is often categorized as the enjoyment or appreciation someone has for the work that they do. Job satisfaction is an important variable to analyze as many individuals spend a significant portion of their ...

• Contemporary Racism in the Workplace: The Integrated Model of Racism and White Subordinate Perceptions of Black Supervisors 

  Farrell, Alexia M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2016)

  The Integrated Model of Racism (Dovidio & Gaertner, 1986) suggests liberals and conservatives react differently to African Americans in between-subjects designs when race is salient and the situation is ambiguous. Participants ...

• The Effect of Individual Differences on the Appeal of a Gamified Training System: Does Everyone Need a Spoonful of Sugar? 

  Schiel, Michael P. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2016)

  The current study explored whether individual difference characteristics (work motivation and gender) could predict participant choice between a gamified training and non-game equivalent. Specifically, 166 college students ...

• Control of Listeria spp. and Salmonella spp. in Regular and Ultrafiltered Raw Milk Cheddar Cheese Curds Stored at Room and Refrigeration Temperature 

  Maier, Emily M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Cross contamination of ready-to-eat food is a substantial concern in spreading pathogenic organisms, such as Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes. During the production of cheddar cheese curds, the lactose sugar ...

• Antilisterial Activity of Whey, Derived from Raw Regular and Ultrafiltered Milk Cheese 

  Brask, Mallory J. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Cheese is generally recognized as a safe and nutritious food. However, Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that has caused serious illness linked to cheese consumption. Cross contamination of ready-to-eat food ...

• An Investigation of Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Luehring, Jamie L. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Working from home has become a reality for many non-essential employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing regulations. It is unclear how long working from home will continue but research regarding working ...

• Assessing the relationships among Job Satisfaction, Organizational Justice, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Adaptability 

  O’Connell, Amanda M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Researchers argue that additional performance variables should be used in addition to the typical predictor of task performance to measure organizational effectiveness (Borman & Motowidlo, 1993). The current study seeks ...

• Student Perceptions of Student Evaluations of Teaching 

  Kusserow, Shane A. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are widely used instruments in higher education. Faculty rely upon SETs to improve their courses, and administrative faculty use them to make decisions about instructors’ tenure, ...

• Impact of Required Remote Work During COVID-19 on Elementary Education Workers: Remote Work Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance 

  Gross, Kayla R. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Organizations are more frequently allowing employees to engage in remote working, especially given the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic (Phillips, 2020). The pandemic resulted in a phase of required remote working ...

• Who Takes the Blame: Self-Serving Bias Amongst Undergraduates 

  Frenn, Emma F. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  There have been consistent findings with internal success attributions, but not many studies that focus on internal or external attributions for failure (Duval & Silvia, 2002). This study looks into the correlation amongst ...

• The Validity of the Arabic Version of the 15-Item Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS-15) in the Workplace Context 

  Albaraidi, Omar S. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)

  Despite the importance of boredom, few studies examined boredom in the Arabic language. There is not currently a multidimensional state boredom measure in Arabic. The current study systematically adapted the 15-item ...

• Investigating the Impacts of Habitat Restoration and Management on Pollinator Biodiversity 

  Barron, Jamie M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)

  Understanding pollinator communities is crucial to the interpretation of ecosystem functioning, and pollinator biodiversity can be used as an indicator to evaluate management techniques being implemented. I employed multiyear ...

• Social Loafing and Team-Based Learning: Assessing Whether Team-Based Learning 

  Waletzko, Jade M. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)

  Social loafing in group projects is a problem that affects the group’s productivity and the team’s experience (Gagne et al.,1999; Pfaff & Huddleston, 2003; Teng & Luo, 2015). A potential remedy to this problem is a ...

• Examining the Health Perspective Regarding Self-Rated Health 

  Librande, Victoria P. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)

  A commonly used to tool to collect health information is using Self-Rated Health measure. Yet, research shows individuals are likely to misreport their health status using self-reported measure (Ezzati et al., 2006; Garbarski ...

• Vitamin D Intake in Relationship to Mood and to Vitamin D- Related Knowledge in Undergraduate Students 

  Lochen, Heidi A. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2017)

  High prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency is reported in the young adult population and individuals residing in northern latitudes due to negligible vitamin D synthesis from ultraviolet light exposure in winter months, ...

• Strategic Programs Needs Assessment 

  Wibben, Megan L. (University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2017)

  Strategic Programs was in the beginning stages of updating the company vision and recreating the way they provide services and deliverables, and thus was interested in identifying gaps between what customers want and need ...

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