Our vision is an academic community without borders, a connected network of aspirational students committed to the advancement of knowledge and appreciation of the arts. UReCA fosters the exchange of intellectual and creative work between undergraduate students, providing a platform where students can engage with and contribute to the advancement of their individual fields.

UReCA was first conceived by Johnny MacLean (Southern Utah University) and Brian White (Graceland University) at an annual NCHC conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Their vision: an international undergraduate journal, peer reviewed and produced for the web by an interdisciplinary community of honors students. Our mission is to curate relevant, progressive and academic content that appeals to the undergraduate student. UReCA is sponsored by the National Collegiate Honors Council, and is currently managed, edited and produced by a team of ten undergraduate students from three different regions and a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Though diverse, we share a common goal: the production of a prestigious national journal, for honors students, by honors students.

Follow


2021

PDF

“In Between The Virgin and The Whore”: Decentering the Cultural Paradigms of The Virgin of Guadalupe and La Malinche in Four Writers, Miren Neyra Alcántara

PDF

Queer Refugee Experience: An Inquiry into the Studies of Transnationalism and its Relationship to the Livelihood of Syrian Refugees who Identify as LGBTQ+ and have Migrated to Turkey, Anne Frances Bennett

PDF

Molecular Genetic Modifications in the Human Genome: Racial Discrimination as a Biological Stressor, Nicolette Dobson

PDF

WHAT ISN'T THERE: Four Poets and the Art of Absence, Petra Ellerby

PDF

Controlling Wickedness: The Journey to Penal Reform and the First Prison Systems in New York and Pennsylvania from 1820-1840, Joseph Antonio Flores

PDF

Uproot, Jake Gentry

PDF

Adolescent Literature & Intersectional Oppression, Zacharia Jefferson Macneal Cross

PDF

The Maiden of the Lost, Jeneva Grace Midgett

PDF

The Effect of News Format and Personal Relevance on Affect, Sophia R. Morrow, Hannah M. Hood-Johnson, Brianna L. Scandell, Matthew P. Newman, and Grace E. Fink

PDF

Adventures in the Drawing Room: The Ambiguity, Exoticism, and Artifice of the Bourgeois Parisienne in Alfred Stevens’ The Visit, Piper Prolago

PDF

Racial Consciousness, Uplift, and Justice in Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Alexandria E. Schultz

PDF

Fried Egg, Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

PDF

Two (2) Slices of Baloney, Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

PDF

Them Ribbons Were Gold, Lucas Thompson

PDF

My Mother's Golem, Amanda VanNierop

2018

PDF

Research in Contemporary Painting, Sutton Allen

PDF

Palinoia, Jill Bond

PDF

Behind the Gavel and Under the Robe: Gender Performance in the Courthouse, Sonia Bosch

PDF

Tears of a Jester, Anjali Chacko

PDF

Utopia and Contemporary Human Society: A Model for Sustainable Continuance, David Blake Corman

PDF

To what extent does Transcendental Meditation (TM) relieve symptoms in patients with PTSD?, Sanya Dhami

PDF

Consanguinity on the Canvas: Studying Inbreeding in the Habsburg Dynasty through Portraits, Megan Dillion

PDF

Free to Hate: Can We Justify Curbing Hateful Speech?, Logan Drake

PDF

Painting the Negative Space: How Faulkner Silhouettes the Living Ghost of Flem Snopes, Jessica Fanczi

PDF

Golden Honey, Dom Fonce

PDF

Who was Che Guevara?, Kaleb Harkins

PDF

Walking with Helen, Carter Johnson

PDF

Another Apocalypse, Jared Kohn

PDF

She Asks For Something Hopeful, Alexander Lane

PDF

Flawed and Formidable: Galadriel, Éowyn, and Tolkien’s Inadvertent Feminism, Rachel Maddox

PDF

1 in 4, Audrey Miklitsch

PDF

A Comparison of Corrosion Potential, Installation, Maintenance, and Anti-Microbial Efficacy: Copper Combined with a Polymer Matrix or Stainless Steel for Use in a Hospital Setting, Barika Mirza

PDF

Burger Reward, Spencer Patterson

PDF

Application of the Modified Finite Difference Method to the 1-D Schrödinger Equation, Trevor A. Robertson and Jay Wang

PDF

Lyrics for Magnolia, too, Sreyash Sarkar

PDF

Bridging Aesthetic Theory: Comparing Scottish Enlightenment Theories to Modern Neuroscience Evidence, Calen Smith

PDF

Closet Land: Combining Theatre and Film for a Psychological Thrill, Ashley Snead and Janet Hayatshahi

PDF

Conservative Colonization: An Ethical Analysis of Galactic Expansion, Parker Vesely

PDF

Health is Wealth: Behavioral Economic "Nudges" Applied to Health Care, Cameron Watts

2017

PDF

Educating the Outsiders: The Importance of Social Support in the Success of Latino Undocumented Students, Emily Adkins

PDF

UReCA, the NCHC Web journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, Kaycee Anderson, Mikayla Conway, Mackenzie Cope, Caleb Deane, Leah Koch, Ryan Schlom, Rebekah Assid, Olivia George, Josh Freeman, Grace McPherson, Kate Mobley, Zeke Starr, Russell Helms, Johnny Maclean, and Brian White

PDF

Each and Every Minute, Jacob Boles

PDF

Cage's Dungeon, Gage Bradley, Brett Hall, and Sam Troncin

PDF

The Mechanics of Scientific Belief, Michael Cook

PDF

Honors Program Induction: Fitting into a Community that is Born to Stand-Out, Jennifer Drew

PDF

Moving Foward with Family Centered-Care: One Step at a Time, Adrianne Nicole Dunbar

PDF

A Cultural, Economic, and Industrial Analysis of the Republic of Poland and its Financial Services Industry, Jeremy Eberly

PDF

Temporary Meddlers: Friars in Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet, Sarah Friedman

PDF

Aluminum Analysis of Water at Columbia College, Dung Golden

PDF

Jargons and Pidgins and Creoles, Oh My!, Emily Gray

PDF

SYMPTOMS OF THE VIRUS BY DR. HENRY ESQUIRE III MD CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, Emily Haase

PDF

The Physics Behind Garage Door Springs, Tal Joseph

PDF

Cultural support in nursing, Sabine Knoppke-Wetzel

PDF

Evolutionary Explanation for Invasive Abilities of Centaurea stoebe (spotted knapweed) in Introduced Areas Invasion and its effects on biodiversity in native areas, Erin Koren

PDF

"My Paintings Would Be No Different than a Picture in a Biology Textbook", Andi Kur

PDF

“Northern Spy”, Anne Livingston

PDF

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury on YouTube: A Content and Comment Analysis, Nathan Lowry and Carol Ewert

PDF

A Sliding Scale: Nuclear Proliferation Among States, Jessica Lui

PDF

Connexin-43 and Traumatic Brain Injury: A potential target for therapeutic intervention, Lauren R. Moore

PDF

The Use of Simpson’s Diversity Index to Develop a Diverse Community for the Enrichment of Experiential Learning, Quinn Nguyen

PDF

Mixed Media Collection, Jacob Smith

PDF

Confronting Internalized Transphobia My Own and Society's, Kaci Sullivan

PDF

Secret-Keeper, Cassandra Zimmerman

2016

PDF

Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity VOLUME ONE

PDF

Educating the Outsiders: The Importance of Social Support in the Success of Latino Undocumented Students, Emily Adkins

Link

Each and Every Minute, Jacob Boles

Link

Cage's Dungeon, Gage Bradley, Brett Hall, and Sam Troncin

PDF

The Mechanics of Scientific Belief, Michael Cook

PDF

Honors Program Induction: Fitting into a Community that is Born to Stand-Out, Jennifer Drew

PDF

Moving Forward with Family Centered-Care: One Step at a Time, Adrianne Dunbar

PDF

Movement(s) in Dialogue: Kaleidoscope and the Discourse of Underground News, Jeb Ebben

PDF

Movements in Dialogue: Kaleidoscope and the Discourse of Underground News, Jeb Ebben

PDF

“Where Words Fail, Music Speaks”: The Experience of Adapting Literature to Music, Laney J. Fowle

PDF

“Where Words Fail, Music Speaks”: The Experience of Adapting Literature to Music, Laney J. Fowle, Kyle Bishop, and Matthew Nickerson

PDF

Jargons and Pidgins and Creoles, Oh My!, Emily Gray

PDF

Symptoms of the Virus, Emily Haase

PDF

Evolutionary Explanation for Invasive Abilities of Centaurea stoebe (spotted knapweed) in Introduced Areas, Erin Koren

PDF

"My Paintings Would Be No Different than a Picture in a Biology Textbook", Andi Kur

PDF

A Sliding Scale: Nuclear Proliferation Among States, Jessica Liu

PDF

Connexin-43 and Traumatic Brain Injury: A potential target for therapeutic intervention, Lauren R. Moore

PDF

"So Dead and Bald" Destroys the World: A Psychological Critique of Object Metamorphosis in Infinite Jest's Game of Eschaton, R. Christian Phillips

PDF

"So Dead and Bald" Destroys the World: A Psychological Critique of Object Metamorphosis in Infinite Jest's Game of Eschaton, R. Christian Phillips

PDF

OF LOVE AND OTHER ILLS, Enrique Quezada

PDF

Of Love and Other Ills, Enrique Quezada

PDF

Dollhouse, Samantha Richardson

PDF

Godspeed, Noah Rucker

PDF

The "G" Word, Ariane Schaffer

PDF

Palm Epiphyll Cover Shifts to Higher Elevations in Tropical Cloud Forest, Indicating Local Climate Change, Maya Spaur

PDF

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: An Analysis on the Role of the United Nations during the Bosnian War, Iman Zekri