The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

Follow

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006

PDF

Anti-Predator Behavior in Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) Tadpoles, Leah Jennifer Mycoff
Department: Biology

PDF

Stress Response to Prolonged Capture House Sparrows, Anthony J. Porter Jr.
Department: Biology

PDF

Comparative Analysis of a Novel Tyrosine Kinase, McsB from Bacillus subtilis, with the Phosphagen Kinases Using Mutagenesis and Phylogenetics, Julianne Rutt
Department: Biology

PDF

Comparing the Aggressive Responses of Crayfish Influenced By Caffeine and Theanine to Studies of Humans: Limitations Within the Study of Simple Systems, Stephanie Sandmeyer
Department: Biology

PDF

Decreasing Fall Risk in Osteoporosis Patients in Primary Care Settings Using Novel Methods For Screening and For Physical Therapy Follow-Up, Katherine Schwinn
Department: Biology

PDF

An Investigation of the Frequency and Effects of Extra-Pair Paternity in Two South-Central Welsh Populations of Pied Flycatchers (Ficedula Hypoleuca) During the 2004 and 2005 Breeding Seasons, Marliese Anne Zimmerman
Department: Biology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005

PDF

Effects of Erythropoietin (EPO) Treatment on Muscle Strength, Fatigue, and Hemoglobin Levels in Sprague-Dawley Rats, Angela Arnold
Department: Biology

PDF

Effects of 2,4,4,-Trichloro-2-Hydroxydiphenylether on Salmonella typhimurium, Ashley Arnold
Department: Biology

PDF

Far From Sterile: the Microbial Contamination and Food-Borne Disease Potential of Mung Bean (Vigna radiata) Seeds, Jonathan Robert Bell
Department: Biology

PDF

They Are Likened With Air Quality: the Use of Corticolous Lichen Communities and Elemental Analysis of Punctella rudecta As Indicators of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Air Quality at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Andrew Bishop
Department: Biology

PDF

Effects of Creatine and Androstenedione on Body Weight, Food and Water Intake, and Physical Strength and Endurance on Trained Lab Rats, Martin Danial
Department: Biology

PDF

Development of Simple and Effective RNA Interface in Phytophthora infestans, Elise Susan Demitrack
Department: Biology

PDF

Similarities in Fish Communities Separated By a Geographical Barrier in First and Second Order Streams in Medina Co., Ohio, Kenneth E. Fry IV
Department: Biology

PDF

Nest Site Selection in Female Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta marginata), Melanie Lynn Gertz
Department: Biology

PDF

Effects of Juniperus communis Oil on Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strain UT189, Elizabeth Margaret Herbert
Department: Biology

PDF

Effects of Two Anti-Fibrotic Agents, Decorin and Pentoxifylline, on Muscle Wound Healing in Rats (Rattus Rattus), Allison E. Kent
Department: Biology

PDF

Immunization, Oculotrophin Pmg, and the Ischemic-Reperfusion Model of Glaucoma, Andy Klise
Department: Biology

PDF

Visual Acuity and Physical Condition of the Eyes After Moderate Damage From Ultraviolet Light Exposure in Albino Rats, Allisyn Leete
Department: Biology

PDF

Importance of Different Sensory Systems in Animal Learning, Alexis Louttit
Department: Biology

PDF

Response of Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife) Seed Banks to Repeated Annual Treatments of the Aboveground Vegetation Using Glyphosate Contain Herbicides, Brian D. Lutz
Department: Biology

PDF

Factors Affecting Sex Allocation in Two Populations of a South-Central Welsh Bird, the Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), Benjamin McCarty
Department: Biology

PDF

Behavioral Comparison of Allopatric and Sympatric Red-Back Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in Interactions With Slimy Salamanders (Plethodon glutinosus), Emily Pagano
Department: Biology

PDF

Testing Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat Variables in the Decline of Blanchard's Cricket Frogs in Ohio, Allen Skinner
Department: Biology

PDF

Testing the Efficacy of 2,13 and 3,13 Octadecadiel-1-OL Acetate and Commercially Available Lures As Sex Attractant Pheromones For Pennisetia Marginata (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), Justin Sloan
Department: Biology

PDF

Eat Your Weedies: the Effects of Artificially Induced Herbivory on Five Biotypes of the Invasive Weed, Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. (Solanaceae: nicandreae) With Lema trilineata (Olivier) (Coleoptera: chrysomelidae) As a Proposed Biological Control Agent, Allison Stark
Department: Biology

PDF

Lindera benzoin (Spicebush): a Study of Dispersal and Distribution, David Treleven
Department: Biology

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

PDF

The Effects of Ginkgo biloba on Wound Healing in Rats, Kathleen A. Walker

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

PDF

Pathogens, Pesticides, Productivity, and Policy: Mathematical Modeling of Plant Virus Disease to Determine How Altering Vector Conditions and Plant Susceptibility Changes the Outcome of Disease Spread in An Agricultural System and Provides Farmers the Ability to Assess the Impending Risk, Reducing Their Use of Pesticides, and Establishing Farmers' Decisionmaking As the Key to More Visionary U.S. Environmental Policy, Jennifer A. Buckley
Department: Biology; Political Science