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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Inheritance Rights and Women’s Intrahousehold Bargaining Power: A Case Study of Indonesia, Rita Chiboub
Department: Global and International Studies
“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Creating a Financial Literacy Workshop for College-Aged Women on the Relationship Among Spending, Saving, and Investing, Lesley Chinery
Department: Communication Studies
Imali: A Technical Analysis Mobile Application in React Native, Tanaka Chingonzo
Department: Computer Science
Cast Away: Examining Genetic Structure and Color Morph Genetic Differentiation of Polymorphic Garter Snake Populations on Lake Erie, Dillon Chipman
Department: Biology
Exploring Social Tendencies via Twitter Using Network Analysis, Aditi Chowbey
Department: Mathematics
An Examination of Policing and Violent Crime Rates in Youngstown, Ohio, Catera Clark
Department: Political Science
¡Viva el Pueblo! Tactic Diversification and Elite Defection in Antiauthoritarian Uprising, Alyxandra D. Claycomb
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Snapped: Examining how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Food Access Impact Health Outcomes Among Low- income/Low-access (LILA) Populations in Georgia, Paige Clay
Department: Africana Studies; Political Science
An Analysis on the Relationship Between Childcare Costs, Fertility and Women Employment, Noah Clement
Department: Business Economics
Liberty and Justice for All*: certain exclusions may be applied, Madelyn A. Cobb
Department: Philosophy
Derivative Intentionality & Gricean Meaning, Alex Lee Cohen
Department: Philosophy
A Look at Ohio’s Energy Senate Bill 221 - Effects of Merit Order and Renewable Energy on Ohio’s Electricity Market, Zenobia Conrad
Department: Business Economics
Elucidating Phosphagen Kinase Evolution through the Identification of Substrate Specific Arginine Kinases and Taurocyamine Kinase within Platyhelminthes, Emmalee Cooke
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Picking Up the Pieces: Small-Town Revitalization of Lancaster, Ohio in the Wake of the Deindustrialization of the Anchor Hocking Glass Factory, Jacob M. Cook
Department: History
Urban Pocket Prairies Support Bee Diversity in Cleveland, Ohio, Jena Nicole Copley
Department: Biology
Liberté, Égalité, Paternité: Understanding the French anti-gay and anti-reproductive technology movement, La Manif pour tous, Elizabeth Cotton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; French and Francophone Studies
Sunscreen, Zoe Covey
Department: English
Likes, Lady Gaga, and Loneliness: The Beneficial Impacts of Active Social Media Usage and Para-Social Relationships on FOMO and Loneliness, Noah W. Crane
Department: Psychology
How Do We Fight Climate Change? A Study on the Impact of Carbon Sequestration Using a Small-Scale Reforestation Technique, Caden W. Croft
Department: Biology
The Fight Against Cultural Colonization in New Zealand, Eliza A. Cullen
Department: History
The Role of Ambivalent Sexism in Women's Voting Behavior, Katrina Estill Culler
Department: Political Science
The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Perceptions of Gender Non-Binary Individuals, Abby Rose Cunningham
Department: Psychology
Self-driving Car with Udacity Simulator, Anh Tran Quynh Dam
Department: Computer Science
Developing a Tool to Study Bat Wing Inertia and Investigating Variation in Bone Volume across Different Bat Landing Styles, Andy D. Danison
Department: Biology
The History of German Education and the Improvement of German Education Through Films and Pedagogical Methods, Bryce Danovskis
Department: German Studies
The Nana Yaa Asantewaa War: Analysis of the Political Institutions of the Asante during The War Of The Golden Stool and the Existing Narratives, Angela Danso Gyane
Department: History; Political Science
Option Implied Volatility's Predictability on Monthly Stock Returns, Hung T. Dao
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
If a Tree Falls in a Forest: The Impacts of Coarse Woody Debris on Biodiversity and Species Abundance in Areas of Ongoing Reforestation, Oria Lee Daugherty
Department: Biology
Can Climate Fiction Novels Inspire Social Change? A Literary and Empirical Ecocritical Analysis, Claire Davidson
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
The Relationship Between Racial Segregation And Availability Of Transportation Modal Options, Lachlan Davidson
Department: Urban Studies
Foreign Election Interference and Hybrid Warfare, Jonathan Davies
Department: Political Science
Music-making and Identity: Constructing and Collaborating on the Musicians' Self in Bluegrass Bands, Michael Dean
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Running Man, Jack De La Cruz
Department: Computer Science
Visit which Scotland? Political Events Illuminating Two Competing Visions of re-emerging Scottish Identity since the late Twentieth-century, Erin W. Delaney
Department: History
Redressing Histories of Sexual Violence of the “Comfort Women”: using Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed and APTP devising methods, Carlos DeSantiago
Department: Theatre and Dance
Cultivating Connection: Assessing the Impact of Experiential Agriculture on Undergraduate Students, Gillian R. Desonier-Lewis
Department: Environmental Studies
Climate change impacts go beyond the surface: Groundwater recharge rates and aquifer resources across the Contiguous United States, Kendra R. Devereux
Department: Earth Sciences
Different Cradle, Different Grave: An Examination of the Relationship between Intergenerational Poverty and Attachment, Allie Deyhle
Department: Psychology
Specialization in Youth Sports and Its Effects on Injuries, Jay A. DiBacco
Department: Biology
"The Refugees are Better Off Than We Are": Evaluating the Impact of Syrian Refugees on Jordanian Labor Markets, Maggie Dougherty
Department: Economics
Variation in Hemoglobin-Mediated Response to Hyperthermal Stress Driven by Environmental Stressors in Daphnia pulicaria, Estelle Rose Dowling
Department: Biology
Acting Authentically — A Case Study of Character Building Techniques With Three Plays by James Bentley Campbell, Gerald Dryden
Department: Theatre and Dance
"Love is a Bulletproof Vest": Protest as an Exploration of Women’s Right to the City, Sarah Foley Duran
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Roles of dNab2 and dArc1 in Drosophila melanogaster Mushroom Body Axon Development, Marcel Lignani Elkouri
Department: Neuroscience
Sinister Cinema: Depictions of Evil in the WWII and Postwar Thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot, Holly N. Engel
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Keep it Simple Stupid: An Examination of Conservative Populism in the Neoliberal World, Maxwell B. Engel
Department: Political Science
Negative Partisanship: How Perceptions of Political Opponents Fuels Participation, Aidan R. Enright
Department: Political Science
Accessing the Right to Counsel: A Theoretical Study of the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Restricted Access to Justice in the United States, Elyse Evans
Department: Political Science
Using Tau Protein to Investigate the Link between Sleep Deprivation and Alzheimer’s Disease in a Drosophila Model, Kaitlyn B. Evans
Department: Neuroscience
Representation of African Immigration in Short and Long-Form Media, Abigail E. Everidge
Department: English
Collaboration in Silence: An Investigation of the Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in Treatment for Children With Selective Mutism, Anabel Faigin
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Other Is Us: A Critical Analysis of Race in Jordan Peele's Us, Danté Fair
Department: Communication Studies
Investigating the Efficacy of RNAi for Use in the Study of Caenorhabditis elegans Arginine Kinase, Evan Thomas Faxon
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“A Big Opportunity for Everyone to not Hide Those Beautiful Bodies”: Building Community Among Women of Color in the Body Positivity Movement on Instagram, Lilia Federico
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Knowledge of Intentional Action as Essential for It: An Epistemological and Action-Theoretical Investigation, Alex Fiander
Department: Philosophy
A Re-evaluation of Texts Taught in High School English Classrooms: Why a Need for a Curriculum Reboot is Necessary, Morgan Paige Fields
Department: English
Creating an Event Horizon Analogue with the Belosouv-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Megan Anne Fisher
Department: Physics
The Art of Atmosphere in Stop-Motion Animation, Abigail Fisk
Department: Art and Art History
Establishing a Functional Heterologous Expression System for Bacillus niacini Nicotinate Dehydrogenase and 6-Hydroxynicotinate Dehydrogenase Using Escherichia coli, Daniel T. Fleming
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
At the Corner of Two Walls, Sierra A. Foltz
Department: English
The Great Unknown: An Investigation into Audiologists' Familiarity with Auditory Brainstem Implants (ABIs), Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), Their Clinical Knowledge Regarding Candidacy Criteria, and Outcomes of ABIs, Katherine Fong
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Involvement of PP1 in Calcium Channel Regulation in Paramecium Tetraurelia, Wyatt Foss
Department: Biology
Visiting Spooks and Specters: The Ghost Tourism Industry of Colonial Williamsburg, JoAnna Fowler
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology
The History of the English Longbow- An Analysis of the Transformative Longbow in the Military, Society, and Identity Throughout British History, Elena Franzusova
Department: History
Using a Protein Cross-Linker to Confirm Protein Disulfide Isomerase Interactions and Impact on Downstream Processes, Wilson M. Freije
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Civil Commitment to Minimal Adequacy: A Study of the Deinstitutionalization of Minnesota, Jack Ryan Galle
Department: History
Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network, Yuchen Gan
Department: Physics
Paradoxical Descriptions of Divine Beings, Tiago Garcia
Department: English; Religious Studies
Multilingual Literature of the New World: A Literary and Semantic Study of Spanglish in Susana Chávez-Silverman’s Killer Crónicas, Justin Garibotti
Department: English; Spanish
Exploring the Relationship Between Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs (Oophaga Pumilio) And Their Tropical Bromeliad Hosts (Guzmania Lingulata)., McKenna S. Gassman
Department: Biology
An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Price Discrimination, Christopher Gately
Department: Global and International Studies
The Ghosts of Grief: An Exploration of Gothic Influence in 2010s Horror Cinema, Halen Gifford
Department: Communication Studies; Film Studies
Noticing Narratives: An Evaluation of Holocaust 'Lessons' Portrayed By American Museums, Rachel D. Ginsburg
Department: History
Tentative Detection of Phosphoarginine by LC-MS in M. xanthus, Asvin Gireesh
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exploring the Impact of the Microbiome on Sleep Homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster, Joshua Gluck
Department: Biology
Building a College Roommate Recommender Web App, Klever D. Gopar
Department: Computer Science
SWS2 and LWS mRNA Sequences in Red and Blue Betta Splendens, Hannah Greenland
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
Brand Identity and Brand Alignment in Corporate Political Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis of Penzey Spices’ Facebook Ads Opposing Donald Trump, Beau H. Greenwood
Department: Communication Studies
Purification and Crystallization of MurG: Towards Structural Characterization of a Ubiquitous Antibiotic Target, Peter E. Greenwood Jr
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Communicating Science to College Students: A Comparison of Infographic and Text Based Approaches, Rachel Greer
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
Normative Bastardy, Max Kent Gregg
Department: Philosophy
You Have 10 Minutes Remaining: An Examination Into Common Test-Taking Anxieties’ Effect on Academic Performance in Relation to Academic Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement Goal Orientation, Megan R. Gronau
Department: Neuroscience
Defeating the COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter: A SIP Agent-Based Model of Rumor Propagation and Truth Bot Intervention, Zhen Guo
Department: Computer Science; Sociology and Anthropology
The Effects of Meditation, if Any, on Pain Awareness, Sosna Hailu-Chanyalew
Department: Neuroscience; Philosophy
How Progressive Rock Adapted the Classical Tradition, Nathaniel J. Haines
Department: Music
Compatibility of Quantum Mechanics and Determinism, Daniel Halbing
Department: Philosophy
The Effect of Varied Paneling Characteristics on the Predictability of Soccer Ball Flight, Daniel Halbing
Department: Physics
Who's Watching Who? Inverting the Capitalist Gaze in News Images of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, Laura Haley
Department: Communication Studies
The Music of the People: Appalachian Ballads and the Search for the Authentic in the 1960s American Folk Music Revival, Anna Halgash
Department: English; History
Trying to “Do No Harm”: Empathy’s Relationship with Medical Education, Cydney Grace Hall
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Peace Be With You: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Interfaith versus Single-faith Peacebuilding Programming at Reducing Violence in Religious Conflict, Sydney Maureen Hanes
Department: Global and International Studies
Is the World Living Through a New Cold War? A Systematic Analysis of the Cold War and its Influences with a Comparative Study of the Cold War and the Modern Era, Nicholas William Hanna
Department: Political Science
Bright Moon in Mountain Wind, Yuqi Han
Department: Chinese Studies
Manipulating Maternal Care: methodology and function in early life stress experiments in rodents, Yuqi Han
Department: Biology
“Boys Can't Be Princesses”: An Understanding of Speech-Language Pathologists Perceptions of Gender Bias, LGBTQ+ Bias, and LGBTQ+ Related Issues When Working with Young Children, Breanna L. Harrell
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
A Boolean Model of Crosstalk Between Senescence and Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition, Marlayna Harris
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Black Enuf: An Exploration of the Strategic Use of Racial Appeals by Black Candidates to Garner Black Voter Support, Stachal Harris
Department: Political Science
Angels and Saints in a Modern Renaissance, Elena Hart
Department: Art and Art History
Rednecks, Hillbillies, and White Trash in the Living Room: A Rhetorical Analysis of Reality Television's Construction of Appalachian Regional Identity, Bradlee Elizabeth Hartman
Department: Communication Studies
Development of a Passive Sampler for Detecting PFAS Using Polymer-Organosilica Hybrid Adsorbents, Heather Hartmann
Department: Chemistry; Spanish