Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Brooklyn: A Toxic Tour. Using a Five-Part Environmental Inspection to Advocate for Environmental Justice, Jack Gilio
Department: Communication
The First But Hopefully Not the Last: How The Last Of Us Redefines the Survival Horror Video Game Genre, Joseph T. Gonzales
Department: Communication
A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Corporate Leverage, Nathaniel Goodin
Department: Business Economics
Production, Function, and Conservation of Ancient Roman Mosaics and their Display in Museums in the United States, Arabella Goodrich
Department: Archaeology
Mass Melanin Movement: Black Women's Perceptions of Body Images and Beauty Ideals Through Analysis of Reality Television, Meonyez Goodwin
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
What's Taking So Long? The Timeline it Takes for the United Nations to Become Involved in State Sanctioned Violence, Alexandria Gordon
Department: Political Science
An Empirical Analysis of the Predictive Power of Interest Rate Spreads in the Policy Normalization Period, Kevin H. Gould
Department: Business Economics
Adsorption of Biomolecules by Porous Organosilica, Amy L. Graham
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Silent but Deadly: An Economic Approach to Reducing the Negative Externalities of the Beef Industry to the Environment, Ethan Greene
Department: Business Economics
Analyzing the Effects of Bacteriophage Therapy Against Pseudomonas on Lettuce Leaves as a Means to Prevent Overuse of Antibiotics, Cheyenne Gregg
Department: Biology
“KASH” Me Outside, How ‘Bout That: Using the LGB-KASH Scale and SDO to Measure Attitudes Toward the LGBTQ+ Community in the United States and Outside in France, Virginia Grohol
Department: Psychology
Drone Brood Removal: A Bee-Utiful Form of Varroa Control and Source of Edible Insect Protein, Bridget A. Gross
Department: Environmental Studies
Citizens in Name Only: Civil and Human Rights of Algerians in France, 1958–1961, Shelley Grostefon
Department: History; French and Francophone Studies
Comparing Glass Frog (Centrolenidae) Diversity in Primary and Secondary Forests in Costa Rica, Christopher W. Gumpper
Department: Biology
Comedic Personal Narrative and the Self Awareness of Vice: Rethinking Virtue, Amy Hagedorn
Department: Philosophy
Analyzing and Solving the Nurse Scheduling Problem, Nicholas Hagopian-Zirkel
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Folktales From Origin Valley, Elen-Kalliopi Halimou
Department: English; Philosophy
A Look at the “Goodfellas”: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Vindicator and How They Depict the Youngstown Italian Mafia, Alec Hammond
Department: Communication
Investigating the Influence of Nab2 on CaMKII Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster, Camille Hanes
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
A History of Displacement: Gentrification and Black Activism in Portland, Oregon, Ryan Harms
Department: History
Does Law Affect Morality? An in Depth Analysis of the Effects of Injustice on Morality, Jaelan R.O. Harney
Department: Philosophy
Investigating the Impact of Invasive Plant Species on Native Plethodontid Salamander Populations, Haley M. Hartman
Department: Biology
Children of the Empire, Jack Healy
Department: English
Investigation of Carminic Acid Photodegradation: Separation, Analysis, and Characterization of Photoproducts, Margaret F. Heller
Department: Chemistry
Preferred Asset Allocation of the Individual Investor Concerning ESG Scores, Thomas D. Helsel
Department: Business Economics
Attacking the Curve: A Study on the Effect of Concavity on Aerodynamic Forces Associated with High Speed Automobiles, Collin Hendershot
Department: Physics
Writing the Carceral Divide: Representations of Imprisonment in American Culture, Timothy Herring
Department: English
Cyber Warfare: A Study of Threat and Cooperation, John Hessler
Department: Political Science
I've Been in the Storm So Long: African American History and the Journey Toward Equality Through the Lens of the DuSable Museum of African American History, Grace N. Hodges
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Comparing the Expression of the Phosphodiesterase Pde1c between Drosophila melanogaster Mutants, Rebecca Hotz
Department: Neuroscience
The Gender Differences in the Perception of Bullying in College of Wooster Students, Sessi Houessou-Adin
Department: Psychology
Relationships Between Substance Abuse, Emotional Intelligence, Impulsivity, and Social Support: An Examination of Factors Relating to Addiction, Grant P. Hudson
Department: Psychology
Masculinity (De)construction and Policing: A Comparative Study of Representation, Policies, and Legitimacy, Sarah Huffman
Department: Political Science
The Double Burden: An Examination of the Political and Social Violence Experienced by Black Activists Participating in Nonviolent Protest During the Modern Civil Rights Era, Desmond Hughes
Department: History
“His Blood Is Different… Even Though He’s Not Bad, His Ethnicity Is Bad” the Impact of Cultural Policies and Negative Rhetoric on the Severity of an Ethnic Conflict, Jinhee Huh
Department: Political Science
An Analysis of Caddisfly Larval Cases from Bioherms in the Upper Green River Formation, White Hill Cuesta, Ephraim, Utah, Peter B. Hurst
Department: Geology
Religion, Animals and Healing: Viewing the Horse through Islam, Christianity, and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Emily Huxtable
Department: Religious Studies
Perceived Deprivation and its Role in the Decisions of Former Obama Supporters During the United States Presidential Election of 2016, Jack Hyman
Department: Political Science
Adoption Across Cultures: A Comparative Analysis of Adoption Attitudes between the United States and Honduras, Sidney A. Irias
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Americanized Chinese Dishes as Heritage Food and Bridging Identities, Megu Itoh
Department: Chinese Studies; Communication
The Lord of Summer, Bird Jackson
Department: English
Sports Analytics With Computer Vision, Colby T. Jeffries
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Dispatches from the Fly Killer: A mathematical model that studies the correlation between sleep fragmentation and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster, Vedica Jha
Department: Biology; Mathematics
River Development and Incision on Dominica, West Indies, Cole Jimerson
Department: Geology
The Effect of Vitamin D on Sprague-Dawley Rats Muscle Performance During Training, Patrick Johnson
Department: Biology
A Bleak Hope For My Father: An Analysis of the Need For More Funding Earmarked towards Reentry Programs for African American Males, Derrius R. Jones
Department: Africana Studies
Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus, Alina M. Karapandzich
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Survival and Abundance of Glass Frog (Centrolenidae) Embryos in Primary and Secondary Forests in Costa Rica, Mackenzie Nicole Kellar
Department: Biology
Investigating Soybean Resistance Mechanisms to Phytophthora Sojae Through the Plant Hormone Auxin, Tara Keller
Department: Biology
Should You Lyse Your Neighbors’ Houses? This Model Says ‘No’ an in Silico Examination of the Interactions Between Bacterial and Viral Populations in the Presence of the Arbitrium System for Viral Communications, Brendan Kelley-Bukovac
Department: Biology
Examining Relationships Between Personality and Inexperienced Imagery Ability Among Athletes and Non-Athletes, Jamie C. Kenyon
Department: Psychology
Chasing the Light: Determining a Consistent Method of Device Fabrication for Single-Layered Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Austinjit S. Khara
Department: Chemistry
Go to Sleep: A Comparison Between Spontaneous-Hypertensive Rodents and Sprague-Dawley Rodents' Performances in a Spontaneous Alternation Task after Short-Term Sleep Deprivation, Jordan Kindinger
Department: Neuroscience
Gender Performance and Policy Issue Focus on U.S. Senate Campaign Websites, 2010-2016, Kiley Kinnard
Department: Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Biased or Unbiased?: Perceptions of Information Provided by Professionals to Parents Regarding Communication Options for Their Child Who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Hannah G. Kiser
Department: Communication
Understanding Gene Expression Alterations Following Sleep Deprivation, Ksenia J. Klue
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Save the Forest (Dependent Communities): An Analysis of Potential Factors That Help Explain the Inclusion of Forest-Dependent Communities in Redd+ Readiness, Maite A. Knorr-Evans
Department: Global and International Studies
A Sound of Drum and Bass: Hip Hop as Identity and Means to Ethical Growth through Aesthetic Value, Justin Konyn
Department: Philosophy
Unfair Journalism: An Investigation into Stereotypes That Emerged from Recent College Sports Scandals and Surrounding Media Accounts, Sam Kuhn
Department: English
Blue Genes: A Comparative Genetic Analysis of Steel Blue, Royal Blue, and Turquoise Betta Splendens, Margaret Kuk
Department: Biology
"Are We Not Peasants too?": Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Rural India, Maansi Kumar
Department: Economics
The Effects of Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Ligands on Gallium and Aluminum Mineral Weathering and Soil Sorption, Benjamin W. Kumpf
Department: Geology
Resilience in STEM Students: An Analysis of the Demographic, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Predictors of Resilience, Catherine B. Kuzmishin
Department: Psychology
The Behavioral and Genetic Effects of Repeated Exposure to the Anesthetic Tricaine (MS-222) on Learning and Memory in Betta splendens, Christina Labib
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
An Investigation into the Recent Surge of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Healthcare Industry, Tyler LaCroix
Department: Business Economics
What's Behind the Mask? A Qualitative Study of How Male Makeup Vloggers Perform Alternative Identities, Nicole LaPerna
Department: Communication
Evaluation of Organosilica Sorbent Media as an Adsorbent for the Removal of Perfluoroalkyl Substances from Contaminated Groundwater, Michaela Lawrence
Department: Chemistry
The Effects of Objectification on Varsity Athletes: A Comparison of Its Consequences in Sports with Revealing and Non-Revealing Uniforms, Maggie C. Layde
Department: Psychology
The Role of Stress on Executive Functioning: Mediating Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation, Georgina M. Legierski
Department: Psychology
Manipulating Diversity: A Rhetorical Analysis of Annalise Keating’s Intersectional Portrayal of Race and Sexuality on the Primetime Television Show How to Get Away with Murder, Melany Le
Department: Communication
Selection on Phenological Traits Changes over the Flowering Season in a Self-Incompatible Annual: Implications for the Formation of Adaptive Temporal Clines, Laura C. Leventhal
Department: Biology
Community vs. Capital: How the Ideals of Community Caused Religion to be the Driving Force in the Attempt to Save Youngstown’s Steel Industry, Jason C. Lillie
Department: History
Making Room for Refugees: Understanding Trends and Valuable Criteria in the Humanization of Refugees through the Analysis of Multimedia, and Oral History, Heather C. Lockhart-Neff
Department: Global and International Studies
“Discourse Begins in a Book Club”: An Analysis of Online Book Club Literary Discussion of Race and Gender in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Underground Railroad, Catherine Lockwood
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
“Do You Even Lift?”: An Ethnographic Study of the Relationship Between the Gym Culture at the College of Wooster and an Individual’s Construction of His Masculine Identity, Andrew Long
Department: Communication
It's Ground Breaking: Development of Soil Insertion Passive Sampler for Chemically Informed Crop Management, Katherine J. Longo
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Neurological Effects of Loving Kindness Meditation on Social Connection and Racial Bias, Colleen M. Lopez
Department: Neuroscience
The Role of Neighborhood Stigma in Urban Inequality, Kathryn Lucero
Department: Urban Studies
Dam It: Grand Coulee Dam, Electricity, and the Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, Stephen Lumetta
Department: History
Stratigraphy and the Origin of Silica at Gal Hill, Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah: A Petrographic and Geochemical Study, Eduardo Luna
Department: Geology
Investigating the Role of Phytophthora sojae Effector Protein PsAvr3c in the Endoplasmic Reticulum UPR Defense Pathway, Katherine Lyden
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Rumination on Identity Politics with Durkheim and Rousseau, Austin Maffei
Department: Political Science; Sociology and Anthropology
Fractals and Fractal Time Series, Sonia Malik
Department: Mathematics
Learning to Work: The Success of English Acquisition in Education vs. the Tourism Industry in the Cloud Forest of Ecuador, Katie Mandych
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Responsibility of For-profit Corporations: A Dilemma in Ethics and Rationality, Kayleigh Marks
Department: Philosophy
Intimidation or Emasculation? A Critical Analysis of the Representation of Masculinity in American Theatre, George L. Marn
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance
The Relevance of Brick and Mortar Retail in the Age of E-Commerce, John Marousek
Department: Business Economics
More Than a Club: An Analysis of Black Women’s Identity, Networks, and Social Mobility in Black Greek-letter Organizations, Clarke Martin
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Impact Message Framing and Construal Level Have on Health Decisions, Taylor Mathews
Department: Psychology
Algorithmic Music Composition, Thomas Matlak
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Putting Socks on an Octopus: The Nature of United States Military Medicine During the Vietnam War, Kimiko McBryde
Department: History
Are the Frogs Still Croaking? Surveying for Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Acris Blanchardi) in Northwest Ohio and Assessing Mechanisms of Decline, John McCall
Department: Biology
Help! She’s Fallen and She Can’t Get Up!: Pre-Raphaelite Depictions of the Fallen Woman and the Consequences She Faces, Specifically in the Works of William Holman Hunt, Lander McCarthy
Department: Art and Art History
She Shoots, She Scores: Creating a Mathematical Model to Predict Expected Shot Value in Women's NCAA Division III Basketball, Paige McKean
Department: Mathematics
A Visual Investigation of Criticality: Avalanche Classification on a Conical Bead Pile, Kyle McNickle
Department: Physics
An Examination of the Relationship between Perceptions of Campus Climate and Academic Competence, Cheyenne McQueen
Department: Psychology
Predictability of Arctic Sea Ice 1800-2013, Christopher Menolasino
Department: Geology
Deconstructing Aloha: Confronting and Combatting Clichés of Hawai'i and its Native Culture through a Devised Performance, Vincent Meredith
Department: Theatre and Dance
Modified Propagation of Anomalous Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves in a Quasi-1D System, Jack S. Mershon
Department: Physics
Caste Discrimination in the Indian Labor Market: Examining the Regional Differences in the Effect of Caste Affiliation on Wage Inequality in India’s Labor Market, Komal Mesvani
Department: Global and International Studies