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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Wide Open, Lila Miller
Department: Art and Art History
The Veteran Effect: From Battlefield to Ballot Box, Willem Mills
Department: Political Science
The Effects of the Carolina Locust’s Camouflage on Perceiving Ability of Human When Searching for It on the Screen, Jiyoung Min
Department: Psychology; Biology
Survive or Thrive? A Study of American Church Success During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Max Thomas Moller
Department: Religious Studies
Why I Hate You (And Why You Hate Me): The Relationship between Inequality and Polarization in America, Alec H. Monnie
Department: Political Science
Socializing Sons: How Lesbian Parents Engage With Masculinity While Raising Their Sons, Laura Isabel Montoya
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Narrative and Image as Memory: An Alternate History of the Alton Piasa Mural Using Indigenous Contexts, Natalia V. Moonier
Department: Archaeology
Miguel de Cervantes, Platón, y Francisco Goya: La Conexión entre la Fantasía y la Realidad, Dezmond A. Morrow
Department: Spanish
A Protest Analysis: Examining the Effectiveness of Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, and the Civil Rights Movement, Kate Murphy
Department: English; Global Media and Digital Studies
An Investigation of the Impact of Broad-Based Stock Option Incentive Plans on the Rate of Voluntary Employee Turnover, Zach Myers
Department: Business Economics
Propellant-less Space Travel with Tethers:Swimming in Space using an Asteroid's Gravity Gradient., Gentaro Nakata
Department: Physics
Collective Memory and Community in the Sri Lankan Diaspora of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA, Anura Namachchivaya
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Eternal Silence: Statelessness as a Determinant of Journalist Killings, Joseph Jumil Naser
Department: Political Science
The War for Germany's "Redemption", David E. Naugle
Department: German Studies; Global and International Studies
What a Funky Fungus: Long-Term Monitoring of an Emerging Fungal Pathogen in Wooster Memorial Park Salamander Populations, Nathaniel C. Newman
Department: Biology
“Keep It Private:” A Study on the Effect of Privatization on the Efficiency of Firms in Vietnam, Dung Nguyen
Department: Business Economics
Effect of Concentration on Photo-oxidation of Butenedioic Acids Isomers by Hydroxyl Radicals, Xi Ning
Department: Chemistry
Trends of Humane Entrepreneurial Activities since the Emergence of Global Citizenship, Yuta Nitanai
Department: Interdepartmental
Small Town Queers: The Intersections of Gender Identity and Regional Location, Hayden Ruairí Nolan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Host Domination: Characterizing Pseudomonas chlororaphis Bacteriophage’s Host Range and Binding Receptors, Marissa E. Norgrove
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Gender Presentation and Feedback on Instagram, Katherine G. O'Doherty
Department: Psychology
From Protest to Politics to Moving Pictures: How the Black Power Movement Inspired Blaxploitation, Peyton D. O'Laughlin
Department: History
The Effects of Masculinity and Attachment Style on Perceptions of School Shooters and the Prevention of School Shootings, Matthew R. Olszewski
Department: Psychology
Trajectory of an Anisotropic Particle Near a Light-Transmitting Optical Nanofiber, Carlos Owusu-Ansah
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Voters Preference for Primaries Verses Caucuses, Lucas Andrew Palmer
Department: Political Science
Continuous Predator Escape and Escape Angle Preference of the Dissosteira Carolina Grasshopper, Cameron Papp
Department: Biology
A Continuación, Black Lives Matter: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Latinx Community’s Perceptions of the African American community Through the Events Surrounding the Black Lives Matter Movement, Natalia E. Parra Diaz
Department: Communication Studies; Spanish
Effect of Adipokinetic Hormone on Mating Receptivity of Aedes aegypti Females, Dhwani Parsana
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
ESPN as a Two-Sided Market: How Fantasy Football Users Impact Advertising Prices, Joseph C. Passodelis
Department: Economics
Joseph Passodelis Senior I.S, Joseph Christopher Passodelis
Department: Economics
The Hunt for Undiscovered Species of Frogs in Madagascar, Samantha R. Pavlecic
Department: Biology
Illiberal Development: An Analysis of Differing Forms of Participatory Development Programs in Neoliberal Institutions, Cecilia Payne
Department: Political Science
Quantifying How the Retreating Cold Microclimates Around Glaciers in Southeast Alaska Affect Rates of Warming in Nearby Mountain Ecosystems., Julia M. Pearson
Department: Earth Sciences
The Mass Movements of Fern Valley, Morgan Antonio Pedroso Curry
Department: Earth Sciences
Are Casinos a Winning Wager? A County-Level Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Commerical Casinos on Economic Growth, Shaun Conrad Peirce
Department: Business Economics
《异乡人》“Strangers”: A Visual Ethnography about Expat Teachers in China during Covi-19 Pandemic, Xinyu Pei
Department: Communication Studies; East Asian Studies
Turning Conceptions of Family ‘Upside Down’: Non-Familial Families Provide Social Support and Communal Coping as a Form of Social Support in Stranger Things, Sophia Deanna Pellar
Department: Communication Studies
Play Spaces for children with ODD: How Nature Playgrounds can benefit a community, Drake W. Pence
Department: Environmental Studies
Connection to Culture: An Analysis of Compositional Choices in the Songs of Xavier Montsalvatge, Jaime León, and Adolfo Mejía as They Reflect Cultural Significance, Jacqueline Frances Perez
Department: Music
Why Give a Dam? Exploring the impacts of Castor canadensis Inundation on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Populations and on the Perceptions of Biologists who Work with Them, Wiley O. Phelps
Department: Environmental Studies
Abstract Unity in Material Diversity: An Introduction to Category Theory and a Phenomenological Defense of Mathematical Realism, Micah Taylor Phillips-Gary
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities Suggest No Till Agricultural Practices Can Improve Great Lakes Aquatic Ecosystem Health, Dylan P. Phillipson
Department: Environmental Studies
Mobile Games and the Sunk Cost Fallacy, Sadie L. Phillips
Department: Psychology
Whose Line is it Anyway? Rhetoric, Pathology, and the Jewish Race in Late Victorian England, Stephanie G. Pokras
Department: History
The Experience of Black Police Officers and an Examination of whether the Black Community Supports Them, Camryn Pollard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Application of Machine Learning in Analyzing Organic Compounds from NMR Spectral Data, Nicole Maia Powell
Department: Computer Science
“The Knight and the Demon”: Intersecting Poetry, Demonology, and the Middle Ages, N Praml
Department: English; History
What Are Perfect Places, Anyway?: Exploring the New Zealand Government's Approach to Youth Suicide Prevention, Olivia C. Proe
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
As The Looking Glass: An Introspection at Minority and Traumatized Identities, Indigo A. Quashie
Department: Art and Art History
Whatever Happens Tomorrow, At Least I Existed: A Journey of Self Discovery Through Self-Portraiture, Alexa B. Rakosky
Department: Art and Art History
Investigating the Selective Advantages and Microenvironmental Requirements of Cellular Clustering Utilizing an Agent-Based Model of Yeast Flocculation, Alyssa N. Ramirez
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
New Space, No Place: Navigating Experiences in a Predominately White Higher Education Institution as Latinx Students, Priscilla Ramos Rico
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Immerse, Sarah Rapacz
Department: English
Characterization of Substrate Promiscuity for 6-Hydroxynicotinate 3-Monooxygenase: A Transient Kinetic Investigation of the Decarboxylative-Hydroxylation of 5-Chloro-6-Hydroxynicotinic Acid, Jack Charles Redick
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Parasocial Attachment: Framework and Function, Lydia Reedstrom
Department: Psychology
A Literature Review in Fish Toxicology: The Impact of Human Made Organic Contaminants in Fish and Their Environments, Lucas P. Rego
Department: Biology
Protest or Riot?: The Role of News Media in Characterizing the Unrest in Ferguson, Emma Reiner
Department: English; Political Science
"Pharmageddon": A Rhetorical Analysis of the 21st Century Anti-Vax Movement, Sarah Renaker
Department: Communication Studies
도시를 떠나 산지를 향해: Mountain Temple Complexes as an Expression of Korean Buddhism, Anthony Eanraig Riggs
Department: Archaeology; Religious Studies
The Impacts of Antioxidants and Environmental Enrichment on Memory and Learning in an Alzheimer’s Disease Rodent Model, Lexi Riley-DiPaolo
Department: Neuroscience; Psychology
Personal Attitudes Towards Clothing and Clothing Choices, Aaron Risch
Department: Psychology
Resource-Driven Control of Cavity-Nesting Wasp Densities: Importance of Deadwood Density and Plant Resource Heterogeneity, Virginia E. Roberts
Department: Biology
Helen of Troy? A Reexamination of Helen's Speech in the Iliad, Erin A. Robichaud
Department: Classical Studies; History
Stressed Is Just Desserts Spelled Backwards: An Investigation Into The Influences On Stressed Eating Behaviors In Undergraduate Students, Maya M. Rodemer
Department: Interdepartmental
A Data Analytics Approach to Predicting Player Breakouts in Major League Baseball, Carter James Rogers
Department: Mathematics
Without a Second Thought: An Investigation of the Impact of the Fundamental Attribution Error on Perceptions of a Young Adult Who Stutters, David Roney
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders; Psychology
Breaking News: Sustainable Fashion is In and Fast Fashion is Out; Constructions of Sustainable Consumption in Fast Fashion Advertising, Camryn Eve Rosenstein
Department: Communication Studies
The Hough Rebellion: The Difficulties with Remembering, William G. Ruebsteck
Department: History; Education
Mycoremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Relation to Urban Agriculture and Food Deserts: A Review, Emma Russell
Department: Environmental Studies
Action, Adventure, and Artifacts: How Indiana Jones Influences Public Perceptions of Archaeology, Alan Salacain
Department: Archaeology
Microbial Structures of the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Carmel Formation, Southwest Utah, William M. Santella
Department: Geology
CBD Decreases Anxiety in ADHD-like Rat Model: Evidence for an Alternative Treatment Plan, Katie Sarzosa
Department: Neuroscience
Swipe White: Attitudes and Perceptions of Interracial Relationships, Michelle J. Sayre
Department: Psychology
Choice in Adolescent Mathematics Classrooms and How it Affects Student Motivation, Hamilton D. Schattgen
Department: Education; Mathematics
Sweet Home Chicago: The Movement of the Blues from Mississippi to Chicago and How that Changed the Music, Andrew D. Scherson
Department: History
Multi-Step Synthesis of Small Molecules as Potential Inhibitors for MurG, Anna K. Schroeder
Department: Chemistry
An Analysis on Free-to-Play and Premium Games and Their Effects from Positive Network Externalities and Keeping Up With The Joneses Theories, Zach Dean Schuch
Department: Economics
Varying Levels of Impulsivity in an ADHD Rodent Model Influences Behavioral Accuracy, Sydney K. Schultz
Department: Neuroscience
Release Kinetics of Ibuprofen from Swellable Organically Modified Silica by Means of a Non-Active Release Modulator, Louis R. Schwartz
Department: Chemistry
Equality and Redlining: An Adversarial Relationship Spanning Decades, Artemus Scissum
Department: Political Science
Eat Your Heart Out: Cannibalism, Incorporation, and Transgression in Contemporary and Traditional Fairy Tales, Kathryn S. Scott
Department: English
"MIXED-ISH" Exploring the Racial Identity of Black/White Biracial College Students, Keonn Scott
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Effects of Down-regulated Immune Genes on Neuronal Cell Bodies and Axon Bundle Thickness after an Axonal Injury within the Wing in Drosophila melanogaster, Kera Sells
Department: Neuroscience
The Apprentice: With Critical Introduction, James P. Shanahan
Department: English
Stem Cell Research from 1990s – Present: The Development of iPSCs as a Response to Ethical Dilemma Surrounding Extraction of hESCs and Elucidating the Effect of Mechano-sensitivity during the First Differentiation Event of ESCs using Boolean Modeling., Hikmet A. Sherief
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; History
The Impact of Various Compensation Schemes on Worker Earnings: An Analysis of the Impacts of Piece Rate versus Time Rate, Gabe Sherman
Department: Business Economics
Energy Conservation: Harnessing Excess Thermal Energy and Converting to Electricity by Use of the Thermoelectric Effect, Katherine Shideler
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Artifacts of Culture: Encounters with Multivocal Objects in Margaret of Austria’s 16th-Century Library, Jonas Short
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Art and Art History
Finding Stationarity: Integer Vs Fractional Differentiation, Angad Singh
Department: Mathematics
How Hip Hop Artists Revolutionized Urban Street Fashion and High Fashion While Wearing It on Stage and off Over the Past Three Decades, and How a Designer Use This Research to Create His Authentic Brand., Keetrone Singleton Jr
Department: Theatre and Dance
The Nurses and Mothering (NAM) Study: Intensive Mothering and the Dual Caregiving Role of Nurse Mothers in the Shadow of the Coronavirus-19 Pandemic, Sabina Beth Skolnick
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
“Tau be or not Tau be” The Involvement of the Innate Immune Response in Tau Pathology, Christine Rose Slater
Department: Neuroscience
Whitewashing v. Blackwashing: Structural Racism and Anti-Racist Praxis in Hollywood Cinema, Alyssa M. Smith
Department: Africana Studies
Is This Music? Poetry, YouTube Memes, and Rap at Commencement, Charlie Smrekar
Department: English; Music
Mouthful: A Meta-Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance of Helicobacter pylori in Developing Countries, Paige Sogandares
Department: Biology
Investigation of Fire Propagation using Discrete Tree Simulations., Handeul Son
Department: Physics
First Responders (Post 9/11) ¿A Quien Acudo? (Marca 9-1-1): Analyzing the Effects of Heightened Immigration Enforcement on Migrant Communities, Legal-Non-Profits, and Community-Based Organizations, Alexis Sotelo
Department: Political Science
A Thing Is An Essay Without Words: An Essay Collection, Lillie Therese Soukup
Department: English
I Saw the Sign: A Content Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2017 Houston Astros Cheating Scandal, Stephen W. Spidell
Department: Communication Studies
Hit or Miss: An Examination of how Free Agency Affects Competitive Balance through the Major League Baseball (MLB) Labor Market, Brett Stern
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics