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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Der Einfluss der Satire in der Entwicklung der deutschen Demokratie, Burke Poeting
Department: German Studies
Are your Parents to Blame?: Parental Involvement's Effects on College Academic Achievement, Samantha Ponzetti
Department: Psychology
The Effect of Male Fin Ornamentation on Female Mate Choice in Betta Splendens, Alexis Noel Popejoy
Department: Biology
We, the Users of the Internet: Using Digital Game-Based Learning to Teach Digital Citizenship Skills to Middle School Students, Brian Pousak
Department: Communication Studies
NAGPRA and Native American Voices: Collaboration between Museums and Source Communities, Fiona Powell
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Ritualization, Education, and Time Travel: An Ethnographic Look at Visitor Experience within Modern and Neoclassical Art Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Myra Marie Praml
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Cross-Category Effects in Face Recognition According to Arbitrary Group Categorization, Henry F. Pride-Wilt
Department: Psychology
Effects of Headspace on Cognition and Stress Level after Acute Stress, Erika Prince
Department: Psychology
Humanity’s Forge: Constructing a Scientific Narrative around Los Alamos and the Atomic Bomb, Erika M. Purdy
Department: History
Reconstructing Glacier Mass Balance Through the Last Millennium Using Ring-Width and Blue Intensity Tree-Ring Records: Wolverine Glacier, South-Central Alaska, Victoria Race
Department: Earth Sciences
"But it's not Fair!": Effects of Experimenter Familiarity on Inequity Aversion in Dogs, Kia Radovanovic
Department: Psychology
Applying the Human Factors Engineering Process to the User Interface of Infusion Pumps, Erin Rajewski
Department: Computer Science
The Effect of Acute and Chronic Stress on Macronutrient Preference in Male Rats, Sochina Ranjit
Department: Biology
On The Ground, James Rankin
Department: English
The Progression of Aβ Proteins in the Retrosplenial Cortex Using an APP/PS1 Alzheimer’s Disease Transgenic Rodent Model, Maha H. Rashid
Department: Neuroscience
Mommy Goes to Work: An Analysis of Serena Williams' Multi-Faceted Identity, Mary McKenzie Reese
Department: Communication Studies
A Study of Gender Roles Amongst Second-Generation South Asian Women, Transcending Through Time and Space., Amrin Alnoor Remtulla
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Letters from Heaven, Dylan M. Reynolds
Department: English; Philosophy
Lithostratigraphy and Palagonitization of a Glaciovolcanic Tephra Cone, Undirhlíðar Ridge, Southwest Iceland, Ric Reynolds
Department: Earth Sciences
Little Puerto Rico: The Migration and Emergence of the Puerto Rican Community in Lorain, Ohio, Raymond Rhone IV
Department: History
Analyzing the Effect of Nab2 Overexpression on Pathological Phenotypes in a Transgenic Fly Model of Tauopathy, Adam C. Richert
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Biology; Neuroscience
From Fiction to Reality: An Examination of Attitudes Towards Moral and Biological Human Enhancements, Jack Rider
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Picture Pawfect: The Utilization of Websites by Small Animal Welfare Organizations, Grace Riely
Department: Communication Studies
Beyond Bratwurst: Animal Ethics in Germany and the United States, Teagan Robinson
Department: German Studies; Philosophy
The Knights of Avalon: Origins of the Gateway, Kenzie Rogers
Department: English
Yogyakarta 1948: National Identity and the Indonesian National Revolution (1945-1949), Emily J. Root
Department: Art and Art History; History
Floating Away on a Slice of Pizza Sounds Like a Good Way to Go, Sam Royer
Department: English
Is it still 1991? How the status of contemporary Russian women, in relation to men, has remained unchanged in politics, education, the workforce, health, and the home since the fall of the Soviet Union., Claire Russ
Department: Global and International Studies; Russian Studies
A Comparison of Salamander Community Composition in Early Successional and Mature Forests, Austin C. Russell
Department: Biology
Facilitating Studies of Peptidoglycan Synthesis: Optimizing NagZ Production to Enable Access to Lipid I, Noelle Sadallah
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Analyzing the effects of PsAvh110 on transcription factor PHO4 under low phosphate conditions, Jennifer Sanchez
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Gardening Algorithms for the Fruitful Future: Decision Trees and Random Forest Algorithms to Predict Child Malnutrition Populations Globally, Kory Sansom
Department: Mathematics
Gluing the Feathers off My Fascinator, Anum K. Sattar
Department: English
Please, Be My Guest! Quantifying Association Constants Between Cationic Guest Species and Tetrapropoxycalix[4]arene as a Model for Calix[4]arene-Capped Azobenzene, Leah J. Scharlott
Department: Chemistry
Rootin’, Tootin’, and Shootin’: The Role of Western Towns in the Creation and Perpetuation of the Mythic West, Finn J.R. Schneider
Department: History
The Real Life Impact of Digital Feminist Movements, Sophie Schrader
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Sclerobiont Paleoecology of the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, Utah, Galen Schwartzberg
Department: Earth Sciences
Reading Between the (Color) Lines: The Complex History of the Integration of Major League Baseball, Jacob Morris Schwartz
Department: History
Here Be Dragons: Implications Of Evolved Tendencies to Essentialize Kinds and Cross-Domain Kinds, Drake Schwenke
Department: Interdepartmental
No Time to Waste: An Examination of the Climate Change Norm and its Role in Increasing Observer Participation in the UNFCCC, Ethan Scully
Department: Political Science; Global and International Studies
A Study on the Efficacy of Bacteriophage Therapy and Other Stories, Allison Secard
Department: Biology; English
Beknighted Romance: An Investigation of 14th-Century Chivalrous Romance as Popular Genre, Ryan Secard
Department: English
A Critical Analysis of The Korean War In South Korean Films, Wooseong Seol
Department: History
The Effects of Temperature Manipulation on the Rate of Telomere Shortening During the Nestling Period of the Eastern Bluebird, Sialia Sialis, Bridget Serrurier
Department: Biology
Can Heat Flux Data from Ocean Reanalyses Predict Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Retreat?, Ben Sershen
Department: Geology
Using Tree Rings to Date Historical Structures and to Better Understand the Land Use History of Northeast Ohio, Juwan L. Shabazz
Department: Geology
Defying the System: A Boolean Model of Neuronal Fate Decision and Aberrant Cell Cycle Re-entry in Alzheimer’s Disease, Carolina N. Shams
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Hear Me Out: Behavior Management Techniques and Their Impact on Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Sarah I. Shanes
Department: Communication Studies
Go with the Flow: The Synthesis of Benzo-15-crown-5 Through the Application of Flow Chemistry, Juliette A. Shea
Department: Chemistry
Dre’s, J’s, and “The Nod”: An Examination of Race Across Generational Divides in ABC’s Black-ish, Conor Toshiro Shimabukuro
Department: Communication Studies
Analyzing Behavioral Differences of LSTM Chatbots Learning from Different Levels of Vocabulary Sets, Sota Shimizu
Department: Computer Science
Competition and Innovation: a Sinusoidal-shaped Relationship Driven by Post-incremental Profit, Qitian Shi
Department: Business Economics
Almost Nuclear Weapons Development Assistance: Investigating State Decisions to Supply Dangerous Dual-Use Technologies, Isaac Shore
Department: Political Science
It’s complicated: An investigation of how developmental-behavioral pediatricians diagnose autism spectrum disorder in children who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, Emily Elizabeth Shoureas
Department: Communication Studies
The Impact of Death Squads on Sustainable Peace, Emily Singer
Department: Political Science
Can True Mastery Orientation Be Elicited? An Exploration and Manipulation of Learning Orientation in Students, Thadius M. Skillman
Department: Neuroscience
Recognize Thy Neighbor: Conceptualizing the Nuances of the Religious Identity of Muslims Living in America, Bekah Smith
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Some Strings Attached: An Investigation of Twentieth-Century Puppetry in the West, Hannah M. Smith
Department: Theatre and Dance
Help! I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up: An Investigation of the Knowledge and Training of Au.D. Graduate Students and Practicing Clinical Audiologists Regarding Superior Canal Dehiscence, Laurel E. Smith
Department: Communication Studies
Black Culture/Black Politics: Hip Hop Culture and Politics from the 1970s to the early 90s, Tori Smith
Department: History
Introductions to Ecology: How Children's Literature Inspires Environmentalism, Claire J. Smrekar
Department: English
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition by Jeremy Smucker, Jeremy Smucker
Department: Music
What to do about Grandma: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Surrogate, End-of-Life Healthcare Decision Making, Jeremy Smucker
Department: Economics
How the Socialist and Feminist Revolutions in Cuba and Chile Liberated and Limited Women, Natalie E C Souleyrette
Department: History
Curious and Courageous Children: Girl Heroism and Spirituality, Sarah Specht
Department: English
Shōjo, Sexology, and Suicide: Female Same-Sex Relationships that Challenged Gender Roles in Prewar Japan, Jacob Rollin Springwood
Department: History
Identifying Mutations Acquired by Porcine Delta Coronavirus (PDCoV) For Infection of Chicken and Human Cells, Aditi Vijeth Sringeri
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Development of Cationic Polymer-Organosilica Porous Materials for the Adsorption of Perfluoroalkyl Sulfonates and Carboxylates from Water, Eva K. Stebel
Department: Chemistry
The Judicial Arms Race: An Investigation Into the Weaponization of First Amendment Principles Against Substantive Due Process Protections From the Stone Court to the Roberts Court, Cameron K. Steckbeck
Department: Political Science
Know Thyself: A Study of Being Human, Giuliano Stefanutti
Department: Philosophy
Please, Use Some Mercy: How Choice-Based Video Games Influence Player Decisions, Mary Susan Stehulak
Department: Communication Studies
Reshaping a Moral Dilemma: A Historical and Moral Investigation of Abortion in the United States and the Republic of Ireland, Emery Joy Stewart
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Evening the Playing Field: Mitigating the Impact of Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Investment Behavior, Jordan Stone
Department: Economics
The Use of Machine Learning in Creative Writing: Computer Generated Sentences in the Context of Classical Myths, Scott Stoudt
Department: Computer Science
Whose Got the Moves?: Building the Tools to Determine the Physiological Role of Arginine Kinase Genes in Caenorhabditis elegans At Lowered Gene Expression Levels, Madigan McKenna Strange
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Lost in Translation, Found in Culture: An Academic Inquiry on the Efficacy of Translating Culture in Latin American Magic Realist Genres, William Richard Strohmeyer
Department: English; Spanish
Malware Analysis in Higher Education Environments, Kalla E. Sturonas
Department: Computer Science
The Effect of Promotional Events on Gameday Attendance for Major League Baseball, Jake Stuursma
Department: Business Economics
From the Hands of Midwives to the Forceps of Men: The Medicalization of Birth in Early 20th Century United States, Collier B. Summay
Department: History
Influences of the U.S. Monetary Policy on the Current Account Balance of High Income E.U. Countries, Nolan Sundheimer
Department: Economics
Using Taxes to Create a More Sustainable Tuna Fishery: A Simulation Model, Penluck Sutarat
Department: Economics
“Dumb Brutes” or “Fellow-Critters”: Toward a More Virtuous Characterization of Nonhuman Animals, Daniel Sweat
Department: Philosophy; English
An Examination of the Senegalese Boat Migration, Ousmane Sy
Department: Africana Studies; History
The African Female narrative explored through art: A transnational Generation of Women, Toshiko Tanaka
Department: Art and Art History; Communication Studies
Intersections, Hao Tang
Department: Art and Art History
How Team Building Influences Team Outcomes, Yichen Tang
Department: Economics; Psychology
Comparing the Allelopathic Potential of Invasive, Native, and Hybrid Myriophyllum Watermilfoil Species from Wisconsin Lakes on Microcystis aeruginosa Blue-Green Algae, Linden Ann Taylor
Department: Biology
Investigation of the Aqueous Photodegradation of Ortho-Substituted Aminobenzoic Acid Derivatives Under UVC Light, Rose D. Taylor
Department: Chemistry; Mathematics
Pyae Thein's Life: A Visual Representation Using Pufferfish and Octopus, Pyae Thein
Department: Art and Art History
Slope's Effect On Discrete Tree Fire Simulations, Joseph Glenn Theiss
Department: Physics
Evaluating Bases for the Synthesis of Dibenzo-24-Crown-8 Ether with a Methyl Viologen Template, David Thomas
Department: Chemistry
Structural Comparison of the Deformation Styles in the Arapien Formation (Twelvemile Canyon Member: Hardy Units B and C), Ninemile Reservoir, Central Utah, Michael A. Thomas
Department: Geology
Effects of a Maternal High-Fat Diet on Sprague Dawley Rat Offspring, Conner Thomson
Department: Biology
Between Two Homes: Identity Formation in Transracial Adoptions, Sachi Lian Toepp
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Expectation Versus Reality: An Examination of the Training and Awareness Primary Care Physicians Have About Communication Differences and Sensory Sensitivities Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Present and Accommodations Provided During Office Appointments, Rachel H. Topper
Department: Communication Studies
The Fruit Fly as a Model Organism For Studying Neurological Disease: Investigating the role of dNAB2, the Ortholog of Human ZC3H14, in Drosophila Mushroom Bodies, Adelaide F. Tsueda
Department: Biology
The Memorialization and Legacy of the Soviet Playwright Aleksandr Vampilov in the Irkutsk Region, Erin S. Tupman
Department: Russian Studies
Surface-Area Biomass Index: Using Photography to Measure Biomass of Coral-Dwelling Crustaceans, Solaimon Turner
Department: Biology
Enhancing Petroleum Production: Investigation of Oil/Water Separation Method for Chemical Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery Technology Using Swellable Organically Modified Silica, Hyuga Uchida
Department: Chemistry
Vegans Beware Phytophthora is Here Analyzing the Locations and Implications of PsAvh Proteins of Phytophthora Sojae, Alexis Victoria Valente
Department: Biology