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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
The Self in the Context of Social Media, Leslie Weekley
Department: Art and Art History
Are Olympic Medals Worth Their Weight in Gold? A Political Economy Study of Governmental Financial Commitment to Olympic Teams and Potential Economic Benefits, Theodore Wells
Department: Political Science
Woo Girls Connect: A Designed Mentoring Program and Guidebook for Middle School Girls, Madison L. Whitman
Department: Environmental Studies
An Investigation of PIVlab and Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, Henry Whyte
Department: Physics
The Desulfotalea psychrophila Arginine Kinase Seems to Inhibit Myxococcus xanthus Growth Under Environmental Stress, Kathryn Wilbanks
Department: Biology
Investigating the Role of cAMP in the Sleep Phenotype of the Drosophila Fragile X Syndrome Model, Miura Wiley
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exploring Spotify Genre Recommendation Systems, Angelo Williams
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The Development of a Procedure for the PXRF Analysis of Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Collaboration with Colorado Farmers, Claire E. Wineman
Department: Geology
Seeing Red: Investigation of the Color’s Use in Early Baroque Art and Stability Based Upon Pigment Preparation, Lilly Woerner
Department: Chemistry; Art and Art History
Exploring How Environmental-Musical Context Change Affects Long-Term Memory, Brandon Robert Woolman
Department: Neuroscience
The Global Ramifications of the Black Lives Matter movement, Perry E. Worthey
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
There's No Place Like Cohousing: A Study of the Location of Cohousing in the United States, Keira Clarke Wright
Department: Urban Studies
Match-Fixing in Cyprus: Examining the Impact on Fans' Soccer Attendance, Andreas Xenofontos
Department: Economics
Students’ Interactions in Different School Systems on the Same Campus: A Comparison Between Traditional Chinese High School Students and International Chinese High School Students, Bohao Xia
Department: Communication Studies
Exoplanets Sunsets, Xinchen Xie
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Investigating the Connection Between Mental Health and Internet Addiction., Sailesh R. Yellayi
Department: Psychology
Dragon Nest: Immersive Experience Design, Mika Yonaha
Department: Art and Art History; Computer Science; Theatre and Dance
Alien Sunsets on Tumbling Asteroid_Fish Yu, Yang Yu
Department: Physics
Subjective Well-Being and the Influence of Parasocial Relationships on Risky Behaviors, Nyla Zak
Department: Psychology
Tracing the Evocation and Conceptual Transformation of Geisha Across Japanese Modernity, Shahroz Zaman
Department: History
Investigation of Para-Aminobenzoic Acid's Photodegradation in Different pH Environments under UVB Light, Jingyi Zhou
Department: Chemistry; Mathematics
Exclusive Nationalist Rhetoric Can Reduce Ethnic Representation in Government: Why Nationalist Rhetoric Matters, Samuel J. Zimmerman
Department: Political Science
Where to Start? An Investigation of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Familiarity with and Knowledge of the AAC Assessment Process and the Variables Evaluated in the Process, Mila Zunich
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
2020 Summer Stories: Personal Narrative, Sensemaking, and Memory During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Delaney Zuver
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
So Our Children Can Fly Free: Toni Morrison Challenging a Biased American Literary Tradition and Monolithic Portrayals of Blackness Through African American Discourse, Sofia Abdirizak
Department: English
On The Relative Long-Term Future Importance of Investments in Economic Growth and Global Catastrophic Risk Reduction, Pedro Adami Oliboni
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Don’t Worry, Nobody Actually Cares: A Study of Consumer Generated Stories on Social Media, Madison Adamo
Department: Psychology
The DAPL Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: The Relationship Between Children’s Political Interest, Ethnic-Political Socialization, and the Draw-A-Political-Leader Task, Dzifa A. Adjei
Department: Psychology
Canned Talk Amidst Cornstalks: Analyzing Connections Between Rhetorical Frames in Renewable Energy Policy and Elazar’s Political Culture Categories in Three Great Plains States., Robert Agle
Department: Political Science
Investigation of the Effect of the Gut Microbiome on Activity of Drosophila Melanogaster, Lauren E. Ahmann
Department: Biology
The Timekeeper's Compass, James M. Alltop
Department: English
Venom Self-Degradation: Active Peptide Breakdown by A. compressa Neprilysin to Facilitate Hypokinesia, James M. Alltop
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Revisiter le pouvoir de la propagande et les répercussions de l'imagerie haineuse : The Impact of Propaganda Cartoons on the Perpetration of Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide, Nela Aluwihare
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Political Science
Machine Learning Playoff Predictions: Predicting the Football Greats, Robert Alvarez
Department: Computer Science
Using Gaia DR2 to Observe Stellar Streams and Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way, Abigail E. Ambrose
Department: Physics
Painting With Dead Fish: A Study of Phenotypic and Genetic Differences in Ossification Across Betta Morphs, Elizabeth S. Anderson
Department: Biology
Who Will Be Crowned King of Europe? A Predictive Model for the Uefa Champions League, Zacharias Andreou
Department: Mathematics
Making a Murderer : Examining Portrayals of the Police and Judicial System in the True Crime Genre, Michael Appel
Department: Communication Studies
Divine Madness: Examining Love Through a Philosophical Lens, Hannah Appleman
Department: Philosophy
Battle for Blood: A Study of the Effects of Halymorpha Halys Volatiles on Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes, Fiona Yaaba Armoo
Department: Biology
Combining Phenomenology and Moral Particularism: A Trilemma of Moral Truth, Alejandro Arriaga
Department: Philosophy
I Made This With My Hands, Andrea Arts
Department: Art and Art History
The Impact of Trade with the Regional Hegemon, China, on ASEAN Countries by Examining Their Behavior on International Arena, Ryoko Asakuma
Department: Global and International Studies
Holding Hands with a Privatized Care Industry: The Paradoxical Relationship Between the Motives of Senior Care Workers and the Bureaucratic and Market-Oriented Structures in which They Are Embedded, Katherine H. Atwell
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Everybody SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS: An Analysis of the Factors that Influence the Risk Perception of Autism and Measles, and Their Effects on Medical Decisions, Nina-Simone Avery
Department: Psychology
The Correlation between Learner Autonomy and Cognitive Flexibility, Haohang Bai
Department: Psychology
Impact of CXXC Motif Variation on the Function of the Yeast Thioredoxin Trx2, Morgan Bailey
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Study the Effects of Subsidies on the Market-Share of Electric-Vehicles, Yash Bajaj
Department: Economics; Computer Science
Monet and the Western Kimono: The Creative Reasoning and Critical Legacy of La Japonaise, Katarina Margaret Baltisberger
Department: Art and Art History
What Factors Affect the Perceptions of Higher Education Among the Hispanic Communities?” Do Hispanics Think That Higher Education Is a Reality or a Dream? and Why Do They Think So?, Fabio Barreto
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Cinema, Memory, and the Russian State: Representation of the Past in Contemporary Russian Film, John Costley Barrow IV
Department: History
Video Games’ Impact on Feelings of Aggression: Failure to Acknowledge the Obvious Scapegoat, Nick Barto
Department: Psychology
Are We There Yet? The Effect of Cognitive Load on Working Memory in Driving Contexts, Gregory R. Bell
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Cross-Platform Gaming and Multihoming in a Two-Sided Market: A Focus on the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Generation of the Video Game Industry, Matthew Bellovich
Department: Business Economics
Descendants of Jori, Emily H. Bernstein
Department: English
Tranquilities: Three Works by Kate Bertrand, Kate Anne Bertrand
Department: Music
The Spiral of Silence: A Study of the Political Climate on the College of Wooster Campus, Blair Besancon
Department: Communication Studies
Pedagogía Política: Un análisis de la enseñanza de la dictadura de Pinochet y los derechos humanos en Chile, Emily Elizabeth Xiubei Beuter
Department: History; Spanish
Analysis of Salmonella and Listeria Localization in a Hydroponic System and the Effects of pH Reduction on Pathogenic Growth, Michelle Biksey
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
East vs. West: A Study of Orientalist Tropes in Sports Journalism, Benjamin R. Blotner
Department: English
Bad neighbors: Do race and income affect how close people live to industrial sites?, Sarah P. Bonnelle-Roberts
Department: Geology
Empty Stadiums, Empty Promises: A Study of the Impact of Mega-Sporting Events on the Civil Unrest of the Host Country, Brandon D. Borges
Department: Political Science
“One Identity at a Time”: A Content Analysis on Race, Gender, and Family Dynamics in the 2017 Series “One Day at a Time”, Bailey N. Bradshaw
Department: Communication Studies
A New Generation Rising Like the Sun, but Who Directs the Light?: An Analysis of the Sunrise Movement’s Meteoric Rise and Limited Scope, Benjamin J. Bridgman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Seminal Fluid-Derived Adipokinetic Hormone (sfAKH) Influences Mating Behavior in Female Aedes aegypti with Observations on Accessory Reproductive Glands, Gemma Briggs
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
From Tweets to Seats: The Rise of Far-Right Parties and Their Use of the 'Us' and 'Them' Message Frame, Chelsea Brown
Department: Political Science
Predicting Major College Football All-American teams & NFL Draft Value, D'Andre E. Brown
Department: Mathematics
Project Documerica: How Environmental Photography Captured an Era, Ingrid E. Buckley
Department: History
Lights, Camera, Busing: An Analysis of Differing Media Perspectives Surrounding the Boston Busing Crisis, Jacob P. Bueter
Department: History
The Dream Machine, Amelia Burke
Department: English
I Thought Sharing Was Caring? Examining the Relationship Between Externally Spurred Power-Sharing in Ethnic Civil War and Reoccurring Violence, Emmanuell L. Burton
Department: Political Science
Finding a Satisfying Way of Healthy Eating – A Diet Model that Cares about Personal Preferences, Tianyi Cai
Department: Mathematics
"Nothing That I Don't Like:" Gwendolen Harleth's Search for Life Outside the Marriage Plot in Daniel Deronda, Imogen Campbell Hendricks
Department: English
The Kardashian Voice Effect: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Social Perceptions of the Glottal Fry Register, Emily Cano
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Take a Chill Pill: Examining the Effects of De-Stressing on Pain, Elizabeth L. Carlson
Department: Psychology
"First the Pain, Then the Rising": Assessing Student Knowledge of Title IX Policies and Procedures at the College of Wooster, Kaci A. Carpenter
Department: Communication Studies
Determining the Effects of pH on the Kinetics of Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of α- and β-pinene oxide, Philip Carter
Department: Chemistry
An Empirical Analysis of Stochastic Dominance & Markowitz' Mean-Variance Optimization: Contrasting Portfolio Performance over the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Jason Cerniglia
Department: Business Economics
Get the Lead Out: Evaluating the influence of heavy metal contaminated soils on urban agriculture, Ava Chamberlain
Department: Environmental Studies
Ecological Niches of Costa Rican Glass Frogs (Centrolenidae) and Evidence of Niche Partitioning and Plasticity, Robert P. Chamberlin
Department: Biology
Investigation of Phytophthora sojae’s RxLR effectors on the MAPK pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Michelle Chang
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Modern Women in Popular Periodicals and Films in Shanghai, 1920-1930, Churou Chen
Department: History
The Trials and Corruption of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamster Union, Adam Clark
Department: History
Zombie Cockroaches: Emerald Jewel Wasp Venom-Derived Neuropeptide Tachykinin Modulates Neuronal Cells of the American Cockroach, Spencer Michael Coffman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Tactics and Tech of the Pacific Theater: Ingenuity in a New Kind of War, Jacob L. Cohen
Department: History
The Defense Cannot Rest: The Impact of Funding for Indigent Defense Services on Incarceration Rates, Itala M. Colby
Department: Political Science
The Atypical Summer '69 Story: The Football War of 1969, William A. Collis
Department: History
Land Use Change and Its Effect on Eye Size Morphology in Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus, Matthew Thomas Conrad
Department: Biology; Geology
Impact of Various Degradation Pathways on Ribonucleotide Reductase Inhibitor Hug1 Stability in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Jason N. Constable
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Brew in Advertising: Marketing and the Craft Beer Industry, Ciaran Conway
Department: English
Ooids of the Middle Jurassic Co-op Creek Limestone Member in the Carmel Formation, Southwestern Utah, Anna M. Cooke
Department: Geology
Sanitizing Treatments to Common Oral Bacteria Plaque during Oral Surgeries: The Prevention of Growth and Dissociation of Adhesion to Enamel-Like Surfaces, Audrey R. Cordova
Department: Biology
Redemption of the Gàidhealtachd: The Formation of Highlandism from 1745 to 1822, Isaiah Corso-Phinney
Department: History
How Minority Candidates' Intersectional Identities Affect Their Use Of Race And Gender Issue Ownership Campaign Strategies, Mary ("Emma") M. Cotter
Department: Political Science
Sun, Sea, Sand, and Sangria: The Development of Working-class Holiday Experience from the 19th to the 20th Century, Dylan Cox
Department: History
Born to Fight: The Virtues of Pankratiasts within Pindar's Nemean Odes, Elijah Culley
Department: Classical Studies
Analysis of Bacteria - Host Interactions between Caenorhabditis Elegans and Unexplored Bacteria, Harrison G. Davenport
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Consequences of Thin-Ideal Media on Women's Body Image and Health, Claire Davis
Department: Neuroscience; Psychology
The Effect of the Status of Women on Sexual Violence Against Women, Emily A. Davis
Department: Political Science
A Study of Avalanches on a Conical Beadpile, Adam Deeley
Department: Physics