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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Characterization of Ampulex compressa Venom Adenosine Deaminase That Superimposes and Antagonizes Purinergic Signaling in Periplaneta americana, Garrett S.D. Tinline
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Effect of Bacteriophage Therapy on the Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Pseudomonas Bacterial Strains, Trenton J. Tipton
Department: Biology
Life and Letters of Mary Compton Rice, Rachel Tomei
Department: History
SkillSHARE: An Advisor Consulting Web-app utilizing a Hybrid Recommender Engine, Hieu Tran
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The Surge of Religious Polychrome Sculptures in the Golden Age of Spain as Vivid Artistic Responses to the Call of the Counter Reformation, Samantha Tromba
Department: Art and Art History
Investigating and Comparing the Relationship Between pH, Ionic Strength, and pKa for Atmospherically Relevant Inorganic and Organic Acid-Base Equilibrium Systems, David A. Trujillo
Department: Chemistry
An Investigation into the Possible Impact of Early-Life Stress on Music as a Stress-Reduction Tool, Sarah Marie Histed Vandenbergen
Department: Neuroscience
Why People work for Nonprofits: The Biases and Effect of Staff Retention within a Boys and Girls Club in Western Michigan, Audrey VanderVelde
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"How We got Here": Interpresting First-Generation Latinx Students' Transitions to College, Jocelynn Vega
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
A New Migration: Investigating Public and Private Violence Frames as Predictors of U.S. Public Sympathy for Central American Refugees, Jonathan Velazquez
Department: Political Science
Internal Migration and its Effects on Property Value: A Case Study of Spain., Eduardo Vetancourt
Department: Economics
Kinetics and Products of Hydroxyl Radical Initiated Reactions with Long Chain Alkanes in the Atmosphere, Wesley J. Wagner
Department: Chemistry
Moorea Than You Bargained For: The Attempted Confirmation and Characterization of a Novel Arginine Kinase in Moorea producens, Anneliese C. Wagoner
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Revolutionary Possibilities: Anarchist Philosophy and Its Influence on the Work of Thomas Pynchon, Addison R. Wanner
Department: English
The Persistence of Mixed Income Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Neighborhood Change in Chicago, Ian Warren
Department: Urban Studies
Spaced Training in the 5CSRTT Proves Beneficial in Early Levels, Rebecca Renee Warren
Department: Neuroscience
The Effects of Children's Literature on Cognitive Empathy, Affective Empathy, and Prosocial Motivation, Cobi Warstler
Department: Psychology
Incentives to Buy: An Analysis of Trading Behavior Among Competitive Teams in Major League Baseball, Eric F. Wasserzug
Department: Economics
The Same and Other Race Effects: The Minority Classroom Experience, Micaela Watson
Department: Psychology
Seeing Color a Little Betta: Investigating the role of tyr in melanin-based phenotypic variation in Betta splendens, Sierra Weir
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Compactness Measures for Legislative Districts, Isaac Weiss
Department: Mathematics; Political Science
The Abundance and Diversity of Glass Frogs (Centrolenidae) in Primary and Secondary Tropical Forests of Costa Rica, Keara Weiss
Department: Biology
Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acid Using Fluorophore from EVOblue 30 Fluorescent Dye, Meghan K. Wells
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Welcome to the Masquerade: Deception in the Preliminary Job Search Process, Rebecca D. Wells
Department: Communication Studies
Investigating the Influence of Educators’ Mental Health Literacy on the Identification and Referral of Students With Mental Illness, Anna L. Whitman
Department: Psychology
The Sword and Its Place in Norse Story and Society, Andrew J. Williams
Department: History
How Life Gets in the Way: Los Obstáculos de Las Escuelas Urbanas, Las Familias Migrantes, y El Estudiante Migrante, Brianna L. Williams
Department: Spanish
Use Your Head: A Frame Analysis of Digital Media on Concussions in the National Football League Using the Health Belief Model and the Extended Parallel Process Model, Harrison Stow Witwer-Dukes
Department: Communication Studies
Inventing Christine de Pizan: Art and Authorship in Late Medieval France, Adria Leigh Woodruff
Department: Art and Art History
Who are the Savages?: Racialization of Eating and Appetites in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Brown’s Edgar Huntly, and Melville’s Typee, Taylor Wood
Department: English
The Effect of Seminal Fluid Adipokinetic Hormone on the Blood Feeding Behavior of Aedes aegypti, Chen Wu
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
News Impacting Anxiety, Depression and Empathy During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tongtong Wu
Department: Psychology
Mind Control? Immunohistochemical Analysis of Tachykinin Receptor and GABAergic Neurons in the Cephalic Ganglia of the Cockroach Brain, William J. Yakubik III
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Investigating the Effects of Nab2 Overexpression on Molecular and Sleep Phenotypes of Tau Neurotoxicity in Drosophila Melanogaster, Daron Z. Yim
Department: Neuroscience
How does Environmental Performance Influence a Firm’s Stock Price?, Yiqun Yu
Department: Business Economics
Identifying Cell Fate Determining Transcription Factors during Zebra fish development, Qaiser H. Zaidi
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cocktail Parties and Semen Quality: Effects of Auditory Cues on Semen Parameters, Mahlet Frezer Zemedkun
Department: Neuroscience
Minimize Return Risk: —Using NLP Model to Select a Desirable American and European Options Portfolio, Yinxi Zhao
Department: Mathematics
Spooky Scary Skeletons: Sexual Dimorphisms in the Cranial Morphology of Betta splendens, Sara Zidek
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
A Time Series Analysis of the Relationship between Agriculture and Economic Growth in Southeast Asia from 1960-2018, Daniel E. Zuchelkowski
Department: Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Infection Control! Synergism in Hippocratic Wound Infection Theory and the Antimicrobial Efficacy of the Barbarum Plaster against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Araam Abboud
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Classical Studies
Insurrecting Purity: Creativity as Resistance in Somatic Ambiguity, Margy J. Adams
Department: English; Philosophy
The Effect of Unemployment on Alcohol Consumption, Isabel Adelson
Department: Economics
Don’t Go Chasing Water: Investigating the Role of Water on the Binding Strength of Dibenzo-24-Crown-8 and Dibenzylammonium Hexafluorophosphate, Samantha Adusumilli
Department: Chemistry
Reinforcement Learning: Q-learning in Third Person Shooter Games, Juan Ramon Aguero Quinteros
Department: Computer Science
The Drum Break: Using the Poetics of Hip Hop as a Lens to Observe the Black Freedom Movement Post-Civil Rights & Black Power, Andrew Aldridge
Department: English; History
How does Bitcoin React to Material Events? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Speculative Behavior in the Bitcoin Market, Connor Allan
Department: Business Economics
Projecting China’s National Identity: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the 2017 Nanjing Massacre Commemoration, Joe Altieri
Department: Communication Studies
Subverting Narratives: Queer Applications of the Comic Form, Emily Anderson
Department: English
What Could Be The Song? In-Depth Analyses of Five Concert Pieces Composed in Response to Tragedy, Gabriela Angeles-Paredes
Department: Music
Smell You Later: Attraction Inhibition Against Aedes aegypti By Compounds Derived From Halyomorpha halys, Jarrett A. Art
Department: Biology
Tying Truth's Shoes: The Value of a Realist Notion of Truth Within Democratic Discourse, Emma Arvedon
Department: Philosophy
Watching Sunsets in Exoplanet Skies, Hwan Bae
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Pardon My Black Power! The Root of Black Stigma, Antonio G. Bailey
Department: History
The Effects of Phytophthora sojae Effector Protein PsAvh110 on the PHO Regulon within Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Adebola R. Bamidele
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Deadly Tail: The Rise, Fall, and Long-term Consequences of the Dalkon Shield IUD, Eleanor Barker
Department: History
Mind the (gender)Gap: Navigating Space and Movement in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, Lydia Barr
Department: English
The Elicitation of White Collective Guilt Through “Culture and Media” as Moderated by White Racial Identity, Diverse Cultural Curriculum, and Gender Identity, Maeven Barry
Department: Psychology
Why so Aggressive? A Study of Amino Acid Conservation of Monoamine Oxidase (mao) in Bettta Splendens Compared to Other Species, Gabrielle B. Basinski
Department: Biology
The Effects of Noise Exposure on the Peripheral Vestibular System: An Investigation of Sex Differences and Threshold Shift Following Vestibular Damage, Megan R. Battersby
Department: Neuroscience
The Problem with the Problematical: An Investigation and Critique of Typological Categories in Maya Archaeology, Hannah Elizabeth Bauer
Department: Archaeology
“Got Sleep?”: An Investigation of Possible Proteomic Sleep Regulators in Drosophila melanogaster, Oscar Benjamin Bautista
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
The Social Network of Crime: How do our Social Interactions Predict Criminal Behavior?, Kevin Beck
Department: Economics
Analysis of the relationship between Prices and Transactional Drivers of Bitcoin, Christian Betre
Department: Mathematics
3D Object Recognition in Real Time Using Machine Learning, Bhargav Anandkumar Bhalodi
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The Influence of Mate Separation During Period of Food Deprivation on Behavioral Stress in Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia guttata, Sangita Biswas
Department: Biology
Propagation of light-sensitive reaction-diffusion waves in inhomogeneously illuminated systems, Daniel Blaikie
Department: Physics
The Gender Gap in College Major: Focus on Gender, STEM, and Earnings, Blake O'Brian Blair
Department: Business Economics
Fundamentalist-in-Chief: How Jerry Falwell Built the Religious Right and Became the Face of Family Values in American Politics, 1956–1980, Abigail Blinka
Department: History
Research on Micropolitan Areas: The Effects of Spatial Mismatch on Wooster, OH, Cyrus Boardman
Department: Urban Studies
The Bug Butter Battle: A Study of the Effect of Halyomorpha Halys Volatiles on Mobility of Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes, Katherine Bohl
Department: Biology
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Mortality and Histone Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster, Dennis Bolshakov
Department: Biology
"Different Ways of Being American": Food as Culture and Host Parenting in a Foreign Exchange Program, Isabel Hannah Bonhomme
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Save Our Masses from Starving: Development of a SOMS-Based Spatiotemporal Phytohormone Delivery System, Russell Boston
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pre-Decisional Distortion: Through the Lens of Athlete Endorsement, Marcus W. Bowers
Department: Psychology
Analysis of Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs) by Chromatography in Precipitation Samples Collected in Northeast Ohio, Brittany M. Bowman
Department: Chemistry
Transportin’: Investigating the Impact of Social Context on Transportation-Induced Stress in the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia Guttata, Autumn Brostek
Department: Biology
ShpWay: A Shapefile Navigation System, Brianna Brown Richardson
Department: Computer Science
Employee Voice: The Effect Voice Structures have on overall Labor Productivity, Eric Bulic
Department: Business Economics
Orbital Debris Proliferation and the Evolution of the Space Sustainability Norm, Carson Wesley Simkins Bullock
Department: Physics; Political Science
Language of Disability, Language of Disorder: An Investigation of Lived Experiences and Perspectives of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum with Respect to Communicative Interventions, Rebekah Burkhart
Department: Communication Studies
Defining the Determinants of Substrate Binding for 6-Hydroxynicotinate 3- Monooxygenase (NicC) from Bordetella bronchiseptica RB50, Ryan Gerald Campbell
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Non-governmental Organizations and their Structure, Salience, and Agenda Setting Ability, Kayla Campion
Department: Political Science
Adipokinetic Hormone Receptors in the Reproductive Tract of Ae. aegypti Mosquitoes, coupled with the history of Ae. aegypti in Haiti, Fredi L. Carey
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; French and Francophone Studies
How Will It Be Remembered?: Incorporation of TRC Reports in the Classroom, Rachel Cargal
Department: Political Science
Finding Home: the Impact of Implementing International Law Through Domestic Legislation and Judges on Women Seeking Asylum, Alena Carl
Department: Political Science
Monitoring Proteostasis with the Folding Sensor AgHalo in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Patrick C. Carmel
Department: Neuroscience
The Witch’s Apprentice: An Original Graphic Novel, Lorelei KM Carrier
Department: Art and Art History
Thus Come: The Making and Seeing of the Buddha in China, Julia S. Cavallo
Department: Art and Art History; Chinese Studies
Optimizing Intranasal Insulin Treatment During CPR Based on Delivery to the Brain, Mechanistic Target Engagement, and Neurologic Outcomes in a Rodent Model of Cardiac Arrest, Adam D. Chalek
Department: Neuroscience
The Effects of Enrichment and the Combination of Enrichment and Amphetamine on Hyperactivity in a Rodent Model of ADHD, Nikki Charles
Department: Neuroscience
Forcing a Numerical Ice Flow Model with Mass Balance Estimates Derived From Tree Rings: Experiments on the Historic Advance of Columbia Glacier, South-Central Alaska, Joshua Charlton
Department: Earth Sciences
Why Companies are Monitoring Your Internet History: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Target Strategies’ Effects on Online Advertisement Performance, Will Chien
Department: Business Economics
A Study of Contractual Structure in Subscription Service Models and Consumer Purchasing Behavior, Raghu Choudhary
Department: Economics
Location, Location, Location: How Geographical Differences Shape the Effects of Childhood Poverty and School Experience, Patience Chrisler
Department: Political Science
The Efficient Decision of Firms: Does CSR Generate Long-Term Value?, Nick Hallowell Churchill
Department: Business Economics
Particle-Based Fluid Simulation with Nvidia FleX, Gianni Ciccarelli
Department: Computer Science
The Frontier Shifts of Edges Becoming centers: Gentrification Challenging Neighborhood Identity, Anthony M. Cisneros
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Says Who? A Feminist Challenge of Moral and Epistemic Authority in Advocacy, Coral Ciupak
Department: Philosophy
Liminal Souls, Liminal Bodies: Michelangelo’s Non Finito and the Poetics of Liberation, Mackenzie Clark
Department: Art and Art History; English