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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
How Do Income Shocks Affect Schooling In Guatemala? Using Household Data To Examine Tradeoffs Between Child Labor And Education, Jorge De Leon
Department: Global and International Studies
Toxicity Analysis of OGT Inhibitor Et-OSMI-2 Against Strains of E. coli and Pseudomonas, Craig Deng
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Neva Derewetzky
Department: Music
Sacred Space in a Mundane Place, Reinier B. DesCoteaux
Department: Religious Studies
Collision Detection in a Top-Down Zombie Shooter, Nathan Devereux
Department: Computer Science
Differential Expression Analysis of the Nic Cluster and Attempts at Characterizing the Nicab Complexes in the Novel Nicotinic Acid Degradation Pathway of Bacillus Niacini, Anh Dinh
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Remembering the City: An Augmented Reality Reconstruction of Memory, Power, and Identity in Ho Chi Minh City through Cartography & Architecture, Thuy Dinh
Department: Computer Science; History
Do Professional Sport Franchises Help Public Welfare or Their Own Pockets? A Study Analyzing Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Sports Through the NFL, Caelan Doherty
Department: Economics
El español en contacto con el maya: Un análisis de las actitudes e identidades lingüísticas de los kaqchikeles en San Jorge la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala, Tristan Donohoe
Department: Spanish
Thoughts and Prayers or Policy and Action?: The Role Interest Groups Play in Firearms Legislation, Abigail G. Donohue
Department: Political Science
Out of the Vat: A Collection of Poems, Alexander E. Doone
Department: English
Impact of Tsa1 Subcellular Localization on its Biological Function, Daniel Dorman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Barely Scratching the Surface: Examining the Relationship between Carotenoid Pigment and Immunity of Betta splendens with Bco1, Samantha B. Draves
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A New Perspective on Poverty Alleviation: Evaluating Microfinance Programs Through Social Impact Indicators, Robert Driscoll
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Art Gallery Problem, Nicole Driver
Department: Mathematics
Shaping Mindsets for Success: The Effects of Mindset Training on Pre-Service Educators, Amber Dronebarger
Department: Psychology
Cheat Detection using Machine Learning within Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Harry Dunham
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The Relation of Personality and Communication Traits on Responses Against Microaggressions, Gustavo Duran
Department: Communication Studies
“Sometimes You Want to Just Run Away”: Participation and Mobilization of the New Sanctuary Movement, Elyse Echegaray
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology
Commercializing Lifestyles: An Analysis of Lifestyle Brand Identities and Consumer Engagement in Post-War Mass Media, Daniel Engel
Department: Communication Studies; History
The Palm Oil Industry - Destructive or Sustainable? Defining Sustainable Palm Oil, Henry Epling
Department: Environmental Studies
Wash Your Hands, You Filthy Animals! An Exploration of the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Non-Clinical Settings, Ana R. Fairbanks-Mahnke
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
An Investigation of the Counseling Strategies Used by Pediatric Audiologists from the Perspective of Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Morgan Renee Faldowski
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creating Capital in the Creative Capital: A Case Study on the Neighborhood Level Impact of Creative Placemaking in Providence, RI, Emily G. Farmer
Department: Urban Studies
Pope Pius XII and Moral Ambiguity, Ryan D. Farrell
Department: History
Wood, Paper, and Glue: Studying the Book Beyond Its Bindings, Jack R. Felch
Department: Art and Art History
Optimizing Crop Rotations and Pest Management Strategies in Agriculture, Madeleine Ferguson
Department: Mathematics
Cashing In On Kaepernick: A Visual Ideological Analysis of the Commodification of Racial Equity and Inclusion in Nike's "Equality" and "Just Do It" Advertising Campaigns, Ben Ferling
Department: Communication Studies
Sustainability and Stock Market Returns: A Study of the Impact of ESG Scores on Stock Returns in the Energy Industry and Overall Market, Evan Ferrara
Department: Business Economics
Kindred Ideologies: Fascism and Communism in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, Joseph Ferraro
Department: Russian Studies
In Your Orbit, Sara Fikse
Department: English
This Whole Period Thing is Cramping My Style: A Quantitative Study of Tampon Advertisements' Portrayal of the Female Identity, Catherine Fiorito
Department: Communication Studies
It's Ringing and I Can't Make it Stop! An Investigation of Audiologists' use of Tinnitus Counseling Techniques, Heather B. Foust
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Students With and Without Learning Disabilities: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status, Perceived Academic Support, Stress, and Self-efficacy on Academic Success, Helen H. Francis
Department: Psychology
Meaningful Military Experiences: A Look Into Congressional Members Who Have Served in Combat, Daniel Grant Fraser
Department: Political Science; History
Using the Protein Cross-Linker Divinyl Sulfone to Identify the Putative Client Proteins of Protein Disulfide Isomerases and Its Effects on ER Homeostasis, Benjamin Freije
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Von Star Trek Zu Harry Potter: How the World of German Slash Fanfiction Handles Gender and Sexuality in Harry Potter and Twilight Slash Fiction, Destiny French
Department: German Studies
Caenorhabditis elegans' Use of Apoptosis in the Immune Response to Pseudomonas Bacterial Infections, Daniel Gail
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
An Investigation of Parental Perceptions Regarding Cultural Support Provided by Audiologists for Bilingual Latino Families, Emily Gamez
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Bridging the Identity Gap: Predictors of Closeness in Intercultural Friendships between International and American Domestic Students, Isabelle Gangloff
Department: Psychology
A Concrete Asylum: How the Issue of Immigration Embodies the European Union's External Identity Crisis, Nicholas Groves Gargaro
Department: History
A Mathematical Analysis of the Game of Santorini, Carson Clyde Geissler
Department: Mathematics
Let’s Get Moving: The Social & Cognitive Benefits of Exercise on Adolescents With Level 1 (Mild) Autism Spectrum Disorder, Payton Gennett
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Influence of Genuine and Artificial Plants on Cognitive Performance Tasks, Holly Geraci
Department: Psychology
The Short and Long Term Impacts of a Safari Park Visit on Guests Environmental Attitude and Behaviors, Lila B. E. Gibson
Department: Psychology
Conspicuousness of Dissosteira Carolina Against Varying Environmental Backgrounds Using Avian Predator and Conspecific Insect Visual Modeling, Frederick R. Gilbert
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
An Extrovert and an Individualist Walk into a Bar: Cultural Influence on the Relationship between Personality and Humor Styles, Aishu S. Giriraju
Department: Psychology
Reigniting the Flame of Purpose: Exploring the Unique Open-Ended Interactive Narrative of Dark Souls, Nicholas Godsey
Department: Communication Studies
Breaking AI: When Even Google Fails, Erika Goetz
Department: Computer Science
Pushing the Limits of a Raspberry Pi, Reid Thomas Golnik
Department: Computer Science
A Frog and a Bromeliad: Exploring a Potential Nutritive Plant-Animal Mutualism Between Oophaga Pumilio and Bromeliads, Mackenzie Goltz
Department: Biology
Saying "Yes," East and West: A Comparative Analysis of Meaning and Affirmation in Nietzsche and Mahayana Buddhism, Scott Gordon
Department: Philosophy
A Geochemical Study of Bræðravirki Ridge (Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland) Reveals Regional Glaciovolcanic Variations and Complex Tindar Construction, Hannah Grachen
Department: Geology
Greenbean Comics: An Independent Study!!!, Samantha Green
Department: English
I'm Going to Kill Myself, but it's Fine: Creating and Performing Characters in Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, Seth Green
Department: Theatre and Dance
Behavioral Effects of Human Tau Expression and Sleep Deprivation on Drosophila melanogaster, Benjamin R. Gregoire
Department: Neuroscience; Biology
The Effect of the Antioxidant Supplement, Protandim, on a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Jennifer Grossmann
Department: Neuroscience
Banksy’s New York State of Mind: A Visual Critique of Banksy’s 2018 New York Art as Social Protest by Means of Culture Jam, Megan E. Gross
Department: Communication Studies
To Know, to Care, and, to Educate: Examining the Effectiveness of Behavioral Interventions in Improving Saving Behavior, Anushkaa Gupta
Department: Economics; Psychology
Foreign Direct Investment in ASEAN: The Economic and Locational Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Context of Indonesia, Jason P. Gustely
Department: Economics
No Need to Stress: The Effects of Protandim Supplementation on Counteracting Oxidative Stress via the Nrf2 Pathway, Kelsey Taylor Hall
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Mosquitoes Bloody Suck!: Identifying Potential Vectors and Non-Human Hosts of Mosquito-Borne Pathogens in Alajuela, Costa Rica, Emma R. Hambright
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Promoting Diversity: Sequencing The Melanocortin 1 Receptor (Mc1r) Promoter in Northeast Ohio Eastern Grey Squirrels (Sciurus Carolinensis), Alyssa Hamm
Department: Biology
Keeping Them In Their Place: How American Party Leaders Harness Intraparty Factions, Alexander R. Hancock
Department: Political Science
Awake, Waverly Swan Hart
Department: English
Scottish Plays and Media: An Excavation of Sottish Identity, Darian A. Harvey
Department: Theatre and Dance
A Change in the Broadcasting Structure of Major League Baseball: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants that affect Television Revenue, Daniel John Harwood
Department: Business Economics
Vertical Integration for Innovation: Understanding Startup Acquisitions from Organizational Economic, Resource-Based and Strategic Perspectives, Connor W. Hawkins
Department: Business Economics
The Hormonal and Behavioral Effects of Acute Nutritional Stress on Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata), Dakota Shaw Hayes
Department: Biology
Explaining the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: An Analysis of Farmers' Land Tenure Security in Rural Ghana., Efua Hayford
Department: Economics
“Big Time” College Sports: Amateurism, Exploitation, and Predicting Attitudes Regarding Student-Athlete Compensation, Malik Jordan Hearst
Department: Philosophy; Psychology
Progress in Characterizing a Novel Root Exudate: Differential gene expression of Bacillus niacini DSM 2993 in Response to Nicotinic Acid through RNA-seq, Noah S. Helton
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Examining the Effects of Observational Learning Versus Coaching/Feedback on a Basketball Free Throw Shot, Danyon M.R. Hempy
Department: Psychology
Effect of Vocal Sex Ratios and Sex on The Judgement of Sex Ambiguous Morphed Faces, Carlos Hernandez
Department: Psychology; Spanish
La Libertad y Sus Acontecimientos: Un Enfoque En el Existencialismo y el Uso de la Libertad Dentro de Artefactos Culturales, Carlos A. Hernandez
Department: Psychology; Spanish
Slender Waists and Coral Lips: An Examination of Gender Construction in Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tales, Isadora M. Hetrick
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
A Hidden Curriculum: Understanding the Impact of Emotional Labor on Elementary School Teachers’ Self Identities, Stephanie Hilton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Delete Your Account: A Methodological Investigation of Leadership Trait Analysis and Its Ability to Utilize Twitter as Spontaneous Material, Jimmy Hinton
Department: Political Science
Identifying Host Processes Targeted by Phytophthora sojae Effector Protein PsAvh172 Using Synthetic Lethality, Hannah Hirsch
Department: Biology
Boy Meets War: A Critical and Creative Analysis of Civilian Masculinities in Britain During the Second World War, Savanna Hitlan
Department: History
1997 Korean Currency Crisis: Its Causes, Resolution and Social Impacts, Pyeongan Hong
Department: Global and International Studies
Identification of the Photoproducts of UVB Irradiated Warfarin in an Aqueous Environment, Rebecca N. Hopkins
Department: Chemistry
I Got Rhythm How 'Bout You?: An Investigation of the Impact of Rhythm on Word Retrieval, Christian Howard-Smith
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders; Neuroscience
The Role of Dissosteira Carolina (Band-Winged) Grasshopper Visual Acuity in Communicative Signaling During Courtship, Vienna Leigh Howard
Department: Biology
The Effects of Environmental Enrichment and Antioxidant Supplementation on an Alzheimer’s Disease Rodent Model, Alison Hsu
Department: Neuroscience
Beat Box: The Application of MIDI & and Game Design in Hip-Hop Education, Brodie Collen Hufnagel
Department: Computer Science
Songs, Storytellers, and Science: An Examination of Long-Distance Interaction in the Cook Islands, Cyrus Hulen
Department: Archaeology
Has Fama’s Efficient Market Hypothesis been Proven False Due to High Frequency Traders?, Nicholas Hull
Department: Business Economics
Computer Vision Gesture Recognition for Rock Paper Scissors, Nicholas Hunter
Department: Computer Science
Exploring Peptidoglycan Synthesis: Assessing the Viability of NagZ as a Potential Tool for Obtaining Lipid I, Robert Hunt
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Computational Analysis of PsAvh172 Data to Investigate the Targets of Phytophthora sojae in Soybean Host A Hierarchical Clustering Evaluation of Yeast RNA-Seq Data, Vi Huynh
Department: Mathematics; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Theory of Fire Service Provision: With an empirical analysis of response time, suppression time, and service output, Hyong-gu Hwang
Department: Economics; Mathematics
The Deterioation of Public Opinion in the Vietnam and Iraq War, Tyler Iversen
Department: Political Science; History
Ecologically relevant cooling early in life does not affect expression of neophobia in zebra finch chicks (Taeniopygia guttatta), Anna James
Department: Biology
“All Bodies Are Good Bodies”: How Anti-Diet Culture Activists Use Instagram to Challenge Diet Culture Norms, Miranda James
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Investigating the Effects of Chronic Corticosterone Exposure During the Weanling Phase of Rattus Norvegicus on Adult Learning and Memory Function, Dina Jamshidi
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
Managing Inventory: A Study of Databases and Database Management Systems, Jemal M. Jemal
Department: Computer Science
The Symbolist Inheritance of the Celtic Revival (1880-1930): Female Illustrators and Printmakers as Codifying Agents of Irish Visual Expression, Claire M. Jennings
Department: Art and Art History
Yijing and Its Mathematical Thinkings, Yifan Jiang
Department: History; Mathematics
Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics and the Memorialization of the Second World War in Polish Literature, Cinema, and Museums (1945-Present), Alexandria Joyner
Department: History