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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2026
Take Me To The River: How do agricultural processes affect nutrient concentration in the Kokosing River?, William Laymon
Department: Environmental Studies
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Community Engagement in US Theaters, Keara M. Lennox
Department: Theatre and Dance
A Fickle Thing: Poetry and Prose on Identity and Memory, Mary Lepore
Department: English
Play by Place: Urbanicity and High School Sports Offerings (Evidence from Ohio Public High Schools), Colin A. Leslie
Department: Urban Studies
Reclaiming Silence: Poetry for the Neurodivergent Identity, Jaden B. Levine
Department: English
Reclaiming Sound: Music for the Neurodivergent Identity, Jaden B. Levine
Department: Music
The Price You Pay: The Problem with Telling Black People to "Act Black", Jordan Lewis
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
Implementation of Asylum Law: The Effect of the Criminalization of Immigration on the Outcome of Asylum Cases in the United States and Spain, Danielle E. Libby
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Sex Education, Sexuality and Morals: The Failures of Sex Education Across the 20th Century, Kassidy X. Liles
Department: History
Behind the Grades: The Impact of Perceived Parenting Styles on Academic Performance Among College Students, Louis V. Lindsay
Department: Communication Studies
Analysis and Finite Volume Simulation of the Two-Dimensional Incompressible Navier--Stokes Equations, Hohoi Lin
Department: Mathematics
Emotion Through Impact, Ezekiel G. Locklear
Department: Art and Art History
Assessing the Impact of Urban Sediment Pollution in Canada on Gill Structure and CYP1A Expression in Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus), Emma L. Longenecker
Department: Biology
Quantum Leap: An Exploration of the Development of Computing and Cryptography, Jake H. Lyon
Department: Computer Science
Doodle-to-Image: Enhancing Text-Guided Image Generation with Sketch Prompts in ComfyUI, Osen Mac-Iriase
Department: Computer Science
Linking Patterns of the Ocean to Coral Bleaching Events on The Great Barrier Reef: The Role of Flow and Temperature Variability in Shaping Benthic Communities on Bleached and Healthy Acropora Reefs, Katy Magyar
Department: Biology
Design and Synthesis of Carbazole and Quinoxaline-based Metal-free organic sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), Russell Makopa
Department: Chemistry
Design and Synthesis of Carbazole and Quinoxaline-based Metal-free Organic Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs), Russell Makopa
Department: Chemistry
Bringing Stories to Life: A Sculptural Interpretation of Children's Stories, Kelsey M. Maley
Department: Art and Art History
Multisensory Word Learning in Preschool Children, Kelsey M. Maley
Department: Psychology
Dietary Isoflavones Alter Stress Resistance in C. elegans, Coco M. Malnar
Department: Biology
Usability and Learning Curves of Creative Software Tools for Beginners, Khaleel A. Manderson
Department: Computer Science
Bridging the Semantic Gap in Decompilation, Abhishek Manhas
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Living Among The Cloud: Public Opinion About Data Centers and Their Environmental Impacts in Loudoun County, VA, Julia Manyin
Department: Environmental Studies
Cluckin' Under Cover: How Does the Presence of Simulated Solar Panels Affect Chicken Grazing?, Anna Katherine Mapes
Department: Environmental Studies
The One Constant: Baseball in Cuban National Identity, Alex Markland
Department: History
Abiotic Niche Differentiation and Reproductive Interference Between Closely Related Spring Ephemerals Dicentra cucullaria and Dicentra canadensis, Lilian Martin
Department: Biology; Earth Sciences
Two Voices, One Boat: An Interactive Artwork on Cooperation Through Voice, Atomu Maruyama
Department: Art and Art History
A Bayesian Pragmatics Account of Common Ground: Behavioral and EEG/ERP Evidence, Shui Mauser
Department: Mathematics; Neuroscience
Unequal Treatment, Uneven Outcomes: Examining Health Disparities and Athletic Performance in Collegiate Sports Medicine, Robert Mays
Department: Biology; Psychology
I Know What Hell is: Bad Faith, Authenticity, and the Role of Relationships in Existential Wellbeing, Celena B. McCabe
Department: Philosophy
Carving Out Realities: Passage Mounds and Rock Art in Neolithic Ireland United through Common Ontological Underpinnings, Finn McCusker
Department: Archaeology
A Real-Time Multi-Band Audio Effects Plugin with Plugin Hosting, Noah Aitan McDonald
Department: Computer Science; Music
Whodunit…and Who Directed It?: Analyzing Positionality in True Crime Dramatizations, Mariah McKenzie
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
The United States Information Agency and Domestic Support for Public Diplomacy During the Cold War, Emma C. McKone
Department: History; Political Science
Examining the Effects of Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration on CircRNA Formation, Mckinnon Mead
Department: Neuroscience
Role of the Anti-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-10 in Fear Learning, Ruhee Mehta
Department: Neuroscience
Marketing to the ADHD Mind: How ADHD Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Advertising Appeals and Imagery Visualization, Noelle R. Melgar
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Chronic Blue Light and Exercise on Learning, Memory, and Anxiety Behaviors, Sophia Mellis
Department: Neuroscience
Developing an XRF Analysis Method for Identifying Trace Metal Contamination in Natural Waters, Ihaja Metz
Department: Earth Sciences
Nutrient-Dependent Phage–Host Dynamics in Biofilm-Forming Pseudomonas, Duncan R. Miller
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Citizens United Impact: Effects on Party Power and Legislative Responsiveness to Constituents, Malaina M. Millhouse
Department: Economics; Political Science
“...La esperanza es lo último que muere”: Latina emerging adults’ experiences with stress, coping, political anxiety, and joy, Lacey Mindock
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Remote Sensing as a Policy Entrepreneur? A Multiple Streams Analysis of Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Kelsey Mize
Department: Political Science; Urban Studies
As Easy As 1, 2, 3? An Investigation of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perceptions of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Autistic Children Requiring Differing Levels of Support, Katie Mommers
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Weekly Yoga on Working Memory and Symptomology of ADHD, Lilly Moody
Department: Neuroscience
Fire Pits, Ducks, and Chemical Warfare: A History of Agricultural Pest Control in China, Trevor J. Mullen
Department: History; Environmental Studies
Ratification of The United States Constitution: Analyzing the Role of Elite Level Polarization and Institutional Constraint, Alexis Neal
Department: Political Science
Plants & Ants: A Biological Study of Myrmecochory in Dicentra cucullaria and a Literary Study of the Rhizome & the Hive, Indigo Ly Nelson-Frey
Department: Biology; English
From Rhetoric To Reality: An Exploration of the Effects of Othering Rhetoric On Evaluations of Approval, Kameryn Nelson
Department: Political Science
兒童客家語教育：台灣與台灣離散族群如何推廣客家語與文化, Meghan E. Neville
Department: Chinese Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
The Relationship Between Autonomic Functioning and Cognitive Functioning Using the COMPASS-31 as a Measure of Autonomic Functioning, Kaz Newell
Department: Neuroscience
The Manosphere at the Ballot Box: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Affect of Hyper-Masculine Media on Young Male Vote Choice, Cooper J. Nichols
Department: Political Science
Exploring Structural and Functional Effects of Mutating a Semi- Conserved C-Terminal Cysteine in the Yeast Thioredoxin Reductase Trr1, Bailey R. Nickols
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fearful Performances: Program Notes for a Senior Violin Recital, Jane Nolte
Department: Music
Housefly: Embodying Zoo TV's Tonality to Confront the Violent Secrecies in Harmonic Analysis of Western Tonal Music, Jane Nolte
Department: English
Bridging the Divide: Understanding and Alleviating Diasporic Tensions between African Immigrants and African Americans, Emily E. Nyeswa
Department: Psychology
Exploring How Pseudomonas chlororaphis 14B11 Bacteria Responds to Simultaneous Bacteriophage-Antibiotic Therapy—the Evolution of Double Resistant Strains, Tioluwanimi Obileye
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Athletic Endorsements and Firm Value: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Michael O'Brien
Department: Business Economics
Neural Network For Predicting the Next Outcome in a Major League Baseball Game, Tahj Tuari Orona
Department: Computer Science
Beyond Demographic Destiny: Education, Immigration, and Republican Vote Swing in a Changing Political Landscape, 2002--2024, Sidney A. O'Rourke
Department: Statistical and Data Sciences
Cuyahoga River Flow: Can We Learn About Past River Flow Using Tree-Ring Analysis?, Ethan Z. Ostrow
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
From Awareness to Conversion: How Firm Characteristics Shape Advertising Budget Allocation Across the Marketing Funnel., Othmane Oumnad
Department: Economics
What Brought You Here? Exploring Asian International Undergraduate Women’s Experiences for Studying in U.S. Liberal Arts Colleges, Kyoka Oyama
Department: Psychology
Pantaloon Propagation: examining the pollination ecology of a clonal spring ephemeral wildflower Dicentra cucullaria, Paul A. Palaski
Department: Biology
Reconstructing Cloud Cover from Tree Rings and Its Relationship with Tree Growth, Northeast United States, Mary E. Palmieri
Department: Earth Sciences; Statistical and Data Sciences
Velocity of an Anisotropic Nanoparticle in an Electromagnetic Field, Chive Paradowski
Department: Mathematics; Physics
The Case of the Missing PFAS: Determining the Partitioning Behavior of 2-Perfluorohexyl Ethanol, Rory Paradowski
Department: Chemistry
Investigation of System Architecture, Databases, and Caching Systems For Backend Web Development, Jungho Park
Department: Computer Science
You Make Stray Kids Stay: How Boy Bands Build Communities, Moss Parrott
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
"Trading the Noise": An Empirical Analysis of Retail Investor Activity and Stock Market Volatility, Kovid B. Pathak
Department: Economics
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Male Sexual Orientation & Ejaculate Parameters, Trent J. Patton
Department: Biology
Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance: Effects of JUb134 and JUb19 in Caenorhabditis elegans, Renee R. Peddapally
Department: Biology
The Effects of Chronic Exposure to NSAIDs on the Aggressive Behavior of Betta splendens, Luke B. Peter
Department: Biology
“From Reflexes to Reasoning”: Hierarchical Emergence of Decision-Making in Multi-level Agent-Based System, Huy Phan
Department: Computer Science; Neuroscience
An Investigation of How Social Media Affects the Psychological Well-Being of Division III College Athletes, Rowan E. Piani
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
I Have Seen the Future: Visitor Memories from World’s Fairs of the Atomic Era, Natalie Pickens
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Trans-World Express: Deutsche Einflüsse auf englischsprachige populӓre Musik, Jemella Boone Piersol-Freedman
Department: German Studies
Waterway Portals: Traversal Figures in South Italian Vase Painting, Gianna Poniewaz
Department: Archaeology
Dynamic Knee Valgus in Division III Athletes: Role of Injury History, Knee Pain, Biological Sex, Height and Weight, Chloe Pordash
Department: Biology
Pipes, Participation, and Capital Plans: Technocratic Governance and the Limits of Local Democratic Inclusion in New York City’s Green Infrastructure Program, Isaac Scott Prince
Department: Environmental Studies
The Best Location in the Nation? Queer Community in 1970s Deindustrializing Cleveland, Grace Pryor
Department: History
Luxury-led Urban Change in Manhattan: Comparing the Upper East Side and Upper West Side, 2010-2023, Genzo Puff
Department: Urban Studies
The Role of Tau and the RNA-Binding Protein Nab2 on Cholinergic Degeneration in GAL4-UAS Drosophila melanogaster Models, Bhumika Ramesh
Department: Neuroscience
The Primary Problem: How Nomination Rules Shape America's Political Divisions, Hadley Reckard
Department: Political Science
Deceptive Cadences: Investigation of the P600 in Sentences and Musical Phrases Within Musicians and Non-musicians, Hannah R. Reinicke
Department: Psychology
Deceptive Harmonies: A Senior Recital Exploring The Unexpected In Vocal Music, Hannah R. Reinicke
Department: Music
Faith, Feminism and the Future of Democracy: A Case Analysis of Evangelical Political Mobilization in the United States, Lauren R. Riley
Department: Political Science
The Monster Within: The Effects of Stress and Motive Framing on Eyewitness Memory and Judgments of Innocence, Mackenzie Robertson
Department: Psychology
Who Belongs? A Comparative Case Study Between the U.S. And Canada’ S Use of Citizenship Revocation, Colette O. Rodriguez
Department: International Relations; Political Science
From Tokenism to Testimonio: Reimagining Latina Girlhood Through Children’s Literature, Willow Rodriguez
Department: English
The Impact of Financial Advisors and Financial Literacy, Isaac M. Roeder
Department: Interdepartmental
Occupational Stress and Relationships in Emergency Medical Services, Ainsley Rogers
Department: Psychology
Investigation of Substrate-Dependent Transient Complex Formation Between PhzM and PhzS Using Dynamic Light Scattering, Seongmin Ro
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Satire, Sympathy, and Society: The Portrayal of the Lower Class in Dutch Print During the Protestant Reformation, Iris Roth-Bamberg
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Quantifying the Impacts of Empirically-Grounded Environmental Changes in Simulated Ecosystems, Peter Rothstein
Department: Biology; Mathematics
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: An Automated, Data-Driven Approach to Parameter Selection for Homomorphic Encryption, Jonathan Rueffer
Department: Computer Science
A History and Modern Analysis of the Trevelyan Rocker, Juno E. Ryan
Department: Physics
Shining a Light on Foodborne Carcinogens: The Photochemistry of 2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine, Lillian G. Ryan
Department: Chemistry
Designing a Multiplayer Gamified Learning Environment Using Procedural Content Generation in Unity, Saleh J. Safi
Department: Computer Science