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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
The Privatization of a Public Industry: A Study on Private Prisons in the United States and the Effects on Prisoners, Ian Brim
Department: Business Economics
Exploring the Dynamics of a Small Dielectric Sphere due to the Higher-order Modes of an Optical Nanofiber, Emma Brinton
Department: Physics
Interactive Sound Synthesis: Procedurally Generated Audio Based on User Drawn Waveforms, Todd Brockelman
Department: Computer Science
The First Spacewalk: An Exploration of the Mathematical and Cultural Implications of the Space Race, Aidan Brown
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Cut the BS: The Harm of Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism and the Buffering Effect of Gender Group Identification, Madison C. Brown
Department: Psychology
Attempt at Expression of a Functional Recombinant Nicotinate Dehydrogenase from Bacillus niacini, Nathan M. Brownstein
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“Flowin’ with the Water Cycle”: An Exploration of the Water Cycle Through Movement Through the Lens of Choreographer Doris Humphrey and Musical Composers Felix Mendelssohn, Claude Debussy, and Hans Zimmer., Meredith Bruch
Department: Theatre and Dance
Romance Versus Friendship: Examining Relationships Using the Investment Model, Angelica Buczkowski
Department: Psychology
Probing the Activity of [(n6-p-cymene)RuCl2(P(R)3)] Complexes for the Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Alcohols and Amines, Brady Bunnell
Department: Chemistry
Effects of Motivation and Personality Traits on Adherence to an Injury Rehabilitation Process, Rachel Burger
Department: Psychology
The Relationship Between Adult Playfulness and Decision-Making, George Burgi
Department: Psychology
Wilderness Preservation in the Capitalocene: Valuing Wild Lands in an Instrumental World, Brandon Burkey
Department: Philosophy
"Kill the Indian, and Save the Man": Examining the Assimilation Tactics Used Against Native Americans by the United States Government Through the Implementation of Boarding Schools, Molly Campbell
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Clothing Makes the Man: Constructing Morality and Masculinity Through Depictions of Men's Clothing in the Victorian Era, Anne Carney
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Everyday Acts of Amish Resistance: Contextualizing Patterns of Antimicrobial Susceptibility in a Small-Scale Agricultural Setting, Geoffrey Carney-Knisely
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Sociology and Anthropology
A Morphological Study of Pillow Lavas: Generating New Data on Submarine Pillows Along the 8°20’ N Seamount Chain, Eve M. Caudill
Department: Geology
Metaphor and Truth-Condition Semantics, Junyi Chen
Department: Philosophy
Understanding Human Well-Being, Junyi Chen
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
An Investigation of the Relationship between Government Purchases and Conspicuous Consumption, Tailun Chen
Department: Business Economics
“Intercultural Exchange”: Analyzing The Exchange of Femininity and Masculinity Between The African American Community And The Global East Asian Community, Brandi Clarke
Department: East Asian Studies
That’s Just the Way it grows: A Look at Phenazine Compounds and Their Effects on Agrobacterium rhizogenes Growth, Maxwell Clement
Department: Biology
A Visual Analysis of the Medical Profession as Portrayed Through Nineteenth Century Painting and Photography, Caroline A. Click
Department: Art and Art History
Fantastic Orientalism, Max A. Cohen
Department: History
Men Were More Supportive of Male Rape Myths: An Investigation into Stereotypical Gender Role Beliefs and Support Organizations' Preparedness, Emily Colwell
Department: Psychology
Human Action Motivation : For Love of Thyself: The Egoist Approach to Navigating Motives Among Social Guise, Kevin B. Compliment
Department: Philosophy
Stay at Home Dads:The Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Decisions on When to Provide Paternal Care in Costa Rican Hyalinobatrachium valerioi, Sarah Comstock
Department: Biology
How to Move Mountains: An Examination of the U.S. Political Response to the Aids Crisis, Jane Connard
Department: Political Science
Wine, Women, and Woodcuts: the Maintenance of the Isolated Landsknechte Marginalized Society in Sixteenth-Century Germany, as Shown through the Dissemination of Military Genre Prints, Kathryn Connors
Department: History; Art and Art History
Encrusting Sclerobiont Paleoecology and Bioerosion Of Oysters in the Type Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Southwestern France, Macy A. Conrad
Department: Geology
Lo Bueno Y Lo Malo: A Critical Analysis of Mexican-American Machismo, Alondra Correa
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Climate change and GLOFs: A Multi-Locational Meta-Analysis on the Peak Discharge and Flood Volume of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, Michael N. Craigmile
Department: Geology
The Make or Buy Decision Across Borders: A Transaction Cost Economics Approach to Vertical Integration, Aidan Crowe
Department: Economics
Employing a System of Pressure Sensors to Characterize Avalanche Dynamics on a Conical Bead Pile, Gabriel Dale-Gau
Department: Physics
The Influence of Positive and Negative Context Images on the Other Race Effect, Samantha M. Davis
Department: Neuroscience
“Everybody Worships”: Religious and Para-Religious Presences and Interactions in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Nan Denette
Department: Religious Studies; English
The Man Behind "Corduroy": The Life and Art of Don Freeman, Ellie R. DePastino
Department: History
“College Is Over, What Now?”: An Analysis of the Returns to Human Capital Investment for Post-College Levels of Educational Attainment, with an Emphasis on Immigrants with U.S. Schooling, Soham Desai
Department: Business Economics
Inhbitory Effects of Phytophthora sojae RXLR Effectors on MAPK Signaling in Yeast, Thomas DiFilippo
Department: Biology
In the Eye of the Consumer: A Sociocultural Analysis on Food Choice, Pagona N. Duda
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Good Life: An Analysis of Buddhist, Epicurean, and Ascetic Perspectives, Christopher Dukich
Department: Philosophy
#quitbullyingme: Teachers’ and Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perceptions of the Academic, Social, and Emotional Impact of Cyberbullying on Individuals Who Stutter, Claire Dunwoodie
Department: Communication Studies
“You like Me, Aren’t We Friends?”: Exploring the Relationship Between Resource Control Strategies and Friendship, Martinique Eaddie
Department: Psychology
Past Determines Future: The Effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Individuals’
Adherence & Compliance and its Variance Amongst Athletic Identity, Chevy Echols
Department: Psychology
Using A Boolean Model to Identify Requirements for Successful Yamanaka Reprogramming, Campbell Elliott
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Role of Traditional and Western Healing Practices on the Well-being of Diné People, Sierra Elrod
Department: Psychology
The Role of Children in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings: Social Distinction and National Identity, Helena Enders
Department: Art and Art History
Elucidating the Physiological Role of a Putative Arginine Kinase in Myxococcus xanthus Utilizing Homologous Recombinants, Zachary J. Engfer
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Illuminate: Nightlight Lamp & Lantern Series, Kari Everson
Department: Art and Art History
The Enigma of the Twelve Handmaidens: an Analysis of Book 22 of Homer’s Odyssey, Theodora Evinger
Department: Classical Studies
An Evolutionary Myx-up: Characterization of Bacterial Arginine Kinases in Species from the Order Myxococcales, Lindsay J. Fannin
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
« Il faut que la terre soit honorée » : La division de responsabilité gouvernementale, culturelle, et publique contre le réchauffement climatique, Katie Farr
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Institutional Ownership and Corporate Performance: An Empirical Analysis of America's Publicly-Held Firms, Eric Fenton
Department: Economics
Being Sixty: Aging, Agency, and Personal Narrative in Simone de Beauvoir's La Vieillesse and Doris Lessing's The Diary of a Good Neighbour, Ashley R. Ferguson
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Niacini, Now You Don’t: The Catabolism of Nicotinic Acid and Nicotine and the Role of a Putative Monooxygenase Enzyme in Bacillus niacini, Sydney R. Fine
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Speaker of Words: A Linguistic Examination of Science Fiction, Invented Language, and Society, Sierra Fletcher
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Effects of nab2 on Phosphorylated Tau Protein Accumulation in Drosophila Melanogaster, Jacob A. Fling
Department: Biology
The Role of Travel Memoir in the Production of Orientalist on Japan, Christopher Fried
Department: English
Potatoes and Pathogens: The Creation of a Functional Plant Vector Using Effector Genes from Pathogenic Oomycete Phytophthora Infestans, Cameron Friedman
Department: Biology
An Analysis of Filmic Adaptations of The Brothers Grimm Tale “Schneewittchen” in Postwar Germany, Brigitte K. Galauner
Department: Communication Studies; German Studies
The Opportunity to Succeed: An Analysis of First-Generation, Latinx College Student Aspirations, Family Expectations, and Definitions of Success, Nancy Garzon
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
You've Got a Friend in Me: The Effects of LGBTQIA+ Legislators on Same-Sex Partnership Rights in Latin America, Danica Genners
Department: Political Science
Reclaiming Self-Love: Philosophy of Moral Worth, Colleen E. Gilfether
Department: Philosophy
Brooklyn: A Toxic Tour. Using a Five-Part Environmental Inspection to Advocate for Environmental Justice, Jack Gilio
Department: Communication Studies
The First But Hopefully Not the Last: How The Last Of Us Redefines the Survival Horror Video Game Genre, Joseph T. Gonzales
Department: Communication Studies
A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Corporate Leverage, Nathaniel Goodin
Department: Business Economics
Production, Function, and Conservation of Ancient Roman Mosaics and their Display in Museums in the United States, Arabella Goodrich
Department: Archaeology
Mass Melanin Movement: Black Women's Perceptions of Body Images and Beauty Ideals Through Analysis of Reality Television, Meonyez Goodwin
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
What's Taking So Long? The Timeline it Takes for the United Nations to Become Involved in State Sanctioned Violence, Alexandria Gordon
Department: Political Science
An Empirical Analysis of the Predictive Power of Interest Rate Spreads in the Policy Normalization Period, Kevin H. Gould
Department: Business Economics
Adsorption of Biomolecules by Porous Organosilica, Amy L. Graham
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Silent but Deadly: An Economic Approach to Reducing the Negative Externalities of the Beef Industry to the Environment, Ethan Greene
Department: Business Economics
Analyzing the Effects of Bacteriophage Therapy Against Pseudomonas on Lettuce Leaves as a Means to Prevent Overuse of Antibiotics, Cheyenne Gregg
Department: Biology
“KASH” Me Outside, How ‘Bout That: Using the LGB-KASH Scale and SDO to Measure Attitudes Toward the LGBTQ+ Community in the United States and Outside in France, Virginia Grohol
Department: Psychology
Drone Brood Removal: A Bee-Utiful Form of Varroa Control and Source of Edible Insect Protein, Bridget A. Gross
Department: Environmental Studies
Citizens in Name Only: Civil and Human Rights of Algerians in France, 1958–1961, Shelley Grostefon
Department: History; French and Francophone Studies
Comparing Glass Frog (Centrolenidae) Diversity in Primary and Secondary Forests in Costa Rica, Christopher W. Gumpper
Department: Biology
Comedic Personal Narrative and the Self Awareness of Vice: Rethinking Virtue, Amy Hagedorn
Department: Philosophy
Analyzing and Solving the Nurse Scheduling Problem, Nicholas Hagopian-Zirkel
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Folktales From Origin Valley, Elen-Kalliopi Halimou
Department: English; Philosophy
A Look at the “Goodfellas”: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Vindicator and How They Depict the Youngstown Italian Mafia, Alec Hammond
Department: Communication Studies
Investigating the Influence of Nab2 on CaMKII Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster, Camille Hanes
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
A History of Displacement: Gentrification and Black Activism in Portland, Oregon, Ryan Harms
Department: History
Does Law Affect Morality? An in Depth Analysis of the Effects of Injustice on Morality, Jaelan R.O. Harney
Department: Philosophy
Investigating the Impact of Invasive Plant Species on Native Plethodontid Salamander Populations, Haley M. Hartman
Department: Biology
Children of the Empire, Jack Healy
Department: English
Investigation of Carminic Acid Photodegradation: Separation, Analysis, and Characterization of Photoproducts, Margaret F. Heller
Department: Chemistry
Preferred Asset Allocation of the Individual Investor Concerning ESG Scores, Thomas D. Helsel
Department: Business Economics
Attacking the Curve: A Study on the Effect of Concavity on Aerodynamic Forces Associated with High Speed Automobiles, Collin Hendershot
Department: Physics
Writing the Carceral Divide: Representations of Imprisonment in American Culture, Timothy Herring
Department: English
Cyber Warfare: A Study of Threat and Cooperation, John Hessler
Department: Political Science
I've Been in the Storm So Long: African American History and the Journey Toward Equality Through the Lens of the DuSable Museum of African American History, Grace N. Hodges
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Comparing the Expression of the Phosphodiesterase Pde1c between Drosophila melanogaster Mutants, Rebecca Hotz
Department: Neuroscience
The Gender Differences in the Perception of Bullying in College of Wooster Students, Sessi Houessou-Adin
Department: Psychology
Relationships Between Substance Abuse, Emotional Intelligence, Impulsivity, and Social Support: An Examination of Factors Relating to Addiction, Grant P. Hudson
Department: Psychology
Masculinity (De)construction and Policing: A Comparative Study of Representation, Policies, and Legitimacy, Sarah Huffman
Department: Political Science
The Double Burden: An Examination of the Political and Social Violence Experienced by Black Activists Participating in Nonviolent Protest During the Modern Civil Rights Era, Desmond Hughes
Department: History
“His Blood Is Different… Even Though He’s Not Bad, His Ethnicity Is Bad” the Impact of Cultural Policies and Negative Rhetoric on the Severity of an Ethnic Conflict, Jinhee Huh
Department: Political Science
An Analysis of Caddisfly Larval Cases from Bioherms in the Upper Green River Formation, White Hill Cuesta, Ephraim, Utah, Peter B. Hurst
Department: Geology
Religion, Animals and Healing: Viewing the Horse through Islam, Christianity, and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Emily Huxtable
Department: Religious Studies
Perceived Deprivation and its Role in the Decisions of Former Obama Supporters During the United States Presidential Election of 2016, Jack Hyman
Department: Political Science