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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Adoption Across Cultures: A Comparative Analysis of Adoption Attitudes between the United States and Honduras, Sidney A. Irias
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Americanized Chinese Dishes as Heritage Food and Bridging Identities, Megu Itoh
Department: Chinese Studies; Communication Studies
The Lord of Summer, Bird Jackson
Department: English
Sports Analytics With Computer Vision, Colby T. Jeffries
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Dispatches from the Fly Killer: A mathematical model that studies the correlation between sleep fragmentation and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster, Vedica Jha
Department: Biology; Mathematics
River Development and Incision on Dominica, West Indies, Cole Jimerson
Department: Geology
The Effect of Vitamin D on Sprague-Dawley Rats Muscle Performance During Training, Patrick Johnson
Department: Biology
A Bleak Hope For My Father: An Analysis of the Need For More Funding Earmarked towards Reentry Programs for African American Males, Derrius R. Jones
Department: Africana Studies
Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus, Alina M. Karapandzich
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Survival and Abundance of Glass Frog (Centrolenidae) Embryos in Primary and Secondary Forests in Costa Rica, Mackenzie Nicole Kellar
Department: Biology
Investigating Soybean Resistance Mechanisms to Phytophthora Sojae Through the Plant Hormone Auxin, Tara Keller
Department: Biology
Should You Lyse Your Neighbors’ Houses? This Model Says ‘No’ an in Silico Examination of the Interactions Between Bacterial and Viral Populations in the Presence of the Arbitrium System for Viral Communications, Brendan Kelley-Bukovac
Department: Biology
Examining Relationships Between Personality and Inexperienced Imagery Ability Among Athletes and Non-Athletes, Jamie C. Kenyon
Department: Psychology
Chasing the Light: Determining a Consistent Method of Device Fabrication for Single-Layered Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Austinjit S. Khara
Department: Chemistry
Go to Sleep: A Comparison Between Spontaneous-Hypertensive Rodents and Sprague-Dawley Rodents' Performances in a Spontaneous Alternation Task after Short-Term Sleep Deprivation, Jordan Kindinger
Department: Neuroscience
Gender Performance and Policy Issue Focus on U.S. Senate Campaign Websites, 2010-2016, Kiley Kinnard
Department: Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Biased or Unbiased?: Perceptions of Information Provided by Professionals to Parents Regarding Communication Options for Their Child Who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Hannah G. Kiser
Department: Communication Studies
Understanding Gene Expression Alterations Following Sleep Deprivation, Ksenia J. Klue
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Save the Forest (Dependent Communities): An Analysis of Potential Factors That Help Explain the Inclusion of Forest-Dependent Communities in Redd+ Readiness, Maite A. Knorr-Evans
Department: Global and International Studies
A Sound of Drum and Bass: Hip Hop as Identity and Means to Ethical Growth through Aesthetic Value, Justin Konyn
Department: Philosophy
Unfair Journalism: An Investigation into Stereotypes That Emerged from Recent College Sports Scandals and Surrounding Media Accounts, Sam Kuhn
Department: English
Blue Genes: A Comparative Genetic Analysis of Steel Blue, Royal Blue, and Turquoise Betta Splendens, Margaret Kuk
Department: Biology
"Are We Not Peasants too?": Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Rural India, Maansi Kumar
Department: Economics
The Effects of Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Ligands on Gallium and Aluminum Mineral Weathering and Soil Sorption, Benjamin W. Kumpf
Department: Geology
Resilience in STEM Students: An Analysis of the Demographic, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Predictors of Resilience, Catherine B. Kuzmishin
Department: Psychology
The Behavioral and Genetic Effects of Repeated Exposure to the Anesthetic Tricaine (MS-222) on Learning and Memory in Betta splendens, Christina Labib
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
An Investigation into the Recent Surge of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Healthcare Industry, Tyler LaCroix
Department: Business Economics
What's Behind the Mask? A Qualitative Study of How Male Makeup Vloggers Perform Alternative Identities, Nicole LaPerna
Department: Communication Studies
Evaluation of Organosilica Sorbent Media as an Adsorbent for the Removal of Perfluoroalkyl Substances from Contaminated Groundwater, Michaela Lawrence
Department: Chemistry
The Effects of Objectification on Varsity Athletes: A Comparison of Its Consequences in Sports with Revealing and Non-Revealing Uniforms, Maggie C. Layde
Department: Psychology
The Role of Stress on Executive Functioning: Mediating Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation, Georgina M. Legierski
Department: Psychology
Manipulating Diversity: A Rhetorical Analysis of Annalise Keating’s Intersectional Portrayal of Race and Sexuality on the Primetime Television Show How to Get Away with Murder, Melany Le
Department: Communication Studies
Selection on Phenological Traits Changes over the Flowering Season in a Self-Incompatible Annual: Implications for the Formation of Adaptive Temporal Clines, Laura C. Leventhal
Department: Biology
Community vs. Capital: How the Ideals of Community Caused Religion to be the Driving Force in the Attempt to Save Youngstown’s Steel Industry, Jason C. Lillie
Department: History
Making Room for Refugees: Understanding Trends and Valuable Criteria in the Humanization of Refugees through the Analysis of Multimedia, and Oral History, Heather C. Lockhart-Neff
Department: Global and International Studies
“Discourse Begins in a Book Club”: An Analysis of Online Book Club Literary Discussion of Race and Gender in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Underground Railroad, Catherine Lockwood
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
“Do You Even Lift?”: An Ethnographic Study of the Relationship Between the Gym Culture at the College of Wooster and an Individual’s Construction of His Masculine Identity, Andrew Long
Department: Communication Studies
It's Ground Breaking: Development of Soil Insertion Passive Sampler for Chemically Informed Crop Management, Katherine J. Longo
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Neurological Effects of Loving Kindness Meditation on Social Connection and Racial Bias, Colleen M. Lopez
Department: Neuroscience
The Role of Neighborhood Stigma in Urban Inequality, Kathryn Lucero
Department: Urban Studies
Dam It: Grand Coulee Dam, Electricity, and the Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, Stephen Lumetta
Department: History
Stratigraphy and the Origin of Silica at Gal Hill, Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah: A Petrographic and Geochemical Study, Eduardo Luna
Department: Geology
Investigating the Role of Phytophthora sojae Effector Protein PsAvr3c in the Endoplasmic Reticulum UPR Defense Pathway, Katherine Lyden
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Rumination on Identity Politics with Durkheim and Rousseau, Austin Maffei
Department: Political Science; Sociology and Anthropology
Fractals and Fractal Time Series, Sonia Malik
Department: Mathematics
Learning to Work: The Success of English Acquisition in Education vs. the Tourism Industry in the Cloud Forest of Ecuador, Katie Mandych
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Responsibility of For-profit Corporations: A Dilemma in Ethics and Rationality, Kayleigh Marks
Department: Philosophy
Intimidation or Emasculation? A Critical Analysis of the Representation of Masculinity in American Theatre, George L. Marn
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance
The Relevance of Brick and Mortar Retail in the Age of E-Commerce, John Marousek
Department: Business Economics
More Than a Club: An Analysis of Black Women’s Identity, Networks, and Social Mobility in Black Greek-letter Organizations, Clarke Martin
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Impact Message Framing and Construal Level Have on Health Decisions, Taylor Mathews
Department: Psychology
Algorithmic Music Composition, Thomas Matlak
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Putting Socks on an Octopus: The Nature of United States Military Medicine During the Vietnam War, Kimiko McBryde
Department: History
Are the Frogs Still Croaking? Surveying for Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Acris Blanchardi) in Northwest Ohio and Assessing Mechanisms of Decline, John McCall
Department: Biology
Help! She’s Fallen and She Can’t Get Up!: Pre-Raphaelite Depictions of the Fallen Woman and the Consequences She Faces, Specifically in the Works of William Holman Hunt, Lander McCarthy
Department: Art and Art History
She Shoots, She Scores: Creating a Mathematical Model to Predict Expected Shot Value in Women's NCAA Division III Basketball, Paige McKean
Department: Mathematics
A Visual Investigation of Criticality: Avalanche Classification on a Conical Bead Pile, Kyle McNickle
Department: Physics
An Examination of the Relationship between Perceptions of Campus Climate and Academic Competence, Cheyenne McQueen
Department: Psychology
Predictability of Arctic Sea Ice 1800-2013, Christopher Menolasino
Department: Geology
Deconstructing Aloha: Confronting and Combatting Clichés of Hawai'i and its Native Culture through a Devised Performance, Vincent Meredith
Department: Theatre and Dance
Modified Propagation of Anomalous Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves in a Quasi-1D System, Jack S. Mershon
Department: Physics
Caste Discrimination in the Indian Labor Market: Examining the Regional Differences in the Effect of Caste Affiliation on Wage Inequality in India’s Labor Market, Komal Mesvani
Department: Global and International Studies
Fin Morphology and Role of zic1/zic4 in Betta splendens, an Assessment of Veiltail and Doubletail Morphologies, Luke J. Mierzejewski
Department: Biology
Residential Choice as a Prisoner's Dilemma: How Segregation Preferences Lead to Suboptimal Societal Outcomes, Jeremy Miller
Department: Economics
Reaganomics: Issue Ownership and Retrospective Voting, Patrick T. Mohorcic
Department: Political Science
Walden, Wilderness, and Wrenches: The Radical Environmentalism of Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey, Alex Moore
Department: English; Philosophy
Going Down the Yellow Cake Road: Populists Effect on Democracies Propensity to Develop Nuclear Weapons, Nathaniel Moore
Department: Political Science
Local Analogues: Comparing a 12-inch Telescope to the Hubble, Nathaniel Moore
Department: Physics
Historic Blocs and Legitimacy: A Framework for Understanding Hegemonic Stability, Robert Mueller
Department: Political Science
Betta Understanding: Characterization and Sequencing of Genes Putatively Responsible for Red Phenotypic Variation in Betta splendens, Maria Mullin
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Athletes' Influence and Evolution in Social Movements in America, Gary Muntean
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Wait, Did a Woman Just Use Force? The Influence of Female Legislative Coalitions on Humanitarian Military Interventions, Danielle Vlahos Muster
Department: Political Science
A Behavioral Approach To CAPM, Ethan Myers
Department: Mathematics; Business Economics
Elucidating the Mechanism of 6-Hydroxynicotinate 3-Monooxygenase, an Enzyme Involved in the Aerobic Degradation of Nicotinate, Kent Nakamoto
Department: Chemistry
Characterization of a Putative TplE Protein in Pseudomonas chlororaphis 14B11, Ankitha Nanjaraj
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Uncertain Path to Prosperity: A Framing Analysis of the Public Discourse Underlying the Newly Discovered Hydrocarbon and Mineral Reserves in Senegal, West Africa, Mouhamet Ndiaye
Department: Interdepartmental
Too Many Fish on Facebook? A Mediation Analysis of Social Media Use Effects on Social Comparison and Commitment in Modern Romantic Relationships, Emily S. Neill
Department: Psychology
Surface Tension: A Collection of Poetry, Kat Neis
Department: English
Experiences of the Plague in 14th Century Avignon, France, Hope E. Nelson
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology
A Matter of Time and Bonding: The Development of Affect-, Cognition-Based Trust, and Cooperation in Virtual Teams, Chuc-Anh (Nora) T. Nguyen
Department: Psychology
Evaluation of Fluorinated Swellable Organically-Modified Silica for the Adsorption of Perfluoroalkyl Substances, Huan Khoa Nguyen
Department: Chemistry
Understanding Municipal Bond Ratings Using Ordered Multinomial Logistic Regression, Thao Nguyen
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
Does TRIPS Enlarge the Income Gap in Developing Countries? An Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Xander Nicolson
Department: Economics
"The Kids Are All Right”: Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of the Gothic in Children’s Literature., Sara Noakes
Department: English
Turning the Sound Down on Hyperacusis: A Study of the Clinical Effectiveness of Desensitization Therapy, Sound Phobia Desensitization, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, and Auditory Integration Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stephanie Noeller
Department: Communication Studies
How Might Fish Protect Crops? a Study of Water Mold Saprolegnia Spp. and Plant Parasitic Oomycete Antagonism with Dermal Mucus from the Mottled Sculpin Cottus Bairdii, Isaac M. Nordmoe
Department: Biology
Locality Test of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) in the Bering Strait, Jacob Nowell
Department: Art and Art History; Geology
Reminiscence Of The New, Axel J. Nunes
Department: Music
Parallel Space: The Aeneid as Colonial Discourse, Daria L. Oberholzer
Department: Classical Studies
Forever Young: Modeling the Effect of p16 on Two Types of Senescence, Caroline Obermeier
Department: Biology
Modeling the Effects of P14 and P53 on Common Oncogenic Pathways, Elizabeth Obi
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Performance on the 5 Choice Serial Reaction Time Task Following Treatment with Frequency Specific Microcurrent in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat, Erin O'Leary
Department: Neuroscience
Flint Still Matters: The Effect of Lead Exposure On Aggressive Behavior and htr1aa Gene Expression in Male Betta splendens, Sara Onitsuka
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
"I Love Them and I Hate Them:" The Effects of Gentrification on Collective Efficacy in Detroit Neighborhoods, Rose Osburn
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Case In Pointe: A Case Study of a Professional Dancer With a Chronic Knee Injury and Their Exemplification of the Parameters of the Self-Determination Theory, Jordan E. Ouellette
Department: Theatre and Dance; Psychology
Predictors of Cultural Threat in Class Selection, Alexandra K. Pacheco
Department: Psychology
Busy Bees: Comparing Pollinator Efficiencies of the Three Primary American Bellflower Pollinator Taxa, Ashley Padilla
Department: Biology
An Investigation of Markov Chains and their Application to Hospital Patient Flow, Sarah Padrutt
Department: Mathematics
“When I Do a Stage Show I Wear Street Clothes, so They All Know Me” a Rhetorical Analysis of Tupac and Biggie’s Projection of Identity Through Fashion, Avery Parker
Department: Communication Studies
The Effects of Compensation Structures on Employee Productivity: A View from the Lab, Noah Parker
Department: Business Economics