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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Holding Hands Against the Unknown: Using Markov Chains to Model Informal Insurance Arrangements in Developing Societies, Sayantan Mitra
Department: Economics; Mathematics
The Impact of Human Capital on a Security's Return through the Capital Asset Pricing Model Framework, Lily Mohre
Department: Business Economics
Distilling the Quintessence of British Marxism amidst Stalinist Superficiality ~ Identifying the Ideology of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s, Colin J. Montgomery
Department: History
How the Presence of a Therapy Dog Affects the Language Samples of Preschool Children With and Without Language Impairments, Savannah Moore
Department: Communication Studies
Factors that Influence Device Selection by Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidates, Zachary W. Moore
Department: Communication Studies
Homonyms: A Collection of Short Stories, Kieran Mundy
Department: English
The Economic and Historical Review of the Non-profit Hospital Dr. Altruist: Or how I learned to stop donating to hospitals and love conspicuous production, Ian Murphy
Department: Economics; History
The Ramifications of an Intellectual Precursor: The Potential Revolutionary Circulation and Literal Legacy of the Radical Achievements of the Mexican Revolution, Olivia J. Murphy
Department: History; Spanish
The Co-Production of Tourism Among Amish Small Business Owners: Redefining “Separation From the World”, Paris Brielle Nahas
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Families That Eat Together: An Examination of Factors Influencing Parents’ Family Meal Behaviors, Emma W. Nathanson
Department: Psychology
Needles and Haystacks: A Computational Approach to Finding Subalgebras of the Group Algebra of the Symmetric Group, Peter C. Nelson
Department: Computer Science
Legalization of Prostitution and its Impact on the Market for Human Trafficking, Varunavi Newar
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
Dirichlet Tessellations, Nakesha Newsome
Department: Mathematics
Examining Evolution of Substrate Specificity Using Taurocyamine Kinase, Huyen Thai Ngoc Nguyen
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apple's Organizational Identity: A Cluster Analysis of How iPhone Commercials from 2007 to 2013 Depicted Apple's Organizational Identity, Quang Nguyen
Department: Communication Studies
It’s Not About The X’s and O’s But The Billy’s and Joe’s: An Examination of the Intangible Characteristics Valued Most in Successful Football Teams, Ethan R. Nichol
Department: English
Mentoring Structures in Undergraduate Research, Brittany A. Nicholson
Department: Geology
Bullying: Predicting, Intervening, and Educating, Hannah K C Niedermaier
Department: Education; Psychology
The Yushukan: Historical Memory at the Yasukuni Shrine War Memorial, Melissa García de la Noceda
Department: East Asian Studies
Horseradish Peroxidase Entrapped in Organically Modified Silica for the Degradation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Drinking Water, Jonathan E. Nutt
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Horseradish peroxidase entrapped in organically modified silica for the degradation of endocrine disrupting compounds in drinking water, Jonathan E. Nutt
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Effects of Presidential Personality on the Ability to Accept Defeat During Military Engagements: An Analysis of Presidential Character and Decision-Making, Brigid E. O'Hara
Department: Political Science
Can Martyrdom Transcend the Ancient and Modern World? History and Archaeology at the Roman Fort of Halmyris, Colin P. Omilanowski
Department: Classical Studies; History
In Favor of An Interactionist View of Development––To Improve Our Conceptualization of Innateness, Genetic Content and The Causal Role Of Genes in Trait Determination, Oluwadamilola B. Onakomaiya
Department: Philosophy
Microaggressions, Trigger Warnings, and the Fight to Redefine Free Speech: An Analysis of the Judiciary's Response to Campus Speech Codes Through Liberal and Communitarian Perspectives, Madeleine G. O'Neill
Department: Political Science
Strange Reflections and Obscured Bodies: the Presence of the Surrealist Unconscious in Paul Delvaux's the Break of Day, Rebecca L. Osborne
Department: Art and Art History
Sport as an Instrument of Social Change: A Study of the Effect of Sports on the Movements for Racial Equality in the United States and South Africa, Will Ossyra
Department: History
The Town Near the Moon, Mickey Osthimer
Department: English
Street and Elite, William Owen
Department: Art and Art History
An Experimental and Mathematical Study of Avalanche Behavior in a Critical Conical Bead Pile, Paroma Palchoudhuri
Department: Mathematics; Physics
An Experimental and Mathematical Study of Avalanches in a Critical Conical Bead Pile, Paroma Palchoudhuri
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Analysis of Water Quality Parameters and Preliminary Investigation into the Impacts of Human Access on the Water Quality of the Nisqually River, Mount Rainier National Park, Eric Parker
Department: Geology
Meeting at the Center: The Role of Amish Birthing Centers in Mixing Modern Medicine and Religion, Leah M. Penner
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Do Community Centers Create Positive Outcome for Disenfranchised Adolescents? A Comparative Case Study, Justice J. Peoples
Department: Urban Studies
Guatemala: A Buried History, Collin J. Perez
Department: Art and Art History
War and the Environment in the Mother of States: The Dynamic Relationship Between the Natural Environment of Virginia and the American Civil War, Isabel D. Perman
Department: History
Money for Soul: The Effects of Consumer Culture in the Music Industry, Connor S. Peterson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Sports Franchises as Engines of Economic Growth: Slam Dunk or Air Ball?, Andrew Henry Pfeuffer
Department: Economics
Gubernatorial Gimmicks: A Case Study Approach to Partisanship and Macroeconomics, Asfaw P. Pickering
Department: Political Science
Identification of Genes Involved in Exoprotease Activity in Pseudomonas chlororaphis (14B11), Jennifer M. Pilat
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“Two Ears Are Better Than One”: an Examination of the Decision-making Process of Cochlear Implant Audiologists When Deciding on Bilateral Sequential or Bilateral Simultaneous Cochlear Implants for Their Pediatric Patients, Frayne Poeting
Department: Communication Studies
Fair Play and Obligation: Do Citizens have a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law?, Zackary B. Pool
Department: Philosophy
"You Can't Spell Earth Without ART": The Artistry of Women of Color in Scholarship and Activism, Erin M. Posey
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Don't Read This!": Lemony Snicket and the Control of Youth Reading Autonomy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain, Brittany A. Previte
Department: English; History
Robotic Navigation Using Image Analysis, Jacob W. Priest
Department: Computer Science
No Size Fits All: An Analysis of the Educational Experiences of Students with Dyslexia and Other Language-Based Learning Disabilities, Emily T. Prigg
Department: Communication Studies
From the Muses to the Museum: Presenting The Iliad Through Public History to Facilitate Historical Perspective, Emily K. Pudnos
Department: Classical Studies; History
Contraceptive Controversy in Nineteenth Century New York City: An Examination of Ann Lohman's Contentious Impact on Women's Reproductive Health, Karli Pulice
Department: History
The Pigeon Lady and Public Policy: The Public Conceptions and Media Depictions of Homelessness and the Ability to Design and Deliver Social Services, Marisa A. Quiery
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Accessibility and Employment Subcenters: How Transportation Infrastructure Influences Firm Location Decision, Daniel P. Quinn
Department: Business Economics
Media or Meeting: Exploring the Roots of Xenophobia, Matayo Rague
Department: Political Science
Zero-tolerance or Intolerance: A Critical Examination of the Influence of School Policies on Student Perceptions and Aspirations in Public Schools, Hunter E. Ramsay-Smith
Department: Psychology
Blue Light at Night and Corticosterone: Disrupting Rodent Learning and Memory, Taylor J. Raybuck
Department: Neuroscience
The Impact Increasing Public Investment to Fund the Olympics Games has on a Host Country, Kenneth J. Reckart
Department: Business Economics
Exploring the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Gene Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster, Kate M. Redding
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Turn Off the Light: An Examination of Sex Differences in the Effects of Light at Night on Working Memory in a Nocturnal Rat Model, Kathryn P. Reindel
Department: Neuroscience
Volatile Analysis of Glaciovolcanic Glass Rinds Collected From Pillow Ridge in the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, Ncvp, British Columbia, Canada, Mary C. Reinthal
Department: Geology
Creating Bridges: Intersectional Activism & Rhetorical Strategies Between the Chicana and LGBTQ Movements, Margaret A. Reiser
Department: Communication Studies
If You Draw It They (Might) Come: Analyzing American Consumer’s War Bond Purchasing Habits During the War Loan Drives of 1943 and 1944, Alexander M. Rentzepis
Department: Economics; History
Painting the Town Green: Why Some U.S. Cities Pursue Ecological Sustainability More Seriously Than Others, Hugh W. Reynolds
Department: Urban Studies
A Bone to Pick: Biological Sex Determination and Gender Interpretation of Maya Burials, Krystal P. Reynolds
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Veni Vidi Didici: A Game for Learning Latin, William Frederick Rial
Department: Classical Studies; Computer Science
Phoenician Colonization of Nuragic Sardinia: A World-Systems Model of Periphery-Semiperiphery Interaction, Jade Robison
Department: Archaeology
Requirement of Nab2 RNA Binding in Drosophila melanogaster Nervous System Development, Fatima L. Rodriguez
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Mechanistic Investigation of the Ugi Reaction and Evaluation of Diastereomeric Control via Chiral Isocyanides, Peter J. Rohweder
Department: Chemistry
How do Strategic Resources Affect Relations Between States?, James Rolen
Department: Political Science
Art Making as an Ecofeminist Exercise in Understanding Species Extinction and Animal Farming, Adrian Rowan
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies
Look Alive! Modeling and Animating Facial Expressions of Emotion, Arpan Roy
Department: Computer Science
Goddess Stop Immersing Road Spiders in Cristal: Program Notes and Reflection on the Percussion Repertoire for my Senior Recital, Mitchell Ryan
Department: Music
The Affect of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, Nicholas Ryan
Department: History
Investigating the proposed acid-base catalyzed mechanism for 6-hydroxynicotinate 3-monooxygenase (NicC)., Alvi N. Sakib
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SELLING THE WAR: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIMING ON CASUALTY SENSITIVITY AND PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQ WAR, Victoria M. Salemme
Department: International Relations
Just Let Them Move: Refugee Economic Integration and Conflict Spillover, Mohammad Sarhan
Department: International Relations
La Importancia de la Familia: Understanding the Family Communication Styles of Latino Families in the U.S., Andrea Savatt
Department: Communication Studies
The Use of Multiple Dating Methods to Determine the Age of Basalt in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Millard County, Utah, Krysden A. Schantz
Department: Geology
Air Powered One-Way Arrays, Graham L. Schattgen
Department: Physics
The Effect of Solvent and Acceptor on Hydrogen Bonds Between Benzyl Alcohol - Aromatic Systems, Michael H. Schlueter
Department: Chemistry
An Investigation of the Bilingual Advantage for Response Inhibition Using Event-Related Brain Potentials, Willow Schram
Department: Neuroscience
Synthesis of a potential phosphatidylserine Analog: cis-1,4-Cyclohexyldiphosphoserine, Traci A. Scott
Department: Chemistry
Investigating the Targets of Plant Pathogen RXLR Effectors Through Hypersensitivity to Stress Conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Colleen Elizabeth Sells
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Macrocosm of Pixels: A Typology of Video Game Narrative, Laith W. Sersain
Department: Spanish
Making It Personal: How the Islamic State Targets the Alienated, Andi M. Shackleton
Department: Religious Studies
The Impact of Edge Effects on Two Species of Glass Frogs in La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, Stuti Sharma
Department: Biology
Sexuality and Repression in Dracula: a Psychoanalytic Look at Shifting Notions of Gender and Sexuality Within Dracula and Subsequent Adaptations, Lillian Rose Shepherd
Department: English
A Magmastatic Model: The Computational Exploration of Correlative Sheeted Dike Components and Implications for Dike Eruptibility, Trevor Shoemaker
Department: Geology
What You’ll Miss Just Driving By: A Visual History of My Family's Relationship with Industry, Natalie Renee Shreeve
Department: Art and Art History
China-Taiwan Relations: The Persistent Deadlock Amid Cycles of Stability and Change, Jordan E. Shremshock
Department: International Relations
But You're So Americanized!: Remote Acculturation and its Psychosocial Effects on International Students in the U.S., Ananya Shrestha
Department: Psychology
Climbing Uphill, Ananya Shrestha
Department: English
Regional Volcanic Extinction as a Mechanism for Subsidence in the Vatnsdalur Structural Basin, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland, Adam M. Silverstein
Department: Geology
The Putative Regulatory Role of Hydrogen Cyanide in Ethylene Signaling and Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis seedlings and tomato fruit, Heather Skinner
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Can Music Therapy be the Next Breakthrough in Therapy for Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients? An Analysis of the Integration of Music Therapy into Cochlear Implant Teams, Bridget Slone
Department: Communication Studies
Gift Exchange with Firm Performance Adjustments: Behavior in Random-Assignment, Perfect Labor Supply Setting, Douglas Small
Department: Business Economics
Judging A Book By Its Cover: Web & Mobile Interface Design, Kinsey Small
Department: Computer Science
Acoustic Quieting Provided by Plants and its Effect on Stress, Bryan Smith
Department: Psychology
The Role of the Army Rangers From D-Day to the Rescue Mission at Cabanatuan, David Smith
Department: History
The Elephant in the Room, The Fetus in the Womb: Disability Rights Activists’ Perspectives on Prenatal Genetic Testing and Selective Termination of Down syndrome, Evangeline Maria Smith
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Enhancing the Bioavailibility of the Dietary Supplement Curcumin through Nanodispersions, Kevin B. Smith Jr
Department: Chemistry
The Investigation of Concurrent Validity of the Baby SPEAK Measure and Parental Knowledge of Early Language Development, Lena Grace Smith
Department: Communication Studies; Psychology
An Investigation of the Burning Number of Graphs and Trees, Michael Sokolich
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics