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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Controlled Release of Fragrance Compounds by Porous Organosilica Materials, Caitlin L. Scott
Department: Chemistry
Around the World in 45 Minutes: An Exploration of Culture Through Music, Kristen Scuderi
Department: Music
The Extremes of Our Own Nature: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Three Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Hilary Sehring
Department: English
Whether Horizontal or Vertical Power Structures are Best Suited for Creating Extensive, Equitable, and Financialy Sustainable Public Transportation Systems in Cities, Evan Severs
Department: Urban Studies
Improved Synthesis of the Proposed Phosphatidylserine Analog Cyclohexylphosphoserine via the H-Phosphonate Approach, Ryan Thomas Shafranek
Department: Chemistry
Women Bleed. Period: An Exploration of Feminine Hygiene Companies' Print and Commercial Advertisments, Charlotte Shapiro
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
La Identidad Social Andaluza: Un Estudio Sociolingüístico De La Zeta Castellana En Málaga Y Sevilla, Rachel Shonebarger
Department: Spanish
The Asian Tigers and Their Mothers: A Comparative Case Study of the Role of Culture at the Government and Societal Level in Determining Educational Success, Kathryn Shull
Department: International Relations
This Is How Girls Walk, Jane Meryl Siegel
Department: English
The Shallow Depth of Origin of Lacustrine Sedimentary Xenoliths in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field, the Black Rock Desert, Millard County, Utah, Kevin W. Silver
Department: Geology
How Ceo Compensation Structure Effects the Stock Price of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Scott Simpson
Department: Business Economics
Geochemical and Geospatial Analysis: Mapping of Miter's Lava Flows in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Whitney Sims
Department: Geology
Understanding Division-I Ethical Sports Scandals, Their Public Relations' Approaches, and Effects, Tyler J. Sinclair
Department: Communication Studies
Benvenuto a Roma! An Investigation of the Impact of Tourism on Roman People and Culture, Cory Smith
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Electrons Aligned and Felines Undefined: Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and Perturbing the Spin-Orbit Interaction in Electrons, Karl Smith
Department: Philosophy; Physics
The "Woman Question": the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Intersections of Race and Gender in the 1960S, Kelsey Smith
Department: History
Powers Beyond Performance: An Exploration of Taksu and Its Role in Relation to Balinese Performances, Lauren Smith
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Inside the "Strategery" of Impression: a Study of Political Satire on Saturday Night Live, Libba Smith
Department: English
Let's Get in the Mood: An Exploration of Data Mining Techniques to Predict Mood Based on Musical Properties of Songs, Sarah Smith-Polderman
Department: Mathematics
Shifting Solidarities on the Global Plane: An Analysis of Cultural Dialogues in Nepal's Emerging Middle Class, From Heavy Metal Music to International Education, Kyle Smucker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Computer Vision: Object Recognition and Human-Computer Interaction, Benn Snyder
Department: Computer Science
Dream Worlds, Madeleine Socolar
Department: Art and Art History
Breaking News in Emerging India: Analysis of the Indian Broadcast News System (2007- 2012); Broadcast News in India, Tanvi Sood
Department: English
Head For Safety: A Quantitative Analysis of Headgear Effectiveness in Soccer, Andrew D. Sopher
Department: Physics
Schönheit Über Alles: Eine Untersuchung Nach Der Verbindung Zwischen Leni Riefenstahl Und Der Faschistischen Ästhetik, Sally P. Soto
Department: German Studies
A Quantitative Analysis of the Diagnostic Assessment Procedures Audiologists Use When Determining Candidacy For Cochlear Implants in Children With Multiple Disabilities, Jennifer Springmier
Department: Communication Studies
Investigation of D6-Venlafaxine Degradation in Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Via Community Composition Identification and LC-Ms/Ms Monitoring, Cody J. Staebler
Department: Biology; Chemistry
Amish War Criminals and Fascist Hippies: How Combatants' Methods of Motivations Affect the Amount and Intensity of Their Nonmilitary Atrocities, Nicholas S. St. Amour
Department: Political Science
The Jackson Thieves, Justin Stanger
Department: English
A Study on the Impact of School Consolidation on Student Academic Achievement, Timothy Stehulak
Department: Economics
The Truth About Lie Symmetries: Solving Differential Equations With Symmetry Methods, Ruth A. Steinhour
Department: Mathematics
Cuándo El Aspecto Cambia El Código En La Literatura, Kimberly Stevenson
Department: Spanish
A Study of Modern Geometries and Felix Klein's Erlanger Programm, Ashley Stopka
Department: Chinese Studies; Mathematics
Determining Environmental Consciousness of the "Post-Wende" Generation in Germany, Claire H. Stragand
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; German Studies
More Than Just a Meal: the Economic Utility of Social Capital in the Lives of the Poor, Benjamin Higby Strange
Department: Political Science
Monarch of the Plains: a Cultural and Environmental History of Buffalo in the West, Alexander Strapp
Department: History
Assessing the Ability of Environmental Microbes to Catabolically Degrade the Antidepressant Venlafaxine (Effexor®), Kathryn Clare Sullivan
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection, & Contract Adjustment in the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cmbs) Market., Samuel Susanin
Department: Business Economics
Young People Don't Vote: An Investigation of the Methods and Motivations of Contemporary and Past Student Political Activists, Brandon Sutton
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology
What is a God Onstage: Fabricating the Horses for Equus, Paul Swanson
Department: Theatre and Dance
My Ticket to Becoming An Athletic Director, Samuel H. Swartz
Department: Mathematics
Anchored: a Novel-In-Stories and a Brief Exploration of Why We Love Horror, Shaina Switzer
Department: English
For the General Diffusion of Knowledge: Social, Juvenile and Mercantile/Mechanic Libraries in Colonial America and the Early Republic, Gwenlyn Symons
Department: History
People and Plants in a Rust Belt City: a Critical Analysis of Urban Agriculture in Cleveland, Ohio Using a Sustainable Development Framework, Erika Takeo
Department: Religious Studies
Gay, Asian, and Religious: the Search For Religious Community By Queer Asian Americans, Celeste Tannenbaum
Department: Religious Studies
Singing Against the Grain: Exploring the Effects of National Identity & History on Counter Cultural Musical Output, Matthew Eulberg Taylor
Department: History
The Impact of Formate on the Physiology of Campylobacter jejuni, Michael T. Terribile
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
The Land of Immigrants?: the Role of Nationalism in the American Public in the Creation of Restrictive Immigration Policies in the United States From the 1920s to the 2000s, Tablet Tesfaye
Department: Political Science
Blown Covers: Una Novela Corta Postmodernista/Eine Postmoderne Novelle Von Identität, Ryan Thomas
Department: German Studies; Spanish
Attachment Theory Applied to Middle School Students' Parent and Peer Relationships in Connection to Their Self-Reported Academic Achievement and Involvement, Deidre Lynn Thompson
Department: Communication Studies
Leaving It to the Streets: An Examination of the Consequences of Memorializing Street Art, Emily Timmerman
Department: Art and Art History
Characterizing the Role of 2-Oh-Pca in P. Chlororaphis Pathogenesis, Abigail Toothman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Paleoecology of a Brachiopod-Bearing Marly Subunit of the Matmor Formation, Israel: a Middle Jurassic Shallow Marine Environment Near the Equator, Melissa Torma
Department: Geology
The Great Matter: the Role of Environment and Queenship in the Decline of the Catholic English Monarchy, Margaret Trainor
Department: History
The Triumph Over the Unreasonable: a Theory of Political Justice For the New Age, Chad Elliot Trownson
Department: Philosophy
Three Appearances of Literary Youth and a New Definition, Alexander Turner
Department: Chinese Studies
Minds on Fire: or How I Learned to Stop Being Paranoid and Love the Young Adult Dystopia, Lauren Tweddale
Department: English
Tree-Ring Evidence of North Pacific Volcanically Forced Cooling and Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Lauren Vargo
Department: Geology
Gallery of a Colored Girl: How Black and White Perceptions of the Black Female Body Affect the Ways Millennial African American Women Perform Race and Gender On and Off Stage, Jasmine Verreen
Department: Africana Studies
The Ultraviolet Photochemistry of Aqueous Oxalate Species, Erica Rosemary Villa
Department: Chemistry
An Artificial Eden: Experiencing the Suburban Landscape in Postwar American Literature, Elyse Vukelich
Department: English; History
Process and Performance: a Study of Solo and Collaborative Performance and Their Compositional Methods, Amanda Marie Wagner
Department: Theatre and Dance
ξ: Spring Dot, Philip Wales
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Triclocarban in Biosolids and Soil Amended With Biosolid Applications, Clare Walsh
Department: Chemistry
Unraveling the Toilet Paper Tax Revolt: An Investigation Into the Demise of Politics in the Garden State 1989-1993, Richard Walter
Department: History
Protein Drug Delivery Using Swellable Organically Modified Silica, Stephen Wanner
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Workingmen! To Arms!, Joshua Ware
Department: English
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: the Historical and Social Relevance of Comic Books in the United States, Devin Warner
Department: History
Extensions of the Farey Sequence and Ford Circles, Alice C. Webb
Department: Mathematics
The Effect of Modesty and Gender on the Perception of Attractive and Unattractive Individuals, Amanda Weeks
Department: Psychology
Firm Productivity: How a Firm's Wage Structure Impacts the Productivity of It's Workforce, Zachary A. Weidrick
Department: Business Economics
Solving the Retirement Savings Puzzle: How Illiquid Assets Can Help Hyperbolic Consumers Reach Their Retirement Savings Goals, Seth White
Department: Business Economics
Insights Into the Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex From 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronologic Results, Northern Snake Range, Nevada, Joseph Thomson Wilch
Department: Geology; Mathematics
Insults to Significant Others, Elaine Wilcox-Cook
Department: Psychology
An Analysis of the Impact of Underwriter Reputation on the Underpricing of New Issues, Daniel C. Wilhelm
Department: Economics
The Synthesis and Characterization of Pt(II) and Au(III) Complexes As Potential Anti-Tumor Complexes, Adam Will
Department: Chemistry
Welcome to the Jungle: A Hallucinogenic Phenomenological Experience, Ashle S. Williams
Department: Art and Art History
The Golden Ratio, Emily Williams
Department: Mathematics
An Investigation into the Methods of Detection of Toxocara Species Eggs in the Environment and the Differentiation of G217B and Wu24 Strains of Histoplasma Capsulatum By Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms in the Cbp Gene, Tyler C. Williams
Department: Biology
Social Responsibility and Awareness in the Museum: a Case Study of the Empowering Women Exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Jessica Wingen
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Cinema of Videodance: Understanding Time, Space, and Energy on Film, Annie Woller
Department: Theatre and Dance
Exercise Intention and Motivation: Intrapersonal Relationships, Feedback, and Personality, Kendal Wong
Department: Mathematics; Psychology
Athletes' Self and Metaperceptions of the Coach-Athlete Relationship and Its Impact on Athletes, Hannah K. Woodske
Department: Psychology
Independent Study Thesis, Eva M. Woo
Department: Music
M to F to Endangered: the Violent Consequences of Breaking the Gender Binary, Elizabeth Worrall
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Preparation of the Bip Ligand For Use in a Photo and Metallo Responsive Polymer, Matthew Worth
Department: Chemistry
Réplicas Heroicas/Heroic Replicas: Don Quijote de La Mancha y/and Song of Solomon, Alexia Wynn
Department: English; Spanish
Experiencing the Change of Home, Hava K. Yoast-Hull
Department: Art and Art History
Impact of Solvent Upon the Photo-Induced Chemistry of 1-Acylaminoanthraquinones, Andrew Young
Department: Chemistry
你吃了吗? Have You Eaten?: Using the Westernization of Chinese Food to Explain the Transformation of the Chinese Identity in America, Molly Young
Department: Chinese Studies; East Asian Studies
Sino-African Relations: Various Media Perspectives and The Impact of Chinese FDI on African Inequality, Xiaochen Zhang
Department: Chinese Studies; International Relations
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Say Yes to My Fair Bridezilla: a Q-Sorting Analysis of the Effects of Reality Tv Wedding Programming on College Women's Wedding Reception Desires, Sarah Abboud
Department: Communication Studies
Evolution of the National Football League: the Coaches That Changed America's Game, Thomas Adams-Wall
Department: History
Parity-Based Measurement and Control of the Spatial Wave Function of Photons, Mohammad Ahmad
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Art of Voice Therapy: An Investigation of Estill Voice Training and Fitzmaurice Voicework As Nontraditional Techniques For Voice Therapy, Lindsey Marie Allen
Department: Communication Studies
Comparing the Number of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria, For the Genus Aeromonas, Isolated From Four Different Aquatic Environments Throughout Wayne and Summit County, Loren Alohan
Department: Biology
Hurrah Hurah Look Who's Rising? It's the Frelinghuysens!: a Select History of New Jersey's Frelinghuysen Family, John Anderson
Department: History
Will to Be Oneself: Does Kierkegaard's Subjective Faith Triumph Over Despair?, Brandon Andrew
Department: Philosophy
The Effect of Invasive Bamboo on the Coloration of the Bloody Bay Poison Frog, Mannophryne olmonae: An Analysis of Phenotypic Plasticity and Background Preference, Stephanie M. Andrus
Department: Biology
Dating of the Mid-Holocene History and Glacial Stratigraphy of Wachusett Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast, Alaska, Sarah Nicole Appleton
Department: Geology