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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Exploring Opinion Dynamics From a Computational Science Perspective, Trisha Fultz
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Gender Differences on a Change Blindness Task, Rebecca Furspan
Department: Psychology
Unnecessary Catastrophe--The Irish Potato Famine: 1845-1852, Nora Furstenberg-Carroll
Department: History
From Apples to Zucchini: Bridging the Gap Between Students and Local Producers Through the Implementation of a Farm to School Program, Emily Gallivan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Need to Reform the Human Rights Regime: Various Disagreements With Human Rights, Michael Garcia
Department: History
Backstory-'Without It, It's Just a Game', Michael Gellert
Department: English
A Novel Study For the Detection of the Fungus Histoplasma capsulatum in Mice from Wayne and Holmes Counties, Ohio Using PCR, Melissa E. Glick
Department: Biology
Effect of Language of Origin on Improvisational Jazz, Harrison Goldberg
Department: Psychology
What Science Says: Popular Science Rhetoric in Contemporary American Society, Emily Alanna Graham
Department: English
Walking With a Ghost, Nell C. Gram
Department: English
Let's Do the Time Warp Again: a Study of Rituals and Themes That Keep the Cult Phenomenon of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Alive, Selena M. F. Gray
Department: Theatre and Dance
Along Came a Spider: a Biological Assessment of Spider Communities in Urban Gardens and Vacant Lots and an Anthropological Investigation of Attitudes Toward Spiders, Kelsey Greathouse
Department: Biology; Sociology and Anthropology
Rift Valley Racers: a Study of the Cultural Causes of Kalenjin Distance Running Success From 1968 to the Present, Casey Green
Department: International Relations
Mere Presence of Opposite-Sex Others on Judgments of Sexual and Romantic Desirability: Opposite Effects For Men and Women, Mate Selection: Hill and Buss (2008) - Revisited, Devon Grennell
Department: Psychology
Inclusion of Gender in the Management of Water Resources in Rural African Communities, Lauren Grimanis
Department: Economics
Importance of the Song Recital: Conveying the Emotional Significance of Text Through Song., Hilary Grothman
Department: Music
The Importance of the Song Recital: Conveying the Emotional Significance of Text Through Song, Hilary Lorraine Grothman
Department: Music
Comparing Success and Satisfaction of Black and White Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions, Carmen Guess
Department: Psychology
Journey to the New World: a World-Systems Approach to English Colonization at Jamestown, Catherine Gullett
Department: Archaeology
Role of Regimes in the Making of Federal Education Policy, Hannah Haas
Department: Political Science
Opening New Doors For Investment: a Case Study of Foreign Direct Investment in Education and Its Impact on the Growth of India, Ian P. Haley
Department: Economics
Educational Value of Sport at a Liberal Arts School, Justin Barclay Hallowell
Department: Philosophy
Ville Du Flaneur: La Transformation De Paris Selon Ses Propres Temoignages, Christopher J. Hanson
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Unorganizable and the Unrepresented: the Evolving Relationship of Hispanics and the American Labor Movement, Daniel Hanson
Department: History
Techno Kids: An Experimental Study Comparing iPod Applications and Traditional Approaches For Teaching Third Graders How to Pre-Write, Madeline Hart
Department: Communication Studies
Consumerism in the Caribbean: a Study of Consumer Trends Within the British Colonial Caribbean, Christopher Gordon Haslam
Department: Archaeology
Johnny Appleseed: Exploring a Cultural Landscape, Brenna Hatcher
Department: Art and Art History
Life's Tough, Wear a Helmet: the Lasting Effects of Multiple Concussions in College Athletes, Melissa Haug
Department: Neuroscience
Effects of Chronic and Intermittent Stress on the Acceleration of Alzheimer's Disease in Mice, Priscilla Haug
Department: Neuroscience
Effects of Swimming on the Behavioral and Neurochemical Deficits in a Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease, Rebecca Jean Haug
Department: Neuroscience
Male Objectification and Consumer Behavior: The Effect of Objectified Media Images on Male Consumer Behavior, Sarah Hawke
Department: Psychology
Let's Talk About Me: a Habermasian Investigation of Discourse in Aristophanes' "Birds" and "Ecclesiazusae", Sidney H. Helfer
Department: Classical Studies; Political Science
Gift That Keeps on Giving: Exploring the Role of Scenes Involving the Offering of Gifts on Egyptian Non-Royal Coffins and Tombs, Renee Hennemann
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Illustrating a Conflict: Belfast's Murals Throughout the Troubles, Katherine M. Hennessey
Department: History
Burdock Leaves: Cellular and Antimicrobial Effects in Burn Wound Treatment, Kelsie L. Herring
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"I Know How to Read, But I Can't Teach It": The Effectiveness of a Short-Term Training Session on College-Aged Literacy Tutors' Knowledge of Reading Concepts, Katelynn Heugel
Department: Communication Studies
Social Influences on Risk Behavior, Adam Heurich
Department: Economics
Oddly Uninteresting: a Collection of Short Stories, Bridget Hillyer
Department: English
How Interactivity in Video Games Affects the Perception of Timed Durations, James A. Hoag
Department: Psychology
In the Shadow of the Prophet: Shalamov and the New Prose of the Gulag, Daniel H. Hollingsworth
Department: Russian Studies
Charles and Charlemagne As King, Emperor, and Renaissance Man, Raymond Horn
Department: History
Wildness As Reform of Technology, Christopher Townsend Howe
Department: Philosophy
Fissures in the Sand: a Narrartive Ethnography of the Fishing Culture in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Christopher Hudson
Department: Communication Studies; English
You Witch!: a Feminist Rhetorical Criticism of the Transcribed Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, Kasey Hunsicker
Department: Communication Studies
Perils of Postmodernity: a Philosophical Investigation of Meaning and Narrative, Gregg Hunter
Department: Philosophy
Welcome to Whose Life Is It, Anyway! Where Gender Is Made Up and Genitals Don't Matter: An Examinition of Ideas of Masculinity and Femininity By People Across the Gender Spectrum, Sarah Hunt
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Data Mining and Its Applications, Yanlong Hu
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Effects of Clothing, Body-Type, Perceived Athleticism, & Perceived GPA on Impression Formation of Athletes and Non-Athlete, Ibrahim Ibrahim
Department: Psychology
Quantum Gravity: Exploring the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Approach, Norman Israel
Department: Mathematics; Physics
An Examination and Application of Data Mining Techniques, Atticus Jack
Department: Computer Science
Success or Failure of Presidential Power: a Study on the Process of Presidential Legislation, Anthony Jackson
Department: Political Science
Influence of Reading Fairy Tales on Moral Reasoning in Pre-School Children, Jessica J. Jackson
Department: Psychology
Necessary Criteria to Save a Dying Practice: An Attempt to Morally Justify Capital Punishment, Remington Jackson
Department: Philosophy
Impact of Congressional Perceptions of a Use of Force on United States Military Operations, Sklar Jacob Michael
Department: Political Science
Social Welfare Implications of International Tax Competition in the OECD Countries, Kelsey Jenkins
Department: Economics
Mother, I Am Burning: An Investigation of Acid Violence Against Women in Bangladesh, Soorim C. Jin
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Effects of the Herbicide Atrazine on Male Drosophila melanogaster Reproductive Physiology and Behavior, Harper Jocque
Department: Biology
When Is a Food Desert Not a Food Desert? Construction of Food Environment in Inner City Cleveland, Rachel Anna Johanson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Food Ways of College of Wooster Student-Athletes: How Sports Culture Affects Nutritional Beliefs, Emily Johnson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Evolutionary Study of the Phosphagen Kinase Enzyme Family Probing Substrate Specificity and Cooperativity in Software Derived Ancestral Proteins, Eric Johnson
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Peer Attachment and Its Role on a Child's Cognitive Abilities, Kelsey Johnson
Department: Psychology
Investigation of the Potential Role of 6-Hydroxynicotinate-3-Monooxygenase in the Modulation of Virulence in Bordetella Pertussis, Samantha Justice
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Logistic Model of Growth: a Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Geography on the Growth of Coastal and Landlocked Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Promise Kamanga
Department: Economics
Corruption Eruption: a Comparative Analysis of Externally-Driven and Internally-Driven Anti-Corruption Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kipaya Kapiga
Department: International Relations
Heroin Mystique: Feminist and Postfeminist Implications of Socially Deviant Behavior in Memoir, Rachel Kassenbrock
Department: English
College Students' Perceptions of Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: the Influence of Speech Intelligibility on Perceptions of Speech Skills, Social Acceptance, Academic Achievement, and Behavioral Conduct, Rosalie B. Keane
Department: Communication Studies
Time to Occupy: a Study of the Folk and Hip-Hop Song Lyrics of Musicians Who Performed at Occupy Wall Street New York City, Nathan Keck
Department: Communication Studies
Feeding Techniques For Infants With Cleft Lip and Palate: a Survey of Midwives and Recommendations For Strengthening Knowledge, Megan Keefe
Department: Communication Studies
Modeling Human Papillomavirus With Vaccination, Meredith Kiefer
Department: Mathematics
How to Know the Animals: a Field Guide in Poetry, Eryn Coffman Killian
Department: English
Inshallah in America: the American Dream and Arab American Literature Pre and Post 9/11, Ramsey Kincannon
Department: English
Context Dependent Effects of Educational Video Games in the Classroom, Kathryn A. Kirkpatrick
Department: Psychology
History of the Fifteenth Air Force in World War II Through the Eyes of One Man: the War Story of Second Lieutenant Winthrop Sargent Worcester, Jr., Heidi M. Klise
Department: History
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities of Regular Education Elementary School Teachers in Educating Mainstreamed Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Amanda Klump
Department: Communication Studies
Hedonic Analysis of Film Success Through Consumer Choice, Luke Knezevic
Department: Economics
Wrecks on the Infobahn, Brandelle Knights
Department: English
St. Augustine's Influence on the Roman Catholic Church, Shawn Knopp
Department: History
Framing Death: Celebrating the Spectacle of Fast Five and the American Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Matthew J. Kodner
Department: English
Climate Change in the Media: Collective Guilt and Behavioral Effects of News Reports and Environmental Identity, Amanda Koehn
Department: Psychology
Off With Their Heads: The Use of Human Heads as Trophies in Central and South America, Katie Kowicki
Department: Archaeology
No Such Thing As a Free Ride: Sovereign Default Risk Reduction As a Result of Monetary Union Participation, Katharina Kroll
Department: Economics
State vs. Norm: the Impact of Culture on State Internalization of International Norms, Cori Kubat
Department: Political Science
What Makes Her ‘New?’ Reexamining Weimar’s ‘New Woman’ in Das Künstseidene Mädchen, Der Skorpion, Pandora’s Box, and Girls in Uniform., Muriel L. LaMois
Department: German Studies; History
How Can Theatre Enhance An Understanding of Ethics Perfected By Unconditional Love?, James Lance
Department: Philosophy; Theatre and Dance
Susceptibility to Pesticides as a Potential Explanation for the Population Decline of the Native Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens in the Ohio Area, Jenna Lane
Department: Biology
Effects of Perinatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals on Behavioral and Cellular Responses, Rebecca Lang
Department: Neuroscience
Goddess of Mercy: the Gender Transformation of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, Hawwah LaRoche
Department: Art and Art History
Foundations of Stone: Discerning Spiritual and Economic Influences on the Construction of Cistercian Monasteries in England, Daniel Lehman
Department: History
Hollywood Couture: An Analysis of High-End Fashion in Film, Breanne Lengacher
Department: Theatre and Dance
Time Travelin' Is Dino-Mite!: the Development of an Original Sequential Art Narrative, Ann Elizabeth Lewis
Department: Art and Art History
Is Efficiency Optional, Andrew Licking
Department: Economics; Mathematics
Impact of FDI and Corruption on Chinese Economy, Huachen Li
Department: Economics
Progress Towards the Characterization of a Novel Substrate-Analog Inhibitor of Udp-3-O-(R-3-Hydroxymyristoyl)-N-Acetylglucosamine Deacetylase, Emily Christine Linville
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Experimentally and Computationally Determining the Theoretical Aqueous pKa of Three UV-Absorbing Benzophenone Derivatives, Sarah-Beth Loder
Department: Chemical Physics
Body Wars: Nationalism, the State, and Wartime Sexual Violence in Guatemala and Sri Lanka, Meredith M. Loken
Department: Political Science; Urban Studies
Repercussions and Shifts in Form Between Ntozake Shange's Play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf and Tyler Perry's Film For Colored Girls, Jaquet Long
Department: Theatre and Dance
Zeolite Formation Within a Monocline Sequence Along Vatnsdalsfjall, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland, Travis Louvain
Department: Geology
Modification of Swellable Organically Modified Silica (SOMS) For Removal of Phenol & Methanol in Produced Water and How South Sudan Can Avoid "Oil Curse" Associated With Oil-Rich Third World Countries, Gideon Mabeny
Department: Chemistry
Effects of Mate Separation on Corticosterone and Testosterone Levels in Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia Guttata, Lynanne MacDonald
Department: Neuroscience
Rereading Childhood: An Analysis of Female Self-Actualization in Three Classic Children's Series, Elizabeth Mady
Department: English