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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
The Effects of Testosterone and Corticosterone in Rats on Nociception and Recovery Times Following Minor Cutaneous Injury, Cameron J. Daniels
Department: Biology
The Wooster Model: A Staff Scheduling Problem With An Application to Student Activities, Hannah Dauber
Department: Mathematics
During the Time of Non-Stop Creation, You Travel to the Past and the Future: An Exploration of Beijing’s Underground Music and Its Relationship with Modern China, Charlie W. Davis
Department: Chinese Studies
Effect of Athletic Media Images on Women's Body Dissatisfaction and Drive For Muscularity, Gwen Davis
Department: Psychology
My Child, Your Child, Our Child? the Nature of Children, Elders, and the Obligation to Educate, Molly Davis
Department: Philosophy
An Investigation of the Effects of Estrogen on Anxiety and Hippocampal-Dependent Fear Conditioning, Ashley Dawes
Department: Neuroscience
Synthesis and Characterization of Pt(II) and Re(V) Complexes As Potential Anti-Tumor Complexes, Michael DeBord
Department: Chemistry
Hitting Eject: a Study on the Use of Frames to Influence Public Opinion of the United States Automotive Industry Bailouts, James DeCrispino
Department: Political Science
Introduction of Streptomycin Resistance through Repeated Exposure in Pseudomonas chlororaphis: an Environmental Model for Acquired Resistance in the Clinical Pathogen, Kevin A. DeGroot
Department: Biology
Pornographic Influence: Men's Perception of Women and Their Relationship Reflections, Caroline B. Denzer
Department: Psychology
The South Will Rise Again! A Study of the Effectivnes of South-South Trade Blocs, John Derksen
Department: Political Science
Absurdity with God: Faith in Walker Percy's Novels, Emily DeTar
Department: English; Philosophy
The Lethal and Sublethal Effects of Dinotefuran on Apis mellifera Hives, Jordan E. Dieterle
Department: Biology
How We Seem "To Be": English- and Spanish-Speaking Children's Susceptibility to the Fundamental Attribution Error and Actor-Observer Bias, Mary E. Dixon
Department: Psychology
Behavioral Effects of Intraguild Predation by Harmonia axyridis on Aphidoletes aphidimyza and the Biological Control Services of Shared Prey, Ethan M. Doherty
Department: Biology
Echoes of Silence: The Japanese-American Experience in the 20th Century, Helen Doherty
Department: History
Surviving War, Surviving Memory: An Oral History of the South Vietnamese Civilian Experience in the Vietnam War, Leann Do
Department: History
Di Renjie and the Mystery of the Imposter Judge Dee: An Analysis of Di Renjie's Career As a District Magistrate and His Fictional Counterpart, Robert Tyler Dowdell
Department: History
No Child Will Be Left Behind in My Classroom!: NCLB's Effects and Elementary Teachers' Strategies to Beat the Test, Logan Dunn
Department: Communication Studies
Music and the Brain: Exploring the Effects of Music on Spatial Learning and BDNF Protein Expression in the Mouse Hippocampus, Gideon P. Dunster
Department: Biology
Bindis and Blue Jeans, Saris and Starbucks: An Analysis of Identity Among First and Second-Generation Indian Immigrants, Cassie Dutton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Impacts of Military Expenditure Upon Economic Growth Under Varying Circumstances Through the Lenses of the Realist Paradigm and the Solow Growth Model, Castine L. Echanis
Department: International Relations
Extended Family, Will Ehrenreich
Department: Art and Art History
Caring About Stories: A Conceptual Investigation of Narrative Art and Moral Understanding, Nicholas Alexander Ehrhardt
Department: Philosophy
Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Soeginina Beds (Paadla Formation, Lower Ludlow, Upper Silurian) on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Richa N. Ekka
Department: Geology
Incentivizing Developed Country Foreign Direct Investment: An Efficient Means of Closing the Gap For Developing Countries?, Charles Erhart
Department: Economics
Game For the Ages Forever Changed By the New Age: How Hip Hop Changed the Game of Basketball, Michael Evans
Department: History
Bilateral Misunderstanding: A Historical Analysis of the Obama "Reset" and Post-Cold War American-Russian Relations, Timothy Robert Faerber
Department: History
Cracks in the Sidewalk: An Examination of "Freaks" and Women in Garry Winogrand's Volatile Sixties, Charlie Fanelli
Department: Art and Art History
Refusing the Voice of the Mother: The Generative Failure of French Feminist Thought in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Jordan E. Farrar
Department: English
I Never Thought Black and White Before I Came to Wooster: An Investigation of Diversity at the College of Wooster, Madeline Fauser
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Wenlock/Ludlow Boundary at Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Nicholas Fedorchuk
Department: Geology
Gender Divide: Re-Examining the Feminization of Teaching in the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on the Displaced Male Teacher, Matthew Fegan
Department: History
Now I Walk in Beauty: A Comparative Examination of Historical and Contemporary Native American Religious Traditions Through the Lakota and Shoshone-Bannock Sun Dances, Jessie Felling
Department: Religious Studies
Male Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) Respond Aggressively to Song Playback Without Modulating Plasma Testosterone or Corticosterone, Stephen M. Ferguson
Department: Biology
Single Moment: The Effect of Gender and Other Social Factors on a Student Athlete's Performance Under Pressure, Jason Filatov
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Authenticity and Art: Towards a New Conception of Authenticity and its Application to Art, Jared Fink
Department: Philosophy
Reading Sesame Street: a Study of Literary Structures in Children's Educational Television, Geoffrey T. Fisher
Department: English
Effect of Power and Accountability on Cognitive Performance, Abigail J. FitzSimons
Department: Psychology
Effects of Short-Term Creatine Monohydrate Supplementation on Body Composition, Skeletal Muscle Strength During Anaerobic Exercises, Salivary Testosterone, & Urinary Creatinine in “Non-Active” Indiviudals at the College of Wooster, Robert Flagg
Department: Biology
Culture Et L'Enfance : Les Mysteres De La Litterature De Jeunesse, Frances Flynn
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Testing the Limited Resource Model and Its Effect on Task Performance in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella), Courtney Chase Foster
Department: Psychology
Chechnya: Death, Journalism, and History, Samuel Foulkes
Department: English; Russian Studies
Isolation of Bacterial Strains in Wastewater Sludge Capable of Degradation of Sertraline, Venlafaxine and Triclocarban, Jonathan Fox
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exploration of Hyperbolic Geometry/ Mathematics and Studio Art, Rachel Frank
Department: Art and Art History; Mathematics
Disaggregation Is Key: Using Alternative Growth Models to Evaluate the Impact of AIDS on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Elizabeth Freeman
Department: Economics
Marshallese Time: A Critical Reflection of the Magazine, H. Kris Fronzak
Department: English
Does BMI Correlate With the Time Interval Between An Injury and a Joint Replacement?, Brianna S. Fulmer
Department: Biology
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