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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
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
Effects of Distraction and Warnings on Pain Perception, Nadia Maharaj
Department: Psychology
Roles of the Gonadotropins, Luteinizing Hormone and Follicle Stimulating Hormone, in Normal Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Matthew Mandell
Department: Neuroscience
Perturbing Spacetime, Larry C. Markley
Department: Physics
On Stages, Katherine M. Markovich
Department: English
Rocket Science Behind the Political Science: Comparing Space Visions of the Presidents From 1993-2011 and the Rocket Technology That Helped Characterize Them, Alyse Marquinez
Department: Physics; Political Science
Even Dusty Palms Dry Tears, Rochelle Anakaye Marrett
Department: English
Paleoecology of the Hilliste Formation (Lower Silurian, Llandovery, Rhuddanian) Hiiumaa Island, Estonia: An Example of a Shallow Marine Recovery Fauna, Rachel Matt
Department: Geology
Cyclic Aero-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators, Katsuo J. Maxted
Department: Physics
Unattainable Perfection: Masculine Identity and Bodybuilding Culture From 1890 to the Present, Erin McArdle
Department: History
Complimentary Market: the Study of the Impact of Direct-To-Consumer Advertising on the Prices of Prescription Drugs in the Pharmaceutical Drug Industry, Casey McGann
Department: Economics
Controlling Your Money: An Empirical Analysis of the Impacts of Government Control of the Money Supply Affects the Social Welfare of Others, Corey McGann
Department: Economics
Chevrolet Corvette: Shaping American Masculine Identity in Post World War II America, Myles R. McGinnis
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Dimensions of Liberation: Transcending Advanced Industrial Society, John P. McGovern
Department: Political Science
Born in Blood, Ellen McIlvaine
Department: English
We Are Innocent Victims of Our Mind's Manipulations: on the Effects of Choice Blindness For Eyewitness Identification, Heather M. McPherson
Department: Psychology
Analysis of Nonverbal Communication That Occurs Within the Organizational Culture of America's Pasttime, Colin Meinzer
Department: Communication Studies
That Is All the Details I Have, Scott Merrifield
Department: Communication Studies; Political Science
These Boots Are Made For Rocking: a Study in Costuming, Hannah Middendorf
Department: Theatre and Dance
Buddhist 'Emptiness' and the Practice of Nonconceptual Content, Maria Millan
Department: Philosophy
Maize and Clay: An Evaluation of Human Dental Health From Preagricultural to Agricultural Subistenece, Claire Riggs Miller
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Marketing-Oriented Approach to Business, Jason R. Miller
Department: Economics
Lost in Translation: the Image of the American and the United States Through the Lens of Race in Postwar Divided Germany, 1945-1968., Naomi A. Milstein
Department: German Studies; International Relations
Diasporic Wedding Culture: How Wedding Rituals and Symbols Confirm the Creation of a Multicultural Gender and Ethnic Identity Among Hindu-American Women, Amy Mixter
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Effect of Parenting Style and Child Temperament on Moral Reasoning in Preschool Children, Ally Monheim
Department: Psychology
Come to the Table, A. Greer Morgan
Department: Art and Art History
From Profit Driven Slaveholders to the California Gold Rush: An Economic History Curriculum Designed For Grade 8, Katherine Jennings Moser
Department: History
Adventurers' Club, Valerie Mozena
Department: English
Disaster Strikes: Perceived Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the People of New Orleans, Megan Aleece Mudersbach
Department: Psychology
Invisible People An Autoethnography on Multi-Ethnic Identity: Black-Native Americans, Sara A. Muhammad
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Effects of Extraversion and Pain on Risk Taking in Male College Students, Adam Muller
Department: Psychology
Seen and Unseen Face of God: An Artist's Exploration of Patua Art and Religion, Julia Murphy
Department: Art and Art History; Religious Studies
Degradation Analysis of Sertraline, Venlafaxine, and Triclocarban in Treated Aerobic Sludge, Madigan Murphy
Department: Chemistry
The Effect of Female Mate Choice on the Hybridizing Populations of Plethodon cinereus and Plethodon electomorphus in Wooster Memorial Park, Julia B. Mutere
Department: Biology
Grass Is Always Greener: a Quantitative Study of Effective Messages in Producing Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Madalyn Myers
Department: Communication Studies
Theatre & Social Movements: An Analysis of the Normal Heart, Jacqueline Naami Emefa Acolatse Narnor
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Keepers of Culture: An Investigation Into the Negotiation and Maintenance of Culture By Somali Refugee Women in Columbus, Ohio, Morag M.M. Neill
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Na(RR/VIG)ating the Labyrinth: Literary Imaginings of Repetition, Course, Horizon, and Center in the Form of the Labyrinth, Jordan Nelson
Department: English
Fire From the Stars to Spark Enlightenment and Action in a Generation: Drawing From Scholarly Research to Create a Digital Magazine For the Millennial Generation in the Realm of Travel, Culture, and Civic Engagement, Sage Nenyue
Department: Communication Studies
Big Brothers and Barbarians: the Role of Images and Perceptions in Russia's Foreign Policy, Arielle Neu
Department: Russian Studies; International Relations
Terrain, Rebecca Newhouse
Department: Art and Art History
Formation of Masculinity: Analyzing the Perception and Development of "Maleness" in Boys, Ian New
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Investigation Into the Catalytic Mechanism of Maleamate Amidohydrolase (NicF) from Bordetella Bronchiseptica RB50, Jeffrey Noel
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Using Occupancy Modeling Techniques to Reevaluate the Conservation Status of the Critically Endangered Caribbean Frog, Mannophryne olmonae, Aaron Novick
Department: Biology
Examining Variation in Nest Temperatures and Effects of Cooling on Adrenocortical Responsiveness in Eastern Bluebird Nestlings, Sialia sialis, Emir M. O'Hara
Department: Biology
Effects of Closing Arguments and Adult Age on False Memory and Jury Verdicts in a Simulated Trial Setting, Shannon O'Neill
Department: Psychology
Bourbon Whiskey: the History and Development of America's Native Spirit, and the Making of the Number One Bourbon, Jim Beam, Kevin Orris
Department: History
Differential Expression of Primary MicroRNA and Inflammatory Cytokines After Macrophage Infection with Various Strains of Histoplasma capsulatum, Elizabeth O. Osborn
Department: Biology
Computer Generated Architecture Through Nature: Using Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computing to Generate 3D Models, Jason Palevsky
Department: Computer Science
Mosaic House, Charles A. Parrott
Department: English
Distinguishing Between the Influence of Gonadal Hormones and Sex Chromosomes on Sexual Dimorphisms in the Cortex Through Use of the Four Core Genotypes Model, Kelsey Peters
Department: Neuroscience
Development Assistance Redefined: the Rise of the University of Chicago and the Establishment of Neoliberal Foreign Aid Policies, Michael Peters
Department: Economics; History