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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Filling the Cup: Voltaire, C.S. Lewis, and the Inclusion of Religion in the Public Sphere, Kara M. Olson
Department: History; Religious Studies
Synthesis of the Monomeric Components of a Polyfluorene Copolymer With Pyrene End-Caps, Brian A. Ondrusek
Department: Chemistry
Power of Persuasive Speech: the Interplay Between Ethnicity, the Speaker, His or Her Message, and the Audience, Michael Panfil
Department: Psychology; Political Science
Progress Towards a Solid Phase Microextraction Coupled With Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry Method For the Quantitative Analysis of Fluorotelomer Alcohols in Environmental Matrices, Eric C. Panzer
Department: Chemistry
Laundry Is the Only Thing That Should Be Sorted By Color: the Role of Anxiety in Deterring Interracial Interactions, Katherine E. Patton
Department: Psychology
Continental Shift: the Evolution of American Imperialism and Hawaii's Struggle For Sovereignty, Catherine F. Paulson
Department: History
"The Creator's Game": An Examinationof the Fusion of Athleticism and Spirituality in Traditional Native American Lacrosse, Margaret A. Peake
Department: Religious Studies
Effects of Family-Ownership on Firm Value, Drew Pelger
Department: Economics
For How Long Do Neighbors Remain 'Dear Enemies' to Resident Convict Cichlids (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum)?, Sara M. Perry
Department: Biology
Does On-Site Child Care Matter: a Case Study, Erin Plant
Department: Business Economics
Birth Order and Competition: the Effects of Family Dynamics, Gender, and the Developmental Nature of One's Ordinal Position, Amanda K. Popiel
Department: Psychology
Bayesian Source Direction Determination For Gravitational-Wave Bursts, Stephen Poprocki
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Strangers in a Strange Land: of Jews, Japan and Their Tangled History, Jason N. Portner
Department: History
Investigation of Creatine to Creatinine Ratios in Fibromyalgia, Severin Pouly
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Levy Processes With Particular Interest in the Poisson Process and Its Application in Queuing Theory, Timothy Presto
Department: Mathematics
"Jerome Has Legs": Classical Philology and Sacred Text in the Works of Saint Jerome, Desiderius Erasmus, and Martin Luther, Megan Grace Prichard
Department: Classical Studies; History
Defining Coping Strategies For Eastern Bluebirds, Sialia sialis, Leslie Erin Prince
Department: Biology
Determination of Oxidative DNA Damage in Iron-Overloaded HEPG2 Cells and Implications for the Development of Hepatocellular carcinoma, Kimberlee K. Rankin
Department: Biology
"Not Only With Both Eyes Open, But With Both Hands Dirty": Tradition and Social Criticism in the Life and Work of Cornel West, Christopher Hyde Redding
Department: Religious Studies
Concepto De La Salvacion En Las Obras De Miguel De Unamuno, Emily Erin Richardson
Department: Spanish
The Influence of Religion on Environmental Attitudes and Conservation Behaviors, Crystal M. Riley
Department: Psychology; Religious Studies
Reducing the Homeownership Gap: An Analysis of Tenure Choice Decisions For Individuals in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area, Travis Robertson
Department: Business Economics
Siam 100.0000000-Digit Challenge: a Study in High Accuracy Numerical Computing Using Interval Analysis and Mathematica, James Rohal
Department: Mathematics
Big Business Vs. Public Interest: the 1978 Default of Cleveland, Christina Rokakis
Department: History
Satisfied?: Examining Job Satisfaction and Marital Satisfaction of Professors at State Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States of America, Erica Marie Ropers
Department: Psychology
Effects of Compression on Conducting Spheres As They Pertain to Studying Granular Percolation, Jonathan Louis Rosch
Department: Physics
Assisted Suicide: An Interest Not a Right, Eric G. Roscoe
Department: Political Science
If You're Happy and an Atheist, Clap Your Hands: A Study of Atheism Inside, Outside and Alongside Religion, Kathryn A. Russell
Department: Religious Studies
Concerns of An Anti-Skeptic: Traditional Epistemology: Why It Should Be Naturalized and Taken Back to Common Sense, Andrew Russo
Department: Philosophy
Metacognitive Ability in Paired Associate and Text Comprehension Tasks: Comparisons and Attempts to Improve Metacognitive Accuracy, Stephanie Salisbury
Department: Psychology
A Qualitative Study of What Works and What Doesn't in Offender Rehabilitation, Cassandra Sattazahn
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
President's Agenda: "The Politics Behind Presidential Spending and the Federal Budget", Justin M. Schafer
Department: Political Science
Attack of the Killer, Elongated Tomatoes! the Role of Tomato Gene CDSI in the Control of Fruit Morphology, Erin Kathleen Schaffner
Department: Biology
What in the World Is That?: Predator Recognition and Subtle Visual Cue Discrimination in the Domestic Horse (Equus caballus), Catherine Schlichting
Department: Biology
Microgeographic Song Sharing and the Formation of Dialects in the Dickcissel, Spiza americana, Derek M. Schook
Department: Biology
Plant Uptake of Triclosan, Sarah E. Schostarez
Department: Chemistry
Civic Capacity and Regional Sustainability: the Evolution of Metropolitan Sustainability Policy, Steven Christian Schott
Department: Political Science
Literacy: A Responsibility or an Unreasonable Request? An Investigation of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Attitudes Towards and Involvement in Literacy, Paul F. Seling
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Effect of Recycled Sand Bedding Materials and Probiotics on the Fecal Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Dairy Cattle, Joseph D. Sevier
Department: Biology
Monte Carlo Studies of the Globally-Coupled Ising Model, Daniel Edward Shai
Department: Chemistry; Physics
Value of Race: the Effects of African American Presence on Property Values in the City of Philadelphia, Clark Samuel Sheffield
Department: Urban Studies
George Washington's Character and Religion, Grant M. Simmons
Department: History
Examining the Interaction Between Neuronal Interleukin-16 and the NR2A Subunit of the NMDA Receptor, Stephanie Simmons
Department: Biology
Examining the Interaction Between Neuronal Interleukin-16 and the NR2A Subunit of the NMDA Receptor, Stephanie Simmons
Department: Chemistry
Effects of Larval Rearing Density and Food Availability on Adult Wing Coloration and Mating Success in Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus), Amy L. Smith
Department: Biology
Is the Current Election System in the United States Truly Democratic? a Normative Study of Felon Disenfranchisement in United States Election System, Andre M. Smith
Department: Political Science
Business of Brides: the History of the White Wedding in America, Elizabeth Marie Sorice
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Is There a Correlation Between Wing Coloration and the Ejaculate of Male Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus)?, Kevin A. Spragg
Department: Biology
Effect of Short-Term Food Deprivation on Corticosterone, Corticosterone-Binding Globulin, and the Testosterone in Adult Male Zebra Finches, Teresa B. Stamplis
Department: Biology
Evolution of Poison Gas in Germany From World War I to World War II, Andrew Stebbins
Department: History
Is Chytridiomycosis (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) Present in Declining Populations of Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi)?, Sheldon Steiner
Department: Biology
Inside the Grand Illustion: How Presidents Make Decisions Based on What They Already Believe, John Warren Steinman
Department: Political Science
New Orlean's Colleges: Life After Hurricane Katrina, Emmanuel Paul Sterling
Department: Art and Art History
Reactions of the United States to External Threats As a Result of Bureaucratic Politics, William J. Stevens
Department: Political Science
Geochronology of Late Pleistocene Corals Associated With a Rapid Sea Level Change (Great Inagua and San Salvador, the Bahamas), Ann Steward
Department: Geology
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Strip Mine Reclamation on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Populations in the Racoon Creek Watershed of Southwest Ohio, Mary Fiona Stewart
Department: Biology
Defend Yourself, While Your Hands Are Still Yearning: Norwegian Civilian Resistance to German Occupation and National Socialism, Elisabeth Stove
Department: History; German Studies
"No Place For Children in a War:" the World War II Evacuation of British Children in History and Chidren's Fiction, Julia Stuckman
Department: English; History
Fighting the Blues and Coping With Depression: a Historical Perspective, Linda M. Studer
Department: History
Good to the Last Drop: Percolation Through Hypercubic and Random Lattices For Integer, Fractional, and Fractal Dimensions, Sarah J. Suddendorf
Department: Physics; Mathematics
"Driving the Car": Personal Motivation in English As a Second Language Learning in Latino Immigrant High School Males, Tina Swartzendruber
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Spanish
Annotated Lorax: a Creative and Critical Investigation Into Dr. Seuss's the Lorax, the First and Definitive Edition of Its Kind With Many Notes About Many Important Things, Sara R. Taggart
Department: English
Synthesis and Purification of Cyclohexyl (Cbz-L-Ser-Bzl) Phosphodiester As a Potential Phospholipid Analog Precursor, Lwin Mon Thant
Department: Chemistry
Determining the Subcellular Localization of An Arginine Kinase in Caenorhabditis Elegans, David H. Thomas
Department: Chemistry
Designing For the New Woman: Sonia Delaunay and "Coco" Chanel As Timeless Innovators, Leah C. Thompson
Department: Art and Art History
Selective Ultratrace Detection of Gas-Phase Tnt By Integrated Optical Waveguide Spectrometry and Interferometry, Margaret Timmers
Department: Chemistry
Impact of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, Anton J. Tkachenko
Department: Economics
Organ-Ized Giving: An Analysis of the Gift Relationships and Personal Experiences of Kidney Transplant Recipients, Julie E. Todd
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Stories in the Stones: a Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Historic Cemeteries in Lewes, Delaware and Wayne County, Ohio, Erin Toohey
Department: Archaeology
Creation of a Two-Dimensional Negative-Index-Material, Daniel L. Tremblay
Department: Physics
Perceptions of Ethnicity in the Yugoslav Wars, Kristin Triebel
Department: History
Heat Capacity Anomaly in a Nitrobenzene+Dodecane Mixture, Nathan Joseph Utt
Department: Physics
Concept of Epistemic Responsibility, Michael von Ansbach-Young
Department: Philosophy
Influence of the Ringling Brothers on the Culture of the American Circus: An Analysis of Their Desire, Morality and Triumphs, Michael Robert Vyrostek
Department: History
Johnnie Armstrong's Last Goodnight: the Impact of the Life and Death of a Scottish Border Thief, Amy Wadsworth
Department: History
Spacetime Whirlpools, Lisa May Walker
Department: Physics
Investigation of the Physiological Responses of Various Weed Species to Anethum graveolens Seed Extract, Stephanie Wedryk
Department: Biology
Presidential Success in Congress: a Study of Fast Track Authority, Nathaniel Whitfield
Department: Political Science
Investigation of the Effects of Statins on Exercise Capacity, Whth a Subsequent Study of the Use of Creatine As a Potential Intervention, Kathryn J. Wieferich
Department: Chemistry
Blinded By the Light: Development of Organic Light-Emitting Diode Fabrication Techniques in the Pursuit of Examining Device Properties, Benjamin Ryan Williams
Department: Chemistry
Protein Phosphate Type 1 May Not Have a Role in Exocytosis in Paramecium, Jeff Winkler
Department: Biology
Survey Validation For a Declining Amphibian, Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi), in Western Ohio, James R. Witter
Department: Biology
Mitochondrial Genes Support the Existence of Two Poison Dart Frogs (Mannophryne, Aromobatidae) From Trinidad and Tobago, Elizabeth Wojtowicz
Department: Biology
This Should Be in a Museum! the Illegal Trade in Chinese Antiquities and What Can Be Done to Stop It, Andrew Womack
Department: Archaeology
Six Day War: a Turning Point, Roy Edward Woodring
Department: History
Red Wine Dreams, Kristin K. Yorks
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; English
Fields of the English, They Are Buried Here': the Road to Culloden and Beyond, Broede D. Young
Department: History
Featural and Holistic Face Processing in Individuals With Autism, Ashley E. Zervos
Department: Psychology
Religion and Science: How the Spiritual Healing Practices and Ideologies of Mainline Christianity Influenced the Establishment of Christian Science, Stefanie M. Zifchak
Department: Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Dynamic and Influential Relationship Between Attachments to Mother, Father, and God, Robert D. Adams
Department: Psychology
Rum-Running, Organized Crime, and Corruption in Detroit Helped Contribute to End Prohibition in 1933., Joe Agler
Department: History
Graph Zeta Functions, Kenda Albertson
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Arginine Kinase Found in 8-Proteobacteria Suggests Horizontal Gene Transfer, Logan Andrews
Department: Biology
Investigating a Mechanistic Role For Protein Oligomerization in the Phosphagen Kindase Family, Juliana Anquandah
Department: Chemistry
Relationship Between Working Memory and College Academic Performance, Aung Aung
Department: Psychology
Elliptic Curves and Their Application in Number Theoretic Ciphers, Jonathan Baker
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
"This is Fate, This is God, This is Whatever. This is My Child.": An Analysis of the Blood Ideology in American Culture through a Comparison of Domestic and International Adoption Experiences, Mary Baldwin
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Smile: the Evolution of Orthodontics, Mark Alan Ballinger
Department: History
Zaire and the Ebola Pandemic, Melanie Barkalow
Department: History
For the Love of Wilderness: Conceptual Analysis of Contemporary Wilderness, Laura Eileen Barnhart
Department: Philosophy