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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Expertise and Attractiveness in Advertisements: What Entices You to Buy a Product?, Stephanie C. Schab
Department: Psychology
The Effect of Incubation Temperature Manipulations and Moisture Loss on the Growth and Digestive Patterns of the Pekin Duck, Taylor Schellhardt
Rethinking Civil Disobedience: Possibilities For Expanding the Boundaries of Legitimate Political Action, Alexandra Vesta Schmitt
Department: Political Science
The Up and Coming Vote: a Study on African American Voting Turnout in Past Presidential Elections, Andrew Zachary Schultz
Department: Political Science
"Paintings" or "Taking It All the Right Way", Laura Seaman
Department: Art and Art History
She Was Seen Across the Empire: a Study of Roman Empresses and Their Changing Public Image, Jessica Shira Sender
Department: History
Histories of Paris: A Historical account of Americans in Paris in the twenties and today, Lisa J. Shames
Department: History
Decomposition and Macroinvertebrate Colonization of Single and Mixed Species Leaf Litter in Two First-Order Temperate Streams, Kimberly Skully
Effects of Neuregulin-1 in Neuroprotection of Cerebellar Granule Cells from AMPA Induced Excitotoxic Cell Death, Evan Richard Slanczka
Of Paradox and Convergence: Food Culture and Health in France and the United States, Rachel Smedley
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Money isn't Everything: Why you can't always Buy a Win in Professional Baseball, Empirical Study of Intra-team Wage Disparity and its Effect on Performance, Wright Bradford Smith
Department: Business Economics
Fleeing Nazi Europe to Forge a New Life in Chile: the Stories of Ten Refugees in Santiago, Christina Lynn Somlo
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Snow Bunny or Snow Beast? Gendered Images and Practices of the Snowboarding Culture, Karen Souchuns
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
My Friends, There Are No Friends: Friendship, Egoism, and Altruism in Ancient Greek and Christian Thought, Tiffany E. Speegle
Department: Philosophy
Calculating the Rate of Dextral Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Höh Serh Fault, the Southwestern Boundary of the Höh Serhiyn Nuruu in the Mongolian Altai, Western Mongolia, Jodi Sprajcar
Department: Geology
If You Love the Self, Fashion the Self: An Investigation of Early Modern Self-Hood Through the Works of Shakespeare, Lee Stablein
Department: English
Invitro Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 in Human Breast Cancer Cells, Luke A. Stetzik
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: How Companies Misrepresent Their Corporate Social Responsibility, Sara L. Stinemetz
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
White Privilege: Wooster's Own Invisible Knapsack, Mary Stockovich
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Spectroscopic Studies of the Photoisomerization and Host-Guest Chemistry of An Azobenzene-Tethered Calixarene Dimer, Kristen Layne Stoltz
Department: Chemistry
Change We Organize: Technology and the Changing Dynamics of the Campaign System, Chad Stonebrook
Department: History
∆S, Mitch Storar
Department: English
Reducing Proactive Interference Through Constructivist Learning Instruction, Margaret B. Strome
Department: Psychology
Examining the Cultural Transmission of Chinese Mythical Beings: a Lesson in Hermeneutics, Emily Swoveland
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Queens of the Kingdom: Women Redefining the Kingdom of God in the Social Gospel Movement, Sarah Elizabeth Tarbell
Department: History
The Oil Crisis and the Automotive Industry, Theodore W. Terry
Department: History
Does It Pay to Play? An Analysis of the Impact of High School Athletic Participation on Post-School Wages, Paul N. Thompson
Department: Economics
The Construction of a Continuous Wave Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer, Henry Timmers
Department: Physics
Images of a Queen: Elizabeth 1533-1603, Paige Tincher
Department: History
A Critical Examination of the Olney Friends School: Quaker Ideals, Institutional Practices, and Transmission of Values, Susan Laurel Tipton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Religious Studies
Victims, Perpetrators or Both?: Examining Vergangenheitsbewältigung Through Germany's Representation of the Holocaust in History Textbooks From the 1950s, 1970s, and Today, Elysia Tonti
Department: German Studies; History
"To Arms?" : A Historical Examination of Colonial Militias and How Such Information Should Effect Our Interpretation of the Right to Bear Arms, Garrett Toothman
Department: History
The Viability of Nuclear Energy Based on Fear, Anthony Michael Trapuzzano
Department: History
The Political Responsiveness of James K. Polk to Public Opinion Regarding the Mexican-American War or A Test of Carfted Talk in the 19th Century, Bryn H. Tulip
Department: History
How Challenge and Subtle-Gendered-Threat Effect Athletic Performance, Jessica Twombly
Department: Psychology
"Nothing But a Fiction": Rewriting History to Re-Imagine Identity in Third Generation Nigerian Fiction, Caitlin Tyler-Richards
Department: History
Secret, Secrets Are So Fun, If They're Not For Everyone!, Ellen Wagner
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Increased Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) in Type II Diabetics: Results of a High-Fiber Plant-Based Diet, Elizabeth Bailey Wakefield
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Do-It-Yourself Music Culture, Stuart Walker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at Selected Sites in Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, Karolina M. Walls
Department: Archaeology
The Influence of Film Music on the Perspective Assumed Within a Narrative, Chris Walton
Department: Psychology
The Synthesis and Characterization of Anti-Cancer Metal Complexes, John C. Warren
Department: Chemistry
"Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli" : The Godfather, The Sopranos, and the Evolution of the American Family Seen Through the Lens of Mafia Cinema, Michael Waseleski
Department: History
Interpreting the Affects of Stigma on Interaction and Self-Esteem in Victims of Domestic Violence, Lauren Washington
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Local Receptions to Strangers in Our Cities: Municipal Policy Towards Latino Immigrants, Elyse T. Watkins
Department: International Relations
An Alternativefor the Irish - "No" to Nice and Lisbon: Ireland's Path to Europeand Its Perceived Skepticism Towards the European Union, Nicholas M. Watkins
Department: History
The Case For Consideration of Animal Rights and Ethics to Reform the Commercial Dog Breeding Industry, Nicholas Ian Waychoff
Department: Philosophy
The Effects of Fluoxetine On Dominance Behaviors in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta), Sage Weaver
Structural Adjustments Policies on Political Participation: a Central American Case Study Analysis, Nicholas Weiss
Department: International Relations
A Study of the Crude Oil Market and OPEC Behavior: 1973-2007, Lloyd Werner
Department: Business Economics
A Theoretical Study of the Connection Between Ethics and Economics in the Free Market Theories of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, Andrew J. White
Department: Political Science
Aeneas and the Quest for a New City: A Study of Beginning Latin Textbook Methodologies, Erica Wicks
Department: Classical Studies
A Study of the Calculus of Variations, Jeffrey Alan Willert
Department: Mathematics
Coach-Athlete Relationship: The Impact of the Coach-Athlete Relationship on the Performance of Division III Women's Basketball Players, Meredith Colette Wilson
Department: Communication Studies
Andy and His Yellow Frisbee: Does Intervention Using Children's Literature Change Students' Attitudes and Perceptions of a Child With Autism?, Joanna Wisneski
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Politics of GMOs: a Case Study Examination of Underlying Social, Cultural, and Political Variables Influencing Consumer Attitude Toward GMOs, Natalie S. Worcester
Department: Political Science
A Burdensome Relationship: George Bush's Relationship With China and Its Effect on Sino-American Relations 1989-1992, Andrew C. Wrenn
Department: History
Comparison on the US Consumption of Chinese Textiles between the ATC and Safeguard Periods, Yufen Wu
Department: Economics
Laws, Love & Lesbians: International Human Rights and Women's Sexual Orientation, Stefanie H. Zaranec
Department: Political Science
Culture Shock: A Life Changing Experience, Luxi Zhang
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Way You Do the Things You Do: An Analysis of Major League Baseball Owners' Ticket Pricing Decisions, Patrick J. Zimmerman
Department: Business Economics
Green Consumerism: How America Turned the Jagged Pill of Environmentalism into a Spoon-Full of Sugar, Sarah M. A. Zwikelmaier
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Using Math to Play Like a Champion: How Game Theory Can Be Used to Predict Behavior in International Relations, Biology, Politics and Economics, David Adams
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Environmental Ethics in the Arctic: Investigating the Source of Moral Obligations to Wilderness, David Albrechta
Department: Philosophy
Purification of Protected Cyclohexyl Phospho Carbobenzyloxy-L-Serine Benzyl Ester and the Synthesis and Purification of Deprotected Cyclohexyl Phospho-L-Serine Which Is a Potential Analog of Phosphatidylserine, Nicholas Jay Amato
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Colorblind Youth: An Analysis of Black Youth's Understanding of Racism in Contemporary American Society, Megan E. Ammon
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Your Choice. Their Future: A Study of How to Promote Early Learning Education in the Wooster Community, Piper Teresa Annese
Department: Communication Studies
An Education in Possibilities Rather Than Consequences: The Sex Ed Wars, Roza Anthony
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Synthesis and Characterization of Iron and Cobalt Salts With P-Phenylenebis(Picolinaldimine), James N.A. Aryeetey
Department: Chemistry
Misunderstandings and Conflicts in Situations Where Japanese and U.S. Employees Work Together, Chandra Asar
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Pre-War and Current Opinions of ROTC Cadets About the War in Iraq As Affected By War-Time Events, Laura Ayer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Problem of Memory in Post-Franco Spain, Amanda Bailey
Department: History
"You'll Go Places You Never Thought You'd See": The Relationship Between Rural Teens and Military Enlistment, Stevia Baldwin
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Are Smartboards a Smart Decision? the Residual Effects of Interactive Whiteboards in Early Childhood Mathematics, Melissa Bay
Department: Mathematics
The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and Their Actions Inside the Security Council in Relationship to Cote D'Ivoire and Rwanda, Andrew J. Becker
Department: Political Science
A Consideration of Human Trafficking Policy in Canada, the Democratic Republic of North Korea and Honduras, Daniel P. Blommel
Department: Political Science
The Women of the Uso in World War II, Emily G. Bowditch
Department: History
An Investigation Into the Role of Creatine in Muscle Toxicity Associated With Statin-Use, Jason Bowie
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Looking For Watts and Other Stories, Jack Shelton Boyle
Department: English
Crime Seriousness and Its Effects on Eyewitness Accuracy, Confidence, and Arousal, Kevin M. Brooks
Department: Psychology
The Construction of a European Identity Through Discourse Othering "Less European" Actors: Debates on Turkish Accession to the European Union, Alex E. Brower
Department: Political Science
The Synthesis and Characterization of 4-Nitrobenzylidene Derivatives, Jonathan Butensky-Bartlett
Department: Chemistry
It Ain't All About the Benjamins, Baby: Dismantling the Link Between Musical Taste and Social Class, Erin Byrne
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Can the Hopes of "Never Again" Become a Reality? A Comparative Study of How Three of the Nation's Prominent Holocaust Museums Strive to Prevent Another Holocaust, Nicole C. Calderone
Department: History
Earning Their Wings: The Military-Industrial Complex and Defense Procurement, Justin Chapman
Department: History; Political Science
Percolation Via Electrical Conduction, Mateo Chinchilla
Department: Physics
The Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Personality Traits Among College Athletes at The College of Wooster, Bradley C. Chisnell
Department: Psychology
Sinking or Swimming in the Corporate Ocean: An Investigation of Product Recalls and the Most Successful Public Relations Tactics to Survive the Recall, Carolyn Ciriegio
Department: Communication Studies
Treasures From the Coral Reef, Alanna Marie Clark
Department: Art and Art History
It is a Wild Thing: Using the Connection Between Women and Horses to Ride into Myth, Antonia Ruth Clement
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Setting the Stage For Terrorism: Non-State Actors Taking Advantage of State Failure, Heather M. Couch
Department: Political Science
The Family of the Scabby One Will Treat Her: a Study of Honour Killings in Middle Eastern Tribal Culture, Kristen B. Cox
Department: Religious Studies
An Analysis of Male Body Image in College Athletes and Non-Athletes, Grant D'Augustine
Department: Psychology
Content Analysis Study of Food Advertisements and Children, Lauren Nicole DeZellar
Department: Communication Studies
Management Inefficiency and the Risk of Takeover, Russ Dieringer
Department: Economics
Population Based Incremental Schema Learning, Matthew S. Dominski
Department: Computer Science
Fire in His Wake: Mobutu Sese Seko and Zaire in the 1970s, Benjamin Joseph Downs
Department: Africana Studies
Hitchhiking: America's Vanishing Pastime, Allison Dupuis
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Ammonia Borane As a Selective Reducing Agent, Charles A. Ebner
Department: Chemistry
Putting Her in Her Place: Gender, Archaeology, and the Anglo-Norman Castle, Elizabeth Sand Eckel
Department: Archaeology; History