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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
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: Chemistry
Examining the Interaction Between Neuronal Interleukin-16 and the NR2A Subunit of the NMDA Receptor, Stephanie Simmons
Department: Biology
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
Further Progress in Fabricating a Lab on a Chip: a Microfluidic Capillary Electrophoresis System on Glass Slides, Natalie Barone
Department: Chemistry
Evolution of Gay Identity in Twentieth-Century American Gay Fiction, Clinton K. Baugess
Department: English
Assessing the Assessments: the Continuning Failures of U.S. Strategic Intelligence, Will Behrendt
Department: History
Roles of the Dop-1 Dopamine Receptor and the NMDA Glutamate Receptor in Ethanol State-Dependency in the Nematode Species Caenorhabditis elegans, Aaron Bergman
Department: Biology
"Other Than That, He Was Completely Normal:" a History of the Tattoo in the United States, Julie S. Blodgett
Department: History
Attempted Synthesis of Diacetonitrilebis(Trimethylenediamine)Cobalt(Iii) Dithionate, [Co(Tn)2(Ncch3)2]2(S2O6)3, Emily N. Bolton
Department: Chemistry
Theory of Groups of Symmetries and Permutations, Tyler James Bosch
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Microsolenid Corals as Paleobathymetric Indicators: A Test Using a Newly Discovered Middle Jurassic Community in Makhtesh Gadol, Israel, Jeffrey C. Bowen II
Department: Geology
Repairing Perception, Timothy Scott Bowersox
Department: Philosophy
Ramifications of Kloster-Zeven Revisited: As a Cause of British Victory in the Seven Years' War, Jack Boyd
Department: History
Ukurikurakiza: a Journey Into the Heart of Rwandan Conflict, Kelly Brannan
Department: History
Markov Chains, Bridgette Briggs
Department: Mathematics
Neoconservative Movements: Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Rise of Neoconservatism, Michael D. Broda
Department: History
Mendacious Memoir of Rick Leblanc, Rhett H. Brodie
Department: English
Resistance to Reconciliation: the Study of Healing Among Chilean Survivors of the Pinochet Regime, Emily Brooks Brown
Department: Spanish; History
Effects of Residual Snow Cover on the Home Range of the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha), David J. Brumbaugh
Department: Biology
Investigating the Role of Protein Phosphatase 2B in the Regulation of the Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Ion Channel in Paramecium tetraurelia Through the Use of RNA Interference, Katelin M. Bugler
Department: Biology
Effect of Sol-Gel Processing Conditions on Morphology: Tailoring Sol-Gels For Chemical Sensors and Environmental Remediation Sorbents, Colleen Marie Burkett
Department: Chemistry
Measuring the Effect of Multiple Dosage Levels of Creatine-Monohydrate Supplementation on Muscular Strength and Enurance in Rats, T. Aaron Burnett
Department: Biology
Competition in Video Games: A Factor Other than Violence that May be Linked to Aggression, Matt Buzby
Department: Psychology
Investigation of the Involvement of the Cd4 Receptor in the Signaling Pathway of Il-16 in Cerebellar Granule Neurons, Hope Kathryn Chisnell
Department: Biology
A Silent Minority No Longer: The Korean-American Community, Park Peter-David Chong Woo
Department: History
Remembering the Council: Vatican II for a New Generation, Patrick L. Chrosniak
Department: Religious Studies