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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Moral Responsibility and the Insanity Defense: Implications For the Mentally Ill, Katharine McCarthy
Department: Philosophy
Notions of Child Rearing in Peter Pan and Lolita, Jonathan McKay
Department: English
An Examination of the Role that Faith-Based Social Action Organizations Play in the Empowerment of Women in the Greater Mekong Region of Thailand, Lauren Stephanie Merriman
Department: Religious Studies
Fusing Interstices: Exploring the Relationship Between Science and Religion in Theory, in Particular Relgious Scientists and in Self, Elise A.G. Meyers
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Religious Studies
Civic Capacity and Public Education Reform: Identifying Components For Implementing Sex Education Curricula, Kayla S. Miller
Department: Political Science
Baseball's Effect in the Military and on Soldiers' Morale During World War II, Mark Andrew Miller
Department: History
Self-Organized Criticality and the Effects of Pseudo-Randomly Dropping Beads Onto a Bead Pile, Mary Elizabeth Mills
Department: Physics
The College of Wooster's Students' Understanding of Organ Donation, Kasia Minor
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Concerning Nathaniel Bloom, Daniel Paul Miraldi
Department: English
Other-Race Face Perception: An Investigation of the Perceptual-Expertise Hypothesis, Kara M. Mitchell
Department: Psychology
Characterization of a Putative Monooxygenase Involved in Nad Catabolism, Theodore Carlton Moore, III
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Masculinity of Juvenal Satire and the Roles of Men, Grant Dominic Morrison
Department: English
An Ornithological Perverse Nostalgia: A Series of Unexpected Consequences, Sacha Marie Nalepa
Department: Art and Art History
Don't Fret the Exchange Rate: the Study of Subunit Exchange Between Oligometric Complexes of ZmHsp17.0-CII Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Chris T. Nau
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Public Opinion and Executive Decision Making: Does Electoral System Matter?, Jeffrey Neal
Department: Political Science
Knitters For Equality: An Exploration of the Issues of Femininity, Masculinity and Gender Roles in Knitting Communities, Emily Neumann
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
The Effects of the Presence of An Animal on Anxiety and Communication, Benjamin T. Nielsen
Department: Psychology
An Agenda For Change: a Burkean Pentadic Analysis of Barack Obama's Speech, "A More Perfect Union", Rebecca A. Niemeyer
Department: Communication Studies
Protolith Determination of the Hyde School Marginal Gneisses, Adirondack Lowlands, NY, Robert M. Nowak
Department: Geology
"We're Together": Word Choice and Relationships in College Culture, Hilary M. Ober
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Legal Thriller: Learning to Love to Hate the Law, J. Brendan O'Conor
Department: English
The Resurrection of Scottish Culture and Identity: the Role of Tourism in Scotland, 1800-2009, Molly Ogrodnik
Department: History
An Analysis of Shifting Trends in the New York Times' Presentation of the Soviet Union Through Periods of Leadership Change, Andrew Christian Olsen
Department: History
The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Talking About Sexual Minorities in French, German and Russian, Michelle M. Ort
Department: French and Francophone Studies; German Studies; Russian Studies
From Impoverished Conditions to College: Factors That Lead to the Academic Success of Low and Moderately Low-Income Students, Aaron Oster-Beal
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Make It Look Easy, Tracy Patinski
Department: English
Secondary Purification of Two Small Heat Shock Proteins From Zea Mays Through Anion Exchange Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, Amanda L. Pattridge
Department: Chemistry
"Why How You've Changed, Little Red Riding Hood": Allegorical Representation of Little Red Riding Hood, Victoria M. Peterman
Department: History
Assessing the Effects of Repeated Handling in Young Eastern Bluebirds, Sialia Sialis, Megan M. Phillips
Investigating the Difference Between Archaeal and Eukaryal Nucleosomal Exchange Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Brittany L. Pitrone
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Romani Experience in Hungary and Indications For the Future, Edward A. Pogue
Department: History
A State Level Analysis of How Declining Unionization Has Affected Income Inequality in the United States, Andrew R. Porter
Department: Political Science
Les Témoignages Chocolatés, Erin J. Powell
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Facultative Defense Mutualism in Erythrina Flabelliformis: Interpopulation Variation in Community-Level Interaction, Galen V. Priest
Moral America: An Examination of Evangelical Voting Behavior in Relation to Social Issues, Billy J. Raines II
Department: Political Science; Religious Studies
Emergence and Development of Medieval Walled Towns: An Examination of Settlement Structure in Cork, Ireland From the Ninth Century Through the Fifteenth Century, Brittany Christine Rancour
Department: Archaeology
Kanaka Maoli--the Real People: An Exploration into the Complexities of Hawaiian Identity, Chloe Reed
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Art Conservation: Understanding Ethics and Methods Through Historic Case Studies of Painting and Stone Sculpture, Lucy N. Reinhardt
Department: Art and Art History
Economic Interdependence: Coercion and Cooperation Between the United States, China, and Taiwan, Nicholas C. Robison
Department: Political Science
The Inextricable Ties Between Women, Religion, and the Environment, Anne W. Rochester
Department: Religious Studies
"There Are Images I Need to Complete My Own Reality": Images, Memory, and the Limitations of Language in the Event of September 11th, 2001, Leda Rodis
Department: English
Finicky Freezing: Investigations Into the Causes of the Mpemba Effect, Martha I. Roseberry
Department: Physics
Continued Progress Towards the Synthesis of a Crown-Ether Substituted Polymer For Use in Organic Light Emitting Diode Displays: Synthesis of a Promising Oligomer and Optimization of Key Reactions, Andrew C. Rudawsky
Department: Chemistry
Do You Know What I Know? The Effect of Language Ability on Verbal and Nonverbal Theory of Mind Tasks, Alexandria Rushley
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Priming on Responses to Projective Techniques, Andrew K. Salata
Department: Psychology
The Complex Simplicity of Personality, Hannah Samuell
Department: Art and Art History
The First Step, Andrew Sartorius
Department: English
Jacob Riis: Preserver of the Past and Herald of the Future, William R. Scarlett
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