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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Just War Theory: a Normative Approach to Understanding State Action in Warfare, Kyle O. Yoder
Department: Political Science
At the Crossroads of Fiction and Reality: Nicaraguan Women Respond to Aquel Mar Sin Fondo Ni Playa, Heather Yomboro
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Diminishing the Other-Race Effect: An Investigation Into Creating Better Cross-Cultural Facial Recognition Using Social-Categorization, Stephen Zumbrun
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Eicosapentaenoic Acid Does Not Reduce Immobility in the Mouse Forced Swim Test, Salim Elie Abboud
Department: Psychology
Just to Get By: Social Support Networks Inside Women's Prisons, Anlyn Addis
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Kinetic Mechanism of Pseudomonas Putida Creatine Amidinohydrolase By Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Senyo Agidi
Department: Chemistry
Money, Cash, Hoes: A Feminist Exploration of Black Masculinity in Hip-Hop, Jacquelyn Arcy
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Black-White Achievment Gap: a Preliminary Case Study of Race, Household Income, and Gpa in a Suburban High School in Ohio, Adam Artman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Effects of Woody Debris on Stream Fish Species Richness, Diversity, and Biomass in Two Second Order Streams in Ashland County, Ohio, Nathan L. Atterholt
Department: Biology
Changing the Substrate Specificity of Creatine Kinase to Glycocyamine Through Random Mutagenesis of Non-Conserved Residues: Philosophical Reflections on Theory Choice and Objectivity, Ana Clara Azevedo
Department: Chemistry
Politics, Planning, and Popular Movements in Postwar Detroit: Urban Redevelopment Under the Cavanagh and Young Administrations, Alexander Balloon
Department: History; Urban Studies
Chippewa Lake Park: the Evolution of One Park Through America's Fascination With Amusement, Byron T. Barlow
Department: History
Covering All the Bases: the Coming of Age in Baseball Fiction, Michael T. Barone
Department: English
Artist and Aging: Becoming Aware of the Timeless, Julianna M. Barringer
Department: Art and Art History
Photophysical Behavior of Sunscreen Active Ingredients: a Combined Computational and Spectroscopic Study, Brandi M. Baughman
Department: Chemistry
Misconceptions of the War in Iraq: College-Aged Students' Socially Constructed Reality of the War in Iraq, Wiliam Frederick Behnke
Department: Communication Studies
Melodious Decree of the Passions: Defining Melody's Role in Opera, Theater, and Life, Kyle McRee Beliczky
Department: Philosophy
Une Affaire De Bûcherons Et De Casse-Tête: La Traduction De Quelques Textes Au Sujet De L'Histoire Des Franco-Canadiens Dans Le Michigan, Elizabeth Caitlin Martens Benett
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Opportunistic Racism's Role in the Changing International Relationship Between the United States and Iran Since the 1940's, Dante V. Benincasa
Department: History
Jean-Luc Godard Through a '68 Lens, Thomas Bennett
Department: History
Hybrity, Space, and the Religious Incorporation of Latino Immigrants, Mark H. Bergen
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
An Other's Blood: Nonfictions, Arianne M. Beros
Department: English
The Fairy Tale in History: Wild Swans and Donkey Skin As Sources of the Social History of Early Modern Europe, Marta Best
Department: History
Following the Bright Red Bags: An Ethographic Examination of the Socializing Messages in American Girl Products, Marta E.C. Beyer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Bill Graham's Influence on the Counterculture Movement: An Analysis of His Business Tactics, Demeanor, and Impact on the Live Concert Industry, Robert Raymond Block
Department: History
An Immigrant Nation: Ethnicity in American Society, Laska G. Blodgett
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
More Than Meets the Eye: the Use of Auditory Cues in Hitting a Pitched Baseball, Brandon L. Boesiger
Department: Psychology
Sweet Home Appalachia: a Study of the Inhabitants of a Small Appalachian Town and the Factors That Affect What They Consider Home, Margaret Brisker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Uncle Pen Played the Fiddle, Lord How It Rang, You Can Hear It Talk You Can Hear It Sing: a Study of How Music Has Helped Preserve Appalachian Culture", Joshua Pierce Burton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Resurrecting the Dead Canvas: Aesthetic Post-Essentialism and the Reevaluation of the Traditional Theories of Justifying Art Restoration, Stewart William Campbell
Department: Philosophy
Hirnverpflanzung: Rainald Goetz, deutscher Pop und das Übersetzen aus dem Deutschen, Mollie Cardina
Department: German Studies
Author Has No Authority Here: Issues of Identity, Community and Textual Interaction Online, Nora E. Cascadden
Department: English
It's a Hard Knock Life For Us ... Does TANF or the EITC Increase the Well-Being of Single Mothers?, Stephanie Lynn Casey
Department: Economics
Integrative Study of Hand Lateralization and Tool-Use in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) and Their Effects on Human Observers' Environmental Attitudes, Christine M. Cassella
Department: Psychology
Prevalence of Sodium Chlorate Resistant Escherichia Coli O157:H7 and a Potential Resistance Mechanism, Alicia Cattaneo
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Torquing Modern Game Engine Design, Alex Chvatal
Department: Computer Science
Catalytic Proficiency of Creatine Amidinohydrolase, Chafen Clarke
Department: Chemistry
Effect of Questioning Style on Vocabulary Acquisition: Can Preschoolers Self-Reference?, Lauren Courtney Colapietro
Department: Psychology
Staging a Reality: the Reaffirmations of Mainstream American Identity Through Three Native American Historical Outdoor Dramas, Kristen J. Cooperkline
Department: History; Theatre and Dance
Interaction Between NIL-16 and the CD4 Receptor: a Unique Autocrine Signaling Pathway, Jessica Cooperrider
Department: Biology
Investigation of the Tri-Trophic Relationship Between Danaus plexippus, Asclepias syriaca, and Lespesia archippivora, Natalie M. Cope
Department: Biology
Understanding Internet Politics: a Quantitative Analysis, Scott A. Covill Jr
Department: Political Science
A Picture Can Save a Nation: An Analysis of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal's Flag Raising Photograph, and the U.S. Marine Corps, Christopher M. Craig
Department: History
Exploration of Memory: a Grandfather's Past, a Grandchild's Present, Gina M. Crough
Department: Art and Art History
Legacy Sediment on Incising Streams: Changes in Stream Form and Process and Implications For Stream Restoration, Case Study of Two Steams in Wayne County, Ohio, Emily Lucille Cunningham
Department: Geology
False Testimony of Law & Order: Court Television Dramas and Their Influence on Juries, Emily A. Daubert
Department: Psychology
Investigation of Dielectric Permittivity as Related to Concentration in Mixtures of 7CB and MBBA, Michael Davis
Department: Physics
Measuring the Effect of Colonialism Upon the Political Development of African Nations, Robert H. Dible
Department: Political Science
Humanity vs. The Other, Kassandra Dobson
Department: Art and Art History
The Effects of Property Taxes on the Business Location of Firms, Adam Donelan
Department: Economics
Beatriz and the Heavenly Bodies: a Translation of An Excerpt From Lucia Etxebarria's Beatriz Los Cuerpos Celestes, Megan Donelson
Department: English; Spanish
Excavting the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle Textiles For Future Studies, Katherine Duffus
Department: Archaeology
Nociception in the Male House Sparrow, Passer domesticus: Effects of Sex Hormones on Response to a Hot Water Stimulus, Brandon DuGar
Department: Biology
What Are You Listening To?: a Study of Music Tastes of College Students and How Their Tastes Came to Be, David Duncan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Hydrogen Bonding of Cytosine and Uracil: a Combined Computational and Spectroscopic Investigation, Lindsey Easthon
Department: Chemistry
Synthesis of 2-Nitrobenzylidene Derivatives, James Gyimi Edusei
Department: Chemistry
Synthesis and Characterization of 2-Nitrobenzylidene Derivatives, Bianca Abigail Edwards
Department: Chemistry
Midterms and Matrimony: the Expectations and Attitudes of Unmarried College Students Regarding Their Potential Future Weddings and Marriages, Britton L. Eichenauer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Non-Euclidean Geometry, Steven N. Elmore
Department: Mathematics
Analysis of the Impact Oil Price Volatility has on Economic Growth, Joshua W. Feesler
Department: Business Economics
"A Woman Playing a Woman? Where's the Trick in That?": Women's Gender Performativity Explored Through a Theatrical Lens, Rachel Fichter
Department: Theatre and Dance; English
Perception of Point-Light Biological Motion in Athletes and Non-Athletes, Colin F. Fink
Department: Psychology
Role Morality Vs. Moral Right: An Examination of Legal Ethics, Dan Fleszar
Department: Philosophy
To Help or Not to Help, That is the Question: The Effects of Openness, Conscientiousness and Gender of Victim on the Bystander Effect, Kelly G. Fredrickson
Department: Psychology
Football Captures the Nation: An Analysis of Professional Football's Growth and It's Reflection of American Culture, Brandon Michael French
Department: History
Determining the Farm Prevalence Rate of Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica, and Yersinia enterocolitica in Populations of Captive White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Ohio, Elizabeth A. French
Department: Biology
Lions, and Tigers, and... Housecats? Why Your Housecat's Trite Little Bite Could Cause You Quite a Fright: A Study on the Occurrence of Pasteurella multocida in Domestic Felines, Andrea Freshwater
Department: Biology
Excavation of American Reconstruction, James Philip Augustine Furgol
Department: History
Teaching and Testing: A Comparison of Two Instuctional Approaches to Find the More Beneficial Format for the Education of America's Youth, Eileen Galligan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Effectiveness of Foreign Aid and Institutional Quality on Economic Growth in Developing Countries, Aaron James Gertz
Department: Economics
Benzylic Bromination of a Key Synthetic Precursor to a Conjugated Crown Ether-Sustituted Polymer, Richard A. Giles
Department: Chemistry
Lapse in American Memory: An Examination of Japanese American Internment Camps During World War II, Caitlin A. Gillette
Department: History
The Alamo: From Footnote to Legend, Edward Glick
Department: History
What Does it Mean to be Jewish After the Holocaust?: An Exploration of the Seminal Works of Emil Fackenheim, Elizer Berkovits, and Richard Rubenstein, Tomas Gold
Department: Religious Studies
Artisans of the Bedchamber: Concubines and Ji of the Tang Dynasty, Kara Gongaware
Department: History
Experiences and Thoughts: A Daily Diary Study of Psychological Well-Being, Maria P. Gonzalez
Department: Psychology
Put Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes: The Effect of Having a Social Identity on Empathizing with a Bully or Victim, Kelly Goss
Department: Psychology
An Investigation into a Nonlinear Cascade Model for Describing the Genetic Basis of the Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Phenotype Using Murine Embryonic Fibroblast Model, Joshua Graber
Department: Chemistry
Investigation into a Nonlinear Cascade Model for Describing the Genetic Basis of the Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Phenotype Using a Murine Embryonic Fibroblast Model, Joshua T. Graber
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Highlighting Contradictions: Sexuality, Objectification, and Gender Roles Displayed in Exotic Dance Clubs, Kathryn W. Graham
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Visual Articulations of Life in Place and Place in Life: A Feminist Visual Ethnography of Place, Identity, Home, and Community for Six Southern Women in Madison County, Kentucky, Catherine E. Grandgeorge
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Reconsideration of the Relationship Between Single-Parent Families and Juvenile Delinquency, Marvin R. Grandison
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
[Untitled Is on Foreign Direct Investment], Adam Grech
Department: Business Economics
Suffering For His Art or Indulging in Carnal Pleasures: An In-Depth Look at Edgar Degas and His Monotypes, Scotti Grewe
Department: Art and Art History
What Is Today's Moral War? How Christian Just War Theory Explains Modern Day Conflict, Daniel P. Griffin
Department: Religious Studies
Paleocology of a Late Pleistocene (Eemian) Reef Sequence on Great Inagua Island, the Bahamas, Emiliann Griffin
Department: Geology
"Public Pretenders": a Study of Lawyers Who Become Public Defenders and Their Image Among the Public, Elizabeth Habat
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"This Game of Death Is Bitter, and Sweet": a Study of Revenge in the Greek Tragedies, Jessica Anne Hahs
Department: Classical Studies
Effect of the Y Chromosome on Spatial Learning and Synaptic Density in the Hippocampus, Emily Hansen
Department: Psychology
Study of the Formation of Ship Rock By Analysis of Magma Flow Direction, Denise Marie Hardman
Department: Geology
Origins of Garnet in Peraluminous Granitoids Found in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Jessica S. Hark
Department: Geology
Everything, Written Down: a Novella, Sarah Haskell
Department: English
The Battle For Historic Preservation in America, Brendan Hayes
Department: History
A Wife, a Mistress, but Never a Nun: A Study of Buddhism and Gender in Thai Society, Jessica M. Hill
Department: Religious Studies
Tradition of Latin Pedagogy at the College of Wooster, Judith Mae Holden
Department: Classical Studies
Media As a Revolutionary Actor: a Case Study of Nicaragua During the Sandinista Government, Sarah C. Horne
Department: Political Science
Paleomagnetic Remanence and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility of Dikes From Super-Fast Spread Crust Exposed at Pito Deep Rift, Andrew J. Horst
Department: Geology
Synergistic Effects of Stress and Pesticides on the Growth and Development of Hyla versicolor (Eastern Gray Tree Frog), Julia Horst
Department: Biology
After Caravaggio: a Collection of Poetry, Julie Hufnagel
Department: English