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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Predicting the Behaviour of Breast Cancer Cells Using Data Analytics and Mathematical Modelling, Anesu Munyanyi
Department: Mathematics
The Truth About Probiotics? - A Study of How Probiotic Bacterial Produced 5-Ht (Serotonin) in the Microbiome of Caenorhabditis Elegans Alters Behavior, Jillian Murray
Department: Biology
Exploring the Power of Generative Architectures such as GANs, Transformers, and VQGAN+CLIP through the Construction of an Illustrated Storybook Generator, Ussama Mustafa
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
A Home for People and Planet: Assessing the Feasibility of Sustainable Affordable Housing by Designing a Proof-of-Concept, Jennifer Teare Mynard
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies
Architectural Style Changes in Arizona Homes: How a Place Becomes a Home During Different Times Periods, Hayley Nash
Department: Art and Art History
A Critical Examination of Internal Self-Determination: A Case of Ethiopia, Salem Nega
Department: Global and International Studies
Becoming HOA: Constructing A Virtual Realistic Webxr Archive To Imagine And Unimagine The HOA Identity In Present-Day Vietnam, Minh Nguyen
Department: Computer Science; History
Foreign Trade Policy as Contextualized Political Leadership: Analyzing Vietnam's Negotiation and Implementation of the CPTPP and EVFTA, Trong Tung Lam Nguyen
Department: Political Science
Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews for B2C E-commerce Platforms in Vietnam: A Comparative Study of Lazada, Shopee, Tiki, and Sendo, Tuan M. Nguyen
Department: Statistical and Data Sciences
Considered or Coincidence: Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Hybridization Across Different Populations: A Review, Natalie Nonno
Department: Biology
Nike's “Equality”: How the Spread of Equality is Halted by the Delivery of Nike's Message and Their Past Controversies, Zak Nowatzke
Department: Communication Studies
Nike's Equality: How the Spread of Equality is Halted by the Delivery of Nike's Message and Their Past Controversies, Zak Nowatzke
Department: Communication Studies
An Analysis of Large Language Models in the HealthCare Domain, Bolanle Oladeji
Department: Computer Science
Working Women: How Early Modern Women Artists Generated Empowering Self-Portraits in Male Dominated Italian Culture, Jessica R. Olson
Department: Art and Art History
Understanding Viewer’s Reactions to Sports Commentators and What They Bring to the Table During a Broadcast of a NFL Game, Noah J. Olson
Department: Communication Studies
Alternative Ways to Understanding: Promoting Community Food Sovereignty Through Value-Driven Education, Brendan Ortiz
Department: Environmental Studies
This Is Not About The Body: Deprioritizing A Corporeal Study of The Hijra, Alex C. Padfield
Department: Religious Studies
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us; Do Apis mellifera Colonies Deter Wild Bee Visitation to Urban Pollinator Gardens?, Matthew Pardi
Department: Biology
Benzo(a)pyrene Induces CYP1A and p53 Expression in Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), Gracie Park
Department: Biology
Utopia Across Time and Space: Could There Ever Be a "Perfect World"?, Ashini Patel
Department: English; Philosophy
An Investigation of Criticality: Characterizing Motion on a Conical Bead Pile, Davis K. Patterson
Department: Physics
Les Mourides: Perceptions of Religious Authority and Political Decision-Making, Henry Pellegrin
Department: Global and International Studies; Religious Studies
Imperialism in Action: A High School Unit Designed to Teach Core Concepts of Imperialism During the Scramble for Africa, Nathaniel Perry
Department: History
Exploiting Emergencies: Government Corruption and Repression in Post-Disaster Societies, Lark Pinney
Department: Political Science
Un análisis léxico y sociolingüístico del shesheo en la canción "La Mushasha Shula" de Espinoza Paz, Penelophe Pintor
Department: Spanish
Divinity's Secret Love Song: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Humanity and the Divine Through The Lens of Sacred Narratives, Kevin Douglas Poe
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies
Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Workforce Participation, Separated by Gender, and Income, in the Construction Industry, Mason Poisson
Department: Business Economics
“They’re a 10, but..”: Exploring the Effects of Romantic Relationships on Black Women, Kennedy Pope
Department: Psychology
Greedy Gamblers and Bayesian Bandits: A Quantitative ERP, EEG, and Behavioral Analysis of the Iowa State Gambling Task, Noah Pounds
Department: Neuroscience
Nuclear Power Plays: An Examination of US Opinion on the Nuclear Energy Industry through Film, Samuel William Powers
Department: History
Racial Preferences in the NCAA Coaching Market: A Study on the Level of Racial Discrimination in NCAA Coaching Employment, and How Density of Hate Groups Can be Used as an Indicator, Scott Presley
Department: Business Economics
The Necessary Inclusion of Historical Trauma in Trauma-Based Diagnoses and Subsequent Alternative Therapies Informed by Decolonial Philosophy: Indigeneity as a Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu, Alix Joseph Printup
Department: Philosophy; Psychology
Cubulus: Procedural World Generation Using Marching Cubes, Keeton P. Purvis
Department: Computer Science
Teaching the Long Civil Rights Movement: A Construction of Lessons That Dive Further In-Depth Than What the Ohio Standards Require, Nicholas Rabaut
Department: Education; History
Warfarin in Natural Water: A Study of the Photochemical Decomposition and Product Formation, Colton Rambur
Department: Chemistry
Warfarin in Natural Water: A Study of the Photochemical Decomposition and Product Formation, Colton Rambur
Department: Chemistry
A Quantification of Spring Ephemeral Pollen Carried on Queen Bumblebees: Implications for Temporal Mismatch Between Plants and their Pollinators, Antonia N. Ramos
Department: Biology
Analysis of Nonlinear Phase Accumulation from Transformations of the Polarization States of Light in Connection to Quantum Information, Raisa Tasnim Raofa
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Red Sword-White Canvas: The Past, Present, and Future of the Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Aesthetics, Ben Read
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy
Frustration Nation: Why Leaders Choose Foreign-Imposed Regime Change to Forcibly Overthrow Governments & The Role of Emotions in Foreign Policy Behavior, Gordon Reeves
Department: Political Science
The Arms Trade Treaty Theoretical Failure or Success?, Izaak T. Rennebeck-Oliveira
Department: Political Science
Automated Geologic Cross-Section Generation for Ohio Using GemPy, Abigail Rice
Department: Computer Science
I Lived, I Learned: Communication Theory of Resilience and Adult Children of Parents Who Have Experienced Substance Use Disorder, Douglas S. Richardson Jr
Department: Communication Studies
“What’s in a name?”: How Just the Word “Autism” affects Autism Stigma, Allison Elnora Ringold
Department: German Studies; Neuroscience
An Analysis of Drought, Wildfire, and Landslide Activity Across Ventura County, CA, Christopher M. Roche
Department: Earth Sciences
The Shuck Pit, Matthew Rohlman
Department: English
Visualizing Constraint Satisfaction Problems Using Swarm Intelligence, Kyle N. Rossi
Department: Computer Science
Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief on Stage, Amari Royal
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance
The Emphasis of Gendered Stereotypes by Candidates in Electoral Campaigns, Abigail Grace Rubadue
Department: Political Science
A Portal to Transcend the Spaciotemporal Realm: A Queer Utopian Schemata for (re)Considering Emotion and Community Formation in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Periodicals, Aspen Rush
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Celestial Bodies and Ancient Maya Women: Shedding (Moon)light on Divine Power, Anna Robinson Russell
Department: Archaeology
The CFA Zone: An Assessment of Factors Impacting Human Development, Namara Rwakatare
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Global and International Studies
Assimilation and Identity: Examining the Cultural and Economic Assimilation of Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, Zineb Sair
Department: Economics
Supervised Machine Learning on Photo Recognition of Real and Fantastical Images, Ethan O. Samangy
Department: Computer Science
If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone; If You Want to Go Far, Go Together: Exploring the Institutional Effectiveness of African Regional Organizations From a Peacekeeping Perspective, Stacey Sam
Department: Political Science
Empowering Healthcare Sustainability: The Economic Impact of Wooster's Community Care Network For Chronic Disease Management, Tyusha Sarawagi
Department: Business Economics; Statistical and Data Sciences
The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Photo-Sensitive Metal Complex Catalysts, Michael L. Scarberry
Department: Chemistry; Physics
Heterogeneous Ozonolysis of a Novel Fungicide, Emma Schell
Department: Chemistry
GOP Jesus and Trump: an Exploration of the Usage of Evangelical Christianity by Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, Fiona Erin Rebbecca Schieve
Department: Religious Studies
Don't Fight the Fed? An Analysis of the Role of Monetary Policy in the Formation of Bubbles in the Housing Market, Claira E. Schiffrik
Department: Economics
The Partisan Implications of a Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission: Examining the 2022 Midterm Elections in Michigan, Carter M. Schmidt
Department: Political Science
Modelling Stable Equilibrium Orientations of a Submerged Dipolar Particle in an Electromagnetic Field, John P. Schmidt
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Structural Stability of Bovine Serum Albumin upon Adsorption to SOMS Measured by FT-IR, Kylie M. Schmitz
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Sir Skink in The Cold Knight, Adam Schneider
Department: English
The Online World of Politics: Analyzing the Impact of the Public During #MeToo on Public Policy Using Machine Learning, Robert Doak Schultz
Department: Political Science
Congestive Heart Failure and Depression: Are medical professionals biased towards CHF patients with depression?, Katie Schumacher
Department: Psychology
How Should Self-Driving Cars be Programmed: Exploring Intuition, Utilitarianism, and the Moral Machine Experiment, Isaac Schwartz
Department: Philosophy; Statistical and Data Sciences
Soothed by the Sublime, Janette R. Seaton-Evans
Department: Art and Art History
Beyond the Game: Examining Health Attitudes from a Collegiate Student-Athlete Perspective, Lucy Segal
Department: Psychology
From Learning to Leadership: The Influence of Educational Attainment on the Retrospective Job Performance of Modern American Presidents, Andrew Seifert
Department: Political Science
Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Investigating Copper Dyshomeostasis: The Role of His-Tag Modularity and Alternative Expression Systems in Evaluating Dopamine β-Hydroxylase, Zoë Lee Semersky
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Overlooked Adoptees: The Effects of COVID-19 Racism and Ethnic Identity on the Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Transracial Adoptees in the United States, Zoe E. Seymore
Department: Psychology
Procedurally Generating a Dungeon for Roguelike Games, Manan Shahi
Department: Computer Science
Immobilization of Transferrin in Swellable Organically Modified Silica for Remediation of Heavy Metal Ions, Shiropa Shahreen
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Investigation of Splicing Changes in dNab2 Knockdown Drosophila Neurons, Katherine J. Shelmidine
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“Major Onions!” A Rhetorical Analysis of Famous Broadcasting Calls in American Sports, Hayden Sherry
Department: Communication Studies
Music and Migration: The Demand for Hybrid/World Music in the U.S., Mekdes Shiferaw
Department: Global and International Studies
Explorations in Value Theory: The Case for Monism, Max Shiffman
Department: Philosophy
The Impact of Modern Technology in Sports on Athletic Success and Team Relationships, Joe Shilts
Department: Communication Studies
Putin's "Corrective Project": An Examination of State Repression Against Russian Nongovernmental Organizations, Ethan Sieber
Department: Political Science; Russian Studies
Third World: Bolivia, The United States, Democracy, and the Art of Putting it on Stage, Victoria I. Silva
Department: Political Science; Theatre and Dance
A Critical Theory of the Internet, Savannah Sima
Department: Philosophy; Political Science
A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Current State of Knowledge of Phytophthora RxLR Effector Proteins, Keegan Daniel Smith
Department: Biology
“The Mind Keeps the Score”: Attachment Style, Emotional Deregulation, Dissociation and Self-Efficacy as a Potential Etiological Cause of Revictimization, Maya Najiri Smith
Department: Psychology
Can We Reverse Aging? Using Cognitive Training in Rodents to Enhance Overall Cognitive Performance, Sarah Snider
Department: Neuroscience
More than a Hobby: Examining Dance as Communication in Honeybees and Humans, Katie Spence
Department: Biology; Theatre and Dance
Oral Contraceptives Improve Spatial Learning And Anxiety In A Rodent Model Despite Opposing Androgenicity, Morgan Stanley
Department: Psychology
Missing Indigo, Robert A. Stark
Department: Music
Investigating Long-Term Effects of Birth Factors on Immune Performance and Development, Katherine Elizabeth Stephens
Department: Biology; Statistical and Data Sciences
"Does this spark joy?": Aesthetics, Gender, and Ideals in Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Kayla E. Stevens
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
No Justice No Peace: A Conception of Justice, Nkosi Stewart
Department: Political Science
Consumer Transparency in Real Estate: A Study on Data Accessibility and its Role as an Inhibitive Element of Search Costs within the Housing Market, Paris M. Stirrat
Department: Economics
Do Humans Express Empathy Towards One Another Through The Way They Divide Their Labor During Physical Group Tasks? Examining the Impact of Physical Strain and Labor Division on Situational Empathy and Group Cohesion, Jasper H. Stoddard
Department: Psychology
Facilitating Collaborative Gameplay Within an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment, Drake Stolman
Department: Computer Science
Obliteration and Negotiation: Assessing Whether Counter-War Strategy and Negotiations Can Reduce Terror Committed by Violent Non-State Actors, Neil W. Storey
Department: Political Science
Obliteration and Negotiation: Assessing Whether Counter-War Strategy and Negotiations Can Reduce Terror Committed by Violent Non-State Actors, Neil Walker Storey
Department: Political Science
Conservation of Dynamic Modularity in Biological Network Modeling: Modular Boolean Model of Cell Cycle Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caitlin Strassburg
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Mathematics
Studying the Halo of the Nearby M104 Galaxy through Galaxy Decomposition using GALFIT, Connor T. Streeter
Department: Physics
Islands In an Indian Sea?: The Story of British Spaces in Colonial India, Dylan Strickland
Department: History
Creating a Hydrological Profile of Northern Shreve, Ohio, Through Groundwater Well Analysis, Ryan Henry Sullivan
Department: Earth Sciences