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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
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
Pollen and Resource Limitation of Seed Production in the Sexual Reproduction of Two Dicentra cucullaria Populations at Wooster Memorial Park, Huayu Sun
Department: Biology
Identifying Potential Redox Partners of the Yeast Mitochondrial Thioredoxin, Griffin G. Suppa
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Hope and Mourning in an Age of Immanent Extinction: Grief as a Framework for Revolutionary Ethics, Artemis Swanson
Department: Philosophy; Political Science
Secluded in the Snow, Emma Swindell
Department: History
The Nuclear Densitometer: Its Design, Use in Construction, and an Experimental Application, Adeline N. Tagg
Department: Geology
The Misrepresentation of Black Male Athletes in Media, Dorion Talley
Department: Communication Studies
The Evolution of Black of Black Freedom Through Political Power, Quincy A. Taylor
Department: History
Impacts of Regime Type and Economic Development Levels on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Nations, Brennen Testa
Department: Political Science
Staring at Images: A Comprehensive Exploration of Object Detection, August Tewell
Department: Computer Science
The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction and Its Technological Advancement With a Focus on Applications With Electric Paint, Sobika Thapa
Department: Computer Science
La loca de Gandoca: Las varias voces en la lucha por la naturaleza en Costa Rica, Madeline L. Thompson
Department: Spanish
Resting Heart Rate, Sleep, and Stress: The Physiological Stress Response of NCAA Division III Female Student-Athletes, Riley Marie Thorr
Department: Biology
A Farmer Works So the World Can Eat: An Analysis of the Impact of United Nations Food (In)security And Climate Change Collaboration on Linkages in United Nations Outcomes, Maley Tinstman
Department: Political Science
Contesting the White Masculine Ideal: A Comparative Content Analysis of Fight Club and The Wolf of Wall Street, Colin C. Tobin
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
Magmatic Evolution of the Bræðravirki Ridge Basalts in Western Iceland, Judith G. Topham
Department: Earth Sciences
An Analysis of the Effects of Water Chemistry on Diatom Ecology Over Time in the American Upper Midwest, Richard Cabral Torres
Department: Earth Sciences
Face to Face: Finding Confidence in my Voice in a Technology-Centered Generation, Britta Elaine Treu
Department: Communication Studies
Understanding First-Generation Graduation Rates at The College of Wooster: Applying Mathematical Models to Factors that Affect Retention, Anna Truong
Department: Mathematics
Saving Us from Ourselves: Testing Informational Inoculation as a Mechanism to Protect Against COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation, Otis N. Tucker
Department: Psychology
An Examination of Win Probability in NCAA Division I Football Overtime and Its Applications for Evaluating Coaching Decisions, Matt Ulishney
Department: Mathematics
Investigating the Impact of User Interface Design on User Experience in a Full Stack Social Media Web Application., Aavash Upadhyaya
Department: Computer Science
What is Reel Life: An Analysis of TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Related to Eating Disorders and Mental Illness, Maud E. Utstein
Department: Communication Studies
From the Dim and Shadowy Past to the Computer Screen: Digitally Centering Indigenous Voices in Wayne County, Ohio, Glenna Van Dyke
Department: History
Banking Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) During the Financial Crisis: A Long-Term Strategy?, David Varner
Department: Business Economics
An Investigation of Speech-Language Pathologists' Perceptions of Adults Who Stutter and the Most Effective Treatment Methods Including Altered Auditory Feedback, Yatzari Venzor
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Science of Using Women and The Art of Eating Italian: Italian Food Culture From 1848 to Today, Theresa E. von Wallmenich
Department: History
“You Are Stunning…. Just Like Marilyn!”: A Content Analysis of Media Emphasizing the Ideal of Beauty Surrounding the 2022 Met Gala Dress Scandal, Lijiayi Wang
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
Cytochrome p450 1A Oxidation of Pollutant Benzo(a)pyrene's Genetic Effect on Ameiurus nebulosus’ p53 and MDM2 Genomic Region, Breanna Watkins
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Mediating Effect of Individualism and Collectivism on the Relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and Depression and Anxiety, Monica S. Watkins
Department: Psychology
The Beauty and Solace in Loneliness: Using Light, Design, and Iconography to Showcase Acceptance and Edification, Olivia Medaglia Watling
Department: Art and Art History
Necessity of the Robo/Slit Signaling Pathway During Glial Migration in the Peripheral Nervous System of Drosophila melanogaster, Alexandra M. Wells
Department: Biology
Why Athletes Lose Money: Examining Social Factors That Cause Male Professional Basketball Players to Go Broke, Paige Wells
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Lyricism and the Politics of Belonging: Music and Nationalisms for Israel and Palestine, Linat R. Westreich
Department: Political Science
The Lost Electorate: A Content Analysis of 2022 Democratic Senatorial Candidates' Video Commercials and Their Appeals to the White Working-Class, Kay Elizabeth Wetmore
Department: Communication Studies; Political Science
Tile Invariants and an Exploration of Tilings with Ribbon Pentominoes and L-Pentominoes, Lucy Wickham
Department: Mathematics