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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
The History of Mental Health in Urban Schools: A Case Study of Crenshaw Middle School, Canton City School District, Noah Albright
Department: History; Education
The Future Medical Technology: A Study of the Impact of Clinical Trials on Medical Devices and Adoption Rates, Domenic Ignazio DeMuth
Department: Business Economics
Pesticides in the Atmosphere: The Heterogeneous Ozonolysis of Triticonazole, Sarah A. Epstein
Department: Chemistry
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Exploring the Binding Multiplicity, Mode of Inhibition and Communication Between NADH Binding Sites on 6- Hydroxynicotinate 3-monooxygenase (NicC), Eric Senanu Adadevoh Mr.
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Sanctuary, Katherine Adams-Fisher
Department: English
Ecology and Genetic Variation of the Invasive Aedes japonicus Mosquito in Wooster, OH: An Addition to Existing Cultural, Literary, and Artistic Symbolism of Insects Around the World, Tomoka Shannon-Rose Adams
Department: Biology; Spanish
“More Money More Problems?”: A Study on the Impact of Increases in Minimum Wage Rates on Economic Growth, Nana Abena Biamah Adu-Boahen
Department: Business Economics
Coloring Away the Blues: Exploring the Therapeutic Effects of Art Activities on Well-Being, Lucy Agurkis
Department: Psychology
Molding a New You: Exploring the Therapeutic and Healing Properties of Clay, Lucy Agurkis
Department: Art and Art History
Building an 8-Bit Computer: From Design to Implementation, Craig Akiri
Department: Computer Science
Porphyrin Based Photosensitizing Agents: Comparative Study On The Effects Of TPP-sesamol and TPP-zingerone On Yeast Cells, Edwina Akonor
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Black and Red Markers on White Boards: Applying John Ogbu's Cultural-Ecological Theory of Minority Student Experiences to Higher Education, Geoffrey Allen
Department: Chinese Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Hair, Food, and Relationships, Inethia M. Allen
Department: Art and Art History
Coinfection of Culex Flavivirus and Wolbachia spp in Culex Mosquitoes and Implication for Arbovirus Control, Cristian Amesbury
Department: Biology
Measurement & Analysis of Pesticide Biotransformation Products in Ohio Precipitation Samples, Lily Anderson
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Reality of Child Slave Labor Today: An Analysis of Tony's Chocolonely News Messages Through the Lens of Identificational Appeals, Marina Anderson
Department: Communication Studies
Investigating the Suggested Inhibition of Pho4 by P. sojae RxLR Effector PsAvh110 Utilizing SDL Assays, Nathaniel Andrews
Department: Biology
Brownfield Meets the Bees' Needs: The William J. Robertson Nature Preserve Provides a Safe Haven for Solitary Native Bees, Ash Arons
Department: Environmental Studies
The Importance of Mixed-Race Mestiza Representation On and Off Stage: An Autoethnographic Approach, Teresa Isabel Ascencio
Department: Theatre and Dance; Communication Studies
Reality Television’s Vision of Class: A Deep Dive into Class Performance in Windy City Rehab, Gillian Rhiannon Ashley
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Axon Pathfinding in Drosophila melanogaster Wing Sensory Neurons, Jade Baek
Department: Neuroscience
La Violencia en Las Sombras: Epistemic Violence in The United States Immigration System and Its Implications, Hannah Rosemary Baker
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Seeds of Liberation or Spheres of Domination: Role-Playing Games and Alternative Social Formation, Peter Barker
Department: History; Philosophy
Evaluation of the Use of Raphinus Sativus and Neem as Pest Management Strategies for Diabrotica Undecimpunctata Howardii in the Crop Species Cucurbita Pepo Subspecies Pepo, Owen C. Barnard
Department: Environmental Studies
The Effects of Interparental Conflict on an Individual’s Expectations Towards Their Romantic Relationships: Attitudes Towards Romantic Relationships, Demetrius Devon Barnett
Department: Psychology
Melanism in Abert's Squirrel: Investigating the Genetic Cause and Frequency of Melanism in Northern Populations, Lake Barrett
Department: Biology
Exploring Small State Foreign Policy Through Shelter: A Case Study on Mongolian Foreign Policy, Bilegsanaa Battulga
Department: Political Science
Memories of Tomorrow, Lillian S. Beach
Department: English
Establishing Mixedness: Exploring the Role School Plays in Multiracial Identity Formation, Langston Bealum
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Creating a Caring Community: An Examination of Mutual Aid Networks, Abigail Beard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Bacteriophage Therapy Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria, Bethel B. Bedelu
Department: Interdepartmental
Legalization v. Decriminalization: An Analysis on the Impacts of Marijuana Policy Reform on State’s Crime Rates, Owen Belfiore
Department: Political Science
Do You Get Déjà Vu? Examining the Effects of Context and Time on Contextual Generalization in a Mouse Model of PTSD, Natalie Ibrahim Belle
Department: Neuroscience
Interrogation of a Conserved Overlap Between Cofactor and Substrate Binding Domains to Facilitate Crosstalk-Induced Conformational Changes in Class A Flavin Monooxygenases: A Case Study of 6-Hydroxynicotinate-3-Monooxygenase, Sam L. Belsky
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Push it to the Limit: Exploring the Activity Threshold of the Myxococcus xanthus Arginine Kinase and Its Effects on Socially-Motivated Phenotypes, Macey Bennett
Department: Biology
Into the Mythopoeia of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Exploring Memories of War through Fantasy Literature, Claire Berlin
Department: History
What Constitutes an Inflated Self-Esteem? Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Esteem, Social Desirability and Personality, Teddy Berner
Department: Psychology
Stages of Change: Investigating the Supply of Different Emotional-Themes Concert Dance Production in Economics Recession, Dantong Bi
Department: Economics; Theatre and Dance
A Tale of Two Morphs: Understanding the Influence of Temperature on Eastern Red-Backed Salamander Color Morphs, Mary Blair
Department: Biology
Hey Baby You Up? A Solution to Early Online Sexual Predator Detection, Haley R. Bloom
Department: Computer Science
Analysis of P. aeruginosa Antibiotic Resistance Development at Variable Ciprofloxacin Growth Concentrations In Vitro and In Vivo Using C. elegans Host, Daniel William Bohl
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Two's a Crowd: Creating a Double Plasmid Expression System in E. coli for Biotinylated KLK3 PSA Protein, Collin J. Boissoneault
Department: Biology
The Effect of M&A on Acquirer Shareholder Wealth, Marquis Malone Boley Jr
Department: Business Economics
An Assessment of the Conservation Status and Morphology of the Golden Tree Frog, Phytotriades auratus, Daniel Borowsky
Department: Biology
Towards a New Political Sovereignty: A Case Study of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Citizen-Science Project, Sam C. Boudreau
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Utilizing Selective Seed Breeding to Optimize Carbon Sequestration in Winter Wheat in Wooster, Ohio, Grace A. Braver
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Not Such a "Fun-Guy": Infection Patterns of the Fungal Pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), on Northern Two-Lined Salamander Populations at Wooster Memorial Park, Caileigh Alexandra Briggs
Department: Biology
“I See Me in You”: A Focus Group Study on How Polarizing Social Media Influencers Gather and Retain Support, Harvey Briscoe
Department: Communication Studies
“I See Me in You”: A Focus Group Study on How Polarizing Social Media Influencers Gather and Retain Support, Harvey Briscoe
Department: Communication Studies
Improving the Accuracy of GALFIT in Measuring the Morphological Properties of Multi-Component Disk Galaxies, Whitford Dean Brown
Department: Physics
Asian by Birth, American by Circumstance: How Transcultural East-Asian Adoptees in the U.S. Create Multi-Cultural Identities & the Toll of the Covid-19 Anti-Asian Hate Crisis in Altering Identity Conception, Maud Bulman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
It’s Not Therapy: An Investigation of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perceptions of Effective Accent Modification Services for Adult Speakers and College Students' Perceptions of Accents Contingent Upon Their Exposure to Diverse Speakers, Samantha Burke
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Understanding Integrative Rhetorical Complexity’s Effect on Public Opinion of Ballot Initiatives in Conjunction with a Contingent Valuation of a Ballot Initiative to Improve Water Quality Trading Systems., Tanner C. Burt
Department: Economics; Political Science
“Forever On My Mind:” Blues Songwriting in the 1960s, Shane Byrne
Department: History
Through The Lens: Shattering Stereotypes About African American Women In Sports Through Photography, Rondon Caesar Jr.
Department: Communication Studies
It's the Little Things in (a Grasshopper's) Life: How the Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina) Visually Signals to Conspecifics While Minimizing Predation Risk, Claire Campbell
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
Automation Testing: The Savior of The QA Team, Dane Camphausen
Department: Computer Science
Discourse and Discovery: A Study of Communication and the Formation of Group Identity Within Common Grounds, Jacob Cannon
Department: Communication Studies
Emboldening the Insolent: How Governmental Treatment of Refugees Affects Far-Right Support, Alexa Carlozzi
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Global and International Studies
Post-Disaster Urban Reconstruction’s Effect on Mental Health: A Case Study of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Residents, Hope Mari Samal Carmody
Department: Urban Studies
Women’s Place in the House (of Representatives): A study of Gender or Ideology on Congressional Voting Behavior, Morgan Carson
Department: Political Science
Are Your Water Systems Safe? A Study on CYP1A Expression in Brown Bullhead and Channel Catfish in Response to Sediment Exposure from Killbuck Creek Wooster, Ohio, Madison Carter
Department: Biology
Dawn of Darkness, Pookar Chand
Department: English
The Effects of Parenting Styles and Parental Conflict on Child Development, Cloud Chang
Department: Psychology
Probability Analysis of Time Intervals Surrounding Large Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, Harrison Clayman
Department: Physics
A Review of the Sexual Assault Kit Backlog and the Methods of Biological Analysis in Crime Laboratories, Chloe F. Clear
Department: Biology
Simulating Reaction-Diffusion Waves to Model Gravitational Lensing, Daniel Cohen-Cobos
Department: Computer Science; Physics
U.S. Military Intervention in Ukraine: Modern Warfare, Postcolonial Conflict, and The Russo-Ukrainian War, Patrick Colwell
Department: History
Face the Music: The History of Women’s Music within Cultural and Intersectional Feminism, Megan E. Conklin
Department: History
It’s Raining PFAS! Targeted and Non-Targeted Identification and Quantitation and Semi-Quantitation of Legacy and Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Rainwater and Groundwater of Wooster, OH, Donald M. Conley III
Department: Chemistry
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Imzadia Conrad
Department: Music
Why Not to Be Anywhere But Here? A Journey Through Exile, Rickey D. Cooper
Department: Theatre and Dance
"Footsteps in the dark:" An Analysis of Identity Salience in Queer Christian College Students, Allison M. Cunningham
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Isometric Immersion: Hilbert's Theorem and the Case of the Hyperbolic Plane, Michael D. Curran
Department: Mathematics
A Grasp for Global Dominance? Analyzing Russian Leaderships' Impact on Russia's National Role Conception, Colin Edward Czubaruk
Department: Political Science
The Revelations of Roman Tombs, Evan M. Daggett
Department: History
Making My Body My Own: The Innate Queerness of Tattooing, Jay Daigle
Department: Art and Art History
An Exploration Into Image Object Detection and Image Instance Segmentation: Mask R-CNN and YOLOv5 Comparison in Image Object Detection Task, Minh Duc Dao
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The Best Advertising Strategies for Optimizing Business Outcome, Vu Dao
Department: Business Economics
How Does a City’s Migrant Identities Affect Urban Governments’ Implementation of Affordable Housing Policies?, Ethan Dasilva
Department: Political Science
Time’s Change in Depiction Over Time: A Rhetorical Analysis on Time Magazine Immigration Cover Stories, Luis Delgado
Department: Communication Studies
Climatological Analysis of Recent Pluvial Conditions in Northeast Ohio and Implications for Water Management, Caitlyn A. Denes
Department: Earth Sciences
Make Love Not Porn: The Effects of Pornography Consumption on Interpersonal Relationship Satisfaction, Camille S. Diekhans
Department: Psychology
Building a Career as a Content Creator: Making an Impact in the Creator Economy, Jordan Diggs
Department: Global Media and Digital Studies
Metabolomics of iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Secretions for Biomarker Discovery in Leigh Syndrome, Amber J. Dinchman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Metabolomics of iPSC-derived Cardiomyocyte Secretions for Biomarker Discovery in Leigh Syndrome, Amber J. Dinchman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exploring Novel Redox Partners and Properties of the Thioredoxin Reductase Trr1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, To Uyen Do
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Prognostic Factors Related to Meningioma Growth: A Meta-Analysis, David Dotson
Department: Neuroscience
Investment in Tomorrow: Evaluating the Relationship Between School District Funding and Student Performance, Alexander Owen Drewes
Department: Economics
Is it Absurd to be Ethical?, Alex Drummond
Department: Philosophy
Authenticity and Virtue Theory, David V. Dunn
Department: Philosophy
Can The Swiss Have Their Cake And Eat It Too?: An Examination Of Swiss Identity And Public Support For European Integration, Jenna L. Dyroff
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Global and International Studies
On the Interaction Between Tau and Nab2 Proteins: Implication on AD, Mahmoud ElAchwah
Department: Biology; Neuroscience
“Navigating the Storm”: Exploring the Relationship Between Stochastic Market Disruptions and Supply Chain Resilience., Elyazid N. Elhamriti
Department: Economics; Global and International Studies
Assessing And Projecting Stream Patterns In Hydrogeomorphology In Low-Elevation Watersheds, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA, Matthew Monroe Engfer
Department: Earth Sciences
Power Corrupts But Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: What Effects Do Political Crisis Have on Political Stability of Emerging Democracies, Ayse Ergon
Department: Political Science
Environmental Activism For Sale: A Visual Analysis Of The Relationship Between Product Advertising And The Environmental Movement In 2022, Isabel C. Espinosa
Department: Communication Studies; Global Media and Digital Studies
Heart Rate Recovery of DIII Collegiate Soccer Players: Potential Effects of Biological Sex and Time Period, Theodora Farson
Department: Neuroscience
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Pollution Analysis and Ameiurus Nebulosus Gene Expression Can Predict Environmental Health, Naomi Fernandes
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Role of CB1 Receptors in the Antidepressant Effects of Sleep Deprivation Therapy in Rats, María Dolores Ferreira
Department: Neuroscience