Honors Thesis Archive | Wittenberg University

Bucher, Laura (2019): The Impact of Music on Behavior in High-Risk Students
Conaway, Kierstin (2019): Transnational Adoption and “Orphans” from China’s Perspective: A Culturally Taboo Topic
Estenson, Kimberly (2019): “A Good Girl Can Fight Her Way Through a Thousand Troops”: An Analysis of Nushu Culture and its International Representation.
Estenson, Kimberly (2019): Old Wives’ Tales, or the Feminist Revisionist Tales: “The Angels Whisper,” “Unyielding Hatred,” and “The Wampus Woman”
Leisher, (Thomas) Kai (2019): Exchange-Traded Funds: The Unknown Investment Opportunity
Malott, Bradley (2019): Development and investigation of antibiotic resistance in E. coli using aminoglycosides
Marsh, Clayton E (2019): Germany And Russia: A Tale Of Two Identities: The Development of National Consciousness in the Napoleonic Era
McLean, Cassie M. (2019): Therapeutic Alliance in Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Rucker, Heather (2019): A Topic of Silence: Japan’s Sexual Education
Sánchez, Sierra (2019): Woman Hollering/la Gritona: The Reinterpretation Of Myth In Sandra Cisneros’ The House On Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek
Tanner, Meagan (2019): Was That Sexist?: Open-Mindedness Predicts Interpretation of Benevolent Sexism in Ambiguous Scenarios
Winner, Katherine M. (2019): A fluorescence-based approach to elucidate the subunit arrangement of the essential tRNA deaminase from Trypanosoma brucei
Aylor, Anna (2018): The effects of ocean acidification on Prochlorococcus
Bauman, Libby (2018): The Effects of Narrative and Creative Writing on Mood and College Adjustment
Cochran, Haley (2018): Schooling with a Chronic Illness
Dann, Anissa (2018): The Beat Goes On
Durell, Joshua Luke (2018): The Ohio Migrant Effect: An Introductory Analysis of the Impact of Immigration on Ohioan Income
Wampler, Amanda (2018): A Strange Language of Sympathy: Ideologies of Food and Hunger in Plath and Kerouac
Barstow, Adam (2017): The Divergent Consequences of Secret Societies: Effects of Group Membership on Out-Group Discrimination and Collective Self-Esteem
Glass, Stephanie (2017): Not Just Fun and Games: Feminism in Parks and Recreation
Huck, Courtney (2017): Embedded and Unilateral Journalists: How their Access to Sources Affected their Framing During the 2003 Iraq War
Hulen, Sophia (2017): Break out and breakthroughs: Institutional Deviations from the Writing Center Grand Narrative
Long, Courtney Rae (2017): Investigation of Information Sharing Between In School and Summer School
Newman, Melissa (2016): The Pictorial Stylings of Louis Raemaekers and Sir David Low: A Comparison of Anti-German Cartoons from World War I to World War II
Rotroff, Heidi (2016): Christa Wolf's Feminist, Socialist Diary: Aesthetics of Translation
Smith, Terrance (2016): Foot and Ankle Injuries: Artificial Turf vs. Natural grass
Tincher, Jennifer (2016): Advocating for the Advocate: The Influences of Bureaucracy and Emotional Labor in Victim/Witness
Webb, Sarah (2016): One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: A Critique of Traditional Telenovelas
Bewley, Alison (2015): Quantifying the Distance that Solitary Bee Genera Move Pollen in a Fragmented Prairie Plant Population
Brown, Katherine (2015): Understanding the Impact of Strain and Social Disorganization on Mental Illness
Erb, Paige (2015): Effects of Subconcussive Head Injury on Anxiety
Fox, Savannah (2015): Abraham Lincoln, Contract Disputes, and Remedying Legal Inefficiencies
Glasgo, Victor (2015): A Geometric Analysis of Chord Progressions
Green, Caitlin (2015): Giving Form to God: The Legacy of Savonarola in Paintings by Fra Bartolommeo and Raphael
Jackson, Anna (2015): “They Tried To Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds”: The Latino Experience in the United States in Regards to Health Care Services
Klamfoth, Jeanette (2015): Is flowering time heritable?: Quantifying the heritability of flowering time in a native prairie perennial, Echinacea angustifolia
Konowal, Jennifer (2015): Narrating the Lives of Saints and Sinners in Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs
La Count, Steven (2015): ⁶⁰Co/¹³⁷Cs γ–ray imaging of a geode, phantom and a human forearm model
McCullough, Sean (2015): Hector Berlioz, The Musician and The Reader: How Genetic Criticism Augments Our Understanding
McCullough, Sean (2015): Broken for Whom?: Reading Richardson’s Clarissa as the Eucharist
Moorhead, Audrey (2015): A Thorough Glance at the Social Framework of Bride Abduction from a Feminist Lens: Themes of Power, Dominance, and Shame
Nguyen, Linh M. (2015): The Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Orientations on Job Satisfaction: A Comparison of Vietnamese and the U.S. Manufacturing Workers
Schmaus, Carrie (2015): Effects of Atrazine Exposure on Aromatase Expression in Male Zebrafish (danio rerio)
Smith, Autumn (2015): Journeying into the Recesses: Examining the Boundaries of the Self in Murakami Haruki’s Colorless Tazaki Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage and Men Without Women
Steiner, Rachel (2015): Effects of Atomoxetine and 7-NINA on Serotonin 1B-Induced Autism-like Non-Selective Attention Deficits in Mice: An Investigation of Novel Treatments
Via, Garrhett (2015): A One-Step Diazotization to Modify Glassy Carbon Electrodes
Boyer, Elizabeth (2014): Above, Below, and in Between: Colum McCann and the New York City Novel
Burmeister, Taylor (2014): Margaret Cavendish and the Demystification of the King as a Means of Self-Fashioning
Byers, Alexis (2014): Investigating the Algebraic Properties of Cayley Digraphs
Conkle, Megan (2014): A Civil Conversation With Death: A Study of Spiritual Anxiety in John Updike's Short Fiction
Coulter, Kailey (2014): President Obama and Syria: The Politics of Persuasion
Empey, Margaux (2014): Assessment of Plastic Pollution in the North Carolina Marine System
Kelleher, Shannon (2014): The Aliens are Coming for Jesse McCormick [novella]
Larned, Emilie (2014): The Optimization of the Scheduling of Traffic Lights
Lynch, Mary (2014): The Therapeutic Benefits of Dance
Moon, Madison (2014): Impact of Temperature and Salinity on Juvenile Blue Crab Growth Rates
Nichols, Beatrice (2014): Sexual Orientation in Adult Females Not Linked to Second to Fourth Digit Length Ratios, Average Whole Brain Area or Average Cortical Area
Oswalt, Rebecca (2014): Availability of Rehabilitation Programs for Victims of Human Trafficking
Petrilli, Rebecca (2014): The Liminality of Antoine Watteau
Burkhart, Brenna (2013): Ultrastructure of Spermiognesis in the Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake, Pelamis platurus(Squamata: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae)
Clinger, Jonathan (2013): Ultrastructural Description of the Late Spermatid in Notophthalmus viridescens
Engdahl, Susannah M. (2013): Solving the Bioheat Equation for Transcutaneous Recharging of a Medical Device Using Electric Fields
Jagger, Audreyana (2013): The Effects of Phoneme Instruction on Pre-Literacy Skills and Phonemic Awareness in Preschool Children
Krueger, William (2013): The Purification of Earth: The Apocalyptic Narrative and Whiteness in Climate Change Rhetoric
Lloyd, E. Paige (2013): Race Effects on Zero-Acquaintance Personality Judgments
Massengale, Jeremy (2013): Probing the Thermal Fluctuations in Bulk YBCO and BSCCO Superconductors
Merchak, Rachel (2013): Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: The Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Fear of Negative Evaluation
Reynolds, Abby (2013): Redistricting Processes Across the States: Effects on Electoral Competition
Schueler, Adam (2013): The Case For Ambushing Whiteness: Reconfiguring White Supremacy and Racial Realism
Wendroth, Heepke (2013): The aging-related gene expression of a component of Sp100-rs in adipocytes may correlate to the redistribution of white adipocyte tissue to various organs in Mus musculus
Werner, Eric (2013): Thank You for Visiting: Collected Poems with a Critical Introduction
Whiteley, Grace (2013): How Trait and State Anxiety Influence Athletic Performance
Winter, Leslie (2013): Body, Identity, and Narrative in Titian's Paintings
Cengel, Abigail (2012): Living Links: The Role of Marriage between Welsh and Anglo-Norman Aristocratic Families in the Welsh Struggle for Autonomy, 1066-1283
Cengel, Lauren (2012): Partners in Rule: A Study of Twelfth-Century Queens of England
Fugate, Joseph M. (2012): Calibration and assessment of Wittenberg University's recirculating laboratory flume in generating various bed states of mobile sand beds
Herrmann, William (2012): Creating a Fun Program that is Simple and Easy to Use
Hildebrandt, Jordan (2012): Calibrating M-Sequence and C-Sequence GPTSs with uncertainty quantification and cyclostratigraphy
Kiser, Savannah (2012): Vortex Rings and Inclined Planes: Scaling Two Fluid Systems
Lazeration, Rebecca (2012): The Maddening Unknown: A Study of Monomania in the Works of Poe and Melville
Rubbico, Brittany (2012): "Sanctioned Deviance:" A Critical Approach to the Sick Role and Its Socioeconomic Influences
Schaafsma, Jennifer (2012): Religiosity, Forgiveness, and the Communicative Responses to Hurtful Events in Friendships
Wigton, Mallory F. (2012): Acculturation and Mental Health of Immigrant Youth
Ziton, Maria Alexandra (2012): Finding and Welcoming Kami on American Soil: The Presence of Shinto in the United States
Brockman, Brittany (2011): Spirit Possession, Exorcism, and the Power of Women in the Mid-Heian Period
Campbell, Julie (2011): Lifebooks: Effective tool in the Adoption and Foster Care Systems or Not?
Ewald, Luke (2011): Effects of Sensation Seeking and Athletic Involvement on Substance Use in College Students
Nye, Bret (2011): Searching for the Center: Intimations of Identity and the Authentic Self in DeLillo's White Noise and Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Scheckelhoff, Hannah (2011): Devolution and Disengagement in the United Kingdom: A Study on the Effects of Devolution on Union-Wide Engagement in Politics
To, David (2011): Thermosensitive 2-Alkyl-2-Oxazoline Polymers for Gene Delivery
Wollaeger, Heidi (2011): Genetic Variability in Magnolia acuminata (L.) Populations in the Eastern United States
Berger, Erin (2010): The Relationship Between Fungiform Papillae Density, PTC Supertasting, Food Preferences, and Eating Behaviors in College Students
Berry, Andrea (2010): A Look into Ladies Home Journal: Tracking the trends and changes of strategy, themes and messaging in women's health and beauty products advertising from 1970 to 2009
Boucher, Jeffrey (2010): Democratization in the Post-Socialist World: Exploring causality among political freedom, economic freedom, and economic well-being
Cheney, Betty Jean (2010): Single Drop Microextraction: An Educational Undergraduate Laboratory Procedure Using Caffeine and DEET
Cravens, Brittany (2010): Surrogacy Law?: The Unparalleled Social Utility of Surrogacy and The Need for Federal Legislation
Drapkin, Leah (2010): Latin American Liberation Theology: Did it Liberate? The Emergence and Development of Latin American Liberation Theology, Its Ability to Liberate, & Its Future
Kisley, Lydia (2010): Integration of Gallium Nitride Nanowires with Nanofabricated Silicon Circuits
Mann, Brian R. (2010): The Omega Subunit of RNA Polymerase: Identification and Regulation of the rpoZ Promoter in Escherichia coli
Murray, Sarah Elizabeth (2010): Hemispheric Responses to Different Musical Selections
Rezayat, Maryam (2010): Conflict Management by Fathers and Sons: A Qualitative Analysis of Korean Americans
Schueler, Elisabeth (2010): To Temper or Not To Temper: The Paradox of Musical Tuning and Temperament
Sherrock, Kaitlyn (2010): Analysis of Potential Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in a Pediatric Population Comparing Normal Weight and Overweight Subjects
Snead, Kathleen (2010): Toxic Leadership: Sour Milk Rising to the Top
Stewart, Katelyn (2010): The Difficulty of Protecting Without Enslaving: The Denial of Women's Education as seen in Augusta Webster's Dramatic Monologues
Armstrong, Alyssa (2009): The Pancake Problem: Prefix Reversals of Certain Permutations
Blackwood, Justin (2009): The Imitations [novella]
Cooper, Rebecca (2009): Achieving Nanosecond Timing with the Vernier Method
Hartenstein, Stuart (2009): Soaring to Excellence: America's Consistent Foreign Policy in a Changing World
Hord, Jane Lyle (2009): The Effect of Society's Stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder on the Identities of Persons with Borderline Personality Disorder
Ipjian, Andrea Nicole (2009): When the Body Speaks: Virginia Woolf and Luce Irigaray's Metaphors of the Body
Karsai, Monica R. (2009): Distinguishing Between Rational and Experiential Information Processing Styles
Lamarre, Manoache (Manny) (2009): Barriers to Building Bridges: Educational Development in Third World Countries. And the Case for Haiti
Marshall, Whitney (2009): "Only the Soldered Mouth Can Tell": The Loss and Restoration of Women's Power in Emily Dickinson's Death Poetry
McNutt, Courtney (2009): The Effects of Neighborhood Disorder and Moderator Variables on Physical Health and Psychological Well-Being
Moore, Jordan (2009): "If thou Didst Ever thy Dear Father Love": A Lacanian Reading of The Brothers Karamazov through Hamlet
Ross, Ronald J. (2009): The Pragmatist Canon: Rethinking Literature in the Classroom
Ross, Ronald J. (2009): Let There Be Light: An Argument for the Possibility of Paradigm Change through Debate
Scott, Benjamin W. (2009): Yes We Cannabis: Medical Marijuana Laws and the Economics of Crime
Snipes, Erica (2009): Measurements of finite dust temperature effects in the dispersion relation of the dust acoustic wave
Steiner, Kristina (2009): Hemispheric differences in processing anaphoric inferences: Application of the stop-signal paradigm
Treu, Lukas (2009): The Effects of Source Credibility Perceptions and Ego-Involvement on Green Marketing Appeals: The Case of Multinational Petroleum Corporations with Unstable Environmental Legitimacy
Trinh, Mai P. (2009): Heresy 邪魔外道and Otherization in The Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sabre 倚天屠龙记
Uhrig, Ashley (2009): A Comparison of Individual and Dyad Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Siblings
Fetherolf, Christina (2008): To Marry God: The Portrayal of God as an Abusive Husband in Ezekiel
Hahn, Anna Jane (2008): Waves of Immigration: A Comparative Analysis of the Thematic Similarities and Differences in European and Latin American Immigration to the United States
Hendrix, Leigh Ellen (2008): Russian Energy Policy: Exploring the Efficacy of a Resource‐Dependent Economy and Foreign Policy
Kennedy, Sarah M. (2008): Psychosocial Predictors of Cardiopulmonary Mortality and Morbidity
Martorano, Lisa (2008): Analysis of Brain Structure in a Community Sample of Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as a Result of Chile Abuse Exposure
Phelan, Kari (2008): A Typology of Retaliation Strategies Against Social Aggression Among Adolescent Girls
Sjostrom, Abigail (2008): Parental Divorce, Parent-Child Conflict, and College Student Well-Being
Storer, Jennifer (2008): Face Processing in the Brain in Left Handed Individuals
Wendel, Emily (2008): „Die Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit”: The Complications of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Post-Nazi Germany
Hoshino, Kaoru (2007): The Overnight Education Reform in Postwar Japan: Controversies Behind the Adoption of a New Educational Ladder System and Social Studies
Maddox, Christine (2007): A Comparison of Bulimic Tendencies In College and Noncollege Women
Martin, James (2007): Interhemispheric interaction and degree of handedness in relation to social, political, gender, and philosophical beliefs in undergraduates
McClay, Emily (2007): Parker, Kerouac, and Innovative Sound: The Rhythms of Bebop in Beat Writing
Prahl, Laura (2007): More than a Political Shift: 11-M and its impact on the Spanish Democracy
Unger, Jami A. (2007): Examining the Effects of Achievement Events on Children's Positive and Negative Affect
Yehle, Sarah (2007): Perceptions of South Africa through Film
Brubaker, Jennifer (2006): Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanosalts
Butler, Tracy R. (2006): Hemispheric Lateralization of Emotion, Sociotropy, and Autonomy: Effects of an Acheivement and Interpersonal Experience on Drawing Placement and Affect in College Students
Eshelman, Elizabeth A. (2006): Best-Seller or "Entire Mistake"? : The Effect of Form on the Receptions of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne
Hicks, Amanda Jane (2006): Is Rac1 Glutathionylated in Intact Cells?
Klukas, Jeff (2006): Influencing Dynamics in Neural Networks
Powers, Elizabeth (2006): Breaking Eggs: A Collection of Short Fiction
Ream, Nicole (2006): Habakkuk: Challenger and Champion of Yahweh
Barrett, Melissa (2005): Symbols of Desire and Entrapment: Decoding Hardy's Architectural Metaphor in Jude the Obscure
Figel, Emily (2005): A Private Terror Passed Down: A Textual Analysis of the Memoirs of Second Generation Holocaust Survivors
Humrichouser, Amy L. (2005): Deconstruction and the Project of Ethical Consensus: Towards a Middle Ground between Communitarian and Poststructural Aesthetics
Muir, Natalie (2005): The Effects of HCl, NaOH, and Whitening Products on Human Teeth
Olson, Bret (2005): Revelations of an Angelheaded Hipster: Jack Kerouac's Compassionate Beat
Snyder, Bennett (2005): The Path of a National Pacifism
Westlund, Katherine (2005): Who does service: The relationship between postmaterialist values and community service
Barclay, Brianne (2004): Statistics in the Social Sciences: Inferential Statistics as Rhetoric in Sociology
Earley, Vanessa (2004): Using the Past in the Present Struggle: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Fidder, Valerie (2004): "The Great Unsaids": The Importance of Mother-Daughter Communication in Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter and The Kitchen God's Wife
McCance, Sarah (2004): Madmen and Poor Wretches: Changing Perceptions of Madness in Early Nineteenth-Century London
Straw, Jessica (2004): Responses of mud snails from low and high imposex sites to sex pheromones
Thompson, Chad (2004): Self-Monitoring in Leadership Emergence Among Student-Athletes and Greek Members
Biniker, Meghan (2003): A Histological Study on Human Tumors of the Brain and Nervous System by Means of High-Resolution Light Microscopy, Immunomicroscopy, and Electron Microscopy
Bragdon, Sarah (2003): A Performing Arts Center and Its Place in the Liberal Arts
Bringman, Katie (2003): The Historical Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet or Social Revolutionary?
Kuhn, Brian Christopher (2003): Humor in the Classroom: Changing the Face of Middle School Education
McCullough, Lindsay N. (2003): Habit, Formation and Implications of Elongate, Calcite Concretions, Victoria, Australia
Robinson, Nicole A. (2003): "Here's Tae Us! Wha's Like Us?" Jacobitism and the Creation of a Scottish National Identity
Rote, Marie Alice (2003): The Supplemental Nature of Moral Principles
Stucki, Megan (2003): Revision [poetry]
Ullmer, Joseph (2003): Threats to spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) habitat in Ohio
Weldon, Steven P. (2003): Psychometric Properties of the Psychosocial Risk Factor Survey
Stucky (Bower), Heather (2002): The Victorian "Border" Garden and the "Boarder" Governess In Charlotte Brontë's Villette