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Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
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Table of Contents, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
Office of Undergraduate Research
Foreword
Foreword, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
E Holly Tasker and Henry Biggs
Abstracts: College of Arts & Sciences
German Society and Football: An Analysis of This Dynamic Relationship
Nicholas Alexander
Department: International and Area Studies
Persuaded by the Echoes of Their Own Voices: How Cognitive Biases Crucially Influenced the Bush Administration’s Decision to Go to War with Iraq
Gregory Charles Allen
Department: Political Science
U.S. Refugee Policy: Implications for the Admission and Adina Appelbaum 172 Integration of Refugees of the Iraq War Since 2003
Adina Appelbaum
Department: Urban Studies
Home is Where the History Is: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Identity in American House Museums
Caitlin Whitney Astrue
Department: American Culture Studies
Hydrostatic Pressure Dependence of Magnetic Order in Rare Earth Intermetallics RTMg (R = Eu, Gd and T = Au, Ag)
Hunter Banks
Department: Physics
How Aspect and Topography Affect Plant Stress
Lauren Elizabeth Barry
Department: Environmental Studies
Driving Away the American Dream: Sprawl, Social Capital, and New Urbanism
Sam Bear
Department: American Culture Studies
Crossing the River Jordan: Exploring Individual Perceptions of National Identity in Jordan
Emily Becker
Department: International and Area Studies
Sodium Bicarbonate Administration and Outcome in Preterm Infants
Carly Berg
Department: Biology
Genetic Screen to Identify Regulators of Synapse Formation in Drosophila Melanogaster
Dominic Berns
Department: Biology
Speaking Identity: Language Politics and the Preservation of the Thakali Language in Nepal
Dena Birkenhamp
Department: Anthropology
Regulation of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration by the mTOR Pathway
Steven Borson
Department: Biology
Marital Attitudes among Adults: The Effects of Familial Influence and Religion
Stephanie K. Brewer
Department: Psychology
Statistical Evaluation of Language Relatedness Using Phonetic Comparison Algorithms
Sarah Brooks
Department: Linguistics
Never Mind the Extremes, What’s in the Middle?: Education and the Middle Class in Two Middle Eastern Countries
Naomi Burstein
Department: Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
The Case of Moll and Portia: Cross-Dressing and Desire Shelby Carpenter in Early Modern City Comedy
Shelby Carpenter
Department: Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Revolutionary and Inconsequential Reform: Transformation and Resistance in Admissions Reform at Elite Higher Education Institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s
Michael J. Carter
Department: History
Where the Ceiling Cracks: An Analysis of the Types of Firms Females Are Selected to Run
Josh Charney
Department: Economics
Body-conscious Smokers: Why They Initiate, Why They Continue to Smoke and How to Help Them Quit
Paul Cheh
Department: Anthropology
Channel Conformation Determines DHA Inhibition and Polyamine Block in Kainate Receptors
Kevin Chen
Department: Biology
Not So Beautiful: A Contextual Analysis of Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful
Alexandra Collins
Department: Art History and Archaeology
The Descent from the Pedestal: The Dilatory Space Between Marriage and Consummation in Three of Shakespeare’s Plays
Alissa Cooper
Department: English
Characterizing Post-dispersal Seed Predation in the Matrix of a Connected Landscape: Spatial, Temporal and Species-specific Variation and Its Effect on Biodiversity Spillover
Michael Timothy Craig
Department: Environmental Studies
Individual Difference in Autobiographical Memory: Illusions of Change or Stability
Ileana Claudia Culcea
Department: Psychology
The Holocaust in Brazilian Life: A Comparative Analysis with the Way It Is Perceived and Handled in America
Fernando Cutz
Department: International and Area Studies
From Bombs to Sunflowers: The Denuclearization of Ukraine
Hana Damore
Department: International and Area Studies
Differential Expression of 15-lipoxygenase Isozymes in COPD
Geoffrey Dang-Vu
Department: Biology
Dostoevsky and British Modernism: The Influence of Dostoevsky on Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce
Colleen Davis
Department: English
The Intricacies of Expression: Islamic Feminism in Morocco
Tess deBlanc-Knowles
Department: International and Area Studies
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Plagiarism: The Love Quests of Louise Labé and Gabrielle de Coignard
Fidel A. Desir
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
The Effects of the Nonpartisan Blanket Primary on Electoral Change in Louisiana, 1964-2003
Mark R. Dudley
Department: Political Science
Correlation of Post Traumatic Stress Symptomatology with Performance on Event Segmentation, Memory and Attention Tasks
Michelle Eisenberg
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Effects of Observation: A Study of Captive Black-tailed Prairie Dog Behavior
Adame E.M Eltorai
Department: Biology
A Politics of Their Own—Barrios de Pie: A Case Study of Hybridity and Modern Youth Political Participation in San Martin, Argentina
Rachel England
Department: International and Area Studies
“One Man Acting Alone”: The Consolidation of the Empowered Executive in War and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1963
Benjamin Haber Fifield
Department: Political Science
Expediency Over the Ideal: The Right Not to Be Punished
Grace Fox
Department: Philosophy
Institutions of the Underground Rain: Commons Governance on the Ogallala Aquifer
Charlie Franklin
Department: Economics
Holocaust Education in Israel: The Effects of Holocaust Commemoration and Education on Israeli Identity
Yael Friedman
Department: Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
The Opening and Closing of Space and Belonging: An Examination of Healthcare Access for the Latino Population in St. Louis
Wesley Gibbert
Department: Anthropology
Bilingualism and Costs to the L1: Models of Bilingual Production
Stacey Lynn Goebel
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
The Souls of Nations: Repatriation, National Museums, and Cultural Identity in Southern Europe
Michael Goodwin
Department: International and Area Studies
The Language of Haneen in Arab Literature of the 1990s
Vivek Gupta
Department: Comparative Literature
Invented History: Memorializing the Holocaust Through Fiction
Samuel Morris Guzik
Department: English
Age Differences in Memory for Face-Name Associations: The Effects of Spaced Retrieval on Learning
Mitra Hashemi Haeri
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
The Effect of Dietary Vitamin A on Gut Dendritic Cell Homeostasis
Elyse Hanly
Department: Biology
Exploring Causality: What Is the Relationship Between Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment in Developed Economies?
Vidhyarth Hariharan
Department: Political Science
The Involvement of Men in Service Provision for Survivors Robert Harvey 174 of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence: A Survey of Contemporary Thought
Robert Harvey
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A Tale of Two Subfamilies: The Evolution of a Sensory Pathway Mediating Social Communication Behavior in Mormyrid Electric Fish
Saad Hasan
Department: Biology
The Role of Autophagy in Crohn’s Disease
Aaron L. Hecht
Department: Biology
An Elementary Proof of a Generalization of Brun’s Theorem
Matthew L. Herman
Department: Mathematics
Enemies in Our Midst: The American Wartime State, German and Italian Internment, and the St. Louis Experience of the Second World War
Eric Houtman
Department: History
“An Explosion of Roles”: Destruction of the Home and Construction of Settler Femininity in Three Novels about Decolonization
Rebecca Hufstader
Department: English
Education Vouchers as a Tool for Urban Revitalization?: A Case Study of Cleveland, Ohio
Jennifer Janovitz
Department: Urban Studies
Red Brigades and Bare Feet: The Practice and Study of Medicine During the Cultural Revolution
Oliver Jawitz
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
“Hiding the World in the World”: Environmental Ethics and the Zhuangzi
Julia Jay
Department: Religious Studies
Identification of Genetic Variants in Transferrin and the Effects on Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease
Amanda Jeng
Department: Biology
Estate, Empire, and the Individual: English Nationalism and the Estate Novel
Molly Jennings
Department: English
Finding a Voice Amid the Silence: An Analysis of Social Reproduction Theory in The Wire
Tiffany A. Johnson
Department: African and African-American Studies
An Investigation of the Role of Telomerase and Nucleolin in Astrocytoma Growth Rates
Neel Joshi
Department: Biology
An Exploration of Afro-Ecuadorian Citizenship: Historical Transformations and Contemporary Movements
Carleen Kadlec
Department: International and Area Studies
Function of the N-terminal Domain of Heparin Cofactor II
Grace Julie Karue
Department: Biology
From Σικελια to Sicilia: Administrative, Architectural, and Epigraphic Romanization in Rome’s First Province
Philip Katz
Department: Classics
The Effects of Aging and Working Memory on Delay Discounting of Monetary and Juice Rewards
Julia Keighley
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Costs of the Keyword Method: Cognitive Impairment Due to Confusing Semantic Links in Second Language Vocabulary Learning
Katherine Kerschen
Department: Psychology
The Fight for Minds and Souls: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Church’s Role in Nineteenth-Century French and American Education
Matthew A. King
Department: History
The Other as Negative Space: How Counternarratives and Hybrid Narratives Determine Where Monsters Stand in Relation to Humanity
Vladic Kostin
Department: Comparative Literature
Myeloid Cell Independent Conditional HIF-1 Induced Multistage Angiogenesis
Joanna R. Kovalski
Department: Biology
GABA and Glutamate Mediate Circadian Functional Connectivity in the SCN
Becca Krock
Department: Biology
Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention: The Politics of Local Perceptions and Global Public Health Policy in Uganda
Anupam Kumar
Department: Anthropology
The Heart of the Matter: Disparities in Morbidity and Mortality Due to Heart Disease in African Americans
Susan Kimiko Kunihiro
Department: African and African-American Studies
Alexander the Great Literary Device: An Examination of Homer and Alexander the Great in Second Sophistic Literature
Natacha Lam
Department: Classics
“It’s Just Gay”: An Analytic Look into the Lives of Black Lesbians in South Carolina
Laura Lane-Steele
Department: Anthropology
The Metamorphoses of “Cupid and Psyche”
Katherine Jane Langdon
Department: Classics
YouTube and Campaign Advertisements: The Effect of Web-based Video on the Content of Campaign Advertisements
Jake Laperruque
Department: Political Science
Birth in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Knowledge and Representations
Lindsey Latteman
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
The Pueblos Jovenes of Lima: Negotiations for Basic Services in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru
Molly Laverty
Department: Anthropology
Microanalytical Studies of Carbonaceous Stardust
Emily Lebsack
Department: Physics
Public Peace: An Analysis of the Feminist Anti-War Movement in Serbia and Its Use of Public Performances
Emily Levitt
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Quantification Methods and Analysis of Head Motion and rs-fcMRI Preparations in a Pharmacologic fMRI Study of Cortical Function in Tourette Syndrome
Miranda Renée Lindburg
Department: Biology
Calculation of Stop Squark Production in Proton-Proton Collisions
Andrea Linville
Department: Physics
Effect of Cognitive Deliberation on Self-Judgments of Personality
Jordan Livingston
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Caspase-9: A Candidate Susceptibility Factor in Murine Alkylator-induced Therapy-related Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Yedda Li
Department: Biology
Grandmothers and Stories
Elena Losey
Department: English
Living Trust
Robin Mabrito
Department: Film and Media Studies
Portrayal of the Home in the Race for the House: How Congressional Candidates Present Their Personal Lives to Voters
Ruth Elizabeth Mandelbaum
Department: Political Science
Weak Stories, Strong Images: The Replication of Reality in Wim Wenders’ Alice in den Städten
Leah Marks
Department: Germanic Languages and Literatures
Is It Enough?: The Two Political Channels to Solving Domestic Violence in India
Tess Elizabeth Mattingly
Department: Political Science
Health Care Ethics: Anthropology of Youth Workers in Cape Town, South Africa
Nora McCormick
Department: Anthropology
Pixka Bat es Mucho, Except When It’s Not: Language Ideologies, Policies, and Use in the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain
Robin A. Meyer
Department: Anthropology
“That I May Proclaim Your Holiness Clearly and Consciously and Manifest to All”: Rhineland Jews, Christians, and the First Crusade
Ian Meyers
Department: History
Correlating Host Metapopulation Size and Parasite Species Richness at Multiple Spatial Scales in an Amphibian Host-Parasite System
Joseph R. Mihaljevic
Department: Environmental Studies
Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Liver Fat Content in Mice
Olga Minkina
Department: Biology
The Impact of Tort Reforms on Health Care Expenditures
Srishti Mirchandani
Department: Economics
Do Labor Market Conditions Influence the High School Enrollment Rate? Evidence from Missouri
Alex Mistratov
Department: Economics
“Divided from the Sphere”: Desire, Displacement, and Death in the Lyric Poems of Andrew Marvell
Melanie Mohn
Department: English
Components of the NCoR Co-repressor Complex Repress Lytic Replication of Gammaherpesvirus 68 in Macrophages
Jerome M. Molleston
Department: Biology
Illegal Surveillance in Colombia: The Role of Political Ideology in Public Response to the Security vs. Liberty Debate
Millicent Moon
Department: International and Area Studies