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Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2015
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Table of Contents, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2015
Office of Undergraduate Research
Foreword
Foreword, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2015
Stacy Ross and Joy Zalis Kiefer
Abstracts: College of Arts & Sciences
Experiments in Nature, or When Bodies Go Bad: The Aesthetics and Functions of the Extraordinary in David Foster Wallace's Novels
Kristen Ahlquiest
Department: English
Relationships of Depressed Mood and Anhedonia to Emotional Reactivity: Evidence from Pupillometry
Gabriella Alvarez
Department: Psychology
The Sound of Silence: Linguistic Profiling and Discrimination to Accessing Healthcare in St. Louis, MO
Amee Azad
Department: Anthropology
The Global Wars on Terror: A Comparison of the United States’ and Russian Federation's Counterterrorism Policies
Margaret Bavlsik
Department: International and Area Studies
Different Paths, Similar Outcomes: The Relationship Between Urban Governance, Concentrations of Poverty, and Disparities in Education in St. Louis, MO and Houston, TX
Elena Bell
Department: American Culture Studies
Cinematic Discourses of Indigeneity in México and Bolivia
Julia Brown
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
Discursos Cinemáticos del Indigenismo en México y Bolivia
Julia Brown
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
The Role of the Maneaba in Adaptation to Climate Change in Kiribati
Janice Cantieri
Department: International and Area Studies
Effects of Early Life Stress on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in HIV-Positive Individuals
Gina Chang
Department: Biology
Comparison of Diffusion MRI with Axonal Trajectories Near Cortex to Estimate Folding-Related Biases of Tractography-Based Connectivity in the Macaque Brain
Charles Chen
Department: Biology
Mapping the Functional Connectivity of VIP Neurons in the Mammalian Brain
Samantha Chen
Department: Biology
Transformations and Turmoil: The Creation of the U.S. Army All-Volunteer Force 1968-1983
Bryan Ciccarello
Department: History
Characterization of the Novel Long Non-coding RNA, LCAT45, in Lung, Colon, and Breast Cancer
Danielle Cicka
Department: Biology
Investigating the Role of Cholesterol during Murine Norovirus Infection
Emily Condiff
Department: Biology
Emotional Underpinnings of Rally Effects: The Mediating Role of Perceived Hawkishness
Charles A. Dorison
Department: Psychology
Galen's Polemic and Praise περι της καρδιας: How Hippocrates and Erasistratus Fathered a Millennium of Misunderstanding
Lisa Dorn
Department: Classics
Influences of Instructor Beliefs, Biases, and Language While Teaching Undergraduate Physics
Marie Draper
Department: Physics
Socioeconomic Determinants of Poverty in Paraguay
Raul Duarte
Department: Economics
Emotional Clarity and Empathy: Exploring Relations Using Self-Report and Behavioral Measurements
Nathaniel Eckland
Department: Psychology
Who Really Gets to Climb the Ladder of Success? Student Retention at the University of Texas at Austin and the Future of Higher Education Access
Juliet Eisenstein
Department: American Culture Studies
NMR Analysis of Lattice Dynamics
Tim Ellis-Caleo
Department: Physics
Hermitian Sympletic Spaces, von Neumann's Extension Theory, and Scattering on Quantum Graphs
Tyler Ellison
Department: Mathematics
Optimizing and Characterizing the X-Ray Polarimeter PolSTAR
Ryan Endsley
Department: Physics
Understanding Malagasy Women's Preferences for Reproductive Health Care
Mackenzie Findlay
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Composition of Bladder Basement Membranes and Structural Alterations Resulting from Infection with Uropathogenic E. coli
Jake Foote
Department: Biology
Personal Touch: The Influence of Jewish Educators' Personal Backgrounds in a Jewish Day School
Sam Forman
Department: Education
Kapranov N-Complexes and Elementary Sequences of S_n-Characters
Netanel Friedenberg
Department: Mathematics
A Novel GABAergic Projection Links Central Amygdala to Frontal Cortex and Mediates Reward Behaviors
Samuel C. Funderburk
Department: Biology
Doing What it Takes to Succeed: Black Boys, Identity Work, and School Success
Christian Darius Gordon
Department: Education
Histone Methyltransferase MLL1 is Essential for Retinal Neurogenesis
Rachel Grant
Department: Biology
The C-terminal Linker of FtsZ Acts as an Intrinsically Disordered Peptide during Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis
Steven Grigsby
Department: Biology
The Preeminence of Punishment: Social Conservatism and Satisfaction of the Justice Motive
Caroline Grossman
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Using Experimental Annealing and Theoretical Models to Predict the Preservation Potential of Experimentally Generated Pseudotachylyte
Matthew Guiang
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Fire Differentially Affect Germination of Two Invasive Species, Lonicera maackii and Ailanthus Altissima
Shannon Guthrie
Department: Biology
Using Rewards to Motivate Present-Biased Agents
Mark Heimann
Department: Economics
Destined for Pregnancy, Prostitution, or Prison: Negotiating Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at the North Carolina Industrial School for Negro Girls, 1919-1939
Lauren Henley
Department: History
Show Me Equity: Barriers to Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace for Black Missourians during the First Open Enrollment Period
Rachel Hoffman
Department: Anthropology
Modulation of Locus Coeruleus Circuitry in Stress-Induced Anxiety
Daniel Hong
Department: Biology
Verifying Laws: A Normative Conception of Constitutional Preview
Michael Hoosier
Department: Political Science
A Clarification of Perjury Law
Megan Zielinski Huce
Department: Philosophy
(Dis)Investment: The Effects of Gentrification in the Central Harlem Community, 2000-2010
Dalayna R. Jackson
Department: Urban Studies
Make Him Know Who You Are: Agency and Victimization in the Lives of Trafficked Women
Lily Jacobi
Department: Anthropology
Quantum Trajectory Dynamics of a Superconducting Qubit under Measurement and Unitary Evolution
Arian Jadbabaie
Department: Physics
Phenotype and Symbiosis in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
Kai Jones
Department: Biology
The Role of Gpr126 in Myelin Maintenance and Regeneration in the Peripheral Nervous System
Jessica Joseph
Department: Biology
Contesting the Invisible: Spirit Mediums, Self-Defense Militias, Healers, and Collective Trauma Mitigation in Postcolonial Mozambique: 1986-1992
William Kane
Department: History
Selves Portrait: A Senior Thesis Portraying Schizophrenia through Dance
Samantha Karlow
Department: Performing Arts