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Foreward, Washington University Senior Honor Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

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Washington University Senior Honor Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

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Table of Contents, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

Abstracts for College of Arts & Sciences

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Partial Knockdown of Putative MTSA2 Gene Supports Its Role in 6mA Adenine Methylation of the Somatic Genomein Tetrahymena thermophile, Matthew Agritelley

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Characterizing B-Lymphocyte Response to Neoantigen Exposure in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer, Katherine Alexander

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Adenoviral Gene Painting for Use in Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Kailin E. Baechle

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Neuroticism as a Moderator of the Depressogenic Effects of Stress: Examining the Role of Neural Reward Processing, Jared Balbona

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An Irish Exit: Modeling the EU Referendum in Northern Ireland, Kelly Barr

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In vitro Screening for Modulators of Synaptic Development in a Model of Fragile X Syndrome, Kelsey Barter

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Modeling ‘Addiction’ in Drosophila melanogaster from the Perspective of Neuronal Homeostasis, Bijoya Basu

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Individual Differences in Efficient Learning: The Relative Contributions of Attentional Control and Working Memory Capacity, Hannah Becker

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Agribusiness in Argentina: Effects on the Toba Qom Indigenous Community, Katie Blenko

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Mapping Moral Treason: Adulterous Cohabitation within Black Union Widow Pensions, Camille Borders

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Creating a Pathophysiological Model to Predict Blink Suppression Discomfort from Blink Timing, Haley Botteron

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The Fortean Connection: Science Fiction’s Ties to Charles Fort, Tanner Boyle

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The Effects of Media Consumption on Perceptions of Stereotypes in Comedy, Simone Britto

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“Other Knowers,” Other Growers: Gender-Conscious Farming and the“Alternative” Agriculture Movement, Molly Brodsky

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Recurrence Risk for Women with Abnormal First and Second Trimester Serum Screening Markers in a Subsequent Pregnancy and Risks of Adverse Outcomes in Women with Low Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A (PAPP-A) and a Normally Growing Fetus, Casey Brooks

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Downregulation of RNA Editing Enzyme ADAR1 Reduces the Oncogenic Potential of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Emily Bross

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Identifying a Neurotoxic Mechanism Present in West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease, Jasmine Brown

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Meaning in Print: Exploring the Meaning of Making in the Print Shop, Savannah Bustillo

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From De Quincey to A. A.: Personal Addiction Narrative and Its Role in Constructing Addicts’ Identities, Rachel Butler

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The Shift to the Left Effect: An Investigation of Threat-Induced Shifts in Political Attitudes, Katharine Chang

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Pharmacodynamic phMRI with Joint Estimation of the Arterial Drug Input Curve, Molly Charney

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Collective Memory, Collective Narcissism, and Moral Foundations Theory: Morally Motivated Reasoning and Biased Assessments of Group Influence, Luke Churchill

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Using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children to Predict Academic Problems in Children with Sickle Cell Disease, Margaret Clapp

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A Guide to Shellfish Purple in the Greco-Roman World, Russell Clark

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Entraining Neural Oscillations: Altering Auditory Perception with Amplitude Modulated Stimuli, Hayley Clocksin

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The Effect of Sleep on Microglial Synaptic Elimination: Exploring Microglial Synaptic Engulfment as a Possible Mechanism through which Sleep Facilitates Learning, Haley Crosby

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Urbanity and Art:Neighborhood Change and the Evolutionof Hip-Hop in Bedford Stuyvesant, Robert Curran

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Miscommunication as a Predictor of Emotion, Expressive Suppression, and Relationship Satisfaction in Dating Couples, Isabelle Davis

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So You Think You Can Negotiate? A Study of the Effect of Personality on Negotiations in a Job Context, Hana Davisson, Benjamin Kugelman, and Emma Turnbull

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Understanding Local Medical Emergencies and Treatment Options to ImprovePre-hospital Emergency Medical Carein Iganga District, Uganda, Peter G. Delaney

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Exclusions Based on Intolerance: On Justifications in Democratic Debate, Shaun Diestelkamp

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The Afterlife of Holocaust Testimony: Reframing Collective Memoryfor a New Generation, Louise DiMarco

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Witches as Political Criminals: Prosecution and Deportation in Colonial Kenya, James Drueckhammer

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Les poètes et leurs princesses:la poésie encomiastique du XVIe siècle, Ally Dworetsky

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Poets and Their Princesses: Encomiastic Poetry of the Sixteenth Century, Ally Dworetsky

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The Atlanta BeltLine: How de Facto Segregation Limits Its Success, Sarah Dyott

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Child Food Insecurity and Its Influence on Educational Attainment: The Disconnect Between Policy and Reality in our Nation’s Capital, Delaney Earley

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Paternal Cigarette Smoke Exposure Induces Fetal Demise and Testicular Germ Cell Death: Utilization of in vivo and ex vivoToxicology Models, Paul Felder

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Black Power: The Role of Black Voters in Truman’s 1948 Presidential Bid, Zoe Gallagher

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ceFinder: Machine Learning Based Prediction of Novel Competing Endogenous RNAs, Teng Gao

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Game Theoretic Analysis of the Fair Division Mechanism “Spliddit”, Jack Garton

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Synthesizers, Virtual Orchestras, and Ableton Live: Digitally-Rendered Music on Broadway and Musicians’ Union Resistance, Liam Gibbs

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Summation of Power Series by Continued Square Roots, Jonah Glick

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Interactions of Staphylococcus aureus with Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts, Emily Goering

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Radio as an Apparatus of Transformation: Adaptation of Existing Literary Forms in Twentieth-Century German Hörspiele, Patrick D. Goff

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Approaching Religion: Embracing Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Encourage the Incorporation of Religious Studies in America’s Curriculum, Jennifer Greenberg

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Explaining Ideological Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court, Hannah Greenhouse

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Why Do People Use Unreasonable Arguments? The Case of the Ad Hominem, Lily Grier

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The Art of Terror: Iconoclasm in Radical Islamic Terrorism, Chrisopher Hall

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The Form and Feeling of Leonard Michaels’ Jewish-American Literature, Harrison Hall

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Identifying Novel Epigenetic Dependencies in Pre-leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Emily Haussler

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Terrorism in the News:Exploring the Influence of the Trump and Brexit Campaigns on Print Media, Abby Hermes

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The Effects of Oomycetes on Plant-Soi lFeedback Interactions, Hansusia Higgins

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Charter School Management Structures, Discipline, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Valerie Hirschberg

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Mutant IDH Alleles Cause Methylation Changes in the Human Genome Which Alter Gene Expression in Genes with Differentially Methylated Gene Promoters, Reuben Hogan

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The Effect of Symbolic, Linguistic Information on the Discounting of Delayed, Real Liquid Rewards, Ryan Hoopes

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The Making of Identities and Discourses: Urban Grassroots Environmentalism in China, Yixin Huang

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Neonatal Cerebellar Volumes and Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome in Very Preterm Children at Age Five Years, Apoorva Iyengar

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“The Evil Was Centered around 110th Street”: Black Women Sex Workers, Entrepreneurial Economies, and Morality in Progressive Era New York City, Savannah Jacobson

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A Role for the Potassium Channel Seizure in Regulating Intrinsic Neuronal Stress Response in Drosophila melanogaster, Poorva Jain

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Towards Discovering Inhibitors of Cytochrome c Biogenesis, Shannon Jinxia Jiang

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Constructing an Isotopic Record of a Sierra Nevada Lake Core, Lauren S. Johnson

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Predicting the Outcomes of Batted Balls in Major League Baseball, Seth Karpel

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Security and Empowerment? : Jordanian Women’s Political Participation and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, Melissa Kay

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A Nonlocal Application of the Dispersive Optical Model to 208Pb, Michael A. Keim

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“England for All”: The Social Democratic Federation’s Successes through Failure, John Kemp

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Analysis of Ready-To-Use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) for the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition in Children Ages 6-59 Months in Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana, Joanna Kim

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Breaking Rank: Party Influence in Congressional Defense Voting Since the Cold War, Samuel Klein

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The “Russian Craze” and the Silver Age: Missed Connections in the Anglophone Canon of Russian Literature, Hilah Kohen

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Gender Equality or Gender Oppression? Understanding Sweden’s Sex Work Paradox, Maddie Krips

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FGF Signaling Role in Bone Homeostasis, Josh Langberg

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Better Worlds: The Politics of Hope and Exclusion in the Literature of James Baldwin and Sherman Alexie, Emma LaPlante

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Novel Genetic Variants in the OxytocinReceptor Underline Oxytocin Responsiveness, Grace Y. Lee

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Guns, Government, and the American Way: Balancing Liberty Rights in a Liberal State, Elizabeth Levinson

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Hurricane Herald: How New Orleans’ Housing Policies before and after Katrina Can Inform Harvey Recovery Efforts, Monica J. Lim

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Developing a Computer Vision Algorithm to Detect Movement in the Environment for the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, Alissa Ling

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“Words Fail Me”: The Loss of Language and the Language of Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Novels, Anna Lin-Schweitzer

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The Effect of State Policy on Renewable Energy Capacity, Max Litvack-Winkler

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Robert M. W. Kempner and the Politics of Postwar Justice, Sophie Lombardo

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An Essay on Independent Component Analysis, Joanna Lyu

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Relationship between Natural Dietary Intake of Tryptophan and Depression Severity, Anita Mahadevan

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Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer Study with Monetary and Liquid Incentives, Aaditya Manirajan

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Privately Owned Public Spaces: Are They Truly Public Spaces?, Stella Marren

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Representations of the Symmetric Group and Nonstandard Quantum Statistics, Alexander Mason

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A Reasonable Faith? The Relationships between Faith and Reason in the Medical World of the Sixteenth Century, James McMullen

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Une foi raisonnable ? Les rapports entre la foi et la raison dans le monde médical du XVIe siècle, James McMullen

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“Might It Be I?”: Marianne Moore, Feminism, and Baseball, Julie Merrell

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Enhancing Lipid Metabolism Promotes Cytokine-Induced Activation and IFN-γ Production in Naïve Human Natural Killer Cells, Emily K. Moore

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Censorship and the Creation of Egyptian Culture in 1952 Independent Egypt, Rashi Narayan

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From Hop Alley to Parking Lot to Strip Mall: The Decentralization of Physical Space and Community for Chinese Americans in St. Louis City, Eva Nip

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Microseismicity along Major Ross Ice Shelf Rift Resulting from Thermal Contraction of the Near-Surface Firm Layer, Seth Olinger

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Zulu Traditions during Pregnancy and Birth: A Preliminary Study of Intergenerational Differences in Mashta, South Africa, Momoko Oyama

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Analysis of Cyclophilin A Levels in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients, Devin Patel

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Investigating Eryptotic Triggers as Possible Mechanisms for Sepsis-Induced RedBlood Cell Dysfunction, Jaya Prakash

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Reproductive Tissues in Pregnant MiceShow Sustained Intrinsic CircadianOscillations and Clustering of PhasePrior to the Onset of Labor, Tanvi Puri

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Predictive Validity of the Brief Fearof Negative Evaluation Subscales, Gavin Rackoff

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Real-Time RFI Mitigation in Radio Astronomy, Emily Ramey