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Foreward, Washington University Senior Honor Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Washington University Senior Honor Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Table of Contents
Table of Contents, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Abstracts for College of Arts & Sciences
Partial Knockdown of Putative MTSA2 Gene Supports Its Role in 6mA Adenine Methylation of the Somatic Genomein Tetrahymena thermophile, Matthew Agritelley
Characterizing B-Lymphocyte Response to Neoantigen Exposure in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer, Katherine Alexander
Adenoviral Gene Painting for Use in Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Kailin E. Baechle
Neuroticism as a Moderator of the Depressogenic Effects of Stress: Examining the Role of Neural Reward Processing, Jared Balbona
An Irish Exit: Modeling the EU Referendum in Northern Ireland, Kelly Barr
In vitro Screening for Modulators of Synaptic Development in a Model of Fragile X Syndrome, Kelsey Barter
Modeling ‘Addiction’ in Drosophila melanogaster from the Perspective of Neuronal Homeostasis, Bijoya Basu
Individual Differences in Efficient Learning: The Relative Contributions of Attentional Control and Working Memory Capacity, Hannah Becker
Agribusiness in Argentina: Effects on the Toba Qom Indigenous Community, Katie Blenko
Mapping Moral Treason: Adulterous Cohabitation within Black Union Widow Pensions, Camille Borders
Creating a Pathophysiological Model to Predict Blink Suppression Discomfort from Blink Timing, Haley Botteron
The Fortean Connection: Science Fiction’s Ties to Charles Fort, Tanner Boyle
The Effects of Media Consumption on Perceptions of Stereotypes in Comedy, Simone Britto
“Other Knowers,” Other Growers: Gender-Conscious Farming and the“Alternative” Agriculture Movement, Molly Brodsky
Downregulation of RNA Editing Enzyme ADAR1 Reduces the Oncogenic Potential of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Emily Bross
Identifying a Neurotoxic Mechanism Present in West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease, Jasmine Brown
Meaning in Print: Exploring the Meaning of Making in the Print Shop, Savannah Bustillo
From De Quincey to A. A.: Personal Addiction Narrative and Its Role in Constructing Addicts’ Identities, Rachel Butler
The Shift to the Left Effect: An Investigation of Threat-Induced Shifts in Political Attitudes, Katharine Chang
Pharmacodynamic phMRI with Joint Estimation of the Arterial Drug Input Curve, Molly Charney
Collective Memory, Collective Narcissism, and Moral Foundations Theory: Morally Motivated Reasoning and Biased Assessments of Group Influence, Luke Churchill
Using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children to Predict Academic Problems in Children with Sickle Cell Disease, Margaret Clapp
A Guide to Shellfish Purple in the Greco-Roman World, Russell Clark
Entraining Neural Oscillations: Altering Auditory Perception with Amplitude Modulated Stimuli, Hayley Clocksin
Urbanity and Art:Neighborhood Change and the Evolutionof Hip-Hop in Bedford Stuyvesant, Robert Curran
Miscommunication as a Predictor of Emotion, Expressive Suppression, and Relationship Satisfaction in Dating Couples, Isabelle Davis
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
Understanding Local Medical Emergencies and Treatment Options to ImprovePre-hospital Emergency Medical Carein Iganga District, Uganda, Peter G. Delaney
Exclusions Based on Intolerance: On Justifications in Democratic Debate, Shaun Diestelkamp
The Afterlife of Holocaust Testimony: Reframing Collective Memoryfor a New Generation, Louise DiMarco
Witches as Political Criminals: Prosecution and Deportation in Colonial Kenya, James Drueckhammer
Les poètes et leurs princesses:la poésie encomiastique du XVIe siècle, Ally Dworetsky
Poets and Their Princesses: Encomiastic Poetry of the Sixteenth Century, Ally Dworetsky
The Atlanta BeltLine: How de Facto Segregation Limits Its Success, Sarah Dyott
Child Food Insecurity and Its Influence on Educational Attainment: The Disconnect Between Policy and Reality in our Nation’s Capital, Delaney Earley
Black Power: The Role of Black Voters in Truman’s 1948 Presidential Bid, Zoe Gallagher
ceFinder: Machine Learning Based Prediction of Novel Competing Endogenous RNAs, Teng Gao
Game Theoretic Analysis of the Fair Division Mechanism “Spliddit”, Jack Garton
Summation of Power Series by Continued Square Roots, Jonah Glick
Interactions of Staphylococcus aureus with Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts, Emily Goering
Radio as an Apparatus of Transformation: Adaptation of Existing Literary Forms in Twentieth-Century German Hörspiele, Patrick D. Goff
Approaching Religion: Embracing Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Encourage the Incorporation of Religious Studies in America’s Curriculum, Jennifer Greenberg
Explaining Ideological Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court, Hannah Greenhouse
Why Do People Use Unreasonable Arguments? The Case of the Ad Hominem, Lily Grier
The Art of Terror: Iconoclasm in Radical Islamic Terrorism, Chrisopher Hall
The Form and Feeling of Leonard Michaels’ Jewish-American Literature, Harrison Hall
Identifying Novel Epigenetic Dependencies in Pre-leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Emily Haussler
Terrorism in the News:Exploring the Influence of the Trump and Brexit Campaigns on Print Media, Abby Hermes
The Effects of Oomycetes on Plant-Soi lFeedback Interactions, Hansusia Higgins
Charter School Management Structures, Discipline, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Valerie Hirschberg
The Effect of Symbolic, Linguistic Information on the Discounting of Delayed, Real Liquid Rewards, Ryan Hoopes
The Making of Identities and Discourses: Urban Grassroots Environmentalism in China, Yixin Huang
Neonatal Cerebellar Volumes and Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome in Very Preterm Children at Age Five Years, Apoorva Iyengar
“The Evil Was Centered around 110th Street”: Black Women Sex Workers, Entrepreneurial Economies, and Morality in Progressive Era New York City, Savannah Jacobson
A Role for the Potassium Channel Seizure in Regulating Intrinsic Neuronal Stress Response in Drosophila melanogaster, Poorva Jain
Towards Discovering Inhibitors of Cytochrome c Biogenesis, Shannon Jinxia Jiang
Constructing an Isotopic Record of a Sierra Nevada Lake Core, Lauren S. Johnson
Predicting the Outcomes of Batted Balls in Major League Baseball, Seth Karpel
Security and Empowerment? : Jordanian Women’s Political Participation and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, Melissa Kay
A Nonlocal Application of the Dispersive Optical Model to 208Pb, Michael A. Keim
“England for All”: The Social Democratic Federation’s Successes through Failure, John Kemp
Breaking Rank: Party Influence in Congressional Defense Voting Since the Cold War, Samuel Klein
The “Russian Craze” and the Silver Age: Missed Connections in the Anglophone Canon of Russian Literature, Hilah Kohen
Gender Equality or Gender Oppression? Understanding Sweden’s Sex Work Paradox, Maddie Krips
FGF Signaling Role in Bone Homeostasis, Josh Langberg
Better Worlds: The Politics of Hope and Exclusion in the Literature of James Baldwin and Sherman Alexie, Emma LaPlante
Novel Genetic Variants in the OxytocinReceptor Underline Oxytocin Responsiveness, Grace Y. Lee
Guns, Government, and the American Way: Balancing Liberty Rights in a Liberal State, Elizabeth Levinson
Hurricane Herald: How New Orleans’ Housing Policies before and after Katrina Can Inform Harvey Recovery Efforts, Monica J. Lim
Developing a Computer Vision Algorithm to Detect Movement in the Environment for the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, Alissa Ling
“Words Fail Me”: The Loss of Language and the Language of Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Novels, Anna Lin-Schweitzer
The Effect of State Policy on Renewable Energy Capacity, Max Litvack-Winkler
Robert M. W. Kempner and the Politics of Postwar Justice, Sophie Lombardo
An Essay on Independent Component Analysis, Joanna Lyu
Relationship between Natural Dietary Intake of Tryptophan and Depression Severity, Anita Mahadevan
Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer Study with Monetary and Liquid Incentives, Aaditya Manirajan
Privately Owned Public Spaces: Are They Truly Public Spaces?, Stella Marren
Representations of the Symmetric Group and Nonstandard Quantum Statistics, Alexander Mason
A Reasonable Faith? The Relationships between Faith and Reason in the Medical World of the Sixteenth Century, James McMullen
Une foi raisonnable ? Les rapports entre la foi et la raison dans le monde médical du XVIe siècle, James McMullen
“Might It Be I?”: Marianne Moore, Feminism, and Baseball, Julie Merrell
Enhancing Lipid Metabolism Promotes Cytokine-Induced Activation and IFN-γ Production in Naïve Human Natural Killer Cells, Emily K. Moore
Censorship and the Creation of Egyptian Culture in 1952 Independent Egypt, Rashi Narayan
Microseismicity along Major Ross Ice Shelf Rift Resulting from Thermal Contraction of the Near-Surface Firm Layer, Seth Olinger
Zulu Traditions during Pregnancy and Birth: A Preliminary Study of Intergenerational Differences in Mashta, South Africa, Momoko Oyama
Analysis of Cyclophilin A Levels in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients, Devin Patel
Investigating Eryptotic Triggers as Possible Mechanisms for Sepsis-Induced RedBlood Cell Dysfunction, Jaya Prakash
Predictive Validity of the Brief Fearof Negative Evaluation Subscales, Gavin Rackoff
Real-Time RFI Mitigation in Radio Astronomy, Emily Ramey