Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book, Martha Clare Brinkman
School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools, Sajjid Budhwani
The Interplay Between Economic Growth and the Environment: The Case of China, Christian D. Carpio-Thomas
Caballerismo in Latinx Men in Higher Education, Victor Carrasco
Comprehensive Research Synthesis: An Approach to Mixed Methods Research Syntheses, Lilian Linialy Chimuma
Pivotal Perceptions: A Phenomenological Exploration of Trauma-Informed Practices in an Urban School, Marni Choice-Hermosillo
English Language Proficiency and General Intellectual Ability: Is There a Relationship?, Emily Kathleen Coggin
Controlling Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkyne Annulations Utilizing Polarized Ynol Ethers, Brandon L. Coles-Taylor
Cellular and Developmental Insights into the Early Evolution of Muscle, Jeffrey J. Colgren
Student Outcomes in Online and Face-to-Face Classes at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), Rebecca S. Cottrell
Using Natural Language Processing to Categorize Fictional Literature in an Unsupervised Manner, Dalton J. Crutchfield
Educational Achievement, Engagement, and Persistence in Choctaw Nation: A Study of the Success Through Academic Recognition Program, Suzanne Delap
When Repatriation Doesn’t Happen: Relationships Created Through Cultural Property Negotiations, Ellyn DeMuynck
Comparing Modern Day Acquisition Costs of Trafficked Individuals: Implications for Anti-Trafficking Measures, Chelsea Reneé Dillane
Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Madison Caroline Dillard
Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Brain Structure in Adulthood, Alexander J. Dufford
From Field to Museum: Intergenerational Education in Public Archaeology, Nicholas Daniel Dungey
Do You Hear Us? Amplifying Alternative Pathways for High School Pushouts Through Youth Participatory Action Research, Rob A. Duren
Characterization of the Dimerization and Salt Dependent Aggregation of the ALS-Linked Protein TDP-43, Elizabeth Ehrhardt
Human Genetics, Psychotropic Drugs, and Acts of Violence, Selma Jolanda Eikelenboom-Schieveld
Development Towards an Ethylene Sensing Artificial Metalloenzyme, Mitchell Lee Ellinwood
Development of a Clinical Marker-less Motion Capture System for Patient Monitoring, Abigail Eustace
Gifted Identification in Young, Historically Underrepresented Populations: A Phenomenological Study, Meryl A. Faulkner
Xylo-Bot: A Therapeutic Robot-Based Music Platform for Children with Autism, Huanghao Feng
Manifestations: Displays of Internal Beliefs and Perspectives, Manuel Ferreira
Portraits of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes
Working for a Living: A Terror Management Theory Approach to Finding Meaning in Vocation, Julian T. Frazier
Supporting the Affective Needs of Gifted Readers: An Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship Study, Kimberly G. Freed
Quantification of Mitochondrial Zinc Homeostasis and Analysis of Zinc and Polyamine-Mediated Axonal Trafficking, Dylan Hunt Fudge
A Spectropolarimetric Study of Southern WR + O Binaries, Andrew G. Fullard
Certification-Driven Testing of Safety-Critical Systems, Aiman S. Gannous
Living the Dream: Building Self-Determination to Improve Postsecondary Outcomes, Pete Gladstone
The Impact of a High School Theatre Arts Program on Students’ Academic and Non-Academic Learning Outcomes: A Case Study, Grant H. Goble
Subalpine Forest Tree Seedling Response to Drought, Alex Goke
Developing Machine Learning Algorithms for Behavior Recognition from Deep Brain Signals, Hosein Golshan Mojdehi
Sensitivity of Radical SAM Enzyme MftC to Molecular Oxygen, Vishnu Govindarajan
White Racial Framing in the Principalship: Implications for Culturally Responsive School Leadership, Guerin Gray
Performances of an Able, Academic Mind, Caleb Green
Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery, Roger K. Green
Renewable Energy Integration in Distribution System with Artificial Intelligence, Yi Gu
Spatial and Temporal Controls on Streamflow Variability in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, Christopher Lewis Hancock
Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Optimization of Building Energy Control and Management, Jun Hao
An Examination of Relational Health, Belonging, and Self-Compassion in Chinese International Students, Elizabeth A. Harris Shaffner
Automated Recognition of Facial Affect Using Deep Neural Networks, Behzad Hasani
Microgrid-Enabled Reactive Power Support to Enhance Grid Economics, Sarhan Hasan
Deep Siamese Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild, Wassan Hayale
Lessons from Controversy: Interpreting the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, Katherine Rose Hoadley
Characterizing Roles of Host Cell Trafficking Factors in HIV Assembly and Release, Huxley Kaminsky Hoffman
Assessing Robustness of the Rasch Mixture Model to Detect Differential Item Functioning - A Monte Carlo Simulation Study, Jinjin Huang
U.S. Democratization in Post-Cold War Russia: A Critique, Franklin T. Hughes
Framing Representation: An Ethnographic Exploration of Visual Sovereignty and Contemporary Native American Art, Laura A. Hughes
Sorting of Cargo Proteins Within the Regulated Secretory Pathway: the Peripheral Membrane Protein HID-1 as a Sorting and Vesicle Biogenesis Factor, Blake H. Hummer
Sex, Love, and Masturbating: A Touchy Subject, Gabrielle Kaminsky-Bayer
An Economic Analysis of Cyber Warfare Governance Models, Kevin M. Kelleher
Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment, Elisabeth Kinsey
Drawing Identities: An Ethnography of Indigenous Comic Book Creators, Melissa Ann Kocelko
Satellite Constellation Deployment and Management, Joseph Ryan Kopacz
Human Verses Mountain: Climbing, Language, and the Liveliness of Stone, Brian Laidlaw
The Colored Pill: A History Film Performance Exposing Race Based Medicines, Wanda Lakota
Ultrasonic-Based Condition Assessment of Wooden Utility Poles, Yishi Lee
Audience Segmentation Ethics in Health Promotion, Uyen Lili Le
Brokering Access, Belief and Opportunities: A Phenomenology of Black Principals’ Leadership Through a Racialized Lens, Natalie Denise Lewis
What Happens Next? A Grounded Theory Exploration of the Psychological Impact of Leaving the Gang, Alana C. Liskov
China’s One Belt One Road Initiative—A Debt Trap?, Qi Liu
Performing IR, Charles Darwin LuLevitt
Black Finesse Amidst the Political Science Paradigm: A Race-Grounded Phenomenology, Janiece Zalina Mackey
Real-Time Detection of Demand Manipulation Attacks on a Power Grid, Srinidhi Madabhushi
Quantification of Dynamic Epithelial Sheet Architecture in Botryllus Schlosseri Using 2-D & 3-D Image Analysis, Roopa Madhu
Climate Change and Seed Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana, Michael Biwalib Madin
Home Movie, Nowhere, Julia N. Madsen
Poverty in the United States: An Analysis of its Measurement and the Long-Term Social and Economic Costs, Abby Magnus
Aggregated DER Management in Advanced Distribution Grids, Mohsen Mahoor
Is the Reliability of Objective Originality Scores Confounded by Elaboration?, Shannon Marie Maio
Perceived Quality of Clinical Supervision and Level of Vicarious Trauma in Therapists-in-Training, Jessica L. Mantia
The Effects and Analysis of Implant Type and Surgical Approach in Total Hip Arthroplasty Dislocation Resistance, Brittany Marshall
Retaining Gifted Individuals for the Sustainability of Rural Communities, Jessie B. Matthews
Cellular and Organismal Ramifications of de novo Purine Synthesis Dysregulation, Randall Craig Mazzarino
Nurturing Excellence: A Case Study of High School Learning Environments for the Gifted, Ryan A. McClintock
Immortal Combat: Iconoclasm and the Hebrew Bible, Albert L. McClure
A Black Feminist Quare Interrogation of Stud Misogyny in Black Queer Web Series, Taisha McMickens
Instrument and Application Development in Saturation Recovery and Rapid Scan Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Joseph E. McPeak
Where Is the CommUNITY? A Qualitative Case Study of a School Closure in an Urban School District, Anthony McWright
Rab39 and Klp98A are Required for Furrow Formation During Early Drosophila Embryogenesis, Megan R. Millage
Windows into the Unseen the Power of Metaphor as Revealed by Paul Ricoeur and Moses Maimonides, Claire E. Molk
Racially Diverse Adolescent Friendship Groups: A Phenomenological Research Study, Arielle Brooke Mottes
Dirt Amendment, Alicia Mountain
Dis/Ableist Consumption: A Critical Thematic Analysis of Avowed and Ascribed Neuro-Identities in the Classroom, Shaundi C. Newbolt
Building Community in the Classroom for Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse Gifted Learners, Michelle Elaine Norberto-Whipple
50-State Higher Education Disability Policy Review 2008-2019: A Content Analysis, Marie Orlin
The African State: An Illusory Vestige of Colonialism, Muhammad K. Otaru
Facial Action Unit Detection With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Siddhesh Padwal
Early Childhood Educator Knowledge: An Exploratory Study Regarding Giftedness and Students of Color, Stephanie A. Peralta
Black Minds Matter: A Phenomenological Inquiry Examining the Prevalence of Racial Trauma Among Black Doctoral Students, Jazmyne Markeeva Peters
Making Faces, Emily Pettit
Gas Adsorption in Carbon Nanohorns: Equilibrium and Kinetics, Justin Matthew Petucci
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Trauma and Committed Romantic Relationships, Geneva Polser
The Sounds of Being "Un-American": Embodied Cultural Trauma Within Japanese American Musical Worlds, Kyle Przybylski